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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2148572078.jpg?w=1024″] Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, a painter whose work dealt with racism and upheaval in an America riven by inequalities, died at her home in Los Angeles on Friday. She was 46. Jeffrey Deitch gallery, which will open a Dupuy-Spencer show in LA next week, announced her death on Saturday morning, but did not state…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/EXPO-CHICAGO-2025.-Photo-by-Casey-Kelbaugh-Associates-002.jpg?w=1024″] The 13th edition of Expo Chicago is currently buzzing as huge squads of museum directors, curators, and collectors have descended on the Windy City this week for the fair. This edition is smaller than years past, with a pared-down group of 130 exhibitors—coming from cities as far-flung as New York, Tokyo, Memphis,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1576667501.jpg?w=1024″] The American Library Association, together with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees–the nation’s largest union of cultural workers– has reached a favorable settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, thwarting the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). According to an April 9…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2158883803.jpg?w=1024″] ARTnews Top 200 Collector David Geffen’s short-lived marriage has come to an unceremonious end, with the billionaire entertainment mogul reaching a private settlement with his estranged husband, David Armstrong, capping months of unusually public legal sparring. According to court filings reported on by TMZ this week, Geffen, 83, and Armstrong, 33, have agreed to resolve their…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/duchamp_wings_720_107830.jpg?w=720″] When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it’s been painted? A block of marble once it’s been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), the answer was much more direct and far more radical: Anything—indeed, everything—could be art if an artist deemed it so. “An ordinary object,” he said, can…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Maurizio-Cattelan-portrait.webp?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines COLD COMFORT. A proposed bronze statue depicting a seated girl, intended as a symbol of wartime sexual violence, has sparked tensions between Japan and New Zealand, the Guardian reports. The sculpture, donated to the Korean cultural garden at Barry’s Point Reserve…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2269666491.jpg?w=1024″] It’s Ash Wednesday in Brooklyn and two plainclothes detectives are getting coffee from a street cart. They continue walking down the street past a church. As they approach a museum, a commotion ensues. Someone has been shot, and the shooters are on the second floor of the museum, they are told. “Beyond…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2261629185_b7080a.jpg?w=1024″] A restoration of the Roman Colosseum’s southern piazza has been completed after four years of construction, according to Artnet News. The project, led by Stefano Boeri Interiors, has recreated the travertine-paved pedestrian plaza outside the amphitheater’s southern façade, where spectators once waited to enter the arena. Built between 70 and 80 CE,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Durative_LSimpson_2026_Detail2_forOPC_PhotoCred_JamesWang_300dpi.jpg?w=1024″] The forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has announced the final round of artist commissions that will decorate its campus in the Windy City’s South Side when it opens in June. The latest set of commissions will be realized by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Hugo McCloud,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2241266904.jpg?w=1024″] The Trump administration released on Friday its design for a 250-foot triumphal arch that would face the Lincoln Memorial, part of a portfolio of projects intended to monumentalize the president’s time in Washington, D.C. According to The New York Times, which first reported the news, the plan was submitted to the U.S.…