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Art News, Indeed: NBA Star Victor Wembanyama Prepped For Finals Game By Sketching in Gramercy

Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs reacts during the fourth quarter against the New York Knicks in Game One of the 2026 NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center on June 03, 2026 in San Antonio, Texas. Getty Images Victor Wembanyama is much more than a transcendant basketball star. In the hours leading up …

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Boy Punctures Magritte’s ‘The Castle of the Pyrenees’ With a Pinecone at the Israel Museum

René Magritte, The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959). Gali Tibbon/AFP via Getty Images René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a …

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Obama Presidential Center Unveiled, Newly Authenticated Lucian Freud Painting On View, and More: Morning Links for June 2, 2026

The Obama Presidential Center towers over Jackson Park on May 15, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Getty Images Good Morning! Experts say a painting Lucian Freud long denied ever making was, in fact, an early painting by the artist. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam denies obstructing provenance investigations of the Koenigs collection in its …

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Colorado Governor Signs Artist Corporation Bill into State Law

Kickstarter co-founder Yancy Strickler unveils the “Artist Corporation” economic model at TED2025, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 7, 2025 On June 2, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 133, a bill that creates a new type of limited liability company (LLC) called an Artist Company, or A-Corp, report the Art Newspaper and the Colorado Sun. …

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Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Painting Sells for Over 10 Times High Estimate in Strong Week for Old Masters in New York

Hell by a Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, dated to the first half of the 16th century Sotheby’s A small painting of hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch led a string of surprise results during this week’s Old Masters sales in New York, selling for $537,600 at Sotheby’s against an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. …

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High-End Art Market Not Exclusive Enough For You? Now There’s an Art Show Aboard a 236-Foot Yacht Featuring Marina Abramović and Shirin Neshat

Now a precious few can see art aboard a yacht, as God intended. Courtesy the Floating Hotel Monaco Edition 2026. If, unfortunate reader, you’re licking your wounds after being outbid on the $181.2 million Jackson Pollock at the New York auctions last month, take heart: you, too, can still buy access to art that will …

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Trump To Divert $90 M. in National Park Revenue to D.C. Construction Projects

10 August 2018, US, Yosemite: Entry into Yosemite Valley. The Yosemite Valley is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the USA. But forest fires have now made the California nature reserve a restricted area. Photo: Barbara Munker/dpa (Photo by Barbara Munker/picture alliance via Getty Images) picture alliance via Getty Image The Trump administration has …

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Harald Metzkes, Postwar German Painter of ‘World Theater,’ Dies at 97

Harald Metkes, Removal of the Six-Armed Goddess, 1956. Courtesy State Museums in Berlin, Nationalgalerie/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Harald Metzkes, the so-called “Cézannist of Prenzlauer Berg” who made classically indebted and symbolically rich paintings following Germany’s surrender in World War II, died last Thursday in Brandenburg at the age of 97. His death was confirmed to the …

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Whitney Gala Honors Julie Mehretu, Benefactor of Museum’s ‘Free Under 25’ Initiative

Julie Mehretu speaks at the 2026 Whitney Gala. Jason Lowrie/BFA.com Last night, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted its annual gala, honoring artist Julie Mehretu—who in 2024 donated $2.25 million to the museum to ensure that visitors aged 25 and younger can visit the museum for free—alongside Whitney Board Chair Fern Kaye Tessler, and …

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