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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Hasnaine-Yavarhoussen-portrait.-Courtesy-Hakanto-Contemporary.jpg?w=1024″] In 2019, just four nations mounted their debut pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Madagascar was one of them, and Hasnaine Yavarhoussen’s sponsorship was largely what made it possible. The year before, the Malagasy art collector and entrepreneur met with artist Joël Andrianomearisoa to discuss the country’s participation and his support. At the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Surrealist_p209.jpg?w=1024″] Starfish, scorpions, swallows, and sheep—once you look, animals are everywhere in Surrealist paintings. These and many other creatures are the focus of Desmond Morris’sThe Surrealist Menagerie: Strange Beasts & Fantastic Visions, a new book that combines Morris’s longtime study of zoology (he had a doctorate from Oxford) with his own participation in the Surrealist…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Vivian-Zavataro-photo-by-Kacy-Meinecke.jpg?w=1024″] The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) in California has named Vivian Zavataro as its next executive director. She will begin in the role on October 1. Zavataro succeeds Drew Oberjuerge, who served in the top job for more than 13 years and left in June 2025. “The Riverside Art Museum has grown from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Vuslat.png?w=1024″] For nearly two decades, Vuslat Doğan Sabancı lived two lives. By day, she was one of the most powerful figures in Turkish media, serving as chief executive of Hürriyet, the country’s largest newspaper. At night—after work, dinner, and putting her children to bed—she went to her studio and made art. “Sometimes I would…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Chambers_Trilogy.jpg?w=1024″] Chiffon Thomas discovered pretty quickly that New York wasn’t going to work. An artist and sculptor who moved to the city after three years in Los Angeles, Thomas needed a studio with room to weld metal and a parking spot for his van. New York real estate was prohibitively expensive and he…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1203443679.jpg?w=1024″] An arts complex in Tbilisi, Georgia, is being razed despite protests from its architects and some members of the local community. Following approval by Tbilisi’s city government in June, demolition work on the Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall—colloquially known as Rike Tubes—began at the end of July and is scheduled…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/512384-96F9648CDB5BB2AC46E7467160B50B57F7E39184-0.jpeg?w=1000″] An 11,000-year-old statue depicting a person on the back of a leopard was unearthed by archaeologists at a Stone Age site in southern Turkey, the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced in a statement on August 25. The find from the Neolithic site Karahan Tepe measures about 28 inches tall and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Peter_Marino_Foundation_2026-M.Yllera-036.jpg?w=1024″] The Peter Marino Art Foundation occupies the former Rogers Memorial Library, a charming historic building in Southampton, New York, that its namesake has transformed into something much stranger inside.  This summer, the iconoclastic architect and collector has placed portraits by Robert Nava alongside those by Y.Z. Kami; abstractions by Betty Parsons and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Phillips.jpg?w=1024″] Half of the executive leadership team at Phillips is no longer with the auction house, and several other high-ranking employees have departed the company since the May sales. The two most senior departures are Miety Heiden, chairman of private sales, and Jonathan Crockett, chairman for Asia. Both will officially leave their roles…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Chrome_bust_of_Russian_Communist_leader_Vladimir_Lenin_in_West_Hollywood_California_LCCN2013631605-e1775246823888.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Gao Zhen, who was detained in China in 2024 on “suspicion of slandering China’s heroes and martyrs” over a satirical sculpture of Mao Zedong, has been sentenced to a maximum of three years in prison, rights groups say.  The BBC reported yesterday that a court in Hebei province ruled on Tuesday…