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ARTnews.com
A Paul Cézanne watercolor, La Montagne Sainte Victoire (ca. 1888), shown in a recent Cézanne exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost by its Jewish owner due to Nazi-era...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A provenance researcher working for the heir of Jewish businessman Gustav Schweitzer says a Paul Cezanne watercolour shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel may have been lost due to Nazi...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews’s summer preview lists 46 museum exhibitions and biennials worldwide, identifying spectacle as a major seasonal theme. It highlights projects including Laure Prouvost’s show about quantum...
Hyperallergic
A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty of arranging the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, according to Hyperallergic. Brent Sikkema, 75, was stabbed...
Hyperallergic
In Venice’s Chiesa di Sant’Antonin, South African artist Gabrielle Goliath is presenting Elegy as South Africa’s unofficial pavilion for the 61st Biennale Arte, after Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie...
ARTnews.com
Jurors for Germany’s Kunstfonds Foundation, which funds contemporary art projects, accused Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer of “attempted intimidation” after he requested the names of the...
Artnet News
An Artnet News analysis published April 11, 2026, examines how German galleries’ push toward “localism” is colliding with structural weaknesses in the country’s art market. Art Cologne revived a...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, has been accused by two former employees, speaking anonymously to Politico’s Irie Sentner, of altering language and programming...
ARTnews.com
German artist, painter, installation artist, and punk musician Thomas Zipp has died, according to an announcement by Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Thumm, which said he “passed away far too soon.” Born in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Bavarian State Paintings Collections announced it will restitute Lesser Ury’s 1883 painting "Interior with Children (the Siblings)" to the heirs of Curt Goldschmidt, a Jewish banker and art...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 30 March, the German federal government and the country’s 16 states agreed to create a new body to oversee restitution of cultural property and human remains held in public collections that were...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Art historian Gary Schwartz argues that a painting long labeled a workshop copy of Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Old Man with a Gold Chain” (1631) was actually painted by Rembrandt himself as an “autograph...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews two feature documentaries about artificial intelligence that screened amid AI-focused programming at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, described as the festival’s last year in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Julia Stoschek Foundation is presenting its first major US exhibition of time-based media at the Variety Arts Theater, a 1924 Italianate venue in downtown Los Angeles, according to a 25 February...
Artnet News
German artist Henrike Naumann, who had been set to represent Germany at the Venice Biennale, has died at age 41, Artnet News reported on 17 February 2026. The article identifies her as the artist...
ARTnews.com
Christie’s will headline its London 20/21 Spring Evening Sale with a Wassily Kandinsky painting estimated at $21.3 million, according to ARTnews. The same sale will also feature a work by British...
ARTnews.com
ARTnews reports that German sculptor Henrike Naumann, known for work examining East Germany’s troubled postwar legacy, died at age 41. Naumann was recognized for installations that used domestic...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will return around 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria within months, The Art Newspaper reported on 9 February 2026, following a 2022 claim by...