Category: art
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The Venice Biennale Claims It’s Neutral—But No Art Exhibition Ever Is
The 1974 Venice Biennale has gone down in history less for what went on view than what didn’t: the show itself. The explanations for why the exhibition didn’t happen are diverse. Some accounts attribute the show’s cancelation to an embarrassing disagreement among warring Italian factions. Others follow the narrative laid out by then-Biennale president Carlo read more
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Leaked Texts Show UNT Leaders Feared ‘Barking from Austin’ Before Anti-ICE Show Cancelation
Newly published text messages between leaders at the University of North Texas (UNT) reveal that administrators feared “any barking from Austin” over plans to cancel an exhibition featuring artwork critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Urgent Matter reports that the communications show school president Harrison Keller and provost Michael McPherson discussing “Ni De Aquí, read more
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Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists
The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some members of Australia’s Jewish community repeatedly claimed that curator Hoor Al Qasimi had selected for participants with anti-Zionist politics. One prominent Jewish group, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, had initially been invited to preview read more
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Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View
A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture since its opening will soon leave Washington, DC. According to theAssociated Press,the museum plans to remove a timber fragment from theSão José-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship that sank off read more
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Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures
From unassuming hunks of Carrara marble and limestone, Matthew Simmonds carves realistic, miniature gothic cathedral arches, stairwells, and colonnades. Often based on architectural details of real places, such as cities around Tuscany and Germany’s Bamberg Cathedral, the sculptures portray intimate details of corners, vaulted ceilings, arcades, and stairwells that can sometimes be peeked through additional read more
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Private Messages Reveal Lead Up to Canceled Anti-ICE Show at North Texas Uni, Art Market Edges Back to Growth: Morning Links for March 12, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines SORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Adam Schrader reports for Urgent Matter that the communications, obtained through read more
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Scholars and MPs Call UK Museums ‘Unethical’ and ‘Sacrilegious’ for Holding Vast Collections of Human Remains
More than a quarter of a million human remains from around the world are currently held in UK museums, in what MPs and archaeologists are calling an uncomfortable legacy of the country’s colonial past. Not only this, but many of the items are reportedly being stored in ways that are disrespectful or even sacrilegious. An read more
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The Problem With Art Awards
Daily Newsletter Lucian Freud’s paintings of “lostness,” the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff. Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power structures and maintain the status quo? Damien Davis argues it’s the latter in read more
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After Two Years of Decline, the Art Market Edges Back to Growth, Says 2026 Art Basel UBS Report
The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated$59.6 billion in sales, according to the latestArt Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total represents a4 percent increase from the previous year, breaking a two-year slide in sales—though the market still read more
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Laura Phipps Tapped to Lead Gochman Collection of Indigenous Art
News The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley. Laura Phipps, the new director of the Gochman Family Collection (photo by and courtesy Roeg Cohen) Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the read more
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Abortion Nonprofit Claims Artwork in Malta Biennale Was Censored
The second edition of the Malta Biennale opened in previews this week, and it was not without controversy. Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides information on safe abortion in restrictive settings, accused the Biennale’s organizers of “censoring” an artwork by the organization just before the opening on Tuesday. The work originally featured a banner read more
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Italy Purchases Rare Caravaggio Portrait for $34.7 M.
Italy has purchased a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million ($34.7 million), one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a work of art, according to the country’s culture ministry. The painting, depicting the cleric Monsignor Maffeo Barberini—who would later ascend as Pope Urban VIII—was described as being of “exceptional importance,” Alessandro read more
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Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power
Award season now arrives less as a sequence of events than as a continuous atmosphere. Announcements blur into ceremonies, ceremonies into press cycles, press cycles into speculation about the next stage. The art world has begun to mirror this rhythm, producing its own awards, its own stages, its own moments of recognition that appear to read more
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Lucian Freud Mastered the Art of Lostness
Art Review As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves. Lucian Freud, “Girlin Bed” (1952), oil on canvas(© The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2026 / Bridgeman Images. Photo © National Portrait Gallery, London. Lent by a private collection, courtesy of Ordovas) LONDON — read more
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Text Messages Reveal How University of North Texas Leaders Axed an Anti-ICE Show
Weeks after the University of North Texas (UNT) abruptly axed an exhibition of works criticizing the treatment of immigrants in the United States, newly obtained internal communications show how university administrators deliberated their controversial action. According to public records first reported by independent journalist Adam Schrader and reviewed by Hyperallergic, the Texas university’s Provost Michael read more
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Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortés
In Memoriamis published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world. Pedro Friedeberg (1936–2026)Mexican artist and designer Born in Italy, the artist and designer was known for surreal designs and paintings that incorporated body parts and animals, though he was perhaps most famous for his iconic Hand Chair. He is read more
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Austin’s Friends Fair Returns for Second Edition in May With 17 Exhibitors
The Friends Fair in Austin will host its second edition, with an opening preview on May 7, with public days on May 8–9. Returning to the Loren Hotel Austin, the fair has also increased the number of exhibitors from 10 to 17, and it will take over an entire floor within the Loren. The first read more
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Every Copy of Our Spring Issue Comes with a Print by Kara Walker
When a monument to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was decommissioned in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021, curator Hamza Walker managed to get ahold of it and transported it to a warehouse in New Jersey. The hefty monument’s move was no small feat, legally or logistically. But once it arrived, he offered it to the artist Kara read more
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Mischief's Genius Ads for NPR Provoke Urgent Questions About the Right to Information
In mid-2025, the Trump administration rescinded $9 billion in public media funding and foreign aid, including $1.1 billion slated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP). CBP, in turn, was responsible for distributing funding to organizations like National Public Radio (NPR), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and their member stations across the nation. The corporation was read more
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Longtime Chelsea Gallery Garth Greenan to Relocate Downtown This Fall
Initially, Garth Greenan didn’t realize that the lease for his current space on West 20th Street in Chelsea would expire on the eve of his eponymous gallery’s 15th anniversary. But once he did, he took it as a sign to start a new chapter for the business. In September, Garth Greenan Gallery will relocate to read more
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