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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/elfie.jpg?w=1024″] Elfie Semotan, an Austrian fashion photographer known for her collaboration with designer Helmut Lang, died “unexpectedly” on Saturday at 84 years old in Jennersdorf, a town in southeast Austria, according to an obituary posted on Instagram and a report by Austria’s national public broadcasting network ORF. Semotan was based in Vienna, New…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/022426_VJayBombs_LeicaQ2_0187_expand-H-2026.webp?w=1000″] As Donald Trump finished his record-length State of the Union address earlier this year, a group of artists drove to a cul-de-sac off Echo Park Lake in L.A. and got to work. The three men dressed in loose-fitting work pants and hoodies unloaded two laser projectors (one for backup), some lenses, a laptop and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/BillKochHouse_CO_FI.webp?w=1000″] A year and a half ago, the billionaire Bill Koch spun his massive Aspen estate on the market for $125 million, making it one of the most expensive homes for sale across the globe. That hefty sum likely wasn’t palatable for most people, and the price has since dropped to $99 million—no measly asking price either. Now, still…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/79521175.jpg?w=1024″] Last July, French president Emmanuel Macron announced hat one of his country’s great cultural treasures, the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, would be loaned to the British Museum. Six months later, in December, heritage group Sites & Monuments appealed to the French supreme courtto stop the move of the monumental but fragile artifact. Last…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2271050849-e1780933658316.jpg?w=1024″] Late last week, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts, became the first US official to participate in St. Petersburg’s so-called “Russian Davos” in nearly a decade, according to reports. The St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, is designed to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Thomas-Bangalter-by-Stephane-Manel-crop.jpeg?w=1024″] Thomas Bangalter made a name for himself as one half of the French electronic-music duo Daft Punk starting from the early 1990s through the group’s dissolution in 2021. A name but definitely not a face—he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, famously presented themselves as robots replete with all-concealing mechanistic helmets and…