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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Game-Boy-Tetris_Courtesy-Estate-of-Rutherford-Chang.png?w=618″] Art history has been punctuated by debates over what a square can mean or do. For Kazimir Malevich, the black square was, in a sense, painting’s building block—a way to strip art down to its most fundamental form. For Ad Reinhardt, it marked an endpoint: He described his black canvases as the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/WEB-PAGLEN_inst_2023_05_10_V14.jpg?w=1024″] There’s no shortage of speculation about what generative AI portends for culture: Visions range from a “dead internet,” in which bots produce the majority of online content, to utopic redistribution scenarios, in which universal basic income grants humans unprecedented creative leisure. But for more than a decade—before many people had ever heard…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_2962.jpeg?w=1024″] Kimberly Pirtle, a fast-rising auctioneer at Sotheby’s, has left the company to start her own firm, Gabriel Advisory Group, a practice that aims to bridge art advisory and cultural philanthropy. Pirtle, who worked in Sotheby’s collectors group and quickly moved into auctioneering, said the idea grew out of a gap she kept running…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Yowie-room-featuring-a-painting-by-Philadelphia-based-artist-Patricia-Renee-Thomas-who-will-show-in-Elsewhere-with-Blah-Blah-Gallery.jpeg?w=1024″] Philadelphia is rich with art, being home to numerous museums, from the encyclopedic Philadelphia Museum of Art to the collector-specific taste of the Barnes Foundation, from the historical Rodin Museum to those dedicated to the art of the now, like the Institute of Contemporary Art. It’s got longstanding art galleries, too, like…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-545961433.jpg?w=1024″] Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death was announced in a press release by Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/robert-dunlap-crypto-scam.jpg?w=1024″] A Houston man has been sentenced to a lengthy prison stay after robbing investors of millions in savings through a bogus cryptocurrency that was supposedly backed by a collection of works by Salvador Dalí, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and other famed artists. Nearly 1,000 victims were cheated out of more than…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1213108475.jpg?w=1024″] German conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs has died at the age of 86. His death on April 29 in Berlin was announced by the art association Kunstverein Hannover, of which he was the oldest member. Born in Berlin in 1940, Ulrichs studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover from 1959–1966. In 1961,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2273131462.jpg?w=1024″] During the much-ballyhooed visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla to New York City on Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on the King to use his power to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond to India. As reported by Reuters, at a press conference before a ceremony to commemorate the victims of ​the September…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2272929509.jpg?w=1024″] The family of 96-year-old Quebecois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt is not giving up the fight to save the 710-ton concrete landmark known as Québec Libre! or the Vaillancourt Fountain. The public artwork has been an iconic, if controversial, part of the landscape of San Francisco’s Embarcadero Plaza since it was constructed in 1971.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/71994153-e1772824846109.jpg?w=1024″] Christie’s New York is offering 16 top-notch works by titans of the 20th and 21st centuries next month, all from the holdings of the late publishing magnate S. I. (aka Si) Newhouse, head of Conde Nast, who died in 2017. At a packed Rockefeller Center salesroom on May 18, masterpieces by artists…