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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2152673257.jpg?w=756″] The leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has criticized Heritage Minister Marc Miller for suggesting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg should alter the language of its exhibition on Palestinian displacement. The backlash against Miller—who had previously vowed not to intervene in the exhibition—comes as a Jewish trustee of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/US-scaled-1.jpg?w=1024″] The Brazilian-born, London-based art collector and patron Flavia Nespatti will open a commercial gallery in London this October, reports the Art Newspaper. Located in a mid-century industrial building in the central London neighborhood of Fitzrovia, Antesala will focus on art and artists from Latin America. The gallery will organize selling exhibitions of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sothebys-London-Modern-Contemporary-Evening-Sale-2026.-Credit-Rayan-Bamhayan.-Courtesy-Sothebys-11.jpg?w=1024″] With Sotheby’s London double-header sale last week an unqualified success—generating £393.4 million ($520.7 million), or the “highest total ever achieved in a single night at auction in Europe,” according to the house—its European chairman Oliver Barker is taking a victory lap in the press. On Monday, the Telegraph published a lengthy profile and interview…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/trump-golden-eagle-white-house-e1782923100187.png?w=875″] It has, as usual, been a busy week for President Donald J. Trump. No, he hasn’t negotiated an actual peace agreement with Iran (beyond a hazy and already-violated memorandum of understanding), or ended Russia’s war on Ukraine (which he promised to end within a day), or, back at home, tamed mounting inflation…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/mucem.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! The Manhattan District Attorney’s office seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total value of looted objects recovered from the New York institution to $95 million. Christie’s Old Masters sale in London totaled $48.7 million on Tuesday. A Canadian politician has accused…