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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/07275823191491671c38e92a6cf3ed8a4096c5b8-2000×1290-1.avif?w=1024″] Good Morning! The family of a Jewish collector claims a Cézanne watercolor on loan for a recent Fondation Beyeler exhibition was lost due to Nazi persecution. The online prediction platform Kalshi has launched a category for art auctions.  Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian to launch new residency program in Menorca. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Aerial-view-of-Mahon-harbour.-Photo-Davide-Bonaldo.jpg?w=1024″] Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian are launching a new residency program for artists and writers on the island of Menorca. The Residency at Casa Gràcia, as it will be called, will launch next spring and offer self-directed residencies “without obligation to produce an outcome or public presentation” to give selected residents…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nick-doyle-portrait.png?w=1024″] There’s a moment inside Nick Doyle’s new show at Perrotin when his AI oracle Ava stops feeling like a gimmick and starts sounding uncomfortably familiar. “You’re not starting from zero,” she told me during a recent chat. “You’re starting from ‘I’m there and still feeling invisible because you’re allergic to forced performance.’” …

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/DSC08964-HDR.jpg?w=1024″] When the Belarus Free Theatre opened “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.” at La Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia earlier this month, it marked the first time Belarus had a presence at the Venice Biennale in six years—and the first time it appeared there not as a state, but, as curator Daniella Kaliada…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jewish-voice-for-peace-jew-hater-billboard-truck.jpeg?w=1024″] Miami City Commissioner David Suarez has confirmed to ARTnews that he paid to send billboard trucks to personally attack pro-Palestinian protest organizers outside the Art Basel Miami Beach fair in December. A filing in Southern Florida District Court from earlier this month had made the accusation, reported theIntercept. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/TessJaray_Ref-0815.jpg?w=1024″] Tess Jaray, a British painter whose understated abstractions explored patterns that recur throughout the world, died on Sunday, according to an obituary posted to the artist’s official Instagram account. She was 88. Jaray specialized in paintings of grids, cubes, and undulating zigzags, all of them set atop palely colored backgrounds. She began…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Tyshenko_Igor_0000-1024×767-1.jpg?w=1024″] A recent Russian strike on the city of Kyiv caused “serious damage” to the National Art Museum of Ukraine, when a blast wave affected the building without harming the collection or workers there. According to a report from Reform.news, “The blast wave damaged the museum’s historic façade: windows were blown out, window…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/79150517-e1779811772557.jpg?w=1024″] While we wait for the buyer of S. I. Newhouse’s $181.2 million Jackson Pollock painting to reveal him- or herself, at least one buyer at the May marquee evening sales has stepped forward: Jay Chou. The Taiwanese pop star posted on Instagram last week that he was winning bidder for the 1924…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/RAWD7C4-1270×846-1.jpg?w=1024″] Spanish police have recovered two 17th-century paintings by the Sevillian artist Lucas Valdés that disappeared nearly a century ago after the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, according to authorities. The works surfaced earlier this year when they were consigned for auction, prompting an investigation by Spain’s National Police and the country’s culture ministry.  The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_3524_photo-courtesy-MOCAD-by-Elonte-Davis.jpg?w=1024″] The creation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) has been a slow and steady one. First conceptualized in 1995 by a trio of women, it took over 10 years of grassroots development before opening its doors to the public in 2006. This spring, the institution marks its 20th anniversary, reopening…