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[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…