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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/lylesking.jpg?w=1024″] Lyles & King, a taste-making downtown New York gallery that’s been in business for just over a decade, announced on Thursday that it had closed. Its final exhibitions, a solo for Jessie Makinson and a three-person show for Cato Ouyang, Fernanda Galvão, and Ren Light Pan, closed on June 20. The gallery’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DRivera_Paisajeconcactus.jpg?w=1024″] As controversy has continued to swirl around a mass of important Mexican artworks that were partially rediscovered in the holdings of Spain’s Banco Santander earlier this year, the bank spoke at length about the matter, saying it had done nothing illegal by planning to bring the trove to Spain, where it will…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2243511052.jpg?w=1024″] New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the speaker of the city council have announced their first budget, totaling $125.8 billion. That will include some $323.8 million for the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), its highest-ever appropriation, as part of the city’s 2027 fiscal year budget, per a report in Hyperallergic.  That…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Precious-Okoyomon-in-Kunsthaus-Bregenz-2025-Photo_-Miro-Kuzmanovic-Kunsthaus-Bregenz-1-1536×1022-1.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. Happy Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. MoMA PS1 Inaugurates New Courtyard Commission Program with Precious Okoyomon: The Long Island City institution has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-146143818.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THEY SHOOK ON IT. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York’s City Council have approved $323.8 million in funding for culture, reports Hyperallergic. That’s a record amount of yearly funding. Specifically, the $323.8 million will go to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Frank-Feltens.jpg?w=1024″] The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Frank Feltens as its next chief curator. He succeeds José Carlos Diaz, who departed the institution last October to be the chief curator of the Peréz Art Museum Miami. Feltens will start in his role on August 17. Feltens is currently associate director for curatorial…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2283644372.jpg?w=1024″] Details may still be coming into focus about the couple who climbed the Empire State Building on Wednesday, but here is one thing for certain: Angela Nikolau, the woman who ascended the skyscraper alongside her partner Ivan Beerkus, is an artist. On her website, Nikolau terms herself a “neo-artist working with extreme…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Old-Masters-Evening-Sale-at-Sothebys-London-July-2026-Credit-Rayan-Bamhayan-Courtesy-Sothebys-46.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 London on Wednesday, Sotheby’s Old Master & 19th Century Paintings and Sculpture sale brought in £37.8 million ($50.2 million), a solid result that masked a sharply divided market. Record prices, a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-909361884.jpg?w=1024″] A complex, sprawling legal case surrounding the late Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau took a new turn this week after an art expert testified that the painter’s children were active participants in a scheme that saw many of his works forged and passed off as authentic. Labeled Canada’s largest art fraud ever by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1236084418.jpg?w=1024″] The Mexican government continued to face scrutiny this week over its handling of the Gelman Collection, a trove of artworks that includes an array of historically important paintings by Frida Kahlo and other artists of note. Amassed by the late collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman, the 300-work Gelman Collection partially resurfaced in…