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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287542996.jpg?w=1024″] The Trump administration has proposed the Smithsonian Institution’s leanest budget in nearly a decade, along with staff reductions, as its campaign against the museum over its ideological direction takes an expected turn.  For fiscal year 2027, the White House has proposed giving the Smithsonian $961.3 million in federal funding, roughly an 11…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ex.gra_.2026.5010-jpeg-only.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Michelle Grabner will donate more than 2,000 artworks to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, making the institution the most comprehensive repository of her work. Comprising 700 paintings, 200 sculptures, and 1,200 prints, Grabner’s gift spans the arc of her career, so far, with pieces made in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/BFA_52641_7611714.jpg?w=1024″] The New Art Dealers Alliance has named the 135 galleries that will take part in the upcoming 2026 edition of NADA Miami, scheduled to run December 1–5 at its longtime home, the Ice Palace Studios. The fair’s 24th edition will bring together exhibitors from 63 cities in 27 countries, with 45 of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/link-rot-venice-vcuarts.png?w=1024″] Earlier this month, Dr. Michael Rao, president of Virginia Commonwealth University, made a bold statement: it’s time to move “beyond” the educational model developed by Oxford University in the High Middle Ages. Rao was speaking at the opening of “أغرب إدراك: Aghrab Idrāk: Thresholds of Perception,” a an official Venice Biennale collateral…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/aia_book-collage-1.jpg?w=1024″] Summer reading enters its final stretch as 6 exciting new books hit the shelves in August (if you don’t count my own!). This month’s offerings span the centuries, moving from Renaissance theories of vision to contemporary debates over morality, inequality, and the future of art. A new biography explores the secret lives…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1_fe154c.jpg?w=1023″] On December 8, 2025, Instagram permanently terminated the account @nipeople, a project by artist, journalist, and activist Emma Shapiro, instantly erasing years of work and sparking a legal debate over digital freedom. The Instagram account was part of Exposure Therapy, a project begun in 2017 that aims to challenge gender-based discrimination by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/an-aerial-view-of-excavations-at-the-tell-el-deir-archaeological-site-in-damietta-governorate-credit-ministry-of-tourism-and-antiquities.jpg.webp?w=1024″] Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 20 funerary stelae depicting human figures at Tell El-Deir, an archaeological site in the Nile Delta. The news was reported by multiple news outlets, including Ahram and La Brújula Verde, following an announcement by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). The carved limestone grave markers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Bouvier.png?w=1024″] Yves Bouvier is back in federal court in New York. The Swiss art dealer has asked a judge in the Southern District of New York to compel Sotheby’s to turn over records relating to the private sale of a Pablo Picasso painting, saying the documents are needed for a criminal case he…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/crown.jpg?w=1024″] Amazon MGM Studios dropped this week the trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake of the acclaimed 1968 film that will open in theaters on March 5, 2027. Directed by and starring Academy Award–winning actor Michael B. Jordan, the trailer already hints at the art-related plot points for the film. About…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2154139624.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Santa Clara University in California launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research. The tool is intended to enable anyone to ask questions about Nazi-looted artworks and receive answers based on information culled from a searchable, illustrated online database with over 40,000 entries. The…