<?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-us/news/arts/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/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-us</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:53:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Kehnide Wiley Responds to the Trump Administration’s Removal of His Painting With an ‘Aesthetically Terrifying’ T-shirt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kehnide Wiley&rsquo;s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) &ldquo;aesthetically terrifying&rdquo; last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times.In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehnide-wiley-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-removal-of-his-painting-with-an-aesthetically-terrifyingt-shirt/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehnide-wiley-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-removal-of-his-painting-with-an-aesthetically-terrifyingt-shirt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kehinde Wiley Responds to the Trump Administration’s Removal of His Painting With an ‘Aesthetically Terrifying’ T-shirt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kehinde Wiley&rsquo;s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) &ldquo;aesthetically terrifying&rdquo; last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times.In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehinde-wiley-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-removal-of-his-painting-with-an-aesthetically-terrifyingt-shirt/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehinde-wiley-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-removal-of-his-painting-with-an-aesthetically-terrifyingt-shirt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexión Look at the Rise of Latinx Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[This spring, El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexi&oacute;n hosted &ldquo;The Rise of the U.S. Latino Art Market: Lessons from Latin America,&rdquo; a half-day symposium in El Museo&rsquo;s iconic Teatro space.The event brought together artists, curators, museum directors, market insiders, and more to discuss the most pressing issues facing Latinx art in the art world and how to continue to grow its infrastructure. (ARTnews served as the media sponsor.)The idea for the event was dreamed up by Asp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/el-museo-del-barrio-and-aspen-conexin-look-at-the-rise-of-latinxart/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/el-museo-del-barrio-and-aspen-conexin-look-at-the-rise-of-latinxart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam Lindemann Sued by Nature Preserve for Allegedly Installing Julian Schnabel Sculpture Without Permission]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission.Filed on August 20 in New York&rsquo;s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York&rsquo;s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve.Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island&rsquo;s Nassau an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adam-lindemann-sued-by-nature-preserve-for-allegedly-installing-julian-schnabel-sculpture-withoutpermission/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adam-lindemann-sued-by-nature-preserve-for-allegedly-installing-julian-schnabel-sculpture-withoutpermission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam Lindemann Sued by Nature Conservancy for Allegedly Installing Julian Schnabel Sculpture Without Permission]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission.Filed on August 20 in New York&rsquo;s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York&rsquo;s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve.Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island&rsquo;s Nassau an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adam-lindemann-sued-by-nature-conservancy-for-allegedly-installing-julian-schnabel-sculpture-withoutpermission/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adam-lindemann-sued-by-nature-conservancy-for-allegedly-installing-julian-schnabel-sculpture-withoutpermission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Incisive Exhibition in Buffalo Defies Expectations of What Latinx Painting Should Look Like ]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a painting at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum that I still can&rsquo;t get out of my head, six months after I saw it. It only measures 40 by 30 inches, and I missed it on my first walk through the gallery. Made by Los Angeles&ndash;based artist Karla Diaz in thinned-out acrylic paint, it shows two Latino men, both with mustaches, one carrying the other on his shoulders. The painting&rsquo;s joyful casualness belies its subject matter, clues to which can be found in the coyote on one of the m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-incisive-exhibition-in-buffalo-defies-expectations-of-what-latinx-painting-should-looklike/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-incisive-exhibition-in-buffalo-defies-expectations-of-what-latinx-painting-should-looklike/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prolific Mexican Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina Will Organize 2027 Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cuauht&eacute;moc Medina, a Mexico City&ndash;based curator and art historian who has organized exhibitions around the world, has been appointed curator of the Bienal de Arte Paiz.	The biennial takes place in Guatemala City and Antigua, about 25 miles west of the capital. It is organized by the Fundaci&oacute;n Paiz para la Educaci&oacute;n y la Cultura, a family foundation that initially awarded education scholarships and supported soup kitchens. The foundation launched the biennial in 1978; Me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prolific-mexican-curator-cuauhtmoc-medina-will-organize-2027-bienal-de-arte-paiz-inguatemala/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prolific-mexican-curator-cuauhtmoc-medina-will-organize-2027-bienal-de-arte-paiz-inguatemala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Its 60th Anniversary, Anderson Ranch Balances Growth and Authenticity]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, a five-acre complex of studios and artist housing in Snowmass, Colorado, that offers workshops and residencies, is often called a maker&rsquo;s paradise. You understand that moniker upon arrival: Once you get over the 8,000-foot elevation, you feel energized, breathe in the crisp air, behold your bucolic surroundings&mdash;mountains dotted with the watching eyes of aspens&mdash;and want to revel in making something, even something as banal as your morning coffee.W]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-its-60th-anniversary-anderson-ranch-balances-growth-andauthenticity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-its-60th-anniversary-anderson-ranch-balances-growth-andauthenticity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Reveals Recent Acquisitions, Including Works by Adam Pendleton and Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has announced a group of recent acquisitions across all ten of its curatorial departments. In the past year, the MFA reports, it has purchased 808 works of art and received 2,506 gifts from more than 50 donors, including the donation of 1,989 photographs by the Joy of Giving Something, Inc.Comprising both contemporary and historical artworks, new additions to the museum&rsquo;s holdings range from a 2025 wall relief by Vietnamese-born artist Tuan Andrew Ng]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-reveals-recent-acquisitions-including-works-by-adam-pendleton-and-jaune-quick-to-see-smith/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-reveals-recent-acquisitions-including-works-by-adam-pendleton-and-jaune-quick-to-see-smith/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New James Turrell Work Debuts at Superblue in Miami]]></title><description><![CDATA[Superblue Miami, an immersive art hub in the city&rsquo;s Allapattah neighborhood, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an installation by Light and Space artist&nbsp;James Turrell, Artnet News reports. The piece, titled&nbsp;Blue Sea Sky&nbsp;(2026), marks the artist&rsquo;s latest installment in his renowned &ldquo;Ganzfeld&rdquo;&nbsp;series (1976&ndash;).For the last five decades, Turrell has been making works inspired by the ganzfeld effect (German for &ldquo;complete field&rdquo;)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-james-turrell-work-debuts-at-superblue-inmiami/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-james-turrell-work-debuts-at-superblue-inmiami/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Leon Black Sues House Oversight Committee over Jeffrey Epstein Investigation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leon Black, a billionaire investor who counts among the world&rsquo;s top art collectors, has sued the House Oversight Committee, alleging that its subpoenas to testify in its investigation into the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were &ldquo;invalid.&rdquo;Epstein&rsquo;s friendship with Black has been well-documented. Black, who has repeatedly appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, provided Epstein with financial guidance while he was still CEO of Apollo Global Management, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-leon-black-sues-house-oversight-committee-over-jeffrey-epsteininvestigation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-leon-black-sues-house-oversight-committee-over-jeffrey-epsteininvestigation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argentina Ordered to Return Nazi-Looted Painting That Showed Up in a Real Estate Listing]]></title><description><![CDATA[An 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis, which turned up eight decades later in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina owned by descendants of a financier to the SS, must be returned to the heirs of the rightful owner, reports France24.Attorneys, investigators, and heirs of collectors who had their art looted by the Nazis, or left it behind under duress, often spend decades trying to track down the artworks. So a public real estate listing might seem like the unlikeliest place to fin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/argentina-ordered-to-return-nazi-looted-painting-that-showed-up-in-a-real-estatelisting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/argentina-ordered-to-return-nazi-looted-painting-that-showed-up-in-a-real-estatelisting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Groundbreaking Work for Trump’s Proposed Triumphal Arch to Start in Two Weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[United States President Donald Trump has big plans for his Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC, with excavation work for the proposed monument slated to start over the next two weeks, according to secretary of interior Doug Burgum.In a post on X, Burgum wrote that &ldquo;after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/groundbreaking-work-for-trumps-proposed-triumphal-arch-to-start-in-twoweeks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/groundbreaking-work-for-trumps-proposed-triumphal-arch-to-start-in-twoweeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center’s Removal of Joel Shapiro Sculpture Raises Concern Among Artists: ‘I’m Crushed’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The removal of a monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has generated concern among artists who have shown there.Workers began to disassemble the Shapiro work, titled Blue, on Tuesday; the Kennedy Center has not stated a rationale for why the 24-foot-tall sculpture of a stick-figure-like person was taken away. But the New York Times reported that internal documents suggested that the work, which Shapiro gave to the Kennedy Cent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-centers-removal-of-joel-shapiro-sculpture-raises-concern-among-artists-im-crushed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-centers-removal-of-joel-shapiro-sculpture-raises-concern-among-artists-im-crushed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Thrilling Barbara Hammer Documentary Puts the ‘Body’ in ‘Body of Work’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Of all the retrospectives and surveys I&rsquo;ve seen, most have stimulated my eyes and my mind; a few have even involved using my ears. (There&rsquo;s a reason what&rsquo;s presented in museums is often called &ldquo;visual art,&rdquo; after all.) But the Leslie-Lohman Museum&rsquo;s 2018 Barbara Hammer retrospective remains a standout because it demanded more of my body than a typical exhibition.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&rsquo;m thinking of Hammer&rsquo;s 1982 film Pond and Waterfall, which mostly depicts]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-thrilling-barbara-hammer-documentary-puts-the-body-in-body-ofwork/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-thrilling-barbara-hammer-documentary-puts-the-body-in-body-ofwork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxurious Bath Complex Used by Roman Emperor Found in Serbia]]></title><description><![CDATA[An archaeological dig in Serbia turned up remnants of a uniquely constructed bathing complex thought to have been used by a Roman emperor.As reported by Live Science, &ldquo;The suite of rooms&mdash;which included heated floors, three bathing pools, and a sauna&mdash;was uncovered at the bottom of a tower within an imperial palace, a design archaeologists had never seen before in the Roman Empire.&rdquo;The bathing station was discovered at the archaeological site of Vrelo-&Scaron;arkamen, a fou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/luxurious-bath-complex-used-by-roman-emperor-found-inserbia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/luxurious-bath-complex-used-by-roman-emperor-found-inserbia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eastman Johnson Paintings Stolen in NYC in 1978 Are Recovered in Connecticut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two stolen paintings by American artist Eastman Johnson (1824&ndash;1906) have been recovered in Connecticut. Milford auction house Shannon&rsquo;s Fine Art Auctioneers, which helped recover the works, announced the news on its website.The paintings, Mary and Her Lamb (1877) and The Young Mother (ca. 1872&ndash;73), were stolen from New York galleries Kenneth Lux Gallery and Hirschl &amp; Adler Galleries, respectively, in 1978. Their whereabouts remained unknown for almost 50 years, until they w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eastman-johnson-paintings-stolen-in-nyc-in-1978-are-recovered-inconnecticut/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eastman-johnson-paintings-stolen-in-nyc-in-1978-are-recovered-inconnecticut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eastman Johnson Paintings Stolen in New York in 1978 Are Recovered in Connecticut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two stolen paintings by American artist Eastman Johnson (1824&ndash;1906) have been recovered in Connecticut. Milford auction house Shannon&rsquo;s Fine Art Auctioneers, which helped recover the works, announced the news on its website.The paintings, Mary and Her Lamb (1877) and The Young Mother (ca. 1872&ndash;73), were stolen from New York galleries Kenneth Lux Gallery and Hirschl &amp; Adler Galleries, respectively, in 1978. Their whereabouts remained unknown for almost 50 years, until they w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eastman-johnson-paintings-stolen-in-new-york-in-1978-are-recovered-inconnecticut/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eastman-johnson-paintings-stolen-in-new-york-in-1978-are-recovered-inconnecticut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Hockney’s Serpentine Exhibition Broke Gallery Attendance Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[The David Hockney exhibition &ldquo;A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting,&rdquo; on view at Serpentine North in London from March 12 through August 23, broke the gallery&rsquo;s prior attendance records with around 300,000 visitors. This marks the best attended exhibition at the Serpentine in its 56-year history.The exhibition ran earlier this year with free admission and marked the artist&rsquo;s first presentation at the Serpentine; accompanying the exhibition is a large-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-hockneys-serpentine-exhibition-broke-gallery-attendancerecords/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-hockneys-serpentine-exhibition-broke-gallery-attendancerecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphal Arch Construction to Start Without Approval, Heatwaves Come at Hefty Cost to French Museums, and More: Morning Links for September 4, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Trump is proceeding with the construction of his triumphal arch despite lacking federal approval.Record heatwaves in France cost national monuments and museums hundreds of thousands of dollars.&nbsp;Germany&rsquo;s arts sector is closely watching whether the far-right gains ground during this weekend&rsquo;s regional elections, after threats to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/triumphal-arch-construction-to-start-without-approval-heatwaves-come-at-hefty-cost-to-french-museums-and-more-morning-links-for-september42026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/triumphal-arch-construction-to-start-without-approval-heatwaves-come-at-hefty-cost-to-french-museums-and-more-morning-links-for-september42026/</guid></item></channel></rss>