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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Chrome_bust_of_Russian_Communist_leader_Vladimir_Lenin_in_West_Hollywood_California_LCCN2013631605-e1775246823888.jpg?w=1024″] The Human Rights Foundation has submitted a complaint to a United Nations body that reviews detention cases on behalf of Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, seeking a finding that his prolonged detention is arbitrary under international law. Gao, 69, was arrested in China in 2024 on “suspicion of slandering China’s heroes and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-174302216.jpg?w=1024″] South Seas, a resort located on Captiva Island, off the coast of Florida, is the buyer of Robert Rauschenberg’s famed 22-acre property on the island, which had been home to one of the country’s top artist residency programs following his death. The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the steward of the namesake artist’s legacy,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/saffron.png?w=1024″] A painting by Raja Ravi Varma has set a new auction record for the work of an Indian artist, signaling continued strength at the top end of the market. Yashoda and Krishna (ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 million at Saffronart in Delhi on April 1, surpassing the previous benchmark for Indian painting at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2050811060.jpg?w=1024″] The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, home to one of the world’s most well-known collections of Italian Renaissance art, is denying a report that a recent cyber attack gave hackers “access everywhere” in the museum. The article, published on Apr. 3 in the Italian daily newspaper Correre della Sera, said that the hackers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_8011-2-1.jpg?w=1024″] Max Levai is expanding into Chelsea at a moment when much of the market is pulling back. The former president of Marlborough Gallery will open a 7,000-square-foot flagship at 529 West 20th Street this fall, his first permanent New York space after several years of operating between pop-ups, international projects like his…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-618579236.jpg?w=1024″] The heirs of the Bic family fortune filed suit in March for the return of a painting by Fra Angelico that sold at Christie’s for $5.4 million in 2018. That sale was only possible, the heirs allege, because a chauffeur for the family had stolen the work, then sold it to a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2261909658-e1775229433526.jpg?w=1024″] German sculptor and illustrator Jacques Tilly was convicted on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military and insulting religious feelings, after creating carnival displays mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Associated Pressreported Thursday. The 62-year-old artist has been designing and building floats for Düsseldorf’s Carnival parade for nearly 40 years.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Samurai-Exhibition-The-Trustees-of-the-British-Museum_5.jpg?w=1024″] The myth of the samurai gained prominence outside Japan in the early 20th century through films, TV shows, art, and literature. This widespread interest contributed to various misconceptions about them. However, a new exhibition at the British Museum, simply titled “Samurai,” is more comprehensive and dramatic than its name suggests. The show,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/609509168-e1775221083101.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Artist Henry Guimond, from Sagkeeng First Nation, designed a patch worn by Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis II mission to the Moon. The Uffizi Galleries were the target of a cyberattack in February, but deny reports of damage.  New Louvre leader ousts painting department director Sébatien Allard. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Manet_Morisot_Media_Preview_011.jpg?w=1024″] A sign of the times: Berthe Morisot, usually relegated to the realm of “women” Impressionists, gets equal billing with Edouard Manet, the arch modernist described as the “father” of Impressionism in “Manet & Morisot.” The exhibition, now on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art, originated at the Legion of Honor in…