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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2153366005.jpg?w=1024″] British artist, printmaker, and educator Tess Jaray, known for her hard-edge abstractions, died on May 24 at age 88. The news was first reported by the Guardian in May. Jaray was born in 1937 in Vienna into a Jewish family with artistic connections: her father was an engineer and inventor, and her…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Rich_Tu_FIFA_Headshot_02.jpg?w=1024″] As teams compete for the World Cup across North America, football fan can show some spirit at New York’s leading museum of American art. The office of New York City Zohran Mamdani announced this week that New Yorkers who present their own World Cup-inspired poster to the Whitney will receive free admission…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2280864370.jpg?w=1024″] A federal judge has given the Trump administration until July 31 to explain why a tarp still obscures the facade of the Kennedy Center, days after the president’s name was removed from the building by court order. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the administration must report “the purpose and status of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Auctioneer-and-Senior-Client-Advisor-Yu-Ge-Wang-selling-Philip-Gustons-Mirror-Head.-Christies-Images-LTD-2026.jpg?w=1024″] Europe is seeing a historic heat wave, but things were a bit more lukewarm in Christie’s London salesroom on Thursday evening at a two-part sale featuring 56 contemporary artworks from the collection of Anita and Poju Zabludowicz followed by a 79-lot sale of postwar and contemporary art. A £4 million ($5.2 million)…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Art_Basel_Miami_Beach_2.webp?w=1024″] MCH Group, the company behind Art Basel, is pushing into the media events business, backing a new venture called Jupiter Festival. The inaugural Jupiter Festival is currently slated to be held in Miami this October, with speakers that include Tribeca Enterprises CEO Rebecca Glashow, Fox One chief Pete Distad, Inside the NBA host Kenny…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20240524_LaurieAnderson_EbruYildiz_182_300DPI-Shaun-MacDonald.jpeg?w=1024″] Laurie Anderson is performing a show titled “Republic of Love” at SummerStage in New York’s Central Park on June 26, as part of the 40th-anniversary season of the City Parks Foundation’s outdoor concert series. She’ll be backed by Sexmob, a downtown jazz band that grew out of the free-improv scene around the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2283150604.jpg?w=1024″] We’re only a few days into summer, and there is seemingly no end in sight to the heatwave smothering much of Europe. On Tuesday, France recorded its highest average temperature ever, about 86 degrees Fahrenheit, with highs in some places reaching 104 degrees. It’s not just France that is sweltering in late…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1243911216.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Sources say influential European collectors Anita and Chaim “Poju” Zabludowicz are selling 100 works from their collection at Christie’s in London because of disillusionment with the art world. Vienna-born, British artist Tess Jaray has died at age 88. Mayor Mamdani and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced a citywide partnership…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/New-Talent-2026-Web-Banner-SL.jpg?w=1000″] It’s in the gentle, nibbling work of Satchel Lee that astonishing new worlds are built, new terms set. Like Kevin Jerome Everson, Callie Hernandez, and Hong Sang-soo, her attuned senses find, all around her, beauty in the “tiny morbidly life-worn detail,” to borrow a phrase from critic Manny Farber. Beauty: that too-maligned…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sothebys-Masterpieces-from-the-Lewis-Collection-and-Contemporary-and-Modern-Art-Evening-Auction-Credit-Rayan-Bamhayan-courtesy-Sothebys-3.jpg?w=1024″] Against the backdrop of British Prime Ministers Keir Starmer’s resignation and London’s hottest-ever June day, a Sotheby’s double-header evening sale on Wednesday offered a rare note of reassurance. A total of 24 museum-quality works from modernist heavyweights hit the auction block from the collection of billionaire investor Joe Lewis, featuring works by…