The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images Hundreds of paintings lost to the ravages of war—including multiple works by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Caravaggio—will soon be viewable online courtesy of a digitization initiative by Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie. The museum’s formidable collection of Old Master paintings was damaged by two …
Simeon Barclay’s performance The Ruin. ©Anne Tetzlaff/Courtesy the artist and Workplace The Turner Prize, the esteemed Tate-run award for British artists, has revealed this year’s nominees, and in typical Turner Prize fashion, they’ve already polarized critics. Simon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku are the four nominees for this year’s award, which once …
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The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center Plaza. Jonathan Tichler/Metropolitan Opera Good Morning! The Metropolitan Opera says Saudi Arabia has backed out of a deal that would have provided the cash-strapped institution with millions over eight years. Berlin culture senator Sarah Wedl-Wilson has resigned amid a scandal related to funding projects supposed to combat antisemitism. …
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 …
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, …
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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 …
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