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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Michael-Macaulay-Sothebys-The-Now-Sale-London-1-March-2023-photo-Haydon-Perrior-e1677778898526.jpg?w=1000″] For much of the past decade, the art market behaved as though history had stopped. Collectors and speculators chased the wet paint with missionary zeal, convinced that the next studio visit might yield a future masterpiece (or a tidy return when flipped onto the secondary market). Auction houses obliged, turning evening sales…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-693521204.jpg?w=1024″] A federal lawsuit alleges that a government initiative created by the Trump administration relied on the generative AI software ChatGPT to help identify grants tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The lawsuit alleges that a grant awarded to the High Point Museum in North Carolina to replace its HVAC system was flagged…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IAAM-Exterior2.jpg?w=1024″] The International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina, has officially acquired a set of 15 daguerreotypes, dating to 1850, that scholars believe to be the earliest known photographs taken of enslaved Americans. The seven enslaved people photographed for the series are identified as Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BUGHOUSE-1-Credit-Carol-Rosegg.png?w=1024″] Henry Darger left behind one of the strangest imaginative monuments of the twentieth century: a vast private cosmos teeming with angelic child armies, sadistic empires, blizzards, tornadoes, serpentine sky-beasts, and wars fought over the fate of enslaved children. After his death, the whole sprawling kingdom surfaced at once, like an inheritance no…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ThomasJPrice.jpg?w=768″] When the Victoria and Albert Museum’s newest branch, known as the V&A East, opens in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London next month, visitors will be greeted by a monumental sculpture by the London-based artist Thomas J Price. A Place Beyond, an 18-foot-tall bronze figure, stands to the left of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/IMG_7469_3453.jpg?w=800″] On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization’s management of its Fine Arts Program and the Fine Arts Collection. The GSA cares for over 26,000 artworks and artifacts owned by the US…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mar13.TM25.Intersections.MaisonRowena-1.jpg?w=1024″] Despite global unrest and a continually worsening conflict in the Middle East, dealers surveyed by ARTnews in their stands at the TEFAF art fair in Maastricht, when willing to discuss sales, were more than pleased—even if, as one dealer observed, collectors from the Middle East may have been unable to travel. (Another…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2232672579.jpg?w=1024″] At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution’s collection, according to Artnet News. As reported by senior editor Kate Brown, the painting of a woman looking longingly while…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2265318754.jpg?w=1024″] “Turner and Constable,” a show at London’s Tate Britain museum that pairs works by J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, has become a smash hit, with some 185,000 people attending since its opening in November. Now, it turns out one of those visitors was none other than King Charles himself. He…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2265653113.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HOUSE OF CARDS. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has won the famed Pritzker Prize, the industry’s top accolade, which was delayed because of Tom Pritzker’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, according to the New York Times. In an email, Radic said his designs “all try…