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[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,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/07275823191491671c38e92a6cf3ed8a4096c5b8-2000×1290-1.avif?w=1024″] Good Morning! The family of a Jewish collector claims a Cézanne watercolor on loan for a recent Fondation Beyeler exhibition was lost due to Nazi persecution. The online prediction platform Kalshi has launched a category for art auctions.  Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian to launch new residency program in Menorca. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Aerial-view-of-Mahon-harbour.-Photo-Davide-Bonaldo.jpg?w=1024″] Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian are launching a new residency program for artists and writers on the island of Menorca. The Residency at Casa Gràcia, as it will be called, will launch next spring and offer self-directed residencies “without obligation to produce an outcome or public presentation” to give selected residents…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nick-doyle-portrait.png?w=1024″] There’s a moment inside Nick Doyle’s new show at Perrotin when his AI oracle Ava stops feeling like a gimmick and starts sounding uncomfortably familiar. “You’re not starting from zero,” she told me during a recent chat. “You’re starting from ‘I’m there and still feeling invisible because you’re allergic to forced performance.’” …

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/DSC08964-HDR.jpg?w=1024″] When the Belarus Free Theatre opened “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.” at La Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia earlier this month, it marked the first time Belarus had a presence at the Venice Biennale in six years—and the first time it appeared there not as a state, but, as curator Daniella Kaliada…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jewish-voice-for-peace-jew-hater-billboard-truck.jpeg?w=1024″] Miami City Commissioner David Suarez has confirmed to ARTnews that he paid to send billboard trucks to personally attack pro-Palestinian protest organizers outside the Art Basel Miami Beach fair in December. A filing in Southern Florida District Court from earlier this month had made the accusation, reported theIntercept. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TessJaray_Ref-0815.jpg?w=1024″] Tess Jaray, a British painter whose understated abstractions explored patterns that recur throughout the world, died on Sunday, according to an obituary posted to the artist’s official Instagram account. She was 88. Jaray specialized in paintings of grids, cubes, and undulating zigzags, all of them set atop palely colored backgrounds. She began…