Investigation Leads To 133 Antiquities Worth $14 M. Returned to Pakistan
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office recently announced the return of 133 antiquities “collectively valued at $14 million” to Pakistan after being seized as part of multiple investigations of...
View ArticleKetterer Kunst Auction House Celebrates 70th Anniversary with German Art and...
This June, Germany’s Ketterer Kunst auction house will mark 70 years in the auction business. To celebrate, the house has announced an evening sale of German Expressionist work, one of its...
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Forget the Picture: Steve McQueen Wants You to Feel the Bass in His Latest...
Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen specializes in the kinds of lengthy shots that brand themselves upon your brain: a house that nearly falls onto a person, the Statue of Liberty filmed from a...
View ArticleStolen Francis Bacon Recovered in Spain, French Police Find Trove of Looted...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES LOST, NOW FOUND. Spanish police have recovered a stolen Francis Bacon painting...
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AKNEYE by ftNFT in Venice During the Venice Biennale 2024, Merging Sculpture...
AKNEYE, a visionary in the fusion of traditional art and digital innovation, is pleased to announce its presence in Venice during the highly anticipated 60th Venice Biennale, where it will unveil the...
View ArticleStolen Francis Bacon Painting Worth $5.4 M. Recovered by Spanish Police
A painting by Francis Bacon that was stolen in 2015 has been covered in Madrid by Spanish police. The recovered painting is one of five portraits of the Spanish banker José Capelo that are...
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Destiny Deacon, Aboriginal Artist Who Laughed in the Face of Racism, Dies at 67
Aboriginal readers are warned that this article includes the name of a dead person. Destiny Deacon, an Aboriginal artist who drew out forms of racism that are endemic to Australian society, often with...
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KAWS and Andy Warhol Come Together at Last for a Museum Show in Pittsburgh
There are no shortage of exhibitions dealing with KAWS and Andy Warhol individually, but there haven’t been many that contend with the two artists together. This unusual focus forms the subject of a...
View ArticleBeloved New York Gallery David Lewis to Close After 11 Years
After 11 years, David Lewis Gallery will cease operations, joining the slew of galleries across Manhattan to shutter its doors this year. “I entered the gallery world as a wide-eyed academic, and,...
View ArticlePerformance Artwork Featuring Live Dogs Generates Outcry and Sparks...
A Nina Beier performance featuring live dogs was met with allegations of animal abuse this weekend after footage of it went viral on social media. The piece, titled Tragedy (2011), was staged as part...
View ArticleHacker Outfit RansomHub Claims Credit for Christie’s Auction Week ‘Technology...
RansomHub, a group of cyber-extortionists who hacked the UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare in February, has claimed responsibility for hacking Christie’s website earlier this month on the eve...
View ArticleAhead of Her Turbine Hall Commission, Mire Lee Joins Sprüth Magers
Sprüth Magers, a gallery with locations in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and New York, now represents Mire Lee, the artist tapped to do this fall’s Turbine Hall commission for Tate Modern. Lee will...
View ArticlePace Gallery Takes on Jiro Takamatsu, a Giant of Postwar Japanese Art History
Pace Gallery will now represent the estate of Jiro Takamatsu, a key figure within postwar Japanese art history. The gallery will feature a painting by the artist in its booth at Art Basel in...
View ArticleHackers Demand Ransom from Christie’s, Seattle Museum Staff Walk Out, Artist...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES LIST OF DEMANDS. In a dramatic twist many had feared, a group of...
View ArticleArt Basel Subtracts a Plus Sign for Its French Fair, Now Titled Art Basel Paris
Art Basel’s Paris fair will see several notable changes when it opens its third edition this coming October. First among them is the fair’s expected relocation to the Grand Palais, which had closed...
View ArticleMummy Dismembered During Museum Renovations in Mexico
The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico’s governing body for archaeological studies on the federal level, is up in arms after the mummified corpse of a body that was buried...
View ArticleFBI Investigating Hundreds of Missing and Stolen Items from British Museum:...
The FBI is investigating the sale of hundreds of items on eBay suspected to be stolen and missing artifacts from the British Museum, according to a new report published by BBC News. The law...
View ArticleWorkers at Seattle Museum Protest Show, Accusing It of ‘Platforming Zionist...
A group of workers at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle led a walkout last week, accusing a current exhibition at the institution of falsely comparing antisemitism to anti-Zionism. On social media, the...
View Article6,800-Year-Old Skeleton Unearthed in Germany, Offering New Insight into...
6,800-year-old skeletal remains have been unearthed in Germany, nearly millennia older than the region’s oldest known mummy, offering new insight into Neolithic life. Archaeologists believe the...
View ArticleTokyo Gendai Art Fair Reveals Programming For Second Edition in July
With the second edition of Tokyo Gendai set to kick off in just over a month, Japan’s newest art fair has announced its programming, including a series of talks, curated exhibitions, commissions, and...
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