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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2242668198.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines VILLA VANDALIZED. Three masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne were stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation’s villa near Parma on the night of March 22, as first reported by the Italian broadcaster Rai on Sunday and later aggregated by  Le Monde and the Agence France-Presse. Police said four masked burglars forced open a door to the building.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Throne-1.jpg?w=1024″] The latest in a series of politically inflected sculptures to appear on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a giant golden toilet that can now be found near the Lincoln Memorial. Its title, as its plaque states, is A Throne Fit for a King, and its makers is the Secret Handshake,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/037__annieforrest_photo__7426_300dpi.png?w=1000″] For centuries, drawings and prints were collected and exhibited together, with the blurry distinction between the two sometimes dissolving altogether. The upcoming IFPDA Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory (April 9–12) will offer an illuminating exploration of this relationship, with 80 exhibitors from Singapore to Stockholm (including blue chip galleries Hauser…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Oval-Office-is-set-for-a-meeting-between-U.S.-President-Donald-Trump-and-Norways-Prime-Minister-Jonas-Gahr-Store-at-the-White-House-on-April-24-2025-in-Washington-DC.-Photo-by-Chip-SomodevillaGetty-Images.jpg?w=1024″] There is a fable that persists in even themost respectable quarters, perhaps because it has retained its power to shock for more than half a century. Get any card-carrying liberal into a sufficiently confessional mood and she will tell you, sotto voce, that there was one domain in which the Nazis were…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_9999_280.jpg?w=1024″] On a recent visit to the Notre-Dame de Paris, the 12th-century cathedral was bustling with a steady flow of visitors who had come inside the Gothic monument from a wintery afternoon. It seemed more packed than it had been before its closure in 2019, after the collapse of its iconic spire and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2259106655_44cb9d.jpg?w=1024″] The Kennedy Center began laying off staff on Thursday, according to a report in the Washington Post. The cuts, which employees say affected multiple departments, are tied to President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the Washington, D.C., cultural institution for two years, which was approved by its board earlier this month.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-90318281.jpg?w=1024″] Guillaume Cerutti, the former CEO of Christie’s auction house, has left his position at the Pinault Collection after just 13 months, the French investigative news outlet Glitz reported earlier this week. In February 2025, Cerutti became president of the collection owned by French billionaire François Pinault. In addition to the 10,000 works…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Antonio_Homem.jpg?w=1024″] Antonio Homem, who started working with the storied gallerist Ileana Sonnabend in the 1960s and went on to oversee her collection and maintain her and husband Michael Sonnabend’s legacy as supporters of some of the most important figures of post-war contemporary art, has died at the age of 86. The news was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2267974505.jpg?w=1024″] Countless bands and musical artists have celebrated new album releases on late-night television, but no one has done so with quite the art world flair as BTS, the mega-famous K-pop boy band fronted by art enthusiast and collector RM. (The other six members are Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook.)…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Padiglione-Centrale_Giardini_Photo-by-Francesco-Galli.jpg?w=1024″] As controversy mounts over Russia’s plans to mount its first Venice Biennale pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter that calls for the European Union to cease all funding to the Biennale. The EU has not publicly stated how much money…