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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ERIC5.jpg?w=1024″] Eric Firestone is expanding south. The dealer will open his fifth gallery space, this time in West Palm Beach in mid-November, adding a permanent South Florida location to his two spaces in New York and two in East Hampton. The new gallery, at 2412 Florida Avenue, will occupy a warehouse space near…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/0H5A3940-1.jpg?w=1024″] When Kasseem Dean (better known as Swizz Beatz) and Alicia Keys saw Kerry James Marshall’s painting Past Times (1997) sell at Sotheby’s in 2018 for $21 million, making what the house quickly labeled “a record for a living African American artist,” they despaired that Marshall himself didn’t see any of the upside…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Esther-Schipper_Philippe-Parreno_Installation_I20C_2026.jpg?w=1024″] The iceman cometh—to the Breuer building. Later this month, Philippe Parreno’s iconic Iceman in Reality Park (1995–2023) will make its New York debut, courtesy his gallery, Esther Schipper, which will show it at Independent 20th Century. “The beautiful idea with the ‘Iceman’ series is that it can be reproduced as many or…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/download.jpg?w=1024″] A joint Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission has found a well-preserved tomb dating to the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (2494–2345 BCE), reports the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The find was made during the mission’s 2026 excavation season in the area known as the Mariette Necropolis, north of Egypt’s Saqqara archaeological…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/mold.jpg?w=1024″] A mold used to create a clay figurine during the First Temple Period was discovered earlier this summer on the grounds of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum. The excavation, at Kishle, a former prison and military base that is now part of the museum, was overseen by the Israel Antiquities Authority…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2259328692.jpg?w=1024″] Eight paintings from the collection of Clive Davis, the famed record producer who died this past June, will head to Christie’s during the November sales in New York. They are some of the first major consignments to those sales, and they are worth a total of more than $35 million. (Christie’s has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/best-PCC-Marcus-Fischer-Photo_-Mario-Gallucci.-Courtesy-Converge-45jpg.jpg?w=1024″] The US art world has in recent years worked hard to bring a focus to cities outside the market capitals, mounting recurring exhibitions like Counterpublic in St. Louis, the Medina Triennial in upstate New York, and the lamentably discontinued Front Triennial in Cleveland (adding to long-running shows like the Carnegie International in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2208842754.jpg?w=1024″] Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III will retire at the end of this year, according to the Washington Post, amid a historic confrontation with the Trump administration over how the museum consortium historicize the United States.  Bunch, who assumed leadership in 2019, has faced extraordinary pressure from the White House over the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Lucien-Smith-attends-Guillermo-Del-Toros-_Pinocchio_-New-York-Premiere-at-Museum-of-Modern-Art-on-December-06-2022-in-New-York-City.Photo-by-Jamie-McCarthy_WireImage.jpg?w=1024″] Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37. The news was confirmed to ARTnews by dealer Bill Powers, who had showed Smith early on. No information has been released about the cause or place of his death. “Lucien lives in a wordless…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Leon_Black_web_banner.jpg?w=1024″] Leon Black’s main passion is art, a love that can easily be traced back to his mother, the artist, and to his aunt, the art dealer, and to her husband, his uncle, who was also an artist. His collection, housed in both his Park Avenue town house and his weekend home in…