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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ER-0057-02.jpg?w=1024″] The rooftop where the Beatles played a concert to a curious cast of freaked-out Londoners in 1969 will open as part of a museum next year. As reported in the New York Times, the sacred space at 3 Savile Row—a townhouse on a street even more famous for its sophisticated tailors—will be…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ac1.png?w=1024″] A video game critiquing the Trump administration’s efforts to continue the US and Israel’s war in Iran has popped up on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., making it the latest anti-Trump artwork to appear in a public space in the nation’s capital. As was the case with many of those other…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2273935873.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this month, the Trump National Doral golf course in Miami got a new resident: a 15-foot bronze sculpture of President Trump, finished with gold leaf. The statue, which rises to 22 feet with its pedestal, cost around $360,000, Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill toldthe Columbus Dispatch. If there was any worry that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274176034.jpg?w=1024″] This year’s Venice Biennale may not have its traditional Golden Lion awards, but Italian cultural minster Alessandro Giuli has revealed the person he thought won this year’s edition: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose nation made its Biennale return to this year to great controversy. “There’s no doubt about it. Putin won at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/newsmakers-banner_b85652.jpg?w=1024″] On March 31, the research initiative Open Restitution Africa (ORA) launched the ORA Open Data Platform, a database that provides information on the restitution of African artifacts and ancestral remains. Developed over six years by ORA’s all-woman, pan-African team, the site uses case histories and AI-powered tools to offer practical insights into…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-56757094.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. The legendary Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger has died at 86, reports ARTnews. Through his eponymous gallery, founded in 1963, he brought artists famed America to audiences in Europe—and befriended many of them along the way. “I have been involved with Andy Warhol for a large part of my life as an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/0062_262104_Akira-Ikezoe-Photo-Christopher-Garcia-Valle.jpg?w=1024″] Akira Ikezoe has recently been thinking a lot about all that can be done with milk. It can be obtained from a cow, packaged, sold, and consumed, yes. But what if you could paint with it, or bathe in it, or even become resurrected by drinking it? These are all scenarios that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1479723115.jpg?w=1024″] Bruno Bischofberger, a legendary dealer who grew so close to the artists he loved that he became something like a collaborator to them, shaping art history along the way, has died at 86. His Zurich-based gallery announced his death on Saturday. Through his eponymous gallery, Bischofberger helped bring a range of American…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/03_Li-Yi-Fan-Screen-Melancholy-screenshot-2026-60min-video-installation-Li-Yi-Fan.-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-TFAM-of-Taiwan-Collateral-Event-2026.png?w=1024″] “How do you say ‘bad luck’ professionally in English?” a naked CGI human with a Barbie crotch asks ChatGPT, speaking into their phone. Their body is covered in a messy layer of white paint, and their pupils have been erased, leaving them looking like a demented marble statue. “Inauspicious,” the phone replies,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274693668.jpg?w=1024″] Nearly half of the artists in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale said they did not want to be considered for the show’s top honors this year, marking yet another unprecedented development in an edition roiled by controversies of all kinds. Fifty-two artists—just under half of the artists in the Koyo…