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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

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In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. ft of polyethylene over the Neo-Classical façade of the Kunsthalle Bern—their first wrapping of an entire building.

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David Hockney catalogue raisonné in the pipeline with painting volume expected in 2026

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More than 35,000 works to be documented over 20 years

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Amid geopolitical tensions, Pakistani and Indian art worlds unite in London exhibitions

The Art Newspaper

The irony is lost on no one that the seat of the British Empire, whose rule and hasty exit from the subcontinent lies at the root of the present conflict, should play host to fertile artistic exchanges between India and Pakistan, but right now in London there are multiple examples of collaboration.

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Peter Zumthor’s LACMA Design: Bold Artistic Vision or Controversial Misstep?

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More than two decades in the making, over budget, and laden with controversy, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is due to finally open its doors in 2026 to what’s promised to be a fundamentally new way of experiencing art. Peter Zumthor, Under construction.

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Artists travel back in time with work created from ancient wood discovered at site of lost London river

The Art Newspaper

In the show Performance of Entrapment , the artist twins Jane and Louise Wilson are installing several 2,000-year-old oak stakes along with films and layered works. The team did keep some pieces aside for contemporary artists in the Bloomberg programme. What’s lovely is the reaction of the twins to getting this wood,” she says. “I

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Mexico City’s Muac damaged during anti-gentrification protest

The Art Newspaper

The wider issue, tangentially related to the local art scene and foreign artists and galleries settling in, is far more complex. It was joined by anti-gentrification groups and Tlalpan residents opposing a new development near Fuentes Brotantes natural reserve, as well as others mad about projects related to the upcoming 2026 Fifa World Cup.

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Yale University Art Gallery withdraws federal funding applications over anti-diversity regulations

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The exhibition, set to open in 2026, will explore the migration of Nguni peoples from southeastern Africa and is projected to cost around $200,000. It began with a formative collection of works from the artist John Trumbull, who sold the university 28 of his historical paintings and 60 portrait miniatures.