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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1243911216.jpg?w=1024″] Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, two art collectors who regularly appear on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, are set to sell £15 million ($20.1 million) at Christie’s next month via an in-person auction in London on June 25 and an online sale. The top lot of the 106 works headed to auction…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/f8186485-1015-42cb-919a-ab83c0ef6229-paulakamps-portrait-1024x.jpg?w=797″] Paula Kamps, a painter whose softly hued paintings showing flowers and blurring figures gained her recognition in Europe and the US, died at 36. Her Paris gallery, Sans Titre, confirmed her death on Tuesday, but did not state a cause. Kamps’s paintings frequently dealt with the fleetingness of memory. Using thin washes…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Cheryl-Finley-Author-portrait-by-Gediyon-Kifle_GKP_474159-scaled.jpg-1440×810-1703008716.jpeg?w=1024″] Cheryl Finley, the director of visual arts and culture at Spelman College who oversees the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective, has been awarded the David C. Driskell Prize dedicated to figures whose work is important to the realms of African American art and art history. Established by Atlanta’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jacksonpollock.jpg?w=1024″] Leaving aside the so-called drip paintings that made Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) the face of Abstract Expressionism, an argument could be made that, overall, he wasn’t a particularly good artist. The period between 1947 and 1950, when Pollock produced his breakthrough abstractions, was bookended by years of kludgy attempts to, essentially, out-Picasso Picasso,…