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Japanese art collective teamLab is opening its first custom-built museum on April 18 in Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Cultural District, near the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. The 183,000-square-foot waterfront building, designed with MZ Architects, features a new series titled "Phenomena" that harnesses wind, water, and light to create immersive, kinetic environments. Highlights include installations like "Morphing Continuum," where floating silver balls form tornado-like formations, and a "wet zone" with glowing ovoids that respond to touch. The museum represents teamLab's most ambitious and technically challenging artworks to date.

Carla Soirée & Art Auction 2026

The article is a table of contents for the February 2026 issue of the Contemporary Art Review LA, listing its featured articles, interviews, dealer profiles, and exhibition reviews. The content covers a wide range of subjects including olfactory art, tarot art, the Made in L.A. 2025 biennial, video art, and reviews of shows at various Los Angeles galleries and museums like MOCA, the Orange County Museum of Art, and Château Shatto.

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Christopher Knight, the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for the Los Angeles Times, is retiring after a 45-year career in criticism, including 36 years at the newspaper. His final day is Friday. Knight, one of the few remaining full-time art critics in American journalism, was praised by colleagues for his encyclopedic knowledge and razor-sharp assessments. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2020, notably for a series of articles that harshly critiqued the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's (LACMA) proposed redesign by architect Peter Zumthor. He also received a lifetime achievement award from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation in 2020, and the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in 1997. Before his journalism career, Knight worked as a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and consulted for the Lannan Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced its 2025 Arts Writers Grant recipients, awarding a total of $1.04 million to 31 writers. The grants, ranging from $15,000 to $50,000, are distributed across four categories: Articles, Books, Short-Form Writing, and a newly introduced Translation category with a $30,000 purse for translating books on contemporary visual art into English. Recipients include past and current contributors to ARTnews and Art in America, such as Glenn Adamson, Jeremy Lybarger, Zoé Samudzi, and Catherine G. Wagley.

ArtReview Asia Spring 2026 Issue Out Now

The Spring 2026 issue of ArtReview Asia has been published, featuring a cover profile of artist Li Yi-Fan. The issue includes an in-depth look at Li's work, which explores the relationship between humans and machines through video installations and performance lectures, ahead of his representation of Taiwan at the Venice Biennale. Other articles examine the contemporary art scene in Bangkok, urban redevelopment in Colombo, a colonial-era plant hunting exhibition in London, and Taiwan's museum boom.

Book Club

The Art Newspaper's Book Club section features multiple articles about new art books and related exhibitions. One article explores how different artists have depicted Marilyn Monroe, ahead of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Another piece examines a little-known New York gallery that brought Modern art to America, exhibiting artists like Picasso and Mondrian. Additional stories cover Martin Parr's photobook 'The Last Resort' on its 40th anniversary, a history of how artists depict the female body by author Amy Dempsey, and a collaboration between author Olivia Laing and painter Chantal Joffe.

Artibus et Historiae - An Art Anthology - No. 92, 2025

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The latest issue of the academic journal 'Artibus et Historiae' has been published, featuring a collection of scholarly articles focused on European art from the Renaissance to the early 19th century. The volume includes research on topics such as the translation of classical imagery in colonial Peru, investigations into women artists in Bologna, new attributions and provenance studies for works by artists like Ludovico Carracci and Caravaggio, and analyses of drawings and artistic education.

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Beginning January 1, 2026, major French museums including the Louvre and the Château de Versailles will charge non-European Union visitors €30 (about $35), up from €22 ($25). The new "differential tariff" is driven by cultural budget cuts, waning corporate sponsorships, and rising restoration costs. Versailles, where 42 percent of 8 million annual visitors come from outside Europe, sees the funds as a lifeline for repairs, while the Louvre faces €400 million in renovation needs over 15 years. The policy is expected to spread to other sites like the Arc de Triomphe and Château de Chambord, and more institutions may adopt it in 2027.

Print Quarterly Volume XLIII - Number 1 - March 2026

The March 2026 issue of the academic journal *Print Quarterly* has been published, featuring a collection of scholarly articles and reviews focused on the history of prints and printmaking. The contents include new research on artists ranging from Hans Burgkmair and Paul Gauguin to Hiroshige and Aubrey Beardsley, along with obituaries for notable scholars and reviews of recent publications and exhibitions.

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Three Just Stop Oil activists—Luke Watson, Rajan Naidu, and Niamh Lynch—were found not guilty of criminal damage by a Salisbury Crown Court jury on October 31, after dyeing Stonehenge bright orange with a cornflour, talcum powder, and orange dye mixture in June 2024. The defendants argued their actions were protected under freedom of speech and protest rights (Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights), and noted no lasting damage occurred. English Heritage CEO Nick Merriman acknowledged the distress caused but confirmed no visible damage, while the cleanup cost £620.

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Colette Thiebaud and Leon Barhoum founded Artmosphere, a nonprofit that delivers curated art education boxes called ARTicles to underserved schools across five U.S. states. Launched as a tribute to Thiebaud’s grandfather, the late artist Wayne Thiebaud, the organization recently received its largest donation from philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem and has partnered with FOG Design+Art to debut a family program. The founders are now planning an event at Art Basel Miami called Confections & Connections for emerging collectors and patrons.

USC Fisher Museum welcomes the National Archives’ Freedom Plane National Tour

The USC Fisher Museum of Art has welcomed the "National Archives’ Freedom Plane National Tour," a traveling exhibition featuring foundational American documents. Arriving via a specially branded Boeing 737 at Van Nuys Airport, the collection includes rare items such as a 1823 Stone engraving of the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris, and a secret printing of the Constitution. USC is the only university selected as a stop on this eight-city tour, which commemorates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States.

Rare documents from National Archives’ Freedom Plane tour draw history buffs and more to USC Fisher Museum

The USC Fisher Museum of Art is hosting the "Freedom Plane National Tour: Documents That Forged a Nation," a traveling exhibition of rare founding-era documents from the U.S. National Archives. The show, which runs through May 3, includes items such as a rare engraved copy of the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris (1783), and a Senate markup of the Bill of Rights (1789). USC is the only university stop on the eight-city national tour, and the documents arrived in Los Angeles on a special Boeing 737. The exhibition has drawn history students, faculty, and the public, with USC Distinguished Professor Peter C. Mancall bringing his class to study the documents up close.