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#ArtnetNews: Art collectors bet on known quantities amid market reset. Blue-chip artists and trophy lots powered the market in 2025, while speculative ultra-contemporary art continued to cool. Read more: bit.ly/3PyOCOq

#ArtnetNews: Authorship dispute erupts over ‘Hair Dress’ at the Met’s Costume Institute. The museum says this dispute is between artist Anouska Samms and her collaborator, designer Yoav Hadari. Read more: bit.ly/4tBivvt

#ArtnetNews: Contemporary icons and modern masters headline this major May sale. Rago/Wright is set to stage two major spring sales this month, with highlights from Annie Morris, Amoako Boafo, and more. Read more: bit.ly/437o8GR

#ArtnetNews: Tiny Cranach Painting That Vanished During WWII Returns to Dresden. The painting is one of more than 500 listed as lost by the Dresden State Art Collections. Read more: bit.ly/3Pnu2An

#ArtnetNews: All 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files are now on view at this pop-up exhibition. The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Reading Room holds 3,437 volumes of printed material. Read more: bit.ly/3PmXVkl

#ArtnetNews: Newly recovered love letters by John Keats could net $2 million at auction. The collection includes the earliest known letter from Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne. Read more: bit.ly/4wq013x

#ArtnetNews: For fashion iconoclast Iris van Herpen, ‘Nature Is the Best Artist.’ The Dutch designer's retrospective 'Sculpting the Senses' lands at the Brooklyn Museum with more than 140 of her biomorphic creations. Read more: bit.ly/49ITjMi

#ArtnetNews: Radiohead brings its strange visual universe to life in an immersive spectacle. 'Motion Picture House' features artworks, music, and a film drawn from the band's albums, 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac.' Read more: bit.ly/4dDEJrW

#ArtnetNews: Eva Helene Pade paints the thin line between ecstasy and violence. This week, Pade will debut new works with Thaddaeus Ropac at TEFAF New York, following her buzzy solo show with the gallery last fall. Read more: bit.ly/42taGNu

#ArtnetNews: Who went to Venice last week? Jenny Saville, Glenn Lowry, Jewel, and many other power players. At the ultimate global gathering in the world's most beautiful city, you have to trust the flow. Read more: bit.ly/438ihRz

#ArtnetNews: Legendary Swiss art historian, collector, and dealer Bruno Bischofberger, who championed the Neo Expressionist movement while bringing American artists to European audiences, died on Saturday at the age of 86. Read more: bit.ly/4eHSjM4

#ArtnetNews: A new landmark survey aims to bring transparency to museum collecting practices. The National Survey of Museum Collecting Practices will help set standards in a field without them. Read more: bit.ly/4noXHWr

#ArtnetNews: Best in show: 6 standouts at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Highlights include a racy aquatic circus, a tender show of photographs, and more. Read more: bit.ly/4tYzqsQ

#ArtnetNews: New York Art Week Will test the market’s momentum. Advisors and dealers say sales are stronger but practicality is the name of the game. Read more: bit.ly/4d52qta

#ArtnetNews: France passes landmark restitution law for looted art. Plus, $1.8 billion worth of art heads to auction in New York, David Zwirner now reps the estate of Robert Therrien, and more art industry news. Read more: bit.ly/4wmrDXj

#ArtnetNews: Never-before-seen Marilyn Monroe letters and artifacts surface at auction. Centennial sales at Heritage Auctions and Julien's Auctions offer rare glimpses into the star’s inner world. Read more: bit.ly/4cXIMiC

#ArtnetNews: National Museum of Women in the Arts director Susan Fisher Sterling to retire. Sterling was with the museum for nearly 40 years, 18 of which she served as director. Read more: bit.ly/4d8QiaB

#ArtnetNews: Researchers identify enslaved boy in a Joshua Reynolds painting. New historical analysis has revealed the child's name and years of military service. Read more: bit.ly/4cXGe42

#TheArtAnglePodcast: This week on the podcast, Kate Brown speaks with Austrian artist Florentina Holzinger about her Venice Biennale exhibition “Seaworld Venice,” already emerging as one of this year’s most talked-about pavilions. Listen to the podcast: bit.ly/3QOierz

#ArtnetNews: Arch Hades turns a Venetian palazzo into an emotional landscape. Staged within a decommissioned church on Venice’s Grand Canal, Hades synthesizes painting, sculpture, and sound to create an immersive experience that taps into interior, psychological worlds. Read more: bit.ly/4d6y4Fb