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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Callirrhoe_Nikolas-Ventourakis-XXIX.-a-pile-of-many-colours-and-a-multitude-of-textures_2022_IND_2026.jpg?w=1024″] Independent has announced the 76 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming 17th edition, which will run May 14–17 at a new venue, Pier 36 in the Lower East Side. The fair will feature the work of over 100 artists, with more than 70 percent of the booths being single-artist presentations. Among…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2263662126.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IRANIAN LANDMARKS HIT. More news of damage to historical sites in Iran is coming through as the war drags on in the region, reports The Art Newspaper. Following the UNESCO-listed Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan and the Golestan Palace in Tehran,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2227951799.jpg?w=1024″] Luxembourg’s pavilion for the upcoming Venice Biennale has sparked a political spat at home, after lawmakers questioned both the cost of the project and the nature of the work set to represent the country. At the center of the debate is La Merde, a project by Luxembourg-born artist Aline Bouvy representing the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/3.png?w=1024″] The anonymous artists behind The Secret Handshake, the guerrilla public art statue of President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, are at it again. On Tuesday, the group emailed ARTnews with photos of a new statue placed in Washington, D.C., again depicting Trump and Epstein. Titled KING OF THE WORLD, the 12-foot tall…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Programming-Making-Their-Mark-40.jpg?w=1024″] Four years ago, when Komal Shah conceived a forum to celebrate female artists and address enduring gender inequities in the art world, she thought she’d be convening attendees in Washington, D.C., in the glow of Kamala Harris’s White House. Instead, the forum took place against a political backdrop openly hostile toward diversity…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sanchez4x3.jpg?w=1024″] The Postclassic period of Maya civilization (800–1500 CE) was marked by significant environmental and societal stressors, including prolonged droughts and a shift from centralized authority to smaller, competitive polities. A new excavation at an archaeological site in Belize shows how despite these challenges, Postclassic Maya communities not only survived, but thrived. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1240085264.jpg?w=1024″] The European Union said it could pull funding to the Venice Biennale if the show goes through with hosting Russia, adding to mounting furor over plans by the country to show at the world’s most important art exhibition for the first time since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Henna Virkkunen and Glenn…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1194524169_bb99de.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. Next week, the world’s greatest art heist turns 36. To mark the anniversary of the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Neighbors-Courtesy-Neighbors-3.jpg?w=1024″] Collector Mirka Serrato was walking her dog through Chicago’s affluent Gold Coast neighborhood when she came across Ramiro Verdugo, the groundsman tending to the garden at an imposing neoclassical residence. Both Latin American, they hit it off. She was looking for a place to live, and an apartment was available. She ended…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-1327733406.jpg?w=1024″] In part a reaction to the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles just over one year ago, a number of the city’s most significant arts institutions issued a collective pledge to follow climate-minded guidelines known as the Bizot Green Protocol. Initiated in 2015 by the Bizot Group, a network of art museum directors…