• Joan Mitchell Foundation Names 31 Artists for Residency in New Orleans

    The New York–based Joan Mitchell Foundation has named the 31 artists who will participate in its 2026 residency program.Taking place at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, the residents will participate in either six-week or 14-week residencies during three seasons (spring, summer, fall) this year, with no more than nine residents being on hand at one time. The first residents will arrive on February 2.The foundation’s residency program is unique in that it not only brings artis
  • Met Workers Vote to Join Local 2110 UAW, Creating One of the Nation’s Largest Museum Unions

    Nearly 1,000 salaried and hourly workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art voted on Friday to join Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers (UAW), creating one of the nation’s largest museum unions.The new union, approved by a vote of 542-172, comprises staff from across 50 departments at the Met, including curators, conservators, librarians, visitor experience coordinators, and archivists. According to a statement from Local 2110, roughly 100 ballots remain sealed due to a management challen
  • Qatar Museums, Not a Foreign Nation, Reportedly Tried to Acquire South African Pavilion Work

    Yet more details have emerged surrounding the abrupt cancelation of Gabrielle Goliath’s planned Venice Biennale pavilion for South Africa, with the Daily Maverick publishing a report about the allegations that a foreign nation tried to interfere in her exhibition.Gayton McKenzie, the South African culture minister, controversially said in a statement that he canceled Goliath’s pavilion not because it was to deal with Israel’s war in Gaza, but because another country had attempt
  • Düsseldorf Art School Stands by Palestinian Artist After Criticism from Jewish Groups

    The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, a storied German art school, faced scrutiny this week from three Jewish groups over the invitation of Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma Al-Sharif for an event.Ahead of Al-Sharif’s lecture on January 21, the Jewish groups issued an open letter claiming, without proof, that Al-Sharif’s past events had been “characterized by the trivialization of terrorism and Israel-related antisemitism.” The groups then called for the cancelation of
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  • Art is good for mental health? Not when you’re a novelist in poverty | Letter

    Publishing pays abysmally, says an anonymous writer, who feels closer to their neighbours on benefits than to their former peers in teaching and academiaAccess to the arts might be good for mental health (The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art, 9 January), but the conditions in which most artists have to produce their work does nothing to improve their own.I’m a novelist, and I was paid £1,000 and £500 respectively for my last two books. The latter was
  • Gordon Parks Foundation Marks 20th Anniversary with Exhibitions Curated by Dawoud Bey and Bryan Stevenson

    This year marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of photographer and artist Gordon Parks, who is known for his images that chronicled the segregated South, the civil rights movement, poverty, and the impact that racism had on the lives of African Americans. 2026 also marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Gordon Parks Foundation, which is tasked with preserving the legacy of Parks but also has become known for its work in supporting the next generation of artists and writers whose
  • Who Was Gustav Klimt and Why Is His Work So Important?

    On the night of November 21, 2025, the hammer came down after 20 minutes of heated bidding on Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16), the marquee lot at Sotheby’s New York auction house that evening. Expectations were high, considering that the painting was one of only two full-length likenesses by Klimt still in private hands, but the final offer left even hardened art market insiders goggle-eyed: It sold for $236.4 million, making it the second most expensive
  • Dark depths with Emin, a homoerotic saint and punchy political posters – the week in art

    Tracey gathers the melancholy giants, a lost London is remembered and collages celebrate Scots strugglers – all in your weekly dispatchCrossing into Darkness
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  • Why Art Deco Still Dazzles 100 Years On

    Before ornament was declared a crime and excised from modernists’ vocabularies, it had one last spectacular gasp in the glitz and glamor of Art Deco. One hundred years on, celebrations of the movement emphasize its complexity. Sitting between a dazzling milieu of precious luxury and an industrial age recovering from a great war, Art Deco asks us to reckon with the place of art and design in modern life.Art Deco was consolidated in a 1925 international design exhibition in Paris, and it is
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  • Swatch Launches Guggenheim Collaboration With Watches Inspired by Pollock, Degas, Monet, and Klee

    Swiss watch company Swatch is the latest brand to partner with a major museum on a product collection. On Thursday, it announced the Swatch x Guggenheim Collection, featuring watches that translate pieces from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The artists featured include Edgar Degas, Paul Klee, Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock.The pieces are the latest in Swatch’s larger Art Journey series, which launched in 2023
  • Centre Pompidou Reportedly Gives Up a Grand Palais Space Due to ‘Financial Constraints’

    The Centre Pompidou gave up one of its two spaces at the Grand Palais due to what the Paris museum described as “financial constraints faced by both institutions,” according to Le Monde.The Pompidou had been using two exhibition spaces within the Grand Palais while the modern art museum’s main base is closed for renovations. The space that the Pompidou forfeited was the smaller of the two, but it was being used for programming that remained notable no less.Indeed, in the fall,
  • Bucking Current Trends, Prado Director Says Museum Won’t Be Chasing Ever-Growing Visitor Numbers

    The new millennium has seen museums around the world grow—and then grow some more. Institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are in the midst of sweeping campus reimaginings, while the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston have unveiled major expansions over the past decade. Even the Louvre in Paris, the world’s most visited museum, has floated plans to reconfigure itself.Much of this expansion has bee
  • Paris Investigators Say Stolen Louvre Jewels Were Hidden in Parking Lot as Thieves Ditched Getaway Vehicles

    Three months on, the $102 million in jewels brazenly stolen from the Louvre in Paris remain missing. While Paris police have arrested at least eight people believed to be connected to the October 19 robbery, investigators have made little progress in recovering the loot. Recently, however, officers from Paris’s Anti-Gang Brigade (BRB) identified the jewels’ last known location.As reported by Le Parisien, the BRB traced the stolen items to an underground parking lot in Aubervilliers,
  • Whitney Museum Taps Ego Nwodim as Art Party Co-Chair

    Actress and comedian Ego Nwodim will co-chair the Whitney Museum of American Art’s annual Art Party on January 27, 2026, the museum announced on Thursday.Hosted by the Whitney Contemporaries, the event will take place at the museum’s Gansevoort Street building and will feature DJ sets by Raúl de Nieves and The Dare, whose performance will headline the night. A fixture on New York’s arts and philanthropy calendar, the Art Party draws young patrons, artists, and figures fr
  • Ian McKellan Will Act Out Unheard Audio Recordings of Cult Artist L.S. Lowry in New Documentary

    Ian McKellan has signed to star in a new BBC documentary about cult artist L.S. Lowry, with a focus on unheard audio recordings that Lowry made in the final four years of his life.As reported by the Guardian, “Fifteen years ago, Sir Ian McKellen was among the leading arts figures who criticized the Tate for not showing its collection of paintings by L.S. Lowry in its London galleries and questioned whether the ‘matchstick men painter’ had been sidelined as too northern and prov
  • Iranian Artists Killed in Anti-Government Protests, Advocacy Groups Report

    At least four artists have killed by Iranian police and militias since nationwide demonstrations against the Islamic Republic erupted in December, according to Artists at Risk Connection (ARC).In a statement published on January 13, the nonprofit organization—which provides emergency financial support to imperiled artists and cultural workers worldwide—condemned the reported killing of civilians by Iranian authorities, as well as the government-imposed internet and mobile blackout.Ci
  • Andean artist Antonio Paucar wins Artes Mundi prize in Wales

    Artist and beekeeper who highlights eco crisis plans to spend £40,000 award on building cultural centre in PeruAn artist and beekeeper from a remote corner of the Andes has won one of the UK’s most prestigious contemporary arts awards and plans to spend the £40,000 prize on building a cultural centre in the Peruvian mountains.Antonio Paucar was declared the winner of the biennial Artes Mundi prize after presenting work ranging from a spiral made of alpaca wool to a video of him
  • Kochi Biennale Foundation Co-Founder Bose Krishnamachari Resigns

    Bose Krishnamachari, an artist and curator who co-founded the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) in 2010, announced his sudden resignation. South First reported the news, with a statement from the foundation citing “pressing family reasons.”The 6th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale—India’s first dedicated to international contemporary art and the largest in South Asia—opened on December 12, 2025, and is scheduled to close on March 31. The current exhibition, titled
  • Trump Reportedly Looking at D.C. Park Near Jefferson Memorial For Sculpture ‘Garden of Heroes’ 

    The Trump administration is eyeing a Washington, D.C. park for its “National Garden of American Heroes,” according to two sources speaking anonymously to the Washington Post. West Potomac Park is south of the National Mall, near memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. and president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Just what part of the park is under review for the placement of the sculpture garden is not clear. The Post notes that if he wants to use the southern tip of the park, which is near
  • Beloved Rocky Statue Will Move to Top of Philadelphia Art Museum Steps

    A popular statue of Rocky that’s currently sited at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Philadelphia Art Museum is officially being relocated to the top of those flights.There is technically a sculpture of Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer played by Sylvester Stallone, at the top of the stairs now, but it is a second casting of the original at the bottom, which remains the more popular statue. It regularly draws tourists and locals alike, and has functioned as a Philadelphia icon.The Phi
  • United States Artists Names 2026 Fellows, Including Mendi + Keith Obadike, Edra Soto, and Johanna Hedva

    The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists has named the 50 artists who will receive its annual USA Fellowship and the recipient of its Berresford Prize, both of which come with an unrestricted grant of $50,000.This year marks the 20th anniversary of United States Artists, which was founded in 2006 and is one of a handful of US-based organizations that provides direct support to artists.“For two decades, United States Artists has advanced a simple yet powerful conviction—that
  • 12th-Century Church in Spain Partly Collapses, Prompting Scrutiny From Preservationists

    A section of the apse of a 12th-century Romanesque-Mudejar church in the village of Muriel de Zapardiel, in Spain’s Valladolid province, collapsed on Monday, prompting the closure of the building and renewed scrutiny of the condition of historic religious sites in rural Spain.The collapse affected the semicircular apse of the Church of Our Lady of the Castle—also known as the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption—a protected Bien de Interés Cultural (Asset of Cultural Int
  • Prado cannot be like ‘the Metro at rush hour’, says Madrid museum’s chief

    Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like LouvreThe head of the Prado has said the Madrid art museum does not need “a single visitor more” after it welcomed a record 3.5 million people last year, adding that plans are being drawn up to ensure it does not become a victim of its own success like the Louvre in Paris.In 2025 the Prado, which is home to such masterpieces as Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Hieronymus
  • In Art Star Diego Marcon’s Videos, Virtual and Visceral Collide

    I meet Diego Marcon at a Milanese café on an autumnal afternoon and remark that his work is blowing up in the US. Recently, he had his first American solo show at the Renaissance Society in Chicago and soon, he’ll have another at the New Museum in New York.He tells me he hasn’t spent much time in the US and that it has been interesting to learn about how his work was being received across the pond. In his first video TINPO (2006), a child wields a gun, light-heartedly terroriz
  • Felix LA Names 56 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition

    Felix LA has named the 56 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming eighth edition, scheduled to run February 26 to March 1, with a VIP preview on February 25. The art fair, which opens a day before Frieze Los Angeles, will once again return to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.The fair includes a mix of established galleries like Corbett vs. Dempsey, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Morán Morán, Nina Johnson, Parrasch Heijnen, and Yossi Milo alongside emerging enterprises like ATLA (
  • Felix LA Names 52 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition

    Felix LA has named the 52 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming eighth edition, scheduled to run February 26 to March 1, with a VIP preview on February 25. The art fair, which opens a day before Frieze Los Angeles, will once again return to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.The fair includes a mix of established galleries like Corbett vs. Dempsey, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Morán Morán, Nina Johnson, Parrasch Heijnen, and Yossi Milo alongside emerging enterprises like ATLA (
  • Tate Director Explains Departure, David Hockney Blasts Bayeux Tapestry Loan, Trump Eyeing Site for ‘Garden of American Heroes’: Morning Links for January 15, 2025

    To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINES HOCKNEY WEIGHS IN ON BAYEUX TAPESTRY LOAN. David Hockney has weighed in on plans to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to London this fall, calling the British Museum exhibition “madness” and warning that the fragile medieval embroidery could be irreparably harmed in transit. Writing in The Independent on January 14, the artist questioned the
  • ‘Bigger and lower’: bull in Dutch painting once had much larger testicles

    Experts at the Mauritshuis in The Hague believe Paulus Potter toned down The Bull to respect 17th-century sensibilitiesThe Bull by Paulus Potter is one of the star paintings at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, a bucolic image of animals and a farmer.But new research suggests the painting has unexpected hidden depths: conservators restoring the artwork say the bull’s testicles were originally much larger, and appeared to have been halved in size by the artist to respect 17th-century sensibilit
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  • Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars?

    Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creationsOne rainy afternoon last winter, sitting under a blanket with a cup of tea, I found myself Googling paintings by Chaïm Soutine. It’s a pastime I’ve indulged ever since visiting an exhibition of his portraits of hotel staff on the French Riviera during the 1920s – paintings that combine such a mixtu
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  • Churchill’s desk and rare artwork among items donated to UK cultural institutions

    Items worth £59.7m allocated to museums, galleries, libraries and archives as part of Arts Council England schemeWinston Churchill and Benjamin Disraeli’s desk, a painting by Vanessa Bell and a rare artwork by Edgar Degas are among the items of cultural importance saved for the nation this year.The items, worth a total of £59.7m, will be allocated to museums, galleries, libraries and archives around the UK as part of Art Council England’s cultural gifts and acceptance in
  • Smithsonian Hands Over More Materials on Programming, Operations to White House

    The Smithsonian Institution has turned over internal materials related to its programming and operations amid White House pressure for a review, according to private emails from Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch II obtained by The New York Times.After retaking office in January, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at purging what he described as “anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, the consortium of Washington, D.C., museums and archives that includes
  • Warhol Foundation to Give More Than $4 M. in Grants to 57 Arts Organizations

    The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York has announced the cohort for its Fall 2025 grant recipients, which give over $4 million to 57 arts organizations.The Warhol Foundation is known for its decades-long support of arts and culture organization, which comes in the support of program support over two years and exhibition support, as well as a curatorial research fellowship. For the two-year program support, grantees receive between $60,000 and $180,000 this year, while exhibit
  • Visitors to Rome Can Now Tour a Well-Preserved Underground Dwelling—Via Livestream

    In an effort to draw visitors to comparatively less-trafficked areas of Rome’s top tourist destination, the city is offering tours—via livestream—of an ancient Roman home that has not previously been open to the public. The House of the Griffins is located near the top of the Palatine Hill, an area adjacent to the Forum and the Colosseum; all three make up the Colosseum Archaeological Park.The House of the Griffins dates to the 2nd-1st century BCE and was discovered in the 19th
  • Mernet Larsen Details Her Painting on the Cover of Art in America

    Mernet Larsen, whose painting Getting Measured (1999) appears on the cover of the Winter 2025 issue of Art in America, is profiled in the magazine. From her home in Tampa, Florida, Larsen told A.i.A. the backstory of the canvas, shown here in full.This painting was really a turning point for me. I had been working quite abstractly, but I got this longing to make old-fashioned paintings of people and places and ordinary things. I felt jealous of Piero della Francesca. I’d done representati
  • A Collection of Oscar Wilde-Related Material Heads to Auction

    On February 18, Bonhams auction house in London will hold a sale of books, photographs, and ephemera related to the Irish writer Oscar Wilde’s life and work. The items come from the holdings of former antiques dealer and bibliophile Jeremy Mason, who has been collecting Oscar Wilde memorabilia for the last 60 years.An aesthete and dandy, Wilde was nearly as famous for his wit as for his writing, which includes poems, plays, and a single novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, published in 1890.
  • Christie’s London Offers a Belgian Couple’s $54 Million Collection, Led by Magritte and Moore

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  • Christie’s London Offers a Belgian Couple’s $54 M. Collection, Led by Magritte and Moore

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  • Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, Max Hollein’s Met Tips, and More: Industry Moves for January 14, 2025

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    Exclusive: Artist reminisces about his life in film using interviews recorded in last four years of his lifeFifteen years ago, Sir Ian McKellen was among the leading arts figures who criticised the Tate for not showing its collection of paintings by LS Lowry in its London galleries and questioned whether the “matchstick men painter” had been sidelined as too northern and provincial.Now, 50 years after Lowry’s death, McKellen is to star in a BBC documentary that will reveal a tr
  • William Koch’s Western Art Comes to Christie’s—Will It Get Rootin’-Tootin’ Results in an Uncertain Market?

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