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[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.…

[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…