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The Turner Prize Has Revealed Its 2026 Nominees—and Already Courted Controversy

Simeon Barclay’s performance The Ruin. ©Anne Tetzlaff/Courtesy the artist and Workplace The Turner Prize, the esteemed Tate-run award for British artists, has revealed this year’s nominees, and in typical Turner Prize fashion, they’ve already polarized critics. Simon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku are the four nominees for this year’s award, which once …

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Amid Epstein Blowback, Bard President Leon Botstein Talks About Succession Plan But With No Timeline: Report

Leon Botstein in 2012. Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME Leon Botstein, whose leadership of Bard College has been questioned after connections with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed, has talked about retiring and moving into another role at the school after a successor is found, according to a report in the Times Union. But no …

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An Alexander Calder Retrospective in Paris Underscores His Inventiveness

Sacha Stone, Alexander Calder with Cirque Calder (1926–31), 1929 Artwork copyright © 2026 Calder Foundation, New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photograph courtesy of Calder Foundation, New York/Art Resource, New York. Few artists have altered the course of modern sculpture as profoundly as Alexander Calder (1898–1976). From the late 1920s onward, he worked both in the United States …

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A Work Gifted to David Drake’s Descendants Is the Star of Theaster Gates’s Powerful Gagosian Show

Theaster Gates inside the exhibition, “Dave: All My Relations” at Gagosian Park & 75 in New York, with the historic work by Dave the Potter from his personal collection that he is gifting to Dave’s descendants, and seated on a new sculpture he made by pulverizing some forty-five of his own pots, 2026. Photo Maris …

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

Agnes Gryczkowska Agnes Gryczkowska 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 Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau. Set to run …

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2026 Guggenheim Fellowships Go to Sonya Clark, John Miller, and American Artist

View of American Artist’s exhibition “Shaper of God” at REDCAT, Los Angeles. Photo Brica Wilcox. Courtesy REDCAT, Los Angeles. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced this week the 223 scholars and artists who received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most coveted honors in the arts. This is the foundation’s 101st class of fellows. The …

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French Politicians Vote in Favor of Bill on Artifacts Looted During Colonial Era: ‘A True Historic Monument’

A 2022 exhibition of artworks held by France in Cotonou. Photo Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Last night, France’s lower house of parliament unanimously voted in favor of a long-anticipated bill to facilitate the restitution of artworks looted during the colonial era, making good on a nearly 10-year-old pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron to return African heritage to …

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Lincoln Center Kicks Off Accessibility Project With Vibrant New Mural

Vanesa Álvarez: The Future We Create, 2026. Courtesy Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York Earlier this week, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts unveiled a mural adorning construction fencing along Amsterdam Avenue, marking the western edge of LCPA’s Upper West Side campus. The mural was designed by Vanesa Álvarez, a Spanish artist based …

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