Brooklyn Museum, Facing $10 M. Budget Deficit, to Lay Off 40 Employees
The Brooklyn Museum said Friday that it will imminently lay off around 40 employees and reduce programming to ease a budget deficit with the potential to reach $10 million by June. The news was first...
View ArticleFamed Titian Painting Reveals Hidden Portrait
Below the surface of an oil painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, experts have identified a previously unknown work by the artist using scientific analysis, the Andreas Pittas Art...
View ArticleBudget Cuts to French Arts and Culture Sectors Alarm Creative Workers
France’s policy of l’exception culturelle—which has long protected its arts sector from market forces—is buckling under the weight of austerity. According to The Art Newspaper, the Académie des...
View ArticleAI is Decoding Oxford’s Mysterious Herculaneum Scroll
Another Herculaneum scroll is being deciphered using X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms by a team competing in the Vesuvius Challenge. Among the ancient Greek words identified...
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At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a Blockbuster Exhibition Explores...
A range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through February 9). Organized by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, “The Time...
View ArticleFareed Armaly Rejects Käthe Kollwitz Prize Citing Censorship in Germany
American artist and curator Fareed Armaly has declined Germany’s Käthe Kollwitz Prize, citing the censorship controversies within the country’s cultural institutions. The annual €12,000 award, given...
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This Year’s India Art Fair Proves Local Collectors Show No Sign of Slowing Down
For its 16th edition, the India Art Fair in New Delhi clamped down on the number of invites it extended for its ultra-VIP preview, from 11 am to 3 pm on Thursday. This attempt to avoid the...
View ArticlePhillips Hires Back Former CEO, This Time as COO, as Financial Losses Compound
Phillips auction house has appointed Bernd Runge, a former publisher at Condé Nast and Interview Magazine, as its new COO. Runge, who previously served as Phillips’s CEO from 2009 to 2013, returns as...
View ArticleThree Suspects in Heist of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol Artworks Found Guilty
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania recently announced the conviction of three members of a multi-heist art theft ring that stole sports memorabilia, art, and...
View ArticleUnknown Painting Discovered Beneath Portrait from Picasso’s Famed Blue Period
The most studied period of Pablo Picasso’s career, it seems, still had a secret to keep: a mystery woman hidden beneath a well-known portrait, now revealed by conservators at the Courtauld Institute...
View ArticleThousands of Artists Demand Christie’s Cancels AI Art Sale: ‘AI Models...
Thousands of artists have called on Christie’s to cancel an upcoming auction of art made by artificial intelligence.An open letter to the house signed by almost 4,000 people is demanding Christie’s...
View ArticleBanksy to Fight Greeting Card Company for Control of His Trademark
Banksy, the anonymous British graffiti artist, risks losing the right to his own name in a landmark case brought against him by a greeting card company.The company is called Full Colour Black and it...
View ArticleNational Cryptological Museum Admits ‘Mistake’ Over DEI Move, Ary Arcadie...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines COVERING UP DIVERSITY. In response to President Trump scrapping diversity,...
View ArticleArtist Ai Weiwei Denied Entry to Switzerland Due to Lack of Visa
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was recently barred from entering Switzerland after he was unable to produce a visitor’s visa. According to an Instagram post by Ai, he spent the evening of February 10 on a...
View ArticleRare Roman Helmet and Weapons Found in Denmark
Fragments of a rare Roman-era helmet and a trove of weapons were found by archaeologists at Løsning Søndermark, Denmark. In the postholes of two houses, researchers first discovered two iron plates...
View ArticleBrent Sikkema’s Husband Charged with Hiring His Killer
A little over a year after Brent Sikkema was discovered dead in Brazil, the late New York gallerist’s husband has been charged with hiring someone to kill him. Sikkema was the founder of the gallery...
View ArticleArt Institute of Chicago Gains a Neoclassicist Trove with Sizable Gift of...
A wealth of Neoclassicist art has joined the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago via collectors Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz, who have gifted the museum around 2,250 works of French art made between...
View ArticleDaniel Sikkema Charged for Hiring His Husband’s Killer, Trump’s Stronghold on...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines MURDER-FOR-HIRE CHARGE IN SIKKEMA CASE. Daniel Sikkema has been charged with...
View ArticlePainter Jordan Casteel Joins Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery
Jordan Casteel has joined Thaddaeus Ropac in a deal that will see her also remain with Casey Kaplan, the latter which has represented the American painter since 2016. She will debut a suite of new...
View ArticleTwo-Year Legal Battle Over $45 M. Monet Paintings Destroyed in Fire Ends in...
A federal judge has dismissed a high-profile lawsuit over insurance payouts for five artworks destroyed in a fire, including three paintings by Claude Monet collectively worth over $45 million,...
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