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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/hallazgo-rusia-atlantis-ciudad-sumergida-I2AVA3NSVZBEJPF7AXTLGGZWOU.avif?w=990″] Russian and Kyrgyz scientists are exploring the ruins of the medieval trading center of Turu-Aygyr, submerged in the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan for centuries. Their findings were first reported by the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) last November, when it launched a joint archeological mission with the Institute of Archaeology of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/elfie.jpg?w=1024″] Elfie Semotan, an Austrian fashion photographer known for her collaboration with designer Helmut Lang, died “unexpectedly” on Saturday at 84 years old in Jennersdorf, a town in southeast Austria, according to an obituary posted on Instagram and a report by Austria’s national public broadcasting network ORF. Semotan was based in Vienna, New…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/022426_VJayBombs_LeicaQ2_0187_expand-H-2026.webp?w=1000″] As Donald Trump finished his record-length State of the Union address earlier this year, a group of artists drove to a cul-de-sac off Echo Park Lake in L.A. and got to work. The three men dressed in loose-fitting work pants and hoodies unloaded two laser projectors (one for backup), some lenses, a laptop and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/BillKochHouse_CO_FI.webp?w=1000″] A year and a half ago, the billionaire Bill Koch spun his massive Aspen estate on the market for $125 million, making it one of the most expensive homes for sale across the globe. That hefty sum likely wasn’t palatable for most people, and the price has since dropped to $99 million—no measly asking price either. Now, still…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/79521175.jpg?w=1024″] Last July, French president Emmanuel Macron announced hat one of his country’s great cultural treasures, the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, would be loaned to the British Museum. Six months later, in December, heritage group Sites & Monuments appealed to the French supreme courtto stop the move of the monumental but fragile artifact. Last…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2271050849-e1780933658316.jpg?w=1024″] Late last week, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts, became the first US official to participate in St. Petersburg’s so-called “Russian Davos” in nearly a decade, according to reports. The St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, is designed to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Thomas-Bangalter-by-Stephane-Manel-crop.jpeg?w=1024″] Thomas Bangalter made a name for himself as one half of the French electronic-music duo Daft Punk starting from the early 1990s through the group’s dissolution in 2021. A name but definitely not a face—he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, famously presented themselves as robots replete with all-concealing mechanistic helmets and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Amedeo-Modigliani-Nu-assis-au-collier.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Sotheby’s attempt at a private sale of Pace founder Arne Glimcher’s Jackson Pollock painting was called off for lack of bidders. The chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts participated in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the first…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/New-Talent-2026-Web-Banner_Kiah.jpg?w=1000″] Kiah Celeste trained as a photographer, majoring in the medium at SUNY Purchase. But after school, she abandoned it quickly, frustrated by all the rules that accompany such a technical pursuit. When I visited her Brooklyn live/work studio, it was brimming with sculptures, and I asked her if she thought she used…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/486510561.jpg?w=1024″] For much of Tuesday, June 2,, the second floor of Sotheby’s headquarters at Manhattan’s Breuer Building was off limits. Security guards turned away employees hoping to access the floor, which, when not used as a traditional gallery, is where the auction house stages its biggest and most closely watched auctions—including the $236…