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After over 40 years in the making, Institut Restellini’s Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné will finally release next month. Pace will host a book launch at its London gallery on April 21, with a day-long symposium to follow on April 30 at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street space in New York. To say the publication is a labor of love for Marc Restellini, Modigliani scholar and founder of the Institut, would be an understatement. At six volumes and over 2,000 pages, with 100 works newly confirmed as authentic, half of which are already in major museum collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the catalogue raisonné seems poised to redefine the field of authentication, or at least Restellini hopes so. “I would like our approach to become the standard,” Restellini told ARTnews . “I hope that with this catalogue people will see what can be achieved. My hope is that after this catalogue, people will say, ‘This is really the...

Canada’s effort to modernize its continental defence architecture is taking another step forward. A newly confirmed partnership involving Aecon Group Inc . , Pomerleau , and Stantec has executed an agreement to deliver the first stage of the Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar (A-OTHR) Program in Ontario—an initiative designed to strengthen the early-warning capabilities that protect North America’s northern approaches. Announced in Toronto on March 4, 2026, the agreement with Defence Construction Canada marks a significant milestone in the implementation of one of Canada’s most important defence infrastructure programs. The project forms part of the modernization of the North American Aerospace Defense Command early-warning architecture and the renewal of Canada’s North Warning System . A Collaborative Delivery Model The project will be delivered through a collaborative Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) model designed to bring government and industry partners together in a highly co...

The first weekend of pre-season is under the hood, here’s much of what is happening this coming Saturday. Hutt Old Boys Marist v Pōneke v Napier Pirate (Game of Three Halves), NZCIS Petone v Marist St Pat’s, North Park Tawa v Oriental-Rongotai, Lyndhurst Park Varsity Rams, v Old Boys University Goats, Massey #4 Feilding Yellows...

Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has appealed to UNESCO to provide additional protection for the nation’s cultural heritage as the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict spills into its southern borders. According to a ministry statement on Wednesday, Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé spoke by phone with Khaled El-Enany, director-general of UNESCO, urging the United Nations agency to intervene on Lebanon’s behalf. The minister reportedly told El-Enany: “In light of the current security situation in Lebanon and in the region, [we ask you] to intervene with neighboring states or belligerent parties to remind them of the need to take all preventive measures, during this armed conflict with Lebanon, to protect and preserve Lebanese cultural heritage and refrain from targeting it.” Ghassan Salamé directly appealed for greater protection of the National Museum of Beirut, a repository of thousands of years of Mediterranean history, as well as Lebanon’s archaeological and historical sites, including Baalbek...

As modern conflicts evolve, so too does the battle for the electromagnetic spectrum. Satellite-based navigation—long considered a reliable backbone for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT)—is increasingly under threat from sophisticated jamming technologies that are becoming both more powerful and more accessible. In response to this rapidly changing operational landscape, Hexagon | NovAtel has introduced a new solution designed to ensure mission resilience in contested environments. The Calgary-based technology leader has launched the GAJT-AE3 , the latest addition to its trusted GNSS Anti-jam Antenna Technology (GAJT) portfolio, bringing advanced protection to airborne platforms that rely on uninterrupted satellite navigation. The announcement marks a significant milestone in the evolution of assured PNT capabilities, particularly as defence and aerospace operators confront an increasingly complex spectrum environment. A Growing Challenge in the GNSS Domain Global Navigati...

Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania? Well, the Trump administration is making those dreams come true with a fleet of six “Freedom Trucks”—mobile museums that will travel the nation throughout 2026, marking 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. On display are artifacts like a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Aitken Bible (“the first complete Bible published in an independent America,” per the Library of Congress ), a musket used by the British Army known as the Brown Bess, and a pair of George Washington’s spectacles.  The rolling museums are part of the “Freedom 250” initiative, a self-described non-partisan organization leading the semiquincentennial celeb...