In Artforum’s April 2026 issue, James Meyer traces the intimate and generative relationships among Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Jasper Johns. “There are people we meet when we are young—irreplaceable people.”

Four men have pulled off a major heist of works by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in the rural Italian city of Parma. www.artforum.com/news/renoir-...

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has appointed Kate McNamara John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director. www.artforum.com/news/kate-mc...

Cristopher Canizares, an integral partner at Hauser & Wirth, has announced his intention to depart the juggernaut art gallery in order to start his own artist talent management agency. www.artforum.com/news/cristop...

After more than six years, a mystery woman captured in a portrait that was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2020 has been identified. www.artforum.com/news/subject...

Gabrielle Goliath, who was to have to have represented South Africa at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale before a government official abruptly canceled her exhibition, will instead show her work outside the event. www.artforum.com/news/gabriel...

Pat Steir, who rose to prominence in the 1980s for her iconic “Waterfall” paintings, which she made by pouring paint onto canvas from atop a ladder, died in Manhattan on March 25. She was eighty-seven. www.artforum.com/news/pat-ste...

Calvin Tomkins, whose vivid and revealing profiles of contemporary art’s most fabled figures graced the pages of the New Yorker for more than sixty years, has died at the age of one hundred. www.artforum.com/news/calvin-...

Art Dubai today announced that its 2026 fair would not take place in April as planned but instead would be held May 14–17 in an “adapted format” at its longtime home, the resort Madinat Jumeirah. www.artforum.com/news/art-dub...

The beleaguered John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will close for two years to undergo renovations following a unanimous vote from the board, which is helmed by Donald Trump. www.artforum.com/news/board-v...

In this episode of Under the Influence, Lisa Yuskavage shares her admiration for Bellini’s Sacred Conversation, relays advice from her MFA teacher Mel Bochner, and discusses Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s impact on how she structures her work. www.artforum.com/video/lisa-y...

British Swedish curator and writer James Taylor-Foster has been appointed executive director of Para Site in Hong Kong. www.artforum.com/news/james-t...

Multidisciplinary artist Trevor Paglen, known for his work investigating the hidden systems of tech and power, has been named the winner of the fourth LG Guggenheim Award. www.artforum.com/news/trevor-...

DOGE reportedly cancelled a grant awarded to the High Point Museum in North Carolina after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI. The grant in question was meant to fund the replacement of the museum’s HVAC system. www.artforum.com/news/doge-ca...

On the heels of the 98th Academy Awards, Artforum revisits J. Hoberman’s essay on midcentury cinema as proto-Pop, which looked at the films of iconic directors Orson Welles, Douglas Sirk, and Alfred Hitchcock and found in them “avant-garde experiments in the guise of Hollywood movies.”

Curator and educator Toleen Touq has been appointed the curator of the twentieth edition of the Montreal-based MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain, which will take place in 2027. www.artforum.com/news/toleen-...

The Brooklyn Museum has announced Keisha Scarville as the winner of its sixth UOVO Prize. www.artforum.com/news/keisha-...

In a new interview, Ukrainian artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk discuss their exhibition “Pedagogies of War,” on view at @museothyssen.org and TBA21, which confronts the competing depictions of war in today’s technologically enhanced media ecology. www.artforum.com/features/rom...

Last week researchers at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage of Belgium (KIK-IRPA) announced that they had used scientific analysis to connect a centuries-old Pietà painting to the Italian master Michelangelo. www.artforum.com/news/researc...

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal for computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s attempt to secure copyright protection for an AI-generated image. www.artforum.com/news/us-supr...

A guerrilla art installation featuring the names and visages of twenty public figures who’ve been linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared in a public park close to the White House in Washington, DC earlier this month. www.artforum.com/news/guerril...

The Contemporary Art Center (CAC) Vilnius has appointed artist Nikita Kadan and art historian, writer, and curator Natalia Sielewicz curators of the Sixteenth Baltic Triennial, to take place in 2027. www.artforum.com/news/curator...

Researchers from Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum recently discovered that Ancient Egyptians used a 3,000-year-old version of Wite-Out to amend mistakes on their papyrus creations. www.artforum.com/news/ancient...

Yesterday, the 2026 Whitney Biennial opened to the public. For Artforum’s website, Co-Editor Rachel Wetzler provides a mini-tour of the survey, Senior Editor Alex Jovanovich selects the standout works, and Editorial Assistant Theo Belci weighs some high and low points.

Thaddeus Mosley, known for his dramatic abstract sculptures made from reclaimed wood, died on March 6 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was ninety-nine. www.artforum.com/news/self-ta...

Russia will have a presence at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, four years after canceling its pavilion in 2022, just after the country attacked Ukraine. www.artforum.com/news/russia-...

In a new interview with Artforum’s Theo Belci, Anna-Sophie Berger discusses religious garb, consumer aesthetics, and her current exhibition, “Two Fixed Ideas Will Unite” at Baltimore’s Art Hall. www.artforum.com/features/the...

Kostas Stasinopoulos, the longtime curator of live programs at London’s Serpentine contemporary art gallery, has been appointed director of exhibitions and programs at Kyklos, the Renzo Piano–designed center for art and culture set to open in 2028 in Piraeus, Greece. www.artforum.com/news/serpent...

In a new Field Notes column for Artforum, Ela Bittencourt surveys Berlin’s winter gallery exhibitions and gets personal at Isabella Bortolozzi, Tanja Wagner, Molitor, and Wentrup. www.artforum.com/columns/berl...

US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran have severely damaged Tehran’s four-hundred-year-old Golestan Palace, according to reports first released by Iran’s ISNA and Mehr news agencies. www.artforum.com/news/golesta...

Critic, poet, and publisher Giancarlo Politi, founder of the influential contemporary art journal Flash Art, one of the first international publications of its kind, died on February 24. He was eighty-nine. www.artforum.com/news/flash-a...

The School of Visual Arts in New York will cease offering a master’s of arts degree in curatorial practice beginning in 2027. www.artforum.com/news/sva-end...

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed curator Diya Vij director of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs. www.artforum.com/news/curator...

Sumqayit, Azerbaijan–born artist Faig Ahmed, who is known for his surrealist weavings, has been chosen to represent his home country at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale. www.artforum.com/news/faig-ah...

In Artforum’s March 2026 issue, Gordon Hughes considers the art of Carol Bove, who makes “visible the theatricality that is the very hallmark of our time” by exposing “the underlying mechanism that drives theatricality: display.”

The DePaul Art Museum, the contemporary art museum of DePaul University in Chicago, will shutter permanently on June 30. www.artforum.com/news/chicago...

Just one day after Laurence des Cars resigned as director of the Louvre, Christophe Leribault has been announced as her successor. www.artforum.com/news/christo...

The Venice Biennale has revealed the 105 artists and collectives and six artist-led organizations participating in “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition of the event’s sixty-first edition, to take place May 9–November 22. www.artforum.com/news/venice-...

Laurence des Cars today relinquished her role as director of the Louvre. Des Cars had led the Paris institution since 2021. www.artforum.com/news/embattl...

The Louvre in Paris temporarily gained a new work on Sunday when activists hung a framed photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken after his release following a February 19 arrest, in one of the storied museum’s galleries. www.artforum.com/news/activis...

Hungarian Conceptual artist Dóra Maurer, whose fascination with movement and change undergirded a diverse practice marked by bright hues, simple shapes, and uninhibited experimentation, has died. www.artforum.com/news/dora-ma...

A South African court ruled against artist Gabrielle Goliath in her effort to reinstate her pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale after it was abruptly canceled by South African Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie earlier this year. www.artforum.com/news/south-a...

Prolific director Frederick Wiseman, whose pathbreaking documentaries shed light on aspects of society hitherto in shadow, died on February 16 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ninety-six. www.artforum.com/news/visiona...

“The Olympic Games as we know them were born out of a late-nineteenth-century marriage of classical mythology and political science fiction,” wrote Sean Keller in an essay on the 2008 Beijing Olympics published in that year’s Summer issue of Artforum. www.artforum.com/columns/beij...

French police have detained nine people in relation to a ticketing fraud scheme that may have cost the Louvre €10 million ($12 million). www.artforum.com/news/nine-ar...

German artist Henrike Naumann, known for her installations of furniture and household objects addressing the turmoil of German reunification and showing how aesthetic choices affect political ideology, died in Berlin on February 14. She was forty-one. www.artforum.com/news/henrike...

The Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, has named Olivia Colling as its new executive director and Laura Smith as its artistic director. www.artforum.com/news/england...

MoMA PS1 has named the fifty-three artists and collectives whose work will be featured in this year’s iteration of the Queens-based institution’s quinquennial Greater New York survey, set to open April 10 and run through August 17. www.artforum.com/news/moma-ps...

Graphic designer Erik Brandt is one of a number of Minneapolis–based artists who have created works responding to the violent presence of ICE agents in their city. In a new interview for Artforum, Kathryn Savage speaks with Brandt about his viral ICE OUT MSP lawn signs.

Onetime French culture minister Jack Lang has resigned his role as president of L’Institut du Monde Arabe over his links to financier Jeffrey Epstein. www.artforum.com/news/jack-la...