The Moon, Gaza, and the Swahili Coast Join List of Endangered Sites
For the first time, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) has included the moon in its 2025 list of 25 at-risk cultural heritage sites. Also joining that list this year are Gaza, the Swahili Coast, and the...
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David Lynch’s Art Is the Key to Understanding His Cryptic Films
It’s silly to try to explain David Lynch’s films, since they are designed to induce confusion, but that hasn’t stopped people from seeking answers. Keenly aware that viewers wanted clarity, Lynch once...
View ArticleArchaeologists Find First Female-Led Society in Europe
A female-centric order has been found for the first time in European prehistory by scientists who analyzed DNA from burial grounds in southwest England.Archaeologists from Bournemouth University,...
View ArticleNational Museums to Host Trump-Vance Fundraisers
The National Building Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., are preparing inauguration dinners for President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance, respectively....
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ART SG Exhibitors Face Mixed Sales Amid Market Cooling
ART SG returned to Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Resort and Convention Center this week while the global art market continues to deal with a sales slowdown and fragmentation, and several fires in Los...
View Article15th Century Artifacts Linked to Prosperous Era in Lithuania Found by...
A group of artifacts from the 15th and 16th centuries, linked to the Jagiellon dynasty and royal officials within it, has been discovered in Vilnius Cathedral, a prominent Catholic site in Lithuania....
View ArticleFrieze Los Angeles to Proceed Amid Challenges of Wildfire Recovery
Frieze Los Angeles will hold its sixth edition from February 20 to 23, 2025, despite the devastating wildfires that have impacted the city and its surrounding communities. In an email sent to those...
View ArticleGallery Association Los Angeles Calls for a Return to Business Amid Fire...
Gallery Association Los Angeles, an association of around 100 galleries formed in 2020, released an open letter Friday night calling for the art community’s continued engagement, support, and...
View ArticleUK Government is Hoping to Boost Culture and Economy by Launching Soft Power...
The UK government has recruited Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Peter Bazalgette, the chair and pro-chancellor of the Royal College of Art, to boost the country’s...
View ArticleFrieze LA Ploughs Ahead, San Francisco Art Week and FOG Fair Open, Artists...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FRIEZE LA PLOUGHS AHEAD. Frieze Los Angeles will go ahead with its sixth edition...
View Article21 Events That Defined the Art World’s Response to Israel’s War in Gaza
On Friday, Israel’s cabinet approved a six-week ceasefire agreement and partial hostage release deal with Hamas, temporarily bringing to an end a conflict that has wrought widespread death and...
View ArticleGhana to Investigate $400 M. David Adjaye–Designed National Cathedral in Accra
The National Cathedral of Ghana, a $400 million building in Accra that is being designed by architect David Adjaye’s firm, will reportedly be investigated after concerns were raised about its cost....
View ArticleAaron De Groft, Former Orlando Museum Director Embroiled in Basquiat Scandal,...
Aaron De Groft, the former CEO of the Orlando Museum of Art whose tenure was ultimately defined by a Basquiat forgery scandal, died on January 18 at 59. According to an obituary published on Monday,...
View ArticleTrump Reinstates Executive Order Mandating ‘Classical’ Architecture for...
Following his inauguration yesterday, President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy from his first term that favors “classical” styles for government buildings over modernist ones. The newly issued...
View ArticleNewsmakers: Daniel Merritt, Aspen Art Museum’s New Chief Curator, on Making...
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. In 2021, while an associate curator at one of...
View Article‘The Brutalist’ Director Responds to Criticism of AI Used for Set, Accents
Brady Corbet has responded to online chatter regarding the use of artificial intelligence technology on his awards contender The Brutalist, which is coming under fire after the film’s editor Dávid...
View ArticleArt Basel Hong Kong Unveils Programming for 2025 Edition, With Emphasis on...
Art Basel announced its programming on Tuesday for the 2025 edition of its Hong Kong fair, set to open with a VIP preview day on March 26 and running until March 30. The fair, which will have 240...
View ArticleArtist Sakuliu Pavavaljung Gets Prison Sentence after Sexual Assault...
Last week, Taiwan’s Pingtung District Court sentenced Sakuliu Pavavaljung, a Paiwan artist, to four and a half years in prison for sexually assaulting a female fan in 2021. According to...
View ArticleIndian Court Orders Seizure of Two ‘Offensive’ MF Hussein Paintings
On Monday, a court in India’s capital city, Delhi, ordered the seizure of two paintings by the late Maqbool Fida Husain – aka MF Husain – one of the country’s most famous artists, after they were...
View ArticleCenturies-Old Artifacts, Ancient Roman Road Uncovered in France
French archaeologists have discovered artifacts and sites spanning multiple centuries, from the Late Bronze Age to the medieval era, in Pacé, Brittany, Popular Mechanics reports. A Roman road dating...
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