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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Wendy-Red-Star.png?w=1000″] A new group exhibition in Zurich surveys the state of global photographic heritage through the work of twenty renowned artists. “There is something predatory in the act of taking a picture,” writes Susan Sontag in her pivotal 1977 volume, On Photography. “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-1226829695.jpg?w=1024″] Early in the morning last Thursday, cell phones started buzzing. Pace gallery staff and their friends in the art world were sending each other a couple of short messages: “Is everything okay? What’s happening?” Just after midnight, the New York Times ran a story reporting that Pace was preparing to lay off roughly 50…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/cotofenesti-helmet-drents-museum-.jpg?w=1024″] Three men have each been sentenced to 47 months in prison for the theft of ancient Romanian gold from a Dutch museum, marking a major development in the 16-month-long case. In the pre-dawn hours of January 25, 2025, a band of thieves blasted open several windows at the Drents Museum in the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/41001_2544657_1745376039905167258.jpg?w=1024″] The 16th Gwangju Biennial, opening this fall in South Korea (Sept 5-Nov. 15, 2026), has announced the names of the 40-some artists and groups who will be included in the exhibition. The list was first published by e-flux. The Biennial’s curator, “fast-rising” Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, was announced in…

[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…