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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-1783495251.jpg?w=1024″] Getty Images and Shutterstock, two of the top photo, video, and stock image marketplaces, called off a $3.7 billion merger after hitting a regulatory roadblock in the United Kingdom. Getty, led by CEO Craig Peters, said on Tuesday that its board of directors unanimously decided to scuttle the deal to merge with its…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DT6548.jpg?w=1024″] Investigators from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum in June, reports the New York Times. According to an inventory produced by the office, this brings the total number of artifacts it has removed from the Met since 2017 to more than 120, collectively…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Mehmed-II-and-the-Patriarch-Gennadius-outside-the-Walls-of-Constantinople.jpg?w=1024″] Since Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for $236.4 million last November, clinching the title of second most expensive artwork to sell at auction, the secondary market’s mantra can best be summed up as “collectors will open their hearts and their wallets for exceptional work.” On Tuesday, Christie’s put that dictum to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-526756276.jpg?w=989″] Just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, World Monuments Fund (WMF) has unveiled a list of 10 historic sites across the United States whose preservation is “essential to the richness and complexity” of the nation’s story. The sites range from colonial-era architecture and public health landmarks to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/aia_books.jpg?w=1024″] Don’t let the summer heat waves melt your brain entirely! We hope you can retreat to an air-conditioned library or a cool body of water somewhere. If you do, check out one of July’s latest and greatest art books below. Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons By Huey…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-903775824.jpg?w=1024″] Self-taught German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne, Germany, at the age of 91. Her death was first reported by the German Press Agency. Born in Münster in 1935, Mields came to art-making in her 30s after completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller. She first gained attention for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fig1.webp?w=1024″] When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, among the objects and remains preserved for the next two millennia were a collection of carbonized scrolls from a residence in Herculaneum known as the Villa of the Papyri. This ancient Greco-Roman library was situated near Pompeii, just 11 miles from the base of Mount…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/s01-16.png?w=1024″] It’s hot out and the sun must be at its zenith because you can spot a woman’s shadow against the parched asphalt as she walks down the street. The woman, however, isn’t quite visible. Sometimes you see a bit of her hat, her jacket, or her hands, but mostly she is obscured…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2t13122owac4p1i.jpg?w=1024″] The 17th edition of the Gwangju Biennale, a closely watched exhibition in South Korea with a broadly international legacy, will be led by an artistic director selected through an open call—“marking a significant shift in the Biennale’s curatorial selection process,” according to an announcement. As published via e-flux, the announcement states: “Until…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/byw-profile_tone-adjusted_cropped-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Bae Young-hwan, a beloved artist who represented his home country of Korea at the 2005 edition of the Venice Biennale, died on June 19 at 57. His Seoul representative, Gallery BB&M, did not state a cause in its announcement of his passing on June 20, which described Bae’s death as “sudden.” He…