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  • Met Seems to Be Planning Major Cy Twombly Retrospective

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-87743579.jpg?w=1024″] While the Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a sizable Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition for the fall, it now appears that that show isn’t the only grand one for a postwar painter on the docket at the New York institution. Last week, the Met posted a job posting for a researcher who…

  • 60 Percent of Sudan National Museum’s Holdings Have Been Looted

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2221760196.jpg?w=1024″] In September 2024, officials reported that the National Museum of Sudan in the country’s capital city, Khartoum, had been subjected to looting by members of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during Sudan’s ongoing civil war. Now, museum officials have made public the extent of that looting. “More than 60% of the…

  • Chehel Sotoun, UNESCO-Listed Palace, Damaged in Iran: State Media

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/iran-insta.png?w=1024″] Chehel Sotoun, part of a UNESCO World Heritage landmark in the Iranian city of Isfahan, was damaged following airstrikes in the area, according to Iranian state media. The report comes one week after Golestan Palace in Tehran suffered significant damage from aerial bombardment linked to US-Israeli strikes on Iran.  A roughly minute-long video posted to X by…

  • Jonas Wood Debuts New Tennis Court Paintings in Los Angeles

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/22024_JW_Portrait-in-Studio_June2024.jpg?w=1024″] Jonas Wood has been watching sports his whole life, and the habit has followed him into the studio. “I played tons of sports when I was a kid and I was obsessed with following them,” Wood said, speaking with me by Zoom from his Los Angeles studio. “I used to read the…

  • Institut Restellini’s Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné to Release April 21

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Modigiliani_Nu-au-canape-Almaisa_1917.jpeg?w=1024″] After over 40 years in the making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné will finally release next month. Pace will host a book launch at its London gallery on April 21, with a day-long symposium to follow on April 30 at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street space in New York. To say…

  • Art Gallery of Ontario Deputy Director and Chief Curator Leaves

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1212967743.jpg?w=1024″] Art Gallery of Ontario deputy director and chief curator Julian Cox will leave his post this April after eight years in the role, marking the latest departure at the Toronto museum since it became embroiled in a controversy over a failed plan to acquire a work by Nan Goldin. It was not…

  • Venice Biennale Faces Mass Outcry Over Return of Russian Pavilion

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1240129621.jpg?w=1024″] The forthcoming Venice Biennale will see the first Russian Pavilion since the onset of the nation’s war in Ukraine in 2022, and few outside Russia seem happy about it. Ukraine itself issued a blistering statement about the pavilion this weekend, calling for the Biennale to exclude Russia this time around. “The Venice…

  • LA Exhibition of Julia Stoschek’s Video Art Is the City’s Hot Ticket 

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/stoschek-arthur-jafa.jpg?w=1024″] “No white cubes! No black boxes!” That’s Udo Kittelmann speaking during a tour of “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a presentation he organized at the disused Venetian-style Variety Arts Theater, a six-story Los Angeles palace. On view are selections from the holdings of Julia Stoschek, an ARTnews Top 200 collector…

  • Elle Peréz’s Whitney Biennial Photo Diary

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026_WhiBi_089.jpg?w=1024″] IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT…. It was a rainy Tuesday late afternoon, and for a second we fantasized about taking a cab to the opening of the 2026 Whitney Biennial.  But then I opened up one of those apps, and saw that it wanted something close to 60 actual dollars…

  • Charles Bronson’s Art Will Head to Auction

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/gettyimages-1371407724_720.jpg?w=720″] Five hundred artworks by Charles Bronson, one of England’s most infamous outsider artists, are set to be auctioned by UK auction house David Duggleby Auctioneers in Murton, according to the BBC. The works, which belong to a single owner, will be offered as one lot on March 11. Now 73, Bronson was…