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10 June 2026

MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian's New York Paintings

The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian's years in New York in particular, the influence of the city's boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian's paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death there in 1944. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

Heir of Margarethe Lieser Sues for Restitution of Gustav Klimt Portrait That Fetched $37.5 M. at Auction in Austria Before the Sale Fell Through

A woman claiming to be the sole heir to the Austrian subject of a long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has sued for restitution of the portrait, which came to auction at the small Austrian auction house Im Kinsky in 2024. The painting sold on a single bid for $37.5 million, setting a record for any artwork sold at auction in Austria, but the bidder, a Hong Kong collector represented by Patti Wong and Associates, withdrew their offer after the sale. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

Marisa Merz at 100: Major Retrospective to Span Three Italian Museums

Italy's Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and 1970s included just one woman: Marisa Merz, best known for quite some time as the wife of fellow artist Mario Merz. Slowly but surely, though, institutions around the world have been giving the late painter and sculptor her due. To celebrate the centenary of Merz's birth, three institutions in and around her hometown of Turin are preparing to mount distinct exhibitions altogether comprising one show, titled Marisa Merz - The Dance of the Hours. ... read more (external link)

10 June 2026

Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus Is Complete for the First Time in 400 Years

A 400-year-old act of editorial vandalism has finally been undone online. Florence's Galileo Museum has reunited Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus with more than 500 pages that were later cut from it, restoring for the first time the full sweep of the master's largest surviving notebook. ... read more (external link)

03 June 2026

Blue-chip gets a boost, but edgier art remains in the doldrums

Are we entering a new, distinctive phase of the art market? After a couple of fallow years, during which wealthy collectors and their estates were reluctant to consign high-value works to auction, Sotheby's and Christie's offered a crop of Modern and classic contemporary trophies with prestigious provenances in their May series of marquee sales in New York. ... read more (external link)

03 June 2026

What the May Auctions Revealed About Art as an Asset Class

'Buy something because you love it,' one veteran dealer says. Masterpieces can be sub-par investments. ... read more (external link)

03 June 2026

French Court Rules That Lawsuit Between Monet Heirs and Wildenstein & Co. Gallery Can Proceed

Late last week, a French judge ruled that a judicial court in Rouen, Normandy, can proceed with handling a legal complaint filed by the heirs of Claude Monet, against the New York gallery dynasty Wildenstein & Co., according to French reports. ... read more (external link)

03 June 2026

Art Basel Reveals More Participating Galleries and the Artists Selected for its Exclusive Initiative, Which Withholds Artworks from Email Previews

The criticisms of art fairs (and the art market they are a defining part of) are many. One of them is that though we might think of these shows as real-time events, where deals are made and multimillion-dollar artworks are sold to whoever gets to the gallery's booth first, in reality some of the biggest-ticket sales are are quietly engineered ahead of time: the galleries email PDF previews to high-powered advisors and deep-pocketed collectors in the weeks leading up to opening day, such that some dealers have sold out their presentations before the first Louboutin makes contact with the convention center carpet. ... read more (external link)

27 May 2026

Trophy Buyers Drive Decorative Art Sales

Sales in the decorative-art category which includes design objects, furniture, jewelry, watches, and more netted around $3.9 billion, a 7.1 percent increase from 2024. But that total is still far behind the category's most recent peak, of $5.7 billion in 2023. ... read more (external link)

27 May 2026

Marian Goodman's $35.1 M. Richter Candle Leads Christie's Tepid $162.7 M. Trio of Postwar and Contemporary Sales

Led by a $35.1 million Gerhard Richter canvas, Christie's New York notched a $162.7 million across a trio of evening sales of postwar and contemporary art that just barely meet expectations at its crowded Rockefeller Center salesroom on Wednesday night. ... read more (external link)

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