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  • Elsa Schiaparelli Gets Her UK Museum Debut at the V&A, in a Show Featuring Dalí, Man Ray, and Picasso

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Schiaparelli_-Fashion-Becomes-Art-at-VA-South-Kensington-c-Victoria-and-Albert-Museum-London-7.jpg?w=1024″] The UK has never before seen an exhibition of the legendary Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and now more than 400 objects are going on view at the V&A, including 100 ensembles and 50 artworks, along with accessories, jewelry, paintings, photographs, furniture, perfumes, and items from the archive. “Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art”…

  • Cristopher Canizares Leaving Hauser & Wirth to Launch Artist Agency

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CC.jpeg?w=1024″] After 16 years helping build one of the most powerful galleries in the world, Cristopher Canizares is stepping away from Hauser & Wirth to try something the art market still hasn’t quite figured out how to define: an artist management agency. The longtime partner will leave at the end of May to…

  • Female Pharaoh’s Erasure From Memory Was Not Revenge, Researcher Says

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/urn_cambridge.org_id_binary_20250801112034616-0736_s0003598x2500064x_s0003598x2500064x_fig4_720_78bc73.jpg?w=720″] Hatshepsut (ca. 1505–1458 BCE), the most powerful of ancient Egypt’s female rulers, was also one of the most successful, notable for reopening old trade routes, commissioning massive building projects—including her own mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri—and ushering in an era of political stability, economic growth, and artistic innovation. Her rise to the…

  • Underground Railroad Museum Sues Trump Administration

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/UREC.jpg?w=1024″] Last week, the Underground Railroad Education Center (UREC) in Albany, New York, filed a lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities, accusing it of cancelling a $250,000 grant on the basis of race. The suit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York by a…

  • Brooklyn Museum Plans New $13 M. Home for African Art Collection

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-486665657.jpg?w=1024″] The Brooklyn Museum revealed plans to renovate and build a new home for its African art collection dating back to the early 1900s, making it one of America’s oldest institutional collections of art from Africa and the diaspora it informs. The $13-million project aims to establish a dedicated 6,400-square-foot destination on the…

  • Pace Is Selling a $13.3 M. Modigliani Painting at Art Basel Hong Kong

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/97107_MODIGLIANI_v01AltFrame-HighResolution—300dpi.jpg?w=1024″] Just weeks after announcing a book launch for Institut Restellini’s decades-in-the-making Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné, Pace is offering a painting by the artist at Art Basel Hong Kong that was only recently authenticated. The work has a long legal backstory. Titled Jeune femme brune (1917–18), the work is the highest priced piece…

  • Raphael at the Met, Review: A Must-See Show the ‘Greatest Influencer’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/DP-44735-118-JPG-Original-300dpi.jpg?w=1024″] The closing image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Raphael blockbuster, opening to the public on Sunday, is of a muscular man bursting out of a craggy hillside. As he does so, one jacked forearm blows right through the frame that surrounds him. Part of a monumentally scaled tapestry called Saint Paul…

  • Banned South Africa Pavilion Show Moves to Another Venice Venue

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Gabrielle_Goliath.jpeg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE SHOW MUST GO ON. Gabrielle Goliath’s banned performance artwork commemorating Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada, initially meant to be shown at South Africa’s Venice Biennale pavilion, will now go on display outside the main exhibition, reports the Guardian. The…

  • Gabrielle Goliath To Bring Banned Work to Venice, Despite Cancellation

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Gabrielle-Goliath_photo-by-Anthea-Pokroy_2-landscape.png?w=1024″] South Africa’s contribution to this year’s Venice Biennale will be both absent and impossible to ignore. Months after the government abruptly canceled a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath, the work at the center of the dispute is now set to appear in Venice anyway, just not inside the Biennale proper. Instead,…

  • Louvre to Restore Rubens Medici Cycle in Its ‘Most Ambitious’ Project

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2267714342.jpg?w=1024″] If you want to see one of Peter Paul Rubens‘s beloved paintings in the Marie de’ Medici cycle, head to the Louvre before the fall. After that, these canvases, considered by some to be the high watermark of Rubens’s career, will be off view for four years. The reason they will leave…