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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1633357875.jpg?w=1024″] Ittai Gradel, the Danish gems specialist and art dealer who uncovered that some 2,000 objects had been stolen from the British Museum’s collection, died on April 28 at age 61. BBC News reported that he died of renal cancer shortly after receiving a medal from the museum in honor of what its…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2257758080.jpg?w=1024″] The Council of the European Union announced on April 23 that it is formally sanctioning Mikhail Piotrovsky, the long-time director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The reasons given are that Piotrovsky is “a close associate of Vladimir Putin” and that “he has actively supported and justified Russia’s war of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/phlip.png?w=1024″] After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram. “I have always believed in hoping for the best while preparing for the unexpected,” Zollinger said in a statement. “A few months ago, I wrote to you about resilience and flexibility. At the start of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/aia_book-collage.jpg?w=1024″] Happy park-reading (or porch-reading) season to those who celebrate! Whether you’re grabbing a book for you flight to the Venice Biennale or to bask on a picnic blanket in the glorious sun elsewhere in the world, we’ve got the latest and greatest art books for you below. That Figures: Selected Writings by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/070222-2000w-us-capitol-rotunda-painting-trumbull-declaration-independence.jpg?w=1024″] Alongside Donald Trump’s face, you can expect to soon see a piece of American art history on your US passport. As reported yesterday by Fox News, Trump’s State Department has revealed a limited-edition passport for the nation’s 250th anniversary that will feature John Trumbull’s 1817 painting Declaration of Independence. Contrary to popular…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/gps.jpg?w=1024″] Giorno Poetry Systems, a nonprofit organization founded by the artist and downtown New York scenemaker John Giorno in 1965, has launched a new need-based grant program inspired by a decade-long AIDS Treatment Project that Giorno oversaw in the 1980s and ’90s. The new Treat a Stranger Grant awards $4,545 each to a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/50e963fde3e0042ebf2dbd4fe1bd8a2fcee829d9-2250×1500-1.jpeg?w=1024″] Janne Sirén, the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Upstate New York, will depart his post in October after more than a decade, opening up yet another top role at a US art institution. Sirén oversaw the museum as it expanded dramatically in 2023, adding another building to its campus…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/palm-springs-art-museum-Guillaume-Goureau.jpg?w=1024″] An anonymous whistleblower has raised allegations of misconduct by leadership at California’s Palm Springs Art Museum, claiming violations of the law and institutional best practices.  The whistleblower claims that the museum improperly moved funds between various accounts in order to meet severe cash crunches. The whistleblower alleged that a former director was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1769869191.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! An inside look at the realization of Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale. A Chicago judge has sentenced a man to 23 years for an art-backed cryptocurrency scam.  A Renoir painting once owned by the Duchess of Alba will return to Spain.…