<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Arts - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Arts news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay,&nbsp;Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of &ldquo;Amazon-style&rdquo; working conditions at the newly opened V&amp;A East Storehouse.The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&amp;A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union&rsquo;s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&amp;A pree]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-paynbspconditions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-paynbspconditions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melting Ron DeSantis Statue Makes a Point About Climate Change in Florida]]></title><description><![CDATA[Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis&rsquo;s favorite activities since he took office is pooh-poohing climate change initiatives while, almost surreptitiously, working to conserve swathes of the state he represents. Now, a group of environmental activists has found a way to make him sweat.A life-size statue of the Republican governor was unveiled in Tallahassee last week, only to begin melting in the Florida sunshine. As DeSantis&rsquo;s silver-colored face slowly slipped away, a dastardly-lookin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/melting-ron-desantis-statue-makes-a-point-about-climate-change-inflorida/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/melting-ron-desantis-statue-makes-a-point-about-climate-change-inflorida/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists John Akomfrah, Ben Rivers, and Dozens Others Defend Sally Rooney in Open Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the publisher Faber &amp; Faber announced that it was pulling the books of Sally Rooney from UK shops due to the Irish novelist&rsquo;s support for Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group designated as a terrorist organization by the UK government. Now, dozens of artists and writers have signed an open letter that appeared in the New Statesman on Wednesday in protest of the UK government&rsquo;s policy.Among the signatories are artists John Akomfrah and Ben Rivers, art hist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/artists-john-akomfrah-ben-rivers-and-dozens-others-defend-sally-rooney-in-openletter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/artists-john-akomfrah-ben-rivers-and-dozens-others-defend-sally-rooney-in-openletter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Korea Director Offers to Resign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story was updated on October 21, 2026, with additional information.The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has tendered his resignation after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by the South Korean English language newspaper Korea Herald.The work in question was presented in the show &ldquo;The Korean Table: Food, Nature, and Life&rdquo; (on view through October 25) as a piec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-offers-toresign/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-offers-toresign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel Becomes Lead Sponsor of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum in Expanded Three-Year Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chanel is deepening its relationship with Hong Kong&rsquo;s M+ museum, signing on as its lead partner for the next three years and expanding its support beyond film to exhibitions, artist programs, and other projects.The French luxury house has backed M+, the contemporary visual culture museum in Hong Kong&rsquo;s West Kowloon Cultural District, since 2023. The partnership has until now mostly focused on experimental cinema, film restoration, and building the museum&rsquo;s moving-image collecti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/chanel-becomes-lead-sponsor-of-hong-kongs-m-museum-in-expanded-three-yeardeal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/chanel-becomes-lead-sponsor-of-hong-kongs-m-museum-in-expanded-three-yeardeal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Works at Art Basel Paris’s Public Program, From a Crowd of TV Screens to a Flock of Plush Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, visitors to the fifth edition of Art Basel Paris had the chance to preview its &ldquo;Hors les murs&rdquo; program, which spreads monumental artworks across nine exceptional cultural and heritage sites in the French capital. Among the highlights are works by Niki de Saint Phalle and Alicja Kwade, displayed along Avenue Winston Churchill, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais.Yet these encounters also serve as reminders of what the program has lost. Kwade and Saint Phalle were]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/the-best-works-at-art-basel-pariss-public-program-from-a-crowd-of-tv-screens-to-a-flock-of-plushanimals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/the-best-works-at-art-basel-pariss-public-program-from-a-crowd-of-tv-screens-to-a-flock-of-plushanimals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center to Launch Native Artist Residency with Walker Youngbird Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Walker Youngbird Foundation will jointly launch a new residency program for Native artists beginning next spring.Called the Walker Youngbird Native Artist Residency, the initiative will bring a Native artist to FAWC for four weeks (May 23&ndash;June 19). The Walker Youngbird Foundation will provide $10,000 for the inaugural year, $2,500 of which will go to the artist as a stipend. The chosen artist will also receive a priva]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/provincetowns-fine-arts-work-center-to-launch-native-artist-residency-with-walker-youngbirdfoundation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/provincetowns-fine-arts-work-center-to-launch-native-artist-residency-with-walker-youngbirdfoundation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NFL COLOR FIELD Program to Debut With Jammie Holmes Artwork Before First Football Game in France]]></title><description><![CDATA[In advance of its first-ever regular season game in Paris on Sunday, the National Football League announced NFL Color Field&mdash;&ldquo;a new platform that brings football and visual arts together through large-scale installations, original programming and immersive cultural experiences,&rdquo; as a press release describes it.Over the coming weekend, a painting by Jammie Holmes will figure in hand-painted end zones created for a flag-football field that will be set up beneath the Eiffel Tower a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/nfl-color-field-program-to-debut-with-jammie-holmes-artwork-before-first-football-game-infrance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/nfl-color-field-program-to-debut-with-jammie-holmes-artwork-before-first-football-game-infrance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eli in Paris: The Fondation Louis Vuitton Will Mount a Giant Show of the Broad Collection Next Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major Paris art institution will host a significant Los Angeles collection next year. &ldquo;The Broad in Paris&rdquo; (April 21&ndash;August 30, 2027), at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, will be the largest display of works from the Broad collection ever mounted outside its home city, with some 164 works making the transatlantic voyage. The show will happen while the Broad is closed for renovation; it will reopen in 2028 with 70 percent more gallery space.&ldquo;The Broad in Paris&rdquo; will fe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/eli-in-paris-the-fondation-louis-vuitton-will-mount-a-giant-show-of-the-broad-collection-nextyear/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/eli-in-paris-the-fondation-louis-vuitton-will-mount-a-giant-show-of-the-broad-collection-nextyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Koons Talks AI, a $100 M. Modigliani in Paris, and More: Industry Moves for October 21, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;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 Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Vielmetter Los Angeles Takes On Painter Patrick Eug&egrave;ne: The Brooklyn-born, Atlanta-based artist, whose figurative work draws on his Haitian heritage, will debut with the gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach in December ahead of a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/jeff-koons-talks-ai-a-100-m-modigliani-in-paris-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-212026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/jeff-koons-talks-ai-a-100-m-modigliani-in-paris-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-212026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s National Gallery to Exhibit 40 Works, From Rembrandt to René Magritte]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Ren&eacute; Magritte, Lucian Freud, and John Constable are coming together next year at the National Gallery in London, as part of an exhibition titled &ldquo;Collected.&rdquo;The works have been acquired through two programs: the Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes, organized by the Arts Council England on behalf of the UK government. The first is an initiative that allows an inheritance tax bill to be replaced by transferring important or pre-eminent cultur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/londons-national-gallery-to-exhibit-40-works-from-rembrandt-to-renmagritte/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/londons-national-gallery-to-exhibit-40-works-from-rembrandt-to-renmagritte/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youthful Edward Hopper Oil Paintings Revealed to Be Copies of Other Artists’ Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[An excerpt from Louis Shadwick&rsquo;s new Edward Hopper biography, published in the Art Newspaper Tuesday, reveals that all six of the artist&rsquo;s early oil paintings are in fact copies of other artists&rsquo; works, rather than Hopper&rsquo;s own original compositions. Hopper made the paintings in a studio in his family&rsquo;s home in Nyack, New York, when he was a teenager, before attending art school in New York City.The works were discovered in the attic of Hopper&rsquo;s childhood home]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/youthful-edward-hopper-oil-paintings-revealed-to-be-copies-of-other-artistswork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/youthful-edward-hopper-oil-paintings-revealed-to-be-copies-of-other-artistswork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basquiat’s Long-Unseen Riff on Leonardo da Vinci To Lead Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale With $30 M. Estimate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The re-emergence of a long-unseen Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece is a miracle the art market occasionally performs. Christie&rsquo;s announced Tuesday that one will appear at its 21st Century Evening Sale this fall.Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads) will make its first public appearance in more than two decades when it leads Christie&rsquo;s 21st Century Evening Sale in New York on November 19, having surfaced from a &ldquo;distinguished&rdquo; private European collection. The es]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/basquiats-long-unseen-riff-on-leonardo-da-vinci-to-lead-christies-21st-century-evening-sale-with-30-mestimate/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/basquiats-long-unseen-riff-on-leonardo-da-vinci-to-lead-christies-21st-century-evening-sale-with-30-mestimate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Düsseldorf Galleries Sign Open Letter Against Far-Right Political Party’s Attempts to ‘Co-Opt’ Joseph Beuys]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 30 galleries based in D&uuml;sseldorf, Germany, signed an open letter last week that called out the far-right Alternativ f&uuml;r Deutschland (AfD) party for its attempts to &ldquo;instrumentalize D&uuml;sseldorf&rsquo;s art and cultural history to serve a political narrative that promotes social exclusion.&rdquo;Published on October 15 and initiated by Daniela Horn, the founder of Van Horn gallery, the letter centers around an event that was initially set to be staged at the city&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/dsseldorf-galleries-sign-open-letter-against-far-right-political-partys-attempts-to-co-opt-josephbeuys/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/dsseldorf-galleries-sign-open-letter-against-far-right-political-partys-attempts-to-co-opt-josephbeuys/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theaster Gates Returned a David Drake Jar to His Descendants—It’s Now on View at a Virginia HBCU]]></title><description><![CDATA[In May, Theaster Gates set a precedent for restitution by transferring ownership of a stoneware vessel by David Drake, an enslaved ceramist widely known as &ldquo;Dave the Potter,&rdquo; to his descendants. The family estimates that some 200 of Drake&rsquo;s surviving works remain in the possession of museums and collectors, though a growing number of institutions are agreeing to its request: return Drake&rsquo;s work to his family, and we&rsquo;ll keep it on view and accessible to the public.Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/theaster-gates-returned-a-david-drake-jar-to-his-descendantsits-now-on-view-at-a-virginiahbcu/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/theaster-gates-returned-a-david-drake-jar-to-his-descendantsits-now-on-view-at-a-virginiahbcu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental Group Unveils Melting Statue of Florida Gov., New Beatles Museum Announced for Liverpool, V&amp;A Unionized Staff to Strike Again, and More: Morning Links for October 21,&nbsp;2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
An environmental group has unveiled a life-size melting statue of Florida governor Ron DeSantis.Liverpool announces Beatles projects for the city, including a 100,000-square-foot museum.The Victoria &amp; Albert Museum&rsquo;s unionized staff plans to strike across all four London sites.The Headlines	MELTING AWAY. A statue of Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been unveiled in Tal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/environmental-group-unveils-melting-statue-of-florida-gov-new-beatles-museum-announced-for-liverpool-vampa-unionized-staff-to-strike-again-and-more-morning-links-for-october-21nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/environmental-group-unveils-melting-statue-of-florida-gov-new-beatles-museum-announced-for-liverpool-vampa-unionized-staff-to-strike-again-and-more-morning-links-for-october-21nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do memorials belong in train stations?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The meaning of statues like the Kindertransport one risks being lost when the world is rushing past]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/do-memorials-belong-in-train-stations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/do-memorials-belong-in-train-stations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can AI Help Identify the Sitters in Historical Portraits?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can AI help identify the sitters in historical portraits? This is the question pondered by an interdisciplinary project as well as an exhibition that opened this month at Geneva&rsquo;s Mus&eacute;e d&rsquo;art et d&rsquo;histoire (MAH), showcasing a dozen 1762 chalk drawings of the family of Austria&rsquo;s Empress Maria Theresa by the 18th-century artist Jean-&Eacute;tienne Liotard.Twenty years ago, when Catriona Seth was preparing to publish a book about Marie-Antoinette, she chose a beloved]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/can-ai-help-identify-the-sitters-in-historicalportraits/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/can-ai-help-identify-the-sitters-in-historicalportraits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rosana Paulino’s Pantheon of Black Plant Goddesses Arrives in Paris]]></title><description><![CDATA[The growing visibility of Rosana Paulino&rsquo;s work reaches a new chapter with the opening this week of her first solo exhibition in Paris, at Mendes Wood DM&rsquo;s outpost in the French capital.Titled &ldquo;Bloom in the Sunlight, Dream in the Moonlight,&rdquo; the exhibition introduces new plant goddesses into the Afro-botanical pantheon Paulino has been building since 2019 as part of her ongoing series &ldquo;Senhora das Plantas&rdquo; (Lady of the Plants), which elevates Black women to th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/rosana-paulinos-pantheon-of-black-plant-goddesses-arrives-inparis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/rosana-paulinos-pantheon-of-black-plant-goddesses-arrives-inparis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey Kennedy Center, I want my art back!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning,Computer analysis of Edward III, published anonymously in 1596, assigns 23 segments to Shakespeare and nine to Christopher Marlowe, the first serious case that the two rivals wrote a play together (The Guardian).Missy Mazzoli&rsquo;s Lincoln in the Bardo opens at the Met this week; no opera won a Pulitzer or reached the finals between 1962 and 2000, so this one&rsquo;s a milestone (SF Classical Voice). The Met also commissioned The Mothers of Kherson, an opera about Russia&rsquo;s w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/hey-kennedy-center-i-want-my-art-back/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/arts/hey-kennedy-center-i-want-my-art-back/</guid></item></channel></rss>