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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2246113415.jpg?w=1024″] A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed early Sunday on the White House grounds, as part of President Trump’s effort to restore the explorer’s public standing after monuments to him were removed across the country in 2020. The sculpture was placed on the north side of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building facing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-517323246.jpg?w=1013″] Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood in the 1930s. There, the late abstract expressionist—famously known for his color field technique—created the painting titled “Thru the Window,” inscribing the back with the building’s address, “313…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260320_CHAT_7572.jpg?w=1024″] In 2025, nearly 100,000 people—collectors, curators, and the merely curious—descended on the archipelago of Hong Kong for Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest and busiest art event on the global calendar. But woe unto any fairgoer in 2026 who confines their time to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre: Even if its 240 galleries dazzle and exhaust…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/hongkong.jpg?w=1024″] Hong Kong’s art market is staging a cautious comeback in 2026, as industry players bet that collectors will return for the city’s marquee art week after years of political upheaval and pandemic-driven isolation. At the macroeconomic level, signs of recovery have emerged since late 2025, spanning high-end residential real estate in the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2265381232.jpg?w=1024″] A new report suggests artificial intelligence is already widely used in commercial galleries, but largely without oversight. According to the AI in Galleries report by the art industry network First Thursday, 84 percent of galleries surveyed say they are using AI tools in their daily work. Yet only 8 percent have a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Penn-Museum-Exterior-Eric-Sucar-1.jpg?w=1024″] American universities facing financial crunches come under fire when they either close their art museums or sell paintings from their collections to narrow a budget gap. Just in the last few years, Chicago’s DePaul University, Indiana’s Valparaiso University, and Pennsylvania’s Albright College have alienated donors and their respective school communitues in this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Puppies-Puppies.jpg?w=1024″] When Art in America was founded in 1913, it was an important year for American art. The inaugural Armory Show introduced the European avant-garde to the United States, galvanizing generations of artists while shocking audiences with paintings like Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912). By 1917, Duchamp even-more-famously caused a stir…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/647064864_2763088007366864_9169229813064522082_n.jpg?w=1024″] On Saturday, a performance by an artist who goes by the alias Aphex Redditor went viral on social media after she laid down and continually scrolled through Instagram Reels for 24 hours. But as the performance gained attention on Instagram and X, another artist, Qualeasha Wood, accused Aphex Redditor of copying a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-499353822.jpg?w=1024″] Agosto Machado, an artist and activist associated with the Downtown New York art scene whose altar sculptures currently appear in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday following a brief illness. In keeping with his own wishes, his gallery, the New York–based Gordon Robichaux, did not announce Machado’s age in the obituary it…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2266917075.jpg?w=1024″] A mural of Cesar Chavez in San Francisco’s Mission District was painted over this week, becoming one of the first visible public reckonings with newly surfaced allegations of sexual abuse against the labor leader. The artwork, which covered the facade of the Latin Rock Music House at 25th and York Streets, was…