Tag: artnews.com

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2247094988.jpg?w=1024″] Donald Trump wants to paint the granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., white. Yesterday the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) met to review the Trump administration’s proposal for the project. On April 16 plans were also submitted to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which approved the idea on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Free-Palestine-banner.jpeg?w=1024″] Thousands of demonstrators marched in the streets of Venice on the eve of the public opening of the Venice Biennale on Saturday in protest of Israel’s presence in the show. The protest was organized by Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), an international group of artists, curators, writers, and cultural workers. By the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Vinkovci.png?w=634″] Archaeologists excavating the site of a future farmers’ market in the eastern Croatian city of Vinkovci have discovered a rare intact grave amid the ancient Roman necropolis. The news was first reported by Croatia Week. When the initial discovery of the necropolis was announced in March, Josip Romić, the mayor of Vinkovci,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2200924488.jpg?w=1024″] A federal judge ruled that cancellations to more than 1,400 grants approved by the National Endowment for the Humanities by the Elon Musk-led Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) were unconstitutional. Judge Colleen McMahon of Federal District Court in Manhattan ordered DOGE to rescind the cancellations in a ruling in favor of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/privategg_2.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this week, the Venice Biennale opened for previews that were hardly limited to journalists and curators, as is perhaps only to be expected—judging by the numerous megayachts moored nearby, at least. (Not to mention all the well-dressed collectors sipping Aperol spritzes on palazzo balconies visible from the Grand Canal.) If you,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GettyImages-2229634946.jpg?w=1024″] A former South Korean prosecutor who allegedly tried to buy political influence with a painting by Lee Ufan has now been convicted on appeal, in a case that adds disputed authenticity claims surrounding a $95,000 artwork to a conventional bribery scandal involving the former first lady of Korea. The Seoul High Court this week…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/10-FP_Helter-Skelter.jpg?w=1024″] What is appropriate to appropriate? That question is the one that animates practices of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa, who are currently showing their work together at the Fondazione Prada in Venice.   At first glance, the pairing might seem like an unconventional one, even though both artists are well known for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/KA-Portrait-by-Harry-Schnitger-Berlinische-Galerie-2024-hr.webp?w=970″] Kader Attia, an acclaimed artist whose work is currently included in Koyo Kouoh’s main exhibition of the Venice Biennale, has been selected to curate the 2027 edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s top biennial. Attia, a winner of France’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, may be best known for his sculptures and installations that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-589141200.jpg?w=1024″] An eBay seller claimed to have Jeffrey Epstein‘s reproduction of a painting by Kees van Dongen, a Dutch painter who became a part of the Fauvist movement in France during the early 20th century. The work in question, it should be noted, was not a bona fide van Dongen. It was a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1769869191.jpg?w=1024″] With the 2026 Venice Biennale wrapping up its professional previews and officially opening to the public on Saturday, a new foundation dedicated to Koyo Kouoh—the curator of the Biennale’s main exhibition who passed away a year ago—has been announced. Based in Basel, Switzerland, where Kouoh lived for part of her life, the…