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[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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,…

[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,…

[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/PS1_20260414_005-2000×1500-1.jpg?w=1024″] fields harrington was biking through the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn one day when a delivery worker sped past him, only to be clipped by a car. The worker’s groceries flew everywhere as he fell, and harrington, wanting to help, asked if they could call his boss. “That was a realization for me,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1971272116_2c9314.jpg?w=1024″] Researchers from Cairo University and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have located two air-filled spaces within Giza’s Menkaure pyramid that hint at a possible secret entrance. Their findings were published in the academic journal NDT & E International. The Menkaure pyramid is the smallest of the three main pyramids on Cairo’s Giza…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026_NY974_DUCHA_E.jpg?w=1024″] This weekend Gagosian is opening a new flagship at 980 Madison Avenue’s ground floor with shows by Marcel Duchamp and early works by Robert Rauschenberg. The new space, designed by Caplan Colaku Architects (CCA), moves the gallery from its former upper-floor perch in the same building to street level, consolidating three former…