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• British Museum’s Longterm Loans Program Doesn’t Remediate Colonial Looting

  24-12-2025 17:15 via hyperallergic.com
  Long-term loans are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities. Instead, they reinforce a museum’s claim of ownership over objects it has no moral (and often legal) right to possess. – Hyperallergic
  
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• A Sonic Sculpture Played by Charli XCX Is the Year’s Breakout Instrument

  31-12-2025 19:43 via artnews.com
  The official trailer for The Moment, the new A24 movie starring Charli XCX during a satirical version of her Brat era, dropped earlier this month, renewing interest in the musician’s cinematic breakout in 100 Nights Of Hero, a farcical fairy tale released at the latest Venice International Film Festival. In that film, the star plays a striking instrument that may have caught the eye of fans of sound art: a sculptural harp by the artist Amanda Camenisch. The London-based photographer,
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright, Under the Sway of Solomon Guggenheim’s Curator, Applied Leeches and Had All His Teeth Pulled

  31-12-2025 19:13 via artnews.com
  Sometimes, we find out that our aesthetic heroes had dramatic moral failings—or just deeply strange quirks. In the latter category, we can place the fact that Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the twentieth century’s most revered architects, went in for outdated and downright bizarre medical treatments. Also surprising, he got some of his ideas from the artist and curator who commissioned him to build New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Hilla Rebay commissioned Wright to des
  
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• Lost Spanish Colonial Mission on Texas Frontier Is Rediscovered

  31-12-2025 17:51 via artnews.com
  The long-lost mission of Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo, one of the earliest outposts of Europe’s colonial frontier in Texas, has been rediscovered.An archaeology team from Texas Tech University, in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archaeologists, found the site in Jackson County, Texas, on a private ranch near the Presidio la Bahía and Fort St. Louis. The mission was established in the 1680s by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a French
  
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• Norman Rockwell Was ‘Antifa,’ Says the Artist’s Granddaughter

  31-12-2025 16:57 via artnews.com
  Norman Rockwell’s art, with its quaint visions of small-town America, is today widely considered to be a force of conservatism, a call for things to remain the same even as everything changes. But according to the artist’s granddaughter, everyone has his art all wrong.“Norman Rockwell was antifa,” Daisy Rockwell told the Bulwark this week, for an article called “The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell.”That headline is a reference to the Department of Homeland Sec
  
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• The Top 10 ARTnews Stories of 2025

  31-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  In 2025, ARTnews published over 2,500 stories. Below is a look back at the 10 most-read stories from 2025, as selected by our audience.For end-of-year coverage, we’ve also got lists of the year’s defining art events and artworks, the best exhibitions in New York as well as roundups of under-recognized artists who got their due and assessments of the year’s major news stories, from the explosion in art heists to the rise of digital folk art.Thank yo
  
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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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• Newly Unearthed Solar Temple in Egypt Reveals One of the Earliest Public Religious Calendars

  29-12-2025 22:33 via artnews.com
  Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a 4,500-year-old valley temple belonging to a sprawling solar complex built by Pharaoh Nyuserra, ruler of the 5th Dynasty. Announced earlier this month by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the find offers a rare glimpse into the architecture and ritual life of a period defined by the ascendency of the cult of the sun god Ra.Archaeologists from the University of Turin collaborated with the University of Naples L’Orie
  
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• Angelina Jolie’s New York Studio Space Runs Into a Legal Challenge

  29-12-2025 19:50 via artnews.com
  When actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie took over a Manhattan studio building in 2023 with a plan to offer clothes shopping, Turkish coffee, and Syrian mini pies, and workshops for under-represented tailors and artisans from around the world, part of the cachet was that 57 Great Jones Street, now called Atelier Jolie, had once been occupied by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. But now it turns out the brand name for the operation was also previously taken, by artists and artisans who ar
  
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• Imperial War Museum Criticized for Closing Victoria Cross Gallery Amid Launch of LGBTQ+ Tour

  29-12-2025 18:43 via artnews.com
  The Imperial War Museum (IWM) is facing criticism from Lord Ashcroft after the institution closed its long-running gallery of Victoria Cross medals and launched a new virtual tour focused on LGBTQ+ histories.The upper floor of the museum previously housed what was described as the world’s largest collection of Victoria Crosses—more than 200 medals owned by Ashcroft and loaned to the institution for 15 years. The gallery, opened in 2010 after a £5 million donation from the Tory
  
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  29-12-2025 17:25 via zouchmagazine.com
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• Cinema Icon Brigitte Bardot Dies, Olfactory Art Shines in Germany, Controversy at Imperial War Museum, and More: Morning Links for December 29, 2026

  29-12-2025 16:53 via artnews.com
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The Headlines STITCHED UP. UK ministers will underwrite up to £800 million ($1 billion) of potential damage to the Bayeux Tapestry during its loan to the British Museum next year, making the British taxpayer the ultimate guarantor, the Financial Times reported. The indemnity values the 230-foot-long, nearly 1,000-year-
  
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• Bawdy Beryl, slick Seurat, titanic Tracey and the glory of Gaudí: the best art shows and architecture in 2026

  29-12-2025 15:00
  Must-sees include Beryl Cook’s postwar brilliance, Tracey Emin’s new highs, Frida Kahlo’s confessions – plus Google’s HQ and Gaudí’s finally finished fever dream Continue reading...
  
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• British Taxpayers to Underwrite $1 Billion Loan to Cover Bayeux Tapestry in the UK

  29-12-2025 13:35 via artnews.com
  France’s Bayeux Tapestry is set to be covered by a UK Treasury guarantee of around £800 million ($1 billion) when it goes on loan to the British Museum in 2026.That means British taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill to protect the 230-foot-long tapestry against damage or loss during its journey from France to the UK. It’s part of the UK government’s indemnity scheme, which acts as the insurer instead of paying for commercial insurance. However, nothing will be paid upf
  
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• British Taxpayers to Underwrite $1 B. Loan to Cover Bayeux Tapestry in the UK

  29-12-2025 13:35 via artnews.com
  France’s Bayeux Tapestry is set to be covered by a UK Treasury guarantee of around £800 million ($1 billion) when it goes on loan to the British Museum in 2026.That means British taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill to protect the 230-foot-long tapestry against damage or loss during its journey from France to the UK. It’s part of the UK government’s indemnity scheme, which acts as the insurer instead of paying for commercial insurance. However, nothing will be paid upf
  
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  29-12-2025 12:31 via zouchmagazine.com
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• In 2025, Censorship and Firings Defined a Fractured Art World

  29-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  In its 2024 Year-in-Review, ARTnews noted a widening schism in the art world, defined by a moral fault: the continued support of Israel amid the destruction of Gaza. A year later—and more than three years into what a UN commission of inquiry determined this fall to be a genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip—artists, critics, museums, gallerists, and audiences remain divided over what has become the ethical litmus test of our lifetimes. This year, that divide has shaped not
  
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• How Mothers Became A Preeminent Figure of Our Times

  29-12-2025 11:00 via artnews.com
  Care: It is priceless, often uncompensated, and more necessary to the continuation of human civilization as we know it than fossil fuels. It is the thing that gets us out of infancy when we cannot lift our own heads and the thing that helps us through the agonizing transition of death. In between, it preserves us, heals us, educates us, clears away our refuse, laughs at our jokes, and permits us to have options and make change. If you think you don’t need care, think again. Chances are, so
  
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• Don’t Blame Netflix For The End Of Cinema

  28-12-2025 22:00 via archive.ph
  If you must blame anyone, blame the Boomers, and Gen-X. “One lesson of 2025 may be that only younger people – children in particular – can save cinemas from imminent annihilation.” – Irish Times
  
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• Gary Graffman, Child Piano Prodigy Turned Renowned Teacher And Administrator, Has Died At 97

  28-12-2025 21:30 via nytimes.com
  “In 1964 Mr. Graffman canceled a booking in Jackson, Miss., after learning that the house would be segregated, leading other prominent classical artists to publicly announce that they would no longer perform in segregated halls.” – The New York Times
  
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• See Roofman, Or At Least Read Slate’s Movie Club About Everything In Film This Year

  28-12-2025 21:00 via slate.com
  Choosing only one post from these annual critic chats is a challenge, but this 10th in the series features the weirdly, deeply American Roofman (though for the sake of improving both brain and watchlist, read through the entire discussion). – Slate
  
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• Apparently, One Can Insure The Bayeux Tapestry

  28-12-2025 20:30 via theguardian.com
  Does £800 million seem like enough? Hm. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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