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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/venice-bienanle-26_1.jpg?w=1024″] Over the weekend, a European Union commission followed up on its earlier threats to cancel a €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale, citing Russia’s participation in the event this year as its reasoning. The European Commission was among the most high-profile voices to denounce the Biennale in advance of the opening,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Chua-Mia-Tee.jpg?w=1024″] Chua Mia Tee, known for his sympathetic depictions of the people of Singapore during the country’s early period of self-rule, has died, age 94. The artist’s daughter, Chua Yang, told the Straits Times that her father was recently hospitalized for pneumonia and died at his Bukit Timah home on July 10. No…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2a6ba76a-a8aa-4121-af95-938414488966.png?w=800″] British archeologists have uncovered a type of Neolithic earthwork called a long enclosure on England’s Suffolk coast. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily, following an announcement by Oxford Cotswold Archeology (OCA). A charity that conducts archeological research, OCA has been excavating in the area ahead of the construction of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2000-Upper-Deck-Michael-Jordan-and-Kobe-Bryant-Jersey-Combo-Autograph.jpg?w=1024″] Heritage Auctions posted more than $1.41 billion in sales during the first six months of 2026, the highest midyear total in the company’s 50-year history and a 47 percent increase over the same period last year, putting the Dallas-based auction house on pace for what could become another record year.  The numbers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/buddhas.jpg?w=1024″] On Wednesday, the Indonesian Consulate in New York hosted an event celebrating the return of two 8th-century bronze sculptures to Indonesia. According to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the Buddhist sculptures were originally taken from archaeological sites in Republic of Indonesia by an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2267667469.jpg?w=1024″] After gracing the ramps of the Guggenheim with their pop-projecting presence, BTS have turned their eyes to another museum as part of a marketing campaign for its latest world tour. This time, the K-pop group is in league with the British Museum in London, where visitors can see a showcase of artworks…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/zohran-mamdani-america-250.jpg?w=1024″] American conservatives are once again up in arms about a six-year-old tweet by Zohran Kwame Mamdani, elected last year as New York’s mayor. It was June 2020, and a wave of iconoclasm was sweeping the United States. Minneapolis police had murdered George Floyd, an African American man, the month before, and protesters…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1513209218.jpg?w=1024″] For the first time in over 20 years, the International Council of Museums has revised its code of ethics to address new and pressing issues facing institutions, including “the rise of digital technologies, the climate crisis, and the ongoing need to address the legacies of colonialism through responsible and ethical museum practice,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/WernerMerzbacher_2019_SalvatoreVinci.jpg?w=1024″] An important collection of modern art amassed by Werner Merzbacher, a Swiss collector who died in 2024, is currently the subject of a legal battle centered around the late businessman’s will and who really gets the right to control the paintings he owned. Merzbacher, who generated his fortune through a fur business…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SMAC-Jody-Paulsen-Untitled-Miami-Beach-2017.jpg?w=1024″] South African artist Kate Gottgens recently took to social media to accuse Cape Town gallery SMAC of failing to either pay her for works the gallery had sold or return the works if they were still in the gallery’s possession.  On July 2, she posted an image of her painting Audible Doom (2011) to…