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  • Isaiah Zagar, The Artist Behind Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, Has Died at 86

    Isaiah Zagar, an artist who created one of Philadelphia’s great public art attractions, died on February 19 due to complications from heart failure and Parkinson’s Disease, which he had been diagnosed with in 2023. His death was confirmed by Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (PMG), the nonprofit organization that tends to the eponymous artwork. His creations “defined read more

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  • Frida Kahlo’s Great-Niece Says Commercialization of the Artist Has Gone ‘Too Far’

    Frida Kahlo‘s art is now firmly established in the art historical canon, hanging on the walls of some of the world’s most illustrious museums. But it’s also inspired a sundry of wares the world over—from notebooks and coffee mugs to earrings and dolls—that bear her image, both licensed and not, and this appears to have read more

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    Frida Kahlo’s Great-Niece Says Commercialization of the Artist Has Gone ‘Too Far’

  • Dóra Maurer, Artist Beloved for Heady Films and Exuberantly Colored Paintings, Dies at 88

    Dóra Maurer, a Hungarian conceptual artist whose output in multiple mediums explored how meaning shifts across time and space, has died at 88. The Art Newspaper reported that the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, where Maurer served as president, confirmed her passing. Maurer was one of the most important contemporary artists in Hungary. She read more

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  • Art Basel Exhibitors Revealed for Its Swiss Fair, Hungarian Artist Dóra Maurer Dies at 89: Morning Links for February 19, 2026

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BASEL SQUARED. Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, has revealed the 290 exhibitors from 42 countries participating in its hometown, 2026 edition, from June 18 to 21. This year, 21 first-timers are making the trip, several hailing from an ever-broadening geographic scope, including read more

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    Art Basel Exhibitors Revealed for Its Swiss Fair, Hungarian Artist Dóra Maurer Dies at 89: Morning Links for February 19, 2026

  • Turner Prize–Winning Artist Tai Shani Ends Phaidon Book Deal Over Leon Black’s Relationship to Jeffrey Epstein

    Tai Shani, a London-based artist who won the Turner Prize in 2019, said this week that she was terminating a book contract with Phaidon, the arts book publisher that has been owned by billionaire art collector Leon Black since 2012. Shani cited Black’s connections to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including “numerous read more

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  • Marilyn Minter Wins Anderson Ranch’s International Artist Award

    Marilyn Minter, known for her feminist practice that blends painting and photography, has won this year’s International Artist Award from the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Minter will be honored at the annual Ranch Gala, part of the Ranch’s annual Ranch Week series in July. Ranch President and CEO Peter Waanders told ARTnews in an interview read more

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  • For 83-Year-Old Artist Mia Westerlund Roosen, Endurance Rather Than Attention Has Fueled Her Creativity for Decades

    When artist Mia Westerlund Roosen debuted her conical sculptures, which unmistakably recall phalluses, at the “25th Anniversary Exhibition of Leo Castelli” in 1982, she did so as a form of feminist protest. The exhibition, celebrating one of the postwar era’s most important galleries, had assembled together a pantheon of postwar American artists, the majority of read more

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    For 83-Year-Old Artist Mia Westerlund Roosen, Endurance Rather Than Attention Has Fueled Her Creativity for Decades

  • Artist Tai Shani Pulls Phaidon Book Deal Over Leon Black Allegations

    Artist Tai Shani in 2019 (photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Stuart Wilson/Getty Images for Turner Contemporary) British artist and Turner Prize winner Tai Shani said she has withdrawn a forthcoming monograph with Phaidon, the fine art book publisher owned by Leon Black, in the wake of graphic sexual assault accusations against the private equity billionaire detailed read more

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    Artist Tai Shani Pulls Phaidon Book Deal Over Leon Black Allegations

  • Artist Trevor Paglen Thinks Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Looks Awfully Familiar

    On Super Bowl Sunday, Universal Pictures debuted the first full-length trailer for Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s latest extraterrestrial epic. Scattered throughout the trailer are repeated references to cardinals, presented as a kind of harbinger of alien life. If that sounds a little familiar, eagle-eyed art viewer, you’re not alone. Artist Trevor Paglen took to Instagram read more

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    Artist Trevor Paglen Thinks Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Looks Awfully Familiar

  • University of North Texas Cancels Victor Quiñonez Exhibition, Artist Claims Censorship over Anti-ICE Content in His Work

    The exhibition was intended to be a homecoming for artist Victor“Marka27” Quiñonez who grew up in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro area. The excitement built when he got the first batch of images showing his traveling solo exhibition being installed at the University of North Texas’s CVAD Gallery. Quiñonez was looking forward to receiving images of read more

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    University of North Texas Cancels Victor Quiñonez Exhibition, Artist Claims Censorship over Anti-ICE Content in His Work

  • Teaching Children Taught Me How to Be an Artist

    At the end of November of 2011, I saw my dad take his last breath. I came back to the United States after participating in all the death-related rituals that helped organize my pain in México. New York City was not a place to live my mourning, and right around December of the same year, read more

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    Teaching Children Taught Me How to Be an Artist

  • Michaels Sues Artist Who Claimed the Craft Store Giant Used His Work Without Permission

    Street artists have found themselves in legal conflicts for years with fashion brands and other companies that employ their work in advertising and social media campaigns. Some have won settlements after legal battles with these companies, which claim they do not need to contact the artists for their works, which often appear in public and read more

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  • Dreaming of Creating a Giant Public Artwork With Google? Artist Judy Chicago Doesn’t Recommend It.

    For just about any artist, a major, permanent public commission from a giant global corporation might seem like great news. The artist might expect big budgets, massive exposure, and a ribbon-cutting with the mayor and CEO. Even Judy Chicago, an icon of feminist art who has had solo exhibitions at institutions from New York’s New read more

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    Dreaming of Creating a Giant Public Artwork With Google? Artist Judy Chicago Doesn’t Recommend It.

  • Artist Who Represented Ireland at 2024 Venice Biennale to Face Trial for Protest Against US Military

    Eimear Walshe, who represented Ireland at the 2024 Venice Biennale, will face trial starting tomorrow for a case centering around the artist’s involvement in a protest against the US military staged at an airport in their home country. Walshe will appear in court alongside Áine Treanor and Aindriú de Buitléir, who, alongside Walshe, are known read more

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    Artist Who Represented Ireland at 2024 Venice Biennale to Face Trial for Protest Against US Military

  • L, Artist Whose Mysterious Sculptures Cast Spells on Viewers, Has Died

    L, an artist whose sculptures and paintings imbued galleries and museums across the US with spiritual potential, has died. ARTnews was unable to confirm a cause of death for L, whose passing was announced this week by various galleries that had shown the artist’s work. The Los Angeles–based artist would have been either 41 or read more

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    L, Artist Whose Mysterious Sculptures Cast Spells on Viewers, Has Died

  • Is Martin Puryear the Most Influential American Artist Working Today?

    Self-portraiture is commonly thought to be one of the most revealing genres of artmaking: In presenting an image of yourself to the world, you are baring it all, or so the thinking goes. What, then, is one to make of Martin Puryear’s 1978 sculpture Self? Composed of a large piece of carved mahogany topped off read more

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    Is Martin Puryear the Most Influential American Artist Working Today?

  • Sotheby’s Second Sale in Saudi Arabia Tops $19.6 M., Sets Record for Saudi Artist

    Just under a year ago, Sotheby’s made its biggest foray in the Gulf yet with its first-ever auction in Saudi Arabia. That sale, titled “Origins” and featuring 117 lots spanning art and luxury objects, brought in $17.3 million with fees—squarely within its $14 million–$20 million presale estimate. It wasn’t a spectacular result, but also wasn’t read more

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    Sotheby’s Second Sale in Saudi Arabia Tops .6 M., Sets Record for Saudi Artist

  • South Carolina Artist Wins $158K in Copyright Infringement Case Over Mural

    A judge in U.S. District Court in South Carolina has awarded local artist Todd Atkinson $158,400 in a copyright infringement case against artist Chan Shepherd and the owner of the building on which Atkinson’s mural was originally painted. Atkinson painted the mural, of a train and a water tank, with the words “Water Tank” in read more

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    South Carolina Artist Wins 8K in Copyright Infringement Case Over Mural

  • Lorena Levi, Rising Artist Who Painted ‘Narrative Portraiture,’ Dies at 29

    Lorena Levi, an artist whose portraits painted on wood gained her fast-growing momentum in the UK, died on January 8 at 29. Her death was announced this week via her Instagram, which said she had battled pancreatic cancer. Levi rose quickly over the past few years, staging a show in Milan with M+B, a well-regarded read more

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    Lorena Levi, Rising Artist Who Painted ‘Narrative Portraiture,’ Dies at 29

  • Short Film by Artist Alexandre Singh and Art Historian Natalie Musteata Nominated for an Oscar

    Two People Exchanging Saliva, a black-and-white film written and directed by Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the live action short film category. The 36-minute film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival earlier this year, and has been making the festival rounds this fall and winter, winning various read more

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    Short Film by Artist Alexandre Singh and Art Historian Natalie Musteata Nominated for an Oscar