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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1233848235.jpg?w=1024″] Thomas Zipp, the German punk musician, painter, and installation artist with a relentlessly critical eye, has died. His gallery, Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Thumm, announced the news on social media, writing that he “passed away far too soon.” “Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family,” the gallery added. “Dear Thomas Zipp,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Josh-Kline-Portrait_2024.jpeg?w=1024″] In 2011, Andrea Fraser wrote that “what has been good for the art world has been disastrous for the rest of the world.” Fifteen years on, Fraser’s words still ring true. But finding the words for why is not always so easy, and maybe that is the reason a recently published essay…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/newsmakers-banner_9047d2.jpg?w=1024″] In 2020, as the art market scrambled to move online, Loïc Gouzer tried something smaller. After years staging blockbuster evening sales at Christie’s as chairman of post-war and contemporary art, he launched the app Fair Warning. Its premise was simple: sell one work at time to a tightly screened group of collectors.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DRivera_RetratoNatashaGelman.jpg?w=1024″] The Fundación Banco Santander in Spain has announced that it will return the Gelman Collection, which includes several important works of 20th-century Mexican art, to Mexico by 2028, according to a report by dpa. The planned return comes after an open letter signed by more than 200 art professionals last month that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/KHaring_Buick_garage_install1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1024″] Although work by graffiti-turned-gallery artist Keith Haring (1958–90) remained highly collectible after his death of AIDS at 31, there has been a surge of interest in it of late, with pieces by him bringing millions at auction, a traveling exhibition in 2023, and collaborations by the estate with such popular brands as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/trump-ballroom.jpg?w=1024″] Just days after a federal judge put the kibosh on President Donald Trump’s $400 million plan to renovate the White House with a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, the administration filed an emergency motion to undo the ruling. On Friday, the Trump Administration filed a motion in the US Court of Appeals for the District…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/GettyImages-1203490121.jpg?w=1024″] Two former employees say the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C., altered content on its website and canceled long-planned programming preemptively to avoid angering the Trump administration. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one ex-staffer told Politico that museum administrators appeared to be “trying to proactively fall in line as to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/aia_book-collage__27a1d3.jpg?w=1024″] Few artists have sparked more critical response than Marcel Duchamp—the subject of a big MoMA retrospective on view April 12 through August 22. Even Picasso’s legacy finds in the Frenchman’s conceptual practice a divergent and influential foil. While Cubism and collage revolutionized pictorial space and its aesthetic offshoots, Duchamp upended the very…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_3473.jpeg?w=1024″] Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist representing Israel at the forthcoming Venice Biennale, responded at length this weekend to continued calls for his nation’s ejection from the show. “As an artist, I do not support cultural boycotts,” Fainaru wrote in an extended statement sent to ARTnews. “I believe in dialogue and exchange, especially in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Link-Rot.jpg?w=1024″] In the beginning, there was a lot of work to do.  In the Mesopotamian creation myth, the Anunnaki, the Big Gods, and the Igigi, the Little Gods, drew sticks to decide who would do the hard labor of digging the channel that would become the Euphrates river. It was the Igigi who…