Gertrude Abercrombie: Alderman Merriam’s Shells, 1951. Courtesy Freeman’s Plucked from an estate sale in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for $30, Gertrude Abercombie’s Alderman Merriam’s Shells (1951) sold for $1.35 million at Freeman’s auction house on October 1. The final bid far surpassed the lot’s $250,000 estimate, setting a new auction benchmark for the late Surrealist painter. For …
Top row, from left: Man Ray: Lee Miller, 1929; Angelica Kauffmann: Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes, 1787–88; and Richard Gerstl: Dame mit Federhut (Lady with Feather Hat), 1906. Center: María Teresa Hincapié: VITRINA, 1989–2020. Bottom row: Tony Abeyta: Celebration from the Underworld, 1998–99; Amadou Sanogo: Monkey Walk, 2015; Luis Gispert: Chain Mouth, 2001; …
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View of Agnes Questionmark’s installation Cyber-Teratology Operation, at the Venice Biennale, 2024. Photo Mehiri Studio/Courtesy the artist The New Museum in New York has announced the 36 artists and collectives that will participate in the 2027 New Museum Triennial, running February 4–May 16, 2027. Under the title “The Outside Expands,” the sixth edition of the …
Rep. Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, speaks to reporters at the end of a hearing on the January 6th investigation on June 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democratic Maryland representative Jamie Raskin, a dogged antagonist to President Donald Trump who attempted to have him removed from office, has introduced legislation directing the …
During the past 12 months, the art world lost some of its most dedicated collectors, who were known for the outsize holdings as well as their patronage of institutions, many of which benefited from their largess. Agnes Gund and Barbara Jakobsen were longtime trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dorothy Vogel …
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“Utility,” at the Bunker Artspace, featured works from Beth Rudin DeWoody’s collection. Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews Top collector Beth Rudin DeWoody has listed her Upper East Side co-op for $12 million, for the second time since 2018. She previously took the apartment off the market in 2020. At 5,000-square-feet, the 10 Gracie Square fourth-floor apartment boasts incredible …
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A new piece from the 2026 clothing collaboration between Gap, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Roy Lichtenstein Estate. Courtesy Gap, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Roy Lichtenstein Estate If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there is a more affordable …
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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Photo Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Funding trouble has been brewing at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam since at least 2023, when the museum began negotiating with the Dutch Ministry of Culture over the budget for a much-needed building renovation. In the summer of 2025, two years into …
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The Whitney Museum. UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum in New York ratified its second contract Sunday night, hours ahead a strike deadline, narrowly heading off a disruption to the opening of a forthcoming Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. Under the new contract, every Whitney employee will receive a wage increase …
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The Phoenix Art Museum. Bill Timmerman Philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran has donated $5 million to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the museum announced this week. The gift will support the expansion of the institution’s Asian art galleries, as well as acquisitions, scholarly research, and public programs on Sri Lankan art. The museum’s Art of Asia …
