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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/L9160944.jpg?w=1024″] Where are all the Gen Z collectors these days? Last Thursday, May 14th 2026, they were at the Guggenheim celebrating the 30th anniversary of the YCC (Young Collectors Council).  I became aware of the YCC when they brought my work into the Guggenheim collection this year, and I grew very curious about…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Untitled-2.jpg?w=1024″] Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice poignantly recounted the effects of El Salvador’s civil war and the migration and exile of its diaspora, died on May 13 from ovarian cancer in Silver Springs, Maryland. She was 64 years old. The news was confirmed by art historian Tatiana Flores. “A beloved member…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-584617150.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D’Artagnan. Congress rejected a bill to build a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to women. The Commission of Fine Arts approved plans to build Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Alice_B._Toklas_and_Gertrude_Stein_1922_Man_Ray.jpg?w=1024″] In Paris’s 20th arrondissement, there is a park, of sorts, where the city’s greatest revolutionaries go to rot. Some are the real deal: On May 28, 1871, over a hundred Communards were shot dead right here as dreams of a Socialist utopia crumbled around them. Other legends were made not on barricades,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/France.jpg?w=1024″] Paris’s Centre Pompidou has announced another five-year partnership, this time with the iconic fashion house Chanel. (Last week, the Pompidou and M+ in Hong Kong announced their plan to lend artworks and collaborate on research projects and exhibitions.) Despite being closed until 2030 while undergoing an over $500 million renovation, the Pompidou…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Reikado_Hall_-_DSC01999.jpg?w=1024″] A sacred Buddhist hall on the top of Mount Misen in Japan was destroyed by fire—but an “eternal flame” said to have been burning for more than a millennium was rescued and moved to another site, where it continues to glow. As reported in the New York Times, Reikado Hall, in the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153506811.jpg?w=1024″] Spain’s government is turning up the pressure on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory, with lawmakers threatening consequences that could ultimately cost museum director Manuel Segade his job. A parliamentary oversight committee in Spain recently passed a resolution demanding that the museum complete a full and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/for_media_extsouth_1_hi_brad_feinknopf.jpg?w=1024″] Members of the Wexner Center for the Arts union have called on university leadership to rename the institution, citing Leslie Wexner’s documented ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner Workers United announced on social media yesterday that it had sent a formal letter to Ohio State University president, provost, and board…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2241289844.jpg?w=1024″] Trump does not need Congressional approval to build a proposed 250-foot arch on Washington, DC’s Memorial Circle, on Columbia Island, officials are arguing, because a century-old report once called for a pair of 166-foot columns there, reports the Washington Post. Memorial Circle is managed by the National Parks Service and is classified…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_3578.jpg?w=1024″] Making art in a new medium can pose a challenge for any artist, especially one as technically complex as neon. Now a new residency aims to alleviate those growing pains. The Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit focused on supporting Indigenous artists, has launched a new residency program in collaboration with Lite…