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A Priceless Romanian Golden Helmet, Heisted from a Dutch Museum, Has Been Recovered
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (348+ words) Senior Market Reporter, ARTnews But at a press conference in Assen on Thursday, police wearing balaclavas revealed that the helmet was returned, along with two of three golden bracelets dating to the second half of the first century BCE that…...
Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Arena Launches Art Program, with Paul Pfeiffer As First Artist-in-Residence
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (267+ words) The Barclays Center arena in downtown Brooklyn launched a public art program, with Paul Pfeiffer as the first artist-in-residence. The Barclays Center arena in downtown Brooklyn is expanding its arts programming in the service of "Brooklyn Art Encounters," a new…...
Our Critics Are Split on the Weirdest Whitney Biennial in Recent Memory
4+ week, 1+ day ago (186+ words) ARTnews senior editors Maximil'ano Dur'n and Alex Greenberger offer their initial thoughts on the 2026 Whitney Biennial. With the biennial having officially opened to the press ahead of its public inauguration on March 8, ARTnews senior editors Maximil'ano Dur'n and Alex Greenberger…...
Frieze New York to Include Whitney Biennial Commission and New $50,000 Acquisition Fund
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (279+ words) In just over a month, Frieze New York will open its 2026 edition, which will include several institutional collaborations and a new acquisition fund. Scheduled to run May 1317 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors, Frieze New York will partner will…...
Artist Ali Cherri Files Complaint After Israeli Army Kills His Parents, Indian Painting Sets Auction Record: Morning Links for April 2, 2026
6+ hour, 46+ min ago (74+ words) Here's what we're reading this morning, folks. S'o Paulo has "regained one of the world's great public spaces," with a new extension project of the city's Museum of Art (MASP), designed by Lina Bo Bardi. [Apollo Magazine] The White House…...
Teresinha Soares, Brazilian Artist Behind Erotic-Inflected Works That Slyly Defied Taboos, Dies at 99
22+ hour, 12+ min ago (1068+ words) 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 was 99 years old. She had…...
A New Immersive Art Exhibition on the Sistine Chapel Is Coming to New Jersey Mall
1+ day, 30+ min ago (195+ words) An "immersive experience" inspired by the Sistine Chapel is heading to a mall in Paramus, New Jersey. The similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo's hallowed paintings…...
China Orders Nationwide Museum Audit After Missing Masterpieces Scandal
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (240+ words) China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had quietly slipped into the private market, according to Hong Kong newspaper South Morning China Post....
Caravaggio Documentary Will Premiere on Marquee TV Next Week
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (319+ words) The documentary 'Caravaggio,' part of the Exhibition on a Screen series, will premiering on the streaming platform Marquee TV on Apr. 6. Caravaggio, a feature-length documentary about the Baroque Italian painter, was released in theaters last fall. The film, directed by…...
The $5.5 M. Online Sale of a Triceratops on Pharrell’s Auction Platform Joopiter Says A Lot About Where the Market Is Headed
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (322+ words) A triceratops sold online for $5.5 million on Tuesday on musician and designer Pharrell Williams's auction platform Joopiter. Excavated in Wyoming in 1993 during the so-called "Bone Rush," Trey is a sub-adult triceratops measuring more than five meters long and composed of…...