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• Tristram Hunt, Director of V&A Museum, Gets Knighthood in King Charles’ 2026 New Year Honors List

  30-12-2025 22:26 via artnews.com
  Tristram Hunt, the director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, has been knighted by King Charles, landing a spot on the UK’s 2026 New Year Honors list. That means Hunt can now officially go by “Sir.”The former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central and ex–shadow education secretary was recognized for his “services to museums,” according to the UK government’s announcement. Hunt has led the V&A since 2017, where he’s overseen a run of ambiti
  
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• Palestinian Artists Speak Out, Stolen Shield Returns to View, and More: Morning Links for December 30, 2025

  30-12-2025 18:46 via artnews.com
  The HeadlinesEARLY BATH. The current Istanbul Biennial, titled “The Three-Legged Cat,” won’t continue on as planned following the resignation of its curator, Christine Tohmé. The news was announced by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), which organizes the event. The first phase of the biennial, which ran from September 20 to November 23, spanned eight venues and welcomed more than 600,000 visitors. The second phas
  
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• Istanbul Biennial Ends Early After Curator Resigns Due to ‘Personal Circumstances’

  30-12-2025 18:36 via artnews.com
  The current Istanbul Biennial, an ambitious three-part show that recently completed its opening exhibnition, will not stage its remaining programming because the biennial’s curator, Christine Tohmé, resigned. The exhibition “will conclude after its first leg following Tohmé’s decision to step down due to personal circumstances,” the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), a private foundation that manages the event, said in a statement.The biennial,
  
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• As the New Year Approaches, Your Industry Moves for December 30, 2025

  30-12-2025 18:04 via artnews.com
  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.Happy (almost) New Year! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry MovesFabienne Levy Announces Representation of Amit Berman: His work is currently featured in a group exhibition at the Haifa Museum of Art, on view until January 2026. In 2024, du
  
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• Amit Berman Joins Fabienne Levy Gallery, Kevin Umaña Joins the Pit, and More: Industry Moves for December 30, 2025

  30-12-2025 18:04 via artnews.com
  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.Happy (almost) New Year! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry MovesFabienne Levy Announces Representation of Amit Berman: His work is currently featured in a group exhibition at the Haifa Museum of Art, on view until January 2026. In 2024, du
  
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• Cecilia Giménez, Painter Behind Viral ‘Beast Jesus’ Restoration, Dies at 94

  30-12-2025 17:34 via artnews.com
  Cecilia Giménez Zueco, the amateur Spanish painter who butchered an attempt to restore a small-town fresco and became a global phenomenon because of it, has died at 94.Giménez, a lifelong resident of Borja in the province of Zaragoza, vaulted to unexpected international fame in 2012 after she tried to revive Ecce Homo, a 1930 devotional mural by Elías García Martínez. Her well-meaning but unsanctioned intervention transformed Christ’s face into what
  
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• Guy Wildenstein Resigns as Wildenstein & Co. President After 35-Year Tenure Marred by Tax Fraud Conviction

  30-12-2025 16:19 via artnews.com
  Guy Wildenstein has stepped down from the office of president at the internationally known gallery Wildenstein & Co. after some 35 years in the post. Wildenstein, 80, will be replaced by his son David, 46, who has been vice president in charge of the investment division and the real estate portfolio. His daughter Vanessa, who directs the London gallery, will be vice-president and director of the New York location. Wildenstein also headed the Wildenstein Institute, which partnered w
  
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• Art World Insiders Make Their New Year’s Predictions for 2026

  30-12-2025 16:19 via artnews.com
  2025 was a disorienting and destabilizing year, both in the art market and farther afield. But amid all the doom and gloom of gallery closures, tariff announcements, and Trump proclamations, there were hints of brighter days ahead. For every gallery that shut its doors, another opened, and this fall saw the art market seemingly spring to life after a dismaying first six months.2026, then, offers much to look forward to. Art Basel and Frieze will launch new fairs in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, respectiv
  
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• The Year in Latinx Art: At a Time When Art Seems Impossible, It Is Still Healing

  30-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  2025 has felt especially unrelenting. January brought devastating wildfires to Los Angeles, my hometown. Dozens of artists lost their homes and their work. Altadena, a creative hub of Black creativity for decades and, more recently, a home to many artists, was hit particularly hard. The third Monday of January brought something much worse and more insidious: the start of the second Trump administration, which has targeted both 
  
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