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Frieze London, Frieze Masters Name Nearly 300 Galleries for 2026 Fairs
[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,…
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Sagrada Familia’s Inauguration Day, Valentine Willie Has Died, and More: Morning Link
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-948921290.jpg?w=1024″] Good Day! Pace CEO Marc Glimcher announces plan to downsize its London branch. Influential South-East Asian dealer and curator Valentine Francis Willie has died at 71. Experts in Italy accidentally mistook a three for an eight, and misdated an important, 14th-century Madonna and Child painting, now up for auction. The Headlines IT’S ME, NOT…
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At London Gallery Weekend, Dealers Fight Narrative of City’s Decline
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2187811683-e1781118726747.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. Last Thursday, in a basement at No. 9 Cork Street in Mayfair, mega-dealer Thaddaeus Ropac was on hand to launch the 2026 edition of London Gallery Weekend (LGW). The occasion was a…
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Guggenheim Museum to Livestream Select World Cup Matches
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/zidane.jpg?w=1024″] The Guggenheim Museum in New York announced today that it would host livestreams of a selection of World Cup matches on Friday afternoons this summer. The livestreams will take place at Frank Pub’s, a pop-up at the Wright, the Guggenheim’s restaurant. In a release, the museum described the program as a way…
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Independent 20th Century Finds a New Home in the Breuer
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Andrew-Kreps-Gallery_Harold-Stevenson_Artist-Portrait_I20C_2026.jpeg?w=1024″] Independent launched Independent 20th Century in 2022 in the Battery Maritime Building, a Beaux-Arts landmark overlooking New York Harbor. This fall, the fair is moving uptown to Marcel Breuer’s former Whitney Museum building, now Sotheby’s global headquarters. The fifth edition of Independent 20th Century will run from September 24–27 at the Breuer,…
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Saidiya Hartman Debits Performance Minor Music at the End of the World
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/L_R-Audrey-Hailes-Bria-Bacon-AJ-Wilmore-Okwui-Okpokwasili_MM_fabian-calis_02-10-2025_09839.jpg?w=1024″] It’s hard to think of a scholar who has had a bigger impact on the art of our times than Saidiya Hartman. The Columbia professor is best known for her method of writing history that she calls “critical fabulation,” a way of using theory and speculative storytelling to fill silences and omissions…
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Museum Rietberg’s A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art is Balm
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Wendy-Red-Star.png?w=1000″] A new group exhibition in Zurich surveys the state of global photographic heritage through the work of twenty renowned artists. “There is something predatory in the act of taking a picture,” writes Susan Sontag in her pivotal 1977 volume, On Photography. “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as…
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How the Pace Layoffs Went Down—And What Comes Next
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-1226829695.jpg?w=1024″] Early in the morning last Thursday, cell phones started buzzing. Pace gallery staff and their friends in the art world were sending each other a couple of short messages: “Is everything okay? What’s happening?” Just after midnight, the New York Times ran a story reporting that Pace was preparing to lay off roughly 50…
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Three Men Convicted in High-Profile Museum Heist of Romanian Gold
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/cotofenesti-helmet-drents-museum-.jpg?w=1024″] Three men have each been sentenced to 47 months in prison for the theft of ancient Romanian gold from a Dutch museum, marking a major development in the 16-month-long case. In the pre-dawn hours of January 25, 2025, a band of thieves blasted open several windows at the Drents Museum in the…
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Here is the Artist List for the 16th Gwangju Biennial
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/41001_2544657_1745376039905167258.jpg?w=1024″] The 16th Gwangju Biennial, opening this fall in South Korea (Sept 5-Nov. 15, 2026), has announced the names of the 40-some artists and groups who will be included in the exhibition. The list was first published by e-flux. The Biennial’s curator, “fast-rising” Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, was announced in…