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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-1209105320.jpg?w=1024″] The removal of a monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has generated concern among artists who have shown there. Workers began to disassemble the Shapiro work, titled Blue, on Tuesday; the Kennedy Center has not stated a rationale for why the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1x5rbqeakBarbara_Forever-Still_1-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Of all the retrospectives and surveys I’ve seen, most have stimulated my eyes and my mind; a few have even involved using my ears. (There’s a reason what’s presented in museums is often called “visual art,” after all.) But the Leslie-Lohman Museum’s 2018 Barbara Hammer retrospective remains a standout because it demanded…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ZLFj9vggQZBxmh9puyXZs8-1920-80.png-copy.jpg?w=1024″] An archaeological dig in Serbia turned up remnants of a uniquely constructed bathing complex thought to have been used by a Roman emperor. As reported by Live Science, “The suite of rooms—which included heated floors, three bathing pools, and a sauna—was uncovered at the bottom of a tower within an imperial palace,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-Young-Mother.jpg?w=1024″] Two stolen paintings by American artist Eastman Johnson (1824–1906) have been found in Connecticut. Milford auction house Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, which helped recover the works, announced the news on its website. The paintings, Mary and Her Lamb (1877) and The Young Mother (ca. 1872–73), were stolen from New York galleries Kenneth…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Serp_Hockney_2026_006.1-1.jpg?w=1024″] The David Hockney exhibition “A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting,” on view at Serpentine North in London from March 12 through August 23, broke the gallery’s prior attendance records with around 300,000 visitors. This marks the best attended exhibition at the Serpentine in its 56-year history. The exhibition…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2241289844.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Trump is proceeding with the construction of his triumphal arch despite lacking federal approval. Record heatwaves in France cost national monuments and museums hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Germany’s arts sector is closely watching whether the far-right gains ground during…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/ART190912-copy.jpg?w=1024″] By all appearances, Pop art is the quintessential American genre, born of Hollywood, Madison Avenue, comic books, and a mid-century cornucopia of TVs, cars, and appliances. Its marquee names—Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg (among a host of others, including female artists such as Rosalyn Drexler, Marisol Escobar, and Marjorie…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/img-90529b62-0efe-4ada-8fa3-895313ca4694.png?w=800″] “I’m writing a novella about Eva Hesse, I say when people ask,” writes Kate Zambreno in their new book Foam, out from Semiotext(e) on September 15. But Hesse, the late sculptor who believed “art and life are inseparable,” keeps slipping away, getting subsumed or pushed out of Zambreno’s reach. Just one quick…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/05.-Courtesy-Lucas-Museum-of-Narrative-Art.-Photo-by-HuftonCrow.jpg?w=1024″] If a picture is worth a thousand words, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has decided it’s not worth writing a single one. Nearly two decades in the making and costing more than $1 billion, the long-awaited Lucas Museum is finally ready to make its debut, with founding member…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-1232052664.jpg?w=1024″] The Chinese artists set to exhibit at this year’s Gwangju Biennale officially withdrew today from the prestigious exhibition, which opens September 5. The announcement follows a directive issued last week by the Chinese embassy in Seoul ordering China’s artistic team to halt its activities in protest of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation’s decision…