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Two of Marc Kokopeli’s blissed-out “South Park”–style figures party on the Summer 2026 cover of Artforum. Trapped inside LCD cabinets, they speak to what Theo Belci, in his feature essay on the artist, describes as the “abandoned adolescent inside each millennial heart.” artforum.com/issue/2026/summ…
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British painter David Hockney, known for his bright, pleasure-suffused paintings of 1960s and '70s Los Angeles, died in London on June 11. He was 88. In the 1960s he recuperated figurative painting and, more specifically, the human form, both of which had been previously rejected by the abstraction then ascendant.
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A series of 20-day furloughs are set to hit all staff at the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. In a statement to The Post and Courier, the museum cited “financial pressure” and “a shift in the political and funding environment,” as the rationale for the measure.
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Photographer-provocateur Duane Michals, known for unconventional, deeply personal narrative image sequences incorporating handwritten text, has died at 94. Mystical, metaphysical, and frequently touched by whimsy, his work reflected his abiding interest in the Surrealists.
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Arizona’s Phoenix Art Museum has received a gift of 185 works made by Indigenous artists from the William P. Healey Collection of Native American Art. Artists featured include Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Allan Houser (Apache) and Jaune-Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai).
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Brussels gallery dépendance, whose exciting young roster, thoughtfully curated shows, and commitment to remaining small earned it a reputation as an “artists’ gallery,” has announced its forthcoming closure. The gallery will cease operations on June 27.
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Frieze London has named the 172 galleries set to participate in its 2026 iteration, while Frieze Masters has announced 140 participants. Both fairs will take place October 14–18 in Regent’s Park.
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Independent 20th Century, a fair dedicated to shaking up the public’s established understanding of 20th century art, has just announced the specifics of its fifth edition, which will take place in the Breuer building—the home of Sotheby’s global headquarters in New York—and run from September 24–27 of this year.
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The 16th Gwangju Biennale has announced its 43 participants. The lineup includes contemporary artist, filmmaker and ex-husband of singer Björk, Matthew Barney; the artist studio CAMP from Mumbai; and Turkish multidisciplinary artist İnci Eviner.
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Today, Artforum and ARTnews unveiled the launch of the first ever Art Week NYC, set to take place November 11–14, 2026: four days of gallery openings, exhibition walkthroughs, artist talks, neighborhood tours, and a day of public programming co-hosted by the New Museum and Artforum.
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Starting July 1, the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio will begin offering free admission to anyone the age of twenty-five and under, as well as to any adult accompanying a child who’s 16 years old or younger.
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The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC has received a $15 million gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation—the largest in the museum's 105-year history. $11.75 million is earmarked for the endowment, with funds also supporting Phillips@THEARC programming.
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Italian culture workers and arts collectives announced this week that they would be joining trade unions and other organizations across the country in participating in a “general cultural strike” on June 12. The strike will focus on supporting Palestine and championing workers’ rights.
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Galerie Templon has closed its Chelsea outpost after four years, citing a rent raise on the 6,500-sq-ft space from an already steep $55,000/month. Mathieu Templon plans a smaller TriBeCa or UES operation: "It's important for the gallery to have a space in New York, but not at any cost."
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Sotheby's June 2 private auction of Jackson Pollock's "Number 19, 1951"—owned by Pace founder Arne Glimcher and asking $50 million—failed to launch after the house couldn't attract enough bidders, Artnews reports. Sources say it was Sotheby's first significant attempt at a private auction.
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A new online platform, Leonardotheka, reunites—for the first time in over 400 years—two essential collections of Leonardo da Vinci's writings and drawings, separated centuries ago by sculptor Pompeo Leoni. The ten-year project merges the Codex Atlanticus with 550 sheets from the Royal Collection.
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Tone Hansen has been named the next director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm. She arrives from Oslo's Munch museum, where she has served as director since 2022, and previously helmed the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter. She succeeds Gitte Ørskou on September 1.
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Franco-Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, whose innovations in kinetic and Op art presaged today's interactive art, has died in Paris at 97. The last surviving cofounder of GRAV, he spent nearly 70 years harnessing light, color, movement, and reflection in works completed by the viewer.
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How did Stonehenge's 6-ton, 16-foot altar stone travel 435 miles from northeast Scotland to Salisbury Plain? A new study in the Journal of Quaternary Science proposes a glacier carried it part of the way—to Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Ancient Britons would have hauled it the rest.
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The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is unveiling its newly renovated facilities to the public on June 6th and 7th after undergoing a $150 million expansion project. The updated layout was developed by Safdie Architects, the same firm that designed the first iteration of the museum in 2012.
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The New School has laid off 68 staffers and 19 full-time faculty—more than half of them tenured—as it confronts a $60 million budget deficit driven in part by Trump administration restrictions on international students, who made up 36% of its student body in December 2025.
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