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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/73_1943_CCCR-Press_Piet-Mondrian_Broadway-Boogie-Woogie.jpg?w=1024″] The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s years in New York—in particular, the influence of the city’s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian’s paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2279707181-e1781026403638.jpg?w=1024″] Victor Wembanyama is much more than a transcendant basketball star. In the hours leading up to a decisive Game 3 victory in the 2026 NBA Finals—the first such game in New York City in 25 years—the 7-Foot-4 Frenchman spent the afternoon in Gramercy sketching. As seen in a viral video posted to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/rene-magritte-israel-museum-castle-pyernees.jpg?w=1024″] René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a pinecone before a museum guard could stop him, museum staff…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SAIC.jpg?w=1024″] A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is under investigation over course materials that referenced Palestine, becoming the latest flashpoint in debates about eroding freedom of expression on American college campuses, the Guardian reported Friday.  Savneet Talwar was reportedly suspended from teaching and is facing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/AR86682-copy.jpg?w=1024″] How do artists get out of their own heads and just play? The Surrealists had some fantastic answers to this question. Lovers of chance, surprise, and the bizarre, the early 20th-century group had a cache of games that they used to tap into the unconscious and foster collaborative creativity. Exquisite corpse was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_1255.jpg?w=1024″] This year’s Venice Biennale vernissage week brought more than the usual round of openings for art adviser and Performance Space New York board chair Thomas Rom, as the institution’s Visionaries Circle co-hosted a performance by theater impresario-turned-artist Jordan Roth at Palazzo dei Fiori. We asked Rom to share his reflections on everything…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Aerial-Image-of-Crystal-Bridges-Tim-Hursley.jpeg?w=1024″] Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art may have opened its 200,000-square-foot facility in Bentonville, Arkansas just 15 years ago, but it is already ready for its first major addition. At the museum’s campus last week, founder Alice Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune and, per Bloomberg, the world’s richest woman at $143…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1-Portrait-of-Alma-Allen-e1780957478525.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Alma Allen has again accused art publicist David Resnicow of working against Allen’s controversial U.S. Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, after months of criticism surrounding the project. In an Instagram post published Monday afternoon, Allen wrote that “two of the three galleries that withdrew their support for my pavilion informed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/10_Donzella-Ltd._David-Haskell_Photo-Credit_Eric-McNatt.jpg?w=1024″] David Haskell spends his days running New York Magazine. Twice a week, he goes to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and throws clay. The editor in chief of one of the country’s most influential magazines has spent the last dozen years quietly building a second life as a sculptor. Now, that work is the subject…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/hallazgo-rusia-atlantis-ciudad-sumergida-I2AVA3NSVZBEJPF7AXTLGGZWOU.avif?w=990″] Russian and Kyrgyz scientists are exploring the ruins of the medieval trading center of Turu-Aygyr, submerged in the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan for centuries. Their findings were first reported by the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) last November, when it launched a joint archeological mission with the Institute of Archaeology of…