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Alma Allen. Photo Luis Garvan/Courtesy Perrotin Alma Allen‘s pavilion for the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale has become a proxy fight over politics, process, and cultural authority—questions the artist himself has little interest in adjudicating. “I don’t think my work is political in respect to party politics,” Allen said as he prepared his exhibition, adding that …

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The three-day NFL draft, hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, kicks off in the Steel City on Thursday. The main events will take place downtown: at Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore and Point State Park, where Pittsburgh’s famous three rivers meet. The city is expecting hundreds of thousands of visitors—by some estimates, far more than …

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US President Donald Trump announces the US Navy’s new Golden Fleet initiative, unveiling a new class of warships, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 22, 2025. President Donald Trump on December 22 announced a new class of heavily armed warships that will be named after himself — an honor usually reserved for US …

Trump Fires Top Collector John Phelan, Looted Helmet Heads Home to Romania: Morning Links for April 23, 2026 Read More »

Daft Punk in Milan in 2019. Photo Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori via Getty Images Good news for any Art Basel attendees hoping to relive their early aughts salad days: Thomas Bangalter, one half of legendary French electro duo Daft Punk, will take over Hall 1.1 South at Messe Basel on Saturday June 20. Advertised as …

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Barbara Chase-Riboud. Photo Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images As questions continue to swirl around Alma Allen‘s US Pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale, sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud revealed that she was also offered the opportunity to represent the country—and that she had declined it. News of Chase-Riboud’s decision to say no was first reported by the New …

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Carrie Mae Weems has selected No Country for Old Men (still) as part of the “Fraenkel Gallery Presents” series at Metrograph. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery and Metrograph San Francisco–based Fraenkel Gallery has partnered with Metrograph to have six of the artists it represents select one film each that will screen at the theater from May 8–17, …

Fraenkel Gallery Partners with New York’s Metrograph for Artist-Curated Series Read More »

Agnes Gryczkowska Agnes Gryczkowska Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Last week, Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s, the bombastically named, “Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau. Set to run …

Agnes Gryczkowska Discusses Curating Marina Abramovic’s New Berlin Mega Show Read More »

Guests watch a performance during the 20th Anniversary David C. Driskell Prize Gala at High Museum of Art on September 20, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. Getty Images for High Museum of Art Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to a federal theft …

Former High Museum COO Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Theft Charges Read More »

View of Stanton Yards with design contributions from SO – IL and OSD. Image by bloomimages A small group of high-value works from the collection of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jennifer Gilbert will go to auction at Sotheby’s this spring, with proceeds directed toward Lumana, a Detroit-based arts nonprofit she is developing. The works will be …

Jennifer Gilbert Consigns Blue-Chip Works to Sotheby’s to Fund Detroit Arts Space Read More »

Hans Ulrich Obrist. Photo Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the art world’s great curators, is more deeply connected with artists than most could dream: he has estimated that he’s recorded over 2,000 hours worth of interviews with artists, and he regularly posts handwritten notes from painters, …

Hans Ulrich Obrist Reveals the One Artist Who Refused to Let Him Into Their Studio Read More »