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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-160803222.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines STICKING IT TO HITLER. A previously unseen trove of World War II–era photographs by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton has surfaced in a carefully preserved, personal scrapbook by their former assistant, Roland Haupt, reports the  Times of London. The discovery of this “empirical time capsule” is being celebrated as one of the greatest photographic records of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ART3670-1.jpg?w=1024″] Imagine a world where an artist is considered an essential worker. The government commissions murals and sculptures for schools, libraries, and hospitals. Taxes fund free classes in pottery and printmaking at a community art center. The president of the United States promotes art as vital to a healthy democracy.  This world flickered…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/modig.jpg?w=1024″] An 11-year-long legal dispute over a prized Amedeo Modigliani painting looted during World War II has concluded in a loss for billionaire art dealer David Nahmad and his family, marking an unlikely restitution victory for the heirs of its original Jewish owner. A New York judge ruled this week that Seated Man…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Gisela-Colon-working-in-Los-Angeles-studio.-Photo_-Marten-Elder.jpg?w=1024″] Gisela Colón didn’t plan to become an artist. “I studied law because I thought it would protect me,” she told ARTnews, looking back on a childhood in Puerto Rico shaped as much by instability as it was by the farm in the outskirts of Bayamón where she grew up.  She left San…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/P8045-004-A5-pr.jpg?w=1024″] In the hushed, reverent galleries of the National Gallery in London, saints usually suffer in silence. Not so in the hands of Ming Wong, who was given unparalleled access to the museum’s collection of European masterpieces during a residency last year. In his latest film Dance of the Sun on the Water…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/basquiat-untitled-1982.jpg?w=1024″] The Pérez Art Museum Miami announced this week that it will host an exhibition bringing together about 10 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat that are owned by Kenneth C. Griffin, one of the world’s top collectors. Titled “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” the exhibition will feature nine paintings and one sculpture by the artist…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/b8cba0fc-cf5e-49c6-1b8d-b9824f1f2aeb.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. Industry Moves Patron Gallery Adds Miao Wang to Its Roster: The Chicago-based painter will be featured in a two-artist presentation with Alice Tippit at Expo Chicago next week. Open Restitution Africa Launches AI-Powered Restitution Data Platform: The initiative…