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...
Art writer and cartoonist Anthony Haden-Guest, 89, has sued socialite and collector Libbie Mugrabi in New York State Supreme Court, alleging she has refused to return 97 original cartoons that have...
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...
Federal documents obtained by the New York Times show that a no-bid contract to overhaul the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool expanded to about $13.1 million, far above President Donald Trump’s...
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...
Performance artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger followed her widely discussed Austria Pavilion presentation at the 2026 Venice Biennale with a one-time, nine-hour performance titled...
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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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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An AI-generated “colourised” version of Ansel Adams’s Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) shown by New York gallery Danziger at the Aipad Photography Show in April sparked backlash among...
The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust criticized New York gallerist James Danziger for selling AI-colorized editions derived from Ansel Adams’s iconic photograph “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”...
Artnet News’s “Art Market Minute,” hosted by Margaret Carrigan with Sonia Manalili, reviews New York’s marquee spring auction week, which totaled about $2.5 billion. The episode reports that major...
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;...
An exhibition at the New York Historical, on view through October 4, spotlights Betye Saar’s collection of Black dolls and marks her promised gift of more than 100 dolls to the institution as she...
A federal jury has found Daniel Sikkema guilty of arranging the murder-for-hire of his estranged husband, New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, according to Hyperallergic. Brent Sikkema, 75, was stabbed...
Hyperallergic editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara reflects on skipping New York art fairs and auctions, including a record-breaking $181 million Jackson Pollock sale at Christie’s, and questions whether...
The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust criticized New York’s Danziger Gallery for offering an AI-generated image referencing Ansel Adams at the 2026 AIPAD Photography Show, which ran April 22–26....
During New York’s May auction week, the “Big Three” houses sold around $2.1 billion across their evening sales, more than double the just-over $1 billion achieved in the comparable sales last May....
Daniel Sikkema was convicted Friday in a Manhattan federal court for his role in a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said led to the 2024 killing of New York art dealer Brent Sikkema in Rio de...
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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 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....
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...
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...
A three-day performance program titled “Exert: The Physics of Metaphysics” took place in early May at Giorno Poetry Systems (GPS), a venue in what was once William S. Burroughs’s Bowery loft in New...
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...
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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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...
Christie’s held a 16-lot evening sale in May of works from the collection of media magnate S. I. Newhouse, totaling $630.8 million with fees and pushing cumulative Newhouse sales at Christie’s to...
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...
In a Hyperallergic editor’s letter, editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara argues that the Venice Biennale did not “implode” amid boycotts, resignations, and international disputes, but instead felt “more...
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Sotheby’s New York staged a two-part evening sale led by works from the late dealer and former Wall Street executive Robert Mnuchin (died December 2025, aged 92), totaling $407.5 million ($433.1...
A Hyperallergic report characterizes Frieze New York at The Shed in Hudson Yards as a monotonous trade-show experience, likening it to eating an “assembly-line chopped salad,” while noting moments...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Performa will stage its first public, single-night Broadway-style fundraiser, the Performa All-Star Variety Show, at New York’s Town Hall on June 10. The 90-minute, 12-act event will be hosted by...
Hyperallergic surveyed 13 New York art fairs about booth pricing as the spring fair season—anchored by Frieze New York at The Shed—opened for VIPs on May 13. Frieze reported main-section booth fees...
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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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The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returned to New York’s Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea for its 12th edition with 20 exhibitors from 12 countries, The Art Newspaper reports. A special...
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 Art Newspaper reported that New York’s May 2026 auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips, and Bonhams are cumulatively estimated at $1.8 billion to $2.6 billion, as the market seeks to build...
Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger, founder of the Zurich-based Galerie Bruno Bischofberger (established 1963), has died at age 86, the gallery announced on Saturday. Bischofberger helped introduce...
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Artist Cooper Jacoby is highlighted as a standout of New York’s Whitney Biennial for sculptures examining how AI companies and other corporations convert personal data into financial assets. In a...
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Artist Shirin Neshat presents Do U Dare! at the 16th-century Palazzo Marin in Venice alongside the Biennale, continuing her themes of exile, fractured identity, and power through a...
Multiple media reports say Belu-Simion Fainaru, Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale, pressured organizers before the Biennale’s five-person jury abruptly resigned last week. Before...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
American sculptor Mel Kendrick’s exhibition “Mel Kendrick: Tilt,” his ninth solo show with David Nolan Gallery in New York, presents new and recent works alongside older pieces, tracing a fresh phase...
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 US Supreme Court ruled on 20 February that President Donald Trump’s earlier unilateral “reciprocal” tariffs—imposed under an emergency powers law—were unconstitutional, with six justices finding...
Hyperallergic reports that the international jury for the 61st Venice Biennale resigned collectively, without publicly stating a reason, amid controversy over awards eligibility. The resignations...
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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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...
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...
Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karoline Bankowska of New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn on April 28 to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American-produced goods...
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...
Artnet News reported on April 27, 2026, that Art Basel has introduced a “Basel Exclusive” initiative to curb PDF pre-fair sales by encouraging galleries to hold back works from previews and...
In an Artnet News “Art Market Minute” item, writers Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan reported that art-world uses of A.I. remain cautious because trust and relationships still drive many...
ARTnews profiled digital-art pioneer Nancy Burson, 78, focusing on her “Quantum Entanglement” paintings—black canvases covered with white dots that appear to jitter and reveal color and depth when...
In a Hyperallergic opinion essay titled “The Death of the Art School,” a faculty member at Purchase College (State University of New York) argues that corporatization has reframed students as...
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,...
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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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...
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...
Hyperallergic reviews MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York,” a large survey attempting to capture the city’s art scene with more than 150 works by more than 50 artists. The article presents a selective,...
Barbara Chase-Riboud said she declined an offer to represent the US at the 61st Venice Biennale because, as she told the Financial Times, “as a world citizen, this was not the moment,” according to...
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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...
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...
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...
In an Artnet News “Back Room” recap published April 18, 2026, Sotheby’s faces scrutiny over liquidity amid multiple developments, including a lawsuit by a New York real estate broker seeking a $10.2...
In Hyperallergic’s “Art Talk With Rama Duwaji,” editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara recounts visiting Gracie Mansion in Manhattan for an interview with artist Rama Duwaji, described as New York City’s...
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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...
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...
MoMA PS1 has opened the sixth edition of Greater New York, its quinquennial survey of artists living and working across New York City’s five boroughs, featuring 53 artists and staged during the...
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...
Time magazine’s 2026 “100 Most Influential” list includes Chinese artist Cao Fei and photojournalist Lynsey Addario, as part of a roster spanning politics, technology, fashion, medicine, and the...
Posters reading “Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” have been wheatpasted across New York City ahead of the 2026 Met Gala, targeting lead sponsors and honorary co-chairs Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. The...
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...
Somalia’s first-ever Venice Biennale pavilion has drawn criticism from Somali art organizations and artists who say the project failed to meaningfully consult or include Somalia-based practitioners...
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...
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...
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,”...
ARTnews reports that the 13th edition of Expo Chicago is underway at Navy Pier with a smaller-than-usual roster of 130 exhibitors from cities including New York, Tokyo, London, Buenos Aires, and...
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...
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...
ARTnews reported that the Trump administration has submitted a design to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts for a proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch intended to face the Lincoln Memorial and rise at...
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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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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...
Christie’s will sell works from dealer Marian Goodman’s personal collection in its May marquee sales in New York, months after her death in January at age 97, with the group expected to total about...
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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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,...
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....
A Hyperallergic roundup reports that artist Josh Kline went viral after publishing an essay about the difficulty of making ends meet as an artist in New York City, and critic Aruna D’Souza argued...
Hyperallergic profiles New York-based archivist Saad Khan and his project Khajistan, a digital and physical archive and independent press devoted to censored, banned, and overlooked mass media from...
A New York Supreme Court judge, Joel M. Cohen, ruled in early April 2026 that the estate of Jewish art dealer Oscar Stettiner is the rightful owner of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1918 painting Seated Man...
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...
Counterpublic announced 47 artists and collectives for the third edition of its triennial in St. Louis, Missouri, running September 12–December 12, under the title “Coyote Time,” named after a...
The Hole, a New York gallery founded by Kathy Grayson, is being sued by landlords over alleged unpaid rent at its 312 Bowery and 86 Walker Street locations, according to ARTnews citing a report in...
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The New York Supreme Court ruled that Lebanese billionaire art dealer David Nahmad must return Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918), a painting estimated to be worth up to $30 million,...
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The Hole, a gallery founded in 2010 by Kathy Grayson, has permanently closed its West Hollywood space after a period of late payments to artists and workers, unpaid rent, and broader financial strain...
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...
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...
Artnet News reports that Aicon Art in New York has mounted “Courtly Visions: Indian Miniature Painting,” the gallery’s first exhibition devoted entirely to Indian miniature painting, featuring works...
ARTnews.com reports that an 11-year restitution dispute over Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man With a Cane (1918) ended with a New York ruling against billionaire dealer David Nahmad and his family....
Hyperallergic’s roundup, introduced by senior editor Valentina Di Liscia, spotlights Ed Simon’s essay on Salvador Dalí’s religious paintings and his “nuclear mysticism,” which fused quantum physics...
Raja Ravi Varma’s Yashoda and Krishna (ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 million at Saffronart in Delhi on April 1, setting a new auction record for an Indian artist. The sale surpassed the previous...
Heirs to the Bic family fortune sued in New York on March 19 for the return of a Fra Angelico painting, Saint Sixtus (ca. 1453–55), alleging it was stolen by the family’s chauffeur and later sold...
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Raja Ravi Varma’s oil painting “Yashoda and Krishna” (1890s) set a new auction record for a South Asian painting when it hammered at $15 million ($17.9 million with fees, or 1,672 million Indian...
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Conceptual artist Paul Pfeiffer has been named the inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, as the arena expands its art programming with new commissions and digital-screen...
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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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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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...
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...
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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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...
Hyperallergic reviews “Ese barco en la montaña (That Ship on the Mountain),” a Juan Uslé retrospective at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía featuring around 100 works spanning four decades. Curated by Ángel...
ARTnews’s “Morning Links” for March 30, 2026 reports that three artworks—Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Les Poissons (The Fish)” (1917), Henri Matisse’s “Odalisque sur la terrasse (Odalisque on the...
Artnet News published a “State of Play” roundup on March 29, 2026, under its Artnet Pro newsletter series “The Asia Pivot,” titled “Labubu Gets a Star Turn on the Big Screen—Plus a Rundown of the...
ARTnews reports that the IFPDA Print Fair will take place at New York’s Park Avenue Armory from April 9–12, bringing together 80 exhibitors from Singapore to Stockholm and presenting roughly 500...
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...
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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A marble statue of Christopher Columbus has been installed on the White House grounds near the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, facing Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of President Donald Trump’s...
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...
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...
In an opinion essay, an artist-writer argues that socially engaged art is being co-opted by the same institutional, corporate, and political systems it once aimed to challenge, as public space...
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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...
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 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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France’s culture ministry blocked the planned 23 March sale at Drouot Paris of a newly identified drawing by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung Grien, issuing a 21 March decree declaring it a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism has reportedly moved to bar Syrian multimedia artist and New York City First Lady Rama Duwaji from entering Israel, according to...
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...
Calvin Tomkins, a longtime New Yorker writer known for influential profiles of modern and contemporary artists, died on Friday at age 100, according to New Yorker editor David Remnick. Tomkins joined...
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...
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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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...
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...
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),...
ARTnews reported that the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York is shutting down its MFA in Curatorial Practice program. The article explains that the decision ends a graduate pathway focused on...
Artnet News reported that Christie’s is launching its first New York auction devoted to anime and manga, with the story published on 27 February 2026 (site date line: 28 February 2026). The article...
Four people suffered minor injuries in New York after a sculpture by artist Michael Joo was damaged, according to ARTnews. The incident occurred at Space ZeroOne, where the work was on view when it...
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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,...
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,...
Artist Claudia Bitrán spent 12 years creating a DIY, shot-for-shot remake of James Cameron’s film “Titanic.” The project is being presented in New York at Cristin Tierney Gallery. Artnet News framed...
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Twenty years after the UK introduced the artist resale right (ARR), The Art Newspaper reports that the scheme—once strongly opposed by auction houses and dealers—has become broadly accepted in the...
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The White House has pressed the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to expand its presentation of President Donald Trump by creating a dedicated section with multiple images,...
Fashion designer Alexander Wang and his mother, Ying Wang, are converting a landmark building in New York’s Chinatown into a new arts venue called Wang Contemporary, aimed at supporting Asian...
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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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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...
Hyperallergic reported that a Pride flag was removed from the Stonewall National Monument following a directive attributed to President Donald Trump. The Stonewall site in New York City commemorates...
U.S. Department of Justice releases of millions of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files in early February 2026 revealed that New York collectors Leon Black and Ronald Lauder sometimes bought major...
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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Stephen Friedman Gallery began an administration process on 2 February 2026, effectively liquidating the business after around 30 years, and both its London and New York spaces are now shut,...
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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...
Artnet News reported on January 30, 2026, that the Metropolitan Opera has explored monetizing two monumental Marc Chagall murals—The Sources of Music and The Triumphs of Music—installed at Lincoln...
Hyperallergic reported that some Tribeca art galleries discussed reporting street vendors to authorities, prompting public criticism and debate about the galleries’ relationship to neighborhood...
Rapper Lexa Gates has been accused online of mimicking a performance by artist Miles Greenberg after she presented a work at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in New York. The Artnet News report, published 28...