Cecily Brown, The Serpentine Picture, 2024. Genevieve Hanson/©2026 Cecily Brown All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Over in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging a Raphael retrospective—the first ever devoted to the Renaissance …
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Vancouver Art Gallery Getty Images. The Vancouver Art Gallery announced this week that it has received a gift of more than 800 works from American photographer Stephen Shore’s series “Uncommon Places.” The donation comes from the Vancouver-based Chan family, which has long supported the museum. Taken on road trips across North America between 1973 and …
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The late Isaiah Zagar. Courtesy of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GAINING PACE. New York-based conceptual artist Anicka Yi has joined Pace, with the gallery representing her in partnership with Gladstone Gallery, 47 Canal, and Esther Schipper. Yi spoke to ARTnews about why artists must go beyond simply …
Work by Melissa Leandro at the DePaul Art Museum. Courtesy DePaul Art Museum The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, founded in 1985 and part of DePaul University, will close at the end of its current fiscal year, on June 30. The school, which faces considerable financial challenges, announced the closure in an announcement to the …
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Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova. Courtesy Catherine Shanley. Photo credit: Paul Shanley Giancarlo Politi, publisher, art critic, and founder of Flash Art, one of the most influential contemporary art magazines to emerge from Europe’s postwar era, died on February 24. He was 89. News of his death was first reported in the Italian-language press. Founded …
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Rendering of “Van Gogh Alive!” at the Lume Indianapolis. Courtesy Grande Experiences In 2021, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields turned the museum’s fourth floor contemporary art galleries into an exhibition space for high-tech digital art called the Lume. Over the past five years, the controversial initiative featured immersive, crowd-pleasing exhibitions like “Van Gogh …
Rendering of Pace Prints’ new location in Hollywood. Pace Prints Pace Prints is heading to Hollywood. The New York–based print publisher and workshop has taken a space in Los Angeles and plans to open a production facility this fall with a small accompanying gallery, expanding its footprint at a moment when the L.A. art scene …
Jean Widmer. Photo S. Pierron Jean Widmer, a French-Swiss graphic designer whose minimalist aesthetic manifested a striking logo for Centre Pompidou upon its opening in 1977, died on February 2 at the age of 96. His death was announced by Centre Pompidou, which said, “Since that day in 1977, Widmer’s logo has travelled the world, …
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Tod Lippy, All of the Gang (2026). Courtesy Tod Lippy. Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still …
Corinna Durland Director kurimanzutto Photo by PJ Rountree, 2026 Kurimanzutto has appointed Corinna Durland as senior director of its New York gallery, the Mexico City–founded gallery announced Tuesday. Based in New York, Durland will lead the space in close collaboration with the gallery’s founders and partners, with a mandate to strengthen its program in the United …
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