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[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…

[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…