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The UK has never before seen an exhibition of the legendary Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and now more than 400 objects are going on view at the V&A, including 100 ensembles and 50 artworks, along with accessories, jewelry, paintings, photographs, furniture, perfumes, and items from the archive. “Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art” encompasses looks from the house spanning from her first designs, from the 1920s, to the present day, under creative director Daniel Roseberry. Read more: artnews.com/list/artnews/n…

The Brooklyn Museum revealed plans to renovate and build a new home for its African art collection dating back to the early 1900s, making it one of America’s oldest institutional collections of art from Africa and the diaspora it informs. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

A group of eight preservation societies filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president’s plans for a two-year renovation of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

A 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice’s vaunted Gallerie dell’Accademia will be restored behind glass—giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process—over a two-year period estimated to cost $580,000. The work will be conducted in what the Gallerie Dell’Accademia described as “a construction site open to the public that will allow visitors to closely follow all the phases of the conservation of this masterpiece.” Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

On Tuesday, GQ unveiled the cover for its new special global issue featuring an extensive interview with Jay-Z—who is now styling his name JAŸ-Z in honor of the 30th anniversary of his 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt. For the cover, GQ tapped contemporary art star Rashid Johnson, who has interrogated the Black male psyche in paintings, installations, and photographs, while also resisting the notion that Blackness is monolithic or easily defined. Read ore: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

The French government has stepped in to stop the sale of a newly identified drawing by Hans Baldung, throwing a last-minute wrench into what was shaping up to be a major Old Master auction in Paris. The small portrait, dated to 1517 and attributed to the German Renaissance artist, was slated to hit the block at French auction house Beaussant Lefèvre, carrying an estimate of $1.74 million to $3.5 million. Two days before the auction, France’s culture ministry declared it a national treasure, triggering a 30-month export ban and effectively pulling it off the market. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist whose work has appeared in an array of shows ranging from the Bienal de São Paulo to the Venice Biennale, was hospitalized after he was attacked on Saturday in Tamale, Ghana. Mahama alleged that his attackers were part of a special operations police unit known as the Black Maria. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael may have been called the “prince of painters,” but his masterful drawings were his calling card, even from a young age. But an exhibition opening this month at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art reminds us not to overlook his sketches, tapestries, and other artworks. Read more: artnews.com/list/art-news/…

Prada’s current ad campaign for its Spring/Summer 2026 collection is an unsettling affair, and no surprise its maker is an artist known for disturbing video art and sculptures: Jordan Wolfson, whose past works have featured a gyrating cyborg, chained-up puppets, and other terrors. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Archeologists working near Luxor have uncovered 22 painted wooden coffins containing mummies, according to the Daily News Egypt, which reported the news in February. The well-preserved sarcophagi date to Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period (1077–664 BCE). The archeological mission, which was affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Heritage and Antiquities, also found a group of eight papyrus scrolls, some with their seals intact, in a pottery jar. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

On Saturday, a performance by an artist who goes by the alias Aphex Redditor went viral on social media after she laid down and continually scrolled through Instagram Reels for 24 hours. But as the performance gained attention on Instagram and X, another artist, Qualeasha Wood, accused Aphex Redditor of copying a similar performance she had staged the year before. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Agosto Machado, an artist and activist associated with the Downtown New York art scene whose altar sculptures currently appear in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday following a brief illness. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

A mural of Cesar Chavez in San Francisco’s Mission District was painted over this week, becoming one of the first visible public reckonings with newly surfaced allegations of sexual abuse against the labor leader. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Calvin Tomkins, who wrote defining profiles of scores of leading artists, bringing their work to a broad public in crystalline prose that was insightful, generous, and witty, died on Friday. He was 100, according to David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, where Tomkins published numerous profiles. Read more about Tomkins life and legacy: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance, "Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist" (1512/1513) by 16th-century painter Rosso Fiorentino. The painting’s attribution had previously been questioned, with some scholars assigning it to Rosso and others to a contemporary; it had also been dated to 1520 and titled Madonna and Child. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Earlier this week, the National Women’s History Museum—a nonprofit that organizes mostly virtual exhibitions that “illuminate the stories of women who have shaped our past and who continue to inform our shared future”—announced that Meryl Streep made a seven-figure donation to the Washington, D.C.-based institution. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Powerhouse Arts, a nonprofit creative production center in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood, announced that curator Liz Munsell to the role of vice president of curatorial and arts programs. Munzell will replace Diya Vij, who was recently appointed as the commissioner of cultural affairs for New York City. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

The members of the advisory board of Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum have penned a scathing letter to the leadership of DePaul University, which houses the museum, to reconsider its decision to shutter the 40-year-old institution on June 30, which was announced last month. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

An international team of researchers has confirmed the rediscovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE–323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus River and encompassed swathes of Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia, it was a vital trading center until the 3rd century CE. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the Guggenheim LG Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the costs of his work, which contends with surveillance technology and AI. Read more: artnews.com/art-news/news/…