Thieves Snatch Renoir, Matisse, and Cézanne Works From Italian Museum • Comment | A generational moment for Nazi-looted art claims in the US • Copy of Rembrandt portrait on display in Chicago is by the master himself, scholar claims

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Thieves Snatch Renoir, Matisse, and Cézanne Works From Italian Museum
Thieves stole three works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne from the Magnani Rocca Foundation’s villa museum near Parma,...

Comment | A generational moment for Nazi-looted art claims in the US
The US House of Representatives passed an expanded Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025 on March 16, 2026, after the Senate, and...

Copy of Rembrandt portrait on display in Chicago is by the master himself, scholar claims
Art historian Gary Schwartz argues that a painting long labeled a workshop copy of Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Old Man with a Gold Chain” (1631) was...

Guillaume Cerutti departs Christie's and other positions in Pinault’s companies
Guillaume Cerutti is leaving all roles across François Pinault’s companies, including the chairmanships of Christie’s and Stade Rennais, after...

Hong Kong Marquee Art Sales Total $164.9 M., Up 18 Percent From Equivalent 2025 Auctions
Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s generated a combined $164.9 million from their modern and contemporary evening sales in Hong Kong timed to Art...

Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks
Hyperallergic reviews “Ese barco en la montaña (That Ship on the Mountain),” a Juan Uslé retrospective at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía featuring...

Artist and Filmmaker Steve McQueen Wins $172,000 Erasmus Prize
British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen won the 2026 Erasmus Prize from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, receiving €150,000 (about $172,000)...

Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ Could Leave Madrid for the First Time in Over 30 Years
The Basque regional government has asked Spain’s Ministry of Culture to approve a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” to the Guggenheim...

Sky Hopinka Reframes the American Landscape at the Barnes Foundation
ARTnews profiles Native American artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) in connection with his site-specific...

Secret Trial of Artist Gao Zhen Begins in China, Trump’s Design for White House Ballroom Critiqued, and More: Morning Links for March 30, 2026
ARTnews’s “Morning Links” for March 30, 2026 reports that three artworks—Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Les Poissons (The Fish)” (1917), Henri Matisse’s...

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