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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Christie’s $94.5 Million Jim Irsay Sale Sets 28 Records and shakes up Memorabilia Market
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/24628-Jim-Irsay-Collection-Lot-201-Hammer-1.jpg?w=1024″] For a few days in March, Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries felt less like an auction house than a public exhibition of 20th-century mythmaking. Fans came to see Kurt Cobain’s guitar, Jerry Garcia’s “Tiger,” and John Lennon’s piano from “Sgt. Pepper” and Ringo Starr’s “Ed Sullivan” drum kit up close. Then the sales…
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Columbus Art Museum Workers Issue Complaints About Chemical Fumes
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-451105346.jpg?w=1024″] Workers at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio have complained to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about headaches, nausea, and dizziness thought to be caused by a chemical sealant used on gallery floors. As reported Tuesday by the Columbus Dispatch, the museum used the floor sealing product GT 275…
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Major Sponsor Withdraws from Sydney Biennale Over DJ’s Comments
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2060241559.jpg?w=1024″] A major corporate sponsor of the Sydney Biennale, Australia’s biggest art exhibition, has withdrawn following allegations of antisemitism involving a DJ in its program. On Tuesday, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies filed a police complaint over comments allegedly made by US electronic music producer Zubeyda Muzeyyen, who performs as DJ Haram,…
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Man Causes ‘Catastrophic Damage’ to Chihuly Glass Museum in Seattle
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-567361497.jpg?w=1024″] A man caused $240,000 in damage to the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum in Seattle late on Monday night, according to a report by the local police. The Seattle Police Department did not name the man, saying only that he was 40 and that he was arrested for assault. The blotter report…