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[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,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-50397955.jpg?w=1024″] More than any of his early modernist contemporaries, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has had a huge impact on art throughout the last century into our own. He pioneered a cerebral, ironic practice whose DNA is still apparent in works like Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian: a banana duct-taped to the wall which became a sensation…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-455611682.jpg?w=1024″] Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the nation’s oldest museums—and one of its greatest. Spanning two connected buildings and covering nearly one million square feet, it is also one of the largest, making a visit to the Art Institute a potentially intimidating endeavor. Ask 10 people what…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Christine-RP-1.jpg?w=1024″] Christine Ruiz-Picasso, who helped found a museum in Málaga, Spain, dedicated to the Cubist artist, died on April 6 at 97. She died at her home in Provence, France, according to Europa Press.   In a press release announcing her passing, the Museo Picasso Málaga described Ruiz-Picasso, who was Picasso’s daughter-in-law, as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/rooftop.jpg?w=668″] The National Gallery in London has selected Kengo Kuma and Associates, the Tokyo-based firm known for designing the V&A Dundee in Scotland, to design its new extension as part of Project Domani, the institution’s £750 million ($995 million) campaign to transform its campus and expand its collection into the 20th and 21st…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/The_Hole_IMG_1737_final.jpg?w=1024″] The Hole, a gallery known for exhibiting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, is accused in legal filings of being in significant arrears on rent. The New York–based gallery has reportedly closed its Los Angeles outpost, and artists and workers have alleged that it has has been late in sending payment, according to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2268994134.jpg?w=1024″] After three years of anticipation, the Centre Pompidou Hanwha will open in Seoul on June 4, a date that marks the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The new institution is a joint initiative with the Hanwha Foundation of Culture—the influential philanthropic arm of the Hanwha business conglomerate—and, as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Gisela-Colon-Rios-de-Oro-y-Polvo-Parabolic-Monolith-Aurus-Pulvum-2017-2025-El-Yunque-Rainforest-Rio-Grande-Puerto-Rico.-Photo_-Adriana-Vazquez-Acevedo.jpg?w=1024″] When I learned that Gisela Colón was having a retrospective at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC), I leapt at the chance to check it out. I knew that I felt deeply conflicted about her work, and thought the survey would offer a chance to sort out my thoughts. Before…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/9.-Carl.jpg?w=1024″] Counterpublic has named the 47 artists and collectives that will take part in the triennial’s upcoming third edition, scheduled to run September 12–December 12 in St. Louis, Missouri. In February, the five-person curatorial team—Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush—announced that their exhibition would be titled “Coyote…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/larsy.jpg?w=1024″] Frieze announced today that it has named Frank Lasry as its new chief operating officer, beginning in June. Lasry will report directly to Frieze CEO Simon Fox. With more than two decades of managing blue-chip art world companies, Lasry will bring to Frieze a mix of auction house, art fair, and gallery…