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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1137874350.jpg?w=1024″] A senior archaeologist at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has been arrested in Poland at the request of Ukrainian authorities, according to The Art Newspaper, who are seeking his extradition over alleged illegal excavations carried out in Crimea. Alexander Butyagin, who heads the Hermitage’s department focused on ancient archaeology of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2264166810.jpg?w=1024″] A marble bust in a Roman basilica was attributed to Michelangelo nearly 200 years after it was last associated with the Renaissance master. The sculpture of Jesus Christ in the Basilica of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura had been attributed to Michelangelo until the early 19th century, after which its origins were thought…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1502014084.jpg?w=1024″] In a complaint filed February 20 in San Francisco Superior Court, a security guard at the De Young Museum in San Francisco alleges sexual harassment and retaliation.  The complaint names the city and county of San Francisco, the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (which operates the De Young and the Legion…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2264385014.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HERITAGE STRIKES. Amid the escalating Middle East war, UNESCO World Heritage buildings in Tel Aviv’s White City district have been damaged by Iranian missile strikes, which killed one woman and injured many, reports the Art Newspaper. The buildings were built between…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2264298291.jpg?w=1024″] Jony Ive is arguably the world’s most well-known product designer, famed for all the iMacs, iPods, iPhones, and Apple Watches he conceived during his nearly three-decade tenure with Apple Inc. Now, he can claim one major contribution to the art world as well. Christie’s tapped LoveFrom, the design collective Ive founded with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/uk-protest.jpg?w=1024″] Just days after the US Supreme Court said it would not reconsider whether art generated by artificial intelligence can receive copyright protection, the UK has looked set to make its own major decision on AI and copyright. For the past two months, the UK government has been consulting on a legal overhaul…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HCupUcTaUAEUMrN.jpeg?w=1024″] Loewe cultivated a reputation for collaborating with cutting-edge contemporary artists under creative director Jonathan Anderson, who exited the fashion house for Dior last year. But based on Loewe’s Fall Winter 2026 collection debut during Paris Fashion Week on Friday, those collaborations appear to remain a core part of Loewe’s ethos. Sculptor Cosima…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Datebook-1.jpg?w=1024″] On Censorship by Ai Weiwei Image Credit: Courtesy Thames & Hudson, London Ai Weiwei has flaunted, skirted, interrogated, and in countless other ways resisted censorship over the course of a decadeslong career beginning in his native China and transpiring around the world. This book tells the story in his own words, which…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/8.-Tracey-Emin-Why-I-Never-Became-a-Dancer-1995-Tracey-Emin-a.jpg?w=1024″] “I’m starting to think I am a really boring artist,” admits Tracey Emin in the catalog accompanying her retrospective at the Tate Modern. It’s quite the reflection from a woman who made her name on shock value. Her 1998 self-portrait-cum-performance-cum-sculpture My Bed—her actual, slept-in bed covered in the detritus of her life—shook…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Carol-Bove-exh_ph015-LARGE-JPG.jpg?w=1024″] Lionel Ziprin’s unlikely rediscovery really got going with a walk-in safe in Carol Bove’s Brooklyn studio. It was a big safe, and an old one—Bove initially had to use a car jack to pry open its metal door—and it became the unlikely home for all things related to Ziprin, a doyen of…