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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/5_034_GeorgBaselitz_FondazioneCini-HIGH.jpg?w=1024″] Six days after the death of Georg Baselitz, his longtime dealer Thaddeaus Ropac opened an exhibition in Venice this week that the artist had already accepted would be his last.  At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, “Eroi d’Oro” (“Heroes of Gold”) brings together the final paintings Baselitz made in his lifetime.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1242143446.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines IN THE DOGEHOUSE. A federal judge slammed the US DOGE Service, ruling on Thursday that the Elon Musk–led department made unconstitutional and discriminatory cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities grants worth over $100 million, according to the Washington Post. US District Judge Colleen McMahon said DOGE violated the First and Fifth Amendments when it used ChatGPT to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/f1642d8e-4533-31cc-e313-e08d32fa6348.jpg?w=1024″] Indonesian-born artist Dian Suci has been awarded the 2025–27 Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Cecilia Alemani, curator of the prize and chair of the jury, along with representatives from the Museum MACAN, the Collezione Maramotti, and the family that founded the fashion brand Max Mara made the announcement today at the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/25e0054267dd3f3c9c964277937a6639b725d708-3000×2000-2.jpg?w=1024″] A sense of ruin permeates this Venice Biennale; we knew that already. More pointedly, several standout national pavilions in the show are steeped in decay—bodily, infrastructural, archaeological: broken, bloody political machines pumping the present full of their reek. Rubble and stone line the Slovenian Pavilion, where the Nonument Group repurposes materials from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-05-06-234434_1.1.8.jpg?w=1024″] Even after the recent addition of a Wegmans and Wells Fargo gave the entrance the sanitized shine of a suburban shopping center, it would be hard to overstate the strangeness and surreality of the inner parts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The post-industrial buildings at eye-popping scale hiss and wheeze, and everything…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/large-thumb.jpeg?w=1024″] Three Baltic pavilions at the 2026 Venice Biennale—Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia—organized a walk in solidarity with Ukraine on May 6, one of the exhibition’s preview days. A statement from the Lithuanian Pavilion explains that the procession was dedicated to cultural workers from Ukraine “who continue to create and represent their country in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/HJ_Exterior_2021.jpg?w=1024″] The Aspen Art Fair will return to the Hotel Jerome from July 29 through August 1 with more than 35 exhibitors for its third edition, as the boutique fair continues to carve out a distinct presence during Aspen Art Week.  The 2026 edition will be the first under director Kelly Cornell, who…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274167472.jpg?w=1024″] According to multiple media reports, artist Belu-Simion Fainaru, Israel’s representative at the recently opened Venice Biennale, put pressure on the exhibition’s organizers before the show’s jury abruptly resigned last week. When that five-person jury quit, it did not state its reason for doing so. But prior to departing the Biennale, the jury,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2243121687.jpg?w=1024″] When the Venice Biennale first announced the artist list for Koyo Kouoh’s main exhibition in February, the show included 111 participants. But when you visit the Biennale’s website now, you’ll find that Kouoh’s exhibition, titled “In Minor Keys,” now features 110 artists. ARTnews can reveal that the artist who was struck from…