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Artnet News’s “Industry Intel,” published July 25, 2026, reports that the Armory Show will return to New York’s Javits Center on September 24–27 with about 230 exhibitors, including newcomers Alison...
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A 2,500-year-old Celtic gold torque from the Vix Treasure was stolen in broad daylight on July 24 from the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais – Trésor de Vix in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Burgundy, according to...
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Italy’s Modena FC corporate collection has acquired 44 works from Archie Rand’s “Letter Paintings” series, Jarvis Art announced this week. Rand made the paintings between 1968 and 1971 as a teenager,...
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The Whitney Museum of American Art will open “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” on October 11, 2026, after delaying the exhibition originally planned for 2023 as part of centennial celebrations that...
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President Donald Trump ordered warning signs installed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History to alert visitors to what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” in the...
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, founded by George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, announced its inaugural film program at San Diego Comic Con ahead of the museum’s September 22 opening....
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Artist Joyce Kozloff disclosed that she was a founding member of the Guerrilla Girls, revealing her alias as Lydia (Liubov) Popova in an interview published July 22, 2026, in Art Journal Open. The...
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Banco Santander Foundation set September 8, 2026, as the opening date for its new art center, Faro Santander, and announced three inaugural exhibitions, including a Leonora Carrington solo and...
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A team led by Japanese architecture firm Sanaa has been selected to design a new $100m home for the Museo Nacional del Ecuador (Muna) in Quito, after the government annulled the results of an earlier...
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The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) says restoring its fire-destroyed Mackintosh Building will cost around £265m, a sum the school’s board of governors calls “unaffordable,” according to a new Business...
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On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul held a ceremony returning two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China, following an agreement reached in early January. Attendees included Kansong Art...
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Hyperallergic highlighted debate around David Hockney’s late digital works, focusing on a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite iPad “painting,” “A Year in Normandie” (2020–21), shown at Serpentine...
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A letter from Yuko Kikuchi, who resigned in January as head of academic programs at London’s Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, alleges “racist” and “culturally insensitive” behavior and calls on the...
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The United States repatriated a group of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia on July 22 during a meeting in Jakarta between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel,...
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The Hammer Museum has named Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet as co-curators of the eighth edition of the Made in L.A. biennial, scheduled to open in fall 2027. Wellen, who became the Hammer’s...
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Jessica Morgan, director of the New York-based Dia Art Foundation since early 2015, has been appointed the next director of Tate, replacing Maria Balshaw, who stepped down last year. Morgan will...
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The Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans in France has launched a “Wanted” poster campaign to help locate 424 artworks missing from its collection, many looted during World War II. Among the most prominent...
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Lisbon’s Museu Calouste Gulbenkian reopened on Saturday, 18 July, after an 18-month, €7.8m refurbishment intended to restore the galleries as closely as possible to their original 1969 presentation,...
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ARTnews reports that some museum curators increasingly express interest in acquiring artworks but ask dealers to find collectors to fund the purchase, effectively shifting fundraising onto galleries....
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Collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein have donated more than 70 works of modern and contemporary art to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the museum announced on Wednesday,...
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A Hyperallergic review critiques David Hockney’s large-scale iPad work A Year in Normandie (2020–21), a 295-foot (about 90-meter) composite of more than 100 printed iPad paintings shown at Serpentine...
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Artist Refik Anadol presented Smithsonian Dreams, an immersive AI-driven light and sound projection mapped onto the façade of the Smithsonian’s red sandstone Castle during a pause in a renovation...
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Smithsonian National Museum of American History director Anthea Hartig, who has led the museum since 2019, faced pointed questioning at a two-hour congressional hearing in which Representative Tim...
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The Art Institute of Chicago said it plans to eliminate its entire in-house custodial workforce in August by outsourcing cleaning to GDI Integrated Facility Services, a Canada-based contractor. Up to...
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Italy’s National Archaeology Museum in Chieti has granted permission for new authenticity tests on the “Warrior of Capestrano,” a limestone statue over two meters tall discovered in an Abruzzo...
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Bolivia’s Museo Nacional de Arqueología (Munarq) reopened in La Paz after a year-long renovation, unveiling a new permanent exhibition titled “Raíces eternas, legados vivos” (“Eternal Roots, Living...
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Yuko Kikuchi, former head of academic programmes at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, resigned at the end of January after alleging “racist” and “culturally insensitive” behavior by...
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The Italian trade union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) has threatened strike action over working conditions in Venice museums, alleging indoor temperatures above 30°C for weeks and perceived...
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New York’s New Museum temporarily closed for a weekend after a “significant” leak occurred during flash floods on July 18, with staff using buckets to catch water entering a gallery. The museum said...
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A Hyperallergic editor’s note by Hakim Bishara highlights recent coverage, including Erin L. Thompson’s investigation into a convicted antiquities dealer whose objects are held by dozens of US...
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During flash flooding in New York City, the New Museum experienced a significant water leak on Saturday in a gallery showing work by WangShui, with video showing water pooling on the floor and staff...
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Artnet News reports that the Rijksmuseum will mount a major Willem de Kooning survey in Amsterdam in October, featuring more than 120 works and billed as the largest European exhibition of his art in...
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In an Artnet Bulletin roundup, Artnet News reports that five people working at two Hong Kong bookstores were arrested this week on suspicion of violating the city’s 2024 national security law banning...
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The Art Newspaper reports that Italy has returned 27 archaeological objects to Mexico after multiple investigations found they had been illegally imported, unlawfully sold, or held without...
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ARTnews reports that on July 14, U.S. Representatives Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) introduced the PRESERVE Act—short for “Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of...
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ARTnews reviews “In the Very Bowels of Change: Surrealism and Antifascism,” an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw that traces Surrealism’s political engagement and resistance to...
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Salvador Salort-Pons, director of the Detroit Institute of Arts and a Velázquez scholar, reported in ARS Magazine that he has identified a previously overlooked Diego Velázquez portrait from 1626 in...
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Bavaria announced new procedures for evaluating restitution claims involving Nazi-looted art, including the creation of a Center for Provenance Research and Restitution Issues of Nazi-Looted Art at...
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr.’s office announced the repatriation of three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one that had been seized from the Metropolitan Museum...
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UK politicians from multiple parties called for an independent investigation into the British Museum’s removal of the terms “Palestine,” “Palestinian,” and “Israelite occupation” from some displays...
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ARTnews “Morning Links” for July 16, 2026 highlighted a Financial Times profile of Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos, focusing on how New York City’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit has recovered...
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The Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum network announced its 2027 exhibition programme across three sites in London and Dundee. At the new V&A East Museum in Stratford (opened April 2026), “South Asia...
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Bavaria approved reforms to how it handles Nazi-looted art claims, including moving provenance research out of museums into a separate, independent entity and creating a new panel to evaluate claims....
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Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after the work was linked to Phoenix Ancient...
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New York health officials announced that traces of Legionella bacteria linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were detected at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after...
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ARTnews reviews “The New Grotesque,” an exhibition at New York’s Management Gallery curated by director Anton Svyatsky that examines how grotesque imagery is evolving in an era of constant...
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A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as “Gus” sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s on Tuesday, becoming the most expensive dinosaur ever auctioned, ARTnews reported. The 67-million-year-old specimen...
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The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg to the Artist Rooms collection jointly shared by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, The Art Newspaper...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviewed Michael Asher, a small survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, arguing that the late conceptual artist (died 2012) treated the museum itself as his medium. The...
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Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently repatriated a marble Roman portrait bust dated to the 2nd century CE after it was traced to Phoenix Ancient Art, a gallery...
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British authorities have charged a suspect following a “high-value burglary” at the Bristol Museum in the UK that involved more than 600 objects, ARTnews reported, citing the BBC. Dean Hall, 41, of...
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Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) announced plans for “MONA Bangkok,” a new branch in Thailand developed with Asset World Corp Public Company Limited (AWC) and led by DarkLab under MONA...
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A painting depicting the interior of Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk and likely by Dutch Golden Age artist Hendrick van der Burgh has been identified as Nazi-looted property from the collection of Dutch...
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Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal theft charge for embezzling more than $600,000, according to the US Justice...
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Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned a Roman marble portrait bust to Turkey in February after questions about its provenance and its purchase from Phoenix Ancient Art,...
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Hyperallergic reviewed “Hujar: Contact,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum devoted entirely to photographer Peter Hujar’s contact sheets, drawn from the archive the Morgan acquired in...
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An Artnet News article from the Artnet Gallery Network spotlights five Midwestern-connected artists—Ellen Lanyon, McArthur Binion, Beverly Fishman, Anthony Mitri, and Kay Rosen—arguing that the...
Hyperallergic
In a Hyperallergic weekly roundup, senior editor Valentina Di Liscia highlighted recent coverage ranging from Michael Glover’s review of an Elizabeth I exhibition to Rhea Nayyar’s piece on Surrealist...
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The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived at the British Museum in London, marking its first return to England since it was made in the 1070s, ahead of an autumn display. British Museum director Nicholas...
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Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) and Thailand’s Asset World Corporation (AWC) announced on 10 July plans to create Mona Bangkok on a landmark waterfront site in the Thai capital. Under the...
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Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia is exhibiting 1,194 pre-Columbian artefacts repatriated to Colombia between 2022 and 2026 during President Gustavo Petro’s outgoing administration, in a show...
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A citizen collective called Defence of the Gelman Collection filed legal action on 1 July against Mexican cultural authorities to challenge a long-term agreement governing the circulation of the...
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Unesco is reviewing the redevelopment of Florence’s former Teatro Comunale after complaints that a dark, nearly 30m-high structure—widely dubbed the “black cube”—has harmed the skyline of the city’s...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after it was seized by the Manhattan District...
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In late June, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) adopted a revised Museum Code of Ethics at its 41st Ordinary General Assembly in Paris, marking its first major update in more than 20 years....
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday that 59 looted antiquities from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia have been returned to their countries of origin, including 45 objects seized...
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On Saturday, July 4, the Trump Administration released a 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of being captured by “a radical, activist ideology.”...
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The International Council of Museums (Icom) adopted a revised code of ethics on 25 June at its 41st general assembly in Paris, with 85.9% of members voting in favor after more than five years of...
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The Art Newspaper highlights three photography exhibitions at the 57th Les Rencontres d’Arles, where director Christoph Wiesner frames the 2026 programme as “a space for complexity and attentiveness”...
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The New Museum in New York has promoted Massimiliano Gioni, its longtime artistic director, to director of the institution. Gioni, who joined the museum in 2006 as a curator and later became...
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A 162-page report released on July 4 by the White House Domestic Policy Council criticizes the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and argues it should present a more “proudly...
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Ukraine’s military has published a handbook on the “protection of cultural values in the event of armed conflict,” posted on June 23 on the website of the Na Zviazku military organization. Developed...
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Artist Jonathan Allen superimposed pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide messages onto two advertising screens outside the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan at about 10:30pm on July 2. The action...
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Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts taken from Ghana during the colonial era, an announcement made at the “Next Steps” conference in Accra....
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The New Museum in New York announced that Massimiliano Gioni, its artistic director since 2014, has been selected as the institution’s next director after months of speculation. Gioni, who joined the...
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The New Museum in New York named Massimiliano Gioni as its next director, with his term beginning August 1, following an international search, according to a statement by board president James-Keith...
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British national Jonathan Hornby became the first person from England convicted of violating the UK’s sanctions on exports of luxury goods to Russia, imposed after Russia’s full-scale invasion of...
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The White House published a 162-page report on July 4 titled “Saving America’s Story” accusing the Smithsonian Institution of “extreme political activism” and “anti-White activism,” escalating...
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Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art announced “Painting Magic,” an exhibition of about 70 works by Spanish-born artist Remedios Varo, running from September 18, 2026, to January 10, 2027, before...
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Yemen’s General Authority for Antiquities and Museums said it identified 28 allegedly looted Yemeni artifacts in overseas collections, including eight recently offered at London auctions and about 20...
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A 162-page White House Domestic Policy Council report titled “Saving America’s Story,” published online on July 4, accused the Smithsonian Institution of promoting “anti-white” ideology, focusing...
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New York’s Neue Galerie will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the Met set to fully take over in 2028 and rename the institution the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie. The Neue Galerie,...
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Thieves stole 27 pieces of fine jewelry worth about €4 million (approximately $4.5 million) during an early-morning raid on Sunday, July 5, at the Musée Lalique in Wingen-sur-Moder in France’s...
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Two Chicago exhibitions—“Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present” at Wrightwood 659 and “Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall...
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Midjourney asked a federal U.S. court to compel Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose details of their artificial-intelligence use, including business plans, training datasets, model...
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The Newark Museum of Art will mount “Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art,” a group exhibition examining the 35-year history of Aljira, the Newark artist-led...
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Italy has opened an exhibition at Rome’s National Etruscan Museum featuring 37 4th-century BC fresco panels from the François Tomb (Tomba François), discovered in 1857 at Vulci in present-day Lazio...
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The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, part of the Smithsonian Institution, announced it will loan more than 200 modern and contemporary works to partner institutions in all 50 US states and...
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Documents released by the US Department of Justice in January as part of the “Epstein files” indicate that investor Leon Black owned major Vincent van Gogh works, including the painting Quarry near...
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Tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry’s exhibition at the British Museum sold out in just over 24 hours, with the museum calling it the biggest day of ticket sales in its history, according to the...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic Fourth of July weekend roundup highlights critic Aruna D’Souza’s essay on the Statue of Liberty as a recurring tool for political expression in art, citing artists including Faith...
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“Democracy Matters,” curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto, is the inaugural exhibition in the new Tang Wing for American Democracy at the New York Historical and is presented in connection with the...
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The British Museum is marking the United States’ 250th anniversary with a small exhibition, “Declaring independence: USA 250,” that foregrounds Indigenous perspectives on the American Revolution and...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg opened the 11-metre-long exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” on 27 June, drawing intense scrutiny before and after its...
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The Belvedere in Vienna is presenting a major survey of Polish artist Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004) titled “On the Other Side of Silence,” examining her painting, poetry, and assemblage work shaped by...
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Pierre-Olivier Costa, president of Marseille’s Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem), and general manager Véronique Haché have been suspended following workplace unrest and...
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston unveiled “Art of the Americas: 1700–1800” during its annual Juneteenth open house, marking the first reinstallation of the Art of the Americas Wing’s ground-level...
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A photograph by Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov was stolen from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art’s Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on 28 June while on view in the exhibition “Ukrainian...
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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council speaker announced a $125.8 billion budget that includes a record $323.8 million appropriation for the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in...
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Phillips has sold $1.9 million worth of art and other items from disgraced art adviser Lisa Schiff’s holdings, totaling 231 pieces so far, with additional sales planned. Bankruptcy trustees retained...
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After several antiquities were removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum has reached about $95 million,...
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Chile’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Santiago canceled a planned León Ferrari (1920–2013) retrospective that had been in preparation for nearly three years and was scheduled to open in...
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At New York’s Swiss Institute, Brooklyn-based artist SoiL Thornton’s exhibition “Metabolizing eviction try, work_mp3 and other games of topping” runs through 5 July and centers on power relations and...
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Canada’s Heritage Minister Marc Miller drew criticism after suggesting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg should revise language in its exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and...
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Getty Images and Shutterstock terminated their proposed $3.7 billion merger after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority required the sale of Shutterstock’s editorial business as a condition,...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg removed dozens of antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total taken from the museum since 2017 to more than...
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Unionized workers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, represented by UAW Local 2110, voted overwhelmingly last week to authorize a strike if contract negotiations with museum...
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Skulptur Projekte Münster, the decennial public art exhibition, announced the first five artists for its next edition opening in June 2027, including Hew Locke and Oscar Murillo. The announcement was...
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Switzerland returned 23 artifacts to Nigeria this week, including 18 Benin Bronzes from the Geneva Ethnography Museum, the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, and the Ethnographic Museum at the University of...
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The Gwangju Biennale announced that the artistic director for its 2028 edition will be chosen through an open call, replacing the previous recommendation-based selection system. Applications opened...
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Russia’s State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has suspended all archaeological expeditions in annexed Crimea, citing a severe fuel shortage and security conditions amid continued Ukrainian...
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German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne at age 91, according to a report first carried by the German Press Agency. Born in Münster in 1935 and self-taught after training as a...
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The Swiss Institute (SI), a nonprofit arts organization marking its 40th anniversary, has purchased the ground floor and basement of 250 Bowery in Manhattan, directly across from the New Museum, and...
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A cross-party UK parliamentary report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticizes the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) for an “almost hands-off approach” that leaves England’s 15...
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Three Swiss museums have returned 18 Benin Bronzes—royal and religious artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin—to Nigeria in a handover ceremony at the University of Zurich attended by Swiss Federal...
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Media artist Refik Anadol will present “Smithsonian Dreams,” a large-scale A.I.-driven projection on the facade of the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC, on July 17 and July 18 at 9 p.m. The...
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Texas tattoo artist Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada, 39, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after prosecutors said he moved a box of political pamphlets and zines with “anti-government and...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic features an interview by art-crime scholar Erin L. Thompson with journalist Matthew Campbell about Campbell’s book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which chronicles British antiquities...
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A Hyperallergic essay examines how contemporary artists use “countermapping” to challenge the apparent objectivity of cartography, highlighting recent New York exhibitions of the late Venezuelan...
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Artnet News reports that the Raphael Loggia—an ornate 213-foot-long corridor in Vatican City’s Apostolic Palace decorated with frescoes designed by Raphael—is undergoing its first major restoration...
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A late-June European heatwave, with temperatures in the mid-to-high 30s Celsius, has highlighted uneven museum preparedness for climate extremes, as some institutions serve as air-conditioned refuges...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg opens “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” to the public on 27 June, despite opposition from some members of Canada’s Jewish community,...
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The Vatican Museums launched a five-year restoration of Raphael’s Loggias fresco cycle this week, deploying more than 20 experts to conserve the 65-meter (nearly 215-foot) corridor in the Apostolic...
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The US State Department is accepting design proposals for the United States Pavilion at the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale, requiring that submissions “exemplify America’s exceptionalism” and...
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Construction has resumed on Bogotá’s Museo de Memoria de Colombia after a three-year pause, but the project’s future has been thrown into uncertainty following the narrow election victory of...
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Manifesta 16 Ruhr, the 30th anniversary edition of the nomadic European biennial, opened on 21 June and runs through 4 October, focusing on how Germany’s disused churches might be repurposed for...
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Paris museums and major tourist sites reduced hours or temporarily closed in late June amid a record-breaking European heatwave, after France recorded its highest average temperature ever at about...
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U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ordered the Trump administration to explain by July 31 why a tarp and scaffolding still cover the Kennedy Center’s facade, obscuring the building’s full name,...
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas—fresh off inaugurating a 114,000-square-foot campus expansion earlier this month—has hired Courtenay Finn as its next chief curator....
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Turner Prize–winning artist Helen Cammock has withdrawn her 40-minute film Persistence from London’s National Portrait Gallery after complaints about its criticism of Winston Churchill. The work, on...
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A first retrospective of Diné weaver Marilou Schultz opens this week at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in upstate New York, curated by Candice Hopkins and featuring about 55 works with...
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery is presenting Beyond Digital: Living Systems & Distributed Intelligence, a group exhibition of seven artists drawn from Pratt Institute’s Digital Arts alumni community....
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Hyperallergic interviewed Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Matthew Campbell about his book The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy, which examines the...
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In June, the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum launched its first augmented reality project, “Unhidden Heroines,” on Washington, DC’s National Mall, running through 31 December as part of...
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The New Museum in New York and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum announced a multi-year partnership under the Hyundai Translocal Series, a Hyundai Motor Company initiative launched in 2025 as a 10-year...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” offering strategies for artists facing canceled exhibitions, demands to...
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Artnet News’s weekly art-industry roundup, published June 22, 2026, reported that Art Basel Qatar will relocate to a purpose-built venue on Al Maha Island in Lusail, with groundbreaking targeted for...
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The Art Newspaper reported that the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” advising artists on how to respond when...
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ARTnews reported that Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon,” opening this month in London, has already sold a record 41,000 advance tickets, surpassing the museum’s previous high of...
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Hyperallergic published an opinion piece criticizing former Art Basel global director Marc Spiegler’s New York Times guest essay, “Art Galleries Are Not Okay,” arguing that it frames the gallery...
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Hyperallergic reviewed vanessa german’s exhibition “…do you remember when you were the sky?” at Louisville’s Speed Art Museum, created as part of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program. The show...
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Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania is opening a major new wing, Phrontisterion, described as the largest construction project in the museum’s 15-year history and backed by founder...
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Artist, activist, author, and philanthropist Daniel “Danny” Simmons has died at age 72, his family announced, with no location, date, or cause given, according to reporting cited from the New York...
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The Art Newspaper revealed a previously unknown “Gachet Archive” containing extensive material from Dr. Paul Gachet (1828–1909)—Vincent van Gogh’s physician in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890—and Gachet’s...
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The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opened to the public on Juneteenth (19 June) in Chicago’s Hyde Park, with its centerpiece a towering granite-clad museum designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien...
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Mexico City’s Museo de Arte Textil de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afromexicanos (MUT) opened earlier this month near the Templo Mayor archaeological site, celebrating Indigenous and Afro-Mexican textile...
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Refik Anadol has opened Dataland in Downtown Los Angeles, described as the world’s first AI art museum, occupying 25,000 square feet in Frank Gehry’s Grand LA development across from Walt Disney...
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Fondation Beyeler in Riehen is presenting French artist Pierre Huyghe’s first solo exhibition in a Swiss museum as a “site-specific experience,” on view until 13 September. The show focuses on mostly...
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Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced that Art Basel Qatar will relocate to a purpose-built venue on Al Maha Island in Lusail, north of Doha, with a target groundbreaking date...
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The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum launched an augmented reality initiative called Unhidden Heroines beginning June 18, allowing users with smartphones or computers to view five virtual...
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Helen Cammock’s 40-minute video Persistence (2025), shown at London’s National Portrait Gallery for nine months, has drawn criticism for a line comparing Oliver Cromwell’s actions in Ireland to the...
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Art Basel’s digital art initiative Zero 10 is making its Swiss debut after launching at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2025 and appearing at Art Basel Hong Kong earlier in 2026. Co-curator Trevor Paglen...
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Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart is presenting Cao Fei’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, titled Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future, featuring films and installations such as Whose Utopia...
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Brazil’s state public prosecutor’s office in São Paulo (MPSP) dismissed a complaint alleging “religious offense” against the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (Masp) over its exhibition La Chola Poblete:...
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Louvre president-director Christophe Leribault, in office since February, told the French Senate’s Committee on Culture on Wednesday that the museum is “at the end of its rope,” citing aging...
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The Menil Collection in Houston will reopen its Fresco Building in late 2027 and convert it into a venue for “semi-permanent, site-specific commissions,” each installed for about five years. New...
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Artnet News reports that Art Basel’s invite-only opening on Tuesday featured cautious, “measured and steady” buying as dealers and collectors looked for signs of market recovery among 290 exhibitors....
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The exhibition The First Homosexuals: The Birth of New Identities 1869–1939 at the Kunstmuseum Basel traces how the term “homosexual” first appeared in print in 1869, used in German by Hungarian...
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A court has ruled that the Mauritshuis in The Hague can keep a bequest of 25 paintings, including five Rembrandts, after a dispute over the wording of a 1944 will written in Monaco by former museum...
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In an Artnet News review, Refik Anadol’s Dataland is described as an A.I.-focused, immersive “museum” that resembles large-scale experiential attractions more than traditional institutions like the...
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The Whitney Museum of American Art has appointed Soyoung Yoon as the new director of its Independent Study Program (ISP) after the museum suspended the tuition-free fellowship for the 2025–26 year....
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ARTnews describes a midnight filmed performance in Aubervilliers, north of Paris, in which Sydney-born, Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti led about 35 participants through a three-hour procession...
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ARTnews reports that the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will open to the public on June 19 in an eight-story granite museum building designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, featuring...
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A large-scale Russian attack involving 70 missiles and 611 drones struck Ukrainian cities including Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Kyiv, damaging major cultural sites such as the Kharkiv Art Museum and the...
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Artnet reviewed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur,” which places a group of Alberto Giacometti’s female figures (in plaster and bronze) around the...
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Artist Shuang Li, born in 1990 in China and now based in Berlin and Geneva, presents her first institutional solo exhibition in Europe at Kunsthalle Basel. Titled Alliance, the show centers on a new...
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British artist David Hockney died at home on 11 June aged 88, prompting tributes from artists, curators, and museum leaders highlighting his influence across media. Tracey Emin called him a “great...
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Russian missile and drone strikes over the weekend and into Monday damaged multiple Ukrainian cultural sites, including the UNESCO-listed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and the adjacent Mystetskyi Arsenal...
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Sculptor Leonardo Drew has joined Hauser & Wirth for worldwide representation, the gallery announced on Monday, and it will debut his new work Number 451 at Art Basel this week. Drew’s first solo...
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ARTnews reports that Almine Rech has become the exclusive partner in France of the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, giving its network of galleries in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York,...
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In a Hyperallergic editor’s letter and opinion excerpt, the publication criticizes the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for placing Savneet Talwar, director of its graduate art therapy...
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Photographer Duane Michals died on Wednesday in Manhattan at age 94, according to Artnet News. Born in 1932 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Michals expanded photography’s narrative possibilities through...
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ARTnews reported that British artist David Hockney died peacefully at home on June 11, 2026, aged 88, one month before his 89th birthday, according to publicist Erica Bolton. The piece also covers a...
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ARTnews’s June 12, 2026 “Industry Moves” roundup reports that conservation scientist Francesca Casadio, currently vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science at the Art...
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The Cleveland Museum of Art announced a $600 million fundraising campaign titled “For the Benefit of All the People,” aimed at supporting the museum’s long-term financial health and sustaining...
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In a Hyperallergic opinion package titled “The War Against Imagination,” editor-at-large Hrag Vartanian criticizes the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for placing Savneet Talwar,...
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German painter Georg Baselitz died a week before the opening of his Venice exhibition “Eroi d’Oro (Golden Heroes)” on San Giorgio Maggiore, on view until 27 September. The show features monumental...
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A Ukrainian drone strike reportedly damaged a 19th-century museum in Sevastopol, Crimea, a territory occupied by Russia since 2014, according to Sevastopol’s Russian-appointed governor Mikhail...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated two Khmer sandstone sculptures to Cambodia: an Angkor-period guardian deity (rākṣasa) dating to c. 921–945 and a mid-7th-century lintel carved with an...
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Charleston’s International African American Museum (IAAM) announced it will furlough its entire staff, including senior leadership, in a 20-day program beginning July 1 and running into December in...
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The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) said Clarence Heyward’s self-portrait “Man in the Garden” (2025) was intentionally defaced by visitors, with Houston police investigating a May...
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ARTnews highlighted “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” a monographic exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago featuring over 100 works by New York artist Martin Wong, including 11 never-before-exhibited...
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Photographer Duane Michals died at age 94 on Tuesday, June 9, in a Manhattan hospital, according to confirmation from DC Moore Gallery, which had represented him since 2013. Michals was known for...
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Hyperallergic profiled Cuban-American writer Carmen Maria Machado as a guest curator for “The Object of Power is Power,” a one-room exhibition of paintings by Cuban artist Rocío García at the...
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A Rio de Janeiro justice court ordered Fábio Szwarcwald, former director of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Mam Rio), to pay a 100,000 reais (about $20,000) fine for breach of contract....
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An Artnet News report traces how looted Cambodian antiquities from the 10th-century Koh Ker temple complex entered the international art market, arguing that ongoing demand sustains the trade. It...
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Icomos Lebanon, Unesco, and Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture issued warnings in early June about damage to cultural heritage sites following Israeli military actions affecting Beaufort Castle and the...
Hyperallergic
The New Museum in Manhattan will present the largest-ever survey of filmmaker and multimedia artist Arthur Jafa, titled “I Am Tony,” opening September 24 and running through January 4, 2027. The...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic roundup centers on a critical visit by Matt Stromberg to Dataland, an AI-focused art venue in Los Angeles founded by artist Refik Anadol, which he compares to Disneyland and describes...
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The Guggenheim Museum in New York will livestream select World Cup matches on Friday afternoons this summer at Frank Pub’s, a pop-up at the Wright (the museum’s restaurant), with access free to...
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Valentine Willie, a Malaysia-based curator and gallerist who championed contemporary Southeast Asian art, died in Kuala Lumpur on June 9 at age 71, according to The Star. Born in Sabah in 1954, he...
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“A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art,” a group exhibition at Museum Rietberg in Zurich, brings together 20 artists to examine how colonial-era photography shaped memory...
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Three men were sentenced to 47 months in prison each for stealing Iron Age Romanian gold from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, during a pre-dawn heist on January 25, 2025. Thieves blasted...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Dataland, billed as “the world’s first museum of AI Arts,” co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç and opening to the public in Los Angeles on June 20. Located...
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) placed Savneet Talwar, director of its graduate art therapy program, on leave after she assigned a case study referencing “violence against...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York announced “Mondrian Boogie Woogie,” the first survey focused on Piet Mondrian’s New York paintings and the influence of boogie-woogie music on his late...
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ARTnews’s Morning Links for June 9, 2026 reports that Paris-founded Templon Gallery has closed its 6,500-square-foot Chelsea space, opened in 2022, after its landlord sought a major rent increase...
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In a Hyperallergic interview published as part of its 2026 Pride Month series, artist and educator Nayland Blake discusses their view of identity as unfixed and continually remade. Blake, who is...
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The Museo Dolores Olmedo in Xochimilco, Mexico City, reopened on 30 May after six years of closure and controversy over a proposed relocation. Founded by businesswoman Dolores Olmedo (1908–2002) in a...
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A new digital platform called Leonardotheka has launched, reuniting thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s manuscripts that were cut apart and dispersed more than 400 years ago. Overseen by...
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has opened a major expansion just 15 years after its 2011 debut, adding about 114,000 square feet to its original 200,000-square-foot...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park is set to open to the public later in June, following five years of construction and landscape reshaping. The $850...
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Italian labor unions, cultural workers’ associations, and grassroots collectives have called for a nationwide strike across Italy’s arts and culture sector on Friday, June 12, citing low wages,...
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ARTnews reports that Rodney Mims Cook Jr., chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts, attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF)—often called “Russian Davos”—becoming the first...
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On June 7, 2026, Florence’s Museo Galileo announced that Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus has been digitally reunited for the first time in roughly 400 years via its updated platform...
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An ARTnews.com commentary about the United States’ upcoming 250th anniversary (the semiquincentennial) criticizes official “America 250” programming for promoting a narrow, celebratory historical...
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A fountain by German sculptor Georg Kolbe, the Tänzerinnen-Brunnen (Dancer’s Fountain), sold for a record €4 million (with fees) at Villa Grisebach in Berlin on 4 June, breaking the artist’s previous...
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Sotheby’s attempted a highly secretive private auction on June 2 at its Manhattan Breuer Building for Jackson Pollock’s Number 19, 1951, owned by Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher, with an asking...
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Boston police and federal authorities are investigating suspected arson at the Museum of African American History after a package of Juneteenth-related materials was set on fire outside the African...
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ARTnews’ Morning Links for June 5, 2026 reports that James Turrell will open his largest Skyspace created for a museum, As Seen Below – The Dome, a Skyspace, at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum on...
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Artnet News reported on 4 June 2026 that curator and museum director Philippe Vergne was named artistic director of the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach. The appointment places Vergne—known for...
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Architect Kulapat Yantrasast, founder and creative director of WHY Architecture and a designer of major museum projects including work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, has been...
Hyperallergic
Makeda Best will join New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as chief curator of Photography starting in September, according to Hyperallergic’s 2026 roundup column “Art Movements.” Best is currently...
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French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist, and film director Marjane Satrapi, best known for co-writing and co-directing the animated film Persepolis, has died at age 56, ARTnews reported. Her family...
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A French Culture Ministry report presented on Wednesday said it is safe to transport the 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry to the UK for a British Museum exhibition opening in July, according to ARTnews...
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, will unveil a 114,000-square-foot expansion designed by Safdie Architects on June 6–7, doubling the museum’s footprint. Founder Alice...
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The Museum of Modern Art announced on June 2 that Makeda Best will become its chief curator of photography starting in September, filling a role vacant since Clément Chéroux departed in 2022. Best...
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Artist management agencies are re-emerging as the traditional gallery model faces upheaval and artists’ practices become more interdisciplinary, The Art Newspaper reports. Cristopher Canizares...
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In a round-up of reactions to the Venice Biennale and expectations for 2026, art-world figures described curator Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition “In Minor Keys” as politically urgent and unusually attentive...
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Pussy Riot has released a music video for its song “DISOBEY” made from footage of the group’s protest at the unveiling of the 61st Venice Biennale, where members in pink balaclavas set off...
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A painting Lucian Freud long denied making, Man in a Black Scarf, will go on public view for the first time in the exhibition “Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint” at London’s Garden Museum....
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British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan defended the postponement of a Jewish Culture Month lunchtime talk scheduled for 28 May, saying the museum should not “abandon difficult conversations” but...
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The estate of Piet Mondrian has partnered with web3 entertainment company Doodles to release a set of on-chain digital collectibles (NFTs) that remix five Mondrian works in Doodles’ pastel palette....
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas will open a major expansion on 6 June, adding 114,000 square feet to its 134-acre campus and increasing overall space by about 50%....
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Kinetic art pioneer Julio Le Parc has died at age 97, as part of a wider Artnet News roundup that also highlights major appointments and upcoming fairs. The roundup reports that Art Basel Paris will...
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Mexico’s Chichén Itzá reopened on 1 June after an unprecedented 13-day closure triggered by community opposition to relocating long-standing vendors into a new tourist complex. The dispute involves...
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The 82nd Whitney Biennial opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York’s Meatpacking District in 2026 and runs until 23 August, arriving a week after the US and Israel began a coordinated...
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The British Museum in Bloomsbury was briefly evacuated on Saturday after staff found a “suspicious device” in a restroom, prompting a Metropolitan Police response around 2:50 p.m. local time. Police...
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Swiss artist John M Armleder is leading the 2026 edition of the Musée d’art et d’histoire (MAH) Geneva’s Carte Blanche initiative with “John M Armleder: Observatoires,” a project that...
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Ghanaian German artist Zohra Opoku is the subject of her first museum survey at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), after curator Beata America discovered her practice during a...
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A report commissioned by the Netherlands’ Foundation for the Royal Private Collections examining about 1,000 objects found that a small number of items in the Dutch royal family’s holdings—such as a...
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ARTnews reviews “Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials,” an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on view through August 23, featuring 18 contemporary artists—many...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic highlights Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which details how British dealer Douglas Latchford trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large scale...
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French conservation specialists are developing an AI model to predict how climate change will affect cultural heritage sites, an initiative led by Ann Bourgès of the French Ministry of Culture’s...
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On Wednesday ahead of the June 4 opening of the Centre Pompidou’s Seoul satellite museum, a group of prominent French artists published an open letter calling for a boycott of the new outpost,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which traces how British dealer Douglas Latchford allegedly trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large...
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ARTnews’s Morning Links for May 28, 2026 reports a backlash in Spain after the Galician regional government appointed Eva López Tarrío, a high school art teacher and civil servant with a PhD in Fine...
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SXSW London returns for its second edition on June 1–6, taking over more than 20 venues around the Trueman Brewery in Shoreditch and expanding its programming beyond technology, business, and music...
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French filmmaker Romain Gavras is set to direct a movie based on the $102 million Louvre heist, adapting the book Main Basse sur le Louvre (A Grab at the Louvre), released in France on Wednesday by...
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At the opening of his solo exhibition “Brushstrokes of the Universe” at the Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) in Shanghai, artist Sang Huoyao performed a walk-through with a humanoid robot made by Unitree...
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Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art rallied outside the museum’s annual fundraising gala on 19 May in New York as contract negotiations continued with Whitney Union UAW Local 2110....
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A major Russian missile and drone strike over the weekend damaged multiple cultural institutions in Kyiv, including the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of...
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Christie’s appointed François-Henri Pinault as board chairman and non-executive director, a move that signals the end of Guillaume Cerutti’s tenure as chairman. François-Henri Pinault, president of...
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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...
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Collectors Anita and Poju Zabludowicz will sell £15 million ($20.1 million) worth of art at Christie’s next month through an in-person London auction on 25 June and an online sale, totaling 106...
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US museums that reduce or eliminate admission fees often expect higher attendance to be offset by increased spending on retail, food, memberships, and programs, but museum leaders and economists say...
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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...
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), founded after a long grassroots effort and opened in 2006, reopened in April following an eight-month renovation as it approaches its 20th anniversary....
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A Russian strike on Kyiv caused “serious damage” to the National Art Museum of Ukraine when a blast wave hit the building, though the collection and staff were not harmed. Reform.news reported that...
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Two long-missing 17th-century oval altarpiece paintings by Baroque artist Lucas Valdés have been recovered and returned to the Hospital of the Venerable Priests church in Seville after being missing...
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In the early hours of Sunday, May 24, Russia launched a major strike on Kyiv and its surrounding region, killing four people and injuring about 100, according to the BBC. The Ukrainian air force...
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Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is the subject of “Burtynsky: Human/Nature,” a solo exhibition at Paul Kyle Gallery in Vancouver running May 30–August 1, 2026. The show spans works from the...
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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
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is presenting “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone,” described as the first major retrospective of sculptor Edmonia Lewis (born 1844 in Greenbush, New York;...
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The Spanish galleon San José, carrying gold, silver, and emeralds, sank off Colombia in 1708 after being destroyed by the British during the War of the Spanish Succession, killing nearly 600 people...
Hyperallergic
At the Venice Biennale, performance work in the Austrian and Belgian pavilions drew attention amid a turbulent start that included the death of artistic director Koyo Kouoh in May 2025, along with...
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Artnet News reports that Studio 54 Fine Art, founded in Milan in 2016 by director Gary Williamson, is pursuing a flexible gallery model without a permanent brick-and-mortar space. The gallery stages...
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The British Museum announced that tickets for its Bayeux Tapestry exhibition—running September 10 through July 11, 2027—will cost up to £33 (about $45) for peak times, with off-peak adult tickets...
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On 21 May, the US House of Representatives voted 216 to 204 to strike down a bill to build the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC, after last-minute...
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Museums across England have largely opposed a UK government proposal to explore charging admission for overseas visitors at national museums, warning it could harm the country’s reputation and...
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Spain’s 2022 law has begun enabling restitutions of art seized during the Spanish Civil War, decades after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975 and nearly 90 years after the 1936 conflict began....
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A podcast episode from The Art Newspaper reviews New York’s recent auctions, noting record-setting prices for works by Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi, and Mark Rothko alongside more mixed...
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The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi will stage a month-long, free, non-selling exhibition at Christie’s London headquarters in St James’s titled “The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the...
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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...
Hyperallergic
A new documentary titled “Avedon,” directed by Ron Howard and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is criticized for offering a conventional biography of photographer Richard Avedon rather than a...
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Spanish lawmakers have demanded that the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía complete a full, updated inventory of its collection by December 31, 2026, and warned that failure should lead the...
Hyperallergic
A Chicana curator of “Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026” at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California, explains why she removed a 1969...
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The union representing workers at the Wexner Center for the Arts has asked Ohio State University leadership to remove Leslie Wexner’s name from the institution, citing his documented ties to Jeffrey...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, has been threatened with legal action by the Tel Aviv-based pro-Israel advocacy group Shurat Hadin over its planned exhibition on...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg announced that it returned 657 looted antiquities valued at nearly $14 million to India at a ceremony at India’s consulate in New York City....
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The Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia has received a £91.2 million donation from British politician and businessman David Sainsbury via his Gatsby charitable foundation, described as...
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Rome’s Galleria Borghese is facing controversy after news emerged of a privately funded feasibility study, sponsored by engineering firm Proger, to explore adding exhibition and visitor space on the...
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“Fermata: Hong Kong in Venice,” a collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale, presents works by Hong Kong-born artists Kingsley Ng and Angel Hui and runs through November 22, 2026. Organized by the...
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British actor Tilda Swinton will debut a new live performance work titled “House of Gestures” at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao on June 5–6 in the museum’s Frank Gehry-designed atrium. The...
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The Guggenheim Museum in New York will screen Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s 2006 film “Zidane, a 21st century portrait” from June 11 to July 19. The two-channel work follows French soccer...
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Art Basel has appointed Iraqi curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi as artistic director of the 2027 edition of Art Basel Qatar, following the fair’s debut earlier this year in Doha. Al-Khudhairi will succeed...
Hyperallergic
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) President Ravi S. Rajan was loudly booed by students during the school’s commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, as protesters held signs reading “Hold the...
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Dubai has announced plans for a new Museum of Digital Art (MODA), a major institution dedicated to tech-driven art forms such as immersive and interactive experiences. MODA is part of Dubai’s $27...
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Centre Pompidou Hanwha in Seoul opens to the public on 4 June as a four-year partnership between the Hanwha Foundation of Culture and Paris’s Centre Pompidou, marking the Pompidou’s second branch in...
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Hong Kong’s M+ and the Centre Pompidou in Paris have signed a multi-year partnership agreement, formalising collaboration on joint curatorial research, exhibition development and sharing,...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has been threatened with legal action by Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center over its planned exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,”...
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The Palm Springs Art Museum issued a three-page statement saying a six-month investigation prompted by a whistleblower complaint found allegations of fraud and theft were “not substantiated,” while...
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Luxury Asset Capital (LAC) has sued Maddox Gallery in a civil complaint filed in August in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging the gallery inflated valuations of...
Hyperallergic
“Paris in Black: Internationalism and the Black Renaissance,” an exhibition at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago, surveys Black American painters, writers, musicians,...
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The Louvre in Paris announced that Selldorf Architects (New York), led by Annabelle Selldorf, will partner with Studios Architecture Paris to design its “Nouvelle Renaissance” expansion, a project...
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The 59th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, titled If the word we, is curated by Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, and Liz Park and emphasizes community and...
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Guatemala’s cultural ministry has formally requested the repatriation from Mexico of a Maya limestone lintel that Mexico officially repatriated on 16 April after an unnamed US businessman brought it...
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Constantin Brâncuși’s Danaïde (1913), a bronze head formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, sold at Christie’s on Monday for a $93 million hammer price, totaling $107.6 million with fees and...
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The Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, a pioneering figure in feminist performance and media art, died on 14 May at age 85, three days before her 86th birthday, according to confirmation by her dealer...
Hyperallergic
British artist Sarah Lucas unveiled a new public sculpture, VENUS VICTORIA (2026), at the New Museum’s triangular entrance plaza on the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, where it will remain on view for two...
Hyperallergic
More than 100 employees at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) announced plans to unionize under the name Seattle Art Museum Workers United (SAMWU), affiliating with the Washington Federation of State...
Hyperallergic
More than 97,000 complaints were filed with the UK’s Independent Press Standards Organisation after right-wing outlets published articles alleging that British-Nigerian photographer and arts trustee...
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British artist and set designer Es Devlin has launched “A National Portrait for the National Portrait Gallery,” a participatory artwork at London’s National Portrait Gallery running through October...
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Italy’s Borghese Gallery in Rome is facing criticism from heritage groups and art historians over a proposal to build an adjacent facility intended to expand display space and increase visitor...
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Catalonia’s government has formally demanded €791,000 (about $920,000) from Aragón to recover costs tied to the value and upkeep of 56 artworks from the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena that...
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More than 100 employees at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) announced plans to unionize under a new group called Seattle Art Museum Workers United, seeking to represent staff across more than 20...
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After weeks of bombardment that forced its closure and emergency measures to protect its holdings, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has reopened with a weekly rotating post-ceasefire...
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New York’s Neue Galerie, founded by philanthropist Ronald S. Lauder in 2001 and known for Austrian and German Modernism, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028. The Neue Galerie is...
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Russia is reorienting Moscow’s Gulag Museum away from documenting Stalin-era repression, a shift reported by independent outlet Verstka on 13 April as exhibitions were packed up and removed. The...
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A French parliamentary commission formed after the 19 October heist of the Louvre’s crown jewels issued a report on 13 May calling for sweeping reforms to museum security and governance across...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York’s Neue Galerie will merge in 2028, with the Met taking ownership of the Neue Galerie’s Beaux-Arts mansion and renaming it the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue...
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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...
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British artist Anouska Samms says the Metropolitan Museum of Art wrongly credited New York-based Israeli designer Yoav Hadari as the sole author of Corpus Nervina 0.0 (2023–24), a hair-based dress...
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The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced 312 new acquisitions in 2025 during its 50th anniversary year, expanding strengths in photography, mixed media, and contemporary...
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The Getty Foundation awarded an additional $1.8 million to its Black Visual Arts Archives initiative, which supports processing, digitizing, preserving, and activating archival collections related to...
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A French parliamentary commission led by MPs Alexis Corbière and Alexandre Portier accused the Louvre of prioritizing “prestige and influence” over security ahead of the October 19, 2025 jewel heist...
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Artnet News reports that the Brooklyn Museum is presenting “Sculpting the Senses,” a retrospective of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen spanning roughly two decades and featuring more than 140...
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The New Museum unveiled Sarah Lucas’s public-plaza commission “VENUS VICTORIA” (2026) on Tuesday, 12 May, at the intersection of Bowery and Prince Street in New York. The sculpture depicts a...
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White Cube has announced representation of Chinese-born, New York–based artist Cai Guo-Qiang, marking the first gallery to represent him, according to The Art Newspaper. The partnership coincides...
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Japanese artist and poet Gozo Yoshimasu, 87, has won the inaugural £200,000 Serpentine x Flag Art Foundation Prize, described as the largest contemporary art prize in the UK, according to The Art...
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ARTnews reports that the 2026 Venice Biennale’s main exhibition, “In Minor Keys,” foregrounds mourning and the war in Gaza, beginning with a poem by Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer—“If...
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Artnet News reported on May 12, 2026, that a new “landmark survey” has been launched to increase transparency around museum collecting practices. The initiative is intended to clarify how museums...
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An anti-Trump art installation resembling an arcade cabinet appeared at the D.C. War Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., featuring a playable video game titled “Operation Epic Furious:...
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Artnet News reported on 10 May 2026 that the Aspen Art Fair will return to Hotel Jerome from 29 July to 1 August 2026 for its third edition, featuring more than 35 exhibitors including Albertz Benda,...
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Mocad) reopened on 25 April after being closed for more than a year, unveiling upgrades to its 22,000-square-foot Midtown building in time for the...
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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...
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Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Image and Sound (MIS-RJ) opens to the public on 8 May after more than 16 years in development. The 10,000-sq.-m, eight-floor waterfront building on Avenida Atlântica was...
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A US Government Accountability Office (GAO) survey found that around 85% of US museums have a costly backlog of building maintenance or repairs, and about 77% report at least one structural issue...
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Taipei Fine Arts Museum will present the Taiwan Collateral Event Screen Melancholy: Li Yi-Fan at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia from May 9 to November 22, 2026, at...
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Christophe Leribault, the Louvre’s new director and former president of the Palace of Versailles until February, outlined a post-heist vision for the museum in a May 5 interview with Le Monde. The...
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On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the repatriation of 657 trafficked antiquities to India, valued at nearly $14 million, following investigations by the D.A.’s...
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The Art Newspaper profiles “Helter Skelter: Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa,” a two-artist exhibition at the Prada Foundation’s Ca’ Corner della Regina in Venice, presented during the Venice Biennale...
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The Art Newspaper reports that the 61st Venice Biennale’s international exhibition, titled “In Minor Keys,” was completed after the death of its artistic director Koyo Kouoh, announced in May 2025....
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Iran cancelled its participation in the 61st Venice Biennale just days before the opening on 9 May, The Art Newspaper reports, with organisers announcing the withdrawal on 4 May without giving a...
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Hyperallergic reviews the 59th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, describing it as reflecting on the exhibition’s 130-year history while commenting on...
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ARTnews criticizes “Costume Art,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring Costume Institute exhibition, for what it calls weak art-historical comparisons between fashion and artworks displayed side...
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MoMA PS1 in New York City will present the first US survey of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles in fall 2026, Hyperallergic reports, bringing together works made over more than 30 years that address...
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Chanel and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation are launching a transatlantic curatorial fellowship linking New York and Venice, with an announcement timed to the start of the Venice Biennale,...
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ARTnews previews major May auction sales amid a market that returned to 4 percent growth last year, reaching $59.6 billion, according to the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report. Christie’s will offer...
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Artnet News reports that Berry Campbell in New York is presenting “Louisa Chase: The Eighties,” the largest and most comprehensive Louisa Chase (1951–2016) solo show in New York in more than two...
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The Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (Mambo) is seeking new leadership after director Martha Ortiz resigned earlier this month amid accusations of harassment and fostering a toxic workplace. Ortiz had...
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An Artnet News analysis of 130 biennials from roughly 2022–2026 identifies a cohort of artists who appeared in nine or more editions, including Ali Eyal, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Basel Abbas &...
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The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, received a $116 million gift from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation to endow its Across the Nation lending program permanently, the largest...
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Official filings show the London- and New York-based Stephen Friedman gallery owes about $10.6 million to dozens of creditors following its closure and insolvency proceedings. Administrators’...
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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will open in Los Angeles on 22 September with 18 thematic inaugural exhibitions curated by founder George Lucas, announced on 30 April. The program will present more...
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Brighton & Hove Museums in southern England is returning 45 artefacts to Botswana, including clothing, accessories, and hunting implements collected by the Reverend William Charles Willoughby in the...
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Administrators’ filings revealed that the bankrupt Stephen Friedman Gallery owes £7.8 million to creditors, with artists Alexandre Diop (£341,905), Deborah Roberts (£289,232), and Kehinde Wiley...
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Christie’s New York will auction 16 works from the collection of late publishing magnate S. I. Newhouse (died 2017) on May 18 at Rockefeller Center, with the group expected to total about $450...
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Mikhail Piotrovsky, the long-serving director of Russia’s State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, was added to the European Union’s 20th sanctions package adopted on 23 April for being a “close...
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Danish classical gems specialist Itaii Gradel died on 28 April aged 61 after playing a central role in exposing thefts from the British Museum. Gradel first warned the museum in 2021 that objects...
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London’s Whitechapel Gallery appointed economist Mariana Mazzucato as its first economist-in-residence for a three-year term, amid widening financial pressures on museums. Director Gilane Tawadros...
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The American Folk Art Museum is presenting Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists, an exhibition examining how “self-taught” artists in the United States have shaped their identities through...
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ARTnews reports that artist Alma Allen’s selection to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale has sparked controversy over the commissioning process, as the pavilion was not organized by a...
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Artist George Herms, a foundational figure in the West Coast Assemblage movement, died on Friday, April 24, at age 90. Born July 5, 1935 in Woodland, California, Herms left engineering studies at UC...
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The Art Newspaper reported that Vietnamese American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has installed a 27-foot-tall sandstone monument on the High Line Plinth at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards as an homage to...
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ARTnews reported on Nalini Malani’s new installation “Of Woman Born,” commissioned by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and presented at Venice’s Magazzini del Sale, a 15th-century former salt warehouse,...
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ARTnews reported that Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the Venice Biennale preview or opening ceremony on May 9 in protest of Russia’s return via its national pavilion, which...
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Hyperallergic reported that Russia’s pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale will close to the public after the pre-opening vernissage, in an approach described as complying with international sanctions...
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At a press conference for the 42nd edition of Art Brussels (April 23–26), fair director Nele Verhaeren said the event is smaller this year, with 138 participating galleries—26 fewer than last year, a...
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ARTnews reports that artist and cyclist fields harrington began photographing customized delivery bikes across New York City in 2024 after witnessing a delivery worker crash in Williamsburg,...
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Artnet News reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” assembles what experts estimate to be art worth billions of dollars, a feat New York dealer Robert Simon...
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ARTnews reports that DATALAND, a museum dedicated to AI art co-founded by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç, will open in Los Angeles on June 20, 2026, in the Grand LA complex designed by Frank Gehry....
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Hyperallergic reports that artist Xandra Ibarra performed “Nude Laughing” (2014–) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Thursday, April 16, as part of the museum’s ongoing exhibition “Subvert,...
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ARTnews reports that Bard College president Leon Botstein, 79, has discussed a succession plan in which he would retire from the presidency after a successor is found, but with no timeline, amid...
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Artnet News reports that Gagosian is opening a new 2,275-square-foot, street-level gallery at 980 Madison Avenue, a building that originally opened in 1949 as the home of Parke-Bernet Galleries. The...
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Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç will open Dataland, billed as the world’s first A.I. art museum, in Los Angeles on June 20 after more than two-and-a-half years of planning and construction. Located in...
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The Art Newspaper reviews Peter Zumthor’s new Los Angeles County Museum of Art building, now called the David Geffen Galleries, awarding it a four-star rating and noting its $724 million cost. The...
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Tate has announced the four nominees for the Turner Prize 2026: Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku. Their shortlisted work will be exhibited at the Middlesbrough...
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Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation has revoked the National Award for Arts it gave to artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung in 2018 and ordered him to return the NTD 1 million (about $32,000) prize...
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Berlin’s long-planned Berlin Modern museum has been delayed again, with moisture damage in the building shell and microbial contamination pushing the opening to 2030, according to ARTnews. The...
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The international awards jury for the 61st Venice Biennale announced on April 23 (via a statement published on e-flux) that it will omit from awards consideration any countries “whose leaders are...
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The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (Aipad) opened the 45th edition of The Photography Show on April 22, 2026 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. The fair includes about 65...
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Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie has completed digitising a high-resolution archive of glass negatives documenting hundreds of paintings destroyed in May 1945, when two fires swept the Friedrichshain flak...
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Billionaire collector and National Gallery of Art trustee Mitchell Rales donated an additional $116 million to endow the NGA’s Across the Nation lending initiative in perpetuity, expanding a program...
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A Dutch government-appointed Committee on Heirless Jewish Looted Art recommended transferring guardianship of “orphaned” Nazi-looted objects in the Netherlands Art Property Collection (the NK...
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The Victoria and Albert Museum has opened its long-planned East London outpost, V&A East, alongside the V&A East Storehouse, as part of a broader expansion that has included V&A Dundee (2018) and the...
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The Louvre Museum’s architectural competition for its “New Renaissance” renovation is expected to restart in mid-May, with the jury reportedly scheduled to meet on May 13 to review five shortlisted...
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The Venice Biennale named a five-member jury to award the Golden Lions at the 2026 Art Biennale, led by president Solange Oliveira Farkas, founder of the Videobrasil Biennial (São Paulo, founded...
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NEON, the Athens-based contemporary art initiative founded by collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude later this year after 14 years, saying it has fulfilled its cultural and social mission....
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Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, is donating more than 150,000 objects to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, significantly expanding the museum’s holdings and refocusing...
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The Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles is seeking to restitute an Asante drum and an ivory trumpet looted by British troops in late-19th-century Kumasi, Ghana, but both...
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The Victoria & Albert Museum has opened V&A East in east London, a new $180 million outpost intended to connect the V&A’s 2.8 million-object collection to contemporary issues and younger local...
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Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, Diego Rivera’s grandson, has donated 157,300 objects from his private collection to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, significantly expanding the institution Rivera...
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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...
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Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s with “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau, running through August 23. Co-curated by Agnes Gryczkowska and...
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West Coast abstract painter James Hayward died on April 16 at age 82, according to an obituary posted by his studio. Born in San Francisco in 1943, Hayward studied at San Diego State University and...
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Artist Alma Allen’s selection to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale has prompted scrutiny of the US Pavilion’s selection process after the State Department replaced its...
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ARTnews profiles the legacy of artist and writer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, emphasizing her cross-disciplinary practice and the lasting impact of her 1982 book Dictée, published in fall 1982 just weeks...
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The Art Newspaper’s 300th podcast episode in 2024 spotlights two major museum openings: V&A East in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford tours...
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The Denver Art Museum has returned to Turkey a marble head of a bearded man that was stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna (present-day Izmir), an object Turkey says was unearthed in the city’s...
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Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has filed an urgent complaint with Unesco over fears that Israeli forces have destroyed the 12th-century Chama’ Citadel, a site granted enhanced protection in 2024....
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A five-star review in The Art Newspaper praises “Rothko in Florence,” a major exhibition examining how Florence influenced American painter Mark Rothko (1903–70), who visited the city three times in...
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Spain’s National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) has not yet complied with a May 2025 Supreme Court ruling ordering it to return the contested 13th-century Sijena Monastery murals to the Royal...
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ARTnews reports that “Said in Stone,” at the Peabody Essex Museum, is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to late 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Indigenous artist. The...
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Hyperallergic profiles Lebanese multidisciplinary artist Tania El Khoury, a Bard College professor and founding director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts, who has been named a 2026 Creative...
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ARTnews reviews the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which open to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4, as an attempt to present a non-linear,...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is using its forthcoming David Geffen Galleries to advance a curatorial strategy championed by CEO and director Michael Govan that breaks down traditional...
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Barcelona’s Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) is refusing to immediately return the 12th-century Romanesque Sijena murals to the Royal Monastery of Sijena despite a May Supreme Court order...
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Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán was voted out after 16 years in power when Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party won a landslide in the 2026 parliamentary election, prompting celebrations in Budapest and...
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The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis has ended its relationship with Cardamom, the museum restaurant operated by chef Daniel del Prado, after the restaurant laid off its front-of-house staff and...
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MoMA PS1’s sixth Greater New York quinquennial opened on April 16 during the museum’s 50th anniversary year, presenting work by more than 50 New York City–based artists described as being in the...
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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...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is preparing to reopen its permanent collection after seven years with the new Peter Zumthor–designed David Geffen Galleries, a major component of a...
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More than 200 scholars and cultural heritage professionals signed a statement condemning what they call “irreversible damage” to Iran’s heritage by the United States and Israel, and criticizing what...
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The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has launched a free online digital catalogue raisonné, Access O’Keeffe, allowing the public to browse more than 2,000 works by Georgia O’Keeffe,...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art will stage “Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur” beginning June 12, placing 17 sculptures by Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti in and around the Temple of Dendur, an...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” opening in October, will present Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner as a “story of equals,” bringing together...
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On 13 April, the French parliament adopted a new framework law allowing the deaccession and restitution of cultural items plundered from former colonies, nine years after President Emmanuel Macron...
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The Holy See (Vatican City) will present a sound-focused pavilion at the Venice Biennale running 9 May–22 November, featuring artists and musicians including Brian Eno, FKA Twigs, Precious Okoyomon,...
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Brady Lum, 59, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in federal court to a theft charge tied to allegations he misappropriated museum...
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Social Practice City University of New York (SPCUNY), an artist-led network founded in 2021 by Chloë Bass and Gregory Sholette, announced on Tuesday, April 14 that it will close in February 2027. The...
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Houston’s FotoFest marked its 40th anniversary with a large retrospective, Global Visions: FotoFest at 40, which opened around the biennial’s March 7 reception and features work by more than 450...
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Gagosian will open a newly overhauled ground-floor gallery at 980 Madison Avenue in New York on April 25 with an exhibition of Marcel Duchamp readymades, timed to the Museum of Modern Art’s Duchamp...
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Mérida, the capital of Mexico’s Yucatán state, will host the first Bienal de Yucatán from 26 November 2026 to 28 February 2027 to spotlight the region’s growing contemporary art scene. The biennial...
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A settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and plaintiffs the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) has preserved...
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A previously unseen Georges Méliès film, Gugusse and the Automaton (c. 1897), was discovered in a century-old trunk in a garage in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has been donated to the U.S. Library of...
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Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation, which manages the modern and Arab art collection assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum, scheduled to open in January...
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Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at age 46 on Friday, April 10, at her home in Los Angeles, days before a planned solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch’s West Hollywood gallery; no cause of death was...
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Chicana painter Criselda Vasquez said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained her father, who served as a muse for her work, in an Instagram post dated April 3. In an April 13 email,...
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In a Hyperallergic roundup titled “Trump’s Clash of Civilizations,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara frames the issue around recent threats by the US president to annihilate Iran’s “whole civilization,”...
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Painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer died at her home in Los Angeles on Friday at age 46, with Jeffrey Deitch gallery announcing the death on Saturday and not providing a cause, according to ARTnews. Known...
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Artnet News reported on 10 April 2026 that Melissa Chiu, 54, has been appointed the next director of the Guggenheim in New York, following a quiet search led by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and...
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The Getty Center in Los Angeles will close for one year starting 15 March 2027 for its most significant upgrades since it opened in 1997, after welcoming 1.3 million visitors last year. The...
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ARTnews reported that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will continue operating after the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County and...
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The Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo has put a forged Van Gogh on display—Seascape at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (dated 1925–27)—in an exhibition running until 21 June, alongside a Dutch-language...
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Melissa Chiu, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC since 2014, will leave to become director of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her final day at the...
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London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) launched a new webpage on 8 April (International Provenance Research Day) titled “How have objects come to be in the V&A?” to highlight provenance research...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are mounting the first major US survey of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) in 53 years, revisiting the institutions that...
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Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center, an eight-storey museum devoted to former US president Barack Obama’s legacy, is scheduled to open on Juneteenth, 19 June, on the city’s South Side. The $850m...
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A Hyperallergic roundup titled “Jasper Johns Marks Time” centers on critic John Yau’s essay timed to a Gagosian exhibition focusing on Jasper Johns’s work from the 1970s, including a recollection in...
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Canyon, a new institution devoted to moving-image art alongside sound and performance, is set to open in autumn at 200 Broome Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 40,000 square feet of renovated...
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An Artnet review (published April 8, 2026) assesses the Museum of Modern Art’s major Marcel Duchamp exhibition and questions whether the presentation is overly reverential. The show is organized by...
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Shiva Zahed Gallery, a new space dedicated to Iranian contemporary art, opened on 28 February in Istanbul’s Pera district to provide a rare physical platform for artists affected by sanctions,...
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The Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York has acquired Wifredo Lam’s Portrait of a Boy (1927), marking the first painting by a Cuban artist to enter the institution’s permanent collection....
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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...
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London’s National Gallery selected Kengo Kuma and Associates to design a major new extension estimated to cost £350 million, with an opening planned for the early 2030s. Kuma’s proposal was chosen...
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Italian Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto launched Three Mirrors, a global digital-billboard project organized by the UK-based platform Circa, centered on his concept of “preventive peace.”...
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ARTnews reports that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has mounted a major Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) retrospective, described as the first comprehensive North American survey of the artist in more...
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Centre Pompidou Hanwha is set to open in Seoul on June 4, following three years of planning, with the date marking the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The outpost...
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DePaul University announced on 26 February that it will close the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) in Lincoln Park, with the museum set to shut on 30 June, prompting an open letter from students and faculty...
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Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds, on view at the Jewish Museum in New York City (5th Ave at 92nd St) through July 26, 2026, is billed as the first US museum exhibition to focus on Paul Klee’s late...
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Two former employees of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) told Politico that the Washington, D.C., institution altered website content and canceled or renamed programming in ways they believed...
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ARTnews reviews “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” the inaugural exhibition at the recently renovated New Museum, describing it as a four-floor presentation of more than 700 works that examines...
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Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist representing Israel at the forthcoming Venice Biennale, issued a statement to ARTnews rejecting calls to exclude Israel and saying, “As an artist, I do not support...
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Artist Josh Kline’s essay “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art,” published by October and made available online for free, has become a widely discussed critique of New York’s art...
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Canadian cultural tourism to the United States has fallen sharply amid strained relations during President Donald Trump’s administration, including his calls to annex Canada as the 51st state and...
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An Artnet News op-ed (published 5 April 2026) argues that as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, iconic founding-era artworks should be reinterpreted in light of current debates over...
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ARTnews.com profiles Berlin-based Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ming Wong (born 1971) and his film Dance of the Sun on the Water | Saltatio Solis in Aqua, made after a residency that granted him...
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ARTnews.com reports that Puerto Rico–born artist Gisela Colón, who left San Juan in 1987 on a Truman scholarship and previously worked in environmental law in California, is the subject of two...
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The Musée du Louvre appointed art historian Christophe Leribault, 62, as director on 25 February, tasking him—according to French President Emmanuel Macron—with “appeasement” after a crown jewels...
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The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” an exhibition of about 10 Jean-Michel Basquiat works owned by collector Kenneth C. Griffin, opening June 25....
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The Uffizi Gallery in Florence denied claims that a February 1 cyber attack gave hackers sweeping access to its systems, after Corriere della Sera reported on April 3 that attackers demanded a ransom...
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Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen” has returned to public view at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands after undergoing a major restoration following its theft. Artnet News...
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British painter Cecily Brown is having her London museum debut with the exhibition “Cecily Brown: Picture Making” at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens. The show brings together new works...
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Frieze New York’s 2026 edition will run May 13–17 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors and will include institutional collaborations plus a new acquisition fund. In partnership with the Whitney...
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Sculptor Melvin Edwards died on Monday, March 30, at age 88, according to confirmation from his gallery, Alexander Gray Associates. Born in 1937 and raised in Houston, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,...
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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...
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The Jewish Museum in New York opened "Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds" on 20 March, but without its intended centerpiece, Paul Klee’s "Angelus Novus" (1920). The work, owned by the Israel Museum...
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Artnet News reported on 2 April 2026 that experts are raising alarms after a brazen heist at Italy’s Magnani-Rocca Foundation. The article frames the theft as a serious security breach at a museum...
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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...
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The Pinakotheken in Munich announced it will return Lesser Ury’s painting Interior with Children (The Siblings) to the Jewish heirs of its original owner, Berlin banker Curt Goldschmidt, after...
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Iran’s arts community has been disrupted as US-Israeli bombardment that began on 28 February continued into the Nowruz period, the Persian New Year that starts on 20 March, when travel and cultural...
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The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance reported that more than 200 million visits were made to the world’s 100 most visited art museums in 2025, compared with 230 million in 2019 and...
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Artnet News reported on March 31, 2026, that a rare experimental dance work associated with artist Robert Rauschenberg has been revived in Brooklyn at a roller rink. The article describes the event...
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Gladstone Gallery announced it now represents the estate of Pope.L, the influential American performance and conceptual artist who died in December 2023, and plans to mount its first solo show for...
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The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced that more than 20 galleries will participate in its New York edition, running May 13–17 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea, alongside Frieze...
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Thieves stole three works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne from the Magnani Rocca Foundation’s villa museum near Parma, Italy, on the night of March 22, 2026, according to...
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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...
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Guillaume Cerutti is leaving all roles across François Pinault’s companies, including the chairmanships of Christie’s and Stade Rennais, after previously being reported to be departing as president...
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The Basque regional government has asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to approve a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which would be the painting’s first...
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In a March 27, 2026 Artnet News interview, curator Fatima Hellberg—newly appointed director of mumok in Vienna after leading the Bonner Kunstverein—outlined a program aimed at making museums feel...
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An Artnet News report dated March 28, 2026 says a hidden Underground Railroad passage was discovered at a New York museum and is now at risk due to a development threat. The article frames the find...
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A Guardian investigation summarized by Hyperallergic reports that UK museums and institutions hold more than 263,000 items of human remains across 241 museums, including 28,914 items confirmed to...
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Precious Okoyomon’s room-filling installation Everything wants to kill you and you should be afraid (2026) went on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2026 Whitney Biennial after a delay,...
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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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The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, will reopen its 1.4-acre sculpture garden later this year with eight newly acquired works installed on the National Mall....
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San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) has put its Daniel Libeskind-designed downtown building up for sale after closing in December 2024 and laying off 80% of its staff due to low...
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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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Pat Steir, the New York-based painter and printmaker known for her “Waterfall” paintings, died at age 87 of natural causes in Manhattan on March 25, 2026, according to her husband Joost Elffers and...
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Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920), once owned by philosopher Walter Benjamin, was unable to travel from Israel to New York due to conditions linked to the Israel–US war in Iran, preventing its planned...
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The Brooklyn Museum announced a $13 million renovation to create a dedicated 6,400-square-foot home for its African art collection, with an opening planned for fall 2027 and an inaugural display of...
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To mark its 50th anniversary, Museum Ludwig in Cologne has mounted a major Yayoi Kusama exhibition featuring more than 300 works spanning sculptures, paintings, and immersive installations. The...
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The Brooklyn Museum is planning a $13 million renovation to create new African art galleries, according to Artnet News. The project is intended to overhaul and re-present the museum’s African art...
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Conceptual artist Trevor Paglen has been named the recipient of the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award, an honor that includes a $100,000 prize from LG and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Based...
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Zurich has transferred ownership of 11 Benin Bronzes held by Switzerland’s Museum Rietberg to Nigeria, following a restitution claim submitted two years earlier by Nigeria’s National Commission for...
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Hyperallergic’s roundup “The Biggest Week of the Spring?” surveys a cluster of New York art-world events, including the reopening of the New Museum and the recent Affordable Art Fair and Outsider Art...
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The Louvre announced a four-year restoration of Peter Paul Rubens’s Marie de’ Medici cycle, calling it the “most ambitious restoration in the history of the Department of Paintings.” The 24 canvases,...
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Eight preservation organizations sued the Trump administration over plans to close Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center for two years for renovations, arguing the project threatens a major modernist...
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Hyperallergic reports that online commenters reacted intensely to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newly acquired “Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist” (1512–13), recently identified as...
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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...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is mounting “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” described as the Met’s and America’s first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael (1483–1520). The show assembles 237...
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Mudam Luxembourg (Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean) is presenting a two-decade survey of British artist Simon Fujiwara titled “A Whole New World” from 20 March to 23 August. A central new work...
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Hyperallergic reports that Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” (1920) is missing—temporarily replaced by a reproduction—from the Jewish Museum’s exhibition “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds” because the...
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Hyperallergic reviews “Imaging after Photography” at Rice University in Houston, arguing that ethical approaches to AI art are possible when artists use the technology critically and transparently....
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Artist and activist Agosto Machado, a figure in Downtown New York’s queer art scene whose shrine-like altar sculptures are currently included in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday after a brief...
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ARTnews reports that artist Qualeasha Wood accused an emerging performer using the alias Aphex Redditor of copying Wood’s earlier “bed rotting”–themed work after Aphex Redditor’s 24-hour Instagram...
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Artnet News profiled artist LR Vandy in an interview published on March 22, 2026, focusing on how her sculptural practice addresses what she calls the “knotted histories” of power. The article...
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Hyperallergic’s weekend roundup “Iranian Artist Speaks Her Heart,” introduced by editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara, centers on a text by Iranian artist Leila Seyedzadeh, who lives in New York and writes...
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Zurich’s Museum Rietberg announced that it is transferring ownership of 11 Benin Bronzes from its permanent collection to the Republic of Nigeria, represented by the National Commission for Museums...
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The New Museum in New York will reopen to the public on March 21 after a two-year closure for an $82 million expansion designed by OMA, debuting this week to mixed reactions. The reopening includes...
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New South Wales Police are investigating allegations of antisemitism tied to comments made by US performer Zubeyda Muzeyyen (DJ Haram) during the Sydney Biennale opening-night event at White Bay...
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Czech culture minister Oto Klempíř dismissed Alicja Knast as director of Prague’s National Gallery, a move that has drawn scrutiny and claims of political motivation. Knast had led the museum since...
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A Hyperallergic review argues that the 2026 Whitney Biennial feels subdued and evasive rather than directly engaging with contemporary US political crises. The critic contends that, despite an...
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A mural depicting labor leader Cesar Chavez in San Francisco’s Mission District was painted over on Wednesday at the Latin Rock Music House at 25th and York Streets, following a New York Times...
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In a first reaction to the New Museum’s opening exhibition, “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” Artnet News argues that the project of “contemporary art” may be reaching an endpoint. The show...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Thursday that it has acquired a rediscovered Renaissance painting now identified as Rosso Fiorentino’s “Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist”...
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San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) said it plans to sell its Daniel Libeskind–designed building in Yerba Buena Gardens as part of a strategy to stabilize finances and avoid draining its...
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ARTnews critics reported that the New Museum in New York has reopened after nearly two years closed, unveiling an expansion designed by OMA that they say finally makes the institution’s architecture...
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Lauren Halsey’s long-planned sculpture park in South Central Los Angeles has opened to the public nearly two decades after she first conceived it while studying architecture at El Camino College,...
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Hyperallergic’s weekly “Art Movements” roundup reported that the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is marking the 100th anniversary of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth with a one-time set of four $100,000...
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More than 200 cultural figures, including musician Brian Eno, writer Laleh Khalili, and former Central Saint Martins head Jeremy Till, signed an open letter published 10 March criticizing the British...
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New York’s New Museum will unveil an $82 million expansion on 21 March after four years of construction, adding a new 60,000-square-foot building that doubles the museum’s footprint to 120,000 square...
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Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool since 2018, has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and will begin in June, overseeing exhibitions, the collection, and...
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The US House of Representatives approved an extension of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, a 2016 law intended to help families pursue claims for art stolen during the Holocaust,...
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Hyperallergic published an editors’ roundtable reacting to the New Museum’s reopened and expanded building in New York, designed by OMA (Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas) and adding 60,000 square...
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Workers at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio filed complaints with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after reporting headaches, nausea, and dizziness that they believe were...
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Seattle police say a 40-year-old man caused “catastrophic damage” at the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum late Monday night, resulting in an estimated $240,000 in losses. According to the Seattle...
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PwC withdrew as a “strategic partner” of the Sydney Biennale’s 25th edition after allegations of antisemitic hate speech connected to a performance at the event’s opening night party at White Bay...
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Paris dealer Kamel Mennour has acquired Galerie Malingue and will take over its 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. Mennour said the venue will focus on...
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Hyperallergic’s weekly “In Memoriam” column (published Wednesday afternoons) commemorated multiple recent deaths in the art world, including French experimental composer Éliane Radigue (1932–2026),...
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ARTnews reported that the director of Poland’s leading Jewish museum was reinstated after being removed during the tenure of the country’s far-right government. The change followed the far-right’s...
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On 26 February 2026, the Vancouver Art Gallery announced a gift of more than 800 photographs by Stephen Shore from the Chan family, largely from Shore’s landmark “Uncommon Places” series (1973–81)....
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu appointed Catherine Pégard as culture minister on 27 February 2026, replacing Rachida Dati, who is campaigning to become mayor...
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Hyperallergic examined uncertainty surrounding Colombia’s planned Museum of Memory, a national institution intended to address the country’s long armed conflict and its victims. The article describes...
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ARTnews reported that a 350-year-old Vrindavani Vastra tapestry will return to India on loan from the British Museum. The textile, associated with Vrindavan and devotional narratives, is being lent...
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British artist Tracey Emin spoke out against what she called “jingoistic, racist, bigoted behaviour” as her major exhibition “Second Life” opened at Tate Modern in London, following a press preview...
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French artist Sophie Calle is the subject of “Overshare,” her first major North American survey, at the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, bringing together work from the 1970s to the...
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The Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti announced it will open the Giacometti Museum and School in Paris’s 7th arrondissement in 2028, described as the first museum dedicated to Alberto...
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The British Museum and the government of Assam agreed to a six-month loan of the 17th-century Vrindavani Vastra, a nine-metre-long tapestry depicting scenes from the life of Krishna, to begin in...
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Hyperallergic reported that the chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art resigned after $600,000 went missing. The article centers on the unexplained disappearance of the funds and the...
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ARTnews reported that Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum will close after 40 years of operation. The article describes the impending shutdown of the university-affiliated museum and its significance to the...
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On 25 February 2026, French president Emmanuel Macron appointed Christophe Léribault as president and director of the Musée du Louvre, replacing Laurence des Cars, who resigned on 24 February...
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The provided excerpt for ARTnews’s article “Ukraine Adopts New Resolution on Evacuating Museum Objects From Conflict Zones” does not include the article’s readable body text, so key factual details...
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The provided excerpt for ARTnews’s article “Volunteer Group Documents Smithsonian Wall Text as Trump Administration Presses Cultural Review” does not include the article’s readable body text, so...
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The provided excerpt for ARTnews’s article “High Museum COO Resigns After Alleged $600,000 Misappropriation, Case Referred to Federal Prosecutors” does not include the article’s readable body text,...
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Laurence des Cars has resigned as director of the Louvre amid a series of crises at the museum. Artnet News reports her departure follows a $102 million jewel heist, a ticket fraud scheme, multiple...
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Moca) has acquired Kara Walker’s monumental bronze sculpture Unmanned Drone (2023), made by dissecting and reassembling a decommissioned 1921 Confederate...
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Ukraine has adopted a government resolution intended to simplify the evacuation of more than three million pieces of cultural property from frontline areas as the war with Russia enters its fifth...
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Elvira Dyangani Ose is stepping down early as director of Barcelona’s Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), according to ARTnews. The article reports her departure comes amid institutional...
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Artnet News reported that Art Basel has named 290 exhibitors for its flagship fair in Basel, Switzerland. The roundup also notes that Sotheby’s has increased its buyer’s premium, raising the total...
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On 23 February 2026, The New York Historical (NYH) in Manhattan announced it has acquired a gift of 150 works of contemporary Native art from Agnes Hsu-Tang, chair of the museum’s board of trustees,...
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Hyperallergic reported that the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has reinstalled its African American galleries in a prominent, central location within the museum. The reinstallation is presented as...
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ARTnews.com reported that Refik Anadol’s AI-driven work—described as a “lava lamp”—was spotlighted on the CBS program ’60 Minutes’, reigniting debate about AI art and authorship. The segment and...
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More than 200 arts professionals, including artists John Akomfrah, Jasleen Kaur, Isaac Julien, and former Barbican artistic director Graham Sheffield, signed an open letter criticizing the Barbican...
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A collection of 666 works by 135 Afro-Brazilian artists was voluntarily repatriated from a private collection in Detroit to Brazil’s National Museum of Afro-Brazilian Culture (Muncab) in Salvador,...
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On 19 February 2026, Artnet News reported that the U.S. Department of Justice released roughly 3 million additional files related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,...
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ARTnews reported that a Louvre official said fraud was “statistically inevitable” after the museum revealed a counterfeit ticket scheme. The article describes the incident as involving fake Louvre...
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ARTnews reported that London’s Victoria & Albert Museum acquired the first YouTube video ever, marking an expansion of the museum’s collection into early internet culture and digital media history....
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London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has acquired “Me at the zoo” (2005), the first video ever uploaded to YouTube. The 19-second clip was posted on April 23, 2005, by YouTube co-founder Jawed...
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ARTnews reports that curator Eugenio Viola said the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO) ended his contract and that the termination was connected to labor issues. Viola’s account centers on...
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Devyani Saltzman is leaving her role as director of arts and participation at London’s Barbican after 18 months, according to reporting cited by The Art Newspaper. The Stage reported that Saltzman...
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Hyperallergic examines claims that the British Museum removed references to “Palestine” from its gallery displays and interpretive materials. The article describes the controversy as part of broader...
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An Artnet News report recounts how a painting that sold for $12.7 million became central to exposing a museum scandal, drawing attention to governance and accountability issues within the institution...
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French authorities have made arrests in connection with an alleged decade-long ticket fraud scheme at the Musée du Louvre that prosecutors estimate cost the museum €10 million. According to Paris...
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The British Museum has faced criticism after removing the term “Palestine” from displays in its Ancient Middle East galleries, prompting accusations that the change is politically motivated. An...
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A Hyperallergic essay examines how museum wall texts—often treated as neutral educational tools—can become flashpoints for political conflict and institutional power. The piece discusses how wording...
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Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid has called for an investigation into an incident involving visitors carrying Israeli flags, according to ARTnews. The museum’s request seeks clarification of what occurred...
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ARTnews reports that the British Museum removed the word “Palestinian” from some gallery displays after pressure from a pro-Israel group. The changes affected how certain objects and their origins...
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In an Artnet News article published on 2026-02-14, writers discuss how medieval Christian art sometimes depicted Christ’s side wound in crucifixion imagery as resembling a vulva, arguing the...
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On 6 February 2026, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (Mambo) announced it would terminate the contract of its artistic director, the Italian curator and critic Eugenio Viola, who has led the...
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London’s National Gallery has announced a “strategic reset” after reporting a $11.2 million deficit, prompting plans to reduce staffing and adjust programming. The museum has launched a voluntary...
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French authorities arrested individuals connected to an alleged $11.8 million ticket-fraud scheme involving the Louvre, according to an Artnet News report. The investigation has added to the Paris...
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The University of North Texas’s College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries in Denton canceled a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez after installation was completed,...
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New grant guidelines issued by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) have been described by Artnet News as aligning with former President Donald Trump’s vision for American culture. The...
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ARTnews reports that Donald Trump wants the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to commission a new portrait. The proposal would add to the institution’s tradition of commissioning and displaying...
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Artnet News reported that a hidden camera was discovered in a restroom at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, prompting an investigation and raising concerns about visitor privacy. The article, published on 12...
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On 12 February 2026, Jersey City mayor James Solomon said plans for a Centre Pompidou outpost in Jersey City, New Jersey, are “dead,” citing the city’s reported $255 million deficit. The most recent...
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London’s National Gallery is preparing staff reductions and program cuts after projecting an £8.2 million deficit for 2026–27, The Art Newspaper reported on 13 February 2026. The museum is offering a...
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The University of Maryland’s David C. Driskell Center opened America Will Be! on 6 February 2026 (running through 8 May), an exhibition about Black artists’ reinterpretations of the US flag, but it...
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Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art announced that the 59th Carnegie International will feature 61 artists and collectives and run from 2 May 2026 to 3 January 2027. Reported by The Art Newspaper on...
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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...
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Hyperallergic’s “Art Movements: Another Artforum Editor-in-Chief Is Out” reports that Artforum has again lost its editor-in-chief, marking another leadership change at the magazine. The piece frames...
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"Relooted" is a new video game in which players join a group of vigilantes who reclaim looted African artifacts from Western museums. The game’s premise centers on the real-world issue of African...
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In an Art Law Corner column published 11 February 2026, Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law examines how the legal principle of “inalienability” restricts museums—especially in...
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A solo exhibition by painter Amy Sherald set a new visitor record at the Baltimore Museum of Art, according to Hyperallergic. The article reports that attendance for Sherald’s show surpassed previous...
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UK cultural organisations focused on prisons criticised government contractor Serco for removing artworks from court custody suites across England and Wales, according to a report discussed by The...
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ARTnews reports that a viral video falsely claimed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s stolen Rembrandt is referenced in the so-called “Epstein files.” The article states there is no evidence that...
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The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired an iconic baseball-themed painting by Norman Rockwell, ARTnews reports. The article describes the work as a major addition to the museum’s American art...
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Plans for a Centre Pompidou-affiliated museum in Jersey City, New Jersey, have been abandoned, according to ARTnews. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said the project is officially “dead,” signaling an...
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Hyperallergic reviews an exhibition framed around critical theory, describing it as unexpectedly engaging despite the subject’s reputation for difficulty. The article argues that the show translates...
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On 10 February 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, announced it will deaccession and return three bronze Hindu sculptures to India after a provenance review...
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David A. Ross resigned as chair of the Master of Fine Arts in art practice department at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA), effective 3 February, after newly released “Epstein Files” documents...
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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...
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ARTnews reported that artist Ali Eyal won the Hammer Museum’s Mohn Award, which carries a $100,000 prize. The award is part of the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. biennial program recognizing artists in...
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ARTnews reported that the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s chief of staff departed amid ongoing internal turmoil at the institution. The leadership change was presented as the latest development in a...
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On 9 February 2026, Indigenous Brazilian leader Ninawa Huni Kui, of the Huni Kui (Kaxinawá) people from Acre, condemned London’s Science Museum for accepting sponsorship from BP ahead of its...
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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...
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Jack Lang, France’s former culture minister, resigned on 7 February 2026 as president of Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA), a role he held since 2013, after renewed scrutiny from the Jeffrey...
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Mexico City is planning a large cultural programme to coincide with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in June at the recently renovated Estadio Azteca—its third World Cup opening match after...
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ARTnews reported that the White House has floated the idea of expanding the display devoted to Donald Trump at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The proposal concerns how Trump would be...
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston said it did not target employees of color in a round of layoffs, responding to allegations that the cuts disproportionately affected staff from marginalized groups....
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Conservators at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam found that Vincent van Gogh’s Poplars near Nuenen is effectively a ‘triple painting,’ with two earlier compositions beneath the visible...
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The Louvre has indefinitely postponed announcing the winning architect for its planned $776 million expansion, according to ARTnews. The delay leaves the project’s next steps uncertain and pauses a...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s article considers how the art world has responded in the years following Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death, focusing on reputational fallout and the scrutiny of elite networks that...
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Saudi Arabia is spotlighting its Modern art history with museum exhibitions and auctions as international attention shifts toward the Gulf ahead of Art Basel’s inaugural fair in Qatar and Frieze’s...
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art reversed a controversial rebranding after public criticism of changes to its name and identity. The museum’s CEO acknowledged that “changing the name for no obvious...
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A New York State report found that the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum has not repaid a $335,000 loan from the museum that was used to purchase a home, according to ARTnews. The report raised...
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In a column published by Artnet News on 5 February 2026, collector and gallerist Adam Lindemann argues that the art world is facing an oversupply problem similar to the wine industry’s glut, with too...
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Qatar Museums announced further details of a new quadrennial, Rubaiya Qatar, opening in November 2026 across Doha and other sites in Qatar, with more than 50 artists and over 20 new commissions. The...
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Belgium has scrapped plans to dismantle its oldest contemporary art museum after the proposal drew backlash from prominent figures in the art world. The reversal was reported by Artnet News, which...
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ARTnews reported that new details have been revealed about a planned museum in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. The provided article text is largely obscured by site code and does not include the museum’s name,...
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Hyperallergic reported that newly released Epstein-related files include detailed allegations involving financier and art patron Leon Black. The excerpt provided does not include the publication date...
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An open letter published amid controversy at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto calls for the resignation of trustee Judy Schulich, who is reported to have instigated a committee decision to...
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Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Contemporary Art Museum, designed by architect Lina Ghotmeh, announced its name and curatorial vision on 1 February 2026 at the opening of Arduna, an 80-work group exhibition...
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Art Basel Qatar opened its first edition in Doha on 3 February 2026 with strong VIP interest but limited first-day sales, according to Artnet News. The fair features 87 exhibitors in a booth-less...
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Guatemala’s Museo de Arte Colonial in Antigua was shut down after authorities from the Public Ministry arrived on 29 December to enforce a court-ordered relocation of 287 artworks, ending the...
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ARTnews reports that David A. Ross resigned as chair of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) after newly released “Epstein Files” documents revealed ties between Ross and Jeffrey Epstein. The article says...
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Jewish heirs filed a lawsuit in a French court challenging the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ownership of a painting by Camille Pissarro, according to ARTnews. The case seeks to contest the work’s...
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On 2 February 2026, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi appointed Manuel Rabaté as its first chief executive and director, marking his move from the Louvre Abu Dhabi, where he has been...
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Art Basel launched its first Qatar edition on 2 February 2026 with an inaugural fair featuring 87 exhibitors and a format designed to feel more like a curated exhibition than a conventional...
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Artnet News reported that the British Museum faced online backlash after publishing a social-media post containing A.I.-generated images. Commenters criticized the use of generative A.I., prompting...
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The documentary Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (2026), directed by Adam Khalil and Zach Khalil, follows Indigenous efforts to repatriate ancestors’ remains from US...
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Pakistani artist Rashid Rana will present Black Square (2025) at the inaugural Art Basel Qatar (5–7 February 2026; preview days 3–4 February), a wall-based photomontage grid made from hundreds of...
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Artnet News reports that the Louvre is lending its marble sculpture “Sleeping Hermaphroditus” to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The work will be shown in the Rijksmuseum’s forthcoming exhibition...
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston announced on January 27, 2026, that it will lay off 33 employees as part of a restructuring plan to address what it described as an “unsustainable deficit,” according...
Artnet News
Artnet News reported on January 31, 2026, that previously unknown Andy Warhol films—left undeveloped for decades—have been newly processed and brought to public attention in connection with the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Rodrigo Moura will step down next month as artistic director of Argentina’s Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba), after serving just one year in the role. His departure follows...
ARTnews.com
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has returned three sculptures to India after determining they were looted. The repatriation is part of ongoing efforts by museums to address gaps in...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Philadelphia has sued the US Department of the Interior and the National Park Service (NPS) over the removal of a slavery-related exhibit at the President’s House site in Independence National...
ARTnews.com
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is planning to lay off more than 30 staff members, according to ARTnews.com. The cuts are part of a broader restructuring intended to address the museum’s financial...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic argues that policies associated with President Donald Trump are creating new risks for the US art market, including uncertainty for galleries, collectors, and cultural institutions. The...