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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/small-1_Futura-with-sculpture-at-Journal-Square-Courtesy-ARTS-14C.jpg?w=1024″] Many in the artworld might be surprised to learn that one of the last projects the legendary art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund worked on before her death last fall involved the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted this year in North America.   The project, Art of the Game, involved commissioning 23…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FrancescaCasadio-9900000000079e3c.jpg?w=900″] 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. Happy Friday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week Francesca Casadio Appointed Director of the Getty Conservation Institute: The conservation scientist, who currently serves as vice…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2241266904.jpg?w=1024″] President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River. The plan, which would see work happen year-round and for 20 hours a day, was revealed in a 24-page assessment…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-1212889361.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Iconic British artist David Hockney has died at 88. A court in The Hague said the Mauritshuis does not have to return 25 valuable artworks—including eight Rembrandts—to the heirs of its former museum director. Fallout continues from a viral artist residency “scandal” that misled artists. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. British…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1040616206.jpg?w=1024″] David Hockney, one of the 20th century’s most famous artists, best-known for his depictions of the sunny glitz of 1960s Los Angeles, has died at age 88. His publicist, Erica Bolton, confirmed he “passed away peacefully” at home in London on Thursday, June 11, just one month away from his 89th birthday.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1.-CMA_Benefit-All-People-banners_By-Howard-Agriesti.jpg?w=1024″] The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced Friday that it has a $600 million fundraising campaign in the works. The goal is to support the institution’s long-term health—and it is nearly 80 percent of the way there. As it approaches the final stretch of the campaign, the museum is announcing the public…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/mickaelene-thomas-Portrait_of_Lili_2.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Mickalene Thomas, widely known for her boldly colorful, rhinestone-adorned portraits that lionize Black women, has joined New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. She will have a solo show at the gallery in January 2028. The artist will maintain longstanding relationships with three of her existing galleries: Yancey Richardson in New York; Galerie…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MD104995WEB.jpg?w=1024″] Biennials, triennials, and their ilk perennially ask: What does it mean to make art today? A new triennial in Medina, a rural village in Western New York, tackles the hard question: What does it mean to make art in an age of waning material comfort for all but the world’s richest? While…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1364px-Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg?w=1024″] A group of scientists at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes have published a study introducing a newly developed method that they say will help authenticate artworks—and identify potential forgeries. The report was published in the June 2026 issue of Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1215969495_d70cd7.jpg?w=1024″] The Metropolitan Museum of Art has repatriated two sandstone sculptures in its collection to the people of Cambodia: an Angkor period guardian deity (rākṣasa), dating to c. 921-945, and a lintel featuring a carving of an anthropomorphic dragon from the mid-7th century. The returns, which were reported by both the Met and…