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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Edwards_2023_Albrecht_Fuchs.jpg?w=1024″] Melvin Edwards, a sculptor whose assemblages of welded steel and barbed wire nodded toward centuries of violence and reframed the visual language of Minimalism, died on Monday in Baltimore. He was 88, according to his gallery, Alexander Gray Associates, which said in its obituary that he died peacefully, in the presence of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/norby.jpg?w=1024″] Patricia Marroquin Norby, the first curator of Native American art ever hired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, quietly left her post in December 2025. Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York posted a job listing for a curator of Native American art to replace Norby, who had…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-830942782.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Germany is setting up a new panel called the Coordination Council for Returns of Cultural Property and Human Remains from Colonial Contexts. A rare scrap of typed lyrics from Bob Dylan’s song “I’m Not There” was found hidden in a book and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Install-Angle-1.jpg?w=1024″] We asked the beloved novelist, whose book Transcription is out in April, to single out one artwork that impacted him.  I thought of Rose Salane’s 60 Detected Rings (1991–2021) when asked to inaugurate a column called Revelations because the word is so close to “revaluations,” and what the art I love reveals…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HGK_2021C-Evening-Sale-03.27.26-1005_L.jpg?w=1024″] For the second consecutive year, Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s aligned their marquee spring auctions in Asia with the week of Art Basel Hong Kong. The strategy clearly worked, with the three houses generating a combined $164.9 million across their modern and contemporary art evening sales. That result marked a significant rebound from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2184396168.jpg?w=1024″] The British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen is this year’s winner of the Erasmus Prize, given annually by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch cultural institution. The award comes with a 150,000 euro (about $172,000) cash prize plus “adornments”—in this case, a folded paper booklet printed with text in the 16th century…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Old-Man-with-a-Gold-Chain.jpg?w=1024″] A painting long thought to be a “workshop copy” of a cherished Rembrandt in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago has been attributed to Rembrandt himself by a scholar with significant credit to his claim. As reported by the Guardian, Gary Schwartz, who has written books on Rembrandt and Dutch…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MuseoReinaSofia-Guernica.jpg?w=1024″] The Basque regional government has formally asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso‘s Guernica to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, according to Ara, a Catalan-language newspaper. If the move is approved, it would mark the first time the painting has traveled since it was installed at Madrid’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Barnes_SkyHopinka_3.jpeg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) has spent the last year and a half photographing the American landscape. That journey across the United States has culminated in the new…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1272070306.jpg?w=1024″] Four masked men stole three artworks, one each by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse, from a private art museum in Italy last week, according to a report by the Bologna-based newspaper La Repubblica. The paintings are reportedly worth millions of dollars. The heist, which took place on the night of March…