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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/GettyImages-494017278-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell’s fabled Roden Crater three times—and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an “amazing person … taking it to another level, and that’s what all artists try to do.” As…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DP165670.jpg?w=1024″] The Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian structure that counts among the most beloved attractions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will this summer host an exhibition of sculptures by the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti—a rarity, since the Temple of Dendur does not often act as a space for shows of any…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Krasner_Lotus.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. The Metropolitan Museum of Art says its upcoming exhibition, “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” is a “story of equals.” Set to open in October, the survey brings together 120 works  by more…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AN-Time100_banner_.jpg?w=1024″] Time magazine has released the 2026 edition of its “most influential” list, spanning leaders and notable figures in politics, sport, technology, fashion, medicine, and many other fields. Included this year are artist Cao Fei and photojournalist Lynsey Addario. Founded in 1923, Time published its first “most influential” list in 1999. “There is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2271419029.jpg?w=1024″] A 58-year-old Paris-based engineer named Ari Hodara bought a raffle ticket on a whim, and ended up winning a gouache-on-paper painting by Picasso a few days later. The 1941 painting, Head of a Woman, is a portrait of the French artist’s lover and muse Dora Maar, an artist in her own right…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/lacmaerewhon.jpg?w=1024″] Erewhon, the iconic LA grocery store known for its $20-plus smoothies, will soon open at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of a new partnership. LACMA is currently preparing to open its new, Peter Zumthor–design building, officially called the David Geffen Galleries, this spring, with members getting access beginning…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1240402072.jpg?w=1024″] Kenneth C. Griffin, the billionaire hedge fund founder and one of the world’s most prominent art collectors, warned Tuesday that the global economy faces a recession if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed through the end of this year. “Let’s assume it’s shut down for the next six to 12 months,” Griffin…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-04-13_LCPA_MuralUnveil_LawrenceSumulong_0016.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this week, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts unveiled a mural adorning construction fencing along Amsterdam Avenue, marking the western edge of LCPA’s Upper West Side campus. The mural was designed by Vanesa Álvarez, a Spanish artist based in Brooklyn. Derval Fairweather, a local artist who grew up in public housing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-2170792148.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CHINA’S RED PEN. The Victoria and Albert Museum censored maps and images in its catalogues following objections from its Chinese printer and state authorities over content deemed sensitive to Beijing, the Guardian reports. The museum agreed to remove material from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2218663020.jpg?w=1024″] Sotheby’s has been sued for allegedly failing to pay a $10.2 million commission tied to the $510 million sale of its former New York headquarters, according to a report by Artnet News.  The lawsuit, filed April 9 in New York State Supreme Court by the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield, centers on…