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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/foto_home-1.jpg?w=1000″] Researchers working on an archaeological salvage project related to construction of a passenger train between Querétaro and Mexico City discovered a 1,000-year-old stone altar. The discovery was first reported in March, and was uncovered within the Tula Archaeological Monument Zone, a Toltec site in the central state of Hidalgo, according to Mexico’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/https___cdn.sanity.io_images_xq1bjtf4_production_907ba39acd473dc6421ded3fa5fadbce18cf5bbd-3996×2160-1.jpeg?w=1024″] This article includes spoilers for The Drama, which is now playing theatrically. By now, you’ve probably heard that The Drama, a new film by Kristoffer Borgli that stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a soon-to-be-married couple, has what many are calling a “twist.” In actuality, it’s more of a reveal, and it…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1229425922.jpg?w=1024″] The Barjeel Art Foundation, the organization that facilitates the celebrated trove of modern and Arab art assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum in Sharjah, due to open in January 2028. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi announced the news on Instagram yesterday alongside a photograph from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/725px-Mona_Lisa_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci_from_C2RMF_retouched-e1660680153902.webp?w=726″] Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer behind such durable hits as Cats (1981), Phantom of the Opera, and Evita, has teased a new musical about the early 20th century theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, the Mona Lisa. The news was first reported by the British publication The Stage. Lloyd Webber had already announced he was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1299967143.jpg?w=1024″] The restaurant inside the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is eliminating its front-of-house staff and replacing traditional service with QR-code ordering. Cardamom, the museum’s in-house restaurant operated by DDP Restaurant Group, will shift to a counter-service model this week, with customers ordering via their phones rather than through servers. Sixteen hosts and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/479785370.jpg?w=1024″] Late last week, the Trump administration published plans proposing to make exterior improvements to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a building adjacent to the White House. In a 15-page proposal, the administration calls for painting the French Second Empire–style building’s facade white, with renderings of the repainted building from various angles. CNN…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1240129621.jpg?w=1024″] The European Commission, an independent arm of the EU responsible for enforcing EU law, has given the Venice Biennale 30 days to “clear its name” regarding the inclusion of the Russian Pavilion in the 2026 edition, according to a report by La Repubblica, which reviewed the letter. The letter, invoking the charge…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-83100479.jpg?w=1024″] A $40 million Pablo Picasso painting from the artist’s Cubist period will hit the block at Sotheby’s this May during the marquee New York auctions. Part of a cache of works from the collection of late Surrealist artist Enrico Donati and his wife Adele, who died last year, Arlequin (Buste), from 1909,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Alice-Bucknell.png?w=1024″] The Medina Triennial, a new recurring art exhibition set to launch in the titular Western New York village this summer, has revealed the artist list for its inaugural edition, due to open on June 6 in close proximity to the Erie Canal. The 39 participants include a range of artists well-known on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1152457437.jpg?w=1024″] Having been kicked out of its longtime home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Gagosian is starting over in the neighborhood with a new space on the ground floor of 980 Madison Avenue, the same building where it formerly had a multilevel gallery. Because Gagosian is such a force within the art industry,…