The Venice Biennale has long been a sales platform—now no one is pretending otherwise – The Art NewspaperMay 4, 2026
Meg Webster, Comme des Garçons, and DIA Art Foundation Have Partnered on a New Perfume Art Market March 13, 2026 Like lingering petrichor or damp earth, Meg Webster’s sculptures envelop the senses—hardly surprising, as they emerge from “soil, sand, and salt,” in the words of the DIA Art…
Brooklyn Museum’s Chief Claims That Male Museum Directors Retire, While Their Female Counterparts Get Fired Art Market March 13, 2026 At a forum in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak voiced concern about what she sees as…
Cindy Sherman’s 1997 Horror Movie Flop Is Coming to Blu-Ray. Is the World Finally Ready for It? Art Market March 13, 2026 Photographer Cindy Sherman has made just one feature film to date—Office Killer, a 1997 box-office flop that was unloved by critics, such as…
Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View Art Market March 13, 2026 A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African…
Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists Art Market March 13, 2026 The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some…
A Superior Salvator Mundi, and 5 Other Strange and Wonderful Masterpieces at TEFAF Maastricht Art Market March 13, 2026 The little Dutch city of Maastricht (population about 125,000), boasts an incredible masterpiece-to-resident ratio each March, when the TEFAF fair…
Missing Page of Archimedes Manuscript Found in France, Shedding Light on Century-Long Mystery Art Market March 12, 2026 A page missing from The Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest extant copy of writings by the ancient Greek mathematician, was rediscovered…
Former MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Says Leon Black Is a ‘Solid Trustee’ Amid Epstein Controversy Art Market March 12, 2026 While collector Leon Black continues to face controversy over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he has found…
Netflix Is Developing a Series About Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Art Market March 12, 2026 Netflix is working up a scripted series about Mexican artist and cultural icon Frida Kahlo and her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera. The…
Collector Bob Rennie Donates 24 Works to National Gallery of Canada Art Market March 12, 2026 The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa has received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from Bob Rennie, one…
