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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-128285176.jpg?w=1024″] Calvin Tomkins, who wrote defining profiles of scores of leading artists, bringing their work to a broad public in crystalline prose that was insightful, generous, and witty, died on Friday. He was 100, according to David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, where Tomkins published numerous profiles. Remnick did not state…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cq5dam.web_.3360.3360.jpeg?w=1024″] Prada‘s current ad campaign for its Spring/Summer 2026 collection is an unsettling affair, and no surprise its maker is an artist known for disturbing video art and sculptures: Jordan Wolfson, whose past works have featured a gyrating cyborg, chained-up puppets, and other terrors. Wolfson’s art is famous—and, in some cases, notorious—for its…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2234401547.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PAINTING OVER THE CRACKS: Amid ongoing fallout over sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, a prominent mural honoring the labor and farmworker leader was painted over yesterday in San Francisco, reports ABC 7 News. The artwork had adorned the Mission District’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Leigh_Brick-House_2019_Matthew-Marks-Gallery_01.jpg?w=1024″] Last March, we presented 15 iconic works of feminist art stretching from the first wave of feminism to the intersectional movement of today. But that roster could only scratch the surface of a potent artistic point of view. Here we add another 15 artworks that powerfully advance the feminist argument. Edmonia Lewis, The Death of Cleopatra, 1876 Image Credit:…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Miljohn_WGHW-Preferred-2_3.jpg?w=1024″] As I stood in front of a black screen, a luminous alien creature with five legs and translucent antennae appeared. After a minute, it morphed into an isopod with larger, more articulated limbs. Fathoms (Tartarapelagic), 2025–26, by Miljohn Ruperto, uses AI to generate otherworldly creatures like these, all based on species recently…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/rosso.jpg?w=1024″] The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance. Layers of paint were removed during a recent conservation to reveal the figure of Saint John the Evangelist in the canvas’s lower-right portion. With the overpaint now gone,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1346525899.jpg?w=1024″] A California museum is moving to strip Cesar Chavez of one of the state’s highest honors following newly published allegations of sexual abuse. According to Sacramento’s news outlet ABC10, the California Museum in Sacramento said its board of trustees plans to remove Chavez from the California Hall of Fame after a New York Times investigation…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2232324213.jpg?w=1024″] The legal battle between Fort Lauderdale and state officials over a recent crackdown on street art may conclude in May, when both parties may have a one-day final hearing. The crackdown began in August 2025 under Governor Ron DeSantis, with roughly 100 public artworks across Florida slated for removal under his Safe…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1_GarySextonPhotography.jpg?w=1024″] The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco announced this week that it will look to sell its building in the city’s Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood, which also includes some of the city’s other top cultural organizations. The decision to sell is part of “a series of strategic steps to ensure a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/260313_SD0054_high-res.jpg?w=1024″] Almost two decades ago, while she was an architecture student at El Camino College, Lauren Halsey began conceiving a sculpture park for South Central, the Los Angeles neighborhood where she grew up. At long last, that sculpture park has finally arrived and is now open to the public. Curated by Christine Y.…