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US Participation in 2026 Venice Biennale Appears in Jeopardy Amidst Trump Arts Overhaul

The 2024 Venice Biennale. Simone Padovani/Getty Images As President Donald Trump systematically guts the United States’ art programs and funding to roll out an aesthetic program of his own making, questions around the country’s participation in the forthcoming 2026 Venice Biennale loom large. In a new piece for Vanity Fair, culture correspondent Nate Freeman tried …

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Fast-Rising Painter Sun Yitian Looks at Everyday Objects Manufactured by China’s Factories

Sun Yitian. ©Yu Lu/Courtesy ELLE Artist Sun Yitian’s trajectory over the past decade has been fast and vertical. Her photorealist paintings of mass-produced consumer objects—an inflatable penguin, a Ken doll head, a pair of stiletto heels—sell for up to six figures. She’s unfazed by her market success, saying simply that she leaves those considerations to …

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Trump Axes Holocaust Museum Board Members, San Fran’s Pier 29 to Become Exhibition Space, Germany’s New Culture Minister Slated: Morning Links for April 30, 2025

Too right? Germany’s new culture minister is feeling the heat. ullstein bild via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TRUMP AXES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM BOARD MEMBERS. The Trump administration has fired US Holocaust Memorial Museum board members nominated by former president Joe Biden, including former second gentleman Doug …

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At Storm King, Kevin Beasley’s Acoustic Mirror Reflects Sounds of the Seasons

Kevin Beasley, PROSCENIUM| Rebirth/Growth: The Watch/Harvest/Dormancy: On Reflection, 2024–25. Photo Jeffrey Jenkins/Courtesy the Artist, Casey Kaplan, New York, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles Word of mouth stands to take palpable form this season at the Storm King Art Center, when the idyllic upstate New York sculpture park plays home to an acoustic mirror created by …

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Black Artists in Postwar Paris Get a Blockbuster at the Centre Pompidou

Georges Coran, Délire et paix, 1954. Photo Claude Coran/©Georges Coran/Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris At the Centre Pompidou hangs a dense, colorful ink painting on cotton in which two figures with white faces and blue skin hold court in a lush thicket of flora and fauna. According to the work’s title, they are …

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Ei Arakawa-Nash to Create Installation on Queer Parenting for Japan’s 2026 Venice Biennale Pavilion

Ei Arakawa-Nash with his twins. Ricardo Nagaoka/Courtesy of the Japan Foundation Los Angeles–based performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash will represent Japan at the 2026 Venice Biennale, the Japan Foundation announced Thursday. A curator has not been announced yet. For the Pavilion, Arakawa-Nash will create a new installation that, according to the announcement, will explore his perspective …

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ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Revocation of Visas for Students at US Universities, Including RISD

RISD’s campus. Courtesy RISD. A group of ACLU-affiliated organizations filed a class-action lawsuit Friday in federal court in New Hampshire, seeking to reinstate the legal status of over 100 international students whose visas were abruptly revoked this year. The suit aims to protect students in New England and Puerto Rico who advocates say were stripped …

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Artist Ho Tzu Nyen to Curate Gwangju Biennale, One of Asia’s Top Biennials

Ho Tzu Nyen. Courtesy Singapore Art Museum The next Gwangju Biennale will be organized not by a world-renowned curator but by an artist whose profile is fast-rising. Ho Tzu Nyen will organize the 2026 edition of South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale, which is regarded as one of the top biennial-style shows in Asia. It’s not the …

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Two New Arrests in Drents Museum Heist, But Ancient Romanian Gold Artifacts Remain Missing

The Coțofenești helmet from 450 BCE had an estimated value of €4.3 million ($4.9 million). Courtesy the Dutch Police Dutch police recently arrested two more suspects in connection with the theft of Romanian artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands earlier this year in January. “These suspects are a 20-year-old man and an …

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