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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-22-at-3.29.19-PM.png?w=1024″] Barbara Hepworth had quite a night at Christie’s in London on Wednesday. Three of her sculptures were the top-selling lots in the auction house’s modern British and Irish art evening sale, including one that set a new record for a unique work by the British artist. The star of the evening was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/download_343637.jpg?w=1024″] Turkish authorities have seized a marble head depicting the ancient Greek god Zeus in Izmir’s Konak district in western Turkey. The sculpture, which is believed to date to the Roman period around 2,000 years ago, was recovered during an operation conducted by the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office with officers from the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Wassily-Kandinsky-Betonte-Ecken-1000.jpg?w=1000″] Russian-born abstraction pioneer Wassily Kandinsky‘s painting Betonte Ecken (1922–23) will come to the auction block at Christie’s New York on November 17, carrying a $60 million to $80 million estimate. The anonymous seller acquired the work at Sotheby’s New York in 1986. The painting is guaranteed to sell at a record-setting level,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-1036112882.jpg?w=1024″] For two centuries, Westminster Abbey has harbored a mystery: Whose skeleton was discovered within a Roman sarcophagus unearthed beneath its foundations? Two Anglo-Saxon abbots are in the running, according to a new archaeology study. The limestone sarcophagus was discovered in 1820 and officially excavated in 1869 from what is now a grassy…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABP26__General_impressions__Avant_Premier_HiRes-3.jpg?w=1024″] With Art Basel Paris closing two days early, ahead of planned protests this weekend, dealers have yet to figure out how to get their artworks out of the Grand Palais. The fair will shut its doors at 7 p.m. Friday, rather than Sunday as originally planned, leaving exhibitors to rearrange tight shipping…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frank-Lloyd-Wrights-Taliesin-West-in-Scottsdale-Arizona-on-December-9-2017.-Photo-by-Jim-SteinfeldtMichael-Ochs-ArchivesGetty-Images.jpg?w=1024″] Questions have been raised over the maintenance of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s former home and studio, after a visitor was reportedly struck and killed on October 16 by an acrylic fragment that had been dislodged from the property by high winds. The Scottsdale Police Department has identified the deceased as Brazilian…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/miumiu-empty_space-press-261019-1_72_16x9.jpg?w=1024″] For a few days this week, filmmaker Alice Diop has created a space for healing. For this year’s Miu Miu commission during Art Basel Paris, she has transformed the Place d’Iéna into a large-scale installation title Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation). The journey begins with Zanele Muholi’s Bona, Charlottesville, Virginia (2015),…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Paul-Cezanne-La-Ferme-Arbres-au-Bord-de-la-Riviere-and-Ciel-Entre-les-Arbres.png?w=1024″] Three works by Paul Cézanne have been removed from the “Le Temps Retrouvé: The Schlumberger Collection” evening sale at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday coinciding with Art Basel Paris. The three works: La Ferme, Arbres au Bord de la Rivière and Ciel Entre les Arbres, carried a combined estimate of $1.57 million to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2300177764.jpg?w=1024″] In a scene that could have been ripped out of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a historic floor globe used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II was broken when Pentagon staff tried to move it, according to The Washington…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/west-potomac-park-tidal-basin-national-mall.jpg?w=1024″] The National Park Service has revised its plans to redevelop the Tidal Basin region of the National Mall in Washington, DC. The plan zeroes in on West Potomac Park, which Trump picked in May as his preferred site for the planned National Garden of American Heroes. One leading historic preservationist interpreted the…