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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/lviv-historic-city-centre-UNESCO-Silvan-Rehfeld.jpg?w=1024″] For months Russia and Ukraine have been trading deadly drone strikes, and over the last couple of days Russia launched its most extensive drone campaign yet. A March 24 Russian strike in the historic center of the city of Lviv damaged a 17th-century Bernardine monastery that includes a church devoted to St.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MarciaVilcek_VilcekFoundation.jpeg?w=1024″] Marica Vilcek, an art historian who, with her husband Jan, cofounded the grant-making Vilcek Foundation, died on Monday in New York. She was 89, according to the foundation, which said she died peacefully at her home. The Vilcek Foundation is an unusual one, since it funds endeavors in both art history and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ai-SORA.jpg?w=1024″] In a surprise move, OpenAI will shut down its Sora AI video app, just months after it was first launched. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-26-at-08.15.01.png?w=988″] At the ripe old age of 88, David Hockney has sounded a warning to the art world: “There’s much too much abstract painting being done now.” He was recently speaking to the Times from his Kensington studio while recovering from an infection, and he was discussing his latest exhibition, “A Year in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-26-at-07.51.59.png?w=1024″] Last week, Greek authorities detained an Athens-based art dealer as part of an investigation into alleged the forgery, theft, and illegal trade of antiquities. According to the Greek Reporter, Giorgos Tsagarakis, 51, and one of his employees were arrested by the country’s Organized Crime Division. The move was was part of an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BritishMuseum.jpg?w=1024″] Good morning! The UK government is exploring the option of charging foreign tourists for entry to national museums. The Azrieli Foundation maintains it did not end funding for the Toronto Arts Foundation over Gaza-related protests. Art Basel Hong Kong day-one sales are in. The Headlines NO MORE FREE LUNCH? Today, the UK’s culture…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/abhk-2026.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Cash flowed, but confidence trickled on Day 1 of Art Basel Hong Kong, where a cross-section of the 240 galleries offered a spectrum of responses to one simple question: How are sales?  At Hauser &…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Roselli_PatSteirHiRes-1.jpg?w=1024″] Pat Steir, who made a name for herself via wall-size abstractions that she achieved by pouring paint from a ladder, died on Wednesday in Manhattan of natural causes. She was 87. Her death was confirmed by her husband Joost Elffers, her niece Lily Sukoneck-Cohen, and Marc Payot, president of Hauser & Wirth,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-914897786.jpg?w=1024″] After her forthcoming French Pavilion for the Venice Biennale was denounced by a prominent Jewish group, artist Yto Barrada appeared to address the controversy, saying that the pavilion’s organizers knew about her views on Israel when they selected her. Barrada, who was born in Paris and is of Moroccan descent, was among…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2267670703.jpg?w=1024″] The Guggenheim in New York City is one of the most famous art museums in the world, and on the morning of Wednesday (March 25), BTS descended on the landmark to add a little performance art to its galleries ahead of the band’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon appearance. Billboard was on the scene as RM, Jin,…