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  • Mills Morán Leaves Morán Morán to Focus on Felix Art Fair

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/HRH-pool.jpg?w=1024″] Morán Morán cofounder Mills Morán is stepping away from the day-to-day operations of the Los Angeles gallery he started with his brother, Al Morán. Mills Morán said he will instead focus his attention on Felix Art Fair, the fair he cofounded with Al and collector Dean Valentine in 2018, running alongside Frieze Los Angeles…

  • Rolling Stones Tap Nathaniel Mary Quinn for Foreign Tongues Album Cover

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1_60586f.jpg?w=1024″] Nathaniel Mary Quinn still sounds a little stunned by the whole affair: Last fall, the painter was in the kitchen of his Brooklyn brownstone when he got on a three-way call with Mick Jagger and producer Andrew Watt. By the end of it, he had agreed to make the cover art for Foreign…

  • Met Opera’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego Imagines Feminist Revenge

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/El-Ultimo-Sueno-de-Frida-y-Diego_0308s.jpg?w=1024″] She is the subject of a current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and an upcoming one at the Tate Modern. Netflix is planning an adaptation of her life. Her unibrowed face stares out from tote bags, murals, notebooks, enamel pins, refrigerator magnets, and dorm-room posters across the globe. A recent…

  • M+ and Centre Pompidou Announce Plans for New Five-Year Partnership

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Untitled-1.jpg?w=1024″] Two high-profile museums—Hong Kong’s M+, a contemporary art museum that opened in 2021 in a building designed by Herzog & de Meuron facing Victoria Harbor, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, which closed last year for a long-planned renovation of its Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers…

  • Rene Matić Awarded 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2238540064.jpg?w=1024″] Rene Matić was named the winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. They received the £30,000 ($40,250) prize for their exhibition “AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH,” which closed at CCA Berlin in February. Matić, who is based in London, works across photography,…

  • Pace Gallery Takes Representation of Brâncuși Estate

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2110562234.jpg?w=1024″] Hours before a $100 million sculpture by Constantin Brâncuși is to come to auction, Pace Gallery announced that it had taken global representation of the Romanian modernist’s estate. Pace, one of the biggest galleries in the world, added Brâncuși to its roster as a retrospective for the artist continues to travel the…

  • Artist Outraged After Conservationist Mural Painted Over by FIFA

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wyland-ocean-life-dallas-mural.jpeg?w=1024″] A giant mural by conservationist artist Robert Wyland has been painted over in Dallas to make way for a mural promoting FIFA, the international soccer federation.  The destroyed piece was one of 100 “whaling wall” murals that the artist has painted from Osaka to Detroit, and from Sydney to New York. Whaling…

  • Fred Eychaner Sued by Chicago Condo Owner Over Museum Expansion

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1475136234.jpg?w=1024″] A legal fight over sunlight, skyline views, and one of Chicago’s richest art patrons is now playing out in one of the largest court systems in the United States. Fred Eychaner, the billionaire philanthropist and founder of the private exhibition space Wrightwood 659, is facing a lawsuit from a Lincoln Park condo…

  • Trump Picks Park for Planned Sculpture Garden in D.C.

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2230492302.jpg?w=1024″] On Friday President Donald Trump said his administration had selected West Potomac Park as the site for his proposed “National Garden of American Heroes,” an outdoor sculpture park meant to play home to statues of 250 Americans of note. As reported by the Washington Post, the announcement raised questions as to whether congressional…

  • Ballroom Security Funding Nixed by Senate Authority—and More Art News

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2276250239.jpg?w=1024″] THE LOUVRE’S NEW LEASE ON LIFE. France’s minister of culture has announced the winners of an architecture competition to renovate the Louvre and build a new room to house the Mona Lisa, reports Le Figaro. The winning designers of the project, known as the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance, are STUDIOS Architecture, a firm that was founded in San…