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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2298421427.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Louvre has closed due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students blocking its glass pyramid entrance, in the latest sign of what appears to be abating civil unrest that peaked on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/DSC00023.jpg?w=1024″] The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has returned to London for its 14th edition, which has introduced a new section this year focused on African modernism, curated by art historian Nancy Dantas. Titled “West Wind” and inspired by Miriam Makeba’s 1966 anthem for unity, this presentation addresses the gap left by Sotheby’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Ibrahim-Mahama-Parliament-of-Ghosts-2023-Hay-Red-Clay-Tamale.-Ibrahim-Mahama-Photo-by-Ernest-Sackitey-courtesy-Red-Clay.jpg?w=1024″] Listen to Ibrahim Mahama speak, and he’s likely to credit his success to his community, which includes market women, weavers, craftsmen, studio assistants, railway workers, curators, professors, and fellow artists. The Ghanaian artist is quick to recognize their contributions when he receives one of the many awards he’s picked up recently. Ranked…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/5a-Project-88.jpg?w=1024″] The Indian contemporary art market has been on an upswing in recent years. The growth has been catalyzed by the country’s economic boom and explosion in private wealth. This has been amplified by a surge in prices for the work of India’s modern masters, now nearly inaccessible for emerging collectors. Galleries have…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Untitled-1.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following the latter’s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach diptych in the museum collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/4.jpg?w=1024″] Rubaiaya Qatar, a new quadrennial that will open its inaugural edition at various venues across Doha beginning November 21, has announced more than 120 artists that will participate in the new initiative, presented by Qatar Museums in collaboration with ALRIWAQ Arts + Architecture. Unlike most other recurring art exhibitions, Rubaiaya Qatar will…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/260930_ArtNews_-87-crop.jpg?w=1024″] On September 29, ARTnews celebrated the launch of the 37th edition of our annual Top 200 Collectors list at Summit New York 1 Vanderbilt, which featured impressive views of the New York skyline from the Chrysler Building to the JPMorgan Chase Tower to the Empire State Building. The evening’s cohosts were Estrellita…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Untitled-1.jpg?w=1024″] In a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California, is arguing that it is the proper owner of 16th-century diptych that was looted by the Nazis and later sold to its founder. The heirs have been fighting for the artwork for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-1821402025.jpg?w=1024″] George Osborne, the former British chancellor who now chairs the British Museum, played a personal role in securing a reported £5 million ($6.6 million) sponsorship from billionaire hedge fund manager Igor Tulchinsky, according to internal emails obtained by the campaign group Culture Unstained. The correspondence, first reported by in the Art Journal,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/mss094_ref896_n000094_m.jpg?w=960″] You’d be forgiven for thinking New York’s fall art calendar begins and ends with the museum spotlight. From the Whitney Museum’s Roy Lichtenstein retrospective to a Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock blockbuster at the Met, ’tis the season of mid-century heavyweights. But for those who’ve made the rounds—or simply like their art…