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Today's top art-world stories from around the globe — researched and cited, published every day.
The Met Taps Danh Võ for Its 2027 Façade Commission as Art Week NYC Announces an 80-Gallery Debut
Today's top art-world stories: the Metropolitan Museum of Art names Danh Võ for its 2027 Genesis Façade Commission, the inaugural Art Week NYC announces 32 participating institutions and more than 80 galleries for its November debut, ARTnews marks its 2026 Top 200 Collectors issue, and Taiwan's Asian Art Biennial reveals its 10th-edition lineup.
A Record $12.9M de Kooning Leads a Muted Sotheby's Evening Sale as Frieze Week Buyers Take Their Time
Today's top art-world stories: Sotheby's London Contemporary Evening Sale totals $61.1 million behind a European-record de Kooning, The Art Newspaper reports a mixed, cautious mood among Frieze London buyers, and the week's benchmark sale — Hauser & Wirth's $6.58 million Jan Brueghel the Elder — continues to set the tone for Frieze Week.
Frieze London and Masters Open as Christie's $289M Evening Sales Set a Kandinsky and Peter Simon Record
Today's top art-world stories: Frieze London and Frieze Masters open to VIPs at Regent's Park with Hauser & Wirth's $6.58 million Jan Brueghel the Elder leading opening-day sales, Christie's London evening sales total roughly $289 million led by a record $41.8 million Kandinsky, and the Peter Simon collection becomes the highest-value single-owner sale in Christie's London history.
Nature Morte Co-Founder Peter Nagy Dies at 67 as Christie's Previews a $41M Mondrian for Frieze Week
Today's top art-world stories: Peter Nagy, the artist and gallerist who co-founded Nature Morte in New York and rebuilt it into one of Delhi's leading contemporary art spaces, has died at 67, Christie's previews a Mondrian estimated at $27–41 million for its Frieze Week evening sale alongside a charity auction for climate causes, and the Prado opens a show on Queen Christina of Sweden's sculpture collecting.
Tate Loans Anchor 'In Turner's Wake' in Kent as a Seismic Earthwork Opens in the Nevada Desert
Today's top art-world stories: original J.M.W. Turner paintings on loan from Tate anchor "In Turner's Wake" at the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent, the Nevada Museum of Art opens a new earthwork driven by live seismic data, and Brussels dealer Stirum stages an 18-painting survey of Flemish Caravaggism running through next spring.