LA’s MOCA Announces New $100,000 ‘Environment and Art’ Prize
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles will soon award three editions of a major artist prize over the next six years. Called the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, the award,...
View ArticleChristie’s Auction Sales Down 22 Percent in First Half of 2024
Christie’s, the world’s largest auction house, reported Tuesday that it generated $2.1 billion in live and online auction sales in the first half of 2024, a figure that represents a 22 drop from the...
View ArticleTokyo Gendai Art Fair Moves To September for 2025 Edition
Tokyo Gendai recently announced a shift in dates for its next edition in 2025. Instead of taking place in July, as it has for its first two editions, the art fair will return next year to the Pacifico...
View ArticleV&A Beats Out Met Museum to Acquire $2.6 M. Ivory Sculpture of Christ
The Victoria & Albert Museum, also known as the V&A, recently raised the $2.6 million (£2 million) needed to acquire and save a 12th-century walrus ivory carving after a temporary export ban...
View ArticleMaya Structures and Pyramids Discovered Among Mexican Tropical Forests
Among Mexico’s dense tropical forests in central Campeche, archaeologists have identified pyramids and a ceremonial center, as well as a subterranean structure beneath a ball court constructed by the...
View Article18 New York Artists Tapped to Create Works for JFK’s New Terminal
John F. Kennedy Airport, one of the world’s busiest crossroads, will soon be its destination in its own right for world-class art. Eighteen artists hailing from seven countries have been tapped to...
View ArticleGoya Research Center Launched in NYC, Star Trek Props Resurface After 50...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES ALL ABOUT GOYA. The Hispanic Society Museum & Library has announced that it...
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Intersect Aspen Gives Inaugural Artist Award to Meghann Riepenhoff, Announces...
The Intersect Aspen Art and Design Fair announced Wednesday that it had awarded its inaugual Artist Award to Meghann Riepenhoff. Riepenhoff is known for her “camera-less photography” in which she uses...
View ArticleOhio’s Wexner Center Names Julieta González Head of Exhibitions
The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University in Columbus has appointed Julieta González as its next head of exhibitions. She will begin in the role in October. González is a leading...
View ArticleNew Online Platform for Environmental Digital Art Strives to Drive Climate...
A new online platform striving to inspire global climate action by selling environmental digital art launches on July 19. Called Blueshift and set up by Diane Drubay, the founder of We Are Museums and...
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Bonhams Modern Design Auction in LA Includes 35 Lots Consigned by Actor Jim...
Bonhams Modern Design and Art sale later this month will feature 35 lots from the personal collection of actor Jim Carrey. The furniture pieces includes items by French sculpture artists Philipe...
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Indian Artist Prajakta Potnis Receives the 2024 Loewe Foundation / Studio...
Mumbai–based artist Prajakta Potnis was named the second recipient of the Loewe Foundation / Studio Voltaire Award international artist residency. Along with a year-long studio space at London’s...
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LC Queisser Gallery Is Bringing Georgian Art to the World
Standing at the entry of her Tbilisi-based gallery, LC Queisser, dealer Lisa Offermann noted that the differing heights of the building’s door frames pointed to Georgia’s palimpsestic past as an...
View ArticleMurano Glass Treasure Found in Bulgaria, Royal Academy Show Accused of...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES A SHARP DISCOVERY. Archaeologists in Burgas, Bulgaria have discovered over 100...
View ArticleNew British Museum Director Says He Has ‘Hope’ for Partnership with Greece on...
Nicholas Cullinan, the new director of London’s embattled British Museum, spoke this week of the possibility of an official agreement with Greece on the Parthenon Marbles, providing yet another sign...
View ArticlePicasso Estate Forgives Mona Curator for Phony Paintings in the ‘Ladies Lounge’
The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, Australia was spared the lash after it was revealed that several “Picassos” displayed in the institution’s exhibition “Ladies Lounge” were not by the...
View ArticleIowa’s Stanley Museum of Art Becomes First in the US to Return Benin Bronzes
The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has become the first in the United States to restitue its holdings of Benin Bronzes, to the Oba of Benin, the former head of the royal family of Benin and...
View ArticleNational Trust Announces $3M. in Grants to Preserve Black History Sites...
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund (AACHAF), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announced today that it is awarding $3 million in grant funding to protect and...
View ArticleAcademy Museum of Motion Pictures to Recreate ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’...
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is launching two marquee exhibitions for Fall 2024. AMPAS’ Los Angeles Museum will host both the “Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema” and...
View ArticleAfter Viral ‘Embrace,’ Hank Willis Thomas Is Tapped for Boston’s Next Public...
The city of Boston announced thirty new public art initiatives, including a slew of monuments to underrepresented episodes of local history. The initiative is funded by a $3 million grant from the...
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