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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/urn_cambridge.org_id_binary_20260306193344312-0470_S0003598X26103123_S0003598X26103123_fig1.png?w=1024″] A team of six researchers led by Ricardo E. Basso Rial and Gabriel García Atiénzar, archaeologists at the University of Grenada and the University of Alicante, respectively, have published new research concerning remnants of a wooden Bronze Age loom discovered in Spain in 2008. The 3,450-year-old loom was inadvertently preserved when a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/vatican-el-greco-restored-scaled_720.jpg?w=720″] The Vatican has announced the discovery of a newly identified painting by Mannerist painter El Greco, Artnet News reports. Titled The Redeemer and dating to the late 1500s, the piece was uncovered by restorers Alessandra Zarelli and Paolo Violini. While conserving the work, they realized that an unknown artist had overpainted the original.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021_NYR_20447_0001_001_beeple_everydays_the_first_5000_days034733_.0.jpg?w=1024″] When Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for a record $69.3 million at Christie’s in 2021, the winning buyer was quick to reveal itself: a Singapore-based crypto fund called Metapurse, which was founded by a man going by the pseudonym Metakovan, ostensibly with the help of another person who went by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/WMAA99915_BFA_53520_7759215_hpr_f87d5a.jpg?w=1000″] As I stood in the Whitney Museum’s sixth-floor gallery for the opening of this year’s Biennial, I found the eye of a surveillance camera, iridescent and round as a soap bubble, staring back at me. It was implanted in a rectangular body the color of aging plastic, decades-old desktop computers, and exposed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/260316_Marzona_ct.jpg?w=1024″] Egidio Marzona, the German-Italian collector, publisher, and patron whose vast holdings helped define the study and display of 20th-century avant-garde art, has died at 81. He died Sunday in Berlin, according to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, or SPK). Unlike many collectors of his generation, Marzona treated archives not as secondary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/De-Paul-Art-Museum.jpeg?w=1024″] The members of the advisory board of Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum have penned a scathing letter to the leadership of DePaul University, which houses the museum, to reconsider its decision to shutter the 40-year-old institution on June 30, which was announced last month. The letter is addressed to school president Robert L.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ANE_israel.jpg?w=1024″] The activist group Art Not Genocide Alliance released an open letter this week demanding that the Venice Biennale prevent Israel from participating in this year’s exhibition. The letter has been signed by nearly 200 artists, curators, and arts workers associated with this year’s edition of the Biennale. Among the signatories to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MCA.MG_.Headshot-cropped-1.jpg?w=1024″] Madeleine Grynsztejn, one of the key figures of Chicago’s art scene, will leave her post as director of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art at the end of the year, bringing to an end an 18-year-long tenure that has seen a range of celebrated retrospectives and a dramatic expansion of the institution’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GA7A0231.jpg?w=1024″] Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the LG Guggenheim Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the costs of his work, which contends with surveillance technology and AI. “This is very expensive…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-26-at-12.47.39-PM.png?w=766″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HEAR, HEAR. The HEAR Act was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times. The bipartisan bill is designed to make it easier to restitute Nazi-looted artworks by…