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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/02_SP27_c_Selma_Selman_FlowersofLife_SchirnKunsthalle_2024_c_Photo_Norbert_Miguletz.jpg?w=1024″] Skulptur Projekte Münster, the storied exhibition that takes place once every decade in the titular German town, has revealed some of the first details of its 2027 edition—the first staged without the leadership of its founder, the lauded curator Kasper König, who died in 2024. Celebrated artists such as Oscar Murillo, Selma…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-29-at-4.32.36-PM.png?w=1024″] Three Swiss museums have returned 18 royal and religious artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria, marking another significant repatriation of the so-called Benin Bronzes. A handover ceremony took place today at the University of Zurich between Swiss Federal Councillor Elisabeth Baume-Schneider and Nigeria’s Minister of Culture, Hannatu Musa Musawa. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Illuminations_Refik_Gold_1_0002.jpeg?w=820″] Fresh off the opening of Dataland, Refik Anadol‘s new AI art museum in Los Angeles, the media artist has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution for a new monumental installation. Dubbed Smithsonian Dreams, the new project will see Anadol transform the Smithsonian Castle, the headquarters of the Institution on the National Mall, with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/monument-2.jpg?w=1024″] A pedestal that once supported a Lenin monument in Kyiv that has remained empty ever since 2013 may soon host a statue of a Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa, who is revered by many in Ukraine as a national hero. A 12-foot-tall red quartzite sculpture of Vladimir Lenin stood on the pedestal at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2197424220.jpg?w=1024″] The National Museum Cardiff in Wales may close for much-needed repair work, according to a workers’ union claim that it is in early discussions about a temporary closure in the wake of work last year to address what the institution’s director general described as the building’s “deteriorating condition.” As reported by the BBC,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2281972946.jpg?w=1024″] Lionel Messi, the Argentine superhero of soccer who is the highest-scoring player in World Cup history as of last week, has been monumentalized in a remote town in Patagonia. The stats: 85 feet tall, 70 tons in weight, and $130,000 to fabricate. As reported by the New York Times, the statue by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CAAM_Spring2026_WillieBirch_01.jpg?w=1024″] This week, the United States marks its 250th birthday, arguably no closer to agreeing on how that story should be told—or who gets to tell it. Under the second Trump administration, museums have become one of the clearest arenas for that struggle. These are places where America’s myth of exceptionalism collides with its lived reality:…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MuseedOrsay.jpg?w=1024″] Klaus Kallmann is 98 years old, but he still remembers being a little boy and looking at a painting by Vincent van Gogh that hung in his grandfather’s Berlin villa until the early 1930s. The work depicts the artist’s doctor, Théophile Peyron, standing by a gnarled tree, his hands on his hips,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/7d1ec8f6b8ec03ef.jpg?w=1024″] The point of art, arguably, is to make us ask questions, including such open-ended queries as: What the hell is that? Indeed, that’s a question one might ask while staring at the latest artwork posted by President Donald Trump to his social media platform Truth Social. Late on Sunday night, he posted…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hammock.jpeg?w=1024″] Thomas Doyle, a man who was once described by a federal judge as a “career criminal,” pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud in a scheme involving a Gustave Courbet painting that eventually ended up in the collection of Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen‘s longtime manager.  According to the New York Times, Doyle persuaded London…