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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/5-Way-Portrait-of-Marcel-Duchamp_2000px.jpg?w=1024″] Artists are often secretive creatures, hesitant to disclose too much, and none more so than Marcel Duchamp, who spun slipperiness into an art form. But I think Duchamp may have given the game away when he made Genre Allegory (1943), one of the more than 300 works included in his Museum of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-680808104.jpg?w=1024″] Siri Aurdal, a Norwegian sculptor and painter who elevated industrial materials into sleek expressions of art’s social imperative, died on March 31. She was 88. Galleri Riis, her representative, announced her death on social media, writing that she died in Oslo surrounded by friends and family. Though born in 1937 to two…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/eb4c27f2-098b-4770-b417-877ecca6477d.jpeg?w=800″] During China’s Bronze Age (c. 2070 – 771 B.C.), the durable alloy was an indispensable resource, central to the development of early Chinese civilization. Under the Zia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, China developed advanced metallurgy techniques and, along with them, systems for managing them at scale. The Bronze age in China was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Lead.jpeg?w=1024″] Pete Davidson, the lovable lunk who made his name on Saturday Night Live and went on to star on the silver screen (as well as in the annals of dubious boat-ownership), put his house in suburban Westchester, New York, on the market—while revealing a considerable art collection assembled over the years. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/MCA_Madeleine-Grynsztejn-seated.jpg?w=1024″] At year’s end, Madeleine Grynsztejn will leave her post after 18 years as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which bills itself as one of the world’s largest museums devoted to the art of today. The museum, which launched in 1967 with a Fluxus happening by John Cage, Dick Higgins,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2236153455-e1775659160744.jpg?w=1024″] When the Basque regional government made a formal request last week to Spain‘s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso‘s Guernica (1937), the region’s head of government, Lehendakari Imanol Pradales, said he expected more robust discussion on the issue after Easter Sunday. According to El País, that discussion…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2269438696.jpg?w=1024″] More than 70 pairs of sneakers worn by Stephen Curry during the 2025-26 NBA season will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s from April 13 to April 28, with proceeds benefiting the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation. The online sale follows Curry’s announcement last November, that he would enter what he described as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DSC_0910-copy.jpg?w=1024″] A decade ago, Latinx art within the US didn’t have as much visibility as it has now. One of the key organizations advocating for this increased prominence in mainstream institutions is the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), founded in 2015 by a group of scholars who wanted to ensure that Latinx artists…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/EXPO-CHICAGO-2025-015.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. Ask incoming Expo Chicago fair director Kate Sierzputowski what her city’s art scene is like, and you get a couple of very illuminating examples to illustrate its nature, which she describes as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/small-The-Black-Gold-Museum-KAPSARC-3.jpgs_.jpg?w=1024″] The Black Gold Museum opened this week in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia as part of the country’s Vision 2030 initiative, the goals of which include diversifying the country’s economy and transforming its socioeconomic landscape. As its name more than implies, the new museum, which was announced in September 2020,…