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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 …

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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 »

The market is rebounding… just. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines SORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Adam Schrader …

Private Messages Reveal Lead Up to Canceled Anti-ICE Show at North Texas Uni, Art Market Edges Back to Growth: Morning Links for March 12, 2026 Read More »

Jonas Wood. © Wood Kusaka Studios Jonas Wood has been watching sports his whole life, and the habit has followed him into the studio. “I played tons of sports when I was a kid and I was obsessed with following them,” Wood said, speaking with me by Zoom from his Los Angeles studio. “I used …

Jonas Wood Turns Tennis Courts into Color Experiments in New Gagosian Show Read More »