Emily Carr Painting Bought for $50 Auctioned for $250,000, San Francisco’s...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FROM BARN SALE TO AUCTION. After being picked up earlier this year at a barn sale...
View ArticleFrieze Los Angeles Names Exhibitors for 2025 Edition
Frieze Los Angeles has named the more than 100 galleries that will participate in its 2025 edition, scheduled to run February 20–23 at the Santa Monica Airport. This year’s fair will continue with...
View ArticleYale Peabody Museum to Repatriate Native American Remains and Artifacts to...
The Yale Peabody Museum has flagged human remains and eight funerary objects in its collection for repatriation to Native American tribes of the Wabanaki Nations in Maine. These remains and objects...
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This Beloved Austrian Museum May Never Reveal Which Artist Is Doing Its Big...
The Kunsthaus Bregenz, a beloved contemporary art museum in Austria, has announced what might already count as the most mysterious show of 2025: an exhibition by an artist whose identity may never be...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Have Proposed a Capitol Bathroom Ban. What Museums Could be...
A bill has been proposed in the US House of Representatives that would prohibit the use of single-sex facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms, by transgender individuals on...
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Nan Goldin Addresses War in Gaza at Berlin Exhibition Opening: ‘Are You...
With tension mounting surrounding her solo show at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, Nan Goldin delivered an impassioned speech at the exhibition’s opening in which she called on Germany to take...
View ArticleNan Goldin Denounced by German Politicians After Speech about Gaza at Berlin...
After Nan Goldin gave an impassioned speech about Israel’s war in Gaza on Friday night, German politicians swiftly denounced the artist, who is currently the subject of a just-opened survey at the...
View ArticleGoldsmiths’s Art Gallery Cuts Ties with Israel-Linked Donor After Boycott
Students at Goldsmiths University ended a months-long boycott of the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) after the gallery ended its relationship with donors Candida and Zak Gertler, whose...
View ArticleClimate Activists Who Doused the US Constitution in Red Powder Sentenced to...
Two climate activists who doused a display case containing the U.S. Constitution in red power at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. earlier this year have received prison sentences, ABC News...
View ArticleArtists and Art Workers Call on Tate to Divest from Donors with Ties to Israel
More than 600 artists and art workers have signed an open letter calling on the Tate in London to sever ties with arts organizations whose founders have financial ties to Israel. The letter, addressed...
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Recent Exhibitions at US Museums Explore the Complexity of Puerto Rican Identity
In a portrait from 1928, a Puerto Rican woman holds a devotional painting of the Virgin Mary and child. She stares directly at the viewer, her other hand on her hip. Perhaps she is on her way to...
View ArticleWho Was Georges Seurat and Why Was He So Important?
Georges Seurat’s most famous painting, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884), hangs at the Art Institute of Chicago, where visitors jostle forward and back to observe the composition as a whole before...
View ArticleArtist Inci Eviner Says Qatari Museum Censored Her Work About a 19th-Century...
Inci Eviner, an artist whose work has appeared in biennials across the globe, from Venice to Sharjah, accused Qatar’s Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art of censorship after it removed one of her videos...
View ArticleGucci, Valentino, Versace, and Balenciaga Are Among Fashion Brands On View in...
“What has fashion become today?” That is one of the key questions fashion theorist, professor and curator Maria Luisa Frisa asked herself when planning the “Memorabile.Ipermoda” exhibition at the...
View ArticleHauser & Wirth to Represent María Berrío, Whose Collages Blend Reality and...
María Berrío, whose collaged paintings mesh folklore with her own personal lore, will join the roster at Hauser & Wirth. The gallery, which will mount a solo show of her work in 2025, will...
View ArticleA New Report Shows How Artists in the UK Are Earning 40% Less Compared to...
A new report released by the University of Glasgow highlights the economic plight of artists in the UK and the pay disparities across demographics. Titled the “UK Visual Artists’ Earnings and...
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A Groundbreaking Show on the African Diaspora Raises Pressing Questions About...
In 2008, Danish Trinidadian artist Jeannette Ehlers traveled to Ghana, where she visited Fort Prinzenstein, which was built by Danish traders in 1784 and used in the transatlantic slave trade. Located...
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Are New York’s Fall Auctions Proof That the Hype is Real?
There are only a few prominent collectors who would want to pay for a banana stuck to a wall with anything other than fiat money. So when Sotheby’s announced a week before Wednesday’s evening sale...
View ArticleBerlin Faces Backlash Over Proposed Cut to Culture Budget
Berlin’s plan to cut its cultural budget by €130 million, a reduction of around 13 percent, has sparked a wave of opposition from the city’s arts workers. More than 450 publicly funded institutions,...
View ArticleGroucho Club Closes Temporarily After ‘Serious Crime’ Committed on Premises
The Groucho Club, the iconic London members club that was bought by Artfarm in 2022, has closed temporarily as police investigate a “serious crime” on the premises. Artfarm, a hospitality company set...
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