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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Katharina-Grosse-CHOIR-2025-Messeplatz-project-Art-Basel.jpeg?w=1024″] James and Kathryn Murdoch are working with MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel, on a new festival meant to rival the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and other “ideas”-driven gatherings that convene the world’s wealthy and powerful. While details remain scarce and no formal announcement has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/eee4be9279b63ccdc62281d40d96d419ca410744.jpg?w=1024″] Czech culture minister Oto Klempíř dismissed Alicja Knast from her post as director of Prague’s National Gallery, generating scrutiny over what precipitated the decision. Within the Czech Republic, the dismissal has been viewed by some as a politically motivated gesture. Knast took up the position in 2021, having been appointed to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/joseph-yoakum_0164-1200-xxx_q85.jpg?w=1024″] The field of outsider art continues to expand its parameters, encompassing not only the output of self-taught artists, visionary artists, folk artists, vernacular artists, and artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities, but that of virtually any maker working outside the mainstream, whether by choice or by circumstance. At the same time,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2229375315.jpg?w=1024″] The culture ministry of Mexico has called on eBay to remove sale listings for 195 pre-Colombian artifacts, claiming they were obtained by way of “illicit extraction” and that they should be returned to their country of origin. As reported by The Art Newspaper, the case was made public when Mexico’s secretary of…