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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/zTbNmEUTNMinsy92_AdrienBrodyArtReveal8803_edited-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Raising Cane’s is a place where you can buy chicken finger combos, super-sized Cokes, and crinkle-cut fries, all for under $15—a steal in today’s economy. Now, it’s also a place where you can … see art? Such is the case, at least, at the fast food chain’s Times Square establishment, where a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-494583185.jpg?w=1024″] The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has suspended all archaeological expeditions in annexed Crimea as the Kremlin declares a state of emergency amid a severe fuel shortage and continued Ukrainian attacks, according to the Moscow Times. “The expeditions are being postponed until the situation improves,” Alexander Butyagin, head of the Hermitage…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BritishMuseum.jpg?w=1024″] The United Kingdom’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has come under fire from a cross-party parliamentary committee, which says the government has done too little to help the country’s national museums navigate increasing financial and security challenges. The report, according to the Art Newspaper, also shows that the government is considering whether…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1829797327.jpg?w=1024″] In an online sale of works from the esteemed Zabludowicz collection of contemporary art that concluded on Tuesday, over half the artworks failed to sell. Estimated to bring in £292,000 to £435,400 ($385,100–$574,200), the sale brought in £95,377 ($126,285). (All prices reported are inclusive of fees; pre-sale estimates do not include fees.)…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/phillips-london-sale-room-hockney.jpg?w=1024″] In a sweltering London on Friday amid a Europe-wide heat wave, David Hockney led the night at Phillips London’s sale of modern and contemporary art, his The Only One with Waves (1991) selling for £2.4 million ($3.2 million), just above its low estimate. The four-foot-wide canvas was painted in Malibu, California, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2253671616.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A new parliamentary report says the UK government lacks leadership and has a “hands-off” approach to how it funds and cares for national museums. The German conceptual artist and painter Rune Mields, who designed her own grave, has died at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-154752848.jpg?w=1024″] Unionized staff at the Guggenheim Museum have voted to authorize a strike, its union UAW Local 2110 announced today. The union is currently in contract negotiations with the museum, seeking better pay, health benefits, and job security. UAW Local 2110 announced that 93 percent of its membership voted last week in favor…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AVZ-Sammy-Baloji-7018.jpg?w=1024″] There was a heaviness around the opening celebrations marking the 2026 Biennale, titled “In Minor Keys.” Compounding the psychological weight of so much global angst was the first anniversary of the sudden passing of Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroonian-Swiss curator who was the second African and sixth woman to spearhead the event. There…