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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2252580363.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines DIARY OF ORPHAN ART. Nazi-looted artworks known as “orphaned” or “heirless,” brought back to the Netherlands from Germany after World War II, should be managed by a new Jewish foundation rather than the Dutch government, a panel has announced, reports…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2150950573.jpg?w=1024″] The Venice Biennale‘s jury said on Thursday that it would not consider nations whose leaders have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court—a move that effectively tosses Israel and Russia out of the running for the top honors at the world’s greatest art exhibition. Issued the day after…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/venicecity.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. In mid-March, just before Sotheby’s modern and contemporary evening sale in London, the house’s co-heads of UK private sales, James Francis Fox and David Rothschild , ushered me into a stately backroom for a look…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/john-phelan-.jpg?w=1024″] Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, who has appeared on multiple editions of ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list, is stepping down from his position. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become acting secretary, according to a short post on X by Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson. While Parnell’s statement contained little information about Phelan’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/No-Warning-Peyton.png?w=1024″] Loïc Gouzer has a new idea for how to sell art. It’s untested, but for him that’s part of the appeal. On April 23, his auction app Fair Warning will roll out a new format called “No Warning.” The premise is simple and a little unnerving if you are used to buying via fine…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2242183067.jpg?w=1024″] Originally delayed earlier this year, reportedly amid staff unrest, and later postponed until after the French municipal elections, the jury tasked with selecting the architects for the Louvre Museum renovation is now set to convene in mid-May, Le Figaro reports. Its members will assess five shortlisted architectural proposals, formally launching the $778…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2242245649.jpg?w=1024″] A previously undisclosed contract governing the fundraising for President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom shields donor identities and omits key conflict-of-interest protections, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post after a court order forced their release.  The agreement, signed in early October between the White House, the National Park Service, and the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/8989da9f-9732-c971-90ed-ca6ced13447e.jpg?w=809″] A committee appointed by the Dutch government has come up with a plan for a state-owned collection’s controversial holdings, reports the New York Times. The Netherlands Art Property Collection (known as the NK Collection) comprises thousands of priceless objects, including paintings worth millions by Dutch Golden Age masters, repatriated by the Allies…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/jury.jpg?w=1024″] The Venice Biennale has revealed the members of the five-person jury that will decide the Golden Lions for the 2026 edition. The president of the jury is Solange Oliveira Farkas, who will be joined by Zoe Butt, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marta Kuzma, and Giovanna Zapperi. Farkas founded the Videobrasil Biennial in São…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2231277790.jpg?w=1024″] When the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., launched Across the Nation last spring, it wasn’t clear how long the initiative to lend artworks from its collection to regional American museums would last. At the time, the NGA—with financial support from billionaire art collector and museum trustee Mitchell Rales—committed to lend…