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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HJUGtgNawAA3STu.jpeg?w=1024″] You’ve heard of Johannes Vermeer‘s ca. 1665 painting Girl with a Pearl Earring, long housed at the Mauritshuis in the Hague and soon to visit Japan this summer. Now, prepare for the latest art history–inspired sensation. Call it Miffy with a Pearl Earring. Unfortunately for him, Vermeer died in 1675, well before…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/BritishMuseum.jpg?w=1024″] The British Museum pushed back a planned lecture called “The Ancient History of Israel and Judah,” claiming that a “significant proportion” of the people expected to attend wanted to protest the event. The London museum announced the postponement on Thursday, in a release that noted that the event was part of Jewish…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2277472633-e1780058784626.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! An investigation found that the Dutch royal family’s collection contains artifacts that were likely looted during the colonial era. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III says he has likely curated his final exhibition. The Getty Center has revealed new details about its forthcoming renovation and yearlong closure. The Headlines ROYAL…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Georgia_OKeeffe_by_Stieglitz_1918.png?w=1024″] I winced when I got a press release for a new Georgia O’Keeffe documentary to be released “around Mother’s Day.” What does one have to do with the other? The artist, as the talking heads in Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light know well, was never a mother at all. And yet,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Hammer-2026-04-06_007.jpg?w=1024″] There is something primal, almost amniotic, about entering the dim space that makes up the first gallery of “Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Here, the walls thrum with a muffled sound reminiscent of waves crashing or a creature…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Zohra-Opoku_Jesse-Jewelz-courtesy-of-Zeitz-MOCAA.jpg?w=1024″] In 2023, Beata America, a curator for the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, made a research trip to Ghana. Accompanied by her colleague Julia Kabat, America ended up visiting the Accra studio of Zohra Opoku, a Ghanaian German artist whom Zeitz MOCAA director Koyo Kouoh “had always spoken really highly of,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2275857797.jpg?w=1024″] At this year’s Venice Biennale, the performance artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger used the stage of the Austria Pavilion to alert viewers to an increasingly underwater dystopia. Seaworld Venice issued a dire warning of the flood to come: an underwater amusement park and a circling jet-ski signaled ecological catastrophe driven by turbo-tourism,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Photo-credit_-Matthew-Sherman-3.jpg?w=1024″] For years, the trophy object of choice for the ultra-wealthy was relatively predictable: the Picasso, the Rothko, the rare Patek Philippe watch, maybe a Basquiat large enough to dominate the living room of a newly purchased penthouse, or, more recently, Air Jordans worn by the legend himself at a championship game. But…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/YouAreBeautiful_South_Bleed_EnriqueAgudo.png?w=1024″] South by Southwest (SXSW) London returns for its second edition next week, taking over more than 20 venues clustered around the Trueman Brewery in Shoreditch. Known for its mix of technology, business, and music, and its focus on navigating global uncertainty, this year’s festival will also spotlight five visual artists exploring how…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2275076289.jpg?w=1024″] The Trump administration’s overhaul of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become even messier, with newly obtained federal documents showing that the contractor hired to repaint the basin bright blue secured what government officials themselves described as an “inflated” profit margin while still struggling to stop the pool from leaking. The latest…