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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Tyshenko_Igor_0000-1024×767-1.jpg?w=1024″] A recent Russian strike on the city of Kyiv caused “serious damage” to the National Art Museum of Ukraine, when a blast wave affected the building without harming the collection or workers there. According to a report from Reform.news, “The blast wave damaged the museum’s historic façade: windows were blown out, window…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/79150517-e1779811772557.jpg?w=1024″] While we wait for the buyer of S. I. Newhouse’s $181.2 million Jackson Pollock painting to reveal him- or herself, at least one buyer at the May marquee evening sales has stepped forward: Jay Chou. The Taiwanese pop star posted on Instagram last week that he was winning bidder for the 1924…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/RAWD7C4-1270×846-1.jpg?w=1024″] Spanish police have recovered two 17th-century paintings by the Sevillian artist Lucas Valdés that disappeared nearly a century ago after the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition in Seville, according to authorities. The works surfaced earlier this year when they were consigned for auction, prompting an investigation by Spain’s National Police and the country’s culture ministry.  The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_3524_photo-courtesy-MOCAD-by-Elonte-Davis.jpg?w=1024″] The creation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) has been a slow and steady one. First conceptualized in 1995 by a trio of women, it took over 10 years of grassroots development before opening its doors to the public in 2006. This spring, the institution marks its 20th anniversary, reopening…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Kazakhstan-Pavilion-Venice-Biennale-2026-️Photos-by-Luca-Girardini-2026Courtesy-of-AA-Worldwide3.jpg?w=1024″] Controversy has once again reached the Venice Biennale, this time at the Kazakhstan pavilion, where artist Äsel Kadyrhanova’s presentation was reportedly dismantled prior to the exhibition’s opening. The fallout has left fractures within the Kazakhstani art community and among the pavilion’s organizers in Venice, with conflicting accounts emerging over who ordered the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2272922896.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Russia attacked Kyiv on Sunday, killing four, injuring about 100, and damaging cultural sites. Romania’s culture minister has stepped down following an outcry over a leaked recording. One of the oldest manuscripts to tell the tale of King Arthur is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Gleefully-Askew-–-Big-Birthday-Gladys.jpg?w=1024″] Spectacle in all its many forms is the big theme of the summer season, when big, glitzy projects will take over museums across the globe. Laure Prouvost has been given a wide playing field for a show about quantum physics at Paris’s Grand Palais, while Carsten Höller is planning a vast exhibition…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Copy-of-AKI_295.jpg?w=1024″] The term “systems art” wasn’t the most popular moniker among the many new art-world labels that emerged in the 1960s and ’70s. But it has grown much richer with age. Half a century ago, systems—from mass communications to the Cold War military-industrial complex—were expanding rapidly, as protocols began to organize geopolitics and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-1167776220.jpg?w=1024″] The upcoming presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long embroidered cloth depicting the Norman invasion of 1066, figures to be the blockbuster exhibition of the year for the British Museum. The institution is pricing tickets like it is. On Thursday, the museum said that tickets to see the tapestry, which goes on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AI-Artwork_Danziger.jpeg?w=1024″] The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York’s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer’s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April. The artwork, which still appears on Danziger’s website, does not contain…