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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2173217172.jpg?w=1024″] The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, vexed for decades by one of the art world’s most dramatic mysteries, cracked a case of less but still some significance when conservators identified the original fabric for a set of chairs in need of restoration in the museum’s Dutch Room—the site of the greatest art heist…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/salle-e1772740284882.jpg?w=1024″] A painting in David Salle’s new exhibition at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles has been removed from view after critics questioned whether the painter copied another artist’s work. Salle’s painting, Hatchet (2025), features as its primary subject a woman in a black-and-white dress—her face cropped by the edge of the canvas—brandishing a sledgehammer. The exhibition, titled “My Frankenstein,” opened on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2242668198.jpg?w=1024″] A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence. The National Capital Planning Commission will consider the proposal for a roughly 90,000-square-foot…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/freedom-truck-prageru-1024×576-1.jpeg?w=1024″] Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/RX23310_0002-Chicago-Stock-Exchange-Trading-Room_.jpg?w=1024″] A treasured area of the Art Institute of Chicago may be reshaped by an expansion plan that would see the gallery spaces grow significantly in size. That area of the museum is the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room, which was originally built between 1893 and 1894, and which was spared from demolition…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1045_pst_2030_maria_maea_11.jpg?w=1024″] The next edition of the Getty Foundation‘s PST ART will be themed around cultural exchanges between Los Angeles and the Pacific Rim. The fourth edition of the initiative is set to open at institutions across Southern California in September 2030. Justine Ludwig, the inaugural creative director of PST ART, officially started in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/museum.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Liliana Angulo Cortés, who led Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia, died on February 21, aged 51, reports the Art Newspaper. She was the first Afro-Colombian artist to direct the museum, which she diversified by including more Black and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-542622982.jpg?w=1024″] Next week, an exhibition of Keith Haring‘s artwork from the early 1980s opens at the Brant Foundation in New York’s East Village, the same neighborhood where the Pop and graffiti artist first made a name for himself. The tight date range was very intentional. Co-curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer told…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Emmi-Whitehorse-2024-photo-Wendy-McEahern.jpg?w=1024″] White Cube will now represent Emmi Whitehorse, alongside New York–based Garth Greenan Gallery, which has exhibited her work since 2022. White Cube will feature Whitehorse’s 2025 painting Father Sky meets Mother Earth in its booth at Art Basel Hong Kong later this month. The representation comes after she had a solo exhibition…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/IMG_0451-copy.jpg?w=768″] On Wednesday in Manhattan, VIP guests trickled into the Guggenheim Museum to celebrate its buzzy Carol Bove show, while outside, its unionized staff—conservators, archivists, educators, front-facing staff, and others—rallied for a second contract that the group hopes will be more robust.   The Guggenheim staff, who voted to join UAW Local 2110 in 2023 after more…