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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AN_America_List_Header_2026_84f930.jpg?w=1024″] What, exactly, defines America? It’s a question that’s been asked for more than two centuries, and it’s one not likely to be conclusively answered anytime soon. But, with the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding fast approaching, we took the occasion to hash out a response to that query, using art as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Kinlaw_Gut-Ccheck_Ride-the-Ride_2025.jpg?w=1000″] When I learned that performance artistKinlaw had spent two years as an artist-in-residence at Bell Labs’ anechoic chamber, which is designed to be completely silent, I was excited to ask if she’d heard anything. After all, John Cage famously recalled hearing the high and low tones of his nervous and circulatory systems.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-518796457-1.jpg?w=1024″] Last Friday, the Trump administration erected 13 statues on Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington D.C.—including an equestrian monument dedicated to the Revolutionary War figure and slave owner Caesar Rodney that was removed from view in Wilmington, Delaware amidst the Black Lives Matter movement in June, 2020. The statue depicts Rodney’s famed 1776…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2215767818-e1779910158495.jpg?w=1024″] Last week, as much of the art world was focused on the marquee sales in New York, Christie’s announced a major change to its leadership in London. The auction house appointed François-Henri Pinault as board chairman and non-executive director. Pinault is the son of French billionaire François Pinault and the president of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/P111LKYJ.jpg?w=1024″] Donald Newhouse, the billionaire newspaper publisher who helped oversee one of America’s most powerful media empires and whose family name remains synonymous with Condé Nast, has died at 96. Newhouse died Tuesday at his home in Lambertville, New Jersey, from lymphoma, according to the New York Times. He and his older brother, Samuel Irving…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Lyles_And_King_5079.jpg?w=1000″] The first thing I see upon enteringRen Light Pan’s tiny New York studio is a large canvas with a monochrome image of Sleeping Hermaphroditus. It’s the one that’s in the Louvre: a life-size marble Roman copy of an ancient Greek bronze from the 2nd century C.E. Pan shows me a series of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/GettyImages-1235763299.jpg?w=1024″] A Cézanne watercolor recently shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost by its Jewish owner as a result of Nazi persecution, according to a provenance researcher working for the man’s heir. The work, La Montagne Sainte Victoire (ca. 1888), appeared in the Beyeler’s recent Cézanne exhibition, which closed Monday. Its lender…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kalshi.jpg?w=1024″] So-called prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket—sites for online gambling, though the companies say they are a form of derivatives trading—have gamified modern life to a previously unforeseen degree. Users can bet not only on events bettors have traditionally gambled on, like sports, but also on bizarrely trivial matters like whether…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May-2026-Saleroom.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. Miraculously, we survived one of the busiest Mays in recent memory. There was a news-packed Venice Biennale, followed by more New York fairs than one person could attend. And then there was,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CKS-24546-07082026-1.jpg?w=960″] Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts auction in July will feature a holy grail, both figuratively and literally in the form of a 13th-century illuminated manuscript devoted to “the epic tale of the quest for the Holy Grail, the story of Merlin and his diabolic birth, and the adventures of King Artur and…