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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1259123770.jpg?w=1024″] Citing ongoing financial difficulties, Charleston’s International African American Museum (IAAM) will furlough its entire staff, including senior leadership, according to a statement from the institution. The 20-day furlough program will begin July 1 and run into December in staggered phases. However, the museum will remain open throughout that time. “This action is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/basseloutside.jpg?w=1024″] It’s been a whirlwind 2026 already. The year kicked off with a bang at Art Basel Qatar and barrelled forward into a spring marked by a much-talked-about Venice Biennale, a jam-packed week of fairs in New York, and a blockbuster series of sales at the auction houses. For the indefatigable collectors, dealers,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Galleria_nazionale_darte_moderna_-_Rome_Italy_-_DSC05142.jpg?w=891″] WHEN IN ROME: Fendi on Thursday revealed the location of the first couture show designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri — the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome on the evening of July 9. For the occasion, guests will be invited to a private view of the exhibition “After un Percorso di Lavoro. Fendi/Karl Lagerfeld 1985. After Steps…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-152192337.jpg?w=1024″] Ukrainian drones damaged a historic museum in annexed Crimea amid a recent escalation in strikes on Russian-controlled territory in the Black Sea peninsula. The 19th-century museum is located in Sevastopol, Crimea, which Russia has occupied since 2014. Sevastopol’s Russian-appointed governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, reported the damage on Telegram early Wednesday. According to Razvozhayev,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Self_portrait-2025.jpg?w=1024″] Duane Michals, one of the 20th century’s most important photographers, known for making sequences of images that conveyed enigmatic narratives and defied the conventions of the medium, died on Tuesday, June 9, at 94, in a Manhattan hospital. The news was confirmed by DC Moore Gallery, which had represented him since 2013.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/1980_July_Martin-Wong-at-home-in-San-Francisco_Photo-by-Florence-Wong-Fie.jpg?w=1024″] Tucked away at a small institution in Chicago is an eye-opening show by beloved New York artist Martin Wong, a self-taught artist of Chinese-American descent who recorded a bombed-out Lower East Side and heroized his Asian and Latino contemporaries who lived there. “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” at Wrightwood 659, also happens to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/dependence.jpg?w=1024″] Dépendance, the iconoclast, 23-year-old Brussels gallery that built a trusted reputation as an “artists’ gallery,” is closing. “Galleries come and go. Some are short-lived but leave a clear trace, others endure for decades without changing much. Dépendance has been there for twenty-three years and now we feel it’s time to say good-bye,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/about-art-week-nyc-D3pXuuNf-1.jpg?w=1024″] ARTnews and Artforum, two of the world’s leading authorities on art, announced Thursday the launch of New York’s first-ever dedicated Art Week, dubbed Art Week NYC. The upcoming four-day event, set to run November 11 to Novvember 14, will bring together public programming, neighborhood walking tours, artist talks, gallery openings and more.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/friezesign.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Ukrainian drones struck and set on fire the Defense of Sevastopol museum in Crimea. Self-taught photographer Duane Michals has died at 94. Brussels’ 2003-founded dépendance gallery is closing. The Headlines CRIMEA CULTURAL CONFLICT. Yesterday, Ukrainian drone strikes on supply chains to Russian-controlled areas also set ablaze a war museum in the Russian-annexed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/FLFM26-FIRST-DETAILS-PRESS-RELEASE-E-4.jpg?w=1024″] Nearly 300 galleries will participate in the upcoming editions of Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which will run in the Regent’s Park from October 14 to October 18. Frieze London will have 172 exhibitors, while Frieze Masters will host 138. Eight galleries will have booths in both fairs including Hauser & Wirth,…