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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1240129621.jpg?w=1024″] The European Commission, an independent arm of the EU responsible for enforcing EU law, has given the Venice Biennale 30 days to “clear its name” regarding the inclusion of the Russian Pavilion in the 2026 edition, according to a report by La Repubblica, which reviewed the letter. The letter, invoking the charge…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-83100479.jpg?w=1024″] A $40 million Pablo Picasso painting from the artist’s Cubist period will hit the block at Sotheby’s this May during the marquee New York auctions. Part of a cache of works from the collection of late Surrealist artist Enrico Donati and his wife Adele, who died last year, Arlequin (Buste), from 1909,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Alice-Bucknell.png?w=1024″] The Medina Triennial, a new recurring art exhibition set to launch in the titular Western New York village this summer, has revealed the artist list for its inaugural edition, due to open on June 6 in close proximity to the Erie Canal. The 39 participants include a range of artists well-known on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1152457437.jpg?w=1024″] Having been kicked out of its longtime home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Gagosian is starting over in the neighborhood with a new space on the ground floor of 980 Madison Avenue, the same building where it formerly had a multilevel gallery. Because Gagosian is such a force within the art industry,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2148572078.jpg?w=1024″] Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, a painter whose work dealt with racism and upheaval in an America riven by inequalities, died at her home in Los Angeles on Friday. She was 46. Jeffrey Deitch gallery, which will open a Dupuy-Spencer show in LA next week, announced her death on Saturday morning, but did not state…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/EXPO-CHICAGO-2025.-Photo-by-Casey-Kelbaugh-Associates-002.jpg?w=1024″] The 13th edition of Expo Chicago is currently buzzing as huge squads of museum directors, curators, and collectors have descended on the Windy City this week for the fair. This edition is smaller than years past, with a pared-down group of 130 exhibitors—coming from cities as far-flung as New York, Tokyo, Memphis,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1576667501.jpg?w=1024″] The American Library Association, together with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees–the nation’s largest union of cultural workers– has reached a favorable settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, thwarting the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). According to an April 9…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2158883803.jpg?w=1024″] ARTnews Top 200 Collector David Geffen’s short-lived marriage has come to an unceremonious end, with the billionaire entertainment mogul reaching a private settlement with his estranged husband, David Armstrong, capping months of unusually public legal sparring. According to court filings reported on by TMZ this week, Geffen, 83, and Armstrong, 33, have agreed to resolve their…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/duchamp_wings_720_107830.jpg?w=720″] When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it’s been painted? A block of marble once it’s been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), the answer was much more direct and far more radical: Anything—indeed, everything—could be art if an artist deemed it so. “An ordinary object,” he said, can…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Maurizio-Cattelan-portrait.webp?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines COLD COMFORT. A proposed bronze statue depicting a seated girl, intended as a symbol of wartime sexual violence, has sparked tensions between Japan and New Zealand, the Guardian reports. The sculpture, donated to the Korean cultural garden at Barry’s Point Reserve…