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• British Museum to Hire Specialist to Find Missing Gold ‘Before It’s Melted Down’

  05-01-2026 13:19 via artnews.com
  The British Museum is on the hunt for hundreds of stolen artifacts, and it plans to hire a specialist to help track them down before they vanish for good.In 2023, the museum revealed that thousands of items had gone missing from its Greek and Roman collections. Tom Harrison, who was recently promoted to lead the department, has been leading the painstaking recovery of the treasures spanning gold jewelry, semiprecious stones, and glass dating back to the 15th century BCE. Harrison told the Times
  
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• After Years of Uncertainty, Dealers Ready for Art Basel With Cautious Optimism

  15-06-2026 23:18 via artnews.com
  
  Paris gallerist Jocelyn Wolff is always stressed before Art Basel, he told me over the phone from a café in the French capital earlier this month. In fact, by his calculation, he has suffered 20 years of pre-Basel stress, less from worrying about the vicissitudes of the art market, than from the high participation costs for his small 8th arrondissement gallery. This year, however, he is feeling a bit less anxious than usual, thanks to some fortuitous pre-sales. That bodes well for the fla
  
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• Kennedy Center Establishes New Endowment in President Trump’s Name

  15-06-2026 22:15 via artnews.com
  
  The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has voted to establish a new endowment in President Donald Trump’s name, apparently creating an additional source of private funding to complement its existing endowments and the approximately $257 million in federal funding appropriated for its building renovations. The Center’s board of trustees, which is chaired by Trump and composed largely of the president’s allies, voted unanimously to establish the new endowment during a meeti
  
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•  Artist Puts Vandalized Self-Portrait on View at Houston Museum of African American Culture

  15-06-2026 21:42 via artnews.com
  
  A self-portrait by Clarence Heyward was vandalized last week by visitors to the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where the work by the Raleigh, North Carolina–based artist is on view as part of a survey titled “Eden.”As reported by the Houston Chronicle, “the artwork was left with what appears to be a puncture and a horizontal gash in the canvas” after two museumgoers were seen walking around the museum. “Though staff did not witness the visitors in
  
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• London’s Jewish Museum Reopens in Temporary Location After Three Years

  15-06-2026 21:32 via artnews.com
  
  The Jewish Museum in London, an almost century-old institution that closed in 2023 amid ongoing financial and organizational challenges, is reopening on June 17. The temporary exhibition space is called Two Rooms and it will take up a pair of gallery spaces at JW3, a Jewish community center and cultural venue in Hampstead, North London, that was founded by Nick Viner, the museum’s board chair. The museum plans to open a new permanent museum by 2030.Charles Ross, the museum’s chief ex
  
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• Art Basel’s Vincenzo De Bellis on ‘Basel Exclusive,’ Price Freezes, and Why the Fair Is Getting Even More Global 

  15-06-2026 20:59 via artnews.com
  
  Art Basel opens its doors in Switzerland this week in an art market that has had an intriguing first half of 2026. The fair company hosted a successful first edition of Art Basel Qatar in February, and last November’s strong auction seasons, led by the blockbuster sales of trophy works, continued into May. What’s becoming clearer is that the current market looks increasingly bifurcated: the highest strata is performing well, as are safer categories like Old Masters and Impressionism,
  
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• Tunnels From Henry VIII’s Palace of Beaulieu Found Beneath an English Boarding School

  15-06-2026 18:41 via artnews.com
  
  Tunnels dating to Henry VIII’s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month.Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to contain livestock without interrupting the view across an estate, uncovered a tunnel entrance, along with Tudor-era artifacts including pottery, bones, and glass bottles.New Hall School is named for New Hall, a house Henry VII acquired from his future (and ill-fa
  
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• This Bottle of Rare Japanese Whisky Sold for a Record-Setting $1 M. in Hong Kong

  15-06-2026 18:20 via artnews.com
  
  A unique bottle of Yamazaki 50 Year Old single-malt whisky created exclusively for Club Natsume, an elite private club in Nagoya, Japan, nearly doubled its high estimate recently to fetch HK$8,250,000, or about $1 million, after a contest involving three bidders at Bonhams Hong Kong.. That broke the previous record, HK$6,200,000 (about $790,000), set at Bonhams Hong Kong in 2020 for a Yamazaki 55-Year-Old. The sale occurred May 30.“Breaking the world record for a Japanese whisky at auction
  
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• Expansive Show Focusing on Willem de Kooning’s Drawings Opens at the Art Institute of Chicago

  15-06-2026 17:46 via artnews.com
  
  On Sunday, an expansive exhibition focused on Willem de Kooning’s drawings opened at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show includes some 200 artworks, including paintings, bronze sculptures, and mixed-media works from throughout de Kooning’s seven-decade career.The earliest work in the show, Dish With Jugs (ca. 1919-21), was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by de Kooning. It is a black-and-white, almost photorealistic depiction of the three vessels on a wooden table. Accordin
  
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• Kyiv’s Dormition Cathedral Hit by Russian Strikes, Painting Vandalized in Houston, and More: Morning LInks for June 15, 2026

  15-06-2026 15:50 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Kyiv’s 11th-century Dormition Cathedral was severely damaged in Russian strikes.Police are investigating the vandalism of a painting recognizing Black achievement at the Houston Museum of African American Culture.Almine Rech announced it is representing the estate of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.The Headlines CULTURE UNDER FIRE. The UNESCO-listed, 11th-century Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv was set on fire following Russian strikes that also killed nine people i
  
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• Leonardo Drew Joins Hauser & Wirth for Worldwide Representation

  15-06-2026 13:00 via artnews.com
  
  Leonardo Drew, one of the most recognizable sculptors working today, has joined Hauser & Wirth, which will now represent the artist worldwide. The gallery announced the news on Tuesday and will debut a new work by Drew, Number 451, at Art Basel later this month. Drew’s first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth is scheduled to open in New York in fall 2027.Over the past four decades, Drew has built a career transforming weathered wood, metal, paper, and other materials into spr
  
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• Jenny Calivas Buries Herself in Sand—and Reinvents Photography From the Ground Up

  15-06-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Jenny Calivas had built her own darkroom in high school and trained at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies as well as the International Center of Photography, yet when she entered the graduate program at Yale, she wondered if photography was still the best fit for her. “I wanted to experiment with other mediums,” she told me. “I had been getting more interested in sculpture and performance. I had a burning desire to use my hands.” She tried new approaches in t
  
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• Why the Tragicomic Feels Like the Most Honest Aesthetic Now

  14-06-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  If it is true that every historical era gives rise to the aesthetic sensibility most perfectly calibrated to its moral and spiritual essence, one wonders what truth is revealed by the fact that all of a sudden, the tragicomic is back.This cockroach of forms—adaptive, resilient, unkillable—was named by the Roman dramatist Plautus in the second century BC, enjoyed its heyday in 17th-century Renaissance theater, and was revived in the 20th century to describe a slurry of existential des
  
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  13-06-2026 16:42 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Almine Rech Now Represents Famed Surrealist Leonora Carrington

  13-06-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Leonora Carrington’s mystical menagerie has a new home at Almine Rech.The gallery is now the exclusive partner of the Consejo Leonora Carrington in France, giving its global network—with locations in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York, and beyond—access to the fantastical paintings and sculptures that cemented her place in the Surrealist canon.Almine Rech will mark the collaboration with the debut of a bronze sculpture cast from a life model Carrington created in 2010 at Art Bas
  
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• Almine Rech Now Represents Famed Surrealist Leonora Carrington in France

  13-06-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Leonora Carrington’s mystical menagerie has a new home at Almine Rech.The gallery is now the exclusive partner of the Consejo Leonora Carrington in France and rossogranada, giving its global network—with locations in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York, and Brussels—access to the fantastical paintings and sculptures that cemented her place in the Surrealist canon.Almine Rech will mark the collaboration with the debut of a bronze sculpture cast from a life model Carrington created
  
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• Almine Rech Announces Collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada

  13-06-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Leonora Carrington’s mystical menagerie has a new home at Almine Rech.The gallery is now the exclusive partner of the Consejo Leonora Carrington in France and rossogranada, giving its global network—with locations in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York, and Brussels—access to the fantastical paintings and sculptures that cemented her place in the Surrealist canon.Almine Rech will mark the collaboration with the debut of a bronze sculpture cast from a life model Carrington created
  
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• The Most Expensive Works by David Hockney Sold at Auction

  12-06-2026 23:17 via artnews.com
  
  David Hockney, one of the most celebrated British artists of the 20th century, died on June 11, at age 88 at his home in London.Since the early 1960s, Hockney has been a fixture in the contemporary art world, first rising to prominence as British Pop artist, who unabashedly explored queer desire at a time that homosexuality was still illegal in the UK. In the ensuing decades, he ventured across painting, drawing, printmaking, and iPad compositions, often painting the people and places that he sp
  
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• AI Just Helped Identify a Long-Lost F.C.B. Cadell Painting Bought for Under $100

  12-06-2026 22:52 via artnews.com
  
  When Helene Plotkin purchased a painting of a seated woman at a White Plains thrift store sixty years ago, she bought it because she liked it. A former art student, she admired its colors and brushwork, and the price was right: she remembers it costing under $100. Now, thanks to Ms. Plotkin’s eye, her son’s curiosity, and a little help from the Google chatbot Gemini, her family is more than $250,000 richer.  Verified by specialists as an original canvas by noted Scottish artist
  
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• Steven Adrian Stewart, Founder of Kansas Gallery, Dead at 46

  12-06-2026 19:54 via artnews.com
  
  Steven Adrian Stewart, founder of the Lower East Side’s Kansas Gallery, is dead at 46. The gallerist, who later cofounded Futures Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, died on May 26 in Lawrence, Kansas, near where he grew up. No cause of death was provided.Stewart was best known for Kansas, the gallery he founded in 2011. Through Kansas, Stewart exhibited or represented Michael Berryhill, Mira Dancy, Carey Denniston, Ethan Greenbaum, Clay Ketter, Sylvan Lionni, David J. Merritt, Halsey Rodman,
  
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• World Cup Fever: Soccer Balls Designed by Futura 2000, Katherine Bernhardt, Hank Willis Thomas, and 20 Other Contemporary Artists Have Been Installed Around New York and New Jersey

  12-06-2026 19:48 via artnews.com
  
  Many in the artworld might be surprised to learn that one of the last projects the legendary art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund worked on before her death last fall involved the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted this year in North America.  The project, Art of the Game, involved commissioning 23 contemporary artists—mostly nominated by high-profile museum curators—to design large-scale soccer ball sculptures that will be installed all summer long around New York and New Jerse
  
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• Prolific Armenian Painter Haroutiun Galentz is Making a Comeback Across Europe

  12-06-2026 18:01 via artnews.com
  
  A 20th-century modernist has been the subject of a recent book that reassessed his legacy, as well as a dedicated conference at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice this month.Related ArticlesSteven Adrian Stewart, Founder of Kansas Gallery, Dead at 46 Francesca Casadio Named Director of Getty Conservation Institute, GRIMM Opens Amsterdam Space, and More: Industry Moves for June 12, 2026 The work of Armenian painter Haroutiun Galentz (1910–1967) is seeing a resurgence with interest in bo
  
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