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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2194773972.jpg?w=1024″] Construction crews building a barrier between the United States and Mexico damaged a 200-foot-long etching of a fish embedded in the land that is thought to be 1,000 years old, according to a report in the Washington Post. As part of President Donald Trump’s contentious $46.5 billion border-wall project, workers destroyed a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/6Monet_Meules_sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.jpeg?w=1024″] In 2019 Claude Monet’s Meules (Haystacks) (1890) stunned the art world when it soared to $110.7 million at Sotheby’s New York, setting a new auction record for an Impressionist painting. It was the latest in a series of headline-making results that have seen the painter’s serene yet radical visions dominate the market.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AG-1711.jpg?w=1024″] Aneta Grzeszykowska is a Polish artist who has turned her sense of self inside-out and back again in two photo series currently having a moment in New York: “Mama” (2018), for which she made an uncannily life-like doll of herself that she asked her young daughter to play with, and “Daughter” (2025),…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274193675.jpg?w=1024″] Four artworks recovered from the 1MDB scandal have gone on public view in Malaysia for the first time, offering a modest but pointed reminder of one of the largest financial frauds in modern history. The works—by Picasso, Miró, Balthus and Maurice Utrillo—were unveiled Wednesday at the headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission…