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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-1240513168_20261029-145628_20261029-150520.webp?w=1024″] Ukraine’s prosecutor general reported that a Russian lieutenant general has been charged in absentia for ordering a missile strike that caused significant damage to the Hryhoriy Skovoroda National Literary Memorial Museum in the country’s Kharkiv region in the spring of 2022. As reported by The Kyiv Independent, “According to the Prosecutor General,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CO-98-SC_02_SP-copy-1.jpg?w=1024″] In 1979, at the start of her essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field,” art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss wrote: “Over the last ten years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture: narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends; large photographs documenting country hikes; mirrors placed at strange angles…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/dipinto-virgo-potens-02.jpg?w=1024″] In the fall of 2024, Italian police used AI to analyze photographs taken at a popular antique fair, identifying a particular oil painting as having been one stolen from a church near L’Aquila 20 years prior. The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Italy’s art crime squad, has been using…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/PipoNguyen-duy-007-scaled-1.jpg?w=800″] Pipo Nguyen-duy, a professor at Ohio’s Oberlin College and Conservatory and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in photography, was found dead at 64 in an off-campus home on Wednesday. ABC News reports that Nguyen-duy’s son, Daniel Jones (formerly known as Asia Nguyen-duy), has been charged in connection with a double homicide…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/louvre-strike.jpg?w=1024″] As nationwide protests continue to loom across France, with the next action planned for Saturday, October 31, at least one social grievance has been addressed at the country’s top museum. On Thursday, the Louvre in Paris signed an agreement with unions who had threatened to strike for months, reports Le Figaro and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CALDE146361-Calder-sitting-copy-2.jpg?w=1024″] If you’ve ever looked long and slow enough at Alexander Calder’s mobiles made of wire-suspended, leaf-like metal shapes painted solid colors, you likely know that they are as much about their sculptural form and silhouette as they are about the breathing air, light, shadow, and nature all around them. They shiver, drift,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/1_Joint-Portrait.jpg?w=1024″] Six years ago, the director of Hong Kong’s M+ museum, Suhanya Raffel, told cultural strategist András Szántó, in an interview for the book The Future of the Museum, that in the years to come museums will need to “stand together and work to help one another to deliver a more sustainable baseline.”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/us-pavilion-1.jpg?w=1024″] Despite months of controversy, the United States managed to get Alma Allen‘s enormous sculptures to Venice for this year’s Biennale. Getting them home, however, is proving more difficult. The American Arts Conservancy, the nonprofit behind the US Pavilion, is roughly $1 million short of the funds needed to cover the exhibition’s costs,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2300759461.jpg?w=1024″] In Citizen Kim, Jonathan Van Meter’s biography of Kim Kardashian, the author reveals that the billionaire reality TV star and Skims founder owns a painting by Claude Monet. In an excerpt published by The Hollywood Reporter, Van Meter writes that Kardashian bought the Monet because of Clueless, the 1995 film starring Alicia…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CooperHewitt.jpeg?w=1024″] Two Republican members of the House of Representatives want to know more about how the Smithsonian Institution evaluates proposed exhibits after a museum display tied US-made munitions to the destruction of civilian’s homes in conflict zones. “The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency is concerned that the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian) does not…