The Art World This Week: Met Merges With Neue Galerie, Architects Selected for Louvre Transformation, Artist Valie Export Dies at...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will acquire the Neue Galerie’s Fifth Avenue building and its 20th‑century Austrian and German collection beginning in 2028, marking the museum’s first major merger. In France, Studios Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects won the competition to redesign the Louvre’s eastern façade entrance after a brief delay. The art world also mourned the death of Austrian feminist pioneer Valie Export, who died at 85. Additional moves include a strategic partnership between Hong Kong’s M+ and Paris’s Centre Pompidou and a new artistic director for Art Basel Qatar.
The Art World This Week: Venice Biennale Jury Resigns, Artworks Behind Met Gala Looks, and More
The Venice Biennale’s jury stepped down after the organization announced it would exclude artists from nations whose leaders face crimes‑against‑humanity accusations, sparking protests that briefly shut the Russian pavilion. At the same time, the Met Gala showcased eight looks directly...
Hannah Wilke and Francesca Woodman: Feminist Powerhouses of the Late 20th Century
The article revisits the groundbreaking feminist photography of Hannah Wilke and Francesca Woodman, highlighting Wilke’s provocative S.O.S. series that employed chewed gum to expose female objectification and her later Intra‑Venus work documenting chemotherapy, while Woodman’s haunting, surreal images are being showcased in...
The Art World This Week: AI Reveals El Greco Authorship, Finland Retracts From Venice Biennale, National Gallery Receives $116m Donation,...
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University unveiled a machine‑learning tool that can detect multiple artists’ contributions in a 17th‑century El Greco altarpiece, offering a new method for attribution studies. Finland announced it will withdraw from the Venice Biennale if Russia is...
Agnes Denes's Wheatfield: An Impossible Confrontation
In 1982 artist Agnes Denes transformed Manhattan’s Battery Park landfill into a three‑acre wheatfield that directly faced the World Trade Center and Wall Street. Funded by a $10,000 Public Art Fund grant, the project imported 200 truckloads of soil, planted and...
The Art World This Week: Nazi-Looted Modigliani Reclaimed, Kengo Kuma to Design National Gallery Wing, Seoul’s Centre Pompidou to Open...
A New York judge ordered the return of a Amedeo Modigliani painting looted by Nazis to the artist’s heirs, ending an 11‑year court fight involving billionaire dealer David Nahmad’s holding company. London’s National Gallery announced that Japanese architect Kengo Kuma,...
The Art World This Week: Impressionist Masterpieces Stolen, Picasso’s Guernica to Travel, UK Weighs Visitor Fees, and More
A three‑minute heist at Italy’s Magnani‑Rocca Foundation saw priceless works by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse disappear, underscoring museum security gaps. Meanwhile, Picasso’s iconic "Guernica" is slated for a rare loan to the Guggenheim Bilbao, its first move from Madrid in...
The Art World This Week: Vatican Rediscovers El Greco Painting, Tate Announces 2027 Exhibitions, Netflix Plans Kahlo Drama, and More
The Vatican announced that a previously unidentified work in its collection has been newly attributed to El Greco, adding a rare c.1590‑95 “Redeemer” to its holdings. Tate unveiled its 2027 exhibition programme, spotlighting major shows of David Hockney, Claude Monet and...
The Art World This Week: Art Basel UBS Report, Italy Buys Caravaggio for €30m, EU Rejects Russian Pavilion, and More
The 2026 Art Basel‑UBS report shows the global art market rebounded to $59.6 billion in 2025, ending a two‑year decline. Italy secured a rare Caravaggio portrait for €30 million, one of the highest state purchases ever. The EU warned it could withhold...