Norton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Federation Over Cranach Diptych, Met...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following...
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Rubaiya Qatar Quadrennial Names More Than 120 Artists for Inaugural Edition
Rubaiaya Qatar, a new quadrennial that will open its inaugural edition at various venues across Doha beginning November 21, has announced more than 120 artists that will participate in the new...
View ArticleARTnews Celebrates 2026 Edition of Annual Top 200 Collectors Issue
On September 29, ARTnews celebrated the launch of the 37th edition of our annual Top 200 Collectors list at Summit New York 1 Vanderbilt, which featured impressive views of the New York skyline from...
View ArticleNorton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Dealer’s Heirs Over Looted Cranach...
In a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California, is arguing that it is the proper owner of 16th-century diptych that was looted by...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne Personally Helped Secure Controversial $6.6 M. British Museum...
George Osborne, the former British chancellor who now chairs the British Museum, played a personal role in securing a reported £5 million ($6.6 million) sponsorship from billionaire hedge fund manager...
View ArticleEight Group Shows to See in New York, From Incendiary Art History to a Lesson...
You’d be forgiven for thinking New York’s fall art calendar begins and ends with the museum spotlight. From the Whitney Museum’s Roy Lichtenstein retrospective to a Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock...
View ArticleBrazilian Outpost of Centre Pompidou Pushed Back to 2029
A Brazilian outpost of Paris’s hallowed Centre Pompidou initially planned to open next year has been pushed back 2029, according to a report in the Art Newspaper. Construction on Centre Pompidou...
View ArticleMiami Art Dealer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison for Selling Fake...
A Miami art dealer received a 46-month federal prison sentence on Thursday in a long-running case centered around his efforts to sell fake Andy Warhol works. Leslie Roberts is now facing his second...
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Strife at Tom of Finland Foundation as Cofounder Levels Accusations and the...
It has been a long road to recognition for the artist known as Tom of Finland, who started out in the queer erotica underground, submitting his drawings of gay men with eye-popping physiques, often...
View ArticlePolice Recover Three Religious Artworks Stolen From Spanish Churches
Spanish police have recovered three religious artworks stolen from churches in Valladolid over the summer, bringing the case one step closer to a miraculously happy ending. A suspect is in custody,...
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Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Sale Tallies $61.1 M., Led by a $12.9 M. De...
In a tense saleroom with a lot of silent moments and anxious pauses—at times it felt like a courtroom, with all eyes on auctioneer Tom Eddison—Sotheby’s London conducted a slow but steady £46.1...
View ArticleNational Museum of Korea Director Scrutinized After Loaning Misattributed...
The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled calligraphic artwork belonging to him from its current exhibition, according to South...
View ArticleDino Bones Held in UK Museum for 100 Years Identified as New Species
London’s Natural History Museum has millions of specimens in its collection, and until recently at least one dinosaur nobody knew it had. A fragment of skull that spent roughly a century in the...
View ArticleMinor Attractions, a New London Fair In a Hotel, Finds Space for Emerging...
Frieze Week in London has stopped being just about Frieze London and Frieze Masters as smaller fairs are seizing the opportunity for more intimate fair models. On Tuesday, Minor Attractions hosted its...
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A New Met Show Promises Rembrandt, as Never Seen Before
Reframing Rembrandt, one of the Dutch Golden Age’s greats, is no small feat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art seems poised to pull it off, with an exhibition next year that will bring several of the...
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A Landmark Survey of Native Graphic Arts Defies Expectations
Through next February, New York’s Poster House is home to “Designed to Be Red,” a milestone survey of Native graphic arts. By institutional convention, such a show would unfold chronologically; but as...
View ArticlePreviously Unknown Canaletto Drawing Heads to Auction After Centuries in...
A previously unknown drawing by 18th century Italian painter and printmaker Canaletto is heading to auction in England next week with an estimate of $53,000 to $79,000, after two centuries apparently...
View ArticleMemorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Botched Beyond Previously Reported
The long list of grievous failures related to the ill-fated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has grown longer after a Washington Post exposé based on an inspection report obtained by the paper. The...
View ArticleFrench Collector François Pinault Plans Permanent Hang in Venice Museum
At age 90, collector François Pinault, founder of the Kering luxury conglomerate and the investment holding company Artémis, isn’t getting any younger. So it’s hard not to wonder how that may have...
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Tate Scoops Up Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze...
Each year at Frieze London, Tate gets to buy works on view at the fair through a dedicated fund, and this time around, the museum purchased just two pieces: an abstraction by Michaela Yearwood-Dan and...
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