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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/H4404-L439307717_original.jpg?w=1024″] The Mexican Ministry of Culture has demanded the suspension of an auction in Colorado, reports the Latin American news channel TeleSUR. Organized by Artemis Fine Arts in Louisville, Colorado, and scheduled for today, the sale, titled “Fine/Visual Art, Ancient, Ethnographic Art,” includes 80 artifacts of Mexican origin. The works were flagged by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/bunkerhill.jpg?w=1024″] After a visitor to the Bunker Hill Monument in Massachusetts complained that a panel contained a quote expressing “woke” feminist ideology, the National Park Service ordered a review of materials at the site. As a result of the review, the Washington Post reported Thursday, the organization ordered the removal of three quotes…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278616953.jpg?w=1024″] The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has begun removing references to Donald Trump from the institution, one week after a federal judge ruled that his name had been added illegally to the prestigious performing arts center.  In a memo dated June 4, the center’s attorneys instructed staff to immediately remove Trump’s name…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/70.jpeg?w=1024″] Police and federal authorities are investigating a suspected act of arson at the Museum of African American History in Boston after a package containing materials for an upcoming Juneteenth celebration was set on fire outside the institution this week. According to Boston police, the incident occurred around 8 a.m. on Wednesday at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/klimt-lost.jpg?w=1024″] A woman claiming to be the sole heir to the Austrian subject of a long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has sued for restitution of the portrait, which came to auction at the small Austrian auction house Im Kinsky in 2024. The painting sold on a single bid for $37.5 million, setting a record…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ARTnews-The-Floating-Art-Hotel-Monaco-Edition-20261.png?w=1024″] Good Morning! The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.  A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, “museum-grade” exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco. Abram Champanier’s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go on view at the Museum of the City…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1486085701.webp?w=768″] Once thought to have originated in Wales, like the rest of the 4,500-year-old monument’s bluestones, Stonehenge’s altar stone has recently been traced through geological fingerprinting to Scotland. The question of how the megalith made the 435-mile journey from there to Salsbury Plain in England is now the focus of a study by…