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ZABLUDOWICZES ZIPPING OFF?<\/strong>\u00a0Are the influential European collectors of emerging art,\u00a0Anita and Chaim \u201cPoju\u201d Zabludowicz<\/strong>, selling 100 works from their collection at Christie\u2019s in London because of disillusionment with the art world? That is what\u00a0Artnet News\u2019<\/em>\u00a0Katya Kazakina posits. The sale this week from the Zabludowicz Collection is divided into a live auction today, with works by\u00a0Philip Guston, Damien Hirst<\/strong>, among others, and a second sale closing June 30. The first sale is estimated to bring in about $17 million to $26 million, while the second is expected to fetch between about $385,000 and $574,200 and features artists whose markets \u201conce burned white-hot but have since cooled dramatically,\u201d writes Kazakina. Why sell during a market contraction for ultra-contemporary works? According to interviewees for the story, the reason involved \u201cstrain\u201d between the couple and parts of the art world over their relationship to Israel. Artist and dealer\u00a0Joel Mesler<\/strong>\u00a0said they were \u201cdisheartened that they were being kind of abused by these people that they had supported.\u201d He added, \u201cIt\u2019s not revenge. It\u2019s just, \u2018We are getting out. Goodbye.\u2019\u201d The couple has been targeted by a group called Boycott Divest Zabludowicz, which criticizes them for supporting a pro-Israel lobby. The collectors, however, did not respond to\u00a0Artnet<\/em>\u2019s request for comment about whether related criticism led to the decision to sell. Meanwhile,\u00a0Katharine Arnold<\/strong>, vice chairman of the 20th-and 21st-century art department at Christie\u2019s, said she was with the pair in Basel this week, \u201cand they were looking at art and enjoying art.\u201d<\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>. Vienna-born, British artist Tess Jaray has died at age 88,\u00a0reports\u00a0the\u00a0Times of London<\/em>. She is known for her many abstract, geometric public works around the world, notably embedded into the architecture of London\u2019s leading museums. The Jaray family fled Nazi persecution in Austria and settled in London, where the artist built her career. She was also the first woman hired to teach at London\u2019s Slade School of Fine Art, where she stayed for 31 years. Jaray reportedly died after a fall, and continued to work in her studio until the very end, where she never turned on the lights because she felt artificial light corrupted colors. \u201cWhen the light faded, her day was finally over,\u201d writes the\u00a0Times<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn celebration of the\u00a0World Cup<\/strong>, New York\u00a0Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0Whitney Museum of American Art<\/strong>announced a citywide partnership that invites New Yorkers and visitors who complete an\u00a0art-activity guide\u00a0to free admission to the Whitney through July 31, 2026. [press release<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tThe Trump administration has fenced off the\u00a0Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool<\/strong>\u00a0after one man was accused of vandalism for reaching into the water to touch detached scraps of the newly painted covering, and after dead ducks were found in and near the pool. [Associated Press<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tCitadel founder\u00a0Ken Griffin<\/strong>\u2019s trove of\u00a0Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/strong>\u00a0paintings, which cost him approximately $500 million, is on view at the\u00a0P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)<\/strong>. [The New York Times<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tPart of a 2,500-year-old bronze votive, or ceremonial chariot, unlike anything ever found before, has been uncovered at the Turu\u00f1uelo site in Spain, where a 5th-century BCE monumental building once stood. [El\u00a0<\/strong>Pa\u00eds<\/u><\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tActivist and artist Xiangqi Chen has spearheaded the creation of a new Chinese LGBTQ+ art institution in San Francisco, called the\u00a0OUT Museum<\/strong>, which opened at the end of May. [Associated Press<\/strong>]<\/p>\n LARI PITTMAN\u2019S VISUAL PERFORMANCES<\/strong>. As part of a Pride Month series, and ahead of a fall show at\u00a0Lehmann Maupin<\/strong>\u00a0gallery in New York, Los Angeles-based artist\u00a0Lari Pittman<\/strong>\u00a0talks\u00a0to\u00a0Hyperallergic<\/em>\u00a0about his new body work. But don\u2019t ask the Colombian-American what it\u2019s about. He does, however, offer that the show\u2019s title,\u00a0The Remedy of Analog Space and Time,<\/em>\u00a0refers to \u201cendlessly languorous, sequential chunks of time that create boredom,\u201d or \u201ccertain malaises that human beings are suffering for all sorts of reasons.\u201d Pittman also discusses queerness in his practice: \u201cOne of the things that I always felt in my life, what could be seen as queer for me, is that homosexuals were fundamentally heterosocial and heterosexuals were fundamentally homosocial. And so that, I think, created a different way of looking at the world. Because of that, I\u2019m able to maybe reach out to territories of visual performance that actually come quite naturally to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/christies-zabludowicz-sale-raises-questions-1234790284\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1243911216.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Sources say influential European collectors Anita and Chaim \u201cPoju\u201d Zabludowicz\u00a0are selling 100 works from their collection at Christie\u2019s in London because of disillusionment with the art world. Vienna-born, British artist Tess Jaray has died at age 88. 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