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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Betty-Woodman-and-Elizabeth-Murray-at-David-Kordansky.jpg?w=1024″] Lately, art fans in the three biggest cities in the US (and no doubt elsewhere) have found themselves surrounded by ceramics. At museums, galleries, and fairs, artists working in this ancient medium are showing work ranging from classic forms like cups and vases to figurative and abstract sculpture. Allow us to start…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BritishMuseum.jpg?w=1024″] The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has called on the government to aid in getting the British Museum to reinstate the word “Palestinian” in its wall texts. Husam Zomlot, the ambassador, raised his complaint to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, a ministry of foreign affairs, according to the Guardian. In that Guardian…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/anga-2.jpg?w=1024″] The Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) has escalated its ongoing opposition to the Israel Pavilion, announcing a 24-hour strike and rally on May 8, the day before the much-hyped and highly contentious 2026 Venice Biennale opens to the public on Saturday. ANGA was formed in objection to Israel’s inclusion in the 2024…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A0831.jpg?w=1024″] After nearly three decades of showing with Gagosian, the Robert Therrien estate has left the mega-gallery and joined the roster of David Zwirner, one of Gagosian’s competitors. The move came shortly after an acclaimed survey of Therrien’s work closed at the Broad museum in Los Angeles. With 120 works included, the exhibition…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/gr-1.jpg?w=1024″] In 2015, Los Angeles–based artist Guadalupe Rosales launched the Instagram account @veteranas_and_rucas as a way to share images from her personal archive of Chicana life in Southern California in the 1990s. In the decade since, the account has shared thousands of images and amassed over 273,000 followers, many of whom have submitted…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines ROUND TWO. A sculpture at the new David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is once again igniting controversy. Tlali (2026), a large stone work by Pedro Reyes, is similar to another piece by the artist from a 2021 project to replace a Christopher Columbus statue in Mexico City that ended up being…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Elegy_Gabrielle-Goliath-2026-courtesy-of-the-artist_-photo-Luca-Meneghel_4.jpg?w=1024″] The South Africa Pavilion in the Giardini will sit empty for the entirety of this year’s Venice Biennale, the result of a decision by culture minister Gayton McKenzie to cancel a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath for being “highly divisive.” But while the building will remain closed, Biennale attendees can see…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/11.jpg?w=1024″] Step through the glass door of the Canada Pavilion—particularly amid Tuesday’s persistent rain—and you are likely to be taken aback by the humidity that greets you. That blast of warm air is just the first indication of the many adaptations made by artist Abbas Akhavan to transform the glass-and-brick structure into a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/pussy-riot-femen-venice-biennale-protest.jpeg?w=1024″] “Russia kills! Biennale exhibits!” “Disobey! Disobey! Disobey!” “Art for show, graves below!” “Blood is Russia’s art!” “Slava Ukraini!” Those were some of the chants from a few dozen protesters, some clad in pink balaclavas, some with bared breasts, floral crowns, and messages scrawled across their bodies, outside the Russian Pavilion at the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/us-pavilion-1.jpg?w=1024″] The United States is in a sad state of affairs. That wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who reads or watches the news, or even just scrolls social media and skims the headlines. But you would also know it if you happened to walk by the US Pavilion at the 2026…