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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Casas-del-Turunuelo-votive-chariot.jpg?w=1024″] The Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site, in the municipality of Guareña, has turned up a remarkable specimen, an extraordinary bronze votive chariot, the likes of which has never been uncovered in the Iberian Peninsula. Its decorative and iconographic complexity are unparalleled, says Esther Rodríguez, one of the co-directors of the investigation. Along…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Courtenay-Finn.jpg?w=1024″] The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, announced that the appointment of Courtenay Finn as the next chief curator of both institutions. Finn will start in her role on August 24. She will report to Austen Bailly, who was promoted from chief curator to deputy director…

[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…