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[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…

[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…