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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/LAS-Art-Foundation-and-Amos-Rex-or-Natasha-Tontey-The-Phantom-Combatants-or-3.jpg?w=1024″] Fresh off her first institutional exhibition, artist Natasha Toney is set to unveil an ambitious immersive installation during the Venice Biennale at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, a 16th-century building in San Marco. Jointly commissioned by Berlin’s LAS Art Foundation and Helsinki’s Amos Rex contemporary art museum, The Phantom…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Natalia-Kaliada-and-Daniella-Kaliada-pictured-with-a-work-in-progress-by-Sergey-Grinevich-for-Official.-Unofficial.-Belarus.-Photo-Tina-Zaborowska.jpg?w=1024″] While much attention—and controversy—has been generated in recent months over the return of Russia to the Venice Biennale, another outcast nation will also have its first presence at the global art exhibition in six years, albeit in an unofficial capacity: Belarus. For the first time, the Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Amanda-Carneiro-e-Raphael-Fonseca.jpg?w=1024″] The Bienal de São Paulo has announced the two chief curators for the 2027 edition of the Brazilian exhibition: Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca. The duo’s theme for the Bienal will be announced in the coming months. Held in Oscar Niemeyer–design Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo in Ibirapuera Park, the exhibition is the largest…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/justice-dep-mayhew.png?w=1024″] Two New Jersey residents pleaded guilty to running a years-long counterfeit art scheme that funneled fake works into the legitimate market, defrauding buyers of at least $2 million. Erwin Bankowski, 50, and Karolina Bankowska, 26, admitted in federal court in Brooklyn to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American–produced goods, according to the U.S.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1668025778.jpg?w=1024″] A Spanish judge has ordered the Museo del Prado in Madrid to hold onto a painting attributed to Diego Velázquez at the center of a divorce dispute between steel magnate José María Aristrain and his ex-wife Gema Navarro, according to El País.  The painting ended up at the Prado through a chain of state intervention. After Navarro…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2272961888-e1777404455195.jpg?w=683″] “What does Damien Hirst have to do with McDonald’s? Nothing.” So begins a perplexing Instagram video introducing an installation organized by Nicolas Ballario, founder of a Milan-based communications agency, that was on view as part of Milan Design Week. The immersive installation, “POOL. Ti sblocco un ricordo” (“Pool: I’ll Unlock a Memory…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2272612872.jpg?w=1024″] Republicans in Congress are moving to fast-track funding for Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom, using the weekend attack at a Washington press gala to argue that current venues are too vulnerable. According to the New York Times, Senator Lindsey Graham said Monday that he wants lawmakers to approve roughly $400 million for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RAVEN_MBstill-horizontal.jpeg?w=1024″] After an inaugural edition last year, the AIR festival will return to Aspen, Colorado, in July with a program of performances, exhibitions, talks, and other events in the high-flying mountain town. The second edition, slated for July 27-31, will feature some artists who participated last time and others presenting work in Aspen…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/diriyah-saudi-arabia-museum-of-contemporary-art.jpeg?w=1024″] The forthcoming Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art has received a $490 million construction grant from Diriyah Company, a real estate juggernaut that has previously thrown its support behind an array of resorts, a digital art institution, and a shopping district in the country. Designed by Godwin Austen Johnson, a Dubai-based architecture…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1240102494.jpg?w=1024″] The Russian Pavilion will be accessible to the public only during the Venice Biennale’s pre-opening vernissage (May 5–8), Italian news outlets report, as the European Union threatens to withdraw funding from the prestigious exhibition amid mounting sanctions on Moscow. For weeks, voices across Europe’s cultural and political spheres—including Italy’s culture minister—have urged…