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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1354018958.jpg?w=1024″] Kehinde Wiley’s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) “aesthetically terrifying” last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/05122026AspenConexionElMuseoPeogramKNDFotos15.jpg?w=1024″] This spring, El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexión hosted “The Rise of the U.S. Latino Art Market: Lessons from Latin America,” a half-day symposium in El Museo’s iconic Teatro space. The event brought together artists, curators, museum directors, market insiders, and more to discuss the most pressing issues facing Latinx art…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GettyImages-830803450.jpg?w=1024″] In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission. Filed on August 20 in New York’s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026.03.06-09.06_LetUsGather_F3L_002.jpg?w=1024″] There is a painting at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum that I still can’t get out of my head, six months after I saw it. It only measures 40 by 30 inches, and I missed it on my first walk through the gallery. Made by Los Angeles–based artist Karla Diaz in thinned-out…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/20260715_RANCH_GALA-19.jpg?w=1024″] The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, a five-acre complex of studios and artist housing in Snowmass, Colorado, that offers workshops and residencies, is often called a maker’s paradise. You understand that moniker upon arrival: Once you get over the 8,000-foot elevation, you feel energized, breathe in the crisp air, behold your bucolic surroundings—mountains…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-Haystack-copy.jpg?w=1024″] The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has announced a group of recent acquisitions across all ten of its curatorial departments. In the past year, the MFA reports, it has purchased 808 works of art and received 2,506 gifts from more than 50 donors, including the donation of 1,989 photographs by the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/james-turrell-superblue-blue-1024×683-1.jpeg?w=1024″] Superblue Miami, an immersive art hub in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an installation by Light and Space artist James Turrell, Artnet News reports. The piece, titled Blue Sea Sky (2026), marks the artist’s latest installment in his renowned “Ganzfeld” series (1976–). For the last five decades, Turrell has been making…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1063608482-e1696532319327.jpg?w=1024″] Leon Black, a billionaire investor who counts among the world’s top art collectors, has sued the House Oversight Committee, alleging that its subpoenas to testify in its investigation into the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were “invalid.” Epstein’s friendship with Black has been well-documented. Black, who has repeatedly appeared on the ARTnews…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/856-copy.jpg?w=1024″] An 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis, which turned up eight decades later in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina owned by descendants of a financier to the SS, must be returned to the heirs of the rightful owner, reports France24. Attorneys, investigators, and heirs of collectors who had…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2279542644.jpg?w=1024″] United States President Donald Trump has big plans for his Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC, with excavation work for the proposed monument slated to start over the next two weeks, according to secretary of interior Doug Burgum. In a post on X, Burgum wrote that “after a very…