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Blackpink Superstar Rosé Tapped for LACMA’s Art+Film Gala

Rosé attends the 2026 Met Gala Celebrating “Costume Art” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. Photo by TheStewartofNY/Getty Images K-pop star Rosé will perform at LACMA’s upcoming Art+Film Gala on November 7. The Blackpink vocalist joins the museum’s 15th annual fundraiser, which will honor Latvian American artist Vija …

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Tate Scoops Up Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze London

Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Peace Unknown, 2026. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Boesky Gallery/Photo ©Tate (Sonal Bakrania and Matt Greenwood) Each year at Frieze London, Tate gets to buy works on view at the fair through a dedicated fund, and this time around, the museum purchased just two pieces: an abstraction by Michaela Yearwood-Dan and …

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Police Recover Three Religious Artworks Stolen From Spanish Churches

Inside the church of San Pablo in Valladolid. Photo by Joaquin Gomez Sastre/NurPhoto Spanish police have recovered three religious artworks stolen from churches in Valladolid over the summer, bringing the case one step closer to a miraculously happy ending. A suspect is in custody, though investigators are still looking for a fourth missing sculpture. The …

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Israel Returns 22 Looted Antiquities to Greece

Some of the 22 antiquities Israel returned to Greece on Oct. 13, 2026. Courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority/Facebook On Tuesday, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) returned 22 antiquities to Greece. The cache includes decorated pottery from the 8th through the 4th centuries BCE that had been seized during an illegal antiquities trafficking investigation in and around …

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Gochman Family Collection’s Hudson Valley Space to Be Called Branchline, Opening in November

The Branchline team, from left: Rachel Martin, Becky Gochman, Audrey Lea Collins, Nicole van Brugge, Moonoka Begay, and Laura Phipps. Photo Denis Gutierrez Ogrinc The Gochman Family Collection, founded by ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Becky and David Gochman, has announced more details for its forthcoming space in the Hudson Valley. Branchline, as it will be …

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Guadalupe Maravilla to Stage Major Installation at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine This December

Guadalupe Maravilla atop his Mariposa Relámpago, commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Photo Alex Boeschenstein/Courtesy the artist, P·P·O·W, New York, and The Contemporary Austin Creative Time has commissioned artist Guadalupe Maravilla to make a major installation in the Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York’s Morningside Heights neighborhood. …

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French Police Foil Suspected Plot to Rob Fondation Maeght After Recovering Stolen Renoirs

The sculpture garden at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, which police believe was the target of a planned burglary following the theft of two Renoir paintings from a nearby museum. De Agostini via Getty Images French police investigating the theft of two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from a museum on the French Riviera believe …

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Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, Sets $1.3 M. Auction Record

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 …

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