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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2242668198.jpg?w=1024″] The construction of President Donald Trump’s luxury ballroom will proceed as planned and replace the East Wing of the White House, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday, the New York Times reported. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to guard public buildings, challenged the construction of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/By-Albert-Ting-2.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Rare Kandinsky painting returned to Jewish heirs of Nazi-persecuted former owners, heads to Christie’s in London. The Smithsonian Institution formally selected an existing building to house the National Museum of the American Latino, avoiding congressional approval.  An ongoing government-led misconduct…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Icons-cover.png?w=1024″] Critic Bob Nickas, in a recent essay on the musician Steven Stapleton, took the temperature of contemporary art and found it tepid. “Increasingly, since the pandemic and the rightward (wrongward) tilt in global politics,” he wrote, “we have witnessed an unfortunate shift in art—from works with more seriousness of purpose to works…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Banerjee_Contagious-Migrations2-copy-1.jpg?w=1024″] The Baltimore Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of approximately 118 artworks over the past six months. The new additions to its collection—purchases, gifts, and promised gifts—span periods, cultures, and mediums, strengthening the BMA’s holdings of art from around the globe as well as work by Baltimore-area artists. The acquisitions include…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/KV_TAW2026-1.jpg?w=1000″] Warehouse TERRADA will hold TENNOZ ART WEEK 2026, a multi-venue art event in Tennoz, Tokyo, from September 10 to 13. Now in its fourth edition, the event will be held in collaboration with Tokyo Gendai (September 11–13 at PACIFICO Yokohama), the international art fair for which Warehouse TERRADA serves as an official…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/saq1.jpg?w=1024″] An Egyptian archaeological mission working at Saqqara has uncovered the tomb of Sekhentiu-Ptah, a high-ranking official of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (ca. 2700–ca. 2200 BCE). In a separate discovery, the archaeologists also found a network of burial shafts containing human remains and funerary objects from later periods. Heritage Daily reported the news following…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-143112208.jpg?w=1024″] The Vienna Actionism Museum (WAM) has been controversial since it opened in March 2024, which is perhaps not an entirely surprising outcome given the postwar movement’s penchant for violent, graphic performance art.   A new scandal is brewing as the museum prepares for its fall exhibition, dedicated to the work of Otto…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-166897057.jpg?w=1024″] A Keith Haring drawing deemed authentic by a Superior Court judge but lacking sufficient provenance records to sell at Christie’s and Sotheby’s was the subject of a trial in Connecticut. The gallery that sold it ended up proving victorious. As reported by Greenwich Time, Nevada businessman Vernon Hartung bought the drawing of flying…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1232052711.jpg?w=1024″] The South Korean city of Gwangju has issued an apology for controversy that surrounded the Gwangju Biennale‘s Taiwan Pavilion, whose name was initially altered in promotional materials for the show, only to be returned to its current name following an outcry from its participants. The Taiwan Pavilion, one of many national pavilions…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1243541511.jpg?w=1024″] Shakira will be shaking up Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza with a concert on November 28, promoter Rabih Mokbel told the National. It is the only stop in the region during her ongoing world tour. The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer was previously slated to headline Abu Dhabi’s Offlimits Music Festival on November 21. Her…