Everything to Know about the 2024 Met Gala
A-list celebrities, fashion world icons, and the art world come together tonight at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala. The museum hosts the art-and-fashion ball each year...
View ArticleUnmissable Looks from the Met Gala 2024
“Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking.” The infamous line so sarcastically delivered by Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada is certainly apt for this year’s Met...
View ArticleCourbet’s ‘Origin of the World’ Tagged, Stalemate in Mary Miss Land Art...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES PROTEST/ART. Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World (1866) and other artworks...
View ArticlePalais de Tokyo Patron Pulls Support Over Exhibition About Palestine
Sandra Hegedüs, a longtime patron of the Palais de Tokyo, said she would no longer provide financial support to Paris’s foremost contemporary art museum after it mounted an exhibition dealing with the...
View ArticleAustralian Museum Plans to Installs Toilet in Women-Only Exhibition to...
An exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, Australia by the American artist Kirsha Kaechele titled “Ladies Lounge” is installing a toilet in the gallery, the BBC reported...
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Frank Stella’s Greatest Legacy Was as a Master Sadist
Was Frank Stella a sadist? More than once, I’ve wondered that while standing before his 1959 painting Die Fahne hoch!, a rectangular abstraction that features four black forms, each of which are...
View ArticleArtist and Protestors Tag Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’ with the...
Gustave Courbet’s infamous nude painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) was targeted over the weekend by protesters who tagged it with the words “Me Too.” The 1886 painting is on...
View ArticleControversial Demolition of Mary Miss Installation Reaches ‘Unsatisfying...
The fate of an outdoor installation by artist Mary Miss installed at the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) is still undecided, even after a preliminary injunction blocking its demolition was issued by an...
View ArticleScammers Target Van Gogh Museum, Artifacts Stolen from UK Museum, AI...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES SNATCHED. Bronze Age gold artifacts were stolen from the UK’s Ely Museum on...
View ArticleWebsite Posing as Van Gogh Museum Shut Down After Selling Fake Tickets
A website claiming to be affiliated with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was found to be harvesting credit card information from people who were trying to buy tickets to the institution, according to...
View ArticleStone with Ancient Writing Discovered in England by Geography Teacher
A 1,600-year-old rock inscribed with early Irish writing was found by a teacher at his home in Coventry, England. The rare artifact offers insight into earlier forms of the Irish language. Geography...
View ArticleRISD Students Stage Sit-In for Gaza, Call for University Divestment from Israel
Students at the Rhode Island School of Design have staged a sit-in at several buildings in downtown Providence, joining the wave of pro-Palestine protests sweeping American college campuses. The...
View ArticleDocumenta’s Next Edition Moves Forward—Without a Code of Conduct for Its Next...
Even as it faces renewed scrutiny, Documenta, the famed German art festival, will continue onward with its next edition—but it will crucially not adopt a code of conduct for its next artistic...
View ArticleMaurizio Cattelan Copyright Dispute, Louvre’s Delacroix Painting Targeted,...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES (ANOTHER) COPYRIGHT DISPUTE. Artist Anthony James has sent a legal letter to...
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An Under-Recognized 72-Year-Old Painter Makes Waves at Auction
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. Before 2023, Takako Yamaguchi’s work...
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Ahead of its 30th Anniversary Show, David Zwirner Takes on One More Artist,...
David Zwirner, the mega-gallery with spaces in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong, has added one more artist to its roster before it opens a new Los Angeles outpost later this month. Rising...
View ArticleBlaise Mandefu Ayawo, Member of Congolese Collective Behind Venice Biennale’s...
Blaise Mandefu Ayawo, a member of the acclaimed Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise artist collective, has died at 55. His death was announced on Thursday by KOW, the Berlin gallery...
View ArticleNear the Giza Pyramids, Archaeologists Identify a Newly Discovered Ancient...
A previously unknown L-shaped structure has been identified by researchers using ground-penetrating technology in an ancient Egyptian cemetery in Giza, according to a study published on Monday in the...
View ArticleTwo Activists Arrested After Sticking Posters Around “Liberty Leading The...
Two activists from the group Riposte Alimentaire were arrested after staging a protest Wednesday at the 1830 painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre Museum in Paris....
View ArticleFake ‘Monet’ and ‘Renoir’ on eBay Among 40 Supposedly Counterfeit Paintings...
An artwork authentication expert recently said she identified 40 supposedly fake painting being offered for sale on eBay, including two attributed to Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Dr. Carina...
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