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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/essence-harden-headshot2025.jpg?w=1024″] The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco has named Essence Harden as senior curator. She will begin in the role on May 18. Harden currently serves as curator of the Expo Chicago art fair. Since 2024, they have also organized the Focus section of Frieze Los Angeles. They…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Kate-Kraczon_Portrait.jpg?w=1024″] The Montclair Art Museum has a new chief curator. The New Jersey institution hired Kate Kraczon, who lost her job as director of exhibitions and chief curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, late last year amid a wave of layoffs; she had served in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2147875751.jpg?w=1024″] Only days before the opening of the 61st Venice Biennale, Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli has launched his long-teased investigation into the Russian Pavilion. Italian media reported today that an inspector sent by the minister to Venice has set up an office in Ca’ Giustinian, a palazzo on the Grand Canal in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2150950573.jpg?w=1024″] The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale, which awards the exhibition’s top prizes, announced Thursday that it had resigned. The news was posted to the Instagram account of the journal e-flux, providing no reasoning for the decision. The statement, in full, reads: “As of 30 April 2026, we, the international jury selected…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Barnes-community-JPEG-Press-Use.jpg?w=1024″] With just under five months to go before its September opening, the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has announced a selection of exhibitions that will inaugurate the new institution, all of which are curated by cofounder George Lucas. The initial hang of the Lucas Museum will feature around…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2249641499.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BLIND BLISS. A new sculpture has popped up in London’s Waterloo Place, bearing the signature of the elusive Banksy, reports the BBC. In Banksy’s style, the sculpture offers pointed political commentary on the state of the world. A man in a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/zemankova-3-2-4_e.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 Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Industry Moves Gladstone Takes on the Estate of Anna Zemánková: The gallery, which staged an exhibition of her work last…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2-Not-Yet-Titled-2019.jpg?w=1024″] Controversy has swirled around the artist Alma Allen since he was announced as America’s representative at this year’s Venice Biennale, which opens to art professionals and press next week. The conversation has tended to highlight the compromised selection process under President Trump, with much of the scrutiny centered around the fact that a museum didn’t commission the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Johnson_Satellite_04.jpg?w=1024″] Converge 45, a citywide triennial in Portland, Oregon, has announced the theme and the 28 participating artists for the exhibition’s upcoming edition, launching August 27. New York–based curator Lumi Tan has titled this iteration of the art festival “Here, To you, Now,” borrowing a phrase from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1985 science-fiction…