Fort Worth Police Return Photographs Seized from Sally Mann Exhibition
Fort Worth police have returned artworks by photographer Sally Mann seized by its forces from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in January. The news was confirmed by the National Coalition Against...
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Rare Early Basquiat to Lead Sotheby’s Contemporary Auctions in New York with...
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s market remains anything but quiet. This May, a rediscovered early painting by the artist will headline Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction in New York with a $10 million to...
View ArticleArt Green, Founding Figure of Chicago’s Riotous Harry Who?, Has Died at 83
Arthur “Art” Green, a key Imagist painter and original member of the Hairy Who?, Chicago’s electrifying answer to Pop Art, died at the age of 83 on April 14. The news was announced by Garth Greenan...
View ArticleThe Best Booths at Expo Chicago, From a Crocheted Locker Room to Metal Panties
The 12th edition of Expo Chicago opened to VIPs at noon on Thursday, following a vernissage brunch hosted by the fair and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s Women’s Board. The somewhat late...
View ArticlePhilipp Kaiser Exits Marian Goodman Gallery as Partner and President
Philipp Kaiser has departed Marian Goodman Gallery, where he is president and one of the gallery’s five partners, after more than six years. His last day at the gallery will be on May 2 and he will...
View ArticleNEH Seeks Artists for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Funded With Cancelled Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new grant program for the design and creation of statues for President Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes. The sculpture garden...
View ArticlePortrait that Putin Gifted to Trump Unveiled, Wolfram Weimer Slated to Be...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The HeadlinesA ‘FLATTERING’ PORTRAIT of President Donald Trump gifted to him last month by...
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Art Institute of Chicago’s Jacques Schuhmacher on the Future of Provenance...
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. Provenance research is a cornerstone of museum...
View ArticleFort Worth Police Spent $7 K. Visiting New York for Sally Mann Investigation
The Fort Worth Police Department spent almost $7,000 to send five police officers to four New York art institutions to investigate child pornography allegations against artist Sally Mann, whose...
View ArticleMedieval Shipwreck Unearthed Beneath Barcelona’s Mercat del Peix
Construction work in Barcelona’s Ciutadella district has revealed a remarkably preserved medieval shipwreck, provisionally named Ciutadella I. The vessel, believed to date from the 15th or 16th...
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Suki Seokyeong Kang, Fast-Rising Sculptor Who Remixed Korean Art History,...
Suki Seokyeong Kang, a Korean sculptor who inventively revisited traditional Korean artistic styles and gained a worldwide following for it, died on Sunday at 48. Seoul’s Kukje Gallery announced her...
View ArticleVatican Museums, Including Sistine Chapel, Closed Indefinitely for Conclave...
The Vatican Museums, which includes the Sistine Chapel, has been closed to the public as Vatican City prepares for the gathering of cardinals who will vote to elect a new pope following the death of...
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One Gallery Represents Four Artists with New York Museum Surveys This Season....
Museums may tout themselves as being separate from the market, but the reality is more complicated. As others have observed, in today’s art world, sales lead to fame, fame leads to retrospectives, and...
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Black Artists in Postwar Paris Get a Blockbuster at the Centre Pompidou
At the Centre Pompidou hangs a dense, colorful ink painting on cotton in which two figures with white faces and blue skin hold court in a lush thicket of flora and fauna. According to the work’s...
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A Ruth Asawa Retrospective Finds the Fun in Her Game-Changing Art
In 1973, during the opening of her first San Francisco Museum of Modern Art retrospective, Ruth Asawa held what she called a “dough-in,” a communal experience that was part baking, part art, and part...
View ArticleJeff Koons Returns to Gagosian for Frieze New York 2025, Hulk in Tow
Jeff Koons will reunite with Gagosian for a solo presentation at this year’s edition of Frieze New York, less than four years after his closely watched departure from the gallery. The booth will...
View ArticleDutch Municipality Accidentally Disposes of Andy Warhol Print During Town...
In a bureaucratic blunder that is as funny as it is tragic, the Dutch municipality of Maashorst appears to have accidentally thrown out a valuable Andy Warhol silk-screen print — along with nearly 50...
View Article‘Physically Suffering’ Life Models in Florence Are Threatening Legal Action...
Life models in Florence are threatening court action against the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in a bid to improve working conditions. They have also said they might protest naked in public.Nude...
View ArticleNike Hit by $5 M. Class Action Lawsuit by Users of Shuttered NFT Platform RTFKT
Nike is being hit with a class action lawsuit demanding over $5 million in damages after shutting down its Web3 NFT platform RTFKT in January. A group of RTFKT users filed the lawsuit in the Eastern...
View ArticleTop US Universities Form Collective Against Trump Administration
Leaders from America’s top universities have formed a private collective in defense against the Trump administration’s attacks on academic independence and research funding, the Wall Street Journal...
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