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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/napoleon.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Guillaume Cerutti is stepping down from his relatively new role as president of the Pinault Collection. Forgotten in storage for nearly a century, one of Napoleon’s two-cornered hats has been identified and will go on display in June. Precious Okoyomon’s Whitney Biennial installation of around 50 hanging stuffed animals and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/01-RAM_TGC_Install_02.jpeg?w=1024″] In a famous photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois with Mao Zedong, both men are absolutely giddy and dressed to the nines: big smiles, stylish hats, long wool coats. That picture—and the 20th-century Afro-Asian alliances it symbolizes—was something of an impetus for “The Great Camouflage,” a show on view at the Rockbund Art…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/0040_260325-Precious-Okoyomon-Whitney-Biennial.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this month, the Whitney Biennial went on view to the usual amount of fanfare—but one work was notably missing from the show. That work, a room-filling installation by Precious Okoyomon featuring stuffed animals and racist dolls suspended from the ceiling by nooses, was initially meant to appear in the lobby. But…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1152754603.jpg?w=1024″] Tad Smith, chairman of Doodles and former CEO of Sotheby’s, has agreed to buy most of the assets of digital collectibles platform Candy Digital. He wrote on X that he’s “doubling down” on his “commitment to digital collectibles, adding that “when the transaction closes in a week or two, I will also…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/26cul-JESUIT-STOLEN-01-wclv-googleFourByThree.jpg?w=800″] In a restitution ceremony held this week in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office returned 17 stolen antiquities and rare books collectively valued at more than $1.5 million to Italy and the Vatican. According to a statement by D.A.’s office, the objects were recovered after “multiple investigations into antiquities trafficking networks.”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-584617150.jpg?w=1024″] The skeletal remains of the 17th-century French folk hero D’Artangnan—born: Charles de Batz de Castelmore—have perhaps been recovered after being buried under a church in the Netherlands for centuries. The floor of the church, St. Peter and Paul in Maastricht, suffered damage last month, and subsequent repair work revealed the remains. D’Artagnan,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2213958642.jpg?w=1024″] A Paul Klee painting famously owned by the philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin is currently stuck in Israel as a result of the war waged by Israel and the United States in Iran. The work was to make its American debut earlier this month. As noted in a Hyperallergic review and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2267211041.jpg?w=1024″] Hong Kong may be halfway through Mega 8, the city’s new name for its months-long lineup of major arts, culture, and sporting events, but the undoubted highlight is this week’s Art Basel Hong Kong. The fair has become a must-attend for locals and a major draw for international visitors, with attendance reaching…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/abhk2026-2.jpg?w=1024″] Sore feet, lean pockets, sustainability woes—what’s a 21st-century art fair really good for, some might wonder? Surpassing the skepticism, this edition of Art Basel Hong Kong offered a compelling glimpse at the talent flourishing across Asia. Sure, Pace Gallery’s Modigliani made the early headlines—but by our reckoning, the fair belonged to Asia’s modern masters and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1238669797.jpg?w=1024″] The United Kingdom’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has accepted several recommendations from a report last year aimed at increasing access to the arts in the country. One of these would require international visitors to pay an entry fee to visit the UK’s national museums, according to a report in…