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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-138094538.jpg?w=1024″] Most American museums have a problem that visitors rarely see until it’s too late: their buildings are falling apart. A new report from the Government Accountability Office analyzed by The Art Newspaper finds that roughly 85 percent of museums across the country are dealing with deferred maintenance or major repair needs. Even more concerning,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Isola-di-San-Giacomo.jpg?w=1024″] The international art world visiting Venice for the preview week of the Biennale woke up Thursday with great relief to a sunny forecast after two days of rain. For some, the day got even better with a visit to the island of San Giacomo, in the Northern Lagoon, where ARTnews Top 200…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Banksy-Girl-and-Balloon-on-Found-Landscape-2012-1.jpg?w=1024″] Loïc Gouzer doesn’t think the art world understands Banksy. In fact, he thinks it’s scared of him. On May 20, Gouzer’s auction platform Fair Warning will sell Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape, a painting from Banksy’s “Crude Oils” series, in an invitation-only live auction staged inside Tiffany & Co.’s Fifth Avenue flagship. The work,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-948031856.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines I’ll NEVER LET GO? Jack, from the 1997 film Titanic, famously heard those words from his beloved Rose before he sank into the icy ocean. But now, the company that owns salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck wants to let go of—or, rather, auction—nearly 100 artifacts recovered in 1987. The sale has now sparked new…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6280-1.jpg?w=1024″] “In Minor Keys” is the only biennial in memory that’s made me find a dark corner to cry in. The Arsenale opens with a poem on the wall by Refaat Alareer, written before he was killed by the Israeli military in Gaza in 2023. “If I must die / you must live,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/venice-bienanle-26_1.jpg?w=1024″] To say that just one aspect of this Venice Biennale is unprecedented would be to understate all that circumstance has dealt this edition of the international art festival. While controversies surrounding several national pavilions—Israel, Russia, the US, South Africa, and Australia, to name a few—loom large, the unexpected death of the central…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/no-matter-how-dreary.jpeg?w=1024″] After a thirteen-year hiatus, the Bahamian Pavilion has returned to Venice with a proposition that is as much educational as representational: that the Caribbean nation can be reintroduced to the world through its contemporary artistic inheritance. To do so, the pavilion turns to the late master John Beadle and his former student…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/JILL-MAGID_CULTURED_CREDIT-TOM-SCANLAN.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Venice Week and for all of you at the Biennale, stay dry. Here’s a round-up of the art trade’s comings and goings. Industry Moves• Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian for David…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ganesha.jpg?w=1024″] On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 657 trafficked antiquities to the people of India. The items, valued at nearly $14 million, were recovered in the course of ongoing investigations by the D.A.’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit and Homeland Security Investigations. The items were formally returned at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274802765.jpg?w=1024″] The head of the Venice Biennale has a simple defense for one of the most contentious decisions of this year’s exhibition: it’s not a courtroom. Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the Biennale’s president, made the remark on Wednesday this week as backlash mounted over the return of Russia to the Giardini. The country is reopening its…