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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Chasing-Bubbles-Doll.png?w=1000″] The art world isn’t having an easy moment. Galleries are closing, federal arts funding has dried up, and collectors have pulled back from big-ticket purchases. Against that backdrop, The Bennett Prize — a biennial award for women painters working in figurative realism — just raised its grand prize from $50,000 to $75,000.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/01.22.26_PG_AIA_-QA_2-1.png?w=1024″] With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide. I fired my gallery of 25 years after they refused to release me from a contract that forbade me from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1238606812.jpg?w=1024″] Last night, France’s lower house of parliament unanimously voted in favor of a long-anticipated bill to facilitate the restitution of artworks looted during the colonial era, making good on a nearly 10-year-old pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron to return African heritage to the continent. The vote, which came following a lively debate that went late into…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Photo_-Annie-Forrest.-Courtesy_-IFPDA-Print-Fair-1-1.jpg?w=1024″] The 2026 edition of the annual IFPDA Print Fair closed Sunday with record attendance and strong sales, offering an early look at what happens when a fair built on prints starts to stretch beyond them. Held at the Park Avenue Armory, this year’s edition drew more than 21,000 visitors over four days, including roughly 5,000…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2_DB-Alserkal-5322.jpg?w=1024″] Alserkal will stretch its usual Art Week into a five-week “Art Month” from April 18 to May 18, adding grants, temporary warehouse space for collectives, and a commercially focused group show organized with 12 galleries from around the United Arab Emirates. The extension is an effort to keep exhibitions and sales moving…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-2250075266.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HISTORIC VOTE. France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, unanimously voted late last night in favor of a long-anticipated bill to facilitate the restitution of artworks looted during the colonial era, making good on a nearly decade-old pledge by president…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/foto_home-1.jpg?w=1000″] Researchers working on an archaeological salvage project related to construction of a passenger train between Querétaro and Mexico City discovered a 1,000-year-old stone altar. The discovery was first reported in March, and was uncovered within the Tula Archaeological Monument Zone, a Toltec site in the central state of Hidalgo, according to Mexico’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/https___cdn.sanity.io_images_xq1bjtf4_production_907ba39acd473dc6421ded3fa5fadbce18cf5bbd-3996×2160-1.jpeg?w=1024″] This article includes spoilers for The Drama, which is now playing theatrically. By now, you’ve probably heard that The Drama, a new film by Kristoffer Borgli that stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a soon-to-be-married couple, has what many are calling a “twist.” In actuality, it’s more of a reveal, and it…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1229425922.jpg?w=1024″] The Barjeel Art Foundation, the organization that facilitates the celebrated trove of modern and Arab art assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum in Sharjah, due to open in January 2028. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi announced the news on Instagram yesterday alongside a photograph from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/725px-Mona_Lisa_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci_from_C2RMF_retouched-e1660680153902.webp?w=726″] Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer behind such durable hits as Cats (1981), Phantom of the Opera, and Evita, has teased a new musical about the early 20th century theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, the Mona Lisa. The news was first reported by the British publication The Stage. Lloyd Webber had already announced he was…