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People looking at phones, looking at Beeple’s humanoid pig-dogs at Art Basel Miami Beach Daniel Cassady Beeple’s robotic beasties—first unveiled as a questionably crowd-drawing spectacle at Art Basel Miami Beach last December—are heading to a museum. The installation, Regular Animals (2025), will be presented at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin from April 29 to May 10, coinciding with Gallery Weekend …

Beeple’s Pooping Robot “Dogs” Are Heading to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie Read More »

The 2026 Biennale of Sydney. Photo Felicity Jenkins/©Art Gallery of New South Wales 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 …

Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists Read More »

This aerial view shows the Bio-Bio Theater, designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic. AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HOUSE OF CARDS. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has won the famed Pritzker Prize, the industry’s top accolade, which was delayed because of Tom Pritzker’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, …

Smiljan Radic Wins the Pritzker Prize, ‘Men Retire But Women Get Fired From Museum Leadership’ Says Anne Pasternak: Morning Links for March 13, 2026 Read More »

Ivan Argote’s Wild Flowers, installed on the Katy Trail in Dallas. Photo Kevin Todora The Katy Trail, a 3.5-mile urban greenway in Dallas, will be the venue for a new public art biennial launching in Spring 2027. The KTX Biennial will unfold across the length of the Katy Trail, and the works will be on …

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WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 28: Visitors browse an exhibition about slavery in The United States of America at the National Museum of African American History and Culture on August 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump Administration will review exhibition contents of 18 Smithsonian museums to reflect “unity, progress, and enduring values that define the …

Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View Read More »

“Autour de la maison, été” is among Hockney’s largest prints. Christie’s A massive print by David Hockney is slated to headline Christie’s London spring prints season. Titled Autour de la maison, été (2019) and measuring almost 40 feet, it carries a high estimate of £300,000 ($400,000). The work is printed on a single sheet of …

Massive, 44-Foot-Long David Hockney Print to Headline Christie’s Spring Prints Season in London Read More »

Keisha Scarville. Photo Ana Dias Keisha Scarville, a photographer known for her work about people in diaspora and identities in flux, is the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum‘s Uovo Prize, the institution announced on Thursday. Through the award, Scarville will take home $25,000 and receive a Brooklyn Museum commission. Her work will also be …

Keisha Scarville Wins Brooklyn Museum’s $25,000 Uovo Prize Read More »

Firing and hiring: Anne Pasternak is worried about museum leadership trends. Getty Images for Puck During a talk in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak said she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women …

At Making Their Mark Forum, Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak Notes Troubling Pattern in Museum Leadership Read More »

A Cy Twombly painting on view at the Museum Brandhorst in 2009. Getty Images While the Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a sizable Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition for the fall, it now appears that that show isn’t the only grand one for a postwar painter on the docket at the New York institution. Last …

Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years Read More »

Luxembourg’s culture minister Éric Thill. Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Luxembourg’s pavilion for the upcoming Venice Biennale has sparked a political spat at home, after lawmakers questioned both the cost of the project and the nature of the work set to represent the country. At the center of the debate is La Merde, a project …

Luxembourg’s Culture Minister Defends Country’s Venice Biennale Budget After Critics Say It’s Too High Read More »