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• India Unveils Repatriated Buddha-Linked Artifacts in New Show: ‘A Very Special Day’

  05-01-2026 17:35 via artnews.com
  The Indian government has unveiled an array of Buddha-linked relics that were repatriated to the country after initially being set for sale at Sotheby’s last year.It is the first time that these artifacts, known as the Piprahwa relics, are back in India in over a century. Some date as far back as the 6th century BCE.Dozens of those artifacts are now on view in a show that opened at the Rai Pithora Cultural Complex in Delhi over the weekend. Titled “Light and the Lotus: Relics of the
  
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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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• Francesca Casadio Named Director of Getty Conservation Institute, GRIMM Opens Amsterdam Space, and More: Industry Moves for June 12, 2026

  12-06-2026 16:52 via artnews.com
  
  Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Friday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this weekFrancesca Casadio Appointed Director of the Getty Conservation Institute: The conservation scientist, who currently serves as vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science
  
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• Trump Administration Plans Year-Round Construction for Triumphal Arch

  12-06-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River.The plan, which would see work happen year-round and for 20 hours a day, was revealed in a 24-page assessment by the National Park Service, according to a report by the Associated Press. The goal is to finish construction in three years.The assessment, part of a historic preservation re
  
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• Mauritshuis Museum Can Keep Contested Rembrandts, Fallout From Viral Artist Residency ‘Scandal,’ and More: Morning Links for June 12, 2026

  12-06-2026 15:41 via artnews.com
  
  Good Morning!Iconic British artist David Hockney has died at 88.A court in The Hague said the Mauritshuis does not have to return 25 valuable artworks—including eight Rembrandts—to the heirs of its former museum director.Fallout continues from a viral artist residency “scandal” that misled artists.The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. British artist David Hockney has died at 88. He “passed away peacefully at home on June 11, 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday
  
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• David Hockney, Painter Who Captured the Sensibility of ’60s Los Angeles, Is Dead at 88

  12-06-2026 15:27 via artnews.com
  
  David Hockney, one of the 20th century’s most famous artists best-known for his depictions of the sunny glitz of 1960s Los Angeles, has died at age 88. His publicist, Erica Bolton, confirmed he “passed away peacefully” at home in London on Thursday, just one month away from his 89th birthday.Hockney is one of contemporary art’s most influential and immediately recognizable figures in his signature cap, round glasses, and colorful, often checkered attire. Above all, he sta
  
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• Cleveland Museum of Art Plans $600 M. Fundraising Campaign to Sustain Museum’s Long-Term Health

  12-06-2026 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced Friday that it has a $600 million fundraising campaign in the works. The goal is to support the institution’s long-term health—and it is nearly 80 percent of the way there.As it approaches the final stretch of the campaign, the museum is announcing the public phase of the campaign, which it is calling “For the Benefit of All the People.” It is the largest fundraising campaign in the museum’s history and, according to the m
  
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• Mickalene Thomas, Known for Her Glittering Depictions of Black Women, Joins Jack Shainman Gallery

  12-06-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery will represent the artist Mickalene Thomas, widely known for her boldly colorful, rhinestone-adorned portraits that lionize Black women. She will have a solo show at the gallery in January 2028.The artist will maintain longstanding relationships with three of her existing galleries: Yancey Richardson in New York; Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris; and Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Colorado. (Thomas has in the past also been represented by New York–based Le
  
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• Is This the First Good Eco Art Survey?

  12-06-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  Biennials, triennials, and their ilk perennially ask: What does it mean to make art today? A new triennial in Medina, a rural village in Western New York, tackles the hard question: What does it mean to make art in an age of waning material comfort for all but the world’s richest?While the baby boomer generation rode waves of economic growth, particularly in the United States, everyone else must now grapple with decline as the economy and environment continue their downward spiral. This re
  
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• Creativity is Dead in the 21st Century? Really?

  12-06-2026 00:01 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A piece in the Yale Review asks whether the 21st century has been a creative blank space — two decades of remixing without inventing (Yale Review). The piece is a review of a book that asserts the notion. But perhaps the invention is happening; it’s just not where we used to look.A luthier put a carbon-fiber violin onstage next to a Stradivarius and dared listeners to hear the difference (The Strad). Scientists now think metrology — measuring the physical fingerpri
  
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• Northwest Choirs – Executive Director

  11-06-2026 23:33 via artsjournal.com
  Northwest Choirs (NWC) seeks a dynamic, mission-centered Executive Director to guide one of the country’s leading youth choral organizations into its next stage of growth, visibility, and sustainability.Serving approximately 150 young singers from across the Puget Sound region, Northwest Choirs offers rigorous music training, meaningful performance experiences, and a formative community rooted in discipline, belonging, and the pursuit of excellence.
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• French Scientists Have Developed a New Technology To Help Identify Forged Artworks

  11-06-2026 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  A group of scientists at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes have published a study introducing a newly developed method that they say will help authenticate artworks—and identify potential forgeries. The report was published in the June 2026 issue of Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on cross-disciplinary research involving physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering research.The research, conducted by F
  
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Repatriates Two Khmer Sculptures to Cambodia

  11-06-2026 22:10 via artnews.com
  
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has repatriated two sandstone sculptures in its collection to the people of Cambodia: an Angkor period guardian deity (rākṣasa), dating to c. 921-945, and a lintel featuring a carving of an anthropomorphic dragon from the mid-7th century. The returns, which were reported by both the Met and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, follow on D.A. Alvin Bragg’s ongoing investigation into Doris Wiener, a New York gallery dealer and known traffi
  
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• Citing Financial Trouble, Charleston’s International African American Museum to Furlough Staff

  11-06-2026 22:05 via artnews.com
  
  Citing ongoing financial difficulties, Charleston’s International African American Museum (IAAM) will furlough its entire staff, including senior leadership, according to a statement from the institution.The 20-day furlough program will begin July 1 and run into December in staggered phases. However, the museum will remain open throughout that time.“This action is being taken to reduce expenses and avoid layoffs while we refocus on sustainable revenue growth and fundraising efforts,&
  
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• A First Look at the Big-Ticket Artworks that Galleries Are Bringing to Art Basel 2026

  11-06-2026 22:01 via artnews.com
  
  It’s been a whirlwind 2026 already. The year kicked off with a bang at Art Basel Qatar and barrelled forward into a spring marked by a much-talked-about Venice Biennale, a jam-packed week of fairs in New York, and a blockbuster series of sales at the auction houses. For the indefatigable collectors, dealers, and—yes—journalists that constitute the art world, there’s one more marquee event before summer takes hold: Art Basel’s flagship fair in the otherwise tranquil
  
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• Fendi Names Rome Gallery for Couture Show, Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition

  11-06-2026 21:59 via artnews.com
  
  WHEN IN ROME: Fendi on Thursday revealed the location of the first couture show designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri — the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome on the evening of July 9.For the occasion, guests will be invited to a private view of the exhibition “After un Percorso di Lavoro. Fendi/Karl Lagerfeld 1985. After Steps Through Work.” Although clearly dedicated to the late longtime and legendary couturier of the
  
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• Crimean Museum Struck by Ukrainian Drone, Reportedly Damaging Collection

  11-06-2026 21:55 via artnews.com
  
  Ukrainian drones damaged a historic museum in annexed Crimea amid a recent escalation in strikes on Russian-controlled territory in the Black Sea peninsula.The 19th-century museum is located in Sevastopol, Crimea, which Russia has occupied since 2014. Sevastopol’s Russian-appointed governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, reported the damage on Telegram early Wednesday. According to Razvozhayev, the museum’s 19th-century panorama painting by Franz Roubaud, titled the Siege of Sevasto
  
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• The Stanford Class Where Students Are Taught To Dance Badly

  11-06-2026 21:03 via stanfordmag.org
  
  “’Welcome to bad dancing,’ says Alex Ketley, a choreographer and former member of the San Francisco Ballet who teaches Dance 123: Hot Mess & Deliberate Failure as Practice. Ketley, an advanced lecturer in the department of theater and performance studies and a former Guggenheim Fellow, says it’s his most popular course.” – Stanford Magazine
  
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• AMC Postpones Interactive Movie Theatre Concert Series

  11-06-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  The chain is partnering with live entertainment company Arena One to bring new technology to theaters. This tech would allow artists on a remote stage to see, hear and respond to the theater audience, in effect turning your local cinema into a stadium, the companies said. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Scientists May Have Discovered A New Way To Spot Counterfeit Van Goghs

  11-06-2026 20:02 via news.artnet.com
  
  “By analyzing the surfaces of eight Vincent van Gogh paintings, surface metrology indeed confirmed the veracity of one long-contested but recently confirmed Van Gogh specimen — and correctly flagged another that’s been debunked.” – Artnet
  
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• Demand For Workers With Creative Skills Is Growing

  11-06-2026 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  Nearly 50% of employers are looking to expand their workforce in the next three to five years. Video games, music, design and fashion were particularly expecting to grow over that time. – The Conversation
  
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