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Cecily Brown: ‘I was too shy to talk to all these super cool kids like Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst’

Cecily Brown is preparing for her first major museum exhibition in her native London at the Serpentine Gallery, titled 'Picture Making'. The show features new and old paintings, monotypes, and drawings inspired by Kensington Gardens, marking a significant return for the artist who left for New York in the 1990s. Despite her commercial success with Gagosian and inclusion in major museums, she expresses nervousness about the critical reception.

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article news schedule May 4, 2026 visibility 9 link 10 artists, 3 galleries

Sellers at the May Marquee Auctions Revealed, Bogotá’s MAMBO Museum Loses Its Director, and More: Morning Links for May 4, 2026

The spring auction season is underway, with ARTnews revealing that Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1983 painting *Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown)* is headed to Sotheby's contemporary art sale on May 14 with a $45 million estimate, consigned by Joahn Sayegh-Belchatowski. Christie's postwar and contemporary day sale includes a collection dubbed "A Matter of Seeing" from Ronald Lauder. Meanwhile, Lévy Gorvy Dayan is testing a new auction-gallery hybrid model, and British billionaire Joe Lewis plans to sell another $200 million in art at Sotheby's in June. In other news, Martha Ortiz has left the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) following harassment allegations, after the earlier dismissal of artistic director Eugenio Viola. The article also covers a planned Derrick Adams portrait of Koyo Kouoh in Venice, the death of cartoonist Nicole Hollander, a free-entry stunt by Maurizio Cattelan at Fondation Beyeler, a Christo installation at Gagosian London, and a report on Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's political interference in cultural institutions, including the Venice Biennale.

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Picasso Painting That Cost S. I. Newhouse a MoMA Board Position Heads to Christie’s for $55 M.

Christie’s New York will auction 16 masterpieces from the collection of late Condé Nast magnate S. I. Newhouse on May 18, with an estimated total of $450 million. The highlight is Pablo Picasso’s Cubist painting *Homme à la guitare* (1913), estimated at $35–55 million, which Newhouse acquired in 2000 for $10 million after MoMA sold it from its collection. Newhouse, then a MoMA board member, violated museum policy by buying the work and subsequently resigned from the board.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 13, 2026 visibility 52 link 3 artists, 2 galleries

Gagosian to Open New Upper East Side Gallery with a Duchamp Show, a Rarity in a Commercial Setting

Gagosian is set to inaugurate a new ground-floor gallery space at 980 Madison Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with a major exhibition of Marcel Duchamp opening April 25. The show features rare replicas of the artist’s most famous readymades, including the 1964 versions of 'Fountain' and 'Bicycle Wheel,' the latter of which is noted as the only version not currently held by a museum. The exhibition returns Duchamp to the same building where he showed with Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery in 1965 and coincides with a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

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article news schedule Apr 7, 2026 visibility 50 link 65 artists, 8 galleries

100 Masterpieces to See at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago has released a curated guide to 100 essential masterpieces within its massive one-million-square-foot campus. The selection spans global art history, ranging from ancient Egyptian mummies and Greek statues to iconic American sculptures like Edward Kemeys’s bronze lions and Narcissa Niblack Thorne’s intricate miniature rooms. The list is designed to help visitors navigate the museum's vast collection by grouping works by their physical location within the galleries.

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article news schedule Mar 16, 2026 visibility 14 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

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A Reuters investigative report has claimed to unmask the anonymous street artist Banksy, identifying him as Robin Gunningham (who later changed his name to David Jones). The report justifies the disclosure by citing public interest in how the artist has monetized his mystique and details the inner workings of his professional circle. Meanwhile, the art world faces several institutional shifts, including the resignation of Richard Grenell from the Kennedy Center amid a legal battle over renovations, and calls for the resignation of Italy’s Venice Biennale representative over Russia's potential return to the exhibition.

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article news schedule Mar 9, 2026 visibility 14 link 8 artists, 3 galleries

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The art world is mourning the loss of influential sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, who passed away at age 99. Known for his monumental yet graceful abstract works crafted from salvaged wood, Mosley gained significant critical acclaim late in his career for his mastery of weight and space. His death leads a series of industry updates, including the passing of Malaysian artist chi too and sculptor Ken Turnell, alongside a controversial report that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) allegedly used AI to target National Endowment for the Humanities grants for cancellation.

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article news schedule Feb 19, 2026 visibility 11 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

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Art Basel has announced the lineup for its 2026 flagship fair in Switzerland, featuring 290 exhibitors from 42 countries. The upcoming edition, scheduled for June, includes 21 first-time participants and an expanded Premiere sector, with Ruba Katrib curating the Unlimited section for large-scale works. Simultaneously, the art world mourns the passing of Dóra Maurer, a central figure of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde known for her multidisciplinary approach to seriality and movement.

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candle obituary schedule Jan 26, 2026 visibility 17 link 22 artists, 5 galleries

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Marian Goodman, the revered art dealer known for her steadfast commitment to artists and resistance to market trends, died at 97 in a Los Angeles hospital. She opened her eponymous gallery in 1977 in Midtown Manhattan with a show of Marcel Broodthaers, and over five decades represented major figures including Gerhard Richter, Julie Mehretu, William Kentridge, and Steve McQueen. Goodman began her career by founding Multiples in 1965 to publish affordable editions, and she famously kept her gallery on 57th Street while peers moved to SoHo and Chelsea.

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article news schedule Jan 7, 2026 visibility 11 link 16 artists, 2 galleries

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The article reports that US artists are increasingly expected to self-fund institutional projects, as illustrated by Dominican American artist Lucia Hierro's 7.5-foot chair commission. Fabrication costs exceeded the museum's budget, forcing her to seek grants from a residency program's fund, which had only $125,000 available against $1.8 million in applicant requests. Separately, over 65 artists have been announced for the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale in Saudi Arabia, titled "In Interludes and Transitions," with artistic directors Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed emphasizing locally rooted histories. Other news includes artist Thomas McKean using cut-up MetroCards for sculptures, Kenny Schachter reporting a van Gogh private sale above $190 million, an Iron Age carnyx discovery in Norfolk, and critic Ben Luke's critique of uninspired contemporary painting at recent art fairs.

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trending_up market schedule Dec 17, 2025 visibility 19 link 16 artists, 5 galleries

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A centennial market analysis of Joan Mitchell reveals that an untitled 1979 abstract work by the artist was the most expensive artwork on offer at Art Basel Miami Beach, priced at $18.5 million by Gray gallery. The article examines Mitchell's auction performance, noting that her record stands at $29.2 million set in 2023, and that three paintings have sold for over $20 million since then. Despite these strong results, her auction highs still trail behind male Abstract Expressionist contemporaries like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 11, 2025 visibility 12 link 4 artists, 2 galleries

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Gagosian Gallery, in collaboration with Castelli Gallery, will present a landmark survey of Jasper Johns's crosshatched paintings at its 980 Madison Avenue flagship from January 22 to March 14, 2026. The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the series' debut in 1976 and includes rarely seen works from 1973 to 1983, lent by major museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Broad, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as from Johns's personal collection. Key works include pieces from the "Corpse and Mirror" series, "Weeping Women" (1975), "Dancers on a Plane" (1980–81), and all six "Between the Clock and the Bed" paintings (1981–83).

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trending_up market schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 5 link 18 artists, 2 galleries

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Sotheby's held a marathon double sale at its new Breuer Building location, selling Gustav Klimt's portrait of Elisabeth Lederer for $236.4 million—the second highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction. The evening featured works from the collection of the late cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder, totaling $527.5 million, far exceeding its low estimate. The subsequent "Contemporary and the Now" sale brought in $178.5 million, with a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting selling for $48.3 million. Overall, the night generated $706 million, with multiple auction records set for artists including Cecily Brown, Antonio Obá, Yu Nishimura, Jess, and Noah Davis.

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article news schedule Nov 6, 2025 visibility 12 link 12 artists, 1 gallery

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The US government selected artist Robert Lazzarini and curator John Ravenal to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of America's founding. However, negotiations with a partner institution collapsed within three weeks, and the commission was withdrawn before any public announcement, leaving the international art world questioning who will ultimately represent the country. In other news, the original cover photograph for David Bowie's album *Aladdin Sane* sold for £381,400 at Bonhams London, setting a new auction record. Gagosian has teamed up with filmmaker Wes Anderson to recreate Joseph Cornell's New York studio in Paris for an exhibition titled "The House of Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell's Studio Reimagined by Wes Anderson." The long-anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum has reignited calls for the British Museum to repatriate the Rosetta Stone, and a Denver-based cryptocurrency entrepreneur has unveiled a plan to build a 450-foot-tall statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz Island.

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person people schedule Nov 5, 2025 visibility 10 link 11 artists, 5 galleries

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This ARTnews industry moves column reports several key personnel and representation changes in the art world. Christine Sun Kim has joined Gallery Hyundai, a Seoul-based gallery, and will show at Art Basel Miami Beach. Yoshitomo Nara has moved to David Zwirner while maintaining his relationship with Pace. John Tain has been named Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and Galatea now represents Gabriella Marinho. Chris Sharp has added the duo CrossLypka to his roster. Separately, climate activist Timothy Martin received an 18-month prison sentence for damaging a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art faces turmoil after a rebranding backlash that led to director Sasha Suda's dismissal.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 3, 2025 visibility 9 link 2 artists, 5 galleries

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David Zwirner gallery announced it will now officially represent Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, with his first solo exhibition planned at Zwirner's New York space. The representation deal was brokered through Nara's international agent Joe Baptista and his Equivalence Art Agency. Baptista was previously a partner at Pace Gallery, Nara's longtime representative, and his departure from Pace had not been publicly announced. Nara was also long represented by Blum Gallery, which closed earlier this year after its final Nara show in Los Angeles. Pace Gallery CEO Marc Glimcher expressed surprise but said Pace will continue to have a relationship with the artist.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 16, 2025 visibility 7 link 2 artists, 3 galleries

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Kerry James Marshall's paintings are being offered at Frieze London, with two major works on view at different galleries. Alexander Gray Associates presents Marshall's 1992 painting *A Woman with a Heart of Gold* for $2.9 million, a collage-like work that critiques racial fantasies in mass-market romance. David Zwirner shows the 1990 painting *A Little Romance* priced at $3.2 million, depicting a dreamy reclining figure. Meanwhile, the Royal Academy's exhibition “Kerry James Marshall: The Histories” has drawn enthusiastic repeat visits from dealers and auction-house figures, generating significant buzz during Frieze week.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 9, 2025 visibility 11 link 12 artists, 2 galleries

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The Guggenheim Museum has announced its 2026 exhibition lineup, headlined by a Carol Bove survey filling the entire Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda from March 5, 2026. The show, curated by Katherine Brinson, spans 25 years of Bove’s work, including early drawings and her signature twisted metal sculptures. Following Bove’s exhibition, Taryn Simon will take over the rotunda from September 18, 2026, to March 2027, with a photo-based installation that invites visitors to navigate a "whirlwind" of images. Additionally, a group show titled "Guggenheim Pop" will feature Pop art icons like Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Claes Oldenburg alongside contemporary artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Lucia Hierro, and Josh Kline.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 30, 2025 visibility 8 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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Gagosian's Le Bourget gallery in Paris will present "Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience," opening October 19 and running through April 18. The exhibition includes the artist's final sculpture, *Truck Trilogy* (2011–2017), featuring three vintage Chevrolet Advance Design 3100 pickups polished and fitted with stainless-steel rods, previously shown at Dia Beacon. Curated by Donna De Salvo, the show also features works like *13, 14, 15 Meter Rows* (1985), drawings, films, and archival materials highlighting De Maria's mathematical and musical interests, including his involvement with the Primitives and the Druds.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 24, 2025 visibility 8 link 19 artists, 4 galleries

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Dan Nadel, a curator recently hired by the Whitney Museum as curator of prints and drawings, is opening a new exhibition titled "Sixties Surreal" that aims to rewrite the history of 1960s art. The show, co-curated with Laura Phipps, Scott Rothkopf, and Elisabeth Sussman, features a wide range of artists from Luis Jimenez to Shigeko Kubota, alongside canonical figures like Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama. Nadel, known for championing marginalized and alternative figures in American art, previously curated "What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present" at the Rhode Island School of Design and a Gertrude Abercrombie exhibition at Karma gallery. He is also the author of a recent biography of Robert Crumb.

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article news schedule Sep 18, 2025 visibility 6 link 7 artists, 5 galleries

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An art history professor at Florida Atlantic University, Karen Leader, has been placed on administrative leave following social media posts about Charlie Kirk, a murdered activist. The suspension has sparked debate over free speech, with Leader stating her comments addressed Kirk's past statements rather than his killing. Separately, the Bayeux Tapestry's planned transfer for restoration ahead of its loan to the British Museum has been delayed due to national strikes in France, with authorities citing security concerns. Other news includes the evacuation of artifacts from Gaza City, the disappearance of a 3,000-year-old gold bracelet from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and Christie's upcoming sale of a David Hockney double portrait expected to fetch over $50 million.

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trending_up market schedule Sep 5, 2025 visibility 9 link 27 artists, 11 galleries

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The Armory Show's VIP preview day on Thursday saw long queues and a cautiously upbeat mood at the Javits Center, despite a shaky art market marked by gallery closures and fair cancellations. Dealers reported serious interest and solid sales, including a $1 million work at Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, a Kehinde Wiley painting for $265,000 at Sean Kelly, and a Kennedy Yanko sculpture for $150,000 at James Cohan. The highest-priced work, Alex Katz's 1962 painting *October 2*, was listed at $1.2 million but remained unsold. The fair attracted major collectors like Don and Mera Rubell and institutional figures such as Thelma Golden and Scott Rothkopf, with the Presents section for emerging galleries also seeing brisk sales.

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article policy schedule Jul 31, 2025 visibility 6 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

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France's government has introduced a bill aimed at accelerating the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their countries of origin, covering items acquired through theft, looting, or forced transfers between 1815 and 1972. The legislation, set for Senate debate in September, seeks to bypass current French laws that have slowed restitution processes. Separately, a new book by Gareth Harris titled 'Towards the Ethical Art Museum' argues that museum ethics codes are often insufficient and calls for a shift in mindset around restitution and provenance.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 17, 2025 visibility 5 link 11 artists, 7 galleries

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Art Basel dealers recall the fair's early days, from its founding in 1970 by Swiss dealers Ernst Beyeler, Trudl Bruckner, and Balz Hilt to its evolution into a global powerhouse with editions in Hong Kong, Miami Beach, Paris, and soon Qatar. Veterans like David Fleiss of Galerie 1900-2000, Thaddaeus Ropac, Iwan Wirth of Hauser & Wirth, and Dominique Lévy of Lévy Gorvy Dayan share personal anecdotes, including chaotic customs incidents, childhood memories, and the fair's shift from a Eurocentric gathering to the world's premier art fair.

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rate_review review schedule Jun 6, 2025 visibility 6 link 12 artists, 3 galleries

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Raymond Saunders's first retrospective, a small but potent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, surveys 35 of his bewitching paintings. The works, described as elusive and Rauschenbergian, feature messy scrawls, collected trinkets, and media clippings, with pieces like *Passages: East, West 1* (1987) layering chess boards, paint strokes, and appropriated still lifes. Saunders, who joined Andrew Kreps and David Zwirner last year, has never before received a retrospective, despite his influential 1967 essay "Black Is a Color" and steady institutional acquisitions.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 19, 2025 visibility 1 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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Takashi Murakami opened his latest exhibition, “JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige,” at Gagosian New York, building on a 2024 presentation at the Brooklyn Museum. A second show, “Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow,” opens later this month at the Cleveland Museum of Art, expanding on a 2022 iteration at the Broad in Los Angeles with new works and a monumental installation reimagining a Japanese Buddhist temple. In an interview with ARTnews, Murakami discusses his process of copying historical works—from Hiroshige’s ukiyo-e prints to Monet and Van Gogh—as a method of cultural excavation, incorporating UFOs as symbols of awareness.

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trending_up market schedule May 5, 2025 visibility 5 link 14 artists, 2 galleries

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The article previews the upcoming May 2025 marquee art auctions in New York, led by Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips. Key consignors include the collection of late Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio and his wife Louise, along with works from Anne and Sid Bass, Tiqui Atencio, Daniella Luxembourg, the estate of Barbara Gladstone, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Notable lots include Dorothea Tanning's 'Endgame' (est. $1M–$1.5M), Robert Motherwell's 'Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 160' (est. $3.5M–$5.5M), and Andy Warhol's 'Big Electric Chair' (est. $30M). The article also reveals undisclosed consignors through research, such as the family of Harold and Gertrud Parker for the Tanning work and the Hess Art Collection for the Motherwell.

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article news schedule Mar 11, 2026 visibility 14 link 6 artists, 2 galleries

National Gallery of Canada receives donation of 24 works from collector Bob Rennie

The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa has received a donation of 24 contemporary artworks from Vancouver-based collector and real estate tycoon Bob Rennie and his family. The gift includes works by American artists Kerry James Marshall and Christopher Williams, and Canadian artists Brian Jungen and Jin-me Yoon, bringing the total number of works donated by the Rennie family to the NGC since 2012 to 284.

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trending_up market schedule May 1, 2026 visibility 27 link 12 artists, 4 galleries

The Marcel Duchamps That Got Away: On Collecting His Work and the Sprawling MoMA Show

The article recounts the author's personal experience as a collector who passed up the opportunity to buy a complete set of Marcel Duchamp's readymades at a 2002 Phillips de Pury and Luxembourg auction. The set, editioned by dealer Arturo Schwartz in 1964, included iconic works like *Fountain* and *Bicycle Wheel*, but the sale was a financial failure, with many pieces bought-in or selling for far below expectations. The author later acquired some of the unsold works privately. The piece is framed around the concurrent Duchamp exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and Gagosian.

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article news schedule Apr 15, 2026 visibility 61 link 28 artists, 5 galleries

7 New Art Books to Step Into Spring

Artnet News has curated a selection of seven significant new art book releases for the spring season, highlighting diverse subjects from historical archives to contemporary memoirs. Featured titles include a deep dive into Frida Kahlo’s private sanctuary, 'Casa Roja,' authored by her descendants; a curatorial history of Hong Kong’s avant-garde art scene by Oscar Ho Hing-kay; and a vibrant exploration of color in contemporary art featuring works by Yayoi Kusama and Tomás Saraceno.

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