National Gallery of Singapore Announces Chng Hak-Peng Will Replace Eugene Tan...
Eugene Tan’s dual role as CEO and director of both the National Gallery of Singapore (NGS) and the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will come to an end on January 1, 2027. Starting in the new year, Tan will...
View ArticlePots By Enslaved Artist David Drake Returned to Family from Milwaukee Art Museum
Two stoneware pots were returned to descendants of the enslaved artist David Drakeearlier this month, when the Milwaukee Art Museum brokered a deal with the Dave the Potter Legacy Trust. After the...
View ArticleWhitney Union Sets Strike Date Days Before Major Roy Lichtenstein Show
Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of Art will begin striking on Monday, October 5, if they cannot reach a contract agreement with the museum, Local 2110 UAW announced today. Workers at the Whitney...
View ArticleRemains of a Roman Temple Discovered in Germany’s Taunus Forest
The remains of a Roman temple have been unearthed by archaeologists in Germany’s Taunus region. According to experts, the discovery is especially notable given it still contains well-preserved...
View ArticleRare Working Apple-1 Signed by Steve Wozniak Could Fetch $800,000 at Auction
A rare, working Apple-1 computer signed by Steve Wozniak is heading to auction at Bonhams in New York, where it is expected to fetch between $500,000 and $800,000. Known as the “Hatfield” Apple-1...
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At Amant, ‘Sentient Earth’ Redirects the Corporate Gaze to Climate Change
Editor’s note: This story is the first edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. The column will appear every...
View ArticleThomas Kaplan’s 18th Rembrandt is St John on Patmos
Thomas Kaplan, the world’s largest Rembrandt collector, has by long made a habit of collecting and selling the Dutch artist’s work. Now, it has been revealed that the American businessman and owner of...
View ArticlePace Gallery Is Seeking a Tenant for Part of Its New York Headquarters
Pace Gallery is looking for a tenant to take over one or more parts of its sprawling Chelsea headquarters, the latest step in what appears to be an effort to trim costs following a major restructuring...
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‘We Can Literally Be in Two Places at Once’: Vancouver Art Gallery Elevates...
Eva Respini and Sirish Rao will serve as co-CEOs at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG), effective immediately, the museum announced today. Respini will also serve as chief curator, overseeing the...
View ArticleAnn Temkin to Step Down as MoMA’s Chief Painting and Sculpture Curator After...
Ann Temkin, the Museum of Modern Art’s chief curator of painting and sculpture for 18 years, will retire from the role in January 2027, the museum announced Monday. She will, however, continue to...
View ArticleAi Weiwei Exhibits 500 Cast-Iron Combat Helmets at Australia Museum
Ai Weiwei on Friday unveiled his commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney: 500 cast-iron combat helmets arranged in ten orderly lines on the city’s busiest green space,...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at Independent 20th Century
It’s a big year for the Independent, the art world’s favorite contemporary art fair, and its more art-historically minded sister, Independent 20th Century. On the heels of Independent’s move earlier...
View ArticleAt 77, Artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya is the First Woman to Receive Top...
At 77 years of age, Filipina artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya received the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts. This marks the first time a woman has ever received the honor. The...
View ArticleAncient Wall Found in Paris May Solve Mystery of City’s Origins
The discovery of an ancient wall beneath a Paris hospital may have answered a question archaeologists have been arguing about for decades: Where, exactly, did Paris begin? The 72-foot stone-and-wood...
View ArticleMelania Trump, Peng Liyuan Tour Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
Any good host knows that when visitors are in town, a visit to the museum is top of the list. And so, on Thursday, the First Lady of the US took China’s First Lady to the Smithsonian’s National Museum...
View ArticleSteven Shearer Wins Canada’s $71,000 Audain Prize
Steven Shearer, a Vancouver-based artist best known for paintings that lace historically inclined portraiture with haunting contemporary sensibilities, was awarded Canada’s prestigious Audain Prize,...
View ArticleHow Good Are Today’s Art Market Darlings, Really? Six New York Gallery Shows...
It may seem obvious, but it bears repeating: When it comes to what’s shown in galleries, market value and artistic merit do not always correspond. Just because an artwork is worth a lot of money...
View ArticleHeirs of a Jewish Collector Contest Sotheby’s Sale of a Pissarro Painting...
Several heirs to Jewish banker Salomon Flavian have taken Sotheby’s to court in Paris over the auctioneer’s sale of a painting by Camille Pissarro. They maintain that the painting was looted by the...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at the Armory Show, From Ghostly Afterimages to ‘Gentle...
The 32nd edition of the Armory Show opened to VIPs Thursday at the Javits Center with a seemingly slower pace than in years past. That might have something to do with its earlier start time (10 a.m.,...
View ArticleDescendants of Nazi-Persecuted Jewish Collector Demand Cancellation of...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Descendants of Jewish collector Salomon Flavian are demanding that a Paris court...
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