To Celebrate 60 Years of Andy Warhol’s Silent Film ‘Empire’, MoMA will Screen...
On the night of July 25, 1964, Andy Warhol and filmmaker Jonas Mekas stood on the forty-fourth floor of the Time-Life Building and for six hours, trained a camera on the Empire State Building....
View ArticleJust Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get...
Two activists from the protest group Just Stop Oil have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers. On October 14 of2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna...
View ArticleParis Olympics Start with a Bang, Bernini’s Dark Side Revealed, and More:...
The Headlines EPIC, UNIQUE, OLYMPIC. After giving his blood, sweat, and tears for 18 months, Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of Paris’s Olympics opening ceremony, the first one not to take place...
View Article‘Mona Lisa’ Was Not Stolen from Italy, Leonardo da Vinci Expert Says: ‘We...
After a prominent archaeologist said he would launch a campaign to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy, one of the foremost Leonardo da Vinci experts said the painting should, in fact, remain in France....
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An Uproarious Survey in Seattle Brings Together the West Coast’s Artist-Heretics
Wrapping together art-historical revisionism and kid-friendly displays, the Seattle Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture,” flashes back to artistic...
View ArticleDrag Queen Performance at Paris Olympics Draws Comparisons to ‘Last Supper’
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games sparked controversy, with the Catholic Church and conservative politicians accusing the scene of mocking Christianity. Central to the debate is a...
View ArticleUNESCO Adds Historic Monastery in Gaza to List of Endangered Sites
UNESCO has added the ancient Saint Hilarion Monastery, also known as Tell Umm Amer, in Gaza to its endangered sites list as a result of the ongoing war with Israel. The decision was announced during...
View ArticleNew York’s Jack Shainman Gallery Sues Art Collector, Claiming He Owes Nearly...
New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery has sued collector James R. Hedges IV, alleging that he owes nearly $300,000 for the sales of 19 artworks that the gallery had consigned to him. The lawsuit, which was...
View ArticleNew Aspen Art Fair Opens, the World’s Best Art Destinations, Paris Olympics...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES HITS DON’T LIE. If the Olympics opening ceremony, which tended to promote...
View ArticleBrancusi’s ‘Endless Column,’ a Modernist Icon, Joins UNESCO’s World Heritage...
Five iconic sculptures by Constantin Brancusi that are located in the Romanian town of Targu Jiu have joined UNESCO’s World Heritage list, a distinction that will afford them legal protection going...
View ArticleStonehenge Tunnel Project Binned by New Labour Government as It Tries to Fill...
The UK’s newly formed Labour government has wasted no time in trashing plans laid down by the Conservatives in 2020 to build a two-mile tunnel near Stonehenge. Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the...
View ArticleLA’s Fowler Museum Returns 20 Artifacts to Warumungu People of Australia
The University of California, Los Angeles’s Fowler Museum returned 20 objects “of significant cultural importance” to the Warumungu community of Australia’s Northern Territory on July 24, the...
View ArticleWarhol Portrait of Debbie Harry Resurfaces, French Artist to Spend 10 Days in...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES GENIUS IN A BOTTLE. French artist Abraham Poincheval (b. 1972), who is known for...
View ArticleShahzia Sikander Says She Won’t Repair Beheaded Sculpture in Texas: ‘A...
After a Shahzia Sikander sculpture was beheaded in Houston, Texas, the artist said this week she would not repair it, explaining that the work in its current form speaks to what she called “the hatred...
View ArticleLondon’s White Cube Axes Nearly 40 Monitors and Replaces Them with Security...
White Cube has axed 38 monitors and replaced them with security guards. The London gallery said the move was due to “operational processes.” According to the Art Newspaper, most of the monitors, whose...
View ArticleAndy Warhol’s Long-Lost Portrait of Blondie Singer Debbie Harry Resurfaces in...
An Andy Warhol portrait of Blondie singer Debbie Harry that was thought to be lost has resurfaced in rural Delaware. The 1985 portrait, along with a signed disk of 10 digital image files by Warhol, is...
View ArticleHeat Waves and Mega Storms Are Creating New Challenges for Art Storage and...
Unless you’ve been trapped in an air-conditioned room since May, summer this year has been pretty miserable. Temperatures have been so high that the global heat record was set two days in a row. The...
View ArticleUS Tech Company May Have Tried to Exhibit Unauthenticated Basquiat Painting...
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. An intermediary said to be acting on...
View ArticleAmerican Museum of Natural History Repatriates Remains of 124 Native People
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York is repatriating the remains of 124 Native ancestors and 90 Native cultural items. On July 25, AMNH president Sean Decatur sent the museum’s...
View ArticleIndependent Names 32 Exhibitors for 20th-Century Art Fair in September
The Independent art fair has named the 32 exhibitors that will take part in the third edition of its Independent 20th Century, dedicated to showcasing art made between 1900 and 2000. The fair returns...
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