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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2271736939.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A Canadian tourist was killed, and others injured in a shooting atop Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán Pyramid of the Moon. The grandson of Diego Rivera, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, has gifted over 150,000 items to Mexico’s Museo Anahuacalli.  A papyrus fragment…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/27213CraggPhotoCreditFredrikNielsen1_20230922_MG_Craig_006.jpg?w=1024″] Marian Goodman Gallery will pause operations at its Los Angeles outpost after two and a half years at the conclusion of its current solo show for Tacita Dean on April 25. In a statement sent to ARTnews, the gallery’s four partners, Rose Lord, Junette Teng, Emily-Jane Kirwan and Leslie Nolen, said, “The Partners of Marian Goodman Gallery…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AR9479079-copy_WEB-1.jpg?w=1024″] For as long as people have made art, they have depicted something they know intimately: the nude human form. One of the oldest surviving works of art—the Paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, which dates to between 24,000 and 22,000 B.C.—is a limestone figurine of a voluptuous nude woman. In the subsequent millennia, the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/newsmakers-banner_5f1f4b.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Last week, Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s, the bombastically named, “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau. Set to run through…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/PIERRE-AUGUSTE_RENOIR_La_femme_aux_lilas_Portrait_de_Nini_Lopez.jpg?w=1024″] For the first time in 97 years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir‘s La femme aux lilas (Portrait de Nini Lopez) will hit the auction block, with an estimate of $25 million to $35 million. Set for Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale on May 18, the 1876–77 painting depicts Nini Lopez, a young Parisian actress, as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GATES_PORTRAIT_2026.jpg?w=1024″] “It started out as young scholarly curiosity,” the artist Theaster Gates said of his initial interest in the work of the 19th-century enslaved potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter. Gates was an undergraduate at Iowa State University in the early ’90s, making ceramics that he said referenced “white Americana…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/el-greco.jpg?w=1024″] A group of scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has built a new machine-learning program that might help art historians determine how many artists’ hands contributed to the creation of centuries-old artworks. The dozen researchers who published the paper in Science Advances range from physicists and computer scientists to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-1227099529.jpg?w=1024″] President Donald Trump has long fondly envisioned a sculpture garden dedicated to 250 American heroes. You know, people like George Washington, the country’s first president, and Alex Trebek, the longtime host of TV game show Jeopardy! Sculpted in traditional materials at larger than life size, these mythical sculptures have been on his…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_6071-1.jpeg?w=1024″] Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., has announced the return of 17 rare books to the heirs of John Hay and Betsey Cushing Whitney. The books, which were stolen from the couple’s Long Island home in the 1980s, include works by John Keats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and the Brothers Grimm.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-539902562.jpg?w=1024″] James Hayward, a West Coast painter whose abstractions earned him a loyal cult following among artists, died on April 16. He was 82, according to a brief obituary posted by his studio over the weekend. Hayward may not be among the most well-known names to emerge from the postwar period, but many…