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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/David-Hockney-Autour-de-la-maison-ete-2019.jpg?w=1024″] A massive print by David Hockney is slated to headline Christie’s London spring prints season. Titled Autour de la maison, été (2019) and measuring almost 40 feet, it carries a high estimate of £300,000 ($400,000). The work is printed on a single sheet of paper. Not only is it among Hockney’s largest…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2235640471.jpg?w=1024″] During a talk in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak said she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women more frequently get fired, Charlotte Burns reported in the Financial Times Thursday.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MB.CDG_.png?w=1024″] Like lingering petrichor or damp earth, Meg Webster’s sculptures envelop the senses—hardly surprising, as they emerge from “soil, sand, and salt,” in the words of the Dia Art Foundation, a longtime guardian of her work. For years, visitors have been invited to step around and into the shadow of her earthworks, installed as mounds and pillars along the gallery floor.   Starting March 19, those encounters will be bottled and available year-round, thanks…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OffcKllr_Still_KS_00043.jpg?w=1024″] Photographer Cindy Sherman has made just one feature film to date—Office Killer, a 1997 box-office flop that was unloved by critics, such as the New York Times’s Stephen Holden, who called the movie “sadly inept” and “crude.” I agree, at least, on the “crude” part: in one scene, the film’s star Carol Kane plays with a violated corpse’s guts.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/WILCH0385_by-David-Kuhne.jpg?w=1024″] The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa has received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from Bob Rennie, one of the country’s leading art collectors, and his family. The donated works include 17 works by Christopher Williams, two works by Kerry James Marshall, four by Brian Jungen, and one by Jin-me…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/NEN_AN_PatriciaRiggen_GabrielRipstein.webp?w=681″] Netflix is working up a scripted series about Mexican artist and cultural icon Frida Kahlo and her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera. The streamer said the drama will show how the couple’s love, betrayals and artistic work were shaped by the political and social atmosphere of the time. Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein will share directing duties. Mónica…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/dixon_cloud_world_1925_copy_720.jpg?w=720″] The Denver Art Museum in Colorado announced this week that it acquired more than 750 works across all 11 of its curatorial departments in roughly the last year, with an emphasis on further diversifying its collection. Made between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, the acquisitions included Tishan Hsu’s mammal-screen-green-1 (2024)…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1063608482-e1696532319327.jpg?w=1024″] While collector Leon Black continues to face controversy over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he has found a defender in Glenn Lowry, a former director of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York institution where Black is currently a board member. Black was previously chair of MoMA’s board,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/palimpseste_light_small_1.jpg?w=1024″] A page missing from The Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest extant copy of writings by the ancient Greek mathematician, was rediscovered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Blois, France. One side of the page, which had been missing for 120 years, contains part of Archimedes’s treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder,…