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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Self-Configuration_Manganese-Violet-2_SAP1023.jpg?w=1024″] This spring in New York, it’s bodies, bodies, bodies, with artists across the city reveling in the pleasures of the flesh and the horror of harm done upon it. These are themes that are core to at least one major museum show on view in the city—the New Museum’s exquisite “New Humans:…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2274481573.jpg?w=1024″] The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington D.C-based nonprofit focused on education and advocacy, has sued the Trump administration over its controversial makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, arguing that federal officials failed to follow legally required review procedures before coating the basin in a bright blue surface.  Filed Monday in federal…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/cf15airdeparis-7.jpg?w=1024″] Air de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery’s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, tell Cultured.  Bonnefous says the gallery owes money only to the landlord and the bank, not her artists. The gallery is closing, per Cultured, due…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Hurley_X_KeithHaring_Collection-V4.jpg?w=1024″] The streetwear brand Hurley, which is known for surf and swim apparel, has released a capsule collection inspired by Keith Haring, one of the most recognizable and oft-licensed American artists. The collection includes cotton T-shirts, board shirts, bucket and trucker hats, bathing suits, and sweatshirts for men and women, with prices ranging…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/theo-eshetu.jpg?w=1024″] Entering the main exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys,” from the Arsenale, the first artwork one encounters is a poem. “If I must die / you must live / to tell my story,” the poem by Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer begins. Those lines became a rallying cry…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2017-08-21_DB_South_Steps_banner_01_webPNG.webp?w=1024″] Museums and other arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio, have a financial support structure that might surprise you. Some of the biggest visual arts presenters, as well as much smaller organizations, get money each time someone in Cuyahoga County, of which Cleveland is the county seat, buys a pack of cigarettes. According to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-3258894.jpg?w=1024″] A new study published in the journal Innovation in Aging suggests that engaging with art and culture can help slow down the biological clock and improve overall health. As reported in the Guardian, the UK-based study’s “results demonstrate the health impact of the arts at a biological level.” That’s according to Daisy…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Courtesy-Pussy-Riot-_-Taisiya-Krugovykh-Vasily-Bogatov_013_IMG_A0A444C9966F-8-2.jpeg?w=1024″] The Russian Pavilion, already a focal point for pro-Ukrainian protests at the Venice Biennale, has drawn fresh controversy after an Instagram post accusing the anti-Putin band and art collective, Pussy Riot, of censorship.  “Pussy Riot asked us to remove the footage featuring them from the documentary film about the project,” the Russian…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2265099607.jpg?w=1024″] French authorities arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian man last Thursday for allegedly planning a terrorist attack at the Louvre in Paris. The news was confirmed by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT) and first reported by Le Monde. The arrest was made as part of an investigation into the man’s “participation in a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274691959.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A new study says enjoying art regularly makes people younger. A nonprofit is suing the Trump Administration for painting D.C.’s Reflecting Pool blue. France’s president says new law for restituting art looted during colonialism is “unstoppable.” The Headlines AN ARTWORK…