Paris’s Centre Pompidou announced a renewed five-year partnership with Chanel as the museum prepares for a long closure through 2030 during a renovation estimated at over $500 million. Chanel and the...
The Frick Collection in New York announced a three-year partnership with Louis Vuitton to sponsor exhibitions, research, and public programming, including free-admission First Fridays. Louis Vuitton...
ARTnews’s “Venice Diary Day 3” highlights offsite works during the Venice Biennale, focusing on Taiwanese artist Li Yi-Fan’s animated video Screen Melancholy (2026) at the offsite Taiwan Pavilion in...
Ai Weiwei will reenact his 81-day detention by China’s Ministry of Public Security in a 24-hour performance titled “Sewing a Button” at Factory International’s Aviva Studios in Manchester, England....
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The US-Israel war on Iran has disrupted art shipping routes and driven up transport costs, particularly affecting Asia-based supply chains, according to art logistics professionals. Brent Crude...
A report cited by the Guardian says London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) removed content from exhibition catalogues at the request of Chinese censors, raising concerns about foreign influence on...
In an Artnet Q&A published April 8, 2026, Kong Lingyi outlines her plans as the new CEO of Beijing’s UCCA Center for Contemporary Art following Philip Tinari’s departure shortly before the Lunar New...
The Human Rights Foundation filed an April petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention seeking a finding that Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen’s detention is arbitrary under...
China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration has ordered a nationwide, item-by-item audit of every state-owned museum collection following a scandal at the Nanjing Museum, according to the South...
ARTnews’s “Morning Links” for March 30, 2026 reports that three artworks—Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Les Poissons (The Fish)” (1917), Henri Matisse’s “Odalisque sur la terrasse (Odalisque on the...
ARTnews criticizes US cultural politics while reviewing “The Great Camouflage,” a contemporary-art exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai that runs through April 26 (year not specified in...
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Artist Shahzia Sikander’s new hand-drawn animated film, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles, is being screened on the digital façade of Hong Kong’s M+ museum through 21 June. The work uses the historical shift in...
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Since Hong Kong’s 1997 handover to China, authorities have promoted “integration” across the Greater Bay Area (GBA), which includes Hong Kong, Macao, and nine Guangdong cities such as Guangzhou and...
Fashion designer Alexander Wang and his mother, Ying Wang, are converting a landmark building in New York’s Chinatown into a new arts venue called Wang Contemporary, aimed at supporting Asian...
ARTnews reported that a Belgian museum holding colonial-era records related to the Congo is facing a request for access from a minerals company seeking historical documentation. The article centers...
ARTnews reported that investigators found decades-long mismanagement and corruption at China’s Nanjing Museum. The investigation described systemic governance and financial problems spanning many...