UK Temporarily Bans Export of a ‘Small But Mighty’ Italian Renaissance Bronze...
The UK has temporarily banned the export of a rare and highly valuable Renaissance bronze by the artist known as Antico. Seated Nymph, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (ca. 1455–1528), is valued at £4.6...
View ArticleCodex Azcatitlan Goes on View in Mexico City, as Culture Ministry Continues...
The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare manuscript about Aztec history and civilization, recently went on view at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, as the Mexican Culture Ministry continues its...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Strikes a Deal with Nigeria for Long-Term Loan of...
Three major artworks from Nigeria will be on long-term display at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in a partnership with the African nation. The artworks, which the museum describes as...
View ArticleA Fragment of a Peace Treaty Between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires...
A fragment of a cuneiform tablet was discovered by archaeologists excavating Hattsua, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in present-day Turkey, Heritage Daily reported. The artifact’s text was...
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After Fashion’s Me Too Reckoning, Fashion Photography’s Good Men Are Having...
2018 was the fashion industry’s reckoning with its own image. Fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino and Terry Richardson were dropped by the industry at large after...
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Fair Warning Heads Underground With Keith Haring Subway Drawing Estimated at...
On the heels of a couture sale that saw the guerrilla auctioneers at Fair Warning tackle the runway, the house is going somewhere a little more underground—literally. Its next major auction will offer...
View ArticleMet Museum Repatriates Five Pieces of Looted Cretan Armor to Greece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York repatriated five pieces of ancient Cretan armor to Greece. The pieces were connected to a large-scale illegal excavation that occurred more than 60 years...
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Christie’s Wins Battle for Herbert Lust Collection, Expected to Fetch More...
Christie’s has won the battle for the collection of the late Herbert Lust, the eccentric banker, scholar, and prolific collector whose holdings were being pursued by both of the major auction houses...
View ArticleDealer Emanuel Layr Scales Back Vienna Gallery in Response to ‘Increasingly...
After 15 years, Emanuel Layr, one of Vienna’s most important art dealers, will scale back his gallery in the Austrian capital, citing what he called an “increasingly congested” art industry. Layr, who...
View ArticleLouis Vuitton Unveils Keith Haring Artycapucines Handbag Collection
FADE AWAY AND RADIATE: When Keith Haring scrawled his “Radiant Baby” on a battered Louis Vuitton suitcase in the ‘80s, little did he imagine that he was planting the seeds of an official collaboration...
View ArticleArt Basel Paris Unveils Highlights, With ‘Emily in Paris’ Star Philippine...
Art Basel Paris unveiled today a few juicy highlights for its forthcoming edition, which will gather 211 galleries under the glass-ceilinged Grand Palais, open to the public from October 23 to 25. For...
View ArticleTrump Appointees Reportedly Planned to Deaccession Kennedy Center Art...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A New York appellate court has faulted investigators for seizing an Egon Schiele...
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Dallas Invitational to Expand to London for Frieze Week
Dallas-based dealer James Cope launched the Dallas Invitational four years ago with the aim of bringing together a small group of galleries in a convivial way, separate from the bigger art fairs...
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Liu Wei’s Cut-Up and Reassembled Sculptures Take Over the Met Museum’s Facade
A series of hybrid sculptures now gesture from the facade of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Speculation / Λ (2026), a black sphere acts as the support for a hand that extends upward, as if...
View ArticleVisitors Arrested at Louvre After Posting Their Artworks Near Mona Lisa
Two visitors to the Louvre in Paris were arrested Saturday after they installed two paintings in the Salle des États, which houses the Mona Lisa, according to a report by Agence France-Presse that...
View ArticleDocumenta 16 Curator Naomi Beckwith Says Some Artists Declined to Participate...
Naomi Beckwith, the curator of the forthcoming edition of Documenta, said some artists had already declined to participate in the exhibition because of Germany’s stance on Israel’s war in Gaza....
View ArticleRep. Joyce Beatty Asks Judge to Make ‘Crystal Clear’ Trump Cannot Demolish...
When Getty photographer Brendan Smialowski captured a photo on Wednesday night of Air Force One after landing at Joint Base Andrews, outside Washington, D.C., it showed president Donald Trump in a red...
View ArticleNew Discoveries at Ancient Egyptian Fort Include Ceremonial Burial of a Horse
New archaeological discoveries at Tell Al-Abqain in Beheira are revealing details about life within the ancient Egyptian fortress, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on...
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Tomokazu Matsuyama and Tom Wesselmann Estate Team Up on a Show at the Pop...
The estate of Pop giant Tom Wesselmann has teamed up with Japanese American artist Tomokazu Matsuyama on a first: an exhibition at the East Village studio that Wesselmann occupied in the last decade...
View ArticleStockholm’s Moderna Museet Appoints Cédric Fauq as Curator of Contemporary...
The Moderna Museet in Stockholm named Cédric Fauq as its next curator of contemporary international art, to start in the role on December 1. He is currently the chief curator and head of programs and...
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