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[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…

[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…