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To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n FOR WHOM THE BELL TOL\u00c9DOS<\/em><\/strong>. Spanish leaders are trading insults in a heated, increasingly political clash over the Basque regional government\u2019s recent request to borrow Pablo<\/strong>Picasso<\/strong>\u2019s Guernica<\/em><\/strong> for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum<\/strong> in Bilbao, reports El Pais<\/em>. \u201cIt makes no sense for everything to be returned to its origin,\u201d said the president of the Madrid governing body, Isabel D\u00edaz Ayuso.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIt represents a provincial mindset when culture is universal.\u201d To this, Basque Nationalist Party leader\u00a0Aitor Esteban\u00a0<\/strong>accused Ayuso of being the \u201cprovincial\u201d one for viewing \u201chaving a beer on a terrace as a national statement.\u201d Two weeks ago, Basque regional president\u00a0Imanol Pradales\u00a0<\/strong>formally requested that the painting be loaned to the Bilbao museum to mark the city\u2019s 90th\u00a0anniversary, but Picasso\u2019s black-and-white masterpiece has not left Madrid\u2019s Museo Reina Sof\u00eda<\/strong> since 1992, and the museum has repeatedly taken steps to keep it that way. Today, Spain\u2019s culture minister is expected to make a public announcement about the transfer request.<\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>. Thomas Zipp<\/strong>, the German punk musician, painter, and installation artist with a relentlessly critical eye, has died, reports ARTnews<\/em>. His gallery, Berlin\u2019s Galerie Barbara Thumm, announced the news on social media. Zipp reimagined site-specific art as \u201ca kind of psychological theater, filling gallery spaces worldwide with multilayered, scenographic installations,\u201d writes Tessa Solomon. His works tended to be devoid of people but full of objects, creating environments alluded to religion, medicine, politics, and history, or \u201cthe weirdness of mankind,\u201d as he once described the human compulsion to create.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n The Centre Pompidou Hanwha<\/strong> in Seoul\u2019s Yeouido neighborhood will open on June 4.\u00a0[Le Quotidien de l\u2019Art]<\/p>\n \n\tWhat will happen to the De Paul Art Museum<\/strong>\u2019s collection of about 4,000 artworks now that the museum is set to close in June? [The Art Newspaper]<\/p>\n \n\tThis high turnover of top brass at the Pinault Collection <\/strong>has come under the microscope, with Fran\u00e7ois Pinault\u2019s \u201ccentralized\u201d control one apparent reason.\u00a0\u00a0[Le Journal des Arts]<\/p>\n \n\tWhat do data and museum shows reveal about the shifting auction results for KAWS<\/strong>?\u00a0[Artnet News]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n HENRY TAYLOR + PICASSO<\/strong>. Tomorrow, a Henry Taylor<\/strong> exhibition opens at the Mus\u00e9e Picasso<\/strong> in Paris, prompting the influential artist to reflect on his expressive paintings and sculptures of Black life in an interview with the Financial Times<\/em>, and specifically, whether he regrets any of his past artworks. \u201cI gotta love it all,\u201d he tells reporter Nadia Beard, while visiting Rome for another event. This jives with what Beard describes as Taylor\u2019s defiance of conventional artistic progression that would measure \u201cgrowth or arrival at a \u2018truest\u2019 vision.\u201d Rather, his work instead thrives on \u201cobservation, seeking out, bearing witness,\u201d she reasons. \u201cI approach the work the same way [as before], I think,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cI\u2019m always present. I\u2019m always sort of spontaneous, and I\u2019m not really planning \u2026 Being sincere and being present, and being inspired by the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/politicians-trade-barbs-over-guernica-loan-request-artist-thomas-zipp-dies-henry-taylor-in-paris-morning-links-for-april-7-2026-1234780242\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MuseoReinaSofia-Guernica.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. The Headlines FOR WHOM THE BELL TOL\u00c9DOS. Spanish leaders are trading insults in a heated, increasingly political clash over the Basque regional government\u2019s recent request to borrow PabloPicasso\u2019s Guernica for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, reports El Pais. \u201cIt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1871364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}