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ARTnews is a visual arts publication from the United States, located in New York City. The magazine features a wide range of art, spanning from ancient works to modern pieces. It offers a variety of content, including news updates from its reporters, in-depth investigative articles, reviews of art exhibitions, and profiles of both artists and art collectors.

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In the Show of the Summer, Rosa Barba Remakes the World

2 days ago | artnews.com | Emily Watlington

Rosa Barba has a way of taking our world’s most magical and most fundamental elements, then folding them in on one another—taking them apart, making them anew. Since the 1990s, she has been remaking film into sculpture and astronomy into film, fascinated by how each of these things scramble time and space. For her latest exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, she upped the ante, turning a black box gallery into a cello.
Jeff Koons ‘Split-Rocker’ Sculpture Gifted to LACMA by Lynda and Stewart Resnick

3 days ago | artnews.com | Angelica Villa

Lynda and Stewart Resnick have donated a monumental Jeff Koons Split-Rocker sculpture to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which will exhibit the 37-foot-tall work near a newly created group of galleries endowed by trustee David Geffen. Split-Rocker contains a metal skeleton and resembles the head of a children’s toy, with one half recalling rocking horse and the other a dinosaur. Planted in its surface are 50,000 flowers.
Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer Who Pictured Alienation and Racism, Dies at 95

3 days ago | artnews.com | Alex Greenberger

Rosalind Fox Solomon, a photographer who crafted piercing images of alienation, racism, and marginalization in the United States and far beyond it, died in New York on Monday at 95. Stephen Bulger Gallery, her representative, confirmed her passing, but did not state a cause of death.
Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Design in London’s St James’s Park Includes Sculpture by Yinka Shonibare

3 days ago | artnews.com | Francesca Aton

The final design plans for a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in London’s St James’s Park have been determined by the UK government. A team led by architect Norman Foster of Foster + Partners, which includes British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, was selected to design the memorial.
Tourist Damages Medici Portrait at Uffizi Galleries for Social Media Selfie

4 days ago | artnews.com | Francesca Aton

A 17th-century portrait of Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici was damaged when a tourist tried to take a picture with the work for social media on Saturday at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy. On a visit to the museum, the young Italian man in question asked his girlfriend to take a photo of him with the oil painting, attempting to mimic the prince’s pose.
Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Reclaiming Her Prison Time Through Art

1 week ago | artnews.com | Francesca Aton

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. More than a decade after Pussy Riot cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova was imprisoned in Russia for two years after performing a “punk prayer” inside of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the artist is putting herself back into a prison of her own making.
Is the Rise of Trash Assemblage Art a Recession Indicator?

1 week ago | artnews.com | Alex Greenberger

As spring turns to summer, the streets of New York become perfumed by the stench of trash, whose brownish liquids and rotting foods bake beneath the sun. But this season, you can find some of that rubbish not just outside museums and galleries but within them, too. Call these trash assemblages “gather art,” a kind of work made by foraging for tossed-out junk.
Spanish Supreme Court Orders Heirs to Return Cathedral Statues

1 week ago | artnews.com | Angelica Villa

Spain’s Supreme Court has ordered the heirs of former dictator Francisco Franco to return two religious statues to the city of Santiago, concluding a years-long legal dispute over their ownership. The two pieces, depicting biblical figures Isaac and Abraham, date back to the 12th century and were originally produced as decorative elements for the Portico of Glory, an entrance to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
ARTnews Polled 10 Digital Art Experts To Find Out Their Favorite Digital Art Works

1 week ago | artnews.com | George Nelson

While most art collectors focused on Art Basel this week, the Digital Art Mile—Basel’s first-ever digital art fair—opened its second edition on Monday. Launched last year by digital art adviser Georg Bak and ArtMeta founder Roger Haas, the fair is being held at Basel’s underground Kult Kino Camera cinema through Sunday.
The Best Booths at Liste, From an Eerie Sound Installation to Miniature Industrial Sculptures

1 week ago | artnews.com | George Nelson

While the Liste Art Fair is known for showcasing younger galleries and more experimental artwork, the satellite fair is now 30 years old. It’s hardly the young upstart it once was—and yet, it still manages to surprise. In 2021, the fair moved from the Warteck Brewery to Hall 3 of the Messe, bringing it closer to Art Basel proper. But the newish surroundings have come with growing pains.