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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Roy-Lichtenstein-Anxious-Girl.jpg?w=1024″] A 1960s canvas by Pop master Roy Lichtenstein, coming from the collection of a legendary New York collector-dealer who famously patronized the Pop artists, could become one of the artist’s top works to sell at auction. Anxious Girl (1964) bears an estimate of between $40 million and $60 million. If it achieves…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/venicecity.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Emails between Venice Biennale organizers and the Russian Pavilion commissioner reveal plans to close the latter pavilion to the public after the vernissage. Matthew Goudeau has become San Francisco’s first executive director of arts and culture.  Republicans argue the attack…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/41_2026-639121126138393442-839.jpg?w=800″] A newly excavated Roman-era tomb found at Al-Bahnasa, site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, offers insights into Egyptian funerary practices during the Greek and Roman periods (332 BCE–641 CE). The find, announced by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry, was made by a team of Egyptian and Spanish researchers led by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/01.22.26_PG_AIA_-QUIZ.png?w=1024″] With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver a quiz full of hard choices for Art in America readers from far and wide. They say that culture should be free for all, yet we’ve long been relying on our government to foot the bill…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/677132664_1371728611655348_5727324320611053434_n.jpg?w=701″] The top half of a large statue of the ancient Egyptian king Ramses II was discovered in northeastern Egypt at an archaeological site called Tell El-Faraoun. The fragment weights over 5 tons and is about 7 feet tall. Ahram Online reported that the monument was likely part of a group of three…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/filters_no_upscale.webp?w=700″] An exhibition at Delta House Gallery in London was cancelled after the group UK Lawyers for Israel raised concerns over drawings described by the Telegraph newspaper as “dripping with Jew-hate.” That appraisal ran in a review of a previous version of the show in Margate, where the artist Matthew Collings showed his…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Nalini-Malani_portrait-by-Luke-Walker.jpg?w=1024″] Entering the cavernous Magazzini del Sale in Venice, viewers encounter Nalini Malani’s animations, which are projected directly onto the uneven brick walls of the former salt warehouse. Her images flicker, dissolve, and reappear as they are cast across architecture shaped by centuries of trade. The installation feels both contemporary and archaic: moving…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/0214_262304_Archie-Rand-Photo-Christopher-Garcia-Valle.jpg?w=1024″] How do you know when a painting is finished? It’s a question asked of so many painters, many of whom struggle to come up with an answer. When I posed it to Archie Rand during a conversation in his Brooklyn studio, he stood up from his lounge chair and walked toward an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SB17-PR-Thumbnail.jpg?w=1024″] The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the title, curatorial framework, and artist list for the 17th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from January 21, through June 13, 2027. Titled “What remains, sits restive,” the exhibition will bring together 109 artists across sites in the emirate, including Sharjah City, Al Dhaid, Khorfakkan, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Link-Rot_06941a.jpg?w=1024″] At first glance, Nancy Burson’s “Quantum Entanglement” paintings appear simply as white dots washing over black canvases in clusters and waves. Some dots resemble pairs of eyes; others appear as overlapping roundish figures. But when viewed as the 78-year-old artist intends—through a phone camera—the forms appear to jitter like static. Faint washes…