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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/WEB-Olga.jpg?w=1024″] “The deepest things in human life … can only be expressed inimages,” wrote Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn. And yet, though obsessed with images, she never called herself an “artist,” even as she painted and drew. Fundamentally, she was a collector: of people, of images, of ideas, always animated by her interest in symbols and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2247839667.jpg?w=1024″] The Department of Education has proposed a new “accountability” system that would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates’ earnings, prompting concern from liberal arts institutions and education advocates who argue that this is a test that music, visual arts, and filmmaking programs would, by their nature, be likely to fail. The proposed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Art-Basel-exclusive.jpg?w=1024″] The criticisms of art fairs (and the art market they are a defining part of) are many. One of them is that though we might think of these shows as real-time events, where deals are made and multimillion-dollar artworks are sold to whoever gets to the gallery’s booth first, in reality some…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/LOEWE-180-CAMPAIGN-KARA-WALKER-1.webp?w=681″] Loewe unveiled a new campaign on Monday celebrating the fashion brand’s 180th anniversary, complete with a capsule collection, an anniversary magazine, and an animated film, much of which nods to the house’s long-standing connections to the art world. Under former creative director Jonathan Anderson, the fashion brand played up that connection through…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/20260510110758-0fb42fbb-ec3d-4983-80e1-f543f1bced91.jpeg?w=1024″] Raymonde Arcier, who brought attention to women’s work by way of an art practice based in fabric and textiles of different kinds, died in May at the age of 86. Her death was acknowledged by sources including curators and the magazine Textile/Art. Arcier was born in 1939 in Bellac, France, and made…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278363597.jpg?w=1024″] Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress in Lebanon, was reportedly struck directly by Israeli airstrikes on May 27, according to footage posted on social media and local reports. The news follows intense Israeli strikes on the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Lebanon that is home to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/guywildenstein.jpg?w=1024″] Late last week, a French judge ruled that a judicial court in Rouen, Normandy, can proceed with handling a legal complaint filed by the heirs of Claude Monet, against the New York gallery dynasty Wildenstein & Co., according to French reports. The complex case revolves around a 2004 transaction, in which Monet’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wyland-ocean-life-dallas-mural.jpeg?w=1024″] When soccer fans converge on Dallas this month for World Cup games, the aesthetically inclined ones will encounter a city home to art museums, galleries, and public art. And yet, the city will be missing a major and longstanding public artwork, after conservationist artist’s beloved mural was painted over in May. Florida-based…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/p041fhgh.jpg?w=1024″] A portrait Lucian Freud spent years insisting was not his will go on public display for the first time this summer after researchers uncovered evidence that appears to prove he painted it after all. The work, Man in a Black Scarf, will be shown in “Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint” at London’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/New-Talent-2026-Web-Banner.jpg?w=1000″] “I feel like I am in constant conversation with the past and we are discussing what we’re going to do with the future,” said Koyoltzintli, surrounded by dozens of flutes, whistles, drums, and other handmade instruments scattered around her studio in upstate New York. She was talking about her connection to the…