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[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…

[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…