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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274044343.jpg?w=1024″] Though the Met Gala is held each year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the glitzy event is known less for its engagement with art and more for tapping the fashion industry. That changed this year, in large part because the Met Gala made a concerted effort to show off connections between…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Barry-X-Ball-Installation-view-ph-Francesco-Allegretto-Pope-Saint-John-Paul-II.jpg?w=1024″] When Carmelo Grasso, director and curator at the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, saw New York–based artist Barry X Ball’s sculpture Pope Saint John Paul II (2012–24), he knew he wanted to mount a show at the sublime church where he works. The resulting exhibition, “The Shape of Time,” organized…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6187.jpg?w=1024″] The worst thing you could do to the German Pavilion, Henrike Naumann decided, per a wall text, would be to “make it cozy.” Adorning the windows of the space—which was remodeled by the Nazis in 1938 in an overtly fascist style that it still maintains—she added holes to domestic-feeling curtains, fabric in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-2211628098.jpg?w=1024″] ARTnews Top 200 collector Ken Griffin has quietly acquired another rare first printing of the US Constitution, bringing the total in his collection to two—the only copies still held in private hands, according to the New York Times.  The billionaire Citadel founder first made headlines in 2021 when he paid $43.2 million at Sotheby’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2273058299.jpg?w=1024″] Hundreds of bottles of “what appeared to be urine” were found in the Met last night, according to the New York Post—which noted that the museum’s starry Met Gala was “soaked in controversy.” “The shocking stunt—tied to allegations that Amazon warehouse workers feel forced to pee in bottles, rather than take bathroom…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/modig.jpg?w=1024″] David Nahmad’s lawyers are asking a New York court to revisit its recent decision in the long-running dispute over Amedeo Modigliani’s Seated Man with a Cane (1918), citing what they say is new eyewitness testimony that could reopen the case. In a motion filed after the court’s April 3 decision, which awarded the painting…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/artist-protestors-biennale.jpg?w=1024″] The Venice Biennale opened for its professional pre-opening on Tuesday, and artists participating in the exhibition wasted no time making their voices heard. At noon, around 60 artists and a few dozen other participants gathered for an action protesting Israel’s participation in the event and protested in support of Palestine. For the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Untitled.jpg?w=1024″] fierce pussy, a collective of lesbian artists, said that its Venice Biennale contribution was censored by the Italian city ahead of the opening of the exhibition today. The collective designed posters for the Biennale that address queer people and trans people. The phrase “Welcome queers and trans people” appears in both English…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/DSCF2150.jpg?w=1024″] When you enter the Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the first thing you’re struck by is the scale of the project: tens of thousands of clay bricks slotted together to replicate the forms in traditional mosaics, spread across the floor with walkways between them. If you’re thinking that this cannot…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AnishKapoor.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Anish Kapoor called for the United States to be banned from the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale while also applauding the jury’s recent decision to resign en masse. In an interview with the Guardian, Kapoor called the jury’s decision “courageous” and further criticized the US. “I would hope that [the…