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[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…

[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…