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The thrills and spills of sevens rugby. Lots of action at Trentham Memorial Park on Saturday. Photo by Andy McArthur. Full gallery here That’s lights out for the rugby season. But in just several weeks it starts up again, with the annual Bula Fiji 7s tournament later in January (to be confirmed) and the National...

South Korea, November 24, 2025 welcomed to Geoje by the leadership of one of the most advanced shipbuilding enterprises in the world, the Honourable Mélanie Joly — Canada’s Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions — stepped into a shipyard where the future of Canadian underwater capability may be taking shape. Her arrival marked more than a diplomatic drop-in. It was a front-row look at the technology and industrial power behind the KSS-III submarine — the very platform Hanwha proposes for Canada’s Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP). The minister toured the expansive facilities, witnessed the KSS-III production line in motion, and stepped aboard the same submarine launched for the Republic of Korea Navy just weeks earlier on October 22. Here, in a venue defined by steel, precision and scale, Joly could see firsthand what a fully in-service, actively produced submarine program looks like. “It was a great pleasure to host M...

Fereti Soloa and the HOBM Eagles celebrate their 2025 American Ambassador’s win. By Steven White Photos by Andy McArthur and Mike & Caroline Lewis The 2025 Jubilee Cup champions are also the Wellington club rugby sevens champions. The Hutt Old Boys Marist Eagles played through the two-week American Ambassador’s tournament unbeaten to win this year’s...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, ARTnews.com may receive an affiliate commission. Today is Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping season! Many US retailers have marked down selected wares, including art and craft supplies. To help you parse the offerings, we’ll be tracking some of the best deals on artists’ tools, from pastels to tablets, to give as gifts or to keep for yourself. We will be updating this page throughout the weekend and into Cyber Monday, so check in with us often. A word of advice: Move fast, as many of these products will sell out quickly. (All prices current at time of publication.) Related Articles How Romare Bearden's Estate Is Bringing the Artist's Work into the Digital Realm For Mernet Larsen, Painting Is a Matter of Perspective How we pick each product: Our mission is to recommend the most appropriate artists’ tool or supply for your needs. Whether you are lookin...

The 2025 rugby season in Wellington goes out with a bang this Saturday with the second and concluding leg of the American Ambassador’s Sevens series. All sporting roads in the Wellington region head to Trentham Memorial Park for the tournament that kicks off at 9.00am and runs until late afternoon, with the addition of finals...

Two curatorial teams have been named the winners of the Hyundai Blue Prize+ 2025. Organized by Hyundai Motor Company, the prize was established to support “the evolving role of curators” as they consider “pressing contemporary issues, in connection with the contexts of Asia.” After an open call in July, which received over 160 exhibition proposals for Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, give teams were shortlisted to participate in a curatorial program overseen by an international jury panel. The program offered one-on-one mentorship and a research trip to Beijing to supporting the final exhibition proposals. The jury then selected two of the five teams as the final winners. Seoul–based curators Hyejin and Yoonyoung Park trace AI’s dependence on natural resources and labor, including the way in which emotions and identities are used as new forms of capital, challenging viewers to reflect on this coexistence with technology. Curatorial pair Yifeng Wei and Penny Dan Xu, who are based in Du...

Miami Beach, a city founded on the principle that nothing should ever take longer than ordering a cortadito, has finally admitted defeat. The traffic is bad— biblically  bad—and the municipal solution is wonderfully literal:  water taxis . For the  second year in a row  and beginning on December 1, the city will run a small flotilla of free boats shuttling people between Miami Beach and the mainland every ten to fifteen minutes, complete with connecting shuttles to the Convention Center and Collins Avenue. You don’t institute ferry service unless the roads have staged an outright mutiny. Yet, a few months ago, when ARTnews reported that traffic on the causeways had become one of  several reasons  longtime exhibitors were drifting away from NADA’s inland fairgrounds, a handful of unnamed art-world worthies, in angry whispers and consolatory text threads, pronounced the claim absurd. Perhaps they believed that during Miami Art Week—when a ten-minute trip...

A once-in-a-lifetime bottle of champagne from the 1981 marriage of King Charles III (at the time the Prince of Wales) to Lady Diana Spencer will hit the auction block at Bruun Rasmussen on December 11. The pair wed on July 29, 1981, in a ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, which was followed by a lavish reception at Buckingham Palace. The limited-edition 1961 Dom Pérignon Vintage was made specially for the nuptials that captured global attention. The bottles were disgorged in 1981, with a label commemorating the wedding. It is estimated to fetch €67,000 to €80,000 ($77,620 to $926,800) during a live sale at the Danish auction house’s Lyngby salesroom, just outside Copenhagen. “Vintage 1961 is one of Dom Pérignon’s most coveted vintages. This special edition was produced in extremely limited numbers and exclusively for the official festivities and selected guests of the royal wedding,” Thomas Rosendahl, head of the wine department at Bruun Rasmussen, said in a statement....

The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, set to open in 2026, will present giants from the Western tradition, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol, alongside lesser-known contemporary artists from regions as far-flung as Asia, Africa, and the Arab world, the chairman of Abu Dhabi’s department of cultural tourism said at a recent briefing that for the first time revealed what would be on view in the long-awaited museum. “They’re going to be within that collection, but right next to them, you’ll have amazing contemporary artists that maybe, unfortunately, the vast public don’t know much about,” said Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, promising that the new institution would be “a lot more than a museum,” per a report in the National . “It’s really a civic space. It’s a place that brings people together with music, food, dance and, of course, contemporary art.”  Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is designed by Frank Gehry, the starchitect who also designed the Guggenheim’s his...

Walk into “‘On the Verge,” Sylvia Snowden’s new show at White Cube, and the first thing you feel is that the paintings have been waiting for you—not patiently, not politely, but with the pent-up charge of someone about to tell you something you probably won’t want to hear. This is especially true of the “M Street” figures. The muscular, whiplashed bodies are feel carved out of paint that’s thick enough to bruise if you get too close. They lurch toward you in their reds and ochres as if the polite conventions and hyper-sexualized portraiture we see so often today were an affront to human experience. Snowden, now in her eighties, has gone big for her first solo outing with White Cube in the United States. Stand next to one of these works—especially the Masonite-based canvases from the early decades—and you can feel the paint’s physical mass before you’ve sorted out the figure. The surfaces are not built up so much as engineered: oil pastel and acrylic clotted together into pea...

Just as there was no single incarnation of fascist politics between the World Wars, anti-fascism emerged under various guises, ranging from underground resistance to activism-in-exile to expressions of international solidarity to targeted propaganda. These five books trace some of these different histories.

When a global industry enters a decade defined by major nation-building investments, the organizations best positioned to lead are those that understand the terrain—political, operational and strategic. That is exactly why the PCL family of companies has brought Rear Admiral (Retired) Steven Waddell, CMM, MSM, into its senior leadership ranks as Deputy National Director, Defence and Federal Government Relations. Announced from Edmonton, Alberta, the appointment took effect on October 20, 2025, marking a significant step for PCL’s integrated national strategy as Canada advances one of the most consequential periods of defence and security infrastructure renewal in a generation. “Steven’s deep understanding of federal infrastructure planning and procurement, combined with his leadership experience, will be invaluable as we pursue opportunities that support Canada’s defence and security priorities,” said Paul Knowles, Senior Vice President and District Manager for PCL Ottawa. A Strate...

Hōkūleʻa returns to the shores of Aotearoa after 40 years Soana Aholelei | Reporter / Director Storied Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa has returned to Aotearoa 40 years after making her historic journey to these shores. The Hōkūleʻa was accompanied by another Hawaiian vaka, Hikianalia, at Ōrākei last week where they were welcomed by Ngāti Whātua.   The Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia are on the Moananuiākea Voyage around the Pacific which began from the shores of Hawaii back in May. They arrived in Aotearoa after a 17-day voyage from the Cook Islands and were welcomed in Waitangi in the Bay of Islands before heading to Auckland. Captain and navigator on Hikianalia is Native Hawaiian Kalā Baybayan-Tanaka, who is following in the footsteps of her late father Pwo Navigator Kālepa Baybayan who was on the first Hōkūleʻa voyage to Aotearoa 40 years ago. “I just, I feel like he’s here with us. And I’m meeting people that have s...

Earlier this month, Sasha Suda, the former director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, filed a civil suit against the institution, alleging wrongful termination, unfair treatment, and abuse. On Thursday, the museum filed its response. In a new motion to compel arbitration, the museum denied Suda’s claims and asserted that the 12-member Executive Committee voted unanimously to terminate her for cause following “an extensive investigation.” That investigation, the motion states, concluded that Suda had “misappropriated funds from the Museum and lied to cover up her theft.” The filing further claims that Suda “repeatedly asked the Compensation Committee” for raises above her agreed-upon $720,000 annual salary and, after being denied, “awarded herself the salary increase the Committee had just declined,” allegedly doing so on three separate occasions without informing the board. In September, according to the motion, the committee discovered these increases, prompting the forma...

Tinworks Art, an enterprise that garnered attention last year with an ambitious resurrection of Agnes Denes’s storied Wheatfiled Land art work in Bozeman, Montana, is making its next move with a newly acquired historic theater to be inaugurated with screenings of Matthew Barney’s 2018 film Redoubt . The program begins Friday at the Rialto theater on Bozeman’s picturesque Main Street and continues, with two showings a day Thursdays through Sundays, through February 1. Built in 1908 as a post office and transformed into a theater in 1924, the Rialto was donated to Tinworks and joins the organization’s two-acre complex of former warehouse space and agricultural buildings nearby. Those have been the site of exhibitions featuring such artists as Stephen Shore, Lucy Raven, Layli Long Soldier, Theaster Gates, David Drake, James Castle, and others. “Bringing Tinworks into the heart of downtown strengthens our connection with the community and ensures that ground-breaking contemporary art ...

Ten years ago, a Reddit user asked: “What’s your last memory of being picked up by a parent?” The user StatOne recalled scrambling as a four-year-old to keep pace with his family as they briskly climbed an uneven hillside. He was falling behind and frightened of being forgotten in the dark when his father “unexpectedly” turned back. “He picked me up to his shoulder, never broke stride, so smoothly, so lovingly, like the hand of God reaching down,” wrote StatOne.  And then, without warning, that god sets you down, packs you a suitcase and sends you off into the night. The ensuing terror of adulthood begins, and rarely ends for most Americans. In 2023, the US Surgeon General declared an epidemic of loneliness driven by a “fundamental sense of disconnection from others or the world” and fueled by too much technology, too much work, and a dearth of familial, religious, or spiritual fulfillment. Two years later, the prescribed remedy—”learn to love oneself and community”; “cultivate m...

A Los Angeles Times investigation of the finances of the Palm Springs Art Museum claims there are significant problems at the California institution. The museum has issued a statement calling the Times ’s reporting into question. The paper claims that after a January audit, accounting firm Eide Bailly attached to its report a “letter of material weakness,” a standard practice that alerts the client to what the paper calls “the reasonable possibility that its internal statements are significantly out of whack.” Since then, “at least eight” trustees, or a third of its board, have reportedly resigned. These departures, one apparently based on legal counsel, have left 19 members, short of the 20 required in the museum’s by-laws, says the report. Eide Bailly reportedly pointed to a “deficiency in internal control” at the institution, highlighting “problems with reporting of endowment spending, improper recording of the market value of donated and deaccessioned art, and faulty recording ...

Editor’s Note:  This story originally appeared in  On Balance ,  the ARTnews  newsletter about the art market and beyond.  Sign up here   to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Industry Moves Ortuzar Takes on the Claire Falkenstein Foundation: The gallery is partnering with the foundation on a multi-year initiative to showcase Falkenstein’s wide-ranging practice, which will be surveyed in a booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, in an exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art opening November 2026, and in the gallery’s first solo show with the artist, to be staged in fall 2026. Jessica Silverman Now Co-Represents GaHee Park with Perrotin:  Works by Park will be shown by both galleries ahead of a solo show at Silverman’s San Francisco space in November 2026. Gurr Johns Appoints Robert G...