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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1201959953.jpeg?w=1024″] The Bank of England (BOE) announced last week that the next generation of banknotes it will issue will feature depictions of wildlife native to the UK, rather than historical figures, including painter J.M.W. Turner. The decision comes after the BOE held a consultation in July 2025 asking the public to vote on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1236084309.jpg?w=1024″] More than 200 artists and art professionals in Mexico signed an open letter last week accusing the government of committing an “institutional blunder” after it allowed a newly resurfaced art collection to travel to Spain. That collection comprises around 300 works that formerly belonged to Jacques and Natasha Gelman. Among those works…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2263625874.jpg?w=1024″] Rosalía, one of the world’s most popular singers, apologized after wading into an age-old debate surrounding Pablo Picasso, whose work she initially praised before admitting she didn’t know enough about his biography. The controversy kicked off after the Spanish singer appeared on a Spotify podcast with the Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez, who…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2266714481.jpg?w=1024″] Artists and filmmakers Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata won the Oscar for best live action short film on Sunday for their dystopian short Two People Exchanging Saliva. In a rare twist, however, they didn’t take the prize alone. The award ended in a tie with the musical comedy short The Singers. Two…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-450166054.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines I AM BANKSY. Part of Banksy’s appeal is his anonymous mystique, according to a Reuters long-read,which nevertheless does the detective work of trying to remove it by identifying the artist. The team of reporters justifies their big scoop as serving a “deep public…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/David-Thomson-Performance-from-The-Venus-Knot.jpg?w=1024″] The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the winners of its Rauschenberg Centennial Awards, which come with unrestricted grants of $100,000 each. The Rauschenberg Centennial Awards are given in four disciplines, and their winners are as follows: Senga Nengudi for art; David Thomson for performance; Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun for photography; and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Huset_SV.jpg?w=1024″] “I’ve been living … a great deal in mymemories lately,” the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck wrote in 1937.  Hers was a nostalgia perhaps born from relief. That year, the success of Schjerfbeck’s second solo exhibition had won her a loyal gallerist and, at last, a steady income. At the age of 75,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/vadim.jpg?w=1024″] Italy’s culture minister has called for the resignation of the government’s representative on the board of the Venice Biennale, as a growing political dispute continues to eruope over Russia‘s plans to reopen its pavilion at the 2026 exhibition in May. In a statement this week, culture minister Alessandro Giuli said he had lost confidence…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Archives_of_American_Art_-_A_life_class_for_adults_at_the_Brooklyn_Museum_under_the_auspice_of_the_New_York_City_WPA_Art_Project_-_11039.jpg?w=1024″] The most sure-fire way to fund a creative career is family money. So says Mason Currey in his new book Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life—and only a whiny nepo baby could possibly disagree. And yet, the history of art is no mere “history of rich…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-589141200.jpg?w=1024″] The New York Academy of Art said Friday that it will give away money donated by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after newly released Justice Department files shed new light on his ties to the institution. According to the New York Times, the school said it plans to donate $65,900 linked to Epstein to…