Sellers at the May Marquee Auctions Revealed, Bogotá’s MAMBO Museum Loses Its Director, and More: Morning Links for May 4, 2026May 4, 2026
Contemporary Art Market Declines For Fourth Straight Year, as Old Masters and Impressionist Works Rebound: Art Basel UBS Report Art Market March 13, 2026 For much of the past decade, the art market behaved as though history had stopped. Collectors and speculators chased the…
At the Guggenheim, Carol Bove Bends Metal—and Minimalism—to Her Will Art Market March 13, 2026 One of the earliest works in Carol Bove’s first-ever retrospective, which opened at the Guggenheim Museum on March 5th, looks…
Lawsuit Alleges DOGE Cancelled $349,000 HVAC Grant to Museum after ChatGPT Flagged It As DEI Art Market March 13, 2026 A federal lawsuit alleges that a government initiative created by the Trump administration relied on the generative AI software ChatGPT…
Pedro Friedeberg, key figure in Mexican art renowned for hand-shaped chair, has died at age 90 – The Art Newspaper Art Market March 13, 2026 The Mexico-based artist and designer Pedro Friedeberg, best known for his hand-shaped chair, Mano Silla (1962), died on 5 March…
Thomas J Price, Artist Behind Viral Times Square Sculpture, Unveils New Bronze in London Art Market March 13, 2026 When the Victoria and Albert Museum’s newest branch, known as the V&A East, opens in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in…
Senators Whitehouse and Schumer Call for ‘Proactive Measures’ to Protect Philip Guston and Ben Shahn Murals Art Market March 13, 2026 On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator…
Comment | Cow in MSCHF project survives, but should the project have happened at all? – The Art Newspaper Art Market March 13, 2026 The art collective known as MSCHF is no stranger to provocation. The group has questioned the value of art itself,…
Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by a Female Artist at TEFAF Art Market March 13, 2026 At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now…
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera will be subjects of a new Netflix series. Art Market March 13, 2026 A scripted Netflix series about Frida Kahlo’s tumultuous relationship with her husband, Diego Rivera, is in the works. The show…
King Charles Visited Tate Britain’s ‘Turner and Constable’ Show and Loved What He Saw Art Market March 13, 2026 “Turner and Constable,” a show at London’s Tate Britain museum that pairs works by J. M. W. Turner and John…
