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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1211491430.jpg?w=1024″] Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist whose work has appeared in an array of shows ranging from the Bienal de São Paulo to the Venice Biennale, was hospitalized after he was attacked on Saturday in Tamale, Ghana. Mahama alleged that his attackers were part of a special operations police unit known as the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-588183838.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CRIME SHOW. The well-known Greek dealer Giorgos Tsagarakis, who hosted televised art auctions, was arrested in Athens on Friday on felony charges for trafficking forged and stolen artwork and antiquities, according to The Greek Reporter. Greece’s Organized Crime Division made…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Virgin-and-Child-with-Infant-Saint-John-the-Baptist-in-a-Landscape-The-Alba-Madonna_ca-1509-11.webp?w=1000″] The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael may have been called the “prince of painters,” but his masterful drawings were his calling card, even from a young age. We know him best today for paintings such as The Marriage of the Virgin (1504), The School of Athens (1509–11), and The Sistine Madonna (1512–13), but…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MBD_1007_300dpi.jpg?w=1024″] Thaddaeus Ropac has taken on Martha Diamond, the New York painter whose cityscapes are admired by artists yet largely under-recognized on the market. The gallery will represent the trust in collaboration with David Kordansky, with a first European museum survey set to open at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere, Finland,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_1539-e1774368609908.jpeg?w=1024″] “We are witnessing growing geopolitical complexity around the world. In times like these, culture matters more than ever. Culture transcends borders,” said Hong Kong’s Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Rosanna Law, at the opening ceremony of this year’s Hong Kong International Cultural Summit on Monday.  The remark offered one of the summit’s few, curated nods to the destabilizing effects of the spiraling U.S.–Israel–Iran…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/lisa-fayne-cohen-galerie-jeffrey-epstein.jpg?w=1024″] Documents in the Justice Department’s release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein appear to show ties between the financier and convicted sex offender and a New York art collector and magazine publisher, and her developer-investor husband. Lisa Fayne Cohen and her husband, Jimmy Cohen—founder, CEO, and chairman of the real estate and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-185708656.jpg?w=1024″] Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, on the banks of the Nile River, is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. Newly translated graffiti reveals just how long visitors have come from far and wide to this region, and felt compelled to mark their presence by inscribing their names on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/644511630_1493487062821709_4594068072853003355_n-957×720-1.jpg?w=957″] Archeologists working near Luxor have uncovered 22 painted wooden coffins containing mummies, according to the Daily News Egypt, which reported the news in February. The well-preserved sarcophagi date to Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period (1077–664 BCE). The archeological mission, which was affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/9.Prospetto-Rio-Giardini_Ph-Marco-Cappelletti.-Marco-Cappelletti-Studio-Courtesy-La-Biennale-di-Venezia-MiC.jpg?w=1024″] The Central Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, located within the Giardini della Biennale, has undergone a complete renovation ahead of the opening of the show’s 2026 edition in May. The total budget for the renovation was €31 million ($36 million); public funding was supplied by the the Italian Ministry of Culture’s National…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-79500679.jpg?w=1024″] Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney—a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved more than 200 people at the plantation he…