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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/calder-and-okeefe.png?w=1024″] Hauser & Wirth is planting another flag in California, announcing that it will open a new gallery in downtown Palo Alto on October 3, marking the mega-gallery’s first permanent location in Silicon Valley. The space will debut with “Calder | O’Keeffe,” which is dedicated to the friendship and artistic relationship between Alexander Calder…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/01_Jane-Cohan-James-Cohan-and-David-Norr-courtesy-of-NORR-COHAN.-Photo-by-Jordan-Tiberio.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. In 2020, after over 20 years in business, James and Jane Cohan started thinking about the future of their gallery, and made a decision: they wanted it to have a future beyond…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Auctioneer-and-Senior-Client-Advisor-Yu-Ge-Wang-selling-Philip-Gustons-Mirror-Head.-Christies-Images-LTD-2026.jpg?w=1024″] The global auction market is finding its footing again, at least according to Christie’s. Christie’s reported $4.5 billion in first-half revenue on Tuesday, including $3.5 billion in auction sales and more than $1 billion in private sales, marking the company’s strongest first six months since 2021. Auction sales rose a full 71…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lyndon-J.-Barrois-Sr.-Son-Heung-min-Christen-Press-and-Riqui-Puig-2025.jpg?w=1024″] There have been no shortage of controversies at this year’s World Cup, which enters its final leg this with the final match happening Sunday. The Iranian team was not able to stay in the US. Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry into the US and therefore unable to officiate any games.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/teamLab-Resonating-Microcosms-Solidified-Light_Mumbai_07.jpg?w=1024″] Superblue, the experiential art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and former Pace London president Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, has landed in India for the first time, with a sprawling nine-work exhibition of immersive installations at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC). Titled “Second Nature,” the show opened at NMACC’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/zendaya-odyssey-gold-earrings.jpg?w=1024″] Actress Zendaya has been on the receiving end of some, ahem, piercing criticism after wearing ancient Iranian earrings to a London event promoting the new Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey, in which she plays the Greek goddess Athena. The film hits US and UK theaters July 17 and has already been the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Ryan_Gander_The_Find_Okayama_Art_Summit_13_Photographer_Yasushi_Ichikawa.jpg?w=1024″] Art fairs may have started out as trade shows for dealers to sell each other their inventory, but they have long since become major events in the art world’s attention economy, zhuzhed up with public art commissions and intellectual dressings, including elaborate programs of public talks and film screenings, as well as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/FIFA-World-Cup-2026.jpg?w=1024″] The fever for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament, the largest, most expansive in the competition’s 96-year history, has swept North America. Star players like Norway’s Erling Haaland, England’s Harry Kane, France’s Kylian Mbappe, and Argentina’s Lionel Messi have turned in dramatic performances. Americans have fallen in love with visiting teams and foreign…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/urn_cambridge.org_id_binary_20260629111307215-0777_S0003598X26103780_S0003598X26103780_fig1.png?w=1024″] Archaeologists excavating Xultun, a large Mayan site in northeast Guatemala, have identified the name of an 8th-century Mayan astronomer-mathematician who wrote a calendrical formula on an interior wall of a small masonry building. The individual’s name, Sak Tahn Waax, translates to “White-chested Fox,” and the formula (either written by him, or by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-98396340.jpg?w=1024″] A suspect has been charged in the wake of what British authorities described as a “high-value burglary” at the Bristol Museum in the UK last September. As reported by the BBC, “Dean Hall, 41, from Redcliffe, Bristol, has been charged with handling stolen goods. He was given unconditional bail and he is…