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article news schedule Nov 13, 2025 visibility 2 link 10 artists, 4 galleries

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Jenny Saville will have her first solo exhibition in Venice at the International Gallery of Modern Art at Ca’ Pesaro, running from March 28 to November 22, 2026, coinciding with the 2026 Venice Biennale. The show, supported by Gagosian, will feature 30 paintings curated by Elisabetta Barisoni. Separately, former Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith expressed optimism about blockchain art ahead of Robert Alice’s NFT sale at Sotheby’s New York, and Ed Ruscha created a limited-edition chocolate bar shaped like California’s Central Valley. Other news includes the upcoming auction of Kirk Hammett’s Frank Frazetta painting and the closure of San Francisco’s Rena Bransten Gallery.

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The International Gallery of Modern Art at Ca’ Pesaro in Venice will host a major solo exhibition of works by British painter Jenny Saville in 2026, coinciding with the Venice Biennale. The show, curated by Elisabetta Barisoni, will run from March 28 to November 22 and feature around 30 paintings spanning Saville's career from the 1990s to the present, including a new series inspired by Venice. Mega-gallery Gagosian, which represents Saville, is supporting the exhibition.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 10, 2025 visibility 4 link 7 artists, 3 galleries

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Galleries Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt have announced joint representation of artist George Condo, ending his six-year partnership with Hauser & Wirth. Condo has a long history with both galleries: he first showed with Monika Sprüth in 1984 and was represented by Skarstedt from 2004 to 2019. The announcement comes after a two-venue exhibition earlier this year that involved both Sprüth Magers and Hauser & Wirth. Condo's market remains strong, with recent auction sales exceeding $6 million and a current retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 7, 2025 visibility 4 link 16 artists, 4 galleries

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Sotheby's has relocated its New York headquarters to Marcel Breuer's iconic Brutalist building on Madison Avenue, formerly home to the Whitney Museum, the Met Breuer, and a Frick Collection outpost. After a renovation by Herzog & de Meuron that restored original gallery proportions and upgraded infrastructure, the auction house is inaugurating the space with a series of exhibitions featuring three major single-owner collections—Leonard A. Lauder, Cindy and Jay Pritzker, and Exquisite Corpus—estimated at over a billion dollars. Highlights include Gustav Klimts from the Lauder trove, a Van Gogh still life from the Pritzker collection, a Frida Kahlo painting expected to set a record for a woman artist, and a Basquiat work in the contemporary evening sale.

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article culture schedule Nov 7, 2025 visibility 3 link 13 artists, 1 gallery

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W magazine's current art issue features Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence in a three-part collaboration with French filmmaker and artist Philippe Parreno, American painter Elizabeth Peyton, and German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Parreno shot a short film starring Lawrence, Tillmans photographed her at his London studio wearing a T-shirt referencing his Centre Pompidou exhibition, and Peyton painted a portrait of the actress in her signature loose, romantic style. The issue has three different covers, each dedicated to one collaborating artist's work.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 6, 2025 visibility 2 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

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Gagosian has partnered with filmmaker Wes Anderson to recreate the New York studio of Joseph Cornell at its Paris gallery space on 9 rue de Castiglione. The exhibition, curated by Jasper Sharp and titled “The House of Utopia Parkway,” will run from December 16 to March 14, 2026, transforming the gallery into a tableau that blends a time capsule with a life-size shadow box. It marks the first solo presentation of Cornell’s work in Paris in over four decades, featuring iconic glass-fronted “shadow boxes” such as *Pharmacy* (1943), *Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy)* (circa 1950), and *A Dressing Room for Gille* (1939).

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 31, 2025 visibility 4 link 5 artists, 4 galleries

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Christopher Kulendran Thomas, an artist who has been building his own neural networks for over a decade, is showing new paintings and a video installation at Gagosian's Upper East Side location, with concurrent exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and upcoming at the New Museum. His series 'Peace Core' uses AI trained on Sri Lankan painters to generate compositions that are hand-painted onto canvas, depicting Mullivaikkal beach—the site of a 2009 massacre of Tamil civilians during the Sri Lankan civil war. The Gagosian show also features a 24-screen video installation that algorithmically remixes American TV footage from the morning of September 11, 2001, before the attacks became visible.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 31, 2025 visibility 2 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

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The article reports on the inaugural Bukhara Biennial in Uzbekistan, titled "Recipes for Broken Hearts," which opened in the historic 16th-century Khoja Gavkushon complex. Curated by Diana Campbell, the biennial features over 70 projects spanning 500 meters of public space, including works by artists Subodh Gupta, Laila Gohar, and Carsten Höller. The exhibition embraces the local environment—sun, wind, and dust—as collaborators, rejecting the sterile white cube model. Food is a central theme, with communal plov parties, performative cooking sessions, and installations like Gohar's edible rock sugar pavilion. The biennial runs through November 20.

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article news schedule Oct 27, 2025 visibility 1 link 1 artist, 2 galleries

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Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang staged a fireworks performance titled *Le Dernier Carnival (The Last Carnival)* outside the Centre Pompidou in Paris on October 22, during Paris Art Week, to mark the museum's five-year closure for renovations. The show, created in collaboration with White Cube gallery, used pyrotechnics, paint, and a custom-built AI model. Activists from Students for a Free Tibet France protested the event, condemning Cai for a previous pyrotechnic stunt in Tibet that sparked environmental concerns and led to the dismissal of four Chinese officials.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 23, 2025 visibility 2 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

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Gagosian has announced representation of the late American painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993), marking the artist's return to the gallery more than thirty years after his final solo exhibition there during his lifetime. To celebrate, the gallery will mount a career-spanning exhibition at its Madison Avenue flagship opening November 8, curated by Jasper Sharp in collaboration with the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. The show will feature works from every period of Diebenkorn's six-decade career, including early California landscapes, wartime watercolors, and the celebrated Ocean Park abstractions, with highlights such as a 1943 watercolor, a monumental 1960 canvas, and late works on paper.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 22, 2025 visibility 2 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

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On September 22, the Centre Pompidou in Paris closed for a five-year renovation, marking the occasion with a daytime fireworks display titled “The Last Carnival” by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Organized with White Cube gallery and set during Art Basel Paris, the three-act gunpowder spectacle—The Banquet, The Dawn of AI, and The Last Carnival—was conceived using Cai’s custom AI model, cAI™, and turned the museum’s façade into a monumental painting.

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article news schedule Oct 21, 2025 visibility 3 link 9 artists, 2 galleries

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Greece's culture minister Lina Mendoni has publicly criticized the British Museum for hosting a lavish £2,000-a-ticket Pink Ball in the gallery housing the Elgin Marbles, calling it a display of 'provocative indifference' that treats the ancient sculptures as mere 'decorative elements.' The event, co-hosted by museum director Nicholas Cullinan and Isha Ambani, drew celebrities like Mick Jagger, Naomi Campbell, and Janet Jackson, and follows similar criticism of a fashion show held in the same space last year. Separately, disgraced Miami art dealer Les Roberts, previously charged with selling forged Andy Warhols, has opened a shop called Labubu Headquarters selling collectible figurines, despite bond conditions restricting him from art dealing. Other news includes Richard Diebenkorn's estate joining Gagosian, the Getty Trust and World Economic Forum hosting a cultural table during Art Basel Paris, Interpol adding stolen Louvre jewelry to its database, and the shortlist for the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 17, 2025 visibility 2 link 2 artists, 2 galleries

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A group of 17 iPad drawings by David Hockney, titled 'The Arrival of Spring,' sold for a combined £6.2 million ($8.3 million) at Sotheby’s London on Friday, more than doubling their high estimate. The record price for a print by the artist was broken three times during the sale, with the top lot—'The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 – 19 February'—reaching £762,000 ($1 million). Fifteen of the 17 works achieved record prices for the subject, and 65 percent of the drawings were bought online, with 40 percent going to American collectors.

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A group of 17 iPad drawings by David Hockney, titled 'The Arrival of Spring,' sold for a combined £6.2 million ($8.3 million) at Sotheby’s London on Friday, more than doubling their high estimate. Fifteen of the 17 works achieved record prices for the subject, with the top lot, 'The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 – 19 February (2011),' selling for £762,000 ($1 million), breaking the artist's print record three times. The sale was a white-glove result, with 40 percent of the drawings going to American collectors and 65 percent bought online.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 17, 2025 visibility 3 link 11 artists, 1 gallery

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Christie’s postwar and contemporary art day sale in London on Thursday totaled £12.2 million ($16.4 million), with over 80% of lots sold and 90% of those achieving prices within or above their presale estimates. Standout results included a 2020 painting by Somaya Critchlow that sold for £57,150 (est. £15,000–£20,000), a small Etel Adnan painting that fetched £107,950 (est. £30,000–£50,000), and a Michelangelo Pistoletto mirror piece that soared to £234,950—seven times its estimate. Works from the Ole Faarup collection and the Tiqui Atencio and Ago Demirdjian collection also performed well. However, a Toyin Ojih Odutola painting failed to sell, and Gerhard Richter’s gray paintings from the 1970s attracted little interest, mirroring a similar failure in Christie’s evening sale the previous day.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 15, 2025 visibility 4 link 44 artists, 9 galleries

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Frieze London 2025 opened with strong VIP preview sales, as major galleries reported brisk business by early afternoon. Thaddaeus Ropac sold a Robert Rauschenberg work for $850,000 and a Tony Cragg sculpture for $420,000, while Hauser & Wirth moved multiple pieces including a George Rouy for £275,000 and an Ellen Gallagher for $950,000. Gagosian sold a new Lauren Halsey sculpture before noon, and White Cube reported six sales. The fair's layout, which places mega-galleries at the back to encourage foot traffic to smaller booths, returned by popular demand.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 9, 2025 visibility 5 link 10 artists, 11 galleries

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Sotheby's will offer Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1981 painting *Crowns (Peso Neto)* in its fall contemporary evening sale in New York with a high estimate of $45 million, the highest estimate ever for a Basquiat work from that pivotal year. The painting, never before auctioned, is described by the house as marking the artist's transition from street artist to international art star. Separately, Art Basel has released the exhibitor list for its inaugural fair in Qatar, featuring 87 galleries including heavyweights like Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, and Pace, with all booths dedicated to solo presentations curated by artistic director Wael Shawky.

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article culture schedule Oct 9, 2025 visibility 4 link 47 artists, 4 galleries

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V. Joy Simmons, a longtime art collector and physician, opened her Los Angeles home in Baldwin Hills for a tour, revealing a vast collection of over 150 works by Black artists. The collection spans from early purchases like Elizabeth Catlett's 1973 lithograph 'Which Way?' to site-specific installations by Lauren Halsey and works by Romare Bearden, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, and Kehinde Wiley. Simmons, who began collecting in the 1970s while in medical school, has curated intergenerational juxtapositions throughout her home, including stained-glass windows by Varnette Honeywood and Joyce Dudnick, a church pew by Genevieve Gaignard, and a bottle tree sculpture by Dominique Moody.

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article culture schedule Oct 9, 2025 visibility 3 link 47 artists, 4 galleries

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V. Joy Simmons, a Los Angeles-based physician and longtime art collector, opened her Baldwin Hills home to ARTnews for a tour of her extensive collection. The house features over 150 objects, including stained-glass windows by Varnette Honeywood and Joyce Dudnick, a site-specific column installation by Lauren Halsey, and works by Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, Kehinde Wiley, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. Simmons began collecting in the 1970s with a $50 lithograph by Catlett and has since built a collection that spans generations of Black artists, often juxtaposing older and younger artists in her displays.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 8, 2025 visibility 4 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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The Vancouver Art Gallery and the Walker Art Center have jointly acquired Nan Goldin's *Stendhal Syndrome* (2024), a slideshow-based video work with an original soundtrack. The acquisition was funded by the Curators’ Council Fund for Women Artists and the Jean MacMillan Southam Fund at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The work will make its Canadian debut at the Vancouver Art Gallery. First presented at Gagosian's New York gallery in September 2024 as part of Goldin's exhibition "You never did anything wrong," the piece pairs two decades of the artist's photographs with a personal voiceover, exploring the emotional power of art. It features images of classical, Renaissance, and Baroque masterpieces from institutions such as the Galleria Borghese, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Prado, interwoven with portraits of Goldin's friends, family, and lovers.

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The Vancouver Art Gallery and the Walker Art Center have jointly acquired Nan Goldin's *Stendhal Syndrome* (2024), a slideshow-based video work with an original soundtrack. The acquisition was funded by the Curators’ Council Fund for Women Artists and the Jean MacMillan Southam Fund at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The work will make its Canadian debut at the Vancouver Art Gallery. First presented in September 2024 at Gagosian’s New York gallery as part of Goldin's exhibition “You never did anything wrong,” the piece pairs two decades of her photographs with a personal voiceover, exploring the emotional power of art through juxtapositions of classical masterpieces and images of her own life.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 3, 2025 visibility 1 link 6 artists, 1 gallery

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Sean Combs, the rapper and record executive known as Diddy, was sentenced on Friday to 50 months in federal prison and fined $500,000 for two counts of transportation for prostitution. He was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges. The sentencing followed a trial that included testimony from his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and an anonymous former employee alleging abuse. Combs apologized in court, calling his behavior "disgusting, shameful and sick." Judge Arun Subramanian noted that Combs's "immense financial resources enabled his crimes."

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Sean Combs, the rapper and record executive known as Diddy, was sentenced on Friday to 50 months in federal prison and fined $500,000 after being convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution. Combs, who made headlines in 2018 for buying Kerry James Marshall's painting *Past Times* for $21.1 million at Sotheby's, was acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking charges. During the sentencing, Judge Arun Subramanian noted Combs's abuse of power over women, while Combs apologized to his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, calling his behavior "disgusting, shameful and sick."

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Dom Pérignon has partnered with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami to design limited-edition labels and packaging for its Vintage 2015 and Rosé Vintage 2010 champagnes. The designs feature Murakami's signature smiling floral motifs on black backgrounds, described by the brand as an encounter between historical mastery and innovation. Murakami worked with Dom Pérignon's Chef de Cave Vincent Chaperon on the project, which is part of a larger series titled 'Creation is an eternal journey' that also includes collaborations with actors, musicians, and chefs.

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Dom Pérignon has partnered with artist Takashi Murakami to design limited-edition labels and packaging for its Vintage 2015 and Rosé Vintage 2010 releases. Murakami’s signature smiling floral motifs appear on black backgrounds, and the collaboration is framed as an exploration of time, transformation, and the intersection of historical craftsmanship with contemporary art. Murakami worked with Dom Pérignon’s Chef de Cave Vincent Chaperon, and the project is part of a broader series titled “Creation is an eternal journey,” which also involves actors, musicians, and chefs.

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trending_up market schedule Oct 1, 2025 visibility 3 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

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Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips reported their first-half 2025 auction sales, with Christie's leading at nearly $1.5 billion (down 1.9% year-over-year), Sotheby's at $1.2 billion (down 14%), and Phillips at $190.1 million (down 24.5%). The top lot was Piet Mondrian's *Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue* (1922), sold for $47.6 million from Len Riggio's collection. Separately, the British Museum announced its inaugural ball on October 18, promoted by director Nicholas Cullinan, and Sotheby's opened its first public art exhibition in Abu Dhabi featuring works by van Gogh, Kahlo, and others. UNESCO launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, and Heritage Auctions sold part of Guillermo del Toro's "Bleak House" collection for $1.65 million.

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article culture schedule Sep 29, 2025 visibility 2 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

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A 12-foot-tall bronze statue of a Black woman by British sculptor Thomas J. Price, titled *Grounded in the Stars* (2023), has been installed in Times Square, sparking a polarized public reaction. Online, conservative commentators and social media users have labeled the work a sign of a "very sick society" and a "death of civilization," with racist AI-generated and Photoshopped images circulating. In person, the sculpture has drawn both affirming responses—such as a Black woman mimicking its defiant pose—and disrespectful acts, including a white man groping the statue's buttocks for a photo. The work, which stands near permanent monuments to white male figures, will be on view until June 17.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 29, 2025 visibility 2 link 10 artists, 3 galleries

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The Almaty Museum of Arts (ALMA) opened on September 12 in Kazakhstan's largest city, becoming the country's first private museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art. Founded by auto and real estate tycoon Nurlan Smagulov, the museum houses his collection of over 700 artworks by Kazakh, Central Asian, and international artists. Led by artistic director Meruyert Kaliyeva and chief curator Inga Lāce, the museum's opening features a retrospective of Almaty-born artist Almagul Menlibayeva and a group show titled "Qonaqtar" that explores Kazakh art history and hospitality.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 23 link 4 artists, 6 galleries

Inside Gagosian’s Quiet Power Move to Street Level on Madison Avenue

Gagosian has opened a new 2,275-square-foot ground-floor gallery at 980 Madison Avenue in New York, relocating from its longtime sixth-floor space after 37 years. The move was prompted by Bloomberg Philanthropies' acquisition of the building in 2024, which displaced several fine art tenants. The inaugural exhibition features works by Marcel Duchamp and Robert Rauschenberg, and the space was designed by architect Jonathan Caplan with advanced lighting by Dot Dash.

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article news schedule Mar 26, 2026 visibility 19 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

Whitney Biennial Trends, a New Baroque Art Star, and Banksy Unmasked

The Art Angle podcast, hosted by Ben Davis and Kate Brown with guest Eileen Kinsella, recapped major art stories from March 2026. The discussion centered on three key developments: the opening of the 2026 Whitney Biennial, the rising art historical prominence of 17th-century Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier, and a new investigation claiming to have definitively unmasked the identity of the anonymous street artist Banksy.

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