Critic Sebastian Smee Joins The Atlantic, MIT Museum Gets I.M. Pei Archive, and More: Industry Moves for June 26, 2026June 27, 2026
National Portrait Gallery to stage landmark Marilyn Monroe exhibition. Art Market May 6, 2026 This June, the National Portrait Gallery in London will unveil a landmark exhibition of portraits chronicling the life and work…
Abbas Akhavan Transforms the Canada Pavilion Into a Greenhouse, Daring Viewers to Leave Behind Their Preconceptions Art Market May 6, 2026 Step through the glass door of the Canada Pavilion—particularly amid Tuesday’s persistent rain—and you are likely to be taken aback…
Today’s war, tomorrow’s loot: attempts at stemming the illicit trade in art – The Art Newspaper Art Market May 6, 2026 The scourge of war always outlasts the fighting. Last month I wrote about the international rule prohibiting attacks on cultural…
Pussy Riot and FEMEN Join Forces in Punk Protest in Venice: ‘Russia Kills! Biennale Exhibits!’ Art Market May 6, 2026 “Russia kills! Biennale exhibits!” “Disobey! Disobey! Disobey!” “Art for show, graves below!” “Blood is Russia’s art!” “Slava Ukraini!” Those were…
Comment | We must avoid amputating art in the name of preservation – The Art Newspaper Art Market May 6, 2026 Art historians have many tools to help us understand a work of art, but probably the most important is reconstructing…
Alma Allen’s US Pavilion Is One of the Emptiest Shows at the Venice Biennale Art Market May 6, 2026 The United States is in a sad state of affairs. That wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who reads…
Cultural workers at Venice Biennale to strike over Israel’s participation – The Art Newspaper Art Market May 6, 2026 Cultural workers and participants at the Venice Biennale plan to go on strike later this week (8 May) in protest…
Van Gogh Museum in funding mediation with Dutch government following threats of closure – The Art Newspaper Art Market May 6, 2026 The Van Gogh Museum and the Dutch government are in mediation talks after the world-renowned museum began legal proceedings to…
Filippo Lippi painting—once the centrepiece of Florence’s Palazzo Medici chapel—to undergo two-year restoration – The Art Newspaper Art Market May 6, 2026 The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) has announced that Filippo Lippi’s 1459 painting The Adoration in the Forest…
Mind the baby! Visitors to the Japanese Venice Biennale pavilion will be asked to look after dolls – The Art Newspaper Art Market May 6, 2026 For Ei Arakawa-Nash, representing Japan carries particular significance. Born in Fukushima Prefecture but now working internationally and no longer holding…
