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Exterior of the Black Gold Museum in Riyadh. Courtesy Black Gold Museum, Riyadh The Black Gold Museum opened this week in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia as part of the country’s Vision 2030 initiative, the goals of which include diversifying the country’s economy and transforming its socioeconomic landscape. As its name more than …

Riyadh’s New Black Gold Museum Attempts to Convey ‘The Legacy of Oil Through Art’ Read More »

Ali Cherri. © Ali Cherri Photo: Dmitry Kostyukov Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has filed a civil complaint in France calling for an investigation into Israeli authorities’ bombing of a residential building in Beirut in November 2024, which killed seven …

Lebanese Artist Ali Cherri Files War Crimes Complaint Against Israel After 2024 Beirut Bombing Read More »

Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head, by the Chinese artist brothers Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang. Photo Carol M. Highsmith/Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division The Human Rights Foundation has submitted a complaint to a United Nations body that reviews detention cases on behalf of Chinese dissident …

Human Rights Foundation Petitions UN on Behalf of Jailed Chinese Dissident Artist Gao Zhen Read More »

Saara Pritchard (left) and Loïc Gouzer of Fair Warning. Image of Pritchard by George Etheredge. Image of Gouzer courtesy of Fair Warning. In 2020, as the art market scrambled to move online, Loïc Gouzer tried something smaller. After years staging blockbuster evening sales at Christie’s as chairman of post-war and contemporary art, he launched the …

Fair Warning Expands With Saara Pritchard, Doubling Down on ‘Conviction’ in a Crowded Art Market Read More »

PUNE, INDIA NOVEMBER 11: Cyrus Poonawalla, Chairman of Serum Institute of India Limited on November 11, 2007 in Pune, India. (Photo by Madhu Kapparath/Mint via Getty Images) Hindustan Times via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with …

Pharmaceuticals Billionaire Buys Record-Breaking Indian Painting, Venice Biennale Faces Artist Protest: Morning Links for April 2, 2026 Read More »

An installation view of “Samurai” at the British Museum. Courtesy Trustees of the British Museum The myth of the samurai gained prominence outside Japan in the early 20th century through films, TV shows, art, and literature. This widespread interest contributed to various misconceptions about them. However, a new exhibition at the British Museum, simply titled …

A New Exhibition at the British Museum Dismantles the Popular Understanding of Samurai Read More »

Gisela Colón working in Los Angeles studio. Photo Marten Elder Gisela Colón didn’t plan to become an artist. “I studied law because I thought it would protect me,” she told ARTnews, looking back on a childhood in Puerto Rico shaped as much by instability as it was by the farm in the outskirts of Bayamón …

Gisela Colón on Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny, and the Power Beneath the Island Read More »

The Louvre Museum in Paris. Getty Images Some 200 million visitors streamed through the 100 top-attended museums around the world in 2025, according to the latest attendance ranking by the Art Newspaper. That figure is still down a bit from the 230 million who punched their tickets in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic …

The Louvre Remains the World’s Most-Visited Museum, with Competition Coming from the Middle East and Asia in 2025 Read More »

Teresinha Soares with her work Camas (1970). ©Atelier Teresinha Soares/Courtesy the artist’s estate and Gomide & Co. Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose paintings and installations from the 1960s and ’70s challenged gendered-conventions of how women were both treated in Brazilian society and depicted throughout art history, died on March 31 in Belo Horizonte. She …

Teresinha Soares, Brazilian Artist Behind Erotic-Inflected Works That Slyly Defied Taboos, Dies at 99 Read More »

Bruno Bich. Photo Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images The heirs of the Bic family fortune filed suit in March for the return of a painting by Fra Angelico that sold at Christie’s for $5.4 million in 2018. That sale was only possible, the heirs allege, because a chauffeur for the family had stolen the work, …

Bic Family Heirs File Lawsuit for Return of Fra Angelico Painting ‘Stolen’ by Chauffeur Read More »