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Lawsuit Claiming Robert Indiana Forgeries Resolved with $102 M. Settlement
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1679128021.jpg?w=1024″] A lawsuit claiming copyright infringement and forgery of the work of major American Pop artist Robert Indiana has come to a conclusion after eight long years. A New York jury found that art publisher Michael McKenzie had created unauthorized and altered versions of Indiana’s work, reports the New York Times. The suit…
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Italian Culture Minister Will Skip Venice Biennale Opening
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Russia-Venice-Pavilion.jpg?w=1024″] Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the opening of the Venice Biennale as a protest against the Russian Pavilion, which marks the country’s return to the exhibition following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The news was announced in a statement from the Ministry of Culture, which noted that Giuli will…
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South Carolina Artist Aldwyth Dies—and More Art News
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/7628_X098SG_box93504.jpg?w=900″] The Headlines LOVE ACTUALLY. After eight years of legal disputes, a New York federal jury has awarded the Morgan Art Foundation $102.2 million in damages, contending that art publisher Michael McKenzie isolated artist Robert Indiana near the end of his life and created unauthorized versions of his work, the New York Times reports. Indiana is famous for his large sculpture…
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“Primary Structures,” the First Major Show of Minimalist Art, Turns 60
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ART92749-copy.jpeg?w=1024″] On April 28, 1966, The New York Times ran a review of the Jewish Museum’s “Primary Structures” exhibition by Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art. That contempt was amply displayed in his views on the show: “Here are 42 American and British artists,” Kramer observed, “who…
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Israel Addresses Venice Biennale Jury’s ‘Boycott’ of Pavilion
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2149309942.jpg?w=1024″] Israel has responded to a statement released by the Venice Biennale jury, in which its five curators said last week that they would not consider any pavilions by countries who are charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. Calling that move a “boycott,” Israel’s foreign ministry denounced the jury…
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Artists Sell Work at Sotheby’s to Fund a Debt-Free Yale MFA Program
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Barkley-L.-Hendricks-Quarry-Shortcut-2008.jpg?w=1024″] Artists ranging from Mickalene Thomas to Tammy Nguyen are banding together to sell more than $1 million in art at Sotheby’s next month, with all the funds going toward Yale University’s MFA art program, among the most esteemed ones of its kind in the country. All of the works will appear in…
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Is A Random Unknown Artist More Valuable Than Picasso? AI Thinks So.
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sothebys-London-Modern-Contemporary-Evening-Sale-2026.-Credit-Rayan-Bamhayan.-Courtesy-Sothebys-11.jpg?w=1024″] What’s worth more—a Picasso or a painting by a street artist no one has heard of? According to the AI model we built, the answer is the latter. That surprising result came out of an experiment I ran with a data scientist and an AI expert from Silicon Valley. Our goal was…
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A Smaller Art Brussels Represents a ‘Quality-First’ Approach
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/david_plas_81107.jpg?w=1024″] At the press conference for the 42nd edition Art Brussels fair (April 23–26), director Nele Verhaeren was refreshingly straightforward. “We’re not going to hide it,” she said, referring to the event’s smaller numbers: 138 participating galleries, or 26 fewer than last year. The downsizing has meant a shift toward a “quality-first” approach,…
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Julia Langbein on her new novel “Dear Monica Lewinsky”
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Dear-Monica-Lewinsky-1.png?w=1024″] If you turned on cable news in the summer of 1998, you were all but guaranteed to see the face of then 24-year-old Monica Lewinsky. Earlier that year, in January, news of her relationship with President Bill Clinton broke, and for the months following, Lewinsky endured a shame-spinning spectacle of puritanism, contempt,…
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LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/the-box.jpg?w=1024″] The Box in Los Angeles announced this weekend that it would close after 19 years in business. Its final show was a two-venue collaboration with Parker Gallery for the late California artist Wally Hedrick, which ran through April 4. The gallery said they would mark the closure with a fashion show for…