Nick Cave’s $1 M. Airport Art Grounded Over Safety Concerns After Part Falls...
A kinetic sculpture by Nick Cave formerly installed at the Kansas City International Airport’s new terminal may be permanently grounded after its spinner broke off and fell to the floor in October. A...
View ArticleTexas Officials File Complaint Over Controversial Sally Mann Photographs
Photographs by Sally Mann on view in a group exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas have been decried by locals and elected officials as containing what they have deemed as...
View ArticleFrieze’s Potential Sale Comes Into Sharp Focus, Police Probe Sally Mann...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FRIEZE FOR SALE. As the next edition of the Frieze art fair in Los Angeles...
View ArticleRare Artwork by Prominent Black Artist Unearthed at a Thrift Shop in a Philly...
A watercolor painting by 19th-century Philadelphia artist William H. Dorsey is now on display at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania after it was plucked from the depths of a Glenside, Pennsylvania...
View ArticleGetty Images and Shutterstock Are Merging
Two of the world’s biggest visual content marketplaces, Getty Images and Shutterstock, are merging. The companies jointly announced Tuesday the creation of a new $3.7 billion firm, which claims to...
View ArticleCenturies-Old Monastery Unharmed by Powerful Earthquake in Tibet
A 15th-century monastery in Tibet is still intact after a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northern foothills of Mount Everest. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit near Shigatse, one of Tibet’s...
View ArticleFormer Art Basel Director to Teach Course on ‘Understanding Today’s Art World’
Since the early 2000s, there has been a significant growth in education around the art world, and specifically in the art market, with courses at universities and programs at Sotheby’s and Christie’s....
View ArticleArchaeologists Unearth Tomb of Pharaoh’s Doctor and ‘Magician’
The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of an “engraved and beautifully painted” tomb of a royal doctor from the Sixth Dynasty by a French-Swiss joint...
View ArticleDAG Foundation Launches $20,000 Prize for Early Career Visual Artists Living...
The DAG Foundation has created a new, annual $20,000 award aimed at supporting early and mid-career visual artists working in the United States. “We wanted to try to fill a gap by reaching artists...
View ArticleGetty Villa Grounds Catch Fire as Pacific Palisades Blaze Continues
The grounds of the Getty Villa caught fire on Tuesday as a blaze continued tearing through the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. The museum and its staff were not harmed, according to a...
View ArticleGrounds of Getty Museum in LA Catch Fire, The Washington Post’s Cartoonist...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IN THE LINE OF FIRE. The grounds of the Getty Villa museum caught fire Tuesday as...
View ArticleSally Mann Photographs Removed from Texas Museum Exhibition after Outcry
Several photographs by Sally Mann have been removed from a group show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, Glasstire reports. Earlier this week, locals and politicians railed against the...
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Alastair Mackinven, Venturesome Artist with a Taste for All Things Cryptic,...
Alastair Mackinven, an artist whose work presented viewers with confusing, hypnotic imagery that begged viewers to reconsider the world around them, has died at 53. He battled a long illness, his...
View ArticleSeveral Los Angeles Museums and Galleries Are Closed in Response to...
Several museums and galleries in Los Angeles are closing or have closed due to three large, rapidly moving wildfires in the area. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Palisades fire has...
View ArticleThe EU Is Rolling Out New Tax Rules on Art—France and Germany Look Like the...
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. For nearly a year, European art dealers...
View ArticleChinese Court Orders Artist Ye Yongqing to Pay More than $670,000 for...
A Chinese appeals court upheld a previous ruling requiring Chinese artist Ye Yongqing to pay €650,000 ($670,469) in damages and issue an apology in a major Chinese newspaper within ten days for...
View ArticleNumerous Artists and Art Professionals Have Lost Homes to the Ongoing Los...
Thousands of acres have burned in Los Angeles due to the ongoing Palisades, Eaton, and Hurst fires, prompting mass evacuation orders, closures, as well as damages to homes, businesses, and landmarks....
View ArticleLA Artist Homes and Cultural Landmarks Burned, Warhol Museum Names New...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LA ARTIST HOMES AND CULTURAL LANDMARKS BURNED. The spreading fires in Los Angeles...
View ArticleThaddaeus Ropac to Open New Gallery in Milan This Fall
This fall, Austrian dealer Thaddaeus Ropac is opening a new gallery in Milan, where he will be a big fish in a small pond. Few other galleries of his caliber currently operate in Milan, a city whose...
View ArticleTwo Museums Burn in Los Angeles Fires While Others Remain Closed
As several fires continue to tear through Los Angeles, two museums have burned to the ground. Many other institutions in the city remained closed as of Wednesday night, citing a desire to ensure the...
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