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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-1629214491.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this month, the real estate company 320 E 82nd Owner, LLC filed a petition seeking to compel socialite art collector Libbie Mugrabi and the auction house Phillips to turn over an untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting in the latter’s possession in order to satisfy a $2.3 million judgment. New York County…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Lead_watering-can-WEB.jpg?w=1024″] In the world of contemporary art, the maintenance and conservation of paintings usually takes place in strict confidence. But the discretion that damaged art requires does come at an unintended cost, leaving many collectors in the dark about how to navigate the surprising and complex journeys paintings take through time. When defects…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_4682.jpg?w=1024″] Prairie, a Chicago gallery that helped put a range of cutting-edge artists on the path to success, will close after nine years. The gallery announced its closure on Friday by revealing that its forthcoming exhibition, a group show called “Retrospective,” would be its final one. “This will be our last show,” the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2293524757.jpg?w=1024″] When the Bayeux Tapestry returns to Normandy next summer after its 10-month sojourn to London, the 11th-century textile will be re-presented in a new way that more closely resembles how it currently looks at the British Museum in London. Previously, reports Le Monde, the 770-pound, 220-foot-long embroidered cloth had been displayed vertically…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Salas_MNC-55.jpg?w=1000″] Protesters assembled around Bogota’s National Museum of Colombia over the weekend after the removal of more than 30 objects “related to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ movement, feminism, and the political left,” according to the digital news source Colombia One. As reported, “The decision by Abelardo De La Espriella’s government, announced last…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Massey-Klein-Gallery-Lower-East-Side-Gallery-Store-Front-Image_-Emerging-Art_Artists_DSC02267_1-copy.jpg?w=1024″] New York’s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers’ family and the gallery’s artists. Husband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Mamdani-Harlem.jpg?w=1024″] What’s on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mind? Policy, policing, potholes, surely. But this week, the Studio Museum in Harlem also made the list. The freshly 35-year-old mayor shared on Instagram that he spent his birthday at the museum yesterday. According to him, one painting on view left a lingering impression:…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Patrick-Graham-and-Cathy-Wilkes.png?w=1024″] Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes are the recipients of the inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts program. Graham is being awarded the Francis Bacon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish painting and influence on contemporary visual art over more than six decades, while…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Art-Basel-Las-Vegas.jpg?w=1024″] Miami Beach, once an outback on the map of the international art world, is now able to make an argument for itself as a cultural hub. A major player in that trajectory, if not the sole cause, is the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, which held its first edition in the Florida…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2298421427.jpg?w=1024″] The Louvre temporarily closed Monday due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance, Le Figaro reports. Their action comes on the one-year anniversary of the brazen jewelry heist at the same museum, and follows a massive, nationwide protest on Saturday against social inequality, particularly visible…