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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2186740414.jpg?w=1024″] Collector Justin Sun is suing World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s memecoin company, claiming that the company illegally froze his holdings of tokens, reports NBC News. In July 2025, Hong Kong–based Sun bought $100 million worth of the coin, $TRUMP, which would soon thereafter be traded on TRON, the blockchain Sun founded…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2272044404.jpg?w=1024″] The World Press Photo foundation has awarded its top honor to Separated by ICE, a harrowing image of two young girls clinging futilely to their father’s shirt as he is detained. Taken by independent photojournalist Carol Guzy in a hallway of New York’s Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, one of the few…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/venicecity.jpg?w=1024″] The Venice Biennale is upon us, returning for its 61st edition. Thousands will pour into the Italian city for the opening of one of the art world’s most prestigious events—barring a few interruptions—since 1895. When it closes in late November, more than 800,000 people will likely have attended (if last year’s record–breaking…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/girls-watering-flowers.jpg?w=1024″] Art aficionados who have not visited a certain Norwegian chocolate factory will be able to see a series of paintings by Edvard Munch for the first time starting in May, when the Munch Museum in Oslo opens a show focused on the artist’s little-known public works from 1923.   An exhibition titled…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2234619706.jpg?w=1024″] In the 15 years since his 81-day detention by China’s Ministry of Public Security, artist and dissident artist Ai Weiwei has explicitly addressed the harrowing experience in his work. This summer, he will do so again, in what will likely be the most demanding presentation to date. As part of his site-specific…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-930144692.jpg?w=1024″] The removal of a controversial artwork in the exhibition “Storage Room,” which was curated by art students Erik Siegel and Angeles Juarez-Ruiz, is causing quite the stir beyond the walls of Dartmouth College’s Black Family Visual Arts Center (BFVAC). The art center opened on Dartmouth’s campus in 2012, thanks to a $48…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screen-Shot-2022-11-28-at-6.15.31-PM.png?w=1024″] Another day, another setback for Berlin‘s long awaited Berlin Modern, as moisture damage in the building’s shell and microbial contamination in other parts of the structure have forced the postponement of the museum to 2030. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announced the delay earlier this week, according to Monopol, after the Berlin-Brandenburg…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2.Roberts-Institute-of-Arts-presents-Simeon-Barclay-The-Ruin-Institute-of-Contemporary-Arts-London-January-2025.-Photo-Anne-Tetzlaff.-Courtesy-of-the-Artist-Workplace.jpg?w=1024″] The Turner Prize, the esteemed Tate-run award for British artists, has revealed this year’s nominees, and in typical Turner Prize fashion, they’ve already polarized critics. Simon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku are the four nominees for this year’s award, which once again comes with a £25,000 ($33,800) award for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Northern-Facade-of-739-28-Hannam-Building-the-main-entrance-to-the-Gladstone-Gallery-Korea-_-MASS-STUDIES-1.jpg?w=1024″] Gladstone Gallery will move its Seoul location to the city’s Hannam-dong neighborhood later this year. Designed by Minsuk Cho of Seoul-based firm Mass Studies, Gladstone’s new outpost will take over two floors of the 739-28 Hannam Building at Yongsan. Across the street is Pace Gallery’s Seoul location and down the street is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABB25__General_Impressions__MC__PR__9854._HiRes.jpg?w=1024″] With only two months before its marquee Swiss edition opens, Art Basel is hoping that a new initiative will help ensure that people make the trek to the Messeplatz to see art in-person. “Basel Exclusive,” as the fair is calling it, has a relatively simple premise: galleries will withhold at least one…