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The New Art Dealers Alliance has named the 135 galleries that will take part in the upcoming 2026 edition of NADA Miami, scheduled to run December 1–5 at its longtime home, the Ice Palace Studios. The fair’s 24th edition will bring together exhibitors from 63 cities in 27 countries, with 45 of them participating for the first time. Galleries making their debut at NADA Miami including Pietro Alexander (of New York), Clauda (Prague), Forgotten Lands (Christiansted, St. Croix), Real Tinsel (Milwaukee), and Slip House (New York). NADA Miami will also feature 59 of the organization’s members, including April April, Chozick Family Art Gallery, Embajada, Gattoprado, Hesse Flatow, Kates-Ferri Projects, Misako & Rosen, Tyler Parker Presents, and Proxyco. Other galleries taking part include Ceysson & Bénétière, De Boer, Tara Downs, Gladwell Projects, and Pierdas. The NADA Projects section will feature 25 exhibitors, including Blah Blah Gallery (of Phi...

Earlier this month, Dr. Michael Rao, president of Virginia Commonwealth University, made a bold statement: it’s time to move “beyond” the educational model developed by Oxford University in the High Middle Ages. Rao was speaking at the opening of “أغرب إدراك: Aghrab Idrāk: Thresholds of Perception,” a an official Venice Biennale collateral exhibition presented by VCUarts at Palazzo Cavanis in Venice. Indeed, “Aghrab Idrāk” is a rare show for a university, a sort of proof of concept for a new way of teaching the arts. An interdisciplinary program, VCUarts Qatar organizes its offerings through creative research labs that mash up not just creative practices like graphic arts, textile design, audiovisual engineering, typography, and illustration, but also disciplines like anthropology, computer science, and engineering. The result is labs like Sonic Jeel, which focuses on sonic cultures; the Anthro-tech Atelier, whic...

Yves Bouvier is back in federal court in New York. The Swiss art dealer has asked a judge in the Southern District of New York to compel Sotheby’s to turn over records relating to the private sale of a Pablo Picasso painting, saying the documents are needed for a criminal case he recently launched in France against French art dealer Antoine Peretti. According to court filings, Bouvier purchased Picasso’s  Intimité (Femmes et Enfants)  from Peretti in April 2024 for $7.25 million. Under the parties’ agreement, Bouvier says he bought the work with the expectation that it would eventually be resold, with any profit above the purchase price split evenly between the two men. But Bouvier alleges that just weeks later the painting was resold through Milocci Limited, doing business as de Sarthe Gallery, to Sotheby’s for a net seller price of $9 million. According to the filing, Peretti never told him the painting had been re...

Amazon MGM Studios dropped this week the trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair , a remake of the acclaimed 1968 film that will open in theaters on March 5, 2027. Directed by and starring Academy Award–winning actor Michael B. Jordan, the trailer already hints at the art-related plot points for the film. About 12 seconds into the trailer, Jordan’s Thomas Crown faces some built-in bookshelves that slide apart to reveal a hidden room where he stores his stolen paintings. On a metal rack, resembling the sliding vertical racks often used in museum and gallery storage, are four paintings. Crown holds another canvas in his hands to add to his collection of looted masterpieces. By ARTnews ’s estimations, these paintings, from left to right, are Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son (ca. 1820–23), owned by the Museo del Prado in Madrid; Henry Ossawa Tanner’s  The Banjo Lesson (1893), owned by the Hampton University Museum in Virginia; Kerry James Marshall’s Si...

Simone Forti, artist, choreographer, dancer, poet, and leading figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s, as well as an influential contributor to Minimalism and the Fluxus movement, has passed away in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery, Raffaella Cortese, confirmed via social media today. “She was a beloved friend and mentor, whose immeasurable influence on contemporary art, performance, and dance spanned over sixty years,” stated the Milan-based gallery. “We remember her with affection, admiration, and deep gratitude, and we remain committed to carrying forward the memory of her extraordinary work.” At the Judson Dance Theater in Greenwich Village, Forti became a key figure of then-budding postmodern dance, working alongside the likes of Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer. Forti, whose collaborations included working with choreographers Anna Halprin, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, liked to simply describe hersel...

After adding Yoshitomo Nara to its roster last fall, David Zwirner will present the Japanese artist’s first show with the gallery at both of its spaces on 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition, touted as Nara’s first major solo show in New York in nearly a decade, is slated to open October 29 and will run through December 12. Nara joined Zwirner after being represented previously by Pace and Blum galleries, and said at the time, “Now, I feel fortunate to present the works I will be creating under the guidance of a gallerist who, though born and raised in a different place, shares the same generation and the spirit of the era we both lived through—including its subcultures.” The two-site show in the fall will include new paintings and drawings, recent sculptures, and early works selected by Nara himself. “Bringing together foundational works from the 1980s and paintings from 2026,” a press release reads, “thi...

Betye Saar died on July 26, four days before her 100th birthday, to the shock and sadness of an art world preparing to celebrate the centennial of the singular assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar spent six decades excavating the American sediments of race and politics through found objects, from the innocuous—furniture, feathers, birdcages—to the insidious. Saar’s groundbreaking 1972 piece The Liberation of Aunt Jemima depicted the eponymous “Mammy” figure bearing a toy rifle and broom, with a Black Power fist rising before her. “She is going to liberate herself at all costs,” ARTnews wrote in its obituary yesterday, echoing Saar’s own words: “Take a woman who was a victim and make her a warrior.” Saar “redefined contemporary art,” the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) wrote on Instagram, joining the many cultural institutions, curators, and artists who shared condolences following news of her death. “Saar was a master as...