Mexico to Divert Train Route After Cave Art Discovery One of 16 drawings and petroglyphs Mexican archaeologists discovered along a multi-billion-dollar planned train route in Mexico (all photos Gerardo Pena, courtesy INAH)Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered 16 pre-Hispanic artworks along the route of a forthcoming passenger tra

Mexico to Divert Train Route After Cave Art Discovery

Agnes Gryczkowska Discusses Curating Marina Abramović’s New Berlin Mega Show Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.Last week, Marina Abramović opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s, the bombastically named, “Balkan Erotic

Agnes Gryczkowska Discusses Curating Marina Abramović’s New Berlin Mega Show

Anarchic Cats Are Ensnared in Chaos in Léo Forest’s Dynamic Drawings Feline antics are notoriously chaotic. “The cat is, above all things, a dramatist,” author and Egyptologist Margaret Benson is to have said. Sacred to ancient Egyptians, domestic cats share more than 95% of their genetic makeup with tigers, and they can leap five times their heig

Anarchic Cats Are Ensnared in Chaos in Léo Forest’s Dynamic Drawings

Art Dubai to Present Significantly Smaller Event After Iran War Forces Postponement Art Dubai, which earlier this spring announced its postponement amid the US and Israel’s sustained attack on Iran, has revealed the details of the “special edition” that will take the place of the originally planned twentieth-anniversary event. Whereas that iteration of Art Dubai

Art Dubai to Present Significantly Smaller Event After Iran War Forces Postponement

Illustrator Spotlight: Nicholas Moegly Nicholas Moegly                                                         Nicholas Moegly’s Website Nicholas Moegly on Instagram

Illustrator Spotlight: Nicholas Moegly

La Boemia sta sul mare: alla Biennale Internazionale Donna l’utopia diventa strumento critico Ci sono mostre che si visitano e mostre che si abitano. La Biennale Internazionale Donna V è entrambe le cose. Ho attraversato questo progetto, passo dopo passo, con la sensazione crescente che non stessi soltanto visitando un’esposizione, ma aprendo uno spazio, un luogo in cui c

La Boemia sta sul mare: alla Biennale Internazionale Donna l’utopia diventa strumento critico

Dismantling Orbán's 16-Year Grip on Hungary's Art World Having lived my entire adult life under right-wing authoritarian Viktor Orbán’s regime, his colossal defeat at Hungary’s parliamentary elections last Sunday by Tisza, the largest opposition party, still feels hard to believe. Witnessing people in my hometown, Budapest, erupt with

Dismantling Orbán's 16-Year Grip on Hungary's Art World

Learning Without Walls: InsideFalmouth University’s Online Art MA What does it mean to make art together, apart? As digital infrastructures reshape how we connect and collaborate, creatives are no longer bound to the physical studio – nor are students. In fact, a growing number of arts education programmes are rethinking how practice can be tau

Learning Without Walls: InsideFalmouth University’s Online Art MA

Five Photographers from CONTACT Festival This year, CONTACT Photography Festival celebrates its 30th edition. The Toronto-based event is dedicated to exhibiting, analysing and celebrating lens-based media in all its forms. Over the past three decades, it has attracted over 20 million visitors and presented the work of o

Five Photographers from CONTACT Festival

rediscover the mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in a samsonite Portable mazda suitcase car for airports and travels   Back in the early 1990s, Mazda built a suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle for airports that fits inside hard-shell luggage. A project coming from an internal contest called Fantasyard between 1989 and 1991, the co

rediscover the mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in a samsonite

In an Unlikely Pairing, Giacometti Sculptures Head to The Met's Temple of Dendur In a bold crossover, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the slender works of 20th-century Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti inside its Ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur this summer. Made possible by a loan from the Paris-based Fondation Giacometti, Giacometti in the Temp

In an Unlikely Pairing, Giacometti Sculptures Head to The Met's Temple of Dendur

ADAA Art Fair Will Now Benefit the Whitney Museum After years of supporting the Henry Street Settlement, a social services nonprofit on New York’s Lower East Side, via a partnership which ended in December of 2025, the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has announced that the new beneficiary for its Park Avenue Armory fai

ADAA Art Fair Will Now Benefit the Whitney Museum

explore the day-to-day program of the cinema of dreams at milan design week 2026 the CINEMA OF DREAMS DURING MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026   ROOM FOR DREAMS opens its doors on Monday, April 20th, with a multilayered takeover of the ME Milan Il Duca exploring dreams as rigorous tools for social and cultural transformation. During Milan Design Week 2026, the project u

explore the day-to-day program of the cinema of dreams at milan design week 2026

Music to heal the hurt Ten years since the death of countertenor Brian Asawa, Charles Stanton remembers his friend and corrects the record on his untimely passing.

Music to heal the hurt

“National Character” by Photographer John Sanderson John Sanderson                                                             John Sanderson’s Website John Sanderson on Instagram

“National Character” by Photographer John Sanderson

Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, William Blake in Dublin—podcast In this week's episode, Ben Luke gets a sneak peak of London's new V&A East Museum, speaks to California-based correspondent Jori Finkel about the new home of Lacma's collection, and learns about a work by William Blake on show at the National Gallery of Ireland

Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, William Blake in Dublin—podcast

Restored Victorian greenhouse links Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery to its living neighbours Opening this weekend, the Green-House incorporates a historic 1895 cast-iron and glass structure and serves as the “new front door” to the famed burial ground

Restored Victorian greenhouse links Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery to its living neighbours

Verner Panton:Form, Colour, Space Chairs hung from the ceiling. Colourful playgrounds as interior spaces. Two-metre-high seating towers. This is the world of Danish designer Verner Panton (1926–1998), who is being celebrated by Vitra Design Museum this spring. The retrospective exhibition, Form, Colour, Space, op

Verner Panton:Form, Colour, Space

Walker Art Center Severs Ties With Restaurant, Citing ‘Core Values’ Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center has decided to cut ties with its longtime internal restaurant, Cardamom, after the eatery said it planned to switch over to a QR code ordering system, thereby eliminating its front-of-house staff.  As a result of its decision, Cardamom would cut si

Walker Art Center Severs Ties With Restaurant, Citing ‘Core Values’

Finland Pulls Back Venice Biennale Presence Over Return of Russian Pavilion Finland’s political leadership will not attend the Venice Biennale this year if the Russian Pavilion goes on view as planned, marking the latest escalation of European opposition to Russia’s return to international exhibition. In a statement released Thursday, Finland’s Ministry

Finland Pulls Back Venice Biennale Presence Over Return of Russian Pavilion

Jennifer Gilbert Consigns Blue-Chip Works to Sotheby’s to Fund Detroit Arts Space A small group of high-value works from the collection of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jennifer Gilbert will go to auction at Sotheby’s this spring, with proceeds directed toward Lumana, a Detroit-based arts nonprofit she is developing. The works will be split across Sotheby’s

Jennifer Gilbert Consigns Blue-Chip Works to Sotheby’s to Fund Detroit Arts Space

Ax Swings Following Artsy/Artnet Consolidation as Top Reporters Are Laid Off Dozens of staffers at Artnet and Artsy have been laid off following the consolidation of the two companies under UK-registered investment firm Beowolff Capital, Artnews reports. The cuts came one day after the announcement of the merger between Artnet—the operator of an online au

Ax Swings Following Artsy/Artnet Consolidation as Top Reporters Are Laid Off

Charcoal Analysis Suggests Any Wood Would Do for Early Hominins Transverse section of a fragment of charcoal ash observed under an environmental scanning electron microscope JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Analysis of charcoal found at the site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel shows that early hominins used readily available tree species for fire

Charcoal Analysis Suggests Any Wood Would Do for Early Hominins

Turkey Notches Another Successful Restitution After Denver Art Museum Returns 1500-Year-Old Marble Head The Denver Art Museum has returned a marble head of a bearded man stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna to Turkey. This marks the latest in a growing list of successful restitutions tied to the country’s renewed campaign to reclaim its cultural heritage from museums worldwide. 

Turkey Notches Another Successful Restitution After Denver Art Museum Returns 1500-Year-Old Marble Head

Dallas Art Fair brings Texas's relationship-driven collecting community into focus Low exhibitor turnover and deliberative buying underscore a market built on long-term connections, while younger dealers shape the city’s evolving cultural context

Dallas Art Fair brings Texas's relationship-driven collecting community into focus

The Drawings of Femke Hiemestra Depict Fairy Tales with Looming Consequences In a world not so unlike our own, during a time not that long ago, a mother wolf sits comfortably upon an abandoned tree stump in a clearing in the woods. Surrounded by carefully rendered flora and fauna, the creature is positioned upright with impeccable posture and human-like m

The Drawings of Femke Hiemestra Depict Fairy Tales with Looming Consequences

MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting Yesterday, on a gorgeous, unseasonably hot spring afternoon, a squad of us descended on MoMA PS1 in Queens for the press preview of Greater New York, which opens today, April 16. A survey of artists working and living in New York City, the quinquennial (that’s every five years) i

MoMA PS1’s “Greater New York” Is Gritty, Stunning, and Gutting

2025 Photo Awards Winner: Sophie Altemus For our fourth annual Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners for the following categories: Colour, Nature, Portrait, Street, and Student. It is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Nature category: Sophie Altemus. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sophie Al

2025 Photo Awards Winner: Sophie Altemus

Maurizio Cattelan Opens Up About Sin, Silence, and Stealing: ‘I’m Guilty Too’ If you have been in the art world for a minute, you have probably attended a benefit gala or two for an art nonprofit. The expectations for these events are pretty well established. After a cocktail hour, attendees get their seat assignments and dine on fine cuisine while they ge

Maurizio Cattelan Opens Up About Sin, Silence, and Stealing: ‘I’m Guilty Too’

grizzo studio’s ‘casa lomadas’ is shaped by folded concrete volumes in argentina an inhabitable landscape along the lagoon   Grizzo Studio designs Casa Lomadas facing a lagoon outside Buenos Aires, Argentina. The house sits as a long, folded concrete bar, perched across two constructed mounds that reorganize the site into an artificial terrain. From the first

grizzo studio’s ‘casa lomadas’ is shaped by folded concrete volumes in argentina