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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/29_GC_FONDAZIONE-DVN_PRESENTATION_PALAZZO-PISANI-MORETTA_Ph-Camilla-Glorioso.jpg?w=1024″] Fashion designer Dries Van Noten and his partner Patrick Vangheluwe will launch next month a new foundation in Venice dedicated to craftsmanship. The new Fondazione Dries Van Noten will be located in the historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal in the San Polo neighborhood. Over the course of each year,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ZO_Joo-Install-05.jpg?w=1024″] On a recent quiet, cloudy afternoon in Tribeca, artist Michael Joo and I crouched beside a tower of aluminum baking trays. The towers covered a whole section of Space ZeroOne, the Hanwha Foundation of Culture’s new institutional initiative. The gallery was otherwise empty. Joo moved slowly between the columns of trays, occasionally…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Sothebys-London-Modern-Contemporary-Evening-Sale-2026.-Credit-Rayan-Bamhayan.-Courtesy-Sothebys-11.jpg?w=1024″] The US art market showed signs of life in 2025. Auction sales rose 23 percent from the previous year to about $3.17 billion, according to a new report from Bank of America and the analytics firm ArtTactic. But the rebound did not come from a surge in demand. Instead, it was driven largely by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Jean-Michel-Basquiat-Museum-Security-Broadway-Meltdown-2.jpg?w=1024″] A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will head to auction at Sotheby’s this May with an estimate “in excess of $45 million,” the house announced on Monday, poising it to become one of the most expensive works by the artist ever to hit the block. The painting, titled Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1-Portrait-of-Alma-Allen.jpg?w=1024″] Alma Allen, the sculptor chosen to represent the United States at this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale, has joined Galerie Perrotin, a blue-chip French gallery with locations in Paris, London, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, and Los Angeles. As ARTnews’s Maximilíano Durón and Sarah Douglas reported upon Allen’s selection…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-459678428.jpg?w=1024″] British officials are trying to keep a major painting by the late London-born artist Howard Hodgkin from leaving the UK. Last week, the country’s Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) placed an export ban on Mrs Acton in Delhi (1967–71), giving a British museum or gallery the chance to buy it…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-544183312.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines DON’T LOSE YOUR HEAD. The final letter written by Mary, Queen of Scots before her execution in 1587 is now on public display in Scotland for the first time in 30 years at Perth Museum, where it will remain on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Laura-Phipps-Director-of-the-Gochman-Family-Collection.-Photo-courtesy_-Roeg-Cohen.-2.jpg?w=1024″] Laura Phipps is the new director of the Gochman Family Collection, a New York-based private collection dedicated mostly, though not exclusively, to contemporary Indigenous art. She fills a role most recently held by Zach Feuer, who founded Forge Project with Becky Gochman in 2021, and currently serves as one of the collection’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/panama-tomb.webp?w=1024″] A newly exhumed tomb in central Panama has revealed stores of riches as well as signs of human sacrifice. As reported by ZME Science, scientists working at the 1,000-year-old burial chamber known at Tomb 3 in El Caño Archaeological Park found stashes of gold as well as remains of a central buried…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/aicon-contemporary-e1773081126693.png?w=1024″] A legal conflict between two art-dealing New York brothers over the names of their respective businesses has escalated from accusations of breach of contract to allegations of physical assault.  An October 21, 2025 complaint filed by Harry Hutchison against Projjal Dutta and Aicon Contemporary says that on April 11, Hutchison was at…