The Hispanic Society of America building in Washington Heights. Photo: Asaavedra32/Wikipedia Commons. When Sotheby’s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum. Now, Sotheby’s is leaning into that history in earnest, …
TOPSHOT – French photographer and street artist JR, poses in his Paris studio on November 26, 2025, presenting “The Cave of the Pont Neuf,” the artwork he will create as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, transforming the Pont Neuf forty years after the wrapping of Paris’s oldest bridge. This work will be on display …
A statue of d’Artagnan and the other three musketeers in front of a church in southwestern France. Photo Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Good Morning! Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D’Artagnan. Congress rejected a bill to …
The Palm Springs Art Museum. Photo Lance Gerber/Courtesy Palm Springs Art Museum The Palm Springs Art Museum in California has released a three-page statement saying that an investigation conducted in response to a whistleblower complaint alleging mismanagement and fraud found no wrongdoing by the museum. The museum declined to provide ARTnews a copy of the …
A maquette for one of Claire Tabouret’s windows for Notre-Dame. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images A Paris judge has rejected a request to halt the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are to be replaced by government-commissioned contemporary works, dealing a blow to the preservationist campaign …
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Centre Pompidou in Paris. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images Paris’s Centre Pompidou has announced another five-year partnership, this time with the iconic fashion house Chanel. (Last week, the Pompidou and M+ in Hong Kong announced their plan to lend artworks and collaborate on research projects and exhibitions.) Despite being closed until 2030 while …
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Howard and Cindy Rachofsky. Getty Images for amfAr The Dallas home of art collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky remains available for sale, and for deep-pocked prospective buyers, there’s some good news: The property is now available at a discount. That’s also bad news for the Rachofskys, whose Richard Meier–designed home has been on the market …
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Harald Metkes, Removal of the Six-Armed Goddess, 1956. Courtesy State Museums in Berlin, Nationalgalerie/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Harald Metzkes, the so-called “Cézannist of Prenzlauer Berg” who made classically indebted and symbolically rich paintings following Germany’s surrender in World War II, died last Thursday in Brandenburg at the age of 97. His death was confirmed to the …
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Reikado Hall before a fire that destroyed it. Daderot/Wikimedia Commons A sacred Buddhist hall on the top of Mount Misen in Japan was destroyed by fire—but an “eternal flame” said to have been burning for more than a millennium was rescued and moved to another site, where it continues to glow. As reported in the …
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The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews’s sister publication, features profiles of 20 “New Talent” honorees selected by the editors as artists to watch. The list includes artists from all over the world and who work in different mediums, all of them emerging in their own ways. The Summer 2026 issue of Art in …
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