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Fort Lauderdale Still Fighting Removal of Rainbow Crosswalks
[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…
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San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum Plans to Sell Building
[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…
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Lauren Halsey’s Sculpture Park in South Central Is Here—See Inside
[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.…
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Art Dubai Postpones Fair to May Amid Wider Middle East Conflict
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/artdubai1-1.jpg?w=1024″] Art Dubai is the latest fair to be upended by the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran. With Iran continuing to stirke the United Arab Emirates, leading to eight dead and 157 injured and damage to Dubai International Airport, the emirate’s leading art fair announced that its upcoming ediiton will…
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Meryl Streep Gives Seven-Figures to National Women’s History Museum
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2185031885.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this week, the National Women’s History Museum—a nonprofit that organizes mostly virtual exhibitions that “illuminate the stories of women who have shaped our past and who continue to inform our shared future”—announced that Meryl Streep made a seven-figure donation to the Washington, D.C.-based institution. According to a statement, the Academy Award-winning…
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‘The Sopranos’ Photos and Archives Part of Show at New York Museum
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-97208463.jpg?w=1024″] The wildly popular TV series “The Sopranos” aired its much-hyped season finale almost 20 years ago. The critically acclaimed show, starring the late James Gandolfini as troubled mob boss/family man Tony Soprano, premiered on HBO in 1999 and ran for six seasons. “The Sopranos,” often credited with initiating a golden age of…
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Di Donna to Mount First Major Dalí Show in NYC in Nearly Two Decades
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/02-Dali-El-desnonament-del-moble-aliment-The-Eviction-of-Furniture-Nutrition-1.jpg?w=1024″] As Emmanuel Di Donna prepares to leave his Madison Avenue gallery, the veteran dealer is returning to the artist most people think they already understand. This spring, Di Donna Galleries will mount one of the most significant exhibitions of Salvador Dalí seen in New York in decades. “Dalí: The Great Years, 1929–1939,” on view from April 16…
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The New Museum Finally Has a Building to Match Its Ambitions
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/New-Museum_New-Humans_0326_0203.jpg?w=1024″] Almost two years ago to the day, the New Museum in New York closed its doors to the public, leaving behind a void—this is one of the country’s few major museums that is focused solely on contemporary art, after all. Now, following an expansion overseen by OMA, the museum is finally back…
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Meryl Streep Makes Donation to National Women’s History Museum
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2153842978.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines STREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her honor, while the donation, the amount…
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Tate Liverpool Director Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Kerry-James-Marshall-65.jpg?w=1024″] Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the institution announced Wednesday. Legg will start in the role in June and will be responsible for the institution’s exhibitions, collection, and public programs. Her tenure at the Tate…