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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2275844897.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! An expert claims the iconic image of JMW Turner printed on British banknotes was never his self-portrait. Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene. The Trump administration is charging ahead with the building of a contested Triumphal Arch and a White House ballroom. The Headlines AN…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/aia_book-collage.jpg?w=1024″] Whether on the beach or in your bed, catch up on five of the best art novels published this past year. As it happens, all five center on how art emerges through relationships—with friends, mentors, parents, and lovers, and with artists from the past. Transcription By Ben Lerner Only Ben Lerner can…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025_09_15_Argenis_Apolinario_MET_Jeffrey_Gibson_3569.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Industry Moves Coco Fusco and Jeffrey Gibson Named Speakers for Johns Hopkins’s Sam Gilliam Lecture Series: The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Joe_Bradley_David_Zwirner.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. A high level of energy was palpable at the preview day of the Frieze New York art fair on Wednesday. Many attendees at the Shed, on Manhattan’s West Side, were fresh off…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/PORTRAIT_Mary-Lovelace-ONeal-in-her-Oakland-CA-studio-in-2020-Aubrey-Trinnaman.jpeg?w=1024″] Mary Lovelace O’Neal, whose gestural abstractions consistently ran against the grain, defying the demands placed upon Black painters by critics and artists alike, died on Sunday in Mérida, Mexico. She was 84. Her galleries, Jenkins Johnson and Marianne Boesky, announced her passing on Wednesday. Lovelace O’Neal produced sprawling paints defined by tangles…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_9382.jpg?w=1024″] Cashing in typically comes before supporting artists at art fairs, and Frieze New York is no different from the rest in that regard. The main priority for dealers is to make money, and the point for attendees is to spend it, if not on art, then at least on overpriced coffees and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2242183067.jpg?w=1024″] Alexis Corbière and Alexandre Portier, the French MPs overseeing the government commission investigating the shocking October 19, 2025, Louvre jewel heist, have accused the museum of deprioritizing security at the museum. The full parliamentary report was released today and also casts doubt on French president Emmanuel Macron’s nearly $1 billion plan to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Padiglione-Centrale_Giardini_Photo-by-Francesco-Galli.jpg?w=1024″] Last week, the Venice Biennale announced that Iran had dropped out of the exhibition. Now, it appears, that report was incorrect. On Tuesday, Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani, the director-general of visual arts at the Iranian ministry of culture and Islamic guidance told the Iran Students News Agency that it still plans to participate.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Danny-Lyon.jpg?w=1024″] The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden used its 50th anniversary year to dramatically expand its collection, announcing 314 new acquisitions in 2025 that reflect a broader push into photography, mixed-media work, and artists shaping contemporary American visual culture.  The acquisitions range from large-scale mixed-media works by Lorna Simpson, Sarah Sze, and Mickalene Thomas to documentary photography by Danny…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274693668.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Iran denies ever withdrawing from the Venice Biennale, and the Somalia Pavilion sparks controversy. A new report led by France‘s parliament has revealed wide-ranging flaws in the country’s museum security management. US Interior Department staff are concerned that Trump‘s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool repairs are behind schedule and of poor quality. The Headlines VEXED IN VENICE. News from…