Thomas S. Kaplan is exploring plans to fractionalise the Leiden Collection—the world’s largest private holding of Dutch Golden Age paintings—and launch it as an IPO, potentially allowing millions to buy shares in works by Rembrandt. buff.ly/0UNZiPx

Collector Thomas S. Kaplan will present highlights from the Leiden Collection—one of the largest private holdings of Dutch Old Masters—in its first major US exhibition at the Norton Museum of Art. buff.ly/EcDy3fm

Sculptor Martin Jennings has been chosen to create a statue of Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park, part of a £46m memorial scheme designed by Norman Foster. buff.ly/OTBbExA

Ai Weiwei has unveiled a major new commission in Kyiv, ‘Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms Painted White’, responding to armed conflict and drawing on his activist practice. buff.ly/vpDh8yZ

More than 50 artists and cultural figures have signed a letter urging Judy Chicago and Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova to cancel their exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, citing the war in Gaza. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/22/d...

Christie’s will auction works from the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art in Tokyo, expected to fetch at least $60m, led by a Monet Nymphéas estimated at $40m. buff.ly/JiVD1t9

A man was killed while unloading Andy Warhol’s 1979 BMW Art Car in Washington, DC, leading organisers to cancel the planned exhibition on the National Mall. buff.ly/tAfkoZp

London’s Postal Museum has launched a collaboration with victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal, giving sub-postmasters space to share their stories in their own words. buff.ly/1Hf7j4Q

From 2026, Art SG will take over management of Singapore’s S.E.A. Focus fair, bringing both events under the Marina Bay Sands complex during Singapore Art Week. buff.ly/oBmRmbA

At Versailles, a new app powered by AI allows visitors to “converse” with 20 statues in the palace gardens, including Apollo and Cupid, revealing anecdotes and historical details. buff.ly/pjm30zT

A replica of Locomotion No. 1 will re-enact the world’s first public rail journey later this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the 1825 route between Stockton and Darlington. buff.ly/DZCtHaQ

As the ultra-wealthy pivot to other assets, art is losing ground to alternative investments like cryptocurrency, even as luxury sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s buck the downturn. buff.ly/MGRXOjR

On this week's episode of The Week in Art Podcast: Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers Download and listen to the full episode: buff.ly/oWCG5Vd

The Waurá people of Brazil warn that climate change is threatening their ancestral ceramic tradition, as shorter river cycles disrupt the conditions needed to make pottery. buff.ly/Wzg4TQH

Nationwide strikes over budget austerity forced closures at major French cultural sites on 18 September, including the Louvre, Versailles, the Grand Palais and the Musée Picasso. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/18/f...

New research suggests that the hidden image beneath Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat at the National Gallery of Art may be the artist’s only known male portrait, revealed through advanced imaging techniques. buff.ly/yDhIJCW

Tokyo Gendai’s third edition, moved to an autumn slot, reported steady but modest sales, remaining largely local as Japan’s market holds up amid a global downturn. buff.ly/3STIVHP

Seventy-seven artists and musicians including Jasleen Kaur, Jeremy Deller, Michael Rakowitz and Massive Attack have contributed posters to ‘Love is Resistance’, a Gaza fundraiser book for the Ajyal Foundation. buff.ly/ukzrRUy

This autumn, the worlds of art and luxury intersect in shows and launches from Dior in Paris to a V&A exhibition about Marie Antoinette sponsored by Manolo Blahnik, Natasha Wightman jewellery at Christie’s and a doll’s house at the Rijksmuseum. buff.ly/GrNIZXE

The inaugural Brussels Art Week brought together galleries, institutions and artist-run spaces across the city, staking a strong claim for Brussels’s place on the international art map. buff.ly/mgLRxS0

Donald Judd’s architecture office in Marfa reopens after a $3.3m restoration, four years after a fire destroyed the building just as earlier renovations were about to finish. buff.ly/8TDIYmN

The Geneva Museum of Art and History helped evacuate thousands of artefacts from Gaza’s main archaeological storage before an Israeli strike, though 30% of the collection was lost. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/17/h...

Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director and founder of Sundance who began his career as a painter and became a cultural philanthropist, has died at his home in Utah aged 89. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/17/r...

Dubai’s Third Line gallery marks its 20th anniversary, with co-founder Sunny Rahbar reflecting on its rise alongside the Gulf’s expanding cultural scene since 2005. buff.ly/IvRQ1VO

As the art trade resumes after summer, closures, cancellations and economic pressures fuel concern that the market faces its toughest test since the 1990s crash. buff.ly/JzWNK3F

Art advisory firms are gaining ground in a downturn, offering leaner, more discreet services as auction houses and galleries grapple with cuts and closures. buff.ly/vVEfdlP

Olafur Eliasson will debut ‘A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake’ in Salt Lake City in 2026, highlighting the ecological crisis facing the shrinking body of water. buff.ly/8EUEeF1

Banksy’s short-lived mural outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice—a judge beating a protester—has sparked legal debate over whether it constitutes criminal damage or political commentary. buff.ly/GIA4418

A Moscow court has sentenced five Pussy Riot members to between eight and 13 years in prison in absentia over anti-war performances, escalating pressure on the activist collective. buff.ly/nIehZPM

AI tools are being deployed to authenticate works tied to the Norval Morrisseau forgery scandal, one of the largest art frauds in history, with estimated losses over C$100m. buff.ly/bTrNKHC

V&A director Tristram Hunt has called for a tourist levy to support UK cultural infrastructure, while urging government to rethink inheritance tax policy and restore art in schools. buff.ly/Q8O52NM

After 50 years in Venice, California, LA Louver will close its gallery space and transition to a new model of private dealing, pop-up shows and projects from its Jefferson Boulevard warehouse. buff.ly/6mCP9GE

Tate Modern marks the centenary of Picasso’s ‘The Three Dancers’ with an exhibition staged by Wu Tsang and Enrique Fuenteblanca, inviting contemporary performers to reinterpret the 1925 masterpiece. buff.ly/rJws16t

The Royal Academy of Arts opens a vast survey of Kerry James Marshall, combining new works with career-defining paintings in his largest European show to date. buff.ly/e48InPf

Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt have won the 2025 Heinz Awards for the Arts, each receiving an unrestricted $250,000 prize for their distinctive practices in painting and sculpture. buff.ly/13XKILX

The Studio Museum in Harlem and the New Museum on the Bowery will both reopen this autumn with ambitious new facilities, reshaping their role in New York’s cultural landscape. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/15/s...

Art historian Matthew Holman highlights ten essential works at MoMA, from a collection of 200,000 modern and contemporary pieces. buff.ly/qcLtakX

Walter Sickert’s rarely seen ‘Ennui’ (1913), once owned by Hollywood actor Edward G. Robinson, goes on sale at Piano Nobile in London on 26 September for £750,000. buff.ly/B5ULAyk

Francis Bacon’s ‘Portrait of a Dwarf’ (1975), once part of a larger canvas later divided by the artist, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s London next month with an estimate of £9m. buff.ly/89fQpJe

Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa on 10 September damaged Yemen’s national museum, shattering windows and doors and raising fears for the safety of its collection. buff.ly/4dbZlQP

After decades of reconstruction, Dresden’s Royal Palace nears completion this autumn, restoring the Renaissance-Baroque landmark destroyed in the Allied bombings of 1945. buff.ly/LGfLn4V

Calder Gardens, a $70m complex of subterranean galleries and landscaped pavilions, opens in Philadelphia on 21 September, offering a dedicated home for Alexander Calder’s work in his hometown. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/15/a...

NEW EPISODE: The Week in Art Podcast - David Bowie Centre, Bukhara Biennial, Hilton Als on Jean Rhys, Hurvin Anderson and Kara Walker. Ben Luke steps inside the V&A East's latest addition, discusses the Bukhara biennial and explores a new exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery buff.ly/Pk2wt75

The National Gallery’s new exhibition ‘Radical Harmony’ includes Van Gogh’s The Sower (1888), his brief experiment with Neo-Impressionism—recently referenced in a papal address by Pope Leo XIV. buff.ly/wcIdluv

Restoration of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate walls and Temple of Ninmakh is nearing completion, with the ancient site in Iraq preparing to welcome tourists, festivals and cultural gatherings once again. buff.ly/r1N9u0w

The Henry Moore Foundation has awarded £100,000 in unrestricted grants to 50 UK sculptors, providing vital support amid the cost-of-living crisis and cultural funding cuts. buff.ly/cf2pncO

Since 2021, London has added more commemorative sculptures of women—including a new bronze of suffragist and garden designer Fanny Wilkinson—than in the entire second half of the 20th century. buff.ly/u0a4l31

A pop-up Giphy Gallery, created with the Museum of Modern GIFs, presents works by 75 artists and makes the case for GIFs as a legitimate form of digital art. buff.ly/0bnxyOG

Armand Vaillancourt, 96, has issued a cease-and-desist letter to halt San Francisco’s plan to demolish his 1971 Brutalist fountain at Embarcadero Plaza, sparking renewed calls for its preservation. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/11/v...

Italian politicians have condemned the return of Vittore Carpaccio’s 1518 altarpiece Madonna and Child Enthroned with Six Saints to Slovenia, calling the decision “fundamentally incorrect.” buff.ly/mKhqoMO