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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/090225_BU_Quinonez_0163.jpg?w=1024″] Newly published text messages between leaders at the University of North Texas (UNT) reveal that administrators feared “any barking from Austin” over plans to cancel an exhibition featuring artwork critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Urgent Matter reports that the communications show school president Harrison Keller and provost Michael McPherson discussing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026BIE_664.jpg?w=1024″] The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some members of Australia’s Jewish community repeatedly claimed that curator Hoor Al Qasimi had selected for participants with anti-Zionist politics. One prominent Jewish group, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, had initially been…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2232706795.jpg?w=1024″] A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture since its opening will soon leave Washington, DC. According to the Associated Press, the museum plans to remove a timber fragment from the São José-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Keisha-Scarville_credit_ana_dias-1-1.jpg?w=1024″] Keisha Scarville, a photographer known for her work about people in diaspora and identities in flux, is the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum‘s Uovo Prize, the institution announced on Thursday. Through the award, Scarville will take home $25,000 and receive a Brooklyn Museum commission. Her work will also be featured on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ABMB-2025-aerial.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines SORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Adam Schrader reports for Urgent Matter that the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1146398564.jpg?w=1024″] The formative graffiti artist and hip-hop pioneer, whose memoir Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture was published on March 10, discusses Black piracy and news of the day. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Even with all the films made…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2255523851.jpg?w=1024″] More than a quarter of a million human remains from around the world are currently held in UK museums, in what MPs and archaeologists are calling an uncomfortable legacy of the country’s colonial past. Not only this, but many of the items are reportedly being stored in ways that are disrespectful or…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABP25__Public_Interactions__PR__General_I_HiRes-2.jpg?w=1024″] The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated $59.6 billion in sales, according to the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total represents a 4 percent increase from the previous year, breaking a two-year slide in sales—though…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/803bca39_d440_44ab_b7f1_97017122923e-683494791.jpgmediaclass-body-media-large.3c963ae2a7465a35d441f52395be0c88fe9c0f60_1.jpg?w=1024″] The second edition of the Malta Biennale opened in previews this week, and it was not without controversy. Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides information on safe abortion in restrictive settings, accused the Biennale’s organizers of “censoring” an artwork by the organization just before the opening on Tuesday. The work originally…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2188348955.jpg?w=1024″] Italy has purchased a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million ($34.7 million), one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a work of art, according to the country’s culture ministry. The painting, depicting the cleric Monsignor Maffeo Barberini—who would later ascend as Pope Urban VIII—was described as being of…