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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2252763808.jpg?w=1024″] The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has voted to establish a new endowment in President Donald Trump’s name, apparently creating an additional source of private funding to complement its existing endowments and the approximately $257 million in federal funding appropriated for its building renovations.  The Center’s board of trustees, which is chaired…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_7050.jpg?w=1024″] A self-portrait by Clarence Heyward was vandalized last week by visitors to the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where the work by the Raleigh, North Carolina–based artist is on view as part of a survey titled “Eden.” As reported by the Houston Chronicle, “the artwork was left with what appears to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-929385400.jpg?w=1024″] The Jewish Museum in London, an almost century-old institution that closed in 2023 amid ongoing financial and organizational challenges, is reopening on June 17. The temporary exhibition space is called Two Rooms and it will take up a pair of gallery spaces at JW3, a Jewish community center and cultural venue in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/newsmakers-banner.png?w=1024″] Art Basel opens its doors in Switzerland this week in an art market that has had an intriguing first half of 2026. The fair company hosted a successful first edition of Art Basel Qatar in February, and last November’s strong auction seasons, led by the blockbuster sales of trophy works, continued into…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/37120600-60f8-11f1-aff4-a3db1dd61875.jpg.webp?w=1024″] Tunnels dating to Henry VIII’s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month. Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to contain livestock without interrupting the view across an estate, uncovered a tunnel entrance,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Sharon-Chan-hammering-down-the-Yamazaki-50-Year-Old-–-Exclusively-Created-for-Club-Natsume.jpg?w=1024″] A unique bottle of Yamazaki 50 Year Old single-malt whisky created exclusively for Club Natsume, an elite private club in Nagoya, Japan, nearly doubled its high estimate recently to fetch HK$8,250,000, or about $1 million, after a contest involving three bidders at Bonhams Hong Kong.. That broke the previous record, HK$6,200,000 (about…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/small-Willem-de-Kooning-sitting-with-charcoal-drawings.jpg?w=1024″] On Sunday, an expansive exhibition focused on Willem de Kooning’s drawings opened at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show includes some 200 artworks, including paintings, bronze sculptures, and mixed-media works from throughout de Kooning’s seven-decade career. The earliest work in the show, Dish With Jugs (ca. 1919-21), was given to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-4.43.48 PM.png?w=1024″] Leonardo Drew, one of the most recognizable sculptors working today, has joined Hauser & Wirth, which will now represent the artist worldwide. The gallery announced the news on Monday and will debut a new work by Drew, Number 451, at Art Basel this week. Drew’s first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/226786FLV.jpeg?w=1024″] David Hockney, one of the most celebrated British artists of the 20th century, died on June 11, at age 88 at his home in London. Since the early 1960s, Hockney has been a fixture in the contemporary art world, first rising to prominence as British Pop artist, who unabashedly explored queer desire…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Stevestewart.jpg?w=889″] Steven Adrian Stewart, founder of the Lower East Side’s Kansas Gallery, is dead at 46. The gallerist, who later cofounded Futures Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, died on May 26 in Lawrence, Kansas, near where he grew up. No cause of death was provided. Stewart was best known for Kansas, the gallery he…