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A monumental painting by a leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance, showing a legendary figure from the struggle for African American liberation, will come to auction at Sotheby’s New York next month.

As the US midterm elections loom closer, former First Lady Hillary Clinton is turning to art for peace of mind.

Art Basel Qatar is returning for its sophomore edition from January 28 to 30 to three venues in Msheireb Downtown Doha: Barahat Msheireb, M7, and Doha Design District.

Jogen Chowdhury, one India’s leading modern painters whose figurative oeuvre foregrounded humanity, died at a hospital in Kolkata on October 25.

Following the news last month that Chng Hak-Peng is taking over Eugene Tan’s role as CEO of the National Gallery of Singapore, English-language newspaper The Straits Times reports that two other top staffers are also leaving the museum.

Billionaire collector William “Bill” Koch is ready to sell more of his art.

A planned strike across all four Victoria and Albert Museum sites has been suspended as unionized staff return to the negotiating table following a new offer from management.

Friedel Dzubas spent most of his career making enormous, vibrant Color Field–esque abstract paintings.

Members of the Quadracci family have pledged $10 million to establish the Quadracci Pavilion Preservation Endowment Fund, which will support the long-term care and maintenance of one of the museum’s buildings.

Solving a mystery that has puzzled experts for centuries, scientists at the University of Sheffield in England have recreated the color-changing properties of the British Museum’s storied 1,600-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which is green in typical lighting but…

Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.

The Whitney Museum in New York has hired Nolan Jimbo as the Arnhold Associate Curator, a role most recently held by Rujeko Hockley.

A century ago, California health fanatic Philip Lovell had some unusual ideas about how people ought to live.

Earlier this month, Italy’s National School of Heritage and Cultural Activities (SNPAC) and the École du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) in Porto-Novo, Benin, launched a training course on combatting the illegal trafficking of antiquities.

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Ahead of the US midterm elections on November 3, all eyes are on the White House, specifically its interiors.

As the art market in the Middle East heats up with the inaugural Frieze Abu Dhabi taking place next month, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi opening in December, and Art Basel Qatar expected to return for its second edition in 2027, Sotheby’s is deepening its acti…

For more than a century, a suite of murals by Symbolist painter Odilon Redon have decorated the library of the Abbaye de Fontfroide, an 11th-century former monastery in the South of France.

A major work by a market titan will go under the hammer at Christie’s New York next moth.

50 artworks from the collection of Charles Greig, a British academic and expert in Indian art, have been donated to the Tate.

As a teenager, Walid Raad would walk around his hometown with a camera, just trying to make some sense of the world.

If you were on the internet in 2015, you likely followed the twisty tale of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.

When the Milwaukee Brewers face the Tampa Bay Rays in game one of the 122nd World Series tonight, they will be playing for more than just the right to hoist the sterling silver Commissioner’s Trophy after four wins.

A Virginia man allegedly beheaded one of six statues at the Iwo Jima monument near the Quantico Marine base, causing what police estimated was hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.

The Prix Marcel Duchamp jury announced Thursday that it has awarded the 2026 prize to artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, known for their multidisciplinary practice that spans installation, sculpture, video, performance, and photography.

Editor’s Note: This story was updated on October 23 2026, with additional information.

Paul Stankard, a visionary glass blower who memorialized flora and fauna in hardened and translucent form, died at the age of 83, according to a New York Times obituary that celebrates how his “decades-long obsession with replicating the natural world in…

Museum closures are expected to take place across Paris on Saturday, in anticipation of planned protests, reports Le Figaro.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced Friday that it has received one of the largest gifts in its history: $20 million from Comcast cofounder Julian A.

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In need of a couple’s costume this Halloween?

If you planned to visit Art Basel Paris but just learned that it’s closing for the weekend ahead of Saturday’s planned protests, there’s some good news: for now, at least, several satellite fairs plan to welcome visitors for part or all of the weekend—whi…

An alleged member of the four-person team that broke into the Louvre last October, stealing crown jewels worth roughly $100 million, has been denied release, Le Figaro reports.

A Claude Monet painting sold for €50 million ($56.2 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris on Thursday, setting a record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France.

Barbara Hepworth had quite a night at Christie’s in London on Wednesday.

Turkish authorities have seized a marble head depicting the ancient Greek god Zeus in Izmir’s Konak district in western Turkey.

Russian-born abstraction pioneer Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Betonte Ecken (1922–23) will come to the auction block at Christie’s New York on November 17, carrying a $60 million to $80 million estimate.

For two centuries, Westminster Abbey has harbored a mystery: Whose skeleton was discovered within a Roman sarcophagus unearthed beneath its foundations?

With Art Basel Paris closing two days early, ahead of planned protests this weekend, dealers have yet to figure out how to get their artworks out of the Grand Palais.

Questions have been raised over the maintenance of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s former home and studio, after a visitor was reportedly struck and killed on October 16 by an acrylic fragment that had been dislodged from the property by high winds.

For a few days this week, filmmaker Alice Diop has created a space for healing.

Three works by Paul Cézanne have been removed from the “Le Temps Retrouvé: The Schlumberger Collection” evening sale at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday coinciding with Art Basel Paris.

In a scene that could have been ripped out of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr.

The National Park Service has revised its plans to redevelop the Tidal Basin region of the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum removed an ancient Egyptian mummified head from view because there was no “informed consent from the deceased individual,” the museum said.

Scott Mescudi, the rapper known as Kid Cudi, announced on Instagram that he is working on a biopic about the oft-mythologized New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

An ancient fragment of a statue of a Roman emperor sold last night at Sotheby’s for $34.3 million, a sum that the house has deemed an auction record for a Roman antiquity.

Ahead of planned protests, Art Basel Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and other museums and art events in the French capital are planning to close for part or all of Saturday.

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Thanks to the generosity of a sibling, the New York Public Library (NYPL) is now the owner of some 250 prints by Kiki Smith.