New Jersey Defunds Centre Pompidou’s Jersey City Museum, Saying Project Is...
The Centre Pompidou’s planned Jersey City museum was thrown into jeopardy on Saturday after New Jersey politicians pulled funding from the institution, saying that it was financially untenable. The...
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Art Consultancy CulturVator Is Merging the Ancient with the Contemporary to...
Later this month, the Acropolis Museum and The Lemon Tree & Co. Athens-Riviera will host a unique exhibition, “A Tale of Two Cities.” The exhibition, the first half of which runs until July 16,...
View ArticleNew Jersey Pulls Funding for Centre Pompidou Satellite, Stonewall Monument...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES SCRAPPED POMPIDOU X JERSEY MUSEUM. On Saturday New Jersey politicians pulled...
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Jacqueline de Jong, Painter Who Expanded the Possibilities of Her Medium,...
Jacqueline de Jong, a Dutch painter who for six decades remained committed to figuration, even when the art establishment did not value it highly, died on Saturday in Amsterdam following a short...
View ArticleSalvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s Surrealist Film ‘Un Chien Andalou’ Guest...
Many things get sliced in full view of the camera on The Bear, an FX TV series set at a Chicago restaurant, but the newly released third season features a rather unusual one: a human eyeball. That...
View ArticleJohn Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art
A generative art series by Irish artist John Gerrard is helping restore Ireland’s temperate rainforest. Hosted by Feral File, an online platform for digital art founded in 2020, the series, titled...
View ArticleLondon’s V&A Museum Is Set to Open Taylor Swift Exhibition
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)in London has announced a exhibition of all things Taylor Swift—from dresses and cowboy boots to awards and unseen tidbits from her personal archive. It is set...
View ArticleAncient Stingray Sculpture Proposes New Timeline of Human Artistic Expression
Researchers have identified what they believe is an ancient sand sculpture of a stingray, challenging the established timeline of human artistic expression, according to a new study published in the...
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Audrey Flack, Photorealist Who Painted with Exacting Detail, Dies at 93
Audrey Flack, a Photorealist artist whose work reproduced tchotchkes, trinkets, photographs, and more in painstaking detail, died on June 28 in Southampton, New York. She was 93. Dealer Louis K....
View ArticleBanksy Migrant Boat Decried as ‘Vile,’ Louvre Accused of Copying Dance...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BANKSY UNDER SCRUTINY. British home secretary James Cleverly has said that a new...
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June Leaf, Influential Artist Whose Work Explored the Possibilities of...
June Leaf, a beloved artist whose beguiling, unclassifiable works explored the limits of the human body, died on Monday in New York at 94. The New York Times reported that she had been battling...
View ArticleLACMA Hires Closely Watched Curator Diana Nawi for Contemporary Art Department
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has hired Diana Nawi as a curator of contemporary art, beginning this month. Nawi, who has worked independently for several years, has organized several acclaimed...
View ArticleBritish Museum Should Charge Visitors £20 Entry Fee, Says Former Director
The former director of the British Museum, one of the many London institutions that offers free admission, recently suggested that foreign tourists should pay an entry fee of £20 ($25), a measure that...
View ArticlePål Enger, Who Famously Stole Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ Dies at 57
Pål Enger, a former Norwegian soccer player turned notorious art thief, has died at 57. Enger, who gained fame for his 1994 theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, passed away on Saturday evening, the...
View ArticleCzech Republic Highway Construction Reveals Prehistoric Burial Monument
During a rescue highway excavation in the Czech Republic, a team of archaeologists from the University of Hradec Králové (UHK) discovered a prehistoric monumental burial ground. The ancient long...
View ArticleSt. Louis Art Center Shutters Pro-Palestine Exhibition After Accusations of...
A St. Louis art center is facing criticism for closing an exhibition after deeming several pro-Palestinian works on display were antisemitic. The works were by artists Dani Collette and Allora...
View ArticleTapping Hanneke Skerath as Director, Marciano Art Foundation Plans Return...
The Marciano Art Foundation, founded by mega-collectors and Guess founders Paul and Maurice Marciano, has appointed Hanneke Skerath as director, a newly created position. She began working for the Los...
View ArticleWing Luke Museum to Relocate Show Accused of ‘Platforming Zionist Ideology’
An exhibition at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle that spurred a staff walkout in protest of its purported equation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism will be moved to as-of-yet undetermined new venue,...
View ArticleTitian Painting Sets Artist’s Auction Record After Selling for $22.1 M. at...
Christie’s Classic Week evening sales in London on Tuesday – Old Masters Part I Sale and The Exceptional Sale – totaled almost $65 million. The former’s headline lot, Titian’s Rest on the Flight into...
View ArticleDocumenta 16 Names New Selection Committee After Last Year’s Mass Resignation
Documenta has officially revealed the replacement selection committee charged with finding the famed German quinquennial’s next artistic director, a search that is still ongoing because the original...
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