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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABP25__Public_Interactions__PR__General_I_HiRes-2.jpg?w=1024″] The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated $59.6 billion in sales, according to the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total represents a 4 percent increase from the previous year, breaking a two-year slide in sales—though…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/803bca39_d440_44ab_b7f1_97017122923e-683494791.jpgmediaclass-body-media-large.3c963ae2a7465a35d441f52395be0c88fe9c0f60_1.jpg?w=1024″] The second edition of the Malta Biennale opened in previews this week, and it was not without controversy. Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides information on safe abortion in restrictive settings, accused the Biennale’s organizers of “censoring” an artwork by the organization just before the opening on Tuesday. The work originally…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2188348955.jpg?w=1024″] Italy has purchased a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million ($34.7 million), one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a work of art, according to the country’s culture ministry. The painting, depicting the cleric Monsignor Maffeo Barberini—who would later ascend as Pope Urban VIII—was described as being of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/baa086c2-180c-4789-b2bf-cc430d769add.jpg?w=1024″] The Friends Fair in Austin will host its second edition, with an opening preview on May 7, with public days on May 8–9. Returning to the Loren Hotel Austin, the fair has also increased the number of exhibitors from 10 to 17, and it will take over an entire floor within the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Little-Sorrel-WEB.jpg?w=1024″] When a monument to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was decommissioned in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021, curator Hamza Walker managed to get ahold of it and transported it to a warehouse in New Jersey. The hefty monument’s move was no small feat, legally or logistically. But once it arrived, he offered it to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/25-Greene-St-Exterior.jpg?w=1024″] Initially, Garth Greenan didn’t realize that the lease for his current space on West 20th Street in Chelsea would expire on the eve of his eponymous gallery’s 15th anniversary. But once he did, he took it as a sign to start a new chapter for the business. In September, Garth Greenan Gallery…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/living-room-main.jpg?w=1024″] The extremely bohemian East Village loft that photographer Robert Frank and artist June Leaf called home for more than 40 years is on the market, with an asking price of $6.5 million. That hefty sum will gain you access to no small amount of Lower Manhattan lore, as the two artists made…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/beeples-piggies.jpg?w=1024″] Beeple’s robotic beasties—first unveiled as a questionably crowd-drawing spectacle at Art Basel Miami Beach last December—are heading to a museum. The installation, Regular Animals (2025), will be presented at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin from April 29 to May 10, coinciding with Gallery Weekend Berlin. The work features a pack of porcine-robotic quadrupeds fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ivan-Argote-Wild-Flowers-3.jpg?w=1024″] The Katy Trail, a 3.5-mile urban greenway in Dallas, will be the venue for a new public art biennial launching in Spring 2027. The KTX Biennial will unfold across the length of the Katy Trail, and the works will be on view for up to 18 months, the approved length for a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/March13-JorgeWelsh-208-LoraineBodewes-3.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. New York Old Master prints and drawings dealer David Tunick recently tallied up exactly how much time he has spent attending the TEFAF art fair at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre…