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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/soares-1.jpg?w=1024″] Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose paintings and installations from the 1960s and ’70s challenged gendered-conventions of how women were both treated in Brazilian society and depicted throughout art history, died on March 31 in Belo Horizonte. She was 99 years old. She had been hospitalized after breaking her femur and never…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/trump-ballroom.jpg?w=1024″] In an opinion filed March 31,  a US District Court judge for the District of Columbia has rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for a 90,000-square-foot, $400 million ballroom to be erected on the former site of the East Wing, which Trump unceremoniously demolished last year.  Judge Richard J. Leon, a George W.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/sistine-chapel-exhibit-01.jpeg?w=1024″] The similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo’s hallowed paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The setting will be the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall, and the occasion will be “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,” an “immersive experience” opening…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Actor-Jack-Bannell-as-Caravaggio-on-location-aboard-The-Matthew-Bristol-1.jpeg?w=1024″] Caravaggio, a feature-length documentary about the Baroque Italian painter, was released in theaters last fall. The film, directed by Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff, is part of the “Exhibition on Screen” series, which is produced by UK-based company Seventh Art Productions. It will now be more widely available, premiering on Marquee TV,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/GettyImages-2252618071.jpg?w=1024″] China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had quietly slipped into the private market, according to Hong Kong newspaper South Morning China Post. The directive, issued this week by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, requires…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/02-JOOPITER-TREY_Hero-Left-Profile.jpg?w=1024″] A triceratops sold online for $5.5 million on Tuesday on musician and designer Pharrell Williams’s auction platform Joopiter. The result set a record for a dinosaur sold in an online-only sale, the Art Newspaper reported Wednesday. The sale of the 66-million-year-old skeleton known as “Trey” is further evidence of a larger trend…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1205250086.jpg?w=1024″] A new hotline inviting people to “confess their sins” is launching on Thursday, but it’s not backed by the Church. Instead, it’s the latest project by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose work often mixes religious imagery with controversy and dark humor. As reported by The Guardian, the phone line is going…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Maurizio-Cattelan-portrait.webp?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE LAST DANCE. Yesterday, Judge Richard Leon halted construction of President Trump’s contentious White House ballroom, ruling that Congress must approve the major building project first, reports the New York Times. It is the first time a federal judge has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Kill-Dick.jpg?w=504″] Before you even begin reading Luke Goebel’s Kill Dick, there are clues that it’s going to be a wild ride. Blurbs on the back cover are attributed to Anna Delvey, the socialite-scammer, and to Ottessa Moshfegh of My Year of Rest and Relaxation fame—also, the author’s wife. Moshfegh says, “If this book…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/62281823_1004.jpeg?w=664″] The German government is creating a new council to oversee the restitution of artifacts acquired in a colonial context, the Art Newspaper reported Tuesday. The new panel, known as the Coordination Council for Returns of Cultural Property and Human Remains from Colonial Contexts, will be made up of representatives from German government,…