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  • Study Says Enjoying Art Makes You Younger, More: Morning Links for May 12, 2026

    [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…

  • Gozo Yoshimasu Wins £200,000 Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_0365.jpg?w=1024″] The inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize will go to Tokyo-based artist Gozo Yoshimasu, who will receive £200,000 (about $272,000), as well as exhibitions in London and New York as part of the prize. Yoshimasu is better known as a poet who first emerged in the avant-garde scene of 1960s Tokyo.…

  • Carnegie International 2026, Review: A Powerful Show About Solidarity

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-04-27_CI59_Exhibition_Installation-17-Web-3000px.jpg?w=1024″] By my count, there are at least three flying people included in Pittsburgh’s recently opened Carnegie International. One can be found in Khalil Rabah’s video Critical Interrogations: Renewed Belief (1997), in which one man is launched by another over an olive tree, a symbol of resilience in the artist’s native Palestine. Another…

  • Two Museums Take on Performative Masculinity, Looksmaxxing, and Incels

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/I-Want-to-go-Higher_still002-2.jpg?w=1024″] The title is a ploy and the Stedelijk knows it. “Beyond the Manosphere: Masculinities Today” is a clickbait thirst-trap trend-driven symptom of everything wrong with museums entering the attention-economy game. The veneer of urgency and cultural relevance feels forced and already dated. It’s the tweedy teacher saying “No cap” two years too…

  • Trevor Paglen Will Curate an Edition of Art Basel’s Digital Art Initiative

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Eli-Scheinman-Trevor-Paglen-Art-Basel-Zero-10-Caroline-Tompkins-.jpg?w=1024″] Trevor Paglen, the New York–based artist known for his incisive engagement with knotty technological issues including surveillance and AI, will curate the third edition of “Zero 10,” Art Basel’s new initiative dedicated to the art of the digital era, the first to take place at the fair’s Swiss edition (June 17–21). Major…

  • Archeologists Find Ancient Roman Estate Near Shopping Mall in Croatia

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/o_31607273_1280.jpg?w=1024″] An ancient Roman residential and agricultural complex has been unearthed across from a shopping mall near Split, Coatia, according to Croatia Week. The news was first reported by Slobodna Dalmacija. Led by archaeologist Eduard Visković, a team from the consulting company Kantharos discovered the complex during excavations at the Mostine archeological site…

  • Roman Villa and Public Bathhouse Excavated in Alexandria

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/687037020_1380110384150504_6539105285007980607_n.jpg?w=1024″] An excavation in Moharam Bek, a neighborhood in central Alexandria, has uncovered a trove of archaeological findings dating from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods. The news was announced by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities earlier this month and reported by Greek City Times. The items range from Greek and Roman…

  • Paul Klee Work, Delayed by War in Iran, Is Finally in New York

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2213958642.jpg?w=1024″] An exhibition of Swiss German artist Paul Klee, at New York’s Jewish Museum, is now complete, thanks to the arrival of a long-delayed loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Angelus Novus (1920) has now taken its place in “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,” which opened March 20 and focuses on work…

  • A Lucas Cranach the Elder Masterpiece Once Hung in Hitler’s Apartment

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cranach.jpg?w=1024″] Lucas Cranach the Elder‘s Cupid complaining to Venus (1526–27) once hung in the Munich apartment of Adolf Hitler, the Art Newspaper reports. Now owned by the National Gallery in London, the painting, showing Roman god Cupid complaining to his mother Venus about being stung by bees, can be seen in the center of…

  • Looted Portrait Surfaces in Home of Descendants of Dutch SS Leader

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kelder-looted-painting.jpeg?w=1024″] A painting stolen by the Nazis from the Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the home of descendants of a Dutch SS collaborator, according to an art detective. Portrait of a Young Girl, by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, was allegedly displayed for decades by the family of Hendrik Seyffardt, a general who aided…