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  • Art Dubai Postpones Fair to May Amid Wider Middle East Conflict

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/artdubai1-1.jpg?w=1024″] Art Dubai is the latest fair to be upended by the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran. With Iran continuing to stirke the United Arab Emirates, leading to eight dead and 157 injured and damage to Dubai International Airport, the emirate’s leading art fair announced that its upcoming ediiton will…

  • Meryl Streep Gives Seven-Figures to National Women’s History Museum

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2185031885.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this week, the National Women’s History Museum—a nonprofit that organizes mostly virtual exhibitions that “illuminate the stories of women who have shaped our past and who continue to inform our shared future”—announced that Meryl Streep made a seven-figure donation to the Washington, D.C.-based institution. According to a statement, the Academy Award-winning…

  • ‘The Sopranos’ Photos and Archives Part of Show at New York Museum

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-97208463.jpg?w=1024″] The wildly popular TV series “The Sopranos” aired its much-hyped season finale almost 20 years ago. The critically acclaimed show, starring the late James Gandolfini as troubled mob boss/family man Tony Soprano, premiered on HBO in 1999 and ran for six seasons. “The Sopranos,” often credited with initiating a golden age of…

  • Di Donna to Mount First Major Dalí Show in NYC in Nearly Two Decades

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/02-Dali-El-desnonament-del-moble-aliment-The-Eviction-of-Furniture-Nutrition-1.jpg?w=1024″] As Emmanuel Di Donna prepares to leave his Madison Avenue gallery, the veteran dealer is returning to the artist most people think they already understand. This spring, Di Donna Galleries will mount one of the most significant exhibitions of Salvador Dalí seen in New York in decades. “Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939,” on view from April 16…

  • The New Museum Finally Has a Building to Match Its Ambitions

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/New-Museum_New-Humans_0326_0203.jpg?w=1024″] Almost two years ago to the day, the New Museum in New York closed its doors to the public, leaving behind a void—this is one of the country’s few major museums that is focused solely on contemporary art, after all. Now, following an expansion overseen by OMA, the museum is finally back…

  • Meryl Streep Makes Donation to National Women’s History Museum

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153842978.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines STREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her honor, while the donation, the amount…

  • Tate Liverpool Director Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Kerry-James-Marshall-65.jpg?w=1024″] Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the institution announced Wednesday. Legg will start in the role in June and will be responsible for the institution’s exhibitions, collection, and public programs. Her tenure at the Tate…

  • Sotheby’s and Gagosian Veteran Publishes History of Art Market

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Gagosian-Trading-Beauty-Valentina-Castellani-e1773850328531.jpg?w=1024″] When Valentina Castellani was invited to teach a class at New York University on the history of the art market from the Renaissance to today, she came up against one obstacle in her preparation of the syllabus, even despite her expertise in the matter, with longtime art market experience at both Sotheby’s…

  • Monet Once Pledged His Paintings to Secure a Loan, a Letter Reveals

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/34495-0-w_720.jpg?w=719″] Paintings by Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840–1926) are some of the most valuable artworks in the world; in 2019 his Meules (Haystacks) soared to $110.7 million at Sotheby’s New York, setting an auction record for an Impressionist painting that still stands today. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental…

  • Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2-2025-Portrait-Kamel-Photo.-Archives-mennour.jpg?w=1024″] The baton is being passed from an elder generation of French art dealer to a younger one, with the purchase of Galerie Malingue by dealer Kamel Mennour, who will take over Malingue’s 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. “Located in a space with a long history in modern…