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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_0559.jpg?w=1024″] The cultural minister of Guatemala has begun the process to reclaim a 1,200-year-old stone lintel that was repatriated from the United States to Mexico in mid-April, according to a report in the Art Newspaper. The object was initially brought to the Mexican consulate in New York by an unidentified American businessman, who…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2152673257.jpg?w=756″] The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli organization over an exhibition about the Nakba, with the group arguing that the presentation “politicizes” history, according to local media reports.   Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center announced this week that it had sent a formal legal demand…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-541449351.jpg?w=1024″] A culture prize that has been awarded in Germany for nearly five decades will be renamed due to the Nazi ties of the man who was the prize’s namesake when it was founded. The Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal will now be called the Medal for Art and Culture in Hamburg. The change…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Link-Rot.jpg?w=1024″] Every time a tech company promotes an emerging technology like AI or the metaverse, the pitch sounds the same: a promise to “unleash” the imagination, or a new “immersive world.” When Facebook rebranded as Meta in 2021, its ad showed four people looking at Henri Rousseau’s Fight Between a Tiger and a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/maddox.jpg?w=1024″] Maddox Gallery, which has spaces in London and Dubai, has been accused of inflating the value of artworks used as collateral for loans. The claim was leveled against the gallery by Luxury Asset Capital (LAC), a lender that provides loans secured against high-value assets, according to a civil complaint filed last August…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/article00_810x.jpg?w=810″] When Sotheby’s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum. Now, Sotheby’s is leaning into that history in earnest, and with more than its usual blockbuster, star-studded evening sales. …

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/palm-springs-art-museum-Lance-Gerber.jpg?w=1024″] The Palm Springs Art Museum in California has released a three-page statement saying that an investigation conducted in response to a whistleblower complaint alleging mismanagement and fraud found no wrongdoing by the museum. The museum declined to provide ARTnews a copy of the resulting report, which will not be publicly released. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1054687360.jpg?w=1024″] The Dallas home of art collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky remains available for sale, and for deep-pocked prospective buyers, there’s some good news: The property is now available at a discount. That’s also bad news for the Rachofskys, whose Richard Meier–designed home has been on the market for months now. When the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/mockups.jpg?w=1024″] The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews’s sister publication, features profiles of 20 “New Talent” honorees selected by the editors as artists to watch. The list includes artists from all over the world and who work in different mediums, all of them emerging in their own ways. The Summer 2026 issue…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_7413-2.jpg?w=1024″] The Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation have named Edgar Calel as the winner of the 2026 Sam Gilliam Award, which comes with $75,000 as well as a public program at a Dia-managed site in the fall. Calel is an artist and poet of Maya Kaqchikel heritage who is based…