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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/8b3dc708-1a58-2319-a5fb-9abcae216eb4.jpg?w=1024″] 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 Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Cristin Tierney Adds Debbi Kenote to Roster: The Brooklyn-based abstract painter will have her first solo…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sothebys-London-Modern-Contemporary-Evening-Sale-2026.-Credit-Rayan-Bamhayan.-Courtesy-Sothebys-11.jpg?w=1024″] 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. It is officially March, which means I was back at the Windmill pub, just around the corner from Sotheby’s New Bond Street location, on Wednesday. My pre-sale pint before the house’s spring…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Langberg-Inst_04.jpg?w=1024″] On Friday, Doron Langberg, one of the most successful and well-known Israeli artists working today, will open his first New York exhibition in seven years at Jeffrey Deitch’s Tribeca gallery. For the occasion, Langberg has so far opted to give a single interview—to the New York Times—and to publish an accompanying 750-word…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/L1988-62-62_0.jpg?w=1024″] In August, the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation announced that it was dispersing all 63 artworks in its possession to three art museums: the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Among the 29 artworks gifted to the Brooklyn Museum—many of them paintings and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/rom-dir.jpg?w=1024″] The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has named Nicholas R. Bell as its next director and CEO. Bell, who was selected via an international search, will start in the role on July 6. He succeeds Josh Basseches, who stepped down at the end of last year after a decade in the role.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dali-museum.jpg?w=1024″] The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg is planning a major expansion expected to begin construction in 2026, with the new facilities slated to open in 2028. The museum said the approximately 35,000-square-foot addition will cost an estimated $65 million and is intended to grow the exhibition spaces, create a dedicated learning center, and introduce new…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-545691125.jpg?w=1024″] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has acquired a prized copy of Captain America Comics No. 1, famous for its cover depicting the titular hero punching Adolf Hitler in the face, the museum announced Tuesday. The issue was published in December 1940, nearly a year before the United States entered World War II, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-502511051.jpg?w=1024″] The sentencing hearing for a man convicted in a sweeping art fraud scheme involving forged works attributed to the late Anishinaabe painter Norval Morrisseau was abruptly disrupted this week after allegations surfaced that members of the artist’s estate may have been complicit in the forgery operation, according to CTV News. Jeff Cowan, who…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BritishMuseum.jpg?w=1024″] A former British Museum staffer who worked in the prints and drawings department in the 1970s stole more than 350 artworks and sold some of his haul at an antiques market, according to a new book. As reported by the Independent, “The story of the thefts is recounted in Barnaby Phillips’s forthcoming book,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_8504.jpg?w=1024″] Carol Bove‘s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum show in New York may be billed as a retrospective, but it’s not a solo show in the traditional sense: it also features works by a range of artists interspersed throughout. In fact, the crown jewel of the show is not a sculpture by Bove but a…