<?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/1000/" /><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>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[“To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-see-like-a-dog-in-a-work-of-art-is-to-have-moral-perceptions-about-human-beings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-see-like-a-dog-in-a-work-of-art-is-to-have-moral-perceptions-about-human-beings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of anti-woke intellectuals. The first type criticizes ideas; the second is consumed by them]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are two types of anti-woke intellectuals. The first type criticizes ideas; the second is consumed by them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-are-two-types-of-anti-woke-intellectuals-the-first-type-criticizes-ideas-the-second-is-consumed-by-them/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-are-two-types-of-anti-woke-intellectuals-the-first-type-criticizes-ideas-the-second-is-consumed-by-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, " as well as a lot of promising"]]></title><description><![CDATA["AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, " as well as a lot of promising"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ais-like-talking-about-sweetness-loudness-quiet-age-and-beauty-there-is-a-lot-of-insisting-says-malin-hay-as-well-as-a-lot-of-promising/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ais-like-talking-about-sweetness-loudness-quiet-age-and-beauty-there-is-a-lot-of-insisting-says-malin-hay-as-well-as-a-lot-of-promising/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump To Divert $90 M. in National Park Revenue to D.C. Construction Projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has diverted at least $90 million in entry fees collected at national parks, including Yellowstone and Yosemite, to projects in Washington, D.C., according to National Park Service documents reviewed by the Washington Post. The funds have reportedly been earmarked for a range of projects tied to the 250th anniversary of America&rsquo;s independence, including a $1.6 million fireworks display&mdash;over five times the event&rsquo;s standard budget&mdash;and a $76 million]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-to-divert-90-m-in-national-park-revenue-to-dc-constructionprojects/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-to-divert-90-m-in-national-park-revenue-to-dc-constructionprojects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New School Lays Off 15 Percent of Staff and Faculty As It Attemps to Plug $48 M. Deficit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to around 15 percent of its employees.The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, affect 19 full-time faculty members, 10 of whom were tenured, with dozens more taking the early retirement or buyout offers. As part of the restructuring, the school will go from four coll]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-school-lays-off-15-percent-of-staff-and-faculty-as-it-attemps-to-plug-48-mdeficit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-school-lays-off-15-percent-of-staff-and-faculty-as-it-attemps-to-plug-48-mdeficit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New French Study Says It Is Safe to Ship the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry will head to the UK in July to go on display at the British Museum. A new report, presented by the French Culture Ministry on Wednesday, expresses confidence that the fragile piece will not be threatened by the move, reports Le Monde.Dating to the 11th century, the artwork, which is designated in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as a &ldquo;unique work,&rdquo; depicts the triumph of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. A 2021 assessmen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-french-study-says-it-is-safe-to-ship-the-bayeux-tapestry-to-the-britishmuseum/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-french-study-says-it-is-safe-to-ship-the-bayeux-tapestry-to-the-britishmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pope Will Inaugurate Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família After 144 Years of Construction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Later this month, Pope Leo XIV will visit Barcelona&rsquo;s famed Sagrada Familia to inaugurate and bless the Tower of Jesus Christ, the final tower of the long-gestating church. The tower was completed in February, wrapping up 144 years of construction on the notoriously complex and intricate design.The famed church was designed by architect Antoni Gaudi, a pioneer of Art Nouveau and modernisme, or Catalan Modernism. Construction on La Bas&iacute;lica de la Sagrada Familia, considered his maste]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-pope-will-inaugurate-antoni-gauds-sagrada-famlia-after-144-years-ofconstruction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-pope-will-inaugurate-antoni-gauds-sagrada-famlia-after-144-years-ofconstruction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ Director, Dies at 56]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director whose landmark animated feature&nbsp;Persepolis&nbsp;earned a Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nomination and made her one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema, has died. She was 56.&ldquo;Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,&rdquo; members of her family said in a statement sent to AFP.Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor and scr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-director-dies-at56/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-director-dies-at56/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museum Veteran Philippe Vergne Joins Miami’s Bass Museum as Artistic Director and Chief Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime museum director and curator Philippe Vergne is assuming a newly created position at Miami&rsquo;s Bass Museum of Art, joining the institution on October 1 as artistic director and chief curator. Since 2019 he has led Portugal&rsquo;s Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, in Porto.&ldquo;Philippe Vergne brings a remarkable depth of curatorial experience and a global perspective to The Bass at a pivotal moment in Miami Beach&rsquo;s growth as a dynamic and complex city,&rdquo; said Silvia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museum-veteran-philippe-vergne-joins-miamis-bass-museum-as-artistic-director-and-chiefcurator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museum-veteran-philippe-vergne-joins-miamis-bass-museum-as-artistic-director-and-chiefcurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Lennon Drawings to be Animated, Pace Gallery Trims Artist Roster, and More: Morning Links for June 4, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!<br />
Pace Gallery is dropping some 50 artists from its roster and cutting about 50 staff.Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel&nbsp;Persepolis, has died at 56.A new study says the Bayeux Tapestry can safely travel to London&rsquo;s British Museum from Normandy.The Headlines	SLOWING THE PACE. The mega&nbsp;Pace Gallery, with seven locations worldwide, is laying off some 50 staff and dropping about 50 artists, per last night&rsquo;s&nbsp;New York Times]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-lennon-drawings-to-be-animated-pace-gallery-trims-artist-roster-and-more-morning-links-for-june-42026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-lennon-drawings-to-be-animated-pace-gallery-trims-artist-roster-and-more-morning-links-for-june-42026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists &amp; Mothers Announces 2026 Recipients of Childcare&nbsp;Grants]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York City nonprofit Artists &amp; Mothers has named the 2026 recipients of its eponymous $25,000 grant for artists who identify as mothers. The landmark program provides funding to cover nine months of childcare and is open to emerging and mid-career artists raising a child under the age of three.From photography and sculpture to collage and bookmaking, this year&rsquo;s awardees span a wide range of artistic practices, conceptual concerns, and styles. Mimi &#7884;n&#7909;&#7885;ha centers h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-amp-mothers-announces-2026-recipients-of-childcarenbspgrants/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-amp-mothers-announces-2026-recipients-of-childcarenbspgrants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mega Gallery Pace is Dropping Some 50 Artists, 50 Staff in ‘Model Correction’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pace Gallery, a mega gallery with seven locations worldwide, is laying off some 50 staff and dropping about 50 artists.In a statement to ARTnews Thursday, CEO Marc Glimcher said that the gallery will now focus its roster on 85 artists, after growing to 135 and will &ldquo;continue to be a global gallery&rdquo; with plans to &ldquo;ground their programs in the character of the local art scene.&rdquo;&ldquo;Galleries need a model correction,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;For Pace, this means returning to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mega-gallery-pace-is-dropping-some-50-artists-50-staff-in-model-correction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mega-gallery-pace-is-dropping-some-50-artists-50-staff-in-model-correction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kulapat Yantrasast Named Artistic Director of Next Bukhara Biennial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kulapat Yantrasast, the architect behind major museum projects for institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, has been named artistic director of the 2027 Bukhara Biennial in Uzbekistan.The appointment comes less than a year after the&nbsp;debut edition&nbsp;of the biennial, which drew an estimated 1.8 million visitors and quickly became one of the&nbsp;most talked-about events&nbsp;on the international art calendar. Conceived and commissioned by Gayane Umerova and the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kulapat-yantrasast-named-artistic-director-of-next-bukharabiennial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kulapat-yantrasast-named-artistic-director-of-next-bukharabiennial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georgia O’Keeffe Ignored Advice to Mimic Great European Masters. Her Goal Instead Was to Be a Great American Painter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The genius of her work was in painting things as she saw them through her own eyes. So when she surrounded herself with beauty, her work reflected it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/georgia-okeeffe-ignored-advice-to-mimic-great-european-masters-her-goal-instead-was-to-be-a-great-american-painter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/georgia-okeeffe-ignored-advice-to-mimic-great-european-masters-her-goal-instead-was-to-be-a-great-american-painter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Drawing Women Trapped in Labyrinths for Years, Kyung-Me Painted Herself Free]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s rare for an artist to spend years honing a craft and perfecting a way of working only to one day pivot 180 degrees. Kyung-Me makes this look both easy and essential.&nbsp;After Kyung-Me first saw the 12th century illustrations for The Tale of Genji, she &ldquo;became obsessed with drawing, almost overnight,&rdquo; as she told me when I visited her studio in Ridgewood, Queens. First, she copied drawings from the work&mdash;considered the world&rsquo;s first novel, and written by a woma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-drawing-women-trapped-in-labyrinths-for-years-kyung-me-painted-herselffree/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-drawing-women-trapped-in-labyrinths-for-years-kyung-me-painted-herselffree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Books on Steffani Jemison’s Shelf]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the sprawling, splashy &ldquo;New Humans&rdquo; exhibition inaugurating New York&rsquo;s newly expanded New Museum (sound new enough for you?), a mechanical apparatus quietly whirrs. This tumbler, by the artist Steffani Jemison, is slowly but surely agitating and refining dredged debris: glass, coins, stone.Having studied comparative literature as an undergraduate, Jemison often moves between writing and art in thoughtful if seemingly unlikely ways, as in her novella A Rock, A River, A Street]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-books-on-steffani-jemisonsshelf/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-books-on-steffani-jemisonsshelf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psilocybin is doing what decades of philosophy couldn't: turning committed materialists into reluctant mystics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Psilocybin is doing what decades of philosophy couldn't: turning committed materialists into reluctant mystics]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/psilocybin-is-doing-what-decades-of-philosophy-couldnt-turning-committed-materialists-into-reluctant-mystics/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:13:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/psilocybin-is-doing-what-decades-of-philosophy-couldnt-turning-committed-materialists-into-reluctant-mystics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harold Bloom, flatterer. John Ashbery was “THE POET ABSOLUTE,” yet A.R. Ammons’s work was “larger and better” — and then there was Henri Cole]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harold Bloom, flatterer. John Ashbery was &ldquo;THE POET ABSOLUTE,&rdquo; yet A.R. Ammons&rsquo;s work was &ldquo;larger and better&rdquo; &mdash; and then there was Henri Cole]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-bloom-flatterer-john-ashbery-was-the-poet-absolute-yet-ar-ammonss-work-was-larger-and-better-and-then-there-was-henri-cole/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:13:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-bloom-flatterer-john-ashbery-was-the-poet-absolute-yet-ar-ammonss-work-was-larger-and-better-and-then-there-was-henri-cole/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denis-johnsons-life-was-a-mess-his-prose-somehow-was-immaculate-how-to-explain-the-distance-between-life-and-art/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:13:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denis-johnsons-life-was-a-mess-his-prose-somehow-was-immaculate-how-to-explain-the-distance-between-life-and-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Freeman’s CEO, Rana Begum Joins Lehmann Maupin, and More: Industry Moves for June 3, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;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.Makeda Best Named Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA: The curator comes from the Oakland Museum of California, where she served as deputy director. Best will fill a role that has been vacant at MoMA f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-freemans-ceo-rana-begum-joins-lehmann-maupin-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-32026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-freemans-ceo-rana-begum-joins-lehmann-maupin-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-32026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asked Artists, Dealers, Lawyers, and Advisers What Gallery Representation Means Today—And It’s Surprisingly Complicated]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Every young artist wants gallery representation. The details vary. Maybe it&rsquo;s Gagosian. Maybe it&rsquo;s Hauser &amp; Wirth. Maybe it&rsquo;s a scrappy gallery on Henry Street with a leaky roof and an owner who still installs every show themselves. The dream remains remarkably consistent: Someone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-artists-dealers-lawyers-and-advisers-what-gallery-representation-means-todayand-its-surprisinglycomplicated/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-artists-dealers-lawyers-and-advisers-what-gallery-representation-means-todayand-its-surprisinglycomplicated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Labor Relations Board Rules Buffalo AKG Art Museum Violated Federal Law With Layoff]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Labor Relations Board has determined that the Buffalo AKG Art Museum violated federal labor law and retaliated against union workers when it laid off 13 employees last year. The layoffs and subsequent restructuring were widely condemned by the union, which described them as an effort to eliminate union positions.In a win for Buffalo AKG Workers United, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on May 28 ordered the museum to reinstate the 13 union workers laid off from its Visitor E]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-labor-relations-board-rules-buffalo-akg-art-museum-violated-federal-law-withlayoff/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-labor-relations-board-rules-buffalo-akg-art-museum-violated-federal-law-withlayoff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colorado Governor Signs Artist Corporation Bill into State Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[On June 2, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 133, a bill that creates a new type of limited liability company (LLC) called an Artist Company, or A-Corp, report the Art Newspaper and the Colorado Sun. The new business structure is designed to help artists in the state&mdash;defined in the bill as &ldquo;individuals that create works of authorship or artistic expression comprising written, oral, visual, graphic, literary, musical, audiovisual, digital, or performing art in any mediu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/colorado-governor-signs-artist-corporation-bill-into-statelaw/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/colorado-governor-signs-artist-corporation-bill-into-statelaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Painting Sells for Over  10 Times High Estimate in Strong Week for Old Masters in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[A small painting of hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch led a string of surprise results during this week&rsquo;s Old Masters sales in New York, selling for $537,600 at Sotheby&rsquo;s against an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. (All prices include buyer&rsquo;s premium unless otherwise noted.)The result came as Christie&rsquo;s Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings sale brought in nearly $7 million with a sell-though rate of 89 percent, while the similarly titled sale at Sotheby&rsquo;s sale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/follower-of-hieronymus-bosch-painting-sells-for-over-10-times-high-estimate-in-strong-week-for-old-masters-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/follower-of-hieronymus-bosch-painting-sells-for-over-10-times-high-estimate-in-strong-week-for-old-masters-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Gedi Sibony Makes a Show, By Transforming Street Finds Into Magical ‘Frozen Moments’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest show by Gedi Sibony continues the artist&rsquo;s practice of making enchanting assemblage sculptures out of the most minimal means, and of making paintings that rely on such restrained gestures that they&rsquo;re barely there.	The press release for &ldquo;The Invisible Point,&rdquo; his eighth show at New York&rsquo;s Greene Naftali since 2008, consists of just four sentences, explaining that his process is &ldquo;powered by an intuitive momentum,&rdquo; that the show includes &ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-gedi-sibony-makes-a-show-by-transforming-street-finds-into-magical-frozenmoments/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-gedi-sibony-makes-a-show-by-transforming-street-finds-into-magical-frozenmoments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christo-Inspired Public Artwork in Paris By French Artist JR Delayed Because of Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA[The opening of a public artwork by French artist JR inspired by Christo and Jeanne-Claude&rsquo;s 1985 intervention The Pont Neuf Wrapped has reportedly been delayed after a storm damaged the installation overtop the River Seine in Paris.As reported by Euronews, the opening planned for this weekend has been postponed to an unspecified date after severe winds mangled part of the artwork on the oldest bridge in the French capital. A statement from Atelier JR, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christo-inspired-public-artwork-in-paris-by-french-artist-jr-delayed-because-ofstorm/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christo-inspired-public-artwork-in-paris-by-french-artist-jr-delayed-because-ofstorm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Artists Threaten Legal Action Against Organizers For Disregarding Requests to Be Withdrawn from ‘Visitors’ Lions’ Awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation for ignoring their demands that the foundation withdraw their names from consideration for the &ldquo;Visitors&rsquo; Lion&rdquo; awards at the current edition over the inclusion of national pavilions by Israel and Russia. The threat is included in a new announcement published on e-flux.A May 20 letter addressed to the foundation and its president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, is published in the announcement. I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-artists-threaten-legal-action-against-organizers-for-disregarding-requests-to-be-withdrawn-from-visitors-lionsawards/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-artists-threaten-legal-action-against-organizers-for-disregarding-requests-to-be-withdrawn-from-visitors-lionsawards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Makeda Best to Lead MoMA Photography Department, New Lead in Louvre Heist, and More: Morning Links for June 3, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Headlines	BRINGING OUT THE BEST. The&nbsp;Museum of Modern Art&nbsp;in New York finally has a new chief curator of photography:&nbsp;Makeda Best, who has served as deputy director at the&nbsp;Oakland Museum of California&nbsp;since 2023,&nbsp;reports&nbsp;the&nbsp;New York Times. The plum position &ldquo;has influenced, implicitly or explicitly, so much of how we understand the medium,&rdquo; said Best, who starts in September. It has also been vacant for almost four years. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/makeda-best-to-lead-moma-photography-department-new-lead-in-louvre-heist-and-more-morning-links-for-june-32026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/makeda-best-to-lead-moma-photography-department-new-lead-in-louvre-heist-and-more-morning-links-for-june-32026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To anyone in love with the precious, fleeting things of this world, resistance to disappearance seems only natural and proper. And yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[To anyone in love with the precious, fleeting things of this world, resistance to disappearance seems only natural and proper. And yet]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-anyone-in-love-with-the-precious-fleeting-things-of-this-world-resistance-to-disappearance-seems-only-natural-and-proper-and-yet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-anyone-in-love-with-the-precious-fleeting-things-of-this-world-resistance-to-disappearance-seems-only-natural-and-proper-and-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The publishing midlist isn't shrinking. It's growing faster than the pool of available readers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The publishing midlist isn't shrinking. It's growing faster than the pool of available readers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-publishing-midlist-isnt-shrinking-its-growing-faster-than-the-pool-of-available-readers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-publishing-midlist-isnt-shrinking-its-growing-faster-than-the-pool-of-available-readers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better]]></title><description><![CDATA[The humanities spent decades decentering the human.&nbsp;Now Big Tech is doing it better]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-humanities-spent-decades-decentering-the-humannow-big-tech-is-doing-it-better/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-humanities-spent-decades-decentering-the-humannow-big-tech-is-doing-it-better/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand tour’s most enduring truth: Even the most miraculous work of art is born not just into history, but also out of it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The grand tour&rsquo;s most enduring truth: Even the most miraculous work of art is born not just into history, but also out of it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-grand-tours-most-enduring-truth-even-the-most-miraculous-work-of-art-is-born-not-just-into-history-but-also-out-of-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-grand-tours-most-enduring-truth-even-the-most-miraculous-work-of-art-is-born-not-just-into-history-but-also-out-of-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dons of Oxbridge have traded the BBC for podcasts. Is this decline or progress?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dons of Oxbridge have traded the BBC for podcasts. Is this decline or progress?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-dons-of-oxbridge-have-traded-the-bbc-for-podcasts-is-this-decline-or-progress/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-dons-of-oxbridge-have-traded-the-bbc-for-podcasts-is-this-decline-or-progress/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not simply trivia, not simply a hobby — for the believer, quiz verges on a way of life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not simply trivia, not simply a hobby &mdash; for the believer, quiz verges on a way of life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/not-simply-trivia-not-simply-a-hobby-for-the-believer-quiz-verges-on-a-way-of-life/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/not-simply-trivia-not-simply-a-hobby-for-the-believer-quiz-verges-on-a-way-of-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That’s what we’re all storing away in “The Cloud”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re all storing away in &ldquo;The Cloud&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/imagine-a-metastasizing-heap-of-incalculable-forgotten-junk-thats-what-were-all-storing-away-in-the-cloud/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/imagine-a-metastasizing-heap-of-incalculable-forgotten-junk-thats-what-were-all-storing-away-in-the-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harold Bloom read everything, praised lavishly, and struggled mightily with self-doubt ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harold Bloom read everything, praised lavishly, and struggled mightily with self-doubt&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-bloom-read-everything-praised-lavishly-and-struggled-mightily-with-self-doubt/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-bloom-read-everything-praised-lavishly-and-struggled-mightily-with-self-doubt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. Now there’s data to back it up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. Now there&rsquo;s data to back it up]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/every-generation-of-professors-has-complained-that-their-students-cannot-read-now-theres-data-to-back-it-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/every-generation-of-professors-has-complained-that-their-students-cannot-read-now-theres-data-to-back-it-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, had been replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, had been replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alasdair-macintyre-believed-that-western-morality-having-lost-its-rationale-had-been-replaced-by-something-thinner-mere-moral-passion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alasdair-macintyre-believed-that-western-morality-having-lost-its-rationale-had-been-replaced-by-something-thinner-mere-moral-passion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn—a Painter, Collector, and Collaborator of Carl Jung—Mined the Archive and Her Subconscious]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The deepest things in human life &hellip; can only be expressed in images,&rdquo; wrote Olga Fr&ouml;be-Kapteyn. And yet, though obsessed with images, she never called herself an &ldquo;artist,&rdquo; even as she painted and drew. Fundamentally, she was a collector: of people, of images, of ideas, always animated by her interest in symbols and archetypes. Carl Jung, her close friend and collaborator, fueled this long, epic inquiry. Still, she remains profoundly mysterious and contradictor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-olga-frbe-kapteyna-painter-collector-and-collaborator-of-carl-jungmined-the-archive-and-hersubconscious/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-olga-frbe-kapteyna-painter-collector-and-collaborator-of-carl-jungmined-the-archive-and-hersubconscious/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher-Ed Groups Decry Proposed Federal ‘Earnings Test’ That Could Decimate Arts Education]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Department of Education has proposed a new &ldquo;accountability&rdquo; system that would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates&rsquo; earnings, prompting concern from liberal arts institutions and education advocates who argue that this is a test that music, visual arts, and filmmaking programs would, by their nature, be likely to fail.The proposed guidelines, known as the Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule, are intended to provid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/higher-ed-groups-decry-proposed-federal-earnings-test-that-could-decimate-artseducation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/higher-ed-groups-decry-proposed-federal-earnings-test-that-could-decimate-artseducation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Reveals More Participating Galleries and the Artists Selected for its ‘Exclusive’ Initiative, Which Withholds Artworks from Email Previews]]></title><description><![CDATA[The criticisms of art fairs (and the art market they are a defining part of) are many. One of them is that though we might think of these shows as real-time events, where deals are made and multimillion-dollar artworks are sold to whoever gets to the gallery&rsquo;s booth first, in reality some of the biggest-ticket sales are are quietly engineered ahead of time: the galleries email PDF previews to high-powered advisors and deep-pocketed collectors in the weeks leading up to opening day, such th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-reveals-more-participating-galleries-and-the-artists-selected-for-its-exclusive-initiative-which-withholds-artworks-from-emailpreviews/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-reveals-more-participating-galleries-and-the-artists-selected-for-its-exclusive-initiative-which-withholds-artworks-from-emailpreviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kara Walker Fronts Loewe’s 180th Anniversary Campaign Nodding to Its Art-Filled Past]]></title><description><![CDATA[Loewe unveiled a new campaign on Monday celebrating the fashion brand&rsquo;s 180th anniversary, complete with a capsule collection, an anniversary magazine, and an animated film, much of which nods to the house&rsquo;s long-standing connections to the art world.Under former creative director Jonathan Anderson, the fashion brand played up that connection through numerous high-profile collaborations with artists ranging from Lynda Benglis to Richard Hawkins. Many of Anderson&rsquo;s collections w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kara-walker-fronts-loewes-180th-anniversary-campaign-nodding-to-its-art-filledpast/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kara-walker-fronts-loewes-180th-anniversary-campaign-nodding-to-its-art-filledpast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raymonde Arcier, Feminist Artist Who Worked With Fabric in France, Dies at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raymonde Arcier, who brought attention to women&rsquo;s work by way of an art practice based in fabric and textiles of different kinds, died in May at the age of 86. Her death was acknowledged by sources including curators and the magazine Textile/Art.Arcier was born in 1939 in Bellac, France, and made her way as an office worker and self-taught artist who &ldquo;from 1970 on, produced her most striking works, crocheting wool and cotton, and knitting metal&mdash;with each piece demanding up to a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raymonde-arcier-feminist-artist-who-worked-with-fabric-in-france-dies-at86/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raymonde-arcier-feminist-artist-who-worked-with-fabric-in-france-dies-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit 900-Year-Old Crusader Castle in Lebanon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress in Lebanon, was reportedly struck directly by Israeli airstrikes on May 27, according to footage posted on social media and local reports. The news follows intense Israeli strikes on the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Lebanon that is home to some of the region&rsquo;s most significant Phoenician and Roman ruins, as well as a large civilian population.As reported by the Associated Press, the Israeli military release]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israeli-airstrikes-reportedly-hit-900-year-old-crusader-castle-inlebanon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israeli-airstrikes-reportedly-hit-900-year-old-crusader-castle-inlebanon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Court Rules That Lawsuit Between Monet Heirs and Wildenstein &amp; Co. Gallery Can&nbsp;Proceed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Late last week, a French judge ruled that a judicial court in Rouen, Normandy, can proceed with handling a legal complaint filed by the heirs of Claude Monet, against the New York gallery dynasty Wildenstein &amp; Co., according to French reports.The complex case revolves around a 2004 transaction, in which Monet&rsquo;s great-nephew agreed to relinquish a rare Monet painting depicting the artist&rsquo;s father, Adolphe, to the internationally renowned Wildenstein gallery, in exchange for severa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-court-rules-that-lawsuit-between-monet-heirs-and-wildenstein-amp-co-gallery-cannbspproceed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-court-rules-that-lawsuit-between-monet-heirs-and-wildenstein-amp-co-gallery-cannbspproceed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup]]></title><description><![CDATA[When soccer fans converge on Dallas this month for World Cup games, the aesthetically inclined ones will encounter a city home to art museums, galleries, and public art. And yet, the city will be missing a major and longstanding public artwork, after conservationist artist&rsquo;s beloved mural was painted over in May.Florida-based artist Robert Wyland has filed a $25 million federal lawsuit against FIFA and the owners of the building where his mural had appeared for a quarter-century, who, he s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/muralist-robert-wyland-files-25-m-lawsuit-over-dallas-whale-mural-destroyed-for-worldcup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/muralist-robert-wyland-files-25-m-lawsuit-over-dallas-whale-mural-destroyed-for-worldcup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucian Freud Painting He Spent Decades Denying Will Go on Public View for the First Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[A portrait Lucian Freud spent years insisting was not his will go on public display for the first time this summer after researchers uncovered evidence that appears to prove he painted it after all.The work,&nbsp;Man in a Black Scarf, will be shown in&nbsp;&ldquo;Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint&rdquo;&nbsp;at London&rsquo;s Garden Museum, according to&nbsp;The Guardian.&nbsp;Freud painted the portrait in 1939 while studying at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Hadleig]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucian-freud-painting-he-spent-decades-denying-will-go-on-public-view-for-the-firsttime/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucian-freud-painting-he-spent-decades-denying-will-go-on-public-view-for-the-firsttime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Koyoltzintli’s Clay Instruments Channel Sounds from Distant Pasts]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I feel like I am in constant conversation with the past and we are discussing what we&rsquo;re going to do with the future,&rdquo; said Koyoltzintli, surrounded by dozens of flutes, whistles, drums, and other handmade instruments scattered around her studio in upstate New York. She was talking about her connection to the Pacific coast of Ecuador, home to some of the oldest ceramic practices and ceramic instruments in the Americas. But she was adamant about her roots in the present&mdash;&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/koyoltzintlis-clay-instruments-channel-sounds-from-distantpasts/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/koyoltzintlis-clay-instruments-channel-sounds-from-distantpasts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Presidential Center Unveiled, Newly Authenticated Lucian Freud Painting On View, and More: Morning Links for June 2, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Experts say a painting Lucian Freud long denied ever making was, in fact, an early painting by the artist.The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam denies obstructing provenance investigations of the Koenigs collection in its holdings.Feminist, self-taught French artist Raymonde Arcier has died at 86.The Headlines	FREUDIAN FEUD. The late artist&nbsp;Lucian Freud&nbsp;long maintained he never made the striking portrait titled&nbsp;Man in a Black Scarf, despite much speculation t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obama-presidential-center-unveiled-newly-authenticated-lucian-freud-painting-on-view-and-more-morning-links-for-june-22026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obama-presidential-center-unveiled-newly-authenticated-lucian-freud-painting-on-view-and-more-morning-links-for-june-22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tickets to See the Bayeux Tapestry Will Cost As Much As $45 A Piece]]></title><description><![CDATA[The upcoming presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long embroidered cloth depicting the Norman invasion of 1066, figures to be the blockbuster exhibition of the year for the British Museum. The institution is pricing tickets like it is.On Thursday, the museum said that tickets to see the tapestry, which goes on view September 10 through July 11, 2027, will cost &pound;33 for a standard adult ticket, or about $45. That&rsquo;s the high end, for &ldquo;peak&rdquo; times. During off-peak]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tickets-to-see-the-bayeux-tapestry-will-cost-as-much-as-45-apiece/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tickets-to-see-the-bayeux-tapestry-will-cost-as-much-as-45-apiece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ansel Adams Trust Slams Gallery for AI-Generated Work at AIPAD Photography Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York&rsquo;s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer&rsquo;s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April.The artwork, which still appears on Danziger&rsquo;s website, does not contain a title but is headlined A.I. GENERATED, From the prompt: Make a realistic color version of Ansel Adams&rsquo; iconic &ldquo;Moonrise Over Her]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ansel-adams-trust-slams-gallery-for-ai-generated-work-at-aipad-photographyshow/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ansel-adams-trust-slams-gallery-for-ai-generated-work-at-aipad-photographyshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury Convicts Daniel Sikkema in Killing of New York Dealer Brent Sikkema]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Sikkema, the estranged husband of murdered New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, was found guilty Friday in a Manhattan federal court, according to the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal. Daniel Sikkema faced charges tied to a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said led to the dealer&rsquo;s killing at his vacation home in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.&nbsp;The case has gripped the art world since Brent Sikkema, the founder of the Chelsea gallery then known as Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co.,&nbsp;was found st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jury-convicts-daniel-sikkema-in-killing-of-new-york-dealer-brentsikkema/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jury-convicts-daniel-sikkema-in-killing-of-new-york-dealer-brentsikkema/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically Accurate Replica of 4500-Year-Old Building to Open at Stonehenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, aims to help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge&rsquo;s prehistoric builders.The hall is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more than]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historically-accurate-replica-of-4500-year-old-building-to-open-atstonehenge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historically-accurate-replica-of-4500-year-old-building-to-open-atstonehenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Historically Accurate Replica of a 4500-Year-Old Community Hall to Open at Stonehenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, will help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge&rsquo;s prehistoric builders.The structure is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-historically-accurate-replica-of-a-4500-year-old-community-hall-to-open-atstonehenge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-historically-accurate-replica-of-a-4500-year-old-community-hall-to-open-atstonehenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commission of Fine Arts Approves Trump’s Controversial Triumphal Arch Celebrating ‘Greatness, Freedom, and Posterity’]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Paris&rsquo;s Arc de Triomphe, at a holiday party last December. At the time, he said that planning and construction of the proposed arch should be domestic policy chief Vince Haley&rsquo;s &ldquo;primary thing.&rdquo;The project&rsquo;s architect, Nicolas Leo Charbonneau, a principal at the firm Harrison Design and leader of its &ldquo;Sacred Architecture Studio,&rdquo; told the New York Times that &ldquo;the int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/commission-of-fine-arts-approves-trumps-controversial-triumphal-arch-celebrating-greatness-freedom-andposterity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 20:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/commission-of-fine-arts-approves-trumps-controversial-triumphal-arch-celebrating-greatness-freedom-andposterity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Kiran Nadar Exhibition Is the Latest Indicator of the South Asian Art Market’s Growing Importance]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is taking its collection to Christie&rsquo;s London this summer, though don&rsquo;t expect any of its artworks to be for sale.	From July 16 to August 21, the New Delhi institution will stage &ldquo;The Meeting Ground,&rdquo; a non-selling survey of works from its 16,000-work collection at the auction house. The show will place Indian modernists like M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, K.G. Subramanyan, and F.N. Souza, alongside contemporary South Asian artists, practi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-kiran-nadar-exhibition-is-the-latest-indicator-of-the-south-asian-art-markets-growingimportance/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-kiran-nadar-exhibition-is-the-latest-indicator-of-the-south-asian-art-markets-growingimportance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White Stripes Frontman Jack White Is Showing Art at Damien Hirst’s Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jack White, who growled and grinded as the singer/guitarist of the White Stripes and has since positioned himself as a primal rock god on his own, is showing a new side as a sculptor with a show opening in a London gallery run by none other than Damien Hirst.As chronicled in the Financial Times, he two artists first met in 2021, when White was readying a new outpost of his Nashville-based Third Man Records store in Soho, across the street from Hirst&rsquo;s studio. White played a show from Hirst]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-stripes-frontman-jack-white-is-showing-art-at-damien-hirstsgallery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-stripes-frontman-jack-white-is-showing-art-at-damien-hirstsgallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elle Pérez Gets Personal with the Next-Gen Collectors Changing the Art World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where are all the Gen Z collectors these days? Last Thursday, May 14th 2026, they were at the Guggenheim celebrating the 30th anniversary of the YCC (Young Collectors Council).&nbsp;I became aware of the YCC when they brought my work into the Guggenheim collection this year, and I grew very curious about the organization and how it worked.&nbsp;YCC is often one of the first groups that many young (21 to about 40 to be exact) hopeful future trustees and supporters of the arts join. $1,750 gets yo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elle-prez-gets-personal-with-the-next-gen-collectors-changing-the-artworld/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elle-prez-gets-personal-with-the-next-gen-collectors-changing-the-artworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elle Peréz Gets Personal with the Next-Gen Collectors Changing the Art World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where are all the Gen Z collectors these days? Last Thursday, May 14th 2026, they were at the Guggenheim celebrating the 30th anniversary of the YCC (Young Collectors Council).&nbsp;I became aware of the YCC when they brought my work into the Guggenheim collection this year, and I grew very curious about the organization and how it worked.&nbsp;YCC is often one of the first groups that many young (21 to about 40 to be exact) hopeful future trustees and supporters of the arts join. $1,750 gets yo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elle-perz-gets-personal-with-the-next-gen-collectors-changing-the-artworld/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elle-perz-gets-personal-with-the-next-gen-collectors-changing-the-artworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muriel Hasbun, Artist Whose Work Poignantly Recounted the Salvadoran Diaspora and the Fraughtness of Memory, Dies at 64]]></title><description><![CDATA[Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice poignantly recounted the effects of El Salvador&rsquo;s civil war and the migration and exile of its diaspora, died on May 13 from ovarian cancer in Silver Springs, Maryland. She was 64 years old. The news was confirmed by art historian Tatiana Flores.&ldquo;A beloved member of the DC art scene and a leading advocate for Salvadoran and Central American artists in the diaspora, Muriel&rsquo;s loss cuts deeply across many communities,&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/muriel-hasbun-artist-whose-work-poignantly-recounted-the-salvadoran-diaspora-and-the-fraughtness-of-memory-dies-at64/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/muriel-hasbun-artist-whose-work-poignantly-recounted-the-salvadoran-diaspora-and-the-fraughtness-of-memory-dies-at64/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologist Who May Have Found D’Artagnan’s Skeleton Was Arrested, Congress Nixes Museum Bill, and More: Morning Links for May 22, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D&rsquo;Artagnan.Congress rejected a bill to build a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to women.The Commission of Fine Arts approved plans to build Trump&rsquo;s 250-foot triumphal arch.The Headlines	ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL?&nbsp;The Dutch archaeologist involved in the recent discovery of what many hope are the remains of the 17th-century]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologist-who-may-have-found-dartagnans-skeleton-was-arrested-congress-nixes-museum-bill-and-more-morning-links-for-may-222026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologist-who-may-have-found-dartagnans-skeleton-was-arrested-congress-nixes-museum-bill-and-more-morning-links-for-may-222026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of Modernism’s Lesbian Icons Get the Novel Treatment]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Paris&rsquo;s 20th arrondissement, there is a park, of sorts, where the city&rsquo;s greatest revolutionaries go to rot. Some are the real deal: On May 28, 1871, over a hundred Communards were shot dead right here as dreams of a Socialist utopia crumbled around them. Other legends were made not on barricades, but on the stage&mdash;or the page. Oscar Wilde, for example, reposes beneath a hulking deity whose iconoclastic castration, back in 1961, did little to restrain pilgrims seeking to smea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-modernisms-lesbian-icons-get-the-noveltreatment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-modernisms-lesbian-icons-get-the-noveltreatment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is criticism a moral good? In 1968, the question was unavoidable. Now we've forgotten to ask.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is criticism a moral good? In 1968, the question was unavoidable. Now we've forgotten to ask.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-criticism-a-moral-good-in-1968-the-question-was-unavoidable-now-weve-forgotten-to-ask/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 02:08:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-criticism-a-moral-good-in-1968-the-question-was-unavoidable-now-weve-forgotten-to-ask/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno: How recondite mid-century thinkers became villains in America's culture wars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno: How recondite mid-century thinkers became villains in America's culture wars]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gramsci-marcuse-adorno-how-recondite-mid-century-thinkers-became-villains-in-americas-culture-wars/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 02:08:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gramsci-marcuse-adorno-how-recondite-mid-century-thinkers-became-villains-in-americas-culture-wars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Em dashes, bad metaphors, and not-X-but-Y sentence constructions. Did Granta award a prize to an entirely AI-written short story?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Em dashes, bad metaphors, and not-X-but-Y sentence constructions. Did Granta award a prize to an entirely AI-written short story?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/em-dashes-bad-metaphors-and-not-x-but-y-sentence-constructions-did-granta-award-a-prize-to-an-entirely-ai-written-short-story/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 02:08:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/em-dashes-bad-metaphors-and-not-x-but-y-sentence-constructions-did-granta-award-a-prize-to-an-entirely-ai-written-short-story/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel Renews Financial Support of Centre Pompidou During Long-Term Renovation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paris&rsquo;s Centre Pompidou has announced another five-year partnership, this time with the iconic fashion house Chanel. (Last week, the Pompidou and M+ in Hong Kong announced their plan to lend artworks and collaborate on research projects and exhibitions.) Despite being closed until 2030 while undergoing an over $500 million renovation, the Pompidou has kept busy with new collaborations and satellite museums, including those in Seoul, Foz do Igua&ccedil;u, Brazil, and Brussels.The Pompidou a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-renews-financial-support-of-centre-pompidou-during-long-termrenovation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-renews-financial-support-of-centre-pompidou-during-long-termrenovation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Flame, Burning for 1,200 Years, Survives Blaze at Buddhist Hall in Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sacred Buddhist hall on the top of Mount Misen in Japan was destroyed by fire&mdash;but an &ldquo;eternal flame&rdquo; said to have been burning for more than a millennium was rescued and moved to another site, where it continues to glow.As reported in the New York Times, Reikado Hall, in the south of Japan, &ldquo;was reduced to a charred skeleton after a fire tore through the building, engulfing its wooden prayer rooms.&rdquo; No one was injured, fortunately, and the flame that had been burn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eternal-flame-burning-for-1200-years-survives-blaze-at-buddhist-hall-injapan/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eternal-flame-burning-for-1200-years-survives-blaze-at-buddhist-hall-injapan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain Threatens to Oust Reina Sofía Director Over Missing Artworks and Finances]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spain&rsquo;s government is turning up the pressure on the&nbsp;Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof&iacute;a&nbsp;over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory, with lawmakers threatening consequences that could ultimately cost museum director&nbsp;Manuel Segade&nbsp;his job.A parliamentary oversight committee in Spain recently passed a resolution demanding that the museum complete a full and updated inventory of its holdings by December 31, 2026, according to&nbsp;Le Journal d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spain-threatens-to-oust-reina-sofa-director-over-missing-artworks-andfinances/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spain-threatens-to-oust-reina-sofa-director-over-missing-artworks-andfinances/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citing Epstein Ties, Wexner Union Demands Leslie Wexner’s Name be Dropped from Art Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Members of the Wexner Center for the Arts union have called on university leadership to rename the institution, citing Leslie Wexner&rsquo;s documented ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Wexner Workers United announced on social media yesterday that it had sent a formal letter to Ohio State University president, provost, and board of trustees demanding that they remove the Wexner name from the building&rsquo;s facade and begin the process of renaming the Wexner Center for the Arts.&l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/citing-epstein-ties-wexner-union-demands-leslie-wexners-name-be-dropped-from-artcenter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/citing-epstein-ties-wexner-union-demands-leslie-wexners-name-be-dropped-from-artcenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Officials Cite a Century-Old Report As Congressional Approval for 250-Foot DC Arch, in a Move Called ‘Tortured’ and ‘Laughable’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump does not need Congressional approval to build a proposed 250-foot arch on Washington, DC&rsquo;s Memorial Circle, on Columbia Island, officials are arguing, because a century-old report once called for a pair of 166-foot columns there, reports the Washington Post.Memorial Circle is managed by the National Parks Service and is classified as protected land, meaning Congress must authorize the construction of monuments there. The Post&rsquo;s sources say that the Trump administration has no p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-officials-cite-a-century-old-report-as-congressional-approval-for-250-foot-dc-arch-in-a-move-called-tortured-andlaughable/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-officials-cite-a-century-old-report-as-congressional-approval-for-250-foot-dc-arch-in-a-move-called-tortured-andlaughable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Residency Aims to Give Indigenous Artists the Tools to Make Art in Neon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making art in a new medium can pose a challenge for any artist, especially one as technically complex as neon. Now a new residency aims to alleviate those growing pains.The Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit focused on supporting Indigenous artists, has launched a new residency program in collaboration with Lite Brite Neon Studio in Kingston, New York. For the program, a Native artist who has never created work in neon will work with Lite Brite to fabricate a new piece in the me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-residency-aims-to-give-indigenous-artists-the-tools-to-make-art-inneon/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-residency-aims-to-give-indigenous-artists-the-tools-to-make-art-inneon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani Visited MoMA PS1’s Greater New York—and Loved It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greater New York, MoMA PS1&rsquo;s recurring survey of artists based in the city, has managed to lure one of New York&rsquo;s most high-profile sensations: Mayor Zohran Mamdani.On her Instagram, PS1 director Connie Butler posted news that Mamdani had personally visited Greater New York alongside Claire Valdez, a New York State Representative who is currently running for a seat in the House of Representatives. Valdez, like Mamdani, is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America; Mamdani]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zohran-mamdani-visited-moma-ps1s-greater-new-yorkand-lovedit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zohran-mamdani-visited-moma-ps1s-greater-new-yorkand-lovedit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Woman Impressionist’ No More: A New Catalogue Raisonné Restores Eva Gonzalès’s Legacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French painter Eva Gonzal&egrave;s, much like her&nbsp;mentor, &Eacute;douard Manet,&nbsp;did not personally identify as&nbsp;an Impressionist, nor did she&nbsp;participate&nbsp;in the group&rsquo;s&nbsp;exhibitions.&nbsp;Her&nbsp;velvety&nbsp;brushstrokes were&nbsp;faithful&nbsp;to the human form,&nbsp;indulged no illusion of perspective, and stated a belief that&nbsp;the&nbsp;female&nbsp;mind was a&nbsp;landscape in its own right&mdash;wild,&nbsp;deep, and worthy of veneration.&nbsp;In her]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/woman-impressionist-no-more-a-new-catalogue-raisonn-restores-eva-gonzalss-legacy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/woman-impressionist-no-more-a-new-catalogue-raisonn-restores-eva-gonzalss-legacy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Summer Guide: 20 Art World Highlights Not to Miss]]></title><description><![CDATA[As surveyed in the latest issue of Art in America, see a highly discerning list of things to experience in the art world in the coming months.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-summer-guide-20-art-world-highlights-not-tomiss/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-summer-guide-20-art-world-highlights-not-tomiss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[JR Talks His Homage to Christo, Christie’s Sells $162.7 M. In Tepid Postwar and Contemporary Auction, and More: Morning Links for May 21, 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.Christie&rsquo;s sold $162.7 million in postwar and contemporary art across three auctions yesterday, barely meeting expectations.Spain&rsquo;s parliament has threatened to fire the director of the Reina Sofia museum if the institution doesn&rsquo;t straighten out its fragmented inventory and the question of missing artworks.A Buddhist temple in Japan that ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jr-talks-his-homage-tochristo-christies-sells-1627-m-in-tepid-postwar-and-contemporary-auction-and-more-morning-links-for-may-212026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jr-talks-his-homage-tochristo-christies-sells-1627-m-in-tepid-postwar-and-contemporary-auction-and-more-morning-links-for-may-212026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Former Fashion Designer Emma Safir Turns Fabric into Beguiling Paintings]]></title><description><![CDATA[What might it take to tackle the en-slick-ification of the art object? Emma Safir&rsquo;s answer to this question arises from her embrace of the sensory capacities inherent in textiles and an eagerness to place oppositional strategies and gestures into new formations and dependencies. The results are works of great mystery and manipulation, each one a reflection on the elusive and ambiguous correspondences between the handcrafted and the digitally (re)produced.&nbsp;A former fashion designer and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-former-fashion-designer-emma-safir-turns-fabric-into-beguilingpaintings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-former-fashion-designer-emma-safir-turns-fabric-into-beguilingpaintings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marian Goodman’s $35.1 M. Richter ‘Candle’ Leads Christie’s Tepid $162.7 M. Trio of Postwar and Contemporary Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Led by a $35.1 million Gerhard Richter canvas, Christie&rsquo;s New York notched a $162.7 million across a trio of evening sales of postwar and contemporary art that just barely meet expectations at its crowded Rockefeller Center salesroom on Wednesday night.	The auction was expected to bring in between $129 million and $191 million on 42 lots (after a Kerry James Marshall was withdrawn); the hammer total, before the house&rsquo;s fees, came to $133.6 million, just a few million above the low es]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marian-goodmans-351-m-richter-candle-leads-christies-tepid-1627-m-trio-of-postwar-and-contemporarysales/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marian-goodmans-351-m-richter-candle-leads-christies-tepid-1627-m-trio-of-postwar-and-contemporarysales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gerhard Richter ‘Candle’ From Estate of Revered Dealer Marian Goodman Falls Short of a Record at $35.1 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Gerhard Richter painting from the estate of the late dealer Marian Goodman sold at Christie&rsquo;s Wednesday evening for $35.1 million (with fees). The sale fell well below Richter&rsquo;s record of $46.3 million, which was set over a decade ago.The lot, Kerze (Candle), from 1982, came to auction with an estimate of $35 million to $50 million, with the high being around $3.7 million higher than his current record. Ahead of the bidding, auctioneer Y&uuml;-Ge Wang described the work as being fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gerhard-richter-candle-from-estate-of-revered-dealer-marian-goodman-falls-short-of-a-record-at-351m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 02:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gerhard-richter-candle-from-estate-of-revered-dealer-marian-goodman-falls-short-of-a-record-at-351m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakes’ tails and the kookaburra’s cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives]]></title><description><![CDATA[The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakes&rsquo; tails and the kookaburra&rsquo;s cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-naturalist-john-cade-studied-things-like-snakes-tails-and-the-kookaburras-cry-then-he-started-giving-lithium-to-manic-depressives/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 01:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-naturalist-john-cade-studied-things-like-snakes-tails-and-the-kookaburras-cry-then-he-started-giving-lithium-to-manic-depressives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Show don't tell." "Kill your darlings." Writers love rules, even when rules can't solve their problems]]></title><description><![CDATA["Show don't tell." "Kill your darlings." Writers love rules, even when rules can't solve their problems]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/show-dont-tell-kill-your-darlings-writers-love-rules-even-when-rules-cant-solve-their-problems/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 01:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/show-dont-tell-kill-your-darlings-writers-love-rules-even-when-rules-cant-solve-their-problems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/homer-and-the-mummy-why-was-a-fragment-of-the-iliad-buried-with-a-body-more-than-2000-years-ago/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 01:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/homer-and-the-mummy-why-was-a-fragment-of-the-iliad-buried-with-a-body-more-than-2000-years-ago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Announces a Major Gift of Nearly 2000 Photographs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic arts. The gift comprises works spanning the 19th century and the present day by more than 450 artists.The gift comes from the holdings of financier and former Dreyfus Corporation chief Howard Stein (1926&ndash;2011), who began collecting photography in the 1980s. A notable underwriter of photography exhibitions and books, Stein start]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-announces-a-major-gift-of-nearly-2000photographs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-announces-a-major-gift-of-nearly-2000photographs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind Christie’s $1 B. Blockbuster Result, the Market Still Looks Uneven]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Before this week, the last time more than $1 billion worth of art ripped through an auction house in one night was back in 2022, when Christie&rsquo;s New York unloaded the Paul G. Allen collection. The sale brought in a staggering $1.5 billion, still one of the biggest single-night hauls the market ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/behind-christies-1-b-blockbuster-result-the-market-still-looksuneven-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/behind-christies-1-b-blockbuster-result-the-market-still-looksuneven-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind Christie’s $1 B. Blockbuster Result the Market Still Looks Uneven]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Before this week, the last time more than $1 billion worth of art ripped through an auction house in one night was back in 2022, when Christie&rsquo;s New York unloaded the Paul G. Allen collection. The sale brought in a staggering $1.5 billion, still one of the biggest single-night hauls the market ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/behind-christies-1-b-blockbuster-result-the-market-still-looksuneven/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/behind-christies-1-b-blockbuster-result-the-market-still-looksuneven/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yinka Shonibare Joins Mennour, a Fake Fake Monet, and More: Industry Moves for May 20, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Hope you are enjoying the New York sales this week. Here&rsquo;s a round-up of the art trade&rsquo;s comings and goings:Tina Kim Gallery to Represent Estate of Kim Lim: The gallery will show work by the Singaporean British sculptor and printmaker at Art Basel in June, ahead of a 2027 solo show&mdash;the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yinka-shonibare-joins-mennour-a-fake-fake-monet-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-202026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yinka-shonibare-joins-mennour-a-fake-fake-monet-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris Judge Rejects Bid to Suspend the Replacement of Notre-Dame’s Windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Paris judge has rejected a request to halt the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eug&egrave;ne Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are to be replaced by government-commissioned contemporary works, dealing a blow to the preservationist campaign opposing the project.According to the Paris Administrative Court, the administrative judge reasoned that because the new windows by artist Claire Tabouret and glassmakers Simon-Marq could conceivably be removed in the futur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-judge-rejects-bid-to-suspend-the-replacement-of-notre-dames-windows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-judge-rejects-bid-to-suspend-the-replacement-of-notre-dames-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harald Metzkes, Postwar German Painter of ‘World Theater,’ Dies at 97]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harald Metzkes, the so-called &ldquo;C&eacute;zannist of Prenzlauer Berg&rdquo; who made classically indebted and symbolically rich paintings following Germany&rsquo;s surrender in World War II, died last Thursday in Brandenburg at the age of 97. His death was confirmed to the German Press Agency by his son, the sculptor Robert Metzkes.&ldquo;Metzkes became particularly well-known in East Germany because he had no interest in socialist realism,&rdquo; wrote Monopol, which asserted that he create]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harald-metzkes-postwar-german-painter-of-world-theater-dies-at97/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harald-metzkes-postwar-german-painter-of-world-theater-dies-at97/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whitney Gala Honors Julie Mehretu, Benefactor of Museum’s ‘Free Under 25’ Initiative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last night, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted its annual gala, honoring artist Julie Mehretu&mdash;who in 2024 donated $2.25 million to the museum to ensure that visitors aged 25 and younger can visit the museum for free&mdash;alongside Whitney Board Chair Fern Kaye Tessler, and former Whitney Museum director Adam D. Weinberg.Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1970, Mehretu&rsquo;s painting, drawing, and printmaking practice examines the nature of contemporary existence through the relati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-gala-honors-julie-mehretu-benefactor-of-museums-free-under-25initiative/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-gala-honors-julie-mehretu-benefactor-of-museums-free-under-25initiative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Qatar Taps Former Mathaf Director Wassan Al-Khudhairi to Shape 2027 Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art Basel has named Iraqi curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi artistic director of the 2027 edition of&nbsp;Art Basel Qatar, the second chapter in what is quickly becoming one of the art market&rsquo;s most closely-watched experiments.The appointment comes after the fair&rsquo;s debut earlier this year in Doha, where Art Basel tried something noticeably different from the sensory overload of Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, or Paris. Instead of endless aisles and trophy-hunting chaos, the Qatari edition l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-qatar-taps-former-mathaf-director-wassan-al-khudhairi-to-shape-2027fair/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-qatar-taps-former-mathaf-director-wassan-al-khudhairi-to-shape-2027fair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bharti Kher Commissioned by Powerhouse Parramatta, Australia’s New Cultural Center Opening Later This Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Powerhouse Parramatta, the enormous new cultural center opening in the city of Parramatta west of Sydney, Australia, opens later this year, a new commission by the British-Indian sculptor Bharti Kher will welcome visitors as the entrance. Art Asia Pacific reported the news.The sculpture, titled Tree of Life, will be monumental in scale and will be made up of four stacked bronze and clay heads. Tree of Life is part of Kher&rsquo;s ongoing &ldquo;Intermediaries&rdquo; series, which she began]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bharti-kher-commissioned-by-powerhouse-parramatta-australias-new-cultural-center-opening-later-thisyear/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bharti-kher-commissioned-by-powerhouse-parramatta-australias-new-cultural-center-opening-later-thisyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tilda Swinton to Perform at Guggenheim Bilbao in June]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actress and sometime performance artist Tilda Swinton will stage a performance at the Guggenheim Bilbao next month.Titled House of Gestures, the work is a collaboration between Swinton and fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard. Commissioned by Dom P&eacute;rignon this year, the piece is being billed as &ldquo;an original work conceived around gesture, presence, and transformation&rdquo; with special attention to its setting in the museum&rsquo;s atrium. The performance will be open to t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tilda-swinton-to-perform-at-guggenheim-bilbao-injune/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tilda-swinton-to-perform-at-guggenheim-bilbao-injune/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Trust Names America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, Including Sites Targeted by Trump Administration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., has released its annual list of &ldquo;America&rsquo;s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places,&rdquo; which includes sites that have been targeted by the second Trump administration.Published each year since 1988, this year&rsquo;s list was framed around the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States and &ldquo;our nation&rsquo;s founding and the self-evident truth that&nbsp;all people are create]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-trust-names-americas-11-most-endangered-historic-places-including-sites-targeted-by-trumpadministration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-trust-names-americas-11-most-endangered-historic-places-including-sites-targeted-by-trumpadministration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Qatar Names Artistic Director, Sotheby’s Nets $303.9 M. In Modern Art, and More: Morning Links for May 20, 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.The Headlines	AUCTION ACTION.&nbsp;Sotheby&rsquo;s&nbsp;in New York sold $303.9 million-worth of modern art yesterday evening, while&nbsp;Phillips&nbsp;netted $115.2 million from their modern and contemporary sale held just beforehand. But as&nbsp;ARTnews&rsquo;&nbsp;Daniel Cassady reports, there is still a sense of caution from buyers who are showing demand]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-qatar-names-artistic-director-sothebys-nets-3039-m-in-modern-art-and-more-morning-links-for-may-202026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-qatar-names-artistic-director-sothebys-nets-3039-m-in-modern-art-and-more-morning-links-for-may-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malo Chapuy Reimagines Medieval Art on the Cover of our New Talent Issue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Malo Chapuy, whose Virgin with Codex (2025) appears on the cover of this issue of Art in America, finds the lexicon of medieval painting well suited for our times of apocalyptic anxieties as we face ecological collapse and rehash the Crusades. From his studio in Paris, he told us about the painting.Virgin with Codex is your usual Flemish virgin&mdash;a loose copy of a 16th-century painting by an anonymous artist in the Courtauld Gallery&rsquo;s collection. I&rsquo;m always translating medieval]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malo-chapuy-reimagines-medieval-art-on-the-cover-of-our-new-talentissue/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malo-chapuy-reimagines-medieval-art-on-the-cover-of-our-new-talentissue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Pulls In $303.9 M. in a Solid but Subdued Modern Evening Sale Led by $48 M. Matisse]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few minutes into Sotheby&rsquo;s Modern Evening Auction on Tuesday night, the pauses between bids began telling their own story. Collectors still showed up for the museum-quality material, particularly blue-chip works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and Vincent van Gogh, but the atmosphere inside the Breuer building often felt cautious rather than euphoric, as buyers weighed estimates carefully and bidding wars appeared only intermittently.By the end of the evening, Sotheb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-pulls-in-3039-m-in-a-solid-but-subdued-modern-evening-sale-led-by-48-mmatisse/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 06:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-pulls-in-3039-m-in-a-solid-but-subdued-modern-evening-sale-led-by-48-mmatisse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips Modern &amp; Contemporary Sale Nets &nbsp;$115.2 M., With Strong Results for Women&nbsp;Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Phillips team appeared joyous with the results of its modern and contemporary art evening sale, which got underway at the respectable time of 5pm on Tuesday. The auction house achieved $115.2 million against an estimate of $84.2 million&mdash;its highest presale estimate since the frothy days of 2022. All 40 lots found buyers, with 2 works, by Richard Prince and Albert Oehlen, withdrawn before the sale.	This sale total was almost double November&rsquo;s $61.2 million for 31 lots (not includi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-modern-amp-contemporary-sale-nets-nbsp1152-m-with-strong-results-for-womennbspartists/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-modern-amp-contemporary-sale-nets-nbsp1152-m-with-strong-results-for-womennbspartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was imprisoned by the Nazis; she was sent to a sanitorium. For Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, love was not a luxury they could afford]]></title><description><![CDATA[He was imprisoned by the Nazis; she was sent to a sanitorium. For Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, love was not a luxury they could afford]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-was-imprisoned-by-the-nazis-she-was-sent-to-a-sanitorium-for-leonora-carrington-and-max-ernst-love-was-not-a-luxury-they-could-afford/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:03:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-was-imprisoned-by-the-nazis-she-was-sent-to-a-sanitorium-for-leonora-carrington-and-max-ernst-love-was-not-a-luxury-they-could-afford/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Stanford, undergraduates faking perfection are thrown ungodly sums of money. But what’s it all for?]]></title><description><![CDATA[At Stanford, undergraduates faking perfection are thrown ungodly sums of money. But what&rsquo;s it all for?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-stanford-undergraduates-faking-perfection-are-thrown-ungodly-sums-of-money-but-whats-it-all-for/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:03:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-stanford-undergraduates-faking-perfection-are-thrown-ungodly-sums-of-money-but-whats-it-all-for/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.S. Hamrah's film criticism elides the distinction between comic prose-poetry and reflexive contrarianism]]></title><description><![CDATA[A.S. Hamrah's film criticism elides the distinction between comic prose-poetry and reflexive contrarianism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-hamrahs-film-criticism-elides-the-distinction-between-comic-prose-poetry-and-reflexive-contrarianism/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:03:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-hamrahs-film-criticism-elides-the-distinction-between-comic-prose-poetry-and-reflexive-contrarianism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1,200-Year-Old Limestone Lintel was Inadvertently Repatriated to Mexico Instead of to Guatemala]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cultural minister of Guatemala has begun the process to reclaim a 1,200-year-old stone lintel that was repatriated from the United States to Mexico in mid-April, according to a report in the Art Newspaper.	The object was initially brought to the Mexican consulate in New York by an unidentified American businessman, who presumably realized that it had been illegally removed from its country of origin at some point before he or she acquired it.The lintel depicts ritual acts involving the sun g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/1200-year-old-limestone-lintel-was-inadvertently-repatriated-to-mexico-instead-of-toguatemala/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/1200-year-old-limestone-lintel-was-inadvertently-repatriated-to-mexico-instead-of-toguatemala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian Museum of Human Rights Threatened With Legal Action Over Palestinian Nakba Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[The&nbsp;Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg&nbsp;has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli organization over an exhibition about the Nakba, with the group arguing that the presentation &ldquo;politicizes&rdquo; history, according to local media reports.&nbsp;&nbsp;Shurat HaDin &ndash; Israel Law Center&nbsp;announced this week that it had sent a formal legal demand to the museum&rsquo;s board of trustees and senior leadership protesting &ldquo;Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/canadian-museum-of-human-rights-threatened-with-legal-action-over-palestinian-nakbashow/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/canadian-museum-of-human-rights-threatened-with-legal-action-over-palestinian-nakbashow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamburg Culture Prize Renamed After Namesake’s Nazi Ties Emerge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A culture prize that has been awarded in Germany for nearly five decades will be renamed due to the Nazi ties of the man who was the prize&rsquo;s namesake when it was founded. The Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal will now be called the Medal for Art and Culture in Hamburg.The change comes after a 2024 article published Die Welt am Sonntag, the Sunday magazine of the German newspaper Die Welt. In it historian Helmut Stubbe da Luz provided proof that Hans Harder Biermann-Ratjen, who would eventually]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hamburg-culture-prize-renamed-after-namesakes-nazi-tiesemerge/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hamburg-culture-prize-renamed-after-namesakes-nazi-tiesemerge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Performance Series, Artists Tackle the Nature of Images, and Reality, in the Face of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every time a tech company promotes an emerging technology like AI or the metaverse, the pitch sounds the same: a promise to &ldquo;unleash&rdquo; the imagination, or a new &ldquo;immersive world.&rdquo;When Facebook rebranded as Meta in 2021, its ad showed four people looking at Henri Rousseau&rsquo;s Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo, as it sprung to life and a portal opened before them. Four years later, when Meta debuted its Ray&ndash;Ban Meta smartglasses, the company touted its in-lens di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-performance-series-artists-tackle-the-nature-of-images-and-reality-in-the-face-ofai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-performance-series-artists-tackle-the-nature-of-images-and-reality-in-the-face-ofai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Lender Accuses Maddox Gallery of Inflating Value of Art Used as Collateral—’Bizarre and Irrational’ Claim, Says Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maddox Gallery, which has spaces in London and Dubai, has been accused of inflating the value of artworks used as collateral for loans. The claim was leveled against the gallery by Luxury Asset Capital (LAC), a lender that provides loans secured against high-value assets, according to a civil complaint filed last August in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.According to the complaint, LAC alleges that Maddox provided knowingly false &ldquo;good faith estimates&rdquo; of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-lender-accuses-maddox-gallery-of-inflating-value-of-art-used-as-collateralbizarre-and-irrational-claim-saysgallery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-lender-accuses-maddox-gallery-of-inflating-value-of-art-used-as-collateralbizarre-and-irrational-claim-saysgallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s Launches Museum Partnership Series, Starting with Exhibition by New York&rsquo;s Hispanic Society Museum &amp;&nbsp;Library]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Sotheby&rsquo;s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum.Now, Sotheby&rsquo;s is leaning into that history in earnest, and with more than its usual&nbsp;blockbuster, star-studded evening sales.&nbsp;The auction house announced this week that it will launch a new exhibition initiative called &ldquo;In Residence.&rdquo; The first of these will be pres]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebyrsquos-launches-museum-partnership-series-starting-with-exhibition-by-new-yorkrsquos-hispanic-society-museum-ampnbsplibrary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebyrsquos-launches-museum-partnership-series-starting-with-exhibition-by-new-yorkrsquos-hispanic-society-museum-ampnbsplibrary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Whistleblower Complaint, Palm Springs Art Museum Declines to Release Report on Allegations of Fraud and Theft, Claims They Are ‘Not Substantiated’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Palm Springs Art Museum in California has released a three-page statement saying that an investigation conducted in response to a whistleblower complaint alleging mismanagement and fraud found no wrongdoing by the museum. The museum declined to provide ARTnews a copy of the resulting report, which will not be publicly released.The whistleblower complaint made numerous detailed allegations. Among them are claims that the museum improperly reclassified funds in its endowment to meet cash crunc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-whistleblower-complaint-palm-springs-art-museum-declines-to-release-report-on-allegations-of-fraud-and-theft-claims-they-are-not-substantiated/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-whistleblower-complaint-palm-springs-art-museum-declines-to-release-report-on-allegations-of-fraud-and-theft-claims-they-are-not-substantiated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cindy and Howard Rachofsky’s Dallas Home Could Be Yours at a Discount, for $17.5 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dallas home of art collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky remains available for sale, and for deep-pocked prospective buyers, there&rsquo;s some good news: The property is now available at a discount. That&rsquo;s also bad news for the Rachofskys, whose Richard Meier&ndash;designed home has been on the market for months now.When the famed Rachofsky House first hit the market in October of last year, it was being sold for $23 million. But as the Dallas Business Journal noted this week, it&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cindy-and-howard-rachofskys-dallas-home-could-be-yours-at-a-discount-for-175m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cindy-and-howard-rachofskys-dallas-home-could-be-yours-at-a-discount-for-175m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art in America’s Summer “New Talent” Issue Names 20 Artists to Watch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews&rsquo;s sister publication, features profiles of 20 &ldquo;New Talent&rdquo; honorees selected by the editors as artists to watch. The list includes artists from all over the world and who work in different mediums, all of them emerging in their own ways.The Summer 2026 issue of Art in America revisits the magazine&rsquo;s long-running &ldquo;New Talent&rdquo; designation, which was initiated in 1954 and ran regularly in the magazine until 1966. The magaz]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-summer-new-talent-issue-names-20-artists-towatch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-summer-new-talent-issue-names-20-artists-towatch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edgar Calel Wins $75,000 Sam Gilliam Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation have named Edgar Calel as the winner of the 2026 Sam Gilliam Award, which comes with $75,000 as well as a public program at a Dia-managed site in the fall.Calel is an artist and poet of Maya Kaqchikel heritage who is based in Chi Xot (San Juan Comalapa), Guatemala, where he was born in 1987. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance, Calel draws on the &ldquo;ancestral knowledge systems, ritual practices, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edgar-calel-wins-75000-sam-gilliamaward/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edgar-calel-wins-75000-sam-gilliamaward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s $1.1 B. Double-Header Shows Growing US Market Strength, Basque Government Snubbed Reina Sofía in ‘Guernica’ Loan Request, and More: Morning Links for May 19, 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!Christie&rsquo;s blockbuster evening sales on Monday point to a bullish market for historic works.Reina Sof&iacute;a&rsquo;s director says Basque leaders never asked the museum for a&nbsp;Guernica&nbsp;loan, and Spanish politicians technically have no authority in the matter.The UK&rsquo;s culture secretary has been urged to investigate allegatio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-11-b-double-header-shows-growing-us-market-strength-basque-government-snubbed-reina-sofa-in-guernica-loan-request-and-more-morning-links-for-may-192026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-11-b-double-header-shows-growing-us-market-strength-basque-government-snubbed-reina-sofa-in-guernica-loan-request-and-more-morning-links-for-may-192026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 Van Gogh Masterpieces that Set Auction Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1990 Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s&nbsp;Portrait of Dr. Gachet&nbsp;stunned the art world when it soared to $82.5 million at Christie&rsquo;s New York, setting a new record for any painting at auction at the time. It was one of several headline-grabbing sales that cemented Van Gogh as one of the market&rsquo;s most coveted names. From swirling fields and blazing cypresses painted in Saint-R&eacute;my to delicate still lifes and portraits from Arles and Auvers-sur-l&rsquo;Oise, Van Gogh&rsquo;s wor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/15-van-gogh-masterpieces-that-set-auctionrecords/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/15-van-gogh-masterpieces-that-set-auctionrecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art in America’s Summer Issue Features 20 “New Talent” Artists, Juicy Art Heist Stories, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[There has been much discussion over the past decade or so about the role of the artist during our tumultuous political times. Looking at the latest crop of Art in America&rsquo;s &ldquo;New Talent&rdquo; artists, I can&rsquo;t help but think that one of artists&rsquo; primary functions during such times is to remind us that few things in this world are truly immutable, and instead that the world is in constant flux and things are perhaps as likely to get better over time as they are to get worse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-summer-issue-features-20-new-talent-artists-juicy-art-heist-stories-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-summer-issue-features-20-new-talent-artists-juicy-art-heist-stories-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Double-Header Totals $1.1 B., With Several Trophy Works Notching New Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of the headlines from Christie&rsquo;s blockbuster evening sales of the S.I. Newhouse collection and 20th-century art on Monday will likely focus on the 8- and 9-figure prices: the $181.2 million Pollock, the $107.6 million Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i, and the $98.4 million Rothko. Those are mind-blowing sums, to be sure, but those works were always going to do well. The sale actually revealed more about the market below $20 million, which experienced a depth of bidding that has been missing from t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-double-header-totals-11-b-with-several-trophy-works-notching-newrecords/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-double-header-totals-11-b-with-several-trophy-works-notching-newrecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Rothko Painting Agnes Gund Hung in Her Living Room Sells for $98 M., Setting a Record]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Mark Rothko painting formerly owned by art patron and longtime Museum of Modern Art president emerita&nbsp;Agnes Gund sold at Christie&rsquo;s on Monday night for a hammer price of $85 million. With fees, the total came to $98.4 million, handily breaking the Abstract Expressionist&rsquo;s auction record.The work started with a $60 million bid and received about a dozen bids from buyers represented by several Christie&rsquo;s specialists, before hammering to strong round of applause to a buyer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mark-rothko-painting-agnes-gund-hung-in-her-living-room-sells-for-98-m-setting-arecord/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mark-rothko-painting-agnes-gund-hung-in-her-living-room-sells-for-98-m-setting-arecord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s S. I. Newhouse Sale Totals $630.8 M., Bringing Cumulative Total to $1 B.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s kicked off its marquee evening auctions this May, with a 16-lot sale of works from the collection of media magnate S .I. Newhouse.The sale, which featured top works by Constantin Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso, totaled a whopping $630.8 million with fees. It also re-set several records.The sale brings the cumulative total of works sold from Newhouse&rsquo;s collection to over $1 billion, after sales in 2018 for one work at $21]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-s-i-newhouse-sale-totals-6308-m-bringing-cumulative-total-to-1b/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-s-i-newhouse-sale-totals-6308-m-bringing-cumulative-total-to-1b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 16 Most Expensive Artworks Ever Sold at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Auction records make for great headlines, like Tuesday&rsquo;s banner sale of Gustav Klimt&rsquo;s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer&nbsp;(1914&ndash;16), which topped $236.4 million at Sotheby&rsquo;s. There&rsquo;s a thrill in watching numbers climb into the stratosphere, each sale another reminder that, in the art market, money has a way of bending reality. But the price of a painting has never been the most interesting thing about it.Look at the list of the most expensive artworks ever sold at a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-16-most-expensive-artworks-ever-sold-atauction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-16-most-expensive-artworks-ever-sold-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional anchors]]></title><description><![CDATA[The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional anchors]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-canine-gaze-dogs-in-western-art-are-surrogate-viewers-and-compositional-anchors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:24:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-canine-gaze-dogs-in-western-art-are-surrogate-viewers-and-compositional-anchors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That presidential biography, narrative of a shipwreck, or forgotten war story? “The days when dad books reigned supreme are gone” ]]></title><description><![CDATA[That presidential biography, narrative of a shipwreck, or forgotten war story? &ldquo;The days when dad books reigned supreme are gone&rdquo;&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/that-presidential-biography-narrative-of-a-shipwreck-or-forgotten-war-story-the-days-when-dad-books-reigned-supreme-are-gone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:24:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/that-presidential-biography-narrative-of-a-shipwreck-or-forgotten-war-story-the-days-when-dad-books-reigned-supreme-are-gone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Substack, young “writers” jockey for status, but virtually none are writing about anything other than the world of writers itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Substack, young &ldquo;writers&rdquo; jockey for status, but virtually none are writing about anything other than the world of writers itself]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-substack-young-writers-jockey-for-status-but-virtually-none-are-writing-about-anything-other-than-the-world-of-writers-itself/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:24:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-substack-young-writers-jockey-for-status-but-virtually-none-are-writing-about-anything-other-than-the-world-of-writers-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[S.I. Newhouse’s 11-Foot-Wide Jackson Pollock Drip Painting Sells for Record-Breaking $181.2 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Jackson Pollock painting formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, once one of the world&rsquo;s most formidable art collectors, sold at Christie&rsquo;s on Monday night for a hammer price of $157 million, breaking the Abstract Expressionist artist&rsquo;s auction record. With fees, the total was brought to $181.2 million.That number officially makes the Pollock one of the most expensive artworks ever auctioned.The work started with a $82 million bid and recieved over 60 bids, from bidde]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/si-newhouses-11-foot-wide-jackson-pollock-drip-painting-sells-for-record-breaking-1812m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/si-newhouses-11-foot-wide-jackson-pollock-drip-painting-sells-for-record-breaking-1812m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[S.I. Newhouse’s Brâncuși Sells at Christie’s for Record-Breaking $107.6 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Constantin Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i sculpture formerly owned by S. I. Newhouse, a media magnate who was at one time among the world&rsquo;s top art collectors, sold at Christie&rsquo;s on Monday night for a hammer price of $93 million, breaking the modernist sculptor&rsquo;s auction record. With fees, the total came to $107.6 millionThe work started with a $82 million bid and recieved half a dozen bids before selling to a buyer represented by Maria Los, deputy chairman, head of client advisory Amer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/si-newhouses-brncui-sells-at-christies-for-record-breaking-1076m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/si-newhouses-brncui-sells-at-christies-for-record-breaking-1076m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architects Behind Frick Renovation Tapped for Louvre’s ‘New Renaissance’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French government announced Monday morning the team of architects who have been selected to overhaul the Louvre in Paris, concluding a protracted selection process marked by staff strikes and the lingering investigation into the jewel heist.&nbsp;The Paris office of STUDIOS Architecture will lead the project, which includes the creation of new galleries and a new lobby. The firm, an international collective founded in 1985 with offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/architects-behind-frick-renovation-tapped-for-louvres-new-renaissance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/architects-behind-frick-renovation-tapped-for-louvres-new-renaissance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Felix Art Fair Founder Mills Morán Steps Back From Gallery Duties]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mor&aacute;n Mor&aacute;n&nbsp;cofounder Mills Mor&aacute;n is stepping away from the day-to-day operations of the Los Angeles gallery he started with his brother, Al Mor&aacute;n.Mills Mor&aacute;n said he will instead focus his attention on&nbsp;Felix Art Fair, the fair he cofounded with Al and collector Dean Valentine in 2018, running alongside Frieze Los Angeles and one of the main stops during the city&rsquo;s fair week each February. Located at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel since its launc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/felix-art-fair-founder-mills-morn-steps-back-from-galleryduties/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/felix-art-fair-founder-mills-morn-steps-back-from-galleryduties/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Nine-Month Journey that Led to Nathaniel Mary Quinn Designing the Rolling Stones’ New Album Cover]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Mary Quinn still sounds a little stunned by the whole affair: Last fall, the painter was in the kitchen of his Brooklyn brownstone when he got on a three-way call with Mick Jagger and producer Andrew Watt. By the end of it, he had agreed to make the cover art for&nbsp;Foreign Tongues, the Rolling Stones&rsquo; new album, due out July 10.&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m standing in my kitchen talking to Mick Jagger,&rdquo; Quinn told me last week over the phone, &ldquo;It was surreal.&rdquo;The r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-wild-nine-month-journey-that-led-to-nathaniel-mary-quinn-designing-the-rolling-stones-new-albumcover/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-wild-nine-month-journey-that-led-to-nathaniel-mary-quinn-designing-the-rolling-stones-new-albumcover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met&rsquo;s Frida &amp; Diego Opera Imagines Feminist Revenge from Beyond the&nbsp;Grave]]></title><description><![CDATA[She is the subject of a current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and an upcoming one at the Tate Modern. Netflix is planning an adaptation of her life. Her unibrowed face stares out from tote bags, murals, notebooks, enamel pins, refrigerator magnets, and dorm-room posters across the globe. A recent auction of The Dream (The Bed), 1940, helped send her market value into yet a higher strata. I speak, of course, of Frida Kahlo.Add to the list a new opera. El &Uacute;ltimo Sue&ntilde;o de Fri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-metrsquos-frida-amp-diego-opera-imagines-feminist-revenge-from-beyond-thenbspgrave/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-metrsquos-frida-amp-diego-opera-imagines-feminist-revenge-from-beyond-thenbspgrave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[M+ in Hong Kong and Centre Pompidou in Paris Plan New Five-Year Partnership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two high-profile museums&mdash;Hong Kong&rsquo;s M+, a contemporary art museum that opened in 2021 in a building designed by Herzog &amp; de Meuron facing Victoria Harbor, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris&rsquo;s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, which closed last year for a long-planned renovation of its Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers building&mdash;have announced a five-year partnership, beginning next year.The plan was announced at M+ on May 15 and reported by the South China Morn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/m-in-hong-kong-and-centre-pompidou-in-paris-plan-new-five-yearpartnership/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/m-in-hong-kong-and-centre-pompidou-in-paris-plan-new-five-yearpartnership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rene Matić Awarded 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rene Mati&#263; was named the winner of the Deutsche B&ouml;rse Photography Foundation Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. They received the &pound;30,000 ($40,250) prize for their exhibition &ldquo;AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH,&rdquo; which closed at CCA Berlin in February.Mati&#263;, who is based in London, works across photography, sculpture, sound, poetry, and film to examine social dynamics of race, gender, and intimacy through the lens of national symbols (flags are a recurr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rene-matiawarded-2026-deutsche-brse-photography-foundationprize/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rene-matiawarded-2026-deutsche-brse-photography-foundationprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pace Gallery Takes Representation of Brâncuși Estate Ahead of $100 M. Sculpture Coming to Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hours before a $100 million sculpture by Constantin Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i is to come to auction, Pace Gallery announced that it had taken global representation of the Romanian modernist&rsquo;s estate.Pace, one of the biggest galleries in the world, added Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i to its roster as a retrospective for the artist continues to travel the world. Organized by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which debuted the exhibition in 2024, the retrospective is currently on view at the Neue Nationalgalerie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-gallery-takes-representation-of-brncui-estate-ahead-of-100-m-sculpture-coming-toauction/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-gallery-takes-representation-of-brncui-estate-ahead-of-100-m-sculpture-coming-toauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Outraged After His Conservationist Mural in Dallas Is Painted Over to Allow for FIFA Promo]]></title><description><![CDATA[A giant mural by conservationist artist Robert Wyland has been painted over in Dallas to make way for a mural promoting FIFA, the international soccer federation.&nbsp;The destroyed piece was one of 100 &ldquo;whaling wall&rdquo; murals that the artist has painted from Osaka to Detroit, and from Sydney to New York. Whaling Wall 1 appears alongside the Pacific Coast Highway and was dedicated in 1981; number 100 was painted outside Wyland&rsquo;s own studio building in 1996.The Dallas mural, Ocean]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-outraged-after-his-conservationist-mural-in-dallas-is-painted-over-to-allow-for-fifapromo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-outraged-after-his-conservationist-mural-in-dallas-is-painted-over-to-allow-for-fifapromo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaire Collector Fred Eychaner Sued Over Chicago Museum Expansion]]></title><description><![CDATA[A legal fight over sunlight, skyline views, and one of Chicago&rsquo;s richest art patrons is now playing out in one of the largest court systems in the United States.Fred Eychaner, the billionaire philanthropist and founder of the private exhibition space Wrightwood 659, is facing a lawsuit from a Lincoln Park condo owner who says the museum&rsquo;s planned expansion will loom over her home and destroy the light and views she spent years renovating around.&nbsp;Lisa Berron, who has lived in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-collector-fred-eychaner-sued-over-chicago-museumexpansion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-collector-fred-eychaner-sued-over-chicago-museumexpansion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Picks Park for Planned Sculpture Garden in D.C.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Friday President Donald Trump said his administration had selected West Potomac Park as the site for his proposed &ldquo;National Garden of American Heroes,&rdquo;&nbsp;an outdoor sculpture park meant to play home to statues of 250 Americans of note.As reported by the Washington Post, the announcement raised questions as to whether congressional approval would be required. &ldquo;West Potomac Park, which sits along the Potomac River near the Jefferson Memorial and the Martin Luther King Jr. M]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-picks-park-for-planned-sculpture-garden-indc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-picks-park-for-planned-sculpture-garden-indc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funding for Ballroom Security Shot Down by Senate Authority, Art Dubai Stages Scaled-Back Edition Delayed by War, and More: Morning Links for May 18, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE LOUVRE&rsquo;S NEW LEASE ON LIFE. France&rsquo;s minister of culture has announced the winners of an architecture competition to renovate the&nbsp;Louvre&nbsp;and build a new room to house the&nbsp;Mona Lisa, reports&nbsp;Le Figaro. The winning designer of the project, known as the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance, is&nbsp;STUDIOS Architecture, a firm that was founded in San Francisco and is now based in Paris. The firm is joined by New York&ndash;based architect&nbsp;Annabelle Selldorf, who will]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/funding-for-ballroom-security-shot-down-by-senate-authority-art-dubai-stages-scaled-back-edition-delayed-by-war-and-more-morning-links-for-may-182026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/funding-for-ballroom-security-shot-down-by-senate-authority-art-dubai-stages-scaled-back-edition-delayed-by-war-and-more-morning-links-for-may-182026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universities preach AI literacy. On campus, the reality looks more like cognitive surrender]]></title><description><![CDATA[Universities preach AI literacy. On campus, the reality looks more like cognitive surrender]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/universities-preach-ai-literacy-on-campus-the-reality-looks-more-like-cognitive-surrender/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:13:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/universities-preach-ai-literacy-on-campus-the-reality-looks-more-like-cognitive-surrender/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Translating Kafka. Borges found freedom in his labyrinths. For Primo Levi, it was like recovering from an illness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Translating Kafka. Borges found freedom in his labyrinths. For Primo Levi, it was like recovering from an illness]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/translating-kafka-borges-found-freedom-in-his-labyrinths-for-primo-levi-it-was-like-recovering-from-an-illness/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:13:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/translating-kafka-borges-found-freedom-in-his-labyrinths-for-primo-levi-it-was-like-recovering-from-an-illness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe was the world's most photographed woman, and among its loneliest. To be wanted is not to be loved]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe was the world's most photographed woman, and among its loneliest. To be wanted is not to be loved]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marilyn-monroe-was-the-worlds-most-photographed-woman-and-among-its-loneliest-to-be-wanted-is-not-to-be-loved/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:13:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marilyn-monroe-was-the-worlds-most-photographed-woman-and-among-its-loneliest-to-be-wanted-is-not-to-be-loved/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TEFAF New York Opened to Crowded Aisles, Bullish Collectors, and Strong Booths]]></title><description><![CDATA[By 4 p.m. on Thursday, the aisles of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory should have started thinning out. Instead, dealers were still pinned into conversations, collectors crowded around vitrines, and the low roar that had echoed though the building since the doors opened for its VIP day at 11 a.m. had barely let up.&ldquo;This is probably the best TEFAF I&rsquo;ve seen for a long time,&rdquo; dealer Sean Kelly said after making several laps around the fair. &ldquo;People are really, reall]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tefaf-new-york-opened-to-crowded-aisles-bullish-collectors-and-strongbooths/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tefaf-new-york-opened-to-crowded-aisles-bullish-collectors-and-strongbooths/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rare Blue-Green Diamond Ring Sold for Over $17 M. At Christie’s Geneva]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, a 5.5-carat diamond ring sold for over $17 million dollars during Christie&rsquo;s Magnificent Jewels auction in Zurich. The triangular-cut stone, known as Ocean Dream, thanks to its blue-green color, had an estimate of about $9-12 million. It is set into an 18-karat white gold band and surrounded by pink and white diamonds.Fortune magazine reported that the buyer was an unnamed private client and that the ring took 20 minute to sell.Max Fawcett, Global Head of Christie&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-blue-green-diamond-ring-sold-for-over-17-m-at-christiesgeneva/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-blue-green-diamond-ring-sold-for-over-17-m-at-christiesgeneva/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catalonia Sues Aragón for €791,000 for Repayment Over Restitution of 56 Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Catalan government in Spain sent a formal demand to the Aragonese government asking for &euro;791,000 (around $920,000) to recoup costs related to the value and upkeep of artworks from the Royal Monastery of Santa Mar&iacute;a de Sigena it was ordered to return in 2017, according to a report in El Pa&iacute;s.Of the 56 works, 12 had been kept at the National Art Museum of Catalonia and 44 at the Diocesan Museum of Lleida. The works were removed from the monastery in 1936 to protect them from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/catalonia-sues-aragn-for-791000-for-repayment-over-restitution-of-56artworks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/catalonia-sues-aragn-for-791000-for-repayment-over-restitution-of-56artworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Than 100 Seattle Art Museum Workers Plan to Unionize]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 100 Seattle Art Museum employees announced plans this week to unionize, joining the nationwide labor movement that&rsquo;s swept through art institutions in the last six years.&nbsp;The union, called&nbsp;the Seattle Art Museum Workers United, will represent workers in over 20 front- and back-end departments. The union told SAM director and CEO Scott Stulen of its formation in a letter, writing: &ldquo;Our solidarity is a movement to improve working conditions in alignment with SAM&rsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-than-100-seattle-art-museum-workers-plan-tounionize/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-than-100-seattle-art-museum-workers-plan-tounionize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s Wellcome Collection to Transfer 2,000 Manuscripts to Jain Community, But They Will Stay in UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wellcome Collection in London announced Friday its plans to return 2,000 manuscripts to the Jain community.In an unusual move, however, they will not be returned to Pakistan, where many of the manuscripts were purchased a century ago, or to India, where the majority of Jains live today. Instead, they will head to the University of Birmingham&rsquo;s Dharmanath Network in Jain Studies, which was established in 2023 and is wholly financed by Jain communities living in the UK, the US, and India]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-wellcome-collection-to-transfer-2000-manuscripts-to-jain-community-but-they-will-stay-inuk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-wellcome-collection-to-transfer-2000-manuscripts-to-jain-community-but-they-will-stay-inuk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egypt Unveils a Hidden Tomb of 3,500-Year-Old Coffins at Luxor’s Abu el-Naga]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archeological mission has made several new discoveries this season while excavating at the Abu El-Naga necropolis near Luxor. The announcement was made by Egypt&rsquo;s Supreme Council of Antiquities.Among the most important finds of the season was a cache of ten well preserved, painted wooden coffins that had been hidden in the shaft of the courtyard of the tomb of Baki. The coffins, featuring brightly painted scenes and hieroglyphic inscriptions, were likely moved from their origin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egypt-unveils-a-hidden-tomb-of-3500-year-old-coffins-at-luxors-abuel-naga/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egypt-unveils-a-hidden-tomb-of-3500-year-old-coffins-at-luxors-abuel-naga/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egypt Unearths a Hidden Cache of 3,500-Year-Old Coffins at Luxor’s Abu el-Naga]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archeological mission has made several new discoveries this season while excavating at the Abu El-Naga necropolis near Luxor. The announcement was made by Egypt&rsquo;s Supreme Council of Antiquities.Among the most important finds of the season was a cache of ten well preserved, painted wooden coffins that had been hidden in the shaft of the courtyard of the tomb of Baki. The coffins, featuring brightly painted scenes and hieroglyphic inscriptions, were likely moved from their origin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egypt-unearths-a-hidden-cache-of-3500-year-old-coffins-at-luxors-abuel-naga/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egypt-unearths-a-hidden-cache-of-3500-year-old-coffins-at-luxors-abuel-naga/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Megadealer Larry Gagosian Is the Subject of Unauthorized Documentary In the Works from Director Barry Avrich]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York art dealer Larry Gagosian is the stuff of legend, a self-made man who rose from selling posters on the streets of LA to hobnobbing with celebrities, bidding on artworks for hundreds of millions of dollars, and occasionally even dating artists decades his junior. Art world insiders devoured Patrick Radden Keefe&rsquo;s sprawling, 17,000-word profile of the dealer, &ldquo;How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World,&rdquo; in the New Yorker in 2023, but he&rsquo;s the kind of art dealer who]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/megadealer-larry-gagosian-is-the-subject-of-unauthorized-documentary-in-the-works-from-director-barryavrich/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/megadealer-larry-gagosian-is-the-subject-of-unauthorized-documentary-in-the-works-from-director-barryavrich/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Planned Miami Presidential Library Faces New Lawsuit Over Land Transfer]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of Miami residents and a local nonprofit have sued President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Miami Dade College, and members of the Florida Cabinet over plans for Trump&rsquo;s future presidential library, arguing that the transfer of a prime stretch of downtown waterfront land violates the U.S. Constitution.&nbsp;According to the&nbsp;Associated Press,&nbsp;the lawsuit centers on a 2.63-acre parcel next to Miami&rsquo;s historic Freedom Tower that was transferred from Miami Dad]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-planned-miami-presidential-library-faces-new-lawsuit-over-landtransfer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-planned-miami-presidential-library-faces-new-lawsuit-over-landtransfer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Expensive Jean-Michel Basquiat Works Ever Sold at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[The years 1981 to 1984 were a brief period of intense artistic output that cemented Jean-Michel Basquiat&rsquo;s place within the canon of art history. Initially working under the moniker SAMO, Basquiat, a friend of artist Keith Haring and actress Patti Astor, became an integral member of the social circle around the Mudd Club, the night club&ndash;gallery hybrid that defined downtown that decade. In 1981, Mudd Club cofounder Diego Cortez put the 21-year-old Basquiat&mdash;then known mainly as a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-expensive-jean-michel-basquiat-works-ever-sold-atauction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-expensive-jean-michel-basquiat-works-ever-sold-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photographer and Activist Claudia Andujar, Known for Documenting Yanomami People of Brazil, Is the Subject of a New Biopic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oscar-Nominated Sentimental Value star&nbsp;Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas&nbsp;will join The Secret Agent lead&nbsp;Wagner Moura&nbsp;on Brazilian film The Outsider, where Ibsdotter Lilleaas will have the central role. &nbsp;Bringing together stars of the two biggest non-English language movies at this year&rsquo;s Academy Awards, The Outsider (A Estrangeira) is produced by S&atilde;o Paulo&rsquo;s&nbsp;Maria Farinha Filmes&nbsp;and written and directed by Brazilian filmmaker&nbsp;Sandra Delgado&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photographer-and-activist-claudia-andujar-known-for-documenting-yanomami-people-of-brazil-is-the-subject-of-a-newbiopic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photographer-and-activist-claudia-andujar-known-for-documenting-yanomami-people-of-brazil-is-the-subject-of-a-newbiopic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rothko Leads Sotheby’s $433.1 M. Contemporary Art Sale, UK Returns Artifacts to Ethiopia, and More: Morning Links for May 15, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Sotheby&rsquo;s kicked off the May marquee auction season with a $433.1 million result at its modern and contemporary art evening sales.Australia&rsquo;s Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal people say a $107 million payout from a recent land title compensation ruling, which recognized damage to their cultural heritage sites, is not enough.The King&rsquo;s Own Royal Regiment Museum Trust in the UK has returned artifacts to Ethiopia that were taken during the Anglo-Indian Expedition of 186]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-leads-sothebys-4331-m-contemporary-art-sale-uk-returns-artifacts-to-ethiopia-and-more-morning-links-for-may-152026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-leads-sothebys-4331-m-contemporary-art-sale-uk-returns-artifacts-to-ethiopia-and-more-morning-links-for-may-152026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Erased Vermeer, Two Books, and No Consensus]]></title><description><![CDATA[A room sits empty, save for a lone chair and a shaft of golden light. Yet in the details&mdash;a patterned marble floor, blue Delft tiles, a stained-glass window pane&mdash;the setting for George Deem&rsquo;s painting Extended Vermeer (2000) is unmistakably a 17th-century Dutch home. What other period&rsquo;s interiors have become so immediately legible, and psychologically captivating, to contemporary viewers? Thanks to the work of Johannes Vermeer, the quiet simplicity of a world four centurie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/one-erased-vermeer-two-books-and-noconsensus/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/one-erased-vermeer-two-books-and-noconsensus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rothko from Robert Mnuchin’s Estate Sells for $85.8 M., Leading Sotheby’s New York’s $433.1 M. Contemporary Art Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[At its Madison Avenue headquarters, Sotheby&rsquo;s kicked off the May auction season early, smack in the middle of the opening of art fairs all around Manhattan, with a solid if unexciting $433.1 million sale of modern and contemporary art, led by an $85.8 million canvas by Mark Rothko. Major auctions at Christie&rsquo;s and Phillips will follow next week. The equivalent sale last year tallied just $186.1 million.&ldquo;The sale was robust, and it felt authentic,&rdquo; said New York adviser La]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-from-robert-mnuchins-estate-sells-for-858-m-leading-sothebys-new-yorks-4331-m-contemporary-artsale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 03:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-from-robert-mnuchins-estate-sells-for-858-m-leading-sothebys-new-yorks-4331-m-contemporary-artsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rothko from Robert Mnuchin’s Estate Sells for $85.8 M., Leading Sotheby’s New York’s $389.3 M. Contemporary Art Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[At its Madison Avenue headquarters, Sotheby&rsquo;s kicked off the May auction season early, smack in the middle of the opening of art fairs all around Manhattan, with a solid if unexciting $389.3 million sale of modern and contemporary art, led by an $85.8 million canvas by Mark Rothko. Major auctions at Christie&rsquo;s and Phillips will follow next week. The equivalent sale last year tallied just $186.1 million.&ldquo;The sale was robust, and it felt authentic,&rdquo; said New York adviser La]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-from-robert-mnuchins-estate-sells-for-858-m-leading-sothebys-new-yorks-3893-m-contemporary-artsale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 03:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-from-robert-mnuchins-estate-sells-for-858-m-leading-sothebys-new-yorks-3893-m-contemporary-artsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Debuts and Inspired Duos Define the Can’t-Miss Booths at Independent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Far from the hubbub of Frieze&rsquo;s monster midtown affair sits Independent, newly relocated to Pier 36, a 70,000-square-foot venue on Manhattan&rsquo;s Lower East Side. It remains the most refined offering in New York Art Week&rsquo;s buffet of fairs, though the term &ldquo;boutique&rdquo; may soon feel strained: the new location is more than double the size of the fair&rsquo;s former home at Spring Studios, accommodating an expanded roster of exhibitors and ambitions. (The venue&rsquo;s arch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-debuts-and-inspired-duos-define-the-cant-miss-booths-atindependent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 01:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-debuts-and-inspired-duos-define-the-cant-miss-booths-atindependent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Mnuchin’s Rothko Sells at Sotheby’s for $85.8 M., Narrowly Missing a Record]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Mark Rothko painting formerly owned by the influential art dealer Robert Mnuchin sold at Sotheby&rsquo;s on Thursday night for $85.8 million, just barely failing to re-set the Abstract Expressionist&rsquo;s auction record. Still, the painting is officially the second-most expensive Rothko ever sold at auction.Rothko&rsquo;s Color Field paintings of the postwar era regularly sell for vast sums at auction. But few have sold for quite as much as Brown and Blacks in Reds, the 1957 abstraction that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-mnuchins-rothko-sells-at-sothebys-for-858-m-narrowly-missing-arecord/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-mnuchins-rothko-sells-at-sothebys-for-858-m-narrowly-missing-arecord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valie Export, Groundbreaking Feminist Artist Who Questioned the Nature of Art, Dies at 85]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valie Export, whose groundbreaking work questioned the very nature of art and cinema, all through an explicitly feminist lens, has died at 85. The news was confirmed by Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, which represents her. Her death on May 14 came three days before her 86th birthday, according to AFP.&ldquo;VALIE was one of the most visionary feminist artists to emerge in Europe in the second half of the 20th century,&rdquo; dealer Thaddaeus Ropac said in a statement. &ldquo;Her passing marks the loss]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valie-export-groundbreaking-feminist-artist-who-questioned-the-nature-of-art-dies-at85/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valie-export-groundbreaking-feminist-artist-who-questioned-the-nature-of-art-dies-at85/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, and More Sign Letter Defending Southbank Centre Chair]]></title><description><![CDATA[A letter signed by such luminaries as environmental activist Greta Thunberg and artists Tracy Emin and Peter Doig is presently circulating in support of Misan Harriman, chair of the London-based arts organization Southbank Centre, reports the Guardian newspaper.	The letter asserts that Harriman is the victim of what it calls a &ldquo;dishonest smear campaign&rdquo; by British newspaper the Telegraph and other right-wing news outlets, which accuse him of promoting conspiracies and comparing the B]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-doig-tracey-emin-and-more-sign-letter-defending-southbank-centrechair/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 23:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-doig-tracey-emin-and-more-sign-letter-defending-southbank-centrechair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[T.M. Scanlon’s 1982 essay “Contractualism and Utilitarianism” heralded the emergence of a new ethical theory]]></title><description><![CDATA[T.M. Scanlon&rsquo;s 1982 essay &ldquo;Contractualism and Utilitarianism&rdquo; heralded the emergence of a new ethical theory]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tm-scanlons-1982-essay-contractualism-and-utilitarianism-heralded-the-emergence-of-a-new-ethical-theory/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:39:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tm-scanlons-1982-essay-contractualism-and-utilitarianism-heralded-the-emergence-of-a-new-ethical-theory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud, naïve, ham fisted, needy. The American tourist used to be regarded as the most obnoxious creature in the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Loud, na&iuml;ve, ham fisted, needy. The American tourist used to be regarded as the most obnoxious creature in the world]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loud-nave-ham-fisted-needy-the-american-tourist-used-to-be-regarded-as-the-most-obnoxious-creature-in-the-world/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:39:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loud-nave-ham-fisted-needy-the-american-tourist-used-to-be-regarded-as-the-most-obnoxious-creature-in-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life]]></title><description><![CDATA[He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-was-a-spy-a-zen-priest-a-fisherman-and-a-bigfoot-obsessive-peter-matthiessen-never-had-just-one-life/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:39:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-was-a-spy-a-zen-priest-a-fisherman-and-a-bigfoot-obsessive-peter-matthiessen-never-had-just-one-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at NADA New York, From Quietly Ominous Ceramics to Ecstatic Jazz Paintings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Art Dealers Alliance opened the 12th edition of NADA New York on Wednesday, coinciding again with the start of Frieze just five blocks north.Those who made the trip to Chelsea&rsquo;s Starrett-Lehigh building on West 26th Street and 11th Avenue were greeted by not just NADA, but also 1-54, which hosts its New York fair on the first floor. Two floors up, NADA occupied most of the third floor, flooded on either end with bright natural light from banks of floor-to-ceiling windows.This year&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-nada-new-york-from-quietly-ominous-ceramics-to-ecstatic-jazzpaintings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-nada-new-york-from-quietly-ominous-ceramics-to-ecstatic-jazzpaintings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, From Surrealist Fantasias to Afro-Brazilian Imaginings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is back at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea&mdash;just a few blocks from Frieze New York and in the same building at NADA&mdash;with more than 20 galleries from the continent and other ports of call for the &ldquo;ever-expanding narratives of the African diaspora,&rdquo; as fair director Touria El Glaoui&nbsp;described it. Spirits were high during the opening preview on Wednesday, when an international roster of galleries&mdash;including first-time f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-from-surrealist-fantasias-to-afro-brazilianimaginings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-from-surrealist-fantasias-to-afro-brazilianimaginings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frick Inks Three-Year Partnership with Louis Vuitton, with Support for Exhibitions and Free Fridays]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Frick Collection in New York has announced a three-year partnership with Louis Vuitton that will see the fashion house sponsor a number of initiatives at the museum.Louis Vuitton will be the lead sponsor of three of the Frick&rsquo;s upcoming exhibitions: &ldquo;Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450&ndash;1500,&rdquo; which will look at the Italian city as an epicenter for innovation in bronze during the Renaissance, opening this fall; &ldquo;Painting with Fire: Susanne de Court and the Art of Enam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frick-inks-three-year-partnership-with-louis-vuitton-with-support-for-exhibitions-and-freefridays/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frick-inks-three-year-partnership-with-louis-vuitton-with-support-for-exhibitions-and-freefridays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch Designer Iris van Herpen’s High-Tech Garments Are On View in a Mid-Career Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2010,&nbsp;Iris van Herpen, only three years after establishing her eponymous couture brand, sent the first 3D-printed garment down the runway as part of her &ldquo;Crystallization&rdquo; collection. A top evoking the skeletal structure of a snake with its ivory-colored coils of 3D-printed polyamide, the piece was a collaboration with British architect Daniel Widrig.&ldquo;It was a big moment,&rdquo; says van Herpen, 41, as she contemplates the look on a form in the Brooklyn Museum galleries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dutch-designer-iris-van-herpens-high-tech-garments-are-on-view-in-a-mid-career-retrospective-at-the-brooklynmuseum/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dutch-designer-iris-van-herpens-high-tech-garments-are-on-view-in-a-mid-career-retrospective-at-the-brooklynmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Nicole Kidman Doing in a Christie’s Video Promoting the Upcoming S.I. Newhouse Sale?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five days before a trove of 16 masterpieces from the late media magnate S.I. Newhouse is set to hit the block as part of Christie&rsquo;s New York evening sales, the auction house has released a two-minute video promoting one particular sculpture in the sale.	The short film, as Christie&rsquo;s refers to it, was filmed in early May and features none other than Academy Award&ndash;winning actress Nicole Kidman starring alongside Constantin Brancusi&rsquo;s bronze sculpture&nbsp;Dana&iuml;de&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-nicole-kidman-doing-in-a-christies-video-promoting-the-upcoming-si-newhousesale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-nicole-kidman-doing-in-a-christies-video-promoting-the-upcoming-si-newhousesale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspect Is Taken into Custody in Decade-Long Louvre Ticketing Scam]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Louvre employee was indicted and detained on Wednesday on charges including organized gang fraud as part of an investigation into a scheme to defraud the Paris museum of ticket fees for thousands of visitors. Six others had been placed in custody &ldquo;because of the communications they may have had with the first defendants,&rdquo; the public prosecutor said, per Le Monde.&nbsp;The indicted employee also faces charges of use of forgery, assistance in the entry and circulation of a foreigner]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/suspect-is-taken-into-custody-in-decade-long-louvre-ticketingscam/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/suspect-is-taken-into-custody-in-decade-long-louvre-ticketingscam/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[J.M.W. Turner’s Most Famous Self-Portrait Might Not Actually Be by the Artist at All]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of J.M.W. Turner&rsquo;s most self-portraits, which appears on the &pound;20 note, may not be by the artist at all.Art historian James Hamilton, who has written widely on Turner, curated exhibitions on the artist, and authored the 1997 biography Turner&mdash;A Life, told the Guardian this week that he believes the painting has been misattributed to Turner. While the painting, dated to ca. 1799, does depict the English Romantic painter, he said, he believes it to have been painted by John Opi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jmw-turners-most-famous-self-portrait-might-not-actually-be-by-the-artist-atall/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jmw-turners-most-famous-self-portrait-might-not-actually-be-by-the-artist-atall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Installation at the British Museum Recreates the Bayeux Tapestry’s Landscape]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the run-up to the British Museum&rsquo;s historic presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the institution will open &ldquo;Tapestry of Trees,&rdquo; an outdoor installation by garden designer Andy Sturgeon. Meant to evoke a medieval woodland, the installation will be composed of plants and trees typically found in East Sussex, where the Battle of Hastings&mdash;the primary subject of the tapestry&mdash;was fought in 1066 CE. &nbsp;Visitors approaching the museum&rsquo;s doors will pass under a c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-installation-at-the-british-museum-recreates-the-bayeux-tapestryslandscape/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-installation-at-the-british-museum-recreates-the-bayeux-tapestryslandscape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Independent, Joel Mesler’s ‘Death Wish’ Is Part Art Exhibit, Part Market Experiment]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a coffee shop in Little Italy late last month, Joel Mesler leaned back in his chair and started explaining how he used to sell art in New York. Back when he was running galleries in the Lower East Side in the late 2000s and early 2010s, he said, deals often came together late at night, after too many drinks, as he mingled with people who he thought were far above his station.&ldquo;I would want to be at the table, but I wasn&rsquo;t invited,&rdquo; Mesler said, pausing to sip an iced coffee.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-independent-joel-meslers-death-wish-is-part-art-exhibit-part-marketexperiment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-independent-joel-meslers-death-wish-is-part-art-exhibit-part-marketexperiment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trial Begins in Brent Sikkema Murder-For-Hire Case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opening statements and witness testimony were heard in a Manhattan court on Tuesday in the murder-for-hire trial following the 2024 killing of New York art dealer Brent Sikkeman.Sikkema was found brutally murdered in January 2024 in his Rio de Janeiro apartment. Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just days later, and claimed that the dealer&rsquo;s ex-husband, Daniel Carrera Sikkema, had offered him $200,000 to carry out the crime. Carrera Sikkema was arrested tw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trial-begins-in-brent-sikkema-murder-for-hirecase/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trial-begins-in-brent-sikkema-murder-for-hirecase/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s Neue Galerie to Merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in Major Expansion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York&rsquo;s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution&rsquo;s modern art offerings.The New York Times reports that the merger will take place in 2028 and that the Neue Galerie will now be known as the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, or the Met Neue for short. (The latter institution is located in a townhouse at the corner of Fifth Ave]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-neue-galerie-to-merge-with-metropolitan-museum-of-art-in-majorexpansion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-neue-galerie-to-merge-with-metropolitan-museum-of-art-in-majorexpansion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met Teams Up with Band-Aid on Art-Themed Adhesive Bandages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following the success of their 2025 collaboration, BAND-AID&reg; Brand and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have reunited to produce a new lineup of art-themed adhesive bandages. This year, the band-aids feature details from three flower paintings in the Met&rsquo;s collection: Impressionist painter Claude Monet&rsquo;s Water Lilies (1919), Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s Irises (1890), and Symbolist artist Odilon Redon&rsquo;s Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1900&ndash;1905).The 2026 Band-Aid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-teams-up-with-band-aid-on-art-themed-adhesivebandages/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-teams-up-with-band-aid-on-art-themed-adhesivebandages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hungary’s New Minister of Culture Vows to Restore Artistic Freedom, Turner’s Famous ‘Self-Portrait’ Called Into Doubt, and More: Morning Links for May 14, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!An expert claims the iconic image of&nbsp;JMW Turner&nbsp;printed on British banknotes was never his self-portrait.Hungary&rsquo;s new minister of culture,&nbsp;Zolt&aacute;n Tarr,&nbsp;shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene.The&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;administration is charging ahead with the building of a contested&nbsp;Triumphal Arch&nbsp;and a&nbsp;White House&nbsp;ballroom.The Headlines	AN ABOUT-TURNER. Most will immediately recognize the f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hungarys-new-minister-of-culture-vows-to-restore-artistic-freedom-turners-famous-self-portrait-called-into-doubt-and-more-morning-links-for-may-142026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hungarys-new-minister-of-culture-vows-to-restore-artistic-freedom-turners-famous-self-portrait-called-into-doubt-and-more-morning-links-for-may-142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coco Fusco and Jeffrey Gibson’s Public Lectures, Free Admission at MCA Denver, and More: Industry Moves for May 13, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;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.Industry Moves	Coco Fusco and Jeffrey Gibson Named Speakers for Johns Hopkins&rsquo;s Sam Gilliam Lecture Series:&nbsp;The artists will each deliver a free talk at the university&rsquo;s Bloomberg Cente]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/coco-fusco-and-jeffrey-gibsons-public-lectures-free-admission-at-mca-denver-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-132026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 01:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/coco-fusco-and-jeffrey-gibsons-public-lectures-free-admission-at-mca-denver-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze New York Kicks Off with Seven-Figure Sales and High Energy: ‘It’s a Fiesta’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.A high level of energy was palpable at the preview day of the Frieze New York art fair on Wednesday. Many attendees at the Shed, on Manhattan&rsquo;s West Side, were fresh off a return trip from Italy, where the Venice Biennale opened to the public on Saturday, and many were still comparing notes on bes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-new-york-kicks-off-with-seven-figure-sales-and-high-energy-its-afiesta/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-new-york-kicks-off-with-seven-figure-sales-and-high-energy-its-afiesta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Abstract Painter Who Refused to Conform, Dies at 84]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Lovelace O&rsquo;Neal, whose gestural abstractions consistently ran against the grain, defying the demands placed upon Black painters by critics and artists alike, died on Sunday in M&eacute;rida, Mexico. She was 84. Her galleries, Jenkins Johnson and Marianne Boesky, announced her passing on Wednesday.Lovelace O&rsquo;Neal produced sprawling paints defined by tangles of drippy, roiled strokes. This was a style that placed her outside the orthodoxy of Minimalism, the dominant movement when]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mary-lovelace-oneal-abstract-painter-who-refused-to-conform-dies-at84/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mary-lovelace-oneal-abstract-painter-who-refused-to-conform-dies-at84/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicholas Christakis was at the center of Yale's Halloween controversy. He wants to move on. The culture war has other ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nicholas Christakis was at the center of Yale's Halloween controversy. He wants to move on. The culture war has other ideas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nicholas-christakis-was-at-the-center-of-yales-halloween-controversy-he-wants-to-move-on-the-culture-war-has-other-ideas/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:37:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nicholas-christakis-was-at-the-center-of-yales-halloween-controversy-he-wants-to-move-on-the-culture-war-has-other-ideas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in Berlin during World War II was like dancing on a volcano — full of raucous parties between the bombing raids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Living in Berlin during World War II was like dancing on a volcano &mdash; full of raucous parties between the bombing raids]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/living-in-berlin-during-world-war-ii-was-like-dancing-on-a-volcano-full-of-raucous-parties-between-the-bombing-raids/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:37:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/living-in-berlin-during-world-war-ii-was-like-dancing-on-a-volcano-full-of-raucous-parties-between-the-bombing-raids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberal democracy and liberal education fell together. To save the first, we must resurrect the second]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liberal democracy and liberal education fell together. To save the first, we must resurrect the second]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liberal-democracy-and-liberal-education-fell-together-to-save-the-first-we-must-resurrect-the-second/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:37:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liberal-democracy-and-liberal-education-fell-together-to-save-the-first-we-must-resurrect-the-second/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Frieze New York, From Cindy Sherman’s Newest Photos to UFOs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cashing in typically comes before supporting artists at art fairs, and Frieze New York is no different from the rest in that regard. The main priority for dealers is to make money, and the point for attendees is to spend it, if not on art, then at least on overpriced coffees and sandwiches. Which is to say little of the entrance fee, which can reach $200, a sum I was fortunate not to have paid as an industry professional. There are, in any case, plenty of better places to see art in New York tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-frieze-new-york-from-cindy-shermans-newest-photos-toufos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-frieze-new-york-from-cindy-shermans-newest-photos-toufos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Advances Bill Granting Sweeping Civilian Authority over West Bank Archaeological Sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel advanced a bill on Tuesday that would expand Israeli civilian authority sweeping authority over antiquities and archaeology in the occupied West Bank, a move that human rights groups warned would lead to the annexation of the Palestinian territory.As first reported by Haaretz, the Likud-backed bill would empower a new government body under the purview of the Israeli heritage minister to purchase and expropriate land. The proposed &ldquo;Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority&rdquo;&mdash;us]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-advances-bill-granting-sweeping-civilian-authority-over-west-bank-archaeologicalsites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 22:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-advances-bill-granting-sweeping-civilian-authority-over-west-bank-archaeologicalsites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Alleges Hair Dress in the Met’s ‘Costume Art’ Show Copies Her Design]]></title><description><![CDATA[An artist has accused Andrew Bolton, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute&rsquo;s spring 2026 exhibition, of displaying and collecting what she has described as a &ldquo;counterfeit&rdquo; of her work, without credit or compensation.In a series of now-viral Instagram posts, the first of which was published on May 11, the London-based sculptor, textile designer, and filmmaker Anouska Samms claimed joint-authorship of Corpus Nervina 0.0, a garment included in the recently op]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-alleges-hair-dress-in-the-mets-costume-art-show-copies-herdesign/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-alleges-hair-dress-in-the-mets-costume-art-show-copies-herdesign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Parliament Accuses Louvre of Prioritizing ‘Prestige And Influence’ Over Security Prior to Jewel Heist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alexis Corbi&egrave;re and Alexandre Portier, the French MPs overseeing the government commission investigating the shocking October 19, 2025, Louvre jewel heist, have accused the museum of deprioritizing security at the museum.The full parliamentary report was released today and also casts doubt on French president Emmanuel Macron&rsquo;s nearly $1 billion plan to revamp the Louvre, which he announced in January 2025 (nine months before the heist) and referred to as a &ldquo;new renaissance&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-parliament-accuses-louvre-of-prioritizing-prestige-and-influence-over-security-prior-to-jewelheist/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-parliament-accuses-louvre-of-prioritizing-prestige-and-influence-over-security-prior-to-jewelheist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran Pushes Back on Venice Biennale Withdrawal Reports: ‘We’re Still Coming’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, the Venice Biennale announced that Iran had dropped out of the exhibition. Now, it appears, that report was incorrect.On Tuesday, Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani, the director-general of visual arts at the Iranian ministry of culture and Islamic guidance told the Iran Students News Agency that it still plans to participate.&ldquo;Iran never withdrew from participating in the Venice Biennale,&rdquo; Tehrani said, as translated by Google Translate. &ldquo;Incidentally, we had the initial agree]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iran-pushes-back-on-venice-biennale-withdrawal-reports-were-stillcoming/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iran-pushes-back-on-venice-biennale-withdrawal-reports-were-stillcoming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Announces 314 New Acquisitions During 50th Anniversary Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian&rsquo;s&nbsp;Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden&nbsp;used its 50th anniversary year to dramatically expand its collection, announcing 314 new acquisitions in 2025 that reflect a broader push into photography, mixed-media work, and artists shaping contemporary American visual culture.&nbsp;The acquisitions range from large-scale mixed-media works by&nbsp;Lorna Simpson,&nbsp;Sarah Sze, and&nbsp;Mickalene Thomas&nbsp;to documentary photography by&nbsp;Danny Lyon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Gra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-gardenannounces-314-new-acquisitions-during-50th-anniversaryyear/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-gardenannounces-314-new-acquisitions-during-50th-anniversaryyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Announces 312 New Acquisitions During 50th Anniversary Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian&rsquo;s&nbsp;Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden&nbsp;used its 50th anniversary year to dramatically expand its collection, announcing 312 new acquisitions in 2025 that reflect a broader push into photography, mixed-media work, and artists shaping contemporary American visual culture.&nbsp;The acquisitions range from large-scale mixed-media works by&nbsp;Lorna Simpson and&nbsp;Mickalene Thomas&nbsp;to documentary photography by&nbsp;Danny Lyon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Graciela Iturbide, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-gardenannounces-312-new-acquisitions-during-50th-anniversaryyear/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-gardenannounces-312-new-acquisitions-during-50th-anniversaryyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Controversies Continue, French Parliament Report Finds Flaws in Museum Security, and More: Morning Links for May 13, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Iran denies ever withdrawing from the&nbsp;Venice Biennale, and the&nbsp;Somalia Pavilion&nbsp;sparks controversy.A new report led by&nbsp;France&lsquo;s parliament has revealed wide-ranging flaws in the country&rsquo;s museum security management.US Interior Department&nbsp;staff are concerned that&nbsp;Trump&lsquo;s&nbsp;Lincoln Memorial&nbsp;Reflecting Pool repairs are behind schedule and of poor quality.The Headlines	VEXED IN VENICE. News from this year&rsquo;s politically mired&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-controversies-continue-french-parliament-report-finds-flaws-in-museum-security-and-more-morning-links-for-may-132026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-controversies-continue-french-parliament-report-finds-flaws-in-museum-security-and-more-morning-links-for-may-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodies, Bodies, Bodies: Artists Revisit the Nude in Shows Across New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[This spring in New York, it&rsquo;s bodies, bodies, bodies, with artists across the city reveling in the pleasures of the flesh and the horror of harm done upon it. These are themes that are core to at least one major museum show on view in the city&mdash;the New Museum&rsquo;s exquisite &ldquo;New Humans: Memories of the Future&rdquo;&mdash;and that may be one reason we&rsquo;re seeing so much body-oriented art right now. But more than simply meditating on all matters corporeal, a smattering of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bodies-bodies-bodies-artists-revisit-the-nude-in-shows-across-newyork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bodies-bodies-bodies-artists-revisit-the-nude-in-shows-across-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weirdness of quantum matter. A seemingly simple question — what is the world made of? — might have a surprising answer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The weirdness of quantum matter. A seemingly simple question &mdash; what is the world made of? &mdash; might have a surprising answer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-weirdness-of-quantum-matter-a-seemingly-simple-question-what-is-the-world-made-of-might-have-a-surprising-answer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:28:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-weirdness-of-quantum-matter-a-seemingly-simple-question-what-is-the-world-made-of-might-have-a-surprising-answer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s been over a decade, and scholars of the new history of capitalism have no more sense of a system now than when they began. What went wrong?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been over a decade, and scholars of the new history of capitalism have no more sense of a system now than when they began. What went wrong?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/its-been-over-a-decade-and-scholars-of-the-new-history-of-capitalism-have-no-more-sense-of-a-system-now-than-when-they-began-what-went-wrong/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:28:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/its-been-over-a-decade-and-scholars-of-the-new-history-of-capitalism-have-no-more-sense-of-a-system-now-than-when-they-began-what-went-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“If you’re in a household where the currency is stories, it’s an environment which is conducive to learning those tricks”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re in a household where the currency is stories, it&rsquo;s an environment which is conducive to learning those tricks&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/if-youre-in-a-household-where-the-currency-is-stories-its-an-environment-which-is-conducive-to-learning-those-tricks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:28:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/if-youre-in-a-household-where-the-currency-is-stories-its-an-environment-which-is-conducive-to-learning-those-tricks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Sued Over Wildly Over-Budget Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Changes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington-area nonprofit focused on historic preservation, has sued the Trump administration over its controversial makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, arguing that federal officials failed to follow legally required review procedures before coating the basin in a bright blue surface.&nbsp;Filed Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., the lawsuit seeks to halt work on the project through a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunct]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-sued-over-wildly-over-budget-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-poolchanges/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-sued-over-wildly-over-budget-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-poolchanges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leading French Gallery Air de Paris Is Declaring Bankruptcy and Closing After 36 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Air de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery&rsquo;s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, tell Cultured.&nbsp;Bonnefous says the gallery owes money only to the landlord and the bank, not her artists. The gallery is closing, per Cultured, due to its &ldquo;fragile&rdquo; finances as well as the founders&rsquo; health (Bonnefous suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Mennino also has unspe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leading-french-gallery-air-de-paris-is-declaring-bankruptcy-and-closing-after-36years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leading-french-gallery-air-de-paris-is-declaring-bankruptcy-and-closing-after-36years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothing Brand Hurley Is Collaborating with Keith Haring Estate on Capsule Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[The streetwear brand Hurley, which is known for surf and swim apparel, has released a capsule collection inspired by Keith Haring, one of the most recognizable and oft-licensed American artists.The collection includes cotton T-shirts, board shirts, bucket and trucker hats, bathing suits, and sweatshirts for men and women, with prices ranging from $28 (a black mesh trucker hat featuring one of Haring&rsquo;s blue dancing figures astride a two-legged figure that looks like some kind of dolphin/hum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/clothing-brand-hurley-is-collaborating-with-keith-haring-estate-on-capsulecollection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/clothing-brand-hurley-is-collaborating-with-keith-haring-estate-on-capsulecollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across Venice, Artists Defy Censorship to Mourn and Memorialize Gaza]]></title><description><![CDATA[Entering the main exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale, &ldquo;In Minor Keys,&rdquo; from the Arsenale, the first artwork one encounters is a poem. &ldquo;If I must die / you must live / to tell my story,&rdquo; the poem by Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer begins. Those lines became a rallying cry for the pro-Palestine movement after Alareer was killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike in December 2023, and have since achieved a ubiquity that once seemed all but impossible for a poe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/across-venice-artists-defy-censorship-to-mourn-and-memorializegaza/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/across-venice-artists-defy-censorship-to-mourn-and-memorializegaza/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cigarette Taxes Have Funneled $270 M. Toward Arts and Culture in Cleveland Since 2007]]></title><description><![CDATA[Museums and other arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio, have a financial support structure that might surprise you. Some of the biggest visual arts presenters, as well as much smaller organizations, get money each time someone in Cuyahoga County, of which Cleveland is the county seat, buys a pack of cigarettes.	According to the New York Times, Cleveland &ldquo;is thought to be the only place in the country&rdquo; where such a tax supports arts organizations, and the paper reports that via the no]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cigarette-taxes-have-funneled-270-m-toward-arts-and-culture-in-cleveland-since2007/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cigarette-taxes-have-funneled-270-m-toward-arts-and-culture-in-cleveland-since2007/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and Cultural Engagement Can Slow the Pace of Aging: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study published in the journal Innovation in Aging suggests that engaging with art and culture can help slow down the biological clock and improve overall health.As reported in the Guardian, the UK-based study&rsquo;s &ldquo;results demonstrate the health impact of the arts at a biological level.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s according to Daisy Fancourt, lead author of the study and the head of the social biobehavioral research group at University College London, who added: &ldquo;They provide evide]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-and-cultural-engagement-can-slow-the-pace-of-agingreport/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-and-cultural-engagement-can-slow-the-pace-of-agingreport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion and Pussy Riot Spar Over Usage of Protest Footage]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Russian Pavilion, already a focal point for pro-Ukrainian protests at the 2026 Venice Biennale, has drawn fresh controversy after an Instagram post accusing the anti-Putin band and art collective, Pussy Riot, of censorship and self-censorship.&nbsp;&ldquo;Pussy Riot asked us to remove the footage featuring them from the documentary film about the project,&rdquo; the Russian Pavilion wrote in an Instagram caption beneath an image, posted on Monday, bearing the words &ldquo;Censored on request]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-russian-pavilion-and-pussy-riot-spar-over-usage-of-protestfootage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-russian-pavilion-and-pussy-riot-spar-over-usage-of-protestfootage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Arrested for Allegedly Planning Terrorist Attack at Louvre]]></title><description><![CDATA[French authorities arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian man last Thursday for allegedly planning a terrorist attack at the Louvre in Paris. The news was confirmed by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor&rsquo;s Office (PNAT) and first reported by Le Monde.The arrest was made as part of an investigation into the man&rsquo;s &ldquo;participation in a terrorist conspiracy in preparation for crimes against persons&rdquo; and that he planned &ldquo;an action inspired by jihadist ideology,&rdquo; PNAT to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-arrested-for-allegedly-planning-terrorist-attack-atlouvre/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-arrested-for-allegedly-planning-terrorist-attack-atlouvre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Says Enjoying Art Makes You Younger, Nonprofit Sues Trump Administration Over Changes to Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and More: Morning Links for May 12, 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!A new study says enjoying art regularly makes people younger.A nonprofit is suing the Trump Administration for painting D.C.&rsquo;s Reflecting Pool blue.France&rsquo;s president says new law for restituting art looted during colonialism is &ldquo;unstoppable.&rdquo;The Headlines	AN ARTWORK A DAY KEEPS &hellip; YOU YOUNGER? A new study has found]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/study-says-enjoying-art-makes-you-younger-nonprofit-sues-trump-administration-over-changes-to-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-and-more-morning-links-for-may-122026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/study-says-enjoying-art-makes-you-younger-nonprofit-sues-trump-administration-over-changes-to-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-and-more-morning-links-for-may-122026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gozo Yoshimasu Wins £200,000 Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[The inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize will go to Tokyo-based artist Gozo Yoshimasu, who will receive &pound;200,000 (about $272,000), as well as exhibitions in London and New York as part of the prize.Yoshimasu is better known as a poet who first emerged in the avant-garde scene of 1960s Tokyo. Over the course of his career, he has merged his poetry with various forms of art-making, including performance, photography, audio recordings, and moving image.&ldquo;My work has always mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gozo-yoshimasu-wins-200000-serpentine-x-flag-art-foundationprize/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gozo-yoshimasu-wins-200000-serpentine-x-flag-art-foundationprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Museums Take on Performative Masculinity, Looksmaxxing, Incels, and Other Macho Buzzwords That Don’t Belong There.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The title is a ploy and the Stedelijk knows it.&ldquo;Beyond the Manosphere: Masculinities Today&rdquo; is a clickbait thirst-trap trend-driven symptom of everything wrong with museums entering the attention-economy game. The veneer of urgency and cultural relevance feels forced and already dated. It&rsquo;s the tweedy teacher saying &ldquo;No cap&rdquo; two years too late&mdash;while also using it slightly wrong. I believe the kids call this &ldquo;cringe.&rdquo;And the institution is aware of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-museums-take-on-performative-masculinity-looksmaxxing-incels-and-other-macho-buzzwords-that-dont-belongthere/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-museums-take-on-performative-masculinity-looksmaxxing-incels-and-other-macho-buzzwords-that-dont-belongthere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a Powerful Carnegie International, Solidarity Is a Means of Survival]]></title><description><![CDATA[By my count, there are at least three flying people included in Pittsburgh&rsquo;s recently opened Carnegie International. One can be found in Khalil Rabah&rsquo;s video Critical Interrogations: Renewed Belief (1997), in which one man is launched by another over an olive tree, a symbol of resilience in the artist&rsquo;s native Palestine. Another can be found&mdash;sort of&mdash;in Shala Miller&rsquo;s video installation Flight (2026), a murky abstraction projected onto sinuous screens hung from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-a-powerful-carnegie-international-solidarity-is-a-means-ofsurvival/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-a-powerful-carnegie-international-solidarity-is-a-means-ofsurvival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Trevor Paglen Will Curate the Swiss Edition of Art Basel’s Digital Art Sector]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen, the New York&ndash;based artist known for his incisive engagement with knotty technological issues including surveillance and AI, will curate the third edition of &ldquo;Zero 10,&rdquo; Art Basel&rsquo;s new sector dedicated to the art of the digital era, the first to take place at the fair&rsquo;s Swiss edition (June 17&ndash;21).	Major international galleries, including Marian Goodman, Hauser and Wirth, and Almine Rech, will present work by widely known contemporary artists such]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-trevor-paglen-will-curate-the-swiss-edition-of-art-basels-digital-artsector/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-trevor-paglen-will-curate-the-swiss-edition-of-art-basels-digital-artsector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Trevor Paglen Will Curate the Swiss Edition of Art Basel’s Digital Art Initiative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen, the New York&ndash;based artist known for his incisive engagement with knotty technological issues including surveillance and AI, will curate the third edition of &ldquo;Zero 10,&rdquo; Art Basel&rsquo;s new initiative dedicated to the art of the digital era, the first to take place at the fair&rsquo;s Swiss edition (June 17&ndash;21).Major international galleries, including Marian Goodman, Hauser and Wirth, and Almine Rech, will present work by widely known contemporary artists s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-trevor-paglen-will-curate-the-swiss-edition-of-art-basels-digital-artinitiative/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-trevor-paglen-will-curate-the-swiss-edition-of-art-basels-digital-artinitiative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with a literary culture of images is that images have an exceptionally short shelf life. People soon grow bored with them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The problem with a literary culture of images is that images have an exceptionally short shelf life. People soon grow bored with them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-problem-with-a-literary-culture-of-images-is-that-images-have-an-exceptionally-short-shelf-life-people-soon-grow-bored-with-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 01:06:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-problem-with-a-literary-culture-of-images-is-that-images-have-an-exceptionally-short-shelf-life-people-soon-grow-bored-with-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The caricature of Camus as an absurdist and existentialist is a convenient fiction. But fiction nonetheless]]></title><description><![CDATA[The caricature of Camus as an absurdist and existentialist is a convenient fiction. But fiction nonetheless]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-caricature-of-camus-as-an-absurdist-and-existentialist-is-a-convenient-fiction-but-fiction-nonetheless/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 01:06:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-caricature-of-camus-as-an-absurdist-and-existentialist-is-a-convenient-fiction-but-fiction-nonetheless/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Cultural Marxism" means whatever you need it to mean. Which is why it never goes away.&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA["Cultural Marxism" means whatever you need it to mean. Which is why it never goes away.&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cultural-marxism-means-whatever-you-need-it-to-mean-which-is-why-it-never-goes-awaynbsp/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 01:06:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cultural-marxism-means-whatever-you-need-it-to-mean-which-is-why-it-never-goes-awaynbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archeologists Find Ancient Roman Country Estate Near Shopping Mall in Croatia]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient Roman residential and agricultural complex has been unearthed across from a shopping mall near Split, Coatia, according to Croatia Week. The news was first reported by Slobodna Dalmacija.Led by archaeologist Eduard Viskovi&#263;, a team from the consulting company Kantharos discovered the complex during excavations at the Mostine archeological site near Split. The team had been checking for ruins around the Bauhaus retail center before further commercial development proceeded in the a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archeologists-find-ancient-roman-country-estate-near-shopping-mall-incroatia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 23:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archeologists-find-ancient-roman-country-estate-near-shopping-mall-incroatia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Find Ancient Roman Country Estate Near Shopping Mall in Croatia]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient Roman residential and agricultural complex has been unearthed across from a shopping mall in Coatia, according to Croatia Week. The news was first reported by Slobodna Dalmacija.Led by archaeologist Eduard Viskovi&#263;, a team from the consulting company Kantharos discovered the complex during excavations at the Mostine archeological site near Split. The team had been checking for ruins around the Bauhaus retail center before further commercial development proceeded in the area, cont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-find-ancient-roman-country-estate-near-shopping-mall-incroatia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 23:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-find-ancient-roman-country-estate-near-shopping-mall-incroatia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Found in Alexandria]]></title><description><![CDATA[An excavation in Moharam Bek, a neighborhood in central Alexandria, has uncovered a trove of archaeological findings dating from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods. The news was announced by Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities earlier this month and reported by Greek City Times.The items range from Greek and Roman statues to smaller objects like coins, lamps, and ceramic vessels. Also uncovered were architectural structures like a public bathhouse, decorative mosaics from a Ro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-greek-and-roman-statues-found-inalexandria/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-greek-and-roman-statues-found-inalexandria/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delayed by War in Iran, Paul Klee Painting from Israel Finally Joins New York Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[An exhibition of Swiss German artist Paul Klee, at New York&rsquo;s Jewish Museum, is now complete, thanks to the arrival of a long-delayed loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.Angelus Novus (1920) has now taken its place in &ldquo;Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,&rdquo; which opened March 20 and focuses on work from the last decade of the artist&rsquo;s life. The piece, measuring just 12 inches high, was previously stuck in Israel as a result of the war that country and the US are waging i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/delayed-by-war-in-iran-paul-klee-painting-from-israel-finally-joins-new-yorkshow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/delayed-by-war-in-iran-paul-klee-painting-from-israel-finally-joins-new-yorkshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lucas Cranach the Elder Masterpiece Once Hung in Hitler’s Munich Apartment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucas Cranach the Elder&rsquo;s Cupid complaining to Venus&nbsp;(1526&ndash;27) once hung in the Munich apartment of Adolf Hitler, the Art Newspaper reports.Now owned by the National Gallery in London, the painting, showing Roman god Cupid complaining to his mother Venus about being stung by bees, can be seen in the center of a blurry, black-and-white photograph dating to the 1940s that was published in a 1978 furniture catalog.That image was most recently republished in 2023 in the journal Kuns]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-lucas-cranach-the-elder-masterpiece-once-hung-in-hitlers-munichapartment/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-lucas-cranach-the-elder-masterpiece-once-hung-in-hitlers-munichapartment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nazi-Looted Portrait Surfaces in Home of Descendants of Dutch SS Leader]]></title><description><![CDATA[A painting stolen by the Nazis from the Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the home of descendants of a Dutch SS collaborator, according to an art detective.Portrait of a Young Girl, by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, was allegedly displayed for decades by the family of Hendrik Seyffardt, a general who aided the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands before being killed by the Dutch resistance. As previously reported, a man claiming to be a descendant of Seyffardt contacted the detective]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nazi-looted-portrait-surfaces-in-home-of-descendants-of-dutch-ssleader/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nazi-looted-portrait-surfaces-in-home-of-descendants-of-dutch-ssleader/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Rooftop Made Famous By Surprise Beatles Concert Will Open as a Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rooftop where the Beatles played a concert to a curious cast of freaked-out Londoners in 1969 will open as part of a museum next year.As reported in the New York Times, the sacred space at 3 Savile Row&mdash;a townhouse on a street even more famous for its sophisticated tailors&mdash;will be transformed by the Beatles&rsquo; company Apple Corps into a seven-floor display of archival materials and exhibitions as well as a recreation of the studio where the band recorded its album Let It Be. A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-rooftop-made-famous-by-surprise-beatles-concert-will-open-as-amuseum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-rooftop-made-famous-by-surprise-beatles-concert-will-open-as-amuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Installation Featuring Trump Iran War Video Game Appears on National Mall]]></title><description><![CDATA[A video game critiquing the Trump administration&rsquo;s efforts to continue the US and Israel&rsquo;s war in Iran has popped up on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., making it the latest anti-Trump artwork to appear in a public space in the nation&rsquo;s capital.As was the case with many of those other artworks, the creator of this one is the Secret Handshake, a group of anonymous artists who have previously produced objects alluding to Trump&rsquo;s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, among other to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-installation-featuring-trump-iran-war-video-game-appears-on-nationalmall/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-installation-featuring-trump-iran-war-video-game-appears-on-nationalmall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelical Pastor Says Comparing 22-Foot Gold Trump Statue to ‘Golden Calf’ Is ‘Blasphemy’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Trump National Doral golf course in Miami got a new resident: a 15-foot bronze sculpture of President Trump, finished with gold leaf. The statue, which rises to 22 feet with its pedestal, cost around $360,000, Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill told the Columbus Dispatch.If there was any worry that the golden effigy dubbed the &ldquo;Don Colossus&rdquo; was just a bit too on the nose, have no fear: Pastor Mark Burns, who was involved in getting the statue erected, said at]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/evangelical-pastor-says-comparing-22-foot-gold-trump-statue-to-golden-calf-is-blasphemy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/evangelical-pastor-says-comparing-22-foot-gold-trump-statue-to-golden-calf-is-blasphemy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin ‘Won’ the Venice Biennale, Quips Italian Culture Minister]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale may not have its traditional Golden Lion awards, but Italian cultural minster Alessandro Giuli has revealed the person he thought won this year&rsquo;s edition: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose nation made its Biennale return to this year to great controversy.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt about it. Putin won at the Biennale,&rdquo; Giuli, who repeatedly denounced Russia&rsquo;s presence at the event, told the Italian publication Corriere della Sera last w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/putin-won-the-venice-biennale-quips-italian-cultureminister/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/putin-won-the-venice-biennale-quips-italian-cultureminister/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Founders of Open Restitution Africa (ORA) on Their New Open Data Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[On March 31, the research initiative Open Restitution Africa (ORA) launched the ORA Open Data Platform, a database that provides information on the restitution of African artifacts and ancestral remains. Developed over six years by ORA&rsquo;s all-woman, pan-African team, the site uses case histories and AI-powered tools to offer practical insights into the return process. This resource, available in French and English, allows users to explore past restitution efforts and their outcomes, helping]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-founders-of-open-restitution-africa-ora-on-their-new-open-dataplatform/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-founders-of-open-restitution-africa-ora-on-their-new-open-dataplatform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Detective Discovers Nazi-Looted Painting in SS Collaborator’s Family Home, Bruno Bischofberger Dies, and More: Morning Links for May 11, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesIN MEMORIAM. The legendary Swiss dealer&nbsp;Bruno Bischofberger&nbsp;has died at 86, reports&nbsp;ARTnews. Through his eponymous gallery, founded in 1963, he brought artists famed America to audiences in Europe&mdash;and befriended many of them along the way. &ldquo;I have been involved with Andy Warhol for a large part of my life as an art dealer, collector and friend,&rdquo; Bischofberger wrote in 2001. He produced Warhol&rsquo;s film&nbsp;L&rsquo;amour, is credited with the idea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-detective-discovers-nazi-looted-painting-in-ss-collaborators-family-home-bruno-bischofberger-dies-and-more-morning-links-for-may-112026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-detective-discovers-nazi-looted-painting-in-ss-collaborators-family-home-bruno-bischofberger-dies-and-more-morning-links-for-may-112026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Painter Akira Ikezoe Became This Spring’s Breakout Star in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Akira Ikezoe has recently been thinking a lot about all that can be done with milk. It can be obtained from a cow, packaged, sold, and consumed, yes. But what if you could paint with it, or bathe in it, or even become resurrected by drinking it?These are all scenarios that appear in a new painting by Ikezoe that features an array of naked figures (and some skeletons) who are roped into a dairy-centric system that happens to involve a pit of fire and a large mural. In typical Ikezoe fashion, ever]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-painter-akira-ikezoe-became-this-springs-breakout-star-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-painter-akira-ikezoe-became-this-springs-breakout-star-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bruno Bischofberger, Art Dealer of Stars Like Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dies at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bruno Bischofberger, a legendary dealer who grew so close to the artists he loved that he became something like a collaborator to them, shaping art history along the way, has died at 86. His Zurich-based gallery announced his death on Saturday.Through his eponymous gallery, Bischofberger helped bring a range of American art stars to Europe, becoming a significant force in the market along the way. Founded in 1963, that gallery is still considered one of the most important ones in Switzerland, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bruno-bischofberger-art-dealer-of-stars-like-andy-warhol-and-jean-michel-basquiat-dies-at86/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 01:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bruno-bischofberger-art-dealer-of-stars-like-andy-warhol-and-jean-michel-basquiat-dies-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Diary Day 3: Offsite Highlights Include Fleshy Films and Vegetarian Videos]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;How do you say &lsquo;bad luck&rsquo; professionally in English?&rdquo; a naked CGI human with a Barbie crotch asks ChatGPT, speaking into their phone. Their body is covered in a messy layer of white paint, and their pupils have been erased, leaving them looking like a demented marble statue. &ldquo;Inauspicious,&rdquo; the phone replies, as our protagonist charmingly stumbles through pronouncing it. They&rsquo;re asking because they want to deliver the bad news gently: &ldquo;It is inaus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-3-offsite-highlights-include-fleshy-films-and-vegetarianvideos/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-3-offsite-highlights-include-fleshy-films-and-vegetarianvideos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Artists Decline Consideration for Golden Lions Chosen by Public Vote]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly half of the artists in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale said they did not want to be considered for the show&rsquo;s top honors this year, marking yet another unprecedented development in an edition roiled by controversies of all kinds.Fifty-two artists&mdash;just under half of the artists in the Koyo Kouoh&ndash;curated &ldquo;In Minor Keys&rdquo;&mdash;signed the statement published by e-flux on Saturday, which noted that they had done so &ldquo;in solidarity with the resignat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-artists-decline-consideration-for-golden-lions-chosen-by-publicvote/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 15:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-artists-decline-consideration-for-golden-lions-chosen-by-publicvote/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoom out and it becomes clear that the defenders of humanistic liberalism have been decisively losing the battle over ideals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoom out and it becomes clear that the defenders of humanistic liberalism have been decisively losing the battle over ideals]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zoom-out-and-it-becomes-clear-that-the-defenders-of-humanistic-liberalism-have-been-decisively-losing-the-battle-over-ideals/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:18:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zoom-out-and-it-becomes-clear-that-the-defenders-of-humanistic-liberalism-have-been-decisively-losing-the-battle-over-ideals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He warned against idleness, then stopped doing anything at all. The compelling contradictions of Samuel Johnson]]></title><description><![CDATA[He warned against idleness, then stopped doing anything at all. The compelling contradictions of Samuel Johnson]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-warned-against-idleness-then-stopped-doing-anything-at-all-the-compelling-contradictions-of-samuel-johnson/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:18:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-warned-against-idleness-then-stopped-doing-anything-at-all-the-compelling-contradictions-of-samuel-johnson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narrative history moves us., which is exactly the problem. We mistake emotion for understanding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Narrative history moves us., which is exactly the problem. We mistake emotion for understanding]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/narrative-history-moves-us-which-is-exactly-the-problem-we-mistake-emotion-for-understanding/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:06:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/narrative-history-moves-us-which-is-exactly-the-problem-we-mistake-emotion-for-understanding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Panel Considers Plan to Paint Granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building White]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump wants to paint the granite exterior of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., white. Yesterday, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) met to review the administration&rsquo;s proposal. The plans were also submitted on April 16 to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which approved the idea on the condition of successful &ldquo;testing of the proposed exterior paint.&rdquo;Originally known as the State, War, and Navy Building, the massive edifice was bui]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-panel-considers-plan-to-paint-granite-eisenhower-executive-office-buildingwhite/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-panel-considers-plan-to-paint-granite-eisenhower-executive-office-buildingwhite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Panel Considers Plan to Paint Granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building in D.C. White]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump wants to paint the exterior of the granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., white. Yesterday, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) met to review the administration&rsquo;s proposal. The plans were also submitted on April 16 to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which approved the idea on the condition of successful &ldquo;testing of the proposed exterior paint.&rdquo;Originally known as the State, War, and Navy Building, the massive granite edifice]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-panel-considers-plan-to-paint-granite-eisenhower-executive-office-building-in-dcwhite/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-panel-considers-plan-to-paint-granite-eisenhower-executive-office-building-in-dcwhite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numerous Venice Biennale Pavilions and Artists Go on Strike in Protest over Israel’s Participation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of demonstrators marched in the streets of Venice on the eve of the public opening of the Venice Biennale on Saturday in protest of Israel&rsquo;s presence in the show. The protest was organized by Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), an international group of artists, curators, writers, and cultural workers.By the afternoon, the organizers had secured a lengthy list of national pavilions that would be shut down completely or in part for a 24-hour strike, including Austria, Belgium, Cypru]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/numerous-venice-biennale-pavilions-and-artists-go-on-strike-in-protest-over-israelsparticipation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/numerous-venice-biennale-pavilions-and-artists-go-on-strike-in-protest-over-israelsparticipation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare Unlooted Grave Among 44 Roman Graves Uncovered in Eastern Croatia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists excavating the site of a future farmers&rsquo; market in the eastern Croatian city of Vinkovci have discovered a rare intact grave amid the ancient Roman necropolis. The news was first reported by Croatia Week.When the initial discovery of the necropolis was announced in March, Josip Romi&#263;, the mayor of Vinkovci, said the graves are believed to be from the 2nd or 3rd centuries CE. Vinkovci was known as Colonia Aurelia Cibalae when it was part of the Roman Empire, and the area]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-unlooted-grave-among-44-roman-graves-uncovered-in-easterncroatia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-unlooted-grave-among-44-roman-graves-uncovered-in-easterncroatia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DOGE Cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities Were Unconstitutional, Court Rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge ruled that cancellations to more than 1,400 grants approved by the National Endowment for the Humanities by the Elon Musk-led Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) were unconstitutional.Judge Colleen McMahon of Federal District Court in Manhattan ordered DOGE to rescind the cancellations in a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs in two lawsuits contending that the cuts &ldquo;violated the First Amendment and, by singling out work relating to particular groups, the equal prote]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/doge-cuts-to-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-were-unconstitutional-courtrules/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/doge-cuts-to-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-were-unconstitutional-courtrules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Owns the Megayachts Docked Outside the Venice Biennale?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the Venice Biennale opened for previews that were hardly limited to journalists and curators, as is perhaps only to be expected&mdash;judging by the numerous megayachts moored nearby, at least. (Not to mention all the well-dressed collectors sipping Aperol spritzes on palazzo balconies visible from the Grand Canal.)If you, like me this week, were stuck hoofing it down the long walk along the Riva of the Seven Martyrs to the Giardini, the yachts were hard to miss. Most were doc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-owns-the-megayachts-docked-outside-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-owns-the-megayachts-docked-outside-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Korean Prosecutor Convicted in Alleged Lee Ufan Painting Bribery Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former South Korean prosecutor who allegedly tried to buy political influence with a painting by&nbsp;Lee Ufan&nbsp;has now been convicted on appeal, in a case that adds disputed authenticity claims surrounding a $95,000 artwork to a conventional bribery scandal involving the former first lady of Korea.The Seoul High Court this week overturned an earlier acquittal of former senior prosecutor Kim Sang-min, finding him guilty of violating South Korea&rsquo;s anti-corruption law after prosecutors]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-korean-prosecutor-convicted-in-alleged-lee-ufan-painting-briberyscheme/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-korean-prosecutor-convicted-in-alleged-lee-ufan-painting-briberyscheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Venice, Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince Ask: What Is Appropriate to Appropriate?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is appropriate to appropriate? That question is the one that animates practices of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa, who are currently showing their work together at the Fondazione Prada in Venice. &nbsp;At first glance, the pairing might seem like an unconventional one, even though both artists are well known for appropriating others&rsquo; images. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m surprised that people are surprised,&rdquo; Jafa told me in a video interview ahead of the exhibition. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-arthur-jafa-and-richard-prince-ask-what-is-appropriate-toappropriate/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-arthur-jafa-and-richard-prince-ask-what-is-appropriate-toappropriate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Kader Attia Will Organize 2027 Edition of India’s Top Biennial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kader Attia, an acclaimed artist whose work is currently included in Koyo Kouoh&rsquo;s main exhibition of the Venice Biennale, has been selected to curate the 2027 edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India&rsquo;s top biennial.Attia, a winner of France&rsquo;s Prix Marcel Duchamp, may be best known for his sculptures and installations that seek to rectify the violence of colonialism in North Africa, but the Berlin- and Paris-based artist has curated at least one notable biennial previously.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-kader-attia-will-organize-2027-edition-of-indias-topbiennial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-kader-attia-will-organize-2027-edition-of-indias-topbiennial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Jeffrey Epstein’s Copy of a Modernist Painting Available for Sale on eBay?]]></title><description><![CDATA[An eBay seller claimed to have Jeffrey Epstein&rsquo;s reproduction of a painting by Kees van Dongen, a Dutch painter who became a part of the Fauvist movement in France during the early 20th century.The work in question, it should be noted, was not a bona fide van Dongen. It was a print based on a ca. 1905 painting called Femme Fatale, which sold at Christie&rsquo;s in 2004 for $5.94 million.At the time, Christie&rsquo;s touted the work for demonstrating &ldquo;in uncompromising fashion the art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/was-jeffrey-epsteins-copy-of-a-modernist-painting-available-for-sale-onebay/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/was-jeffrey-epsteins-copy-of-a-modernist-painting-available-for-sale-onebay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Her Venice Biennale Opens, Koyo Kouoh Foundation Launches in Memory of Late Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the 2026 Venice Biennale wrapping up its professional previews and officially opening to the public on Saturday, a new foundation dedicated to Koyo Kouoh&mdash;the curator of the Biennale&rsquo;s main exhibition who passed away a year ago&mdash;has been announced.Based in Basel, Switzerland, where Kouoh lived for part of her life, the Koyo Kouoh Foundation &ldquo;continues and structures the work initiated by Koyo Kouoh&rdquo; with the goal of keeping &ldquo;a tradition alive, rather than t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-her-venice-biennale-opens-koyo-kouoh-foundation-launches-in-memory-of-latecurator/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-her-venice-biennale-opens-koyo-kouoh-foundation-launches-in-memory-of-latecurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Schuyler, the most neglected poet of the New York school, may now be its most necessary]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Schuyler, the most neglected poet of the New York school, may now be its most necessary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-schuyler-the-most-neglected-poet-of-the-new-york-school-may-now-be-its-most-necessary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-schuyler-the-most-neglected-poet-of-the-new-york-school-may-now-be-its-most-necessary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant"]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-current-climate-where-poet-is-activist-or-vice-versa-the-poems-also-start-to-look-a-lot-like-cant-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-current-climate-where-poet-is-activist-or-vice-versa-the-poems-also-start-to-look-a-lot-like-cant-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Chalmers was wrong. There is no “hard problem” of consciousness, and the supposed “explanatory gap” is nonsensical]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Chalmers was wrong. There is no &ldquo;hard problem&rdquo; of consciousness, and the supposed &ldquo;explanatory gap&rdquo; is nonsensical]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-chalmers-was-wrong-there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness-and-the-supposed-explanatory-gap-is-nonsensical/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-chalmers-was-wrong-there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness-and-the-supposed-explanatory-gap-is-nonsensical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversial Painter Georg Baselitz Knew His Venice Show Would Be His Last. He Went Out Quietly.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six days after the death of Georg Baselitz, his longtime dealer Thaddeaus Ropac opened an exhibition in Venice this week that the artist had already accepted would be his last.&nbsp;At the&nbsp;Fondazione&nbsp;Giorgio&nbsp;Cini&nbsp;on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, &ldquo;Eroi d&rsquo;Oro&rdquo;&nbsp;(&ldquo;Heroes of Gold&rdquo;) brings together the final paintings Baselitz made in his lifetime. He died in April at 88, and in a prerecorded film made for the show, he refers to the works wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/controversial-painter-georg-baselitz-knew-his-venice-show-would-be-his-last-he-went-outquietly/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/controversial-painter-georg-baselitz-knew-his-venice-show-would-be-his-last-he-went-outquietly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France Passes Historic Law for Restituting Colonial-Era Art, American Folk Art Museum Workers Protest, and More: Morning Links for May 8, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesIN THE DOGEHOUSE. A federal judge slammed the US&nbsp;DOGE Service, ruling on Thursday that the&nbsp;Elon Musk&ndash;led department made unconstitutional and discriminatory cuts to&nbsp;National Endowment for the Humanities&nbsp;grants worth over $100 million, according to the&nbsp;Washington Post.&nbsp;US District Judge&nbsp;Colleen McMahon&nbsp;said DOGE violated the First and Fifth Amendments when it used ChatGPT to determine which grants to cancel based on whether they mentioned]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/france-passes-historic-law-for-restituting-colonial-era-art-american-folk-art-museum-workers-protest-and-more-morning-links-for-may-82026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/france-passes-historic-law-for-restituting-colonial-era-art-american-folk-art-museum-workers-protest-and-more-morning-links-for-may-82026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video: Natasha Tontey Unveils New Immersive Installation Exploring Indigenous Resistance During Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fresh off her first institutional exhibition, artist Natasha Toney is set to unveil an ambitious immersive installation during the Venice Biennale at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, a 16th-century building in San Marco.Jointly commissioned by Berlin&rsquo;s LAS Art Foundation and Helsinki&rsquo;s Amos Rex contemporary art museum, The Phantom Combatants and the Metabolism of Disobedient Organs, as the installation is called, combines video, sound, light, and sculptural elements to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/video-natasha-tontey-unveils-new-immersive-installation-exploring-indigenous-resistance-during-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/video-natasha-tontey-unveils-new-immersive-installation-exploring-indigenous-resistance-during-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Schuyler, the New York school's most neglected poet, may now be its most necessary]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Schuyler, the New York school's most neglected poet, may now be its most necessary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-schuyler-the-new-york-schools-most-neglected-poet-may-now-be-its-most-necessary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:33:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-schuyler-the-new-york-schools-most-neglected-poet-may-now-be-its-most-necessary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice-versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant"]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice-versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-current-climate-where-poet-is-activist-or-vice-versa-the-poems-also-start-to-look-a-lot-like-cant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:33:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-current-climate-where-poet-is-activist-or-vice-versa-the-poems-also-start-to-look-a-lot-like-cant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Chalmers was wrong. There is no “hard problem” of consciousness, and the supposed “explanatory gap” it treats is nonsensical]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Chalmers was wrong. There is no &ldquo;hard problem&rdquo; of consciousness, and the supposed &ldquo;explanatory gap&rdquo; it treats is nonsensical]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-chalmers-was-wrong-there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness-and-the-supposed-explanatory-gap-it-treats-is-nonsensical/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:33:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-chalmers-was-wrong-there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness-and-the-supposed-explanatory-gap-it-treats-is-nonsensical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dian Suci Wins the 2025–27 Max Mara Art Prize for Women]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indonesian-born artist Dian Suci has been awarded the 2025&ndash;27 Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Cecilia Alemani, curator of the prize and chair of the jury, along with representatives from the Museum MACAN, the Collezione Maramotti, and the family that founded the fashion brand Max Mara made the announcement today at the opening of the Venice Biennale.The award, established in 2005 to support mid-career women artists, gives Suci a six-month traveling residency in Italy customized to her winnin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dian-suci-wins-the-202527-max-mara-art-prize-forwomen/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dian-suci-wins-the-202527-max-mara-art-prize-forwomen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drained, Drowning, and Decay: The Best National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sense of ruin permeates this Venice Biennale, though we already knew that it would going in. And pointedly, several standout national pavilions in the show are steeped in decay&mdash;bodily, infrastructural, archaeological. They&rsquo;re about the broken, bloody political machines pumping the present full of its own reek.Rubble and stone line the Slovenian Pavilion, where the Nonument Group repurposes materials from previous Biennales into a ruin of a mosque built for Bosnian Muslim soldiers d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/drained-drowning-and-decay-the-best-national-pavilions-at-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 01:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/drained-drowning-and-decay-the-best-national-pavilions-at-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radiohead Spectacle in Brooklyn Teems with World-Building Paintings, Sculpture, and Film]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even after the recent addition of a Wegmans and Wells Fargo gave the entrance the sanitized shine of a suburban shopping center, it would be hard to overstate the strangeness and surreality of the inner parts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The post-industrial buildings at eye-popping scales hiss and wheeze, and everything in the expansive grounds covered with toppled cobblestones and disused train tracks has the air of a haunted sanctum. (Think &ldquo;The Zone&rdquo; in Andrei Tarkovsky&rsquo;s Stal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/radiohead-spectacle-in-brooklyn-teems-with-world-building-paintings-sculpture-andfilm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/radiohead-spectacle-in-brooklyn-teems-with-world-building-paintings-sculpture-andfilm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Pavilions Stage Pro-Ukraine Procession During Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three Baltic pavilions at the 2026 Venice Biennale&mdash;Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia&mdash;organized a walk in solidarity with Ukraine on May 6, one of the exhibition&rsquo;s preview days.A statement from the Lithuanian Pavilion explains that the procession was dedicated to cultural workers from Ukraine &ldquo;who continue to create and represent their country in conditions of war, as well as to those who have lost their lives because of ongoing violence.&rdquo; Ukraine has its own pavilion a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lithuanian-latvian-and-estonian-pavilions-stage-pro-ukraine-procession-during-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lithuanian-latvian-and-estonian-pavilions-stage-pro-ukraine-procession-during-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aspen Art Fair Names More Than 35 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition at Hotel Jerome]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Aspen Art Fair will return to the Hotel Jerome from July 29 through August 1 with more than 35 exhibitors for its third edition, as the boutique fair continues to carve out a distinct presence during Aspen Art Week.&nbsp;The 2026 edition will be the first under director Kelly Cornell, who joined earlier this year while continuing to lead the Dallas Art Fair. Her appointment signaled a broader effort to connect collector communities across the two fairs while maintaining Aspen&rsquo;s smaller]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspen-art-fair-names-more-than-35-exhibitors-for-2026-edition-at-hoteljerome/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspen-art-fair-names-more-than-35-exhibitors-for-2026-edition-at-hoteljerome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel’s Artist Reportedly Pressured Venice Biennale Before Jury’s Resignation]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to multiple media reports, artist Belu-Simion Fainaru, Israel&rsquo;s representative at the recently opened Venice Biennale, put pressure on the exhibition&rsquo;s organizers before the show&rsquo;s jury abruptly resigned last week.When that five-person jury quit, it did not state its reason for doing so. But prior to departing the Biennale, the jury, which been charged with selecting the winners of the Biennale&rsquo;s Golden Lions, said that it would not consider nations who were cha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israels-artist-reportedly-pressured-venice-biennale-before-jurysresignation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israels-artist-reportedly-pressured-venice-biennale-before-jurysresignation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite his reputation as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mansfield’s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite his reputation as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mansfield&rsquo;s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-reputation-as-a-conservative-ogre-harvey-mansfields-latest-book-is-immensely-clever-subtle-and-thought-provoking/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:48:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-reputation-as-a-conservative-ogre-harvey-mansfields-latest-book-is-immensely-clever-subtle-and-thought-provoking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here’s Why the Venice Biennale Main Show Lost One Artist During the Planning Stages]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Venice Biennale first announced the artist list for Koyo Kouoh&rsquo;s main exhibition in February, the show included 111 participants. But when you visit the Biennale&rsquo;s website now, you&rsquo;ll find that Kouoh&rsquo;s exhibition, titled &ldquo;In Minor Keys,&rdquo; now features 110 artists.ARTnews can reveal that the artist who was struck from the list was Bodys Isek Kingelez, a Congolese artist known for his vast, colorful cardboard sculptures of opulent cities. Kingelez, who t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heres-why-the-venice-biennale-main-show-lost-one-artist-during-the-planningstages/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heres-why-the-venice-biennale-main-show-lost-one-artist-during-the-planningstages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America’s Museums Have a Building Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most American museums have a problem that visitors rarely see until it&rsquo;s too late: their buildings are falling apart.A new report from the Government Accountability Office analyzed by&nbsp;The Art Newspaper&nbsp;finds that roughly 85 percent of museums across the country are dealing with deferred maintenance or major repair needs. Even more concerning, about 77 percent say they have at least one structural issue that could put their collections at risk.&nbsp;The scope of the problem cuts a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americas-museums-have-a-buildingproblem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americas-museums-have-a-buildingproblem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s New Art Island Made a Sunny Splash in a Rainy Venice Vernissage Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[The international art world visiting Venice for the preview week of the Biennale woke up Thursday with great relief to a sunny forecast after two days of rain. For some, the day got even better with a visit to the island of San Giacomo, in the Northern Lagoon, where ARTnews Top 200 collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo today inaugurated a new art site that will serve as a home for exhibitions, performances, and residencies.&nbsp;San Giacomo is the newest exhibition venue for the Sandretto R]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fondazione-sandretto-re-rebaudengos-new-art-island-made-a-sunny-splash-in-a-rainy-venice-vernissageweek/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fondazione-sandretto-re-rebaudengos-new-art-island-made-a-sunny-splash-in-a-rainy-venice-vernissageweek/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loïc Gouzer’s Auction Platform Fair Warning to Sell Major Banksy at Tiffany’s Flagship Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lo&iuml;c Gouzer doesn&rsquo;t think the art world understands Banksy. In fact, he thinks it&rsquo;s scared of him.On May 20, Gouzer&rsquo;s auction platform Fair Warning will sell&nbsp;Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape, a painting from Banksy&rsquo;s&nbsp;&ldquo;Crude Oils&rdquo;&nbsp;series, in an invitation-only live auction staged inside Tiffany &amp; Co.&rsquo;s Fifth Avenue flagship. The work, which modifies a thrifted landscape painting with the artist&rsquo;s signature red, heart-shape]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loc-gouzers-auction-platform-fair-warning-to-sell-major-banksy-at-tiffanys-flagshipstore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loc-gouzers-auction-platform-fair-warning-to-sell-major-banksy-at-tiffanys-flagshipstore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legal Dispute Threatens Auction of Titanic Artifacts, Vaillancourt Fountain Catches Fire During Demolition, and More: Morning Links for May 7, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesI&rsquo;ll NEVER LET GO?&nbsp;Jack, from the 1997 film&nbsp;Titanic,&nbsp;famously heard those words from his beloved Rose before he sank into the icy ocean. But now, the company that owns salvage rights to the&nbsp;Titanic&nbsp;shipwreck wants to let go of&mdash;or, rather, auction&mdash;nearly 100 artifacts recovered in 1987. The sale has now sparked new legal controversy, reports the&nbsp;New York Times. At the heart of the issue is that the&nbsp;R.M.S. Titanic, a private company]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/legal-dispute-threatens-auction-of-titanic-artifacts-vaillancourt-fountain-catches-fire-during-demolition-and-more-morning-links-for-may-72026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/legal-dispute-threatens-auction-of-titanic-artifacts-vaillancourt-fountain-catches-fire-during-demolition-and-more-morning-links-for-may-72026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Diary Day 2: “In Minor Keys” Is a Major Statement on Perseverance and Play]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;In Minor Keys&rdquo; is the only biennial in memory that&rsquo;s made me find a dark corner to cry in.The Arsenale opens with a poem on the wall by Refaat Alareer, written before he was killed by the Israeli military in Gaza in 2023. &ldquo;If I must die / you must live,&rdquo; he writes, &ldquo;to tell my story / to sell my things / to buy a piece of cloth and some strings,&rdquo; to assemble a white kite that might serve as a symbol of hope for a child somewhere in Gaza, floating in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-2-in-minor-keys-is-a-major-statement-on-perseverance-andplay/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-2-in-minor-keys-is-a-major-statement-on-perseverance-andplay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Venice Biennale, Koyo Kouoh’s ‘In Minor Keys’ Looks Deeply at Lush Gardens and a Scarred Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[To say that just one aspect of this Venice Biennale is unprecedented would be to understate all that circumstance has dealt this edition of the international art festival. While controversies surrounding several national pavilions&mdash;Israel, Russia, the US, South Africa, and Australia, to name a few&mdash;loom large, the unexpected death of the central exhibition&rsquo;s curator, Koyo Kouoh, one year ago looms largest. Before her death, Kouoh had defined the exhibition, titled &ldquo;In Minor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-venice-biennale-koyo-kouohs-in-minor-keys-looks-deeply-at-lush-gardens-and-a-scarredearth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-venice-biennale-koyo-kouohs-in-minor-keys-looks-deeply-at-lush-gardens-and-a-scarredearth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bahamian Pavilion Brings Junkanoo to Venice in a Biennale Standout]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a thirteen-year hiatus, the Bahamian Pavilion has returned to Venice with a proposition that is as much educational as representational: that the Caribbean nation can be reintroduced to the world through its contemporary artistic inheritance.To do so, the pavilion turns to the late master John Beadle and his former student Lavar Munroe, framing their work through one of the Bahamas&rsquo; defining cultural touchstones &mdash; Junkanoo &mdash; the whistling, crepe-costumed procession that f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-bahamian-pavilion-brings-junkanoo-to-venice-in-a-biennalestandout/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-bahamian-pavilion-brings-junkanoo-to-venice-in-a-biennalestandout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian for David Zwirner, Olney Gleason Now Represents Jill Magid, and More: Industry Moves for May 6, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Venice Week and for all of you at the Biennale, stay dry. Here&rsquo;s a round-up of the art trade&rsquo;s comings and goings.Industry Moves<br />
&bull; Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian for David Zwirner: The late sculptor&rsquo;s work was recently surveyed by the Broad museum in Los Angeles.<br />
&bu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-for-david-zwirner-olney-gleason-now-represents-jill-magid-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-62026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-for-david-zwirner-olney-gleason-now-represents-jill-magid-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-62026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manhattan D.A.’s Office Returns More Than 650 Looted Artifacts to India]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney&nbsp;Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 657 trafficked antiquities to the people of India. The items, valued at nearly $14 million, were recovered in the course of ongoing investigations by the D.A.&rsquo;s Antiquities Trafficking Unit and Homeland Security investigations.The items were formally returned at a ceremony in New York, which was attended by representatives from the D.A.&rsquo;s office and the Consulate General of India. &ldquo;The sc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-das-office-returns-more-than-650-looted-artifacts-toindia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-das-office-returns-more-than-650-looted-artifacts-toindia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift’s last joke. His epitaph is, it turns out, an elaborate way of haunting an enemy from the grave]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift&rsquo;s last joke.&nbsp;His epitaph is, it turns out, an elaborate way of haunting an enemy from the grave]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-swifts-last-jokehis-epitaph-is-it-turns-out-an-elaborate-way-of-haunting-an-enemy-from-the-grave/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-swifts-last-jokehis-epitaph-is-it-turns-out-an-elaborate-way-of-haunting-an-enemy-from-the-grave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ibram X. Kendi’s “Great Replacement” theory encompasses so many disparate examples that it loses its explanatory power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ibram X. Kendi&rsquo;s &ldquo;Great Replacement&rdquo; theory encompasses so many disparate examples that it loses its explanatory power]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ibram-x-kendis-great-replacement-theory-encompasses-so-many-disparate-examples-that-it-loses-its-explanatory-power/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ibram-x-kendis-great-replacement-theory-encompasses-so-many-disparate-examples-that-it-loses-its-explanatory-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite his reputation as a as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mans?field’s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite his reputation as a as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mans?field&rsquo;s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-reputation-as-a-as-a-conservative-ogre-harvey-mansfields-latest-book-is-immensely-clever-subtle-and-thought-provoking/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-reputation-as-a-as-a-conservative-ogre-harvey-mansfields-latest-book-is-immensely-clever-subtle-and-thought-provoking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Biennale Isn’t a Court. Tell That to the Protesters.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The head of the Venice Biennale has a simple defense for one of the most contentious decisions of this year&rsquo;s exhibition:&nbsp;it&rsquo;s not a courtroom.Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the Biennale&rsquo;s president, made the remark on Wednesday this week as backlash mounted over the return of Russia to the Giardini. The country is reopening its pavilion for the first time since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a move that has drawn criticism from European officials and triggered threats to pull rou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-biennale-isnt-a-court-tell-that-to-theprotesters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-biennale-isnt-a-court-tell-that-to-theprotesters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Indigenous Land Art in Arizona]]></title><description><![CDATA[Construction crews building a barrier between the United States and Mexico damaged a 200-foot-long etching of a fish embedded in the land that is thought to be 1,000 years old, according to a report in the Washington Post.As part of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s contentious $46.5 billion border-wall project, workers destroyed a 60-to-70-foot portion of the artwork known as an intaglio, according to Richard Martynec, a retired archaeologist who currently surveys the area as a volunteer. As the P]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-border-wall-construction-damages-1000-year-old-indigenous-land-art-inarizona/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-border-wall-construction-damages-1000-year-old-indigenous-land-art-inarizona/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Monet’s Market Triumph: 12 Record‑Smashing Paintings That Define an Era]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2019 Claude Monet&rsquo;s Meules (Haystacks) (1890) stunned the art world when it soared to $110.7 million at Sotheby&rsquo;s New York, setting a new auction record for an Impressionist painting. It was the latest in a series of headline-making results that have seen the painter&rsquo;s serene yet radical visions dominate the market. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental Nymph&eacute;as (Water Lilies) canvases and ethereal Venetian cityscapes, Monet&rs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claude-monets-market-triumph-12-recordsmashing-paintings-that-define-anera/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claude-monets-market-triumph-12-recordsmashing-paintings-that-define-anera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aneta Grzeszykowska Shoots Poetic Portraits in a Mask of Herself at Age 14]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aneta Grzeszykowska is a Polish artist who has turned her sense of self inside-out and back again in two photo series currently having a moment in New York: &ldquo;Mama&rdquo; (2018), for which she made an uncannily life-like doll of herself that she asked her young daughter to play with, and &ldquo;Daughter&rdquo; (2025), for which she donned a similarly disquieting mask of her younger self at age 14 and posed with members of her family, including her now-teenage daugther.&ldquo;Mama&rdquo; fea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aneta-grzeszykowska-shoots-poetic-portraits-in-a-mask-of-herself-at-age14/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aneta-grzeszykowska-shoots-poetic-portraits-in-a-mask-of-herself-at-age14/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malaysia Showcases Recovered 1MDB Artworks, From Picasso to Miró]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four artworks recovered from the 1MDB scandal have gone on public view in Malaysia for the first time, offering a modest but pointed reminder of one of the largest financial frauds in modern history.The works&mdash;by Picasso, Mir&oacute;, Balthus and Maurice Utrillo&mdash;were unveiled Wednesday at the headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in Putrajaya, according to the&nbsp;South China Morning Post. They had been repatriated from New York last month after being traced throug]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malaysia-showcases-recovered-1mdb-artworks-from-picasso-tomir/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malaysia-showcases-recovered-1mdb-artworks-from-picasso-tomir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceramics Are Everywhere, in Museums, Galleries, and Fairs—Has the Market Caught Up?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lately, art fans in the three biggest cities in the US (and no doubt elsewhere) have found themselves surrounded by ceramics. At museums, galleries, and fairs, artists working in this ancient medium are showing work ranging from classic forms like cups and vases to figurative and abstract sculpture.Allow us to start with a litany of such shows, in no particular order.&nbsp;In New York, Kathy Butterly&rsquo;s diminutive pieces sold out at James Cohan at $45,000 each. Nicole Cherubini&rsquo;s show]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ceramics-are-everywhere-in-museums-galleries-and-fairshas-the-market-caughtup/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ceramics-are-everywhere-in-museums-galleries-and-fairshas-the-market-caughtup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK’s Palestinian Ambassador Calls on Government to Have British Museum Reinstate the Word ‘Palestinian’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has called on the government to aid in getting the British Museum to reinstate the word &ldquo;Palestinian&rdquo; in its wall texts.Husam Zomlot, the ambassador, raised his complaint to the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office, a ministry of foreign affairs, according to the Guardian. In that Guardian report, Zomlot called the removal of &ldquo;Palestinian&rdquo; from the labels a form of &ldquo;erasure.&rdquo;In February, the Telegraph reported that the group U]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uks-palestinian-ambassador-calls-on-government-to-have-british-museum-reinstate-the-word-palestinian/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uks-palestinian-ambassador-calls-on-government-to-have-british-museum-reinstate-the-word-palestinian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Protest of Israeli Pavilion, Activists and Unions Plan Strike on Venice Biennale’s Opening Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) has escalated its ongoing opposition to the Israel Pavilion, announcing a 24-hour strike and rally on May 8, the day before the much-hyped and highly contentious 2026 Venice Biennale opens to the public on Saturday.ANGA was formed in objection to Israel&rsquo;s inclusion in the 2024 Biennale, and began referring to this year&rsquo;s presentation, which features an exhibition by Haifa-based artist Belu-Simion Fainaru, as the &ldquo;Genocide Pavilion&rdquo; as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-protest-of-israeli-pavilion-activists-and-unions-plan-strike-on-venice-biennales-openingday/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-protest-of-israeli-pavilion-activists-and-unions-plan-strike-on-venice-biennales-openingday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian After Nearly Three Decades and Joins David Zwirner]]></title><description><![CDATA[After nearly three decades of showing with Gagosian, the Robert Therrien estate has left the mega-gallery and joined the roster of David Zwirner, one of Gagosian&rsquo;s competitors.The move came shortly after an acclaimed survey of Therrien&rsquo;s work closed at the Broad museum in Los Angeles. With 120 works included, the exhibition was billed as the biggest one to date for the sculptor, who died in 2019.Therrien is most famous for his sculptures that raise domestic items to monumental propor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-after-nearly-three-decades-and-joins-davidzwirner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-after-nearly-three-decades-and-joins-davidzwirner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guadalupe Rosales Brings East LA to Venice for the Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2015, Los Angeles&ndash;based artist Guadalupe Rosales launched the Instagram account @veteranas_and_rucas as a way to share images from her personal archive of Chicana life in Southern California in the 1990s. In the decade since, the account has shared thousands of images and amassed over 273,000 followers, many of whom have submitted their own images of the community celebrated by the account. Rosales has described the project as a necessary one for combating racist stereotypes of Latinx p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guadalupe-rosales-brings-east-la-to-venice-for-thebiennale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guadalupe-rosales-brings-east-la-to-venice-for-thebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LACMA Responds to Anger Over Pedro Reyes Sculpture, New Louvre President Reveals His Plans, and More: Morning Links for May 6, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesROUND TWO.&nbsp;A sculpture at the new&nbsp;David Geffen Galleries&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Los Angeles County Museum of Art&nbsp;(LACMA) is once again igniting controversy.&nbsp;Tlali&nbsp;(2026), a large stone work by&nbsp;Pedro Reyes, is similar to another piece by the artist from a 2021 project to replace a Christopher Columbus statue in Mexico City that ended up being canceled. In&nbsp;that instance, Reyes&rsquo;s sculpture depicting an Indigenous woman was rejected because the artist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lacma-responds-to-anger-over-pedro-reyes-sculpture-new-louvre-president-reveals-his-plans-and-more-morning-links-for-may-62026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lacma-responds-to-anger-over-pedro-reyes-sculpture-new-louvre-president-reveals-his-plans-and-more-morning-links-for-may-62026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gabrielle Goliath Discusses Her Canceled South African Pavilion as She Shows New Work in a Venice Church]]></title><description><![CDATA[The South Africa Pavilion in the Giardini will sit empty for the entirety of this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale, the result of a decision by culture minister Gayton McKenzie to cancel a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath for being &ldquo;highly divisive.&rdquo; But while the building will remain closed, Biennale attendees can see the planned installation just half a mile away at the Chiesa di Sant&rsquo;Antonin. The show appears stronger for the move.Inside the 12th-century church, Goli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gabrielle-goliath-discusses-her-canceled-south-african-pavilion-as-she-shows-new-work-in-a-venicechurch/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gabrielle-goliath-discusses-her-canceled-south-african-pavilion-as-she-shows-new-work-in-a-venicechurch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbas Akhavan Transforms the Canada Pavilion Into a Greenhouse, Daring Viewers to Leave Behind Their Preconceptions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Step through the glass door of the Canada Pavilion&mdash;particularly amid Tuesday&rsquo;s persistent rain&mdash;and you are likely to be taken aback by the humidity that greets you. That blast of warm air is just the first indication of the many adaptations made by artist Abbas Akhavan to transform the glass-and-brick structure into a literal greenhouse for &ldquo;Entre chien et loup,&rdquo; his presentation for this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale.Among the alterations to the structure are a seri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/abbas-akhavan-transforms-the-canada-pavilion-into-a-greenhouse-daring-viewers-to-leave-behind-theirpreconceptions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/abbas-akhavan-transforms-the-canada-pavilion-into-a-greenhouse-daring-viewers-to-leave-behind-theirpreconceptions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pussy Riot and FEMEN Join Forces in Punk Protest in Venice: ‘Russia Kills! Biennale Exhibits!’]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Russia kills! Biennale exhibits!&rdquo;&ldquo;Disobey! Disobey! Disobey!&rdquo;&ldquo;Art for show, graves below!&rdquo;&ldquo;Blood is Russia&rsquo;s art!&rdquo;&ldquo;Slava Ukraini!&rdquo;Those were some of the chants from a few dozen protesters, some clad in pink balaclavas, some with bared breasts, floral crowns, and messages scrawled across their bodies, outside the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale on Wednesday morning. Like clockwork at 11 a.m., under light rain in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pussy-riot-and-femen-join-forces-in-punk-protest-in-venice-russia-kills-biennaleexhibits/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pussy-riot-and-femen-join-forces-in-punk-protest-in-venice-russia-kills-biennaleexhibits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alma Allen’s US Pavilion Is One of the Emptiest Shows at the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States is in a sad state of affairs. That wouldn&rsquo;t come as a surprise to anyone who reads or watches the news, or even just scrolls social media and skims the headlines. But you would also know it if you happened to walk by the US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, where the American representative this year, Alma Allen, has installed five extremely unremarkable sculptures in front of the building, along with some 20 works inside.It&rsquo;s a sharp turn from how the US Pavili]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alma-allens-us-pavilion-is-one-of-the-emptiest-shows-at-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alma-allens-us-pavilion-is-one-of-the-emptiest-shows-at-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens when a Catholic, Oxford-trained mind intersects with a jaunty midcentury American voice? Wilfrid Sheed]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens when a Catholic, Oxford-trained mind intersects with a jaunty midcentury American voice? Wilfrid Sheed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-happens-when-a-catholic-oxford-trained-mind-intersects-with-a-jaunty-midcentury-american-voice-wilfrid-sheed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:45:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-happens-when-a-catholic-oxford-trained-mind-intersects-with-a-jaunty-midcentury-american-voice-wilfrid-sheed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hid out in a hotel, and accumulated experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[To get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hid out in a hotel, and accumulated experience]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-get-through-world-war-ii-the-novelist-wolfgang-koeppen-faked-his-own-death-hid-out-in-a-hotel-and-accumulated-experience/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:45:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-get-through-world-war-ii-the-novelist-wolfgang-koeppen-faked-his-own-death-hid-out-in-a-hotel-and-accumulated-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Of all the defects of American gerontocracy today, one of the worst is our failure to face mortality and embrace old age”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Of all the defects of American gerontocracy today, one of the worst is our failure to face mortality and embrace old age&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/of-all-the-defects-of-american-gerontocracy-today-one-of-the-worst-is-our-failure-to-face-mortality-and-embrace-old-age/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:45:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/of-all-the-defects-of-american-gerontocracy-today-one-of-the-worst-is-our-failure-to-face-mortality-and-embrace-old-age/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissidence is not a political stance, career, or personality type. It occurs when the distance between beliefs and actions becomes intolerable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dissidence is not a political stance, career, or personality type. It occurs when the distance between beliefs and actions becomes intolerable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dissidence-is-not-a-political-stance-career-or-personality-type-it-occurs-when-the-distance-between-beliefs-and-actions-becomes-intolerable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:45:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dissidence-is-not-a-political-stance-career-or-personality-type-it-occurs-when-the-distance-between-beliefs-and-actions-becomes-intolerable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Well Do the Met Gala’s Attendees Know Their Art History? We Critique Looks by Madonna, Hunter Schafer, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[Though the Met Gala is held each year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the glitzy event is known less for its engagement with art and more for tapping the fashion industry. That changed this year, in large part because the Met Gala made a concerted effort to show off connections between fashion and art.Taking place in tandem with the Costume Institute&rsquo;s newly unveiled Met exhibition &ldquo;Costume Art,&rdquo; last night&rsquo;s Met Gala carried the theme &ldquo;Fashion Is Art,&rdquo; a d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-well-do-the-met-galas-attendees-know-their-art-history-we-critique-looks-by-madonna-hunter-schafer-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-well-do-the-met-galas-attendees-know-their-art-history-we-critique-looks-by-madonna-hunter-schafer-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barry X Ball’s Wild Sculptures Are Perfectly at Home at Venice’s Grand Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Carmelo Grasso, director and curator at the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, saw New York&ndash;based artist Barry X Ball&rsquo;s sculpture Pope Saint John Paul II (2012&ndash;24), he knew he wanted to mount a show at the sublime church where he works. The resulting exhibition, &ldquo;The Shape of Time,&rdquo; organized by curator Bob Nickas, includes 23 pieces, many shown publicly for the first time, and is centered on this incredibly elaborate work, depicting the pontiff who becam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/barry-x-balls-wild-sculptures-are-perfectly-at-home-at-venices-grand-basilica-of-san-giorgiomaggiore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/barry-x-balls-wild-sculptures-are-perfectly-at-home-at-venices-grand-basilica-of-san-giorgiomaggiore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Diary Day 1: At the Giardini, Artists Refuse to Make Fascism Cozy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The worst thing you could do to the German Pavilion, Henrike Naumann decided, per a wall text, would be to &ldquo;make it cozy.&rdquo; Adorning the windows of the space&mdash;which was remodeled by the Nazis in 1938 in an overtly fascist style that it still maintains&mdash;she added holes to domestic-feeling curtains, fabric in denim and gingham. But cozy they are not. Some have violent rips; others have holes fixed neatly with grommets. None, as far as I can tell, are patched over seamlessly.Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-1-at-the-giardini-artists-refuse-to-make-fascismcozy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-1-at-the-giardini-artists-refuse-to-make-fascismcozy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaire Collector Ken Griffin Buys Second Rare Constitution Printing]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARTnews Top 200 collector Ken Griffin has quietly acquired another rare first printing of the US Constitution, bringing the total in his collection to two&mdash;the only copies still held in private hands, according to&nbsp;the New York Times.&nbsp;The billionaire Citadel founder first made headlines in 2021 when he paid&nbsp;$43.2 million at Sotheby&rsquo;s for a copy of the 1787 document, outbidding the cryptocurrency collective Constitution DAO in one of the stranger bidding battles in recent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-collector-ken-griffin-buys-second-rare-constitutionprinting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-collector-ken-griffin-buys-second-rare-constitutionprinting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of ‘Piss Bottles’ Left at the Met Gala in Protest of Jeff Bezos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of bottles of &ldquo;what appeared to be urine&rdquo; were found in the Met last night, according to the New York Post&mdash;which noted that the museum&rsquo;s starry Met Gala was &ldquo;soaked in controversy.&rdquo;&ldquo;The shocking stunt&mdash;tied to allegations that Amazon warehouse workers feel forced to pee in bottles, rather than take bathroom breaks&mdash;comes as backlash over the billionaire&rsquo;s involvement in the glitzy fundraiser has reached a fever pitch across New Y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hundreds-of-piss-bottles-left-at-the-met-gala-in-protest-of-jeffbezos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hundreds-of-piss-bottles-left-at-the-met-gala-in-protest-of-jeffbezos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nahmad Seeks to Reopen Modigliani Restitution Case With New Witnesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Nahmad&rsquo;s lawyers are asking a New York court to revisit its recent decision in the long-running dispute over Amedeo Modigliani&rsquo;s&nbsp;Seated Man with a Cane&nbsp;(1918), citing what they say is new eyewitness testimony that could reopen the case.In a motion filed after the court&rsquo;s April 3 decision, which awarded the painting to the estate of dealer Oscar Stettiner, Nahmad&rsquo;s legal team argues that the work at the center of the claim may have been misidentified from t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nahmad-seeks-to-reopen-modigliani-restitution-case-with-newwitnesses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nahmad-seeks-to-reopen-modigliani-restitution-case-with-newwitnesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dozens of Venice Biennale Artists Stage ‘Drone’ Perfomance in Protest of Israel’s Participation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale opened for its professional pre-opening on Tuesday, and artists participating in the exhibition wasted no time making their voices heard. At noon, around 60 artists and a few dozen other participants gathered for an action protesting Israel&rsquo;s participation in the event and protested in support of Palestine.For the action, titled &ldquo;Solidarity Drone Chorus,&rdquo; the artists gathered at the entrance to the Giardini and hummed &ldquo;Drone Song,&rdquo; a viral song c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dozens-of-venice-biennale-artists-stage-drone-perfomance-in-protest-of-israelsparticipation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dozens-of-venice-biennale-artists-stage-drone-perfomance-in-protest-of-israelsparticipation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale’s fierce pussy Group Says City Censored Posters About Queer and Trans People]]></title><description><![CDATA[fierce pussy, a collective of lesbian artists, said that its Venice Biennale contribution was censored by the Italian city ahead of the opening of the exhibition today.The collective designed posters for the Biennale that address queer people and trans people. The phrase &ldquo;Welcome queers and trans people&rdquo; appears in both English and Italian on one poster that features the beloved Lion of Venice sculpture, which the group rendered as a cat.Another poster features the words &ldquo;we ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-fierce-pussy-group-says-city-censored-posters-about-queer-and-transpeople/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-fierce-pussy-group-says-city-censored-posters-about-queer-and-transpeople/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Nearly 30,000 Clay Earth Bricks, Dana Awartani Remakes History in the Saudi Arabia Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you enter the Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the first thing you&rsquo;re struck by is the scale of the project: tens of thousands of clay bricks slotted together to replicate the forms in traditional mosaics, spread across the floor with walkways between them. If you&rsquo;re thinking that this cannot possibly be the work of one person, you&rsquo;d be correct.Although Dana Awartani, a Jeddah- and New York&ndash;based artist of mixed Palestinian, Saudi, Jordanian, and Syrian]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-nearly-30000-clay-earth-bricks-dana-awartani-remakes-history-in-the-saudi-arabiapavilion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-nearly-30000-clay-earth-bricks-dana-awartani-remakes-history-in-the-saudi-arabiapavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anish Kapoor Says the US Should Be Barred from the Venice Biennale over Trump’s ‘Politics of Hate’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Anish Kapoor called for the United States to be banned from the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale while also applauding the jury&rsquo;s recent decision to resign en masse.In an interview with the Guardian, Kapoor called the jury&rsquo;s decision &ldquo;courageous&rdquo; and further criticized the US. &ldquo;I would hope that [the jury] might have also excluded the United States for its abhorrent politics of hate and its incessant warmongering,&rdquo; he said.While the jury did not expl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anish-kapoor-says-the-us-should-be-barred-from-the-venice-biennale-over-trumps-politics-ofhate/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anish-kapoor-says-the-us-should-be-barred-from-the-venice-biennale-over-trumps-politics-ofhate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ken Griffin Acquires Another Copy of the US Constitution, Union Files Charges Against Kennedy Center for Layoffs, and More: Morning Links for May 5, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesWE THE LUCKY FEW?&nbsp;Billionaire&nbsp;Ken Griffin&nbsp;is officially the owner of the only two known surviving copies of the&nbsp;US Constitution&nbsp;in&nbsp;private hands, reports the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;. On Monday, Griffin announced that he had acquired an original print of the document via a private sale for an undisclosed amount, and that he would exhibit it in New York for the country&rsquo;s 250th&nbsp;anniversary. Griffin famously paid $43.2 million in 2021 for anoth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ken-griffin-acquires-another-copy-of-the-us-constitution-union-files-charges-against-kennedy-center-for-layoffs-and-more-morning-links-for-may-52026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ken-griffin-acquires-another-copy-of-the-us-constitution-union-files-charges-against-kennedy-center-for-layoffs-and-more-morning-links-for-may-52026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BBC ‘Buried’ Footage of Banksy at NYC Mural Site, Former Reporter Claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;A former&nbsp;BBC&nbsp;reporter is claiming that the U.K. broadcaster &ldquo;buried&rdquo; footage that he captured of&nbsp;Banksy&nbsp;at one of his mural sites in New York City.Nick Bryant, who previously served as the BBC&rsquo;s New York correspondent, detailed his encounter with the anonymous British street artist and political activist in a recent post on his&nbsp;Substack.After establishing a relationship with Banksy&rsquo;s team while covering the artist&rsquo;s residency in NYC in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bbc-buried-footage-of-banksy-at-nyc-mural-site-former-reporterclaims/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bbc-buried-footage-of-banksy-at-nyc-mural-site-former-reporterclaims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amy Sherald Dresses As Her Own Award-Winning Painting for Met Gala]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amy Sherald brought one of her most beloved paintings to life for tonight&rsquo;s Met Gala, which was held to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s Costume Institute.With the help of designer Thom Browne, Sherald dressed up as the little girl in her 2014 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), the work that won the artist the National Portrait Gallery&rsquo;s Outwin Boochever Prize and appeared on a New Yorker cover last year.The painting, which is featured in a traveling S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amy-sherald-dresses-as-her-own-award-winning-painting-for-metgala/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 03:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amy-sherald-dresses-as-her-own-award-winning-painting-for-metgala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Some of the Most Outrageous, Stylish Looks at the 2026 Met Gala]]></title><description><![CDATA[The annual Met Gala has become such a global pop-culture phenomenon that many probably forget&mdash;or maybe never knew!&mdash;that the event functions as a lucrative fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s Costume Institute, the branch of the museum dedicated to all things fashion.	Last year&rsquo;s event raised $31 million, and this year&rsquo;s raised $42 million, Met director Max Hollien announced on Monday morning. Controversially, the Met named Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-some-of-the-most-outrageous-stylish-looks-at-the-2026-metgala/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 03:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-some-of-the-most-outrageous-stylish-looks-at-the-2026-metgala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hoarded tinned fish, and accumulated experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[The get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hoarded tinned fish, and accumulated experience]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-get-through-world-war-ii-the-novelist-wolfgang-koeppen-faked-his-own-death-hoarded-tinned-fish-and-accumulated-experience/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:59:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-get-through-world-war-ii-the-novelist-wolfgang-koeppen-faked-his-own-death-hoarded-tinned-fish-and-accumulated-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kimberlé Crenshaw, coiner of “intersectionality” and “critical race theory,” is genuinely puzzled by the controversy her ideas have aroused]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kimberl&eacute; Crenshaw, coiner of &ldquo;intersectionality&rdquo; and &ldquo;critical race theory,&rdquo; is genuinely puzzled by the controversy her ideas have aroused]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kimberl-crenshaw-coiner-of-intersectionality-and-critical-race-theory-is-genuinely-puzzled-by-the-controversy-her-ideas-have-aroused/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:59:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kimberl-crenshaw-coiner-of-intersectionality-and-critical-race-theory-is-genuinely-puzzled-by-the-controversy-her-ideas-have-aroused/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adapting Messiah for the screen is an odd midlife crisis. For Jack Kevorkian it made sense]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adapting Messiah for the screen is an odd midlife crisis. For Jack Kevorkian it made sense]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adapting-messiah-for-the-screen-is-an-odd-midlife-crisis-for-jack-kevorkian-it-made-sense/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:59:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adapting-messiah-for-the-screen-is-an-odd-midlife-crisis-for-jack-kevorkian-it-made-sense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using AI, Pompeii Archaeological Park Recreates the Final Moments of a Man Who Died in the Vesuvius Eruption 2,000 Years Ago]]></title><description><![CDATA[In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of ash and hot gas sweeping through the Roman town of Pompei. The writer Pliny the Younger&mdash;whose uncle, Pliny the Elder, died in the eruption&mdash;watched the catastrophe unfold from a vantage point across the Bay of Naples, later describing how inhabitants had tied pillows over their heads to protect themselves from falling debris and carried torches to find their way through the darkness.In 2024, archeologists discovered the skeletons of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/using-ai-pompeii-archaeological-park-recreates-the-final-moments-of-a-man-who-died-in-the-vesuvius-eruption-2000-yearsago/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/using-ai-pompeii-archaeological-park-recreates-the-final-moments-of-a-man-who-died-in-the-vesuvius-eruption-2000-yearsago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pompeii Archaeological Park Uses AI to Recreate Final Moments of Man Who Died in the Vesuvius Eruption 2,000 Years Ago]]></title><description><![CDATA[In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of ash and hot gas sweeping through the ancient Roman town of Pompei. The writer Pliny the Younger&mdash;whose uncle, Pliny the Elder, died in the eruption&mdash;watched the catastrophe unfold from a vantage point across the Bay of Naples, later describing how inhabitants had tied pillows over their heads to protect themselves from falling debris and carried torches to find their way through the darkness.In 2024, archeologists discovered the skel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pompeii-archaeological-park-uses-ai-to-recreate-final-moments-of-man-who-died-in-the-vesuvius-eruption-2000-yearsago/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pompeii-archaeological-park-uses-ai-to-recreate-final-moments-of-man-who-died-in-the-vesuvius-eruption-2000-yearsago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met’s Costume Institute Needs an Art History Lesson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone who&rsquo;s ever taken an art history course knows the drill: put two artworks side by side, and figure out where they intersect and diverge. The exercise involves IDing those objects, stating who made them and why, and accounting for formal innovations across time and cultural differences. Essentially, the discipline is predicated upon a gussied-up game of compare-and-contrast.&ldquo;Costume Art,&rdquo; the Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s big Costume Institute show for the spring seas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-mets-costume-institute-needs-an-art-historylesson/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-mets-costume-institute-needs-an-art-historylesson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Helps UK Researchers Identify Unknown Subject in Hans Holbein Drawing as Anne Boleyn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using artificial intelligence, researchers may have identified the previously unknown subject of a sketch by Northern Renaissance artist Hans Holbein, and reidentified the sitter for a related Holbein drawing. The study, carried out by Karen L. Davies and Hassan Ugail, was published in the journal npj Heritage Science.Holbein was born in Germany but moved to England to escape the European Reformation, initially under the patronage of Oliver Cromwell and Henry VIII&rsquo;s ill-fated second wife,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-helps-uk-researchers-identify-unknown-subject-in-hans-holbein-drawing-as-anneboleyn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 22:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-helps-uk-researchers-identify-unknown-subject-in-hans-holbein-drawing-as-anneboleyn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Gold Statue Arrives at Doral After Artist Withheld It Over Crypto Dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[A gold-leafed statue of Donald Trump is now standing at his Trump National Doral golf club in Miami after a drawn-out payment dispute.The 15-foot bronze sculpture, which rises to about 22 feet with its pedestal, was finished with gold leaf after the artist, Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill, proposed the upgrade to Trump&rsquo;s team. &ldquo;It [was] like pitching ice water to a man dying of thirst,&rdquo; Cottrill told the&nbsp;Daily Beast.&nbsp;The addition helped push the cost of the project,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-gold-statue-arrives-at-doral-after-artist-withheld-it-over-cryptodispute/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-gold-statue-arrives-at-doral-after-artist-withheld-it-over-cryptodispute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold Statue of Trump Arrives at Doral After Artist Withheld It Over Money Dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[A gold-leafed statue of Donald Trump is now standing at his Trump National Doral golf club in Miami after a drawn-out payment dispute.The 15-foot bronze sculpture, which rises to about 22 feet with its pedestal, was finished with gold leaf after the artist, Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill, proposed the upgrade. &ldquo;It [was] like pitching ice water to a man dying of thirst,&rdquo; Cottrill told the&nbsp;Daily Beast.&nbsp;The addition helped push the cost of the project, commissioned by a gro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gold-statue-of-trump-arrives-at-doral-after-artist-withheld-it-over-moneydispute/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gold-statue-of-trump-arrives-at-doral-after-artist-withheld-it-over-moneydispute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unrealized Artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude Will Take Over Gagosian in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gagosian gallery in London will present an artwork conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968 but never realized before the artists&rsquo; deaths&mdash;Jeanne-Claude in 2009 and Christo in 2020.The exhibition &ldquo;Christo: Air,&rdquo; opening May 21 and running through August 21, will feature rare works by Christo as well as Air Package on a Ceiling, a work that Christo and Jeanne-Claude planned for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia but never mounted due to technical limita]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unrealized-artwork-by-christo-and-jeanne-claude-will-take-over-gagosian-inlondon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unrealized-artwork-by-christo-and-jeanne-claude-will-take-over-gagosian-inlondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran Abruptly Drops Out of Venice Biennale as US and Israel’s War Continues]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran has dropped out of the Venice Biennale, the world&rsquo;s most important recurring art exhibition, as the United States and Israel&rsquo;s war continues on.&ldquo;Regarding the National Participations at the 61st International Art Exhibition,&nbsp;In Minor Keys&nbsp;by Koyo Kouoh (9 May &ndash; 22 November 2026), La Biennale has been informed that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not participate,&rdquo; the Biennale said in a statement, noting that there are now an even 100 countries with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iran-abruptly-drops-out-of-venice-biennale-as-us-and-israels-warcontinues/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iran-abruptly-drops-out-of-venice-biennale-as-us-and-israels-warcontinues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel and Guggenheim Launch Transatlantic Curatorial Fellowship]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chanel is teaming up with the&nbsp;Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation&nbsp;on a new curatorial fellowship that will move between New York and Venice, tying one of the art world&rsquo;s biggest institutions more closely to one of its busiest international stages&mdash;and to a growing network of cultural initiatives backed by the fashion house. The announcement will come at the very start of the&nbsp;Venice Biennale.Launching in fall 2026, the Chanel Culture Fund Fellowship will be a one-year progr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-and-guggenheim-launch-transatlantic-curatorialfellowship/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-and-guggenheim-launch-transatlantic-curatorialfellowship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Henrike Naumann Stared Down a Divided Germany’s Past While Eyeing Our Troubled Present]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henrike Naumann found expressions of power, personal desire, and political will in the objects of our lives. She was an avid collector of the secondhand&mdash;in the sense of used furniture, which features prominently in almost all her work, but also in how rhetoric and belief appear in the design of things we consume, and which we in turn use to represent ourselves.I doubt I could ever fully follow Henrike&rsquo;s extended scavenger hunt for the intricacies of political extremism in her home of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/henrike-naumann-stared-down-a-divided-germanys-past-while-eyeing-our-troubledpresent/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/henrike-naumann-stared-down-a-divided-germanys-past-while-eyeing-our-troubledpresent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bard President Leon Botstein (Finally) Resigns, Following Epstein Revelations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leon Botstein, who has led Bard College since 1975 and shaped it into one of the art world&rsquo;s most influential liberal arts institutions, announced Friday that he will retire, after an independent report found he had not been &ldquo;fully accurate&rdquo; in his public accounts of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the New York Times reported.The review, conducted by the law firm WilmerHale and commissioned by Bard&rsquo;s board of trustees, was released Friday alo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bard-president-leon-botstein-finally-resigns-following-epsteinrevelations/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bard-president-leon-botstein-finally-resigns-following-epsteinrevelations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sellers at the May Marquee Auctions Revealed, Bogotá’s MAMBO Museum Loses Its Director, and More: Morning Links for May 4, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[MAY MARQUEE MASS. The spring auction season is an upon us, and ARTnews has done some sleuthing into who&rsquo;s selling what. For one, there&rsquo;s Jean-Michel Basquiat&rsquo;s monumental panting Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), from 1983, set for Sotheby&rsquo;s contemporary art sale on May 14, estimated at $45 million. According to sources, the consignor is Joahn Sayegh-Belchatowski. And if you&rsquo;re wondering who&rsquo;s behind the mystery collection dubbed &ldquo;A Matter of Seeing:]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sellers-at-the-may-marquee-auctions-revealed-bogots-mambo-museum-loses-its-director-and-more-morning-links-for-may-42026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 13:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sellers-at-the-may-marquee-auctions-revealed-bogots-mambo-museum-loses-its-director-and-more-morning-links-for-may-42026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Shows Around Venice Not to Miss During the Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every two years, Venice is activated with more art than is possible to see in a week. While much attention this year will be on &ldquo;In Minor Keys,&rdquo; the central show curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, as well as a slew of intriguing&mdash;and controversial&mdash;pavilions in the Arsenale and Giardini, Venice will also have on view a number of exhibitions elsewhere in the city that are worth checking out. Some will be held at the city&rsquo;s main art institutions, like the San Marco Art Cen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/10-shows-around-venice-not-to-miss-during-thebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/10-shows-around-venice-not-to-miss-during-thebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trippy Film by British-Ethiopian Artist Theo Eshetu Hits the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theo Eshetu has made mesmeric films for cinema, television, and exhibitions for more than four decades, often with an eye to the multiple ways films can be shown. In Brave New World (1999), the viewer is presented with a mirror box with a continuous loop of bisymmetrical clips. In the 2015 video installation The Slave Ship (The Law of the Sea), the film unfolds in an ovoid frame. His 2017 commission for Documenta 14 includes two versions of the film Atlas Fractured, one projected on a cave wall]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trippy-film-by-british-ethiopian-artist-theo-eshetu-hits-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trippy-film-by-british-ethiopian-artist-theo-eshetu-hits-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What It Takes to Build the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month, Faustin Linyekula stood at the edge of the lagoon beside the Arsenale, looking out over the water. He bent down and ran his hand along the moss that clings to the concrete docks, then began to sing. His voice carried across the basin, past the bell towers and into the empty military warehouses, the sound echoing through spaces that, in a matter of weeks, would be filled with art and people.For now, though, Venice was quiet. Three weeks before the Venice Biennale opens to press and in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-it-takes-to-build-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-it-takes-to-build-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does It Take to Build a Show During the Venice Biennale?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month, Faustin Linyekula stood at the edge of the lagoon beside the Arsenale, looking out over the water. He bent down and ran his hand along the moss that clings to the concrete docks, then began to sing. His voice carried across the basin, past the bell towers and into the empty military warehouses, the sound echoing through spaces that, in a matter of weeks, would be filled with art and people.For now, though, Venice was quiet. Three weeks before the Venice Biennale opens to press and in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-it-take-to-build-a-show-during-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-it-take-to-build-a-show-during-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Derrick Adams to Install Monumental Portrait of Koyo Kouoh in Venice During the Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[The untimely passing of curator Koyo Kouoh, the artistic director of the 2026 Venice Biennale, has been deeply felt throughout the art world for the past year. Now, artist Derrick Adams will pay tribute to Kouoh via a monumental installation in Venice this week.A banner version of his collage Heavy is the head that wears the crown&nbsp;(2026) will be installed on the facade of the Palazzetto dello sport Giobatta Gianquinto,&nbsp;facing the Rio della Tana, near the Arsenale, one of the Biennale&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/derrick-adams-to-install-monumental-portrait-of-koyo-kouoh-in-venice-during-thebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/derrick-adams-to-install-monumental-portrait-of-koyo-kouoh-in-venice-during-thebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $35 M. Warhol, a $45 M. Basquiat, and More: Who’s Selling The Top Works in the May Sales?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s springtime in the art world, and that can mean only one thing. Not the Venice Biennale, though that is no doubt where many dealers, collectors, and artists are this week. No, we&rsquo;re talking about the May marquee sales.This year&rsquo;s sales arrive, as always, at something of an inflection point for the market. Following two years of sales declines, the global art market returned to modest growth of 4 percent last year, according to the most recent Art Basel &amp; UBS Art Market]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-35-m-warhol-a-45-m-basquiat-and-more-whos-selling-the-top-works-in-the-maysales/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 01:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-35-m-warhol-a-45-m-basquiat-and-more-whos-selling-the-top-works-in-the-maysales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lévy Gorvy Dayan Bets on Urgency With New LGD Hammer Sales Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[L&eacute;vy Gorvy Dayan is rolling out a new way to sell high-value art, though gallery cofounder Brett Gorvy is quick to lower the temperature on the idea. The gallery&rsquo;s new platform, LGD Hammer, isn&rsquo;t meant to remake the market. &ldquo;We aren&rsquo;t inventing a new paradigm, but it&nbsp;is&nbsp;a development,&rdquo; he said.The platform, he said is informed by recent changed in the market. Private sales have slowed. Collectors want time to look, think, and negotiate. Deals stretc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lvy-gorvy-dayan-bets-on-urgency-with-new-lgd-hammer-salesplatform/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lvy-gorvy-dayan-bets-on-urgency-with-new-lgd-hammer-salesplatform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've seen crows picking at roadkill. Disgusting? Those birds are doing us a favor]]></title><description><![CDATA[You've seen crows picking at roadkill. Disgusting? Those birds are doing us a favor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/youve-seen-crows-picking-at-roadkill-disgusting-those-birds-are-doing-us-a-favor/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/youve-seen-crows-picking-at-roadkill-disgusting-those-birds-are-doing-us-a-favor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's "annoying Socratic gadfly," spent decades championing lost causes. At 94, he's suddenly winning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's "annoying Socratic gadfly," spent decades championing lost causes. At 94, he's suddenly winning]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harvey-mansfield-harvards-annoying-socratic-gadfly-spent-decades-championing-lost-causes-at-94-hes-suddenly-winning/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harvey-mansfield-harvards-annoying-socratic-gadfly-spent-decades-championing-lost-causes-at-94-hes-suddenly-winning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI anxiety predates AI. The fear that machine writing will replace human writing has a long history]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI anxiety predates AI. The fear that machine writing will replace human writing has a long history]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-anxiety-predates-ai-the-fear-that-machine-writing-will-replace-human-writing-has-a-long-history/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-anxiety-predates-ai-the-fear-that-machine-writing-will-replace-human-writing-has-a-long-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conductor Launches in Brooklyn With Venice Biennale-Bound Artists and Immersive Projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conductor, a new art fair hosted by Powerhouse Arts opened in Brooklyn on Wednesday night with a crowd size expected from a biennial preview, rather than a typical fair opening. Within hours, more than 800 people had passed through Powerhouse Arts, drifting between booths that offered the unexpected.There were 28 galleries and 20 special projects spread across the building, with installations that often spilled out of traditional stands and into shared space.&nbsp;This is the first full edition]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/conductor-launches-in-brooklyn-with-venice-biennale-bound-artists-and-immersiveprojects/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/conductor-launches-in-brooklyn-with-venice-biennale-bound-artists-and-immersiveprojects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Venice to Install Work for the Biennale, Artist Guadalupe Maravilla Alleges Racial Profiling by Police]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&ndash;based artist Guadalupe Maravilla had traveled to Venice last weekend to finalize the installation of his work at the 2026 Venice Biennale, a crowning achievement for any artist. But that situation, which he first posted about on Instagram, soured Thursday evening after he had left the Arsenale, one of the Biennale&rsquo;s main venues, when two police officers approached him.&ldquo;After completing the installation of my work at the Venice Biennale, I was racially profiled by polic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-to-install-work-for-the-biennale-artist-guadalupe-maravilla-alleges-racial-profiling-bypolice/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-to-install-work-for-the-biennale-artist-guadalupe-maravilla-alleges-racial-profiling-bypolice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Botticelli Painting Banned from Export Will Stay in the UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Botticelli painting placed under an export ban in an effort to keep it in the UK was acquired by the Klesch Collection and will stay in England by way of a three-year loan to the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford.As reported by The Art Newspaper, the work&mdash;titled The Virgin and Child Enthroned and dated to the 1470s&mdash;had been valued last May at &pound;10.2 million (around $13.9 million). Previously it had sold at Sotheby&rsquo;s in London for &pound;9.7 million ($13.2 mill]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/botticelli-painting-banned-from-export-will-stay-in-theuk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/botticelli-painting-banned-from-export-will-stay-in-theuk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Foundations’ Net Worth Has Nearly Tripled to $9 B., Led by Cy Twombly Foundation’s $1.5 B. in Art and Assets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since the 1990s, a small network of artist-endowed foundations has expanded dramatically, now controlling roughly $9 billion in assets, according to new research collected by the Aspen Institute&rsquo;s Artist-Endowed Foundation Initiative (AEFI), a center that studies philanthropy in the U.S.	The researchers tracked how, as the country&rsquo;s economy has grown, a few hundred artists in the U.S. established nonprofits and endowed foundations before their deaths in the U.S., creating legal and f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-foundations-net-worth-has-nearly-tripled-to-9-b-led-by-cy-twombly-foundations-15-b-in-art-andassets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-foundations-net-worth-has-nearly-tripled-to-9-b-led-by-cy-twombly-foundations-15-b-in-art-andassets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Dealer Stephen Friedman Owes $10.6 M. to Dozens of Creditors, Including Artists Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley]]></title><description><![CDATA[London-based gallery Stephen Friedman is in debt to the tune of some $10.6 million, according to official documents. Its creditors include a real estate owner, a bank, and an art logistics company as well as several well-known artists. The debts are indicated in an official filing by its administrators on Companies House, reported earlier by the Art Newspaper.&nbsp;&ldquo;A proposal to deal with the financial fallout from the London- and New York-based gallery&rsquo;s closure in February was sub]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-dealer-stephen-friedman-owes-106-m-to-dozens-of-creditors-including-artists-deborah-roberts-and-kehindewiley/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-dealer-stephen-friedman-owes-106-m-to-dozens-of-creditors-including-artists-deborah-roberts-and-kehindewiley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces $23M. Gift from Top 200 Collectors Jennifer Rubio and Stewart Butterfield]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just two months after becoming a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jennifer Rubio, along with her husband, Stewart Butterfield, have pledged $23 million to the New York museum. Rubio is an entrepreneur who founded the ubiquitous travel brand Away, and Butterfield, who is on the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Dia Art Foundation, is a software executive who co-founded Flickr and Slack.The gift is earmarked for the Met&rsquo;s internship program and will be used to en]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-announces-23m-gift-from-top-200-collectors-jennifer-rubio-and-stewartbutterfield/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-announces-23m-gift-from-top-200-collectors-jennifer-rubio-and-stewartbutterfield/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Complete Guide to the 2026 Venice Biennale National Pavilions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The central attraction at the Venice Biennale is its main exhibition, a curated show meant to pinpoint a dominant theme in art as it stands right now. But all around it are pavilions staged by countries, with each nation selecting one or more artists to mount their own show or installation. These national pavilions have contributed to the common conception of the Biennale as the art world&rsquo;s Olympics: a place where stars are born and nations flex their might.	The national pavilions often te]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-complete-guide-to-the-2026-venice-biennale-nationalpavilions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-complete-guide-to-the-2026-venice-biennale-nationalpavilions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 20 Most Expensive Artworks Hitting the Auction Block This Season]]></title><description><![CDATA[April showers may bring May flowers, but in the art world, the early signs of spring also mean that the auction houses are gearing up for the first of their marquee New York sales. Typically, these auctions, from Christie&rsquo;s, Sotheby&rsquo;s, and Phillips, occur over the course of a week, but 2026&rsquo;s calendar is a bit more fickle, owing to the Venice Biennale opening next week, followed by Frieze New York the following week. Sotheby&rsquo;s is likely looking to capitalize on the collec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-20-most-expensive-artworks-hitting-the-auction-block-thisseason/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-20-most-expensive-artworks-hitting-the-auction-block-thisseason/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoe Leonard Departs Hauser &amp; Wirth for New York&rsquo;s Maxwell Graham&nbsp;Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoe Leonard, a celebrated artist whose work is headed to the Venice Biennale next week, has departed one of the world&rsquo;s biggest art galleries and joined the roster of a much smaller one based only in New York.Until earlier this year, Leonard was represented by Hauser &amp; Wirth, a gallery with 14 locations worldwide. She has now departed that gallery and joined Maxwell Graham, a much less blue-chip space that is known for its spare presentations of conceptual art. Maxwell Graham will repr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zoe-leonard-departs-hauser-amp-wirth-for-new-yorkrsquos-maxwell-grahamnbspgallery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zoe-leonard-departs-hauser-amp-wirth-for-new-yorkrsquos-maxwell-grahamnbspgallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen’s New Book Says AI Is Rewriting What Images Do]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s no shortage of speculation about what generative AI portends for culture: Visions range from a &ldquo;dead internet,&rdquo; in which bots produce the majority of online content, to utopic redistribution scenarios, in which universal basic income grants humans unprecedented creative leisure. But for more than a decade&mdash;before many people had ever heard of a large language model (LLM)&mdash;artist Trevor Paglen has been making work about what generative AI is already doing to cu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trevor-paglens-new-book-says-ai-is-rewriting-what-imagesdo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trevor-paglens-new-book-says-ai-is-rewriting-what-imagesdo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After His Untimely Death, Rutherford Chang’s Survey Rewrites What a Square Can Do]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art history has been punctuated by debates over what a square can mean or do. For Kazimir Malevich, the black square was, in a sense, painting&rsquo;s building block&mdash;a way to strip art down to its most fundamental form. For Ad Reinhardt, it marked an endpoint: He described his black canvases as the last paintings that could be made, as though abstraction had reached its logical conclusion. Of course, his was not the final word. Josef Albers continued the inquiry, nesting colorful quadrilat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-untimely-death-rutherford-changs-survey-rewrites-what-a-square-cando/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-untimely-death-rutherford-changs-survey-rewrites-what-a-square-cando/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wittgenstein finished the Tractatus certain all philosophical problems were solved. Then spent his life disagreeing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wittgenstein finished the Tractatus certain all philosophical problems were solved. Then spent his life disagreeing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wittgenstein-finished-the-tractatus-certain-all-philosophical-problems-were-solved-then-spent-his-life-disagreeing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:44:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wittgenstein-finished-the-tractatus-certain-all-philosophical-problems-were-solved-then-spent-his-life-disagreeing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will human-written fiction become artisanal cheese, a luxury for the wealthy few while others eat Velveeta?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will human-written fiction become artisanal cheese, a luxury for the wealthy few while others eat Velveeta?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/will-human-written-fiction-become-artisanal-cheese-a-luxury-for-the-wealthy-few-while-others-eat-velveeta/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:44:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/will-human-written-fiction-become-artisanal-cheese-a-luxury-for-the-wealthy-few-while-others-eat-velveeta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How two filmmakers, a borrowed camera, and a Judas Priest concert led to an immortal documentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[How two filmmakers, a borrowed camera, and a Judas Priest concert led to an immortal documentary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-two-filmmakers-a-borrowed-camera-and-a-judas-priest-concert-led-to-an-immortal-documentary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:44:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-two-filmmakers-a-borrowed-camera-and-a-judas-priest-concert-led-to-an-immortal-documentary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auctioneer Kimberly Pirtle Leaves Sotheby’s to Launch Hybrid Art-Philanthropy Advisory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kimberly Pirtle, a fast-rising auctioneer at&nbsp;Sotheby&rsquo;s, has left the company to start her own firm, Gabriel Advisory Group, a practice that aims to bridge art advisory and cultural philanthropy.Pirtle, who worked in Sotheby&rsquo;s collectors group and quickly moved into auctioneering, said the idea grew out of a gap she kept running into with clients. At the auction house, the focus was clear: transactions. But many of the collectors she worked with were thinking more broadly&mdash;a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auctioneer-kimberly-pirtle-leaves-sothebys-to-launch-hybrid-art-philanthropy-advisory/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auctioneer-kimberly-pirtle-leaves-sothebys-to-launch-hybrid-art-philanthropy-advisory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philadelphia Is Rich With Museums and Galleries. ‘Elsewhere’ Aims to Find Out If It Can Support an Art Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philadelphia is rich with art, being home to numerous museums, from the encyclopedic Philadelphia Museum of Art to the collector-specific taste of the Barnes Foundation, from the historical Rodin Museum to those dedicated to the art of the now, like the Institute of Contemporary Art. It&rsquo;s got longstanding art galleries, too, like Fleisher/Ollman, Locks, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid.&nbsp;But is the City of Brotherly Love ready for an art fair? One dealer, Megan Galardi, who in 2023 founded t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/philadelphia-is-rich-with-museums-and-galleries-elsewhere-aims-to-find-out-if-it-can-support-an-artfair/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/philadelphia-is-rich-with-museums-and-galleries-elsewhere-aims-to-find-out-if-it-can-support-an-artfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georg Baselitz, Pioneering German Postwar Painter, Dies at 88]]></title><description><![CDATA[Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death was first announced in a press release by Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represented the artist.&nbsp;Baselitz exploded into the German art consciousness in the 1960s with a formal grit matched by tormented subject matter: his breakout &ldquo;Heroes&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/georg-baselitz-pioneering-german-postwar-painter-dies-at88/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/georg-baselitz-pioneering-german-postwar-painter-dies-at88/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas Man Who Orchestrated $20 M. Crypto Scam Based on Fictitious Van Gogh and Picasso Masterpieces Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Houston man has been sentenced to a lengthy prison stay after robbing investors of millions in savings through a bogus cryptocurrency that was supposedly backed by a collection of works by Salvador Dal&iacute;, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and other famed artists. Nearly 1,000 victims were cheated out of more than $20 million, with many losing their entire savings.&nbsp;A federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois convicted Robert Dunlap, 55, on mail fraud charges in 2025. Earlier t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/texas-man-who-orchestrated-20-m-crypto-scam-based-on-fictitious-van-gogh-and-picasso-masterpieces-sentenced-to-23-years-inprison/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/texas-man-who-orchestrated-20-m-crypto-scam-based-on-fictitious-van-gogh-and-picasso-masterpieces-sentenced-to-23-years-inprison/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timm Ulrichs, Pioneering Conceptual Artist, is Dead at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[German conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs has died at the age of 86. His death on April 29 in Berlin was announced by the art association Kunstverein Hannover, of which he was the oldest member.Born in Berlin in 1940, Ulrichs studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover from 1959&ndash;1966. In 1961, inspired by the &ldquo;Merzkunst&rdquo; (Merz art) of Hanoverian artist Kurt Schwitters, he declared himself a &ldquo;total artist,&rdquo; renaming his living space and studio the Werbeze]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/timm-ulrichs-pioneering-conceptual-artist-is-dead-at86/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/timm-ulrichs-pioneering-conceptual-artist-is-dead-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Calls on King Charles to Return Treasured Diamond to India]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the much-ballyhooed visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla to New York City on Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on the King to use his power to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond to India.As reported by Reuters, at a press conference before a ceremony to commemorate the victims of &#8203;the September 11 attack, Mamdani said, &ldquo;If I were to &zwnj;speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond.&rdquo;The two leaders did in fac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-calls-on-king-charles-to-return-treasured-diamond-toindia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-calls-on-king-charles-to-return-treasured-diamond-toindia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family of Nonagenarian Sculptor Is Fighting to Halt Demolition of Iconic Brutalist Fountain in Downtown San Francisco]]></title><description><![CDATA[The family of 96-year-old Quebecois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt is not giving up the fight to save the 710-ton concrete landmark known as Qu&eacute;bec Libre! or the Vaillancourt Fountain. The public artwork has been an iconic, if controversial, part of the landscape of San Francisco&rsquo;s Embarcadero Plaza since it was constructed in 1971.However, last summer, San Francisco&rsquo;s arts commission, which owns the work, was asked if would &ldquo;deaccession&rdquo; the sculpture in order to ac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/family-of-nonagenarian-sculptor-is-fighting-to-halt-demolition-of-iconic-brutalist-fountain-in-downtown-sanfrancisco/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/family-of-nonagenarian-sculptor-is-fighting-to-halt-demolition-of-iconic-brutalist-fountain-in-downtown-sanfrancisco/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picasso Painting That Cost S. I. Newhouse a MoMA Board Position Heads to Christie’s for $55 M. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s New York is offering 16 top-notch works by titans of the 20th and 21st centuries next month, all from the holdings of the late publishing magnate S. I. (aka Si) Newhouse, head of Conde Nast, who died in 2017. At a packed Rockefeller Center salesroom on May 18, masterpieces by artists including Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol will come to the block. The group is expected to ring up collectively for about $450 million, an e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/picasso-painting-that-cost-s-i-newhouse-a-moma-board-position-heads-to-christies-for-55m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/picasso-painting-that-cost-s-i-newhouse-a-moma-board-position-heads-to-christies-for-55m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Appoints Essence Harden as Senior Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco has named Essence Harden as senior curator. She will begin in the role on May 18.Harden currently serves as curator of the Expo Chicago art fair. Since 2024, they have also organized the Focus section of Frieze Los Angeles. They will continue in those roles with YBCA&rsquo;s support. As an independent curator, Harden most recently co-curated the 2025 edition of the Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum.They previously served as vis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-appoints-essence-harden-as-seniorcurator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-appoints-essence-harden-as-seniorcurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montclair Art Museum Hires Esteemed Curator Kate Kraczon After Layoffs at Brown University]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Montclair Art Museum has a new chief curator. The New Jersey institution hired Kate Kraczon, who lost her job as director of exhibitions and chief curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, late last year amid a wave of layoffs; she had served in that office since 2019.Kraczon takes over the role from Gail Stavitsky, who had held the post since 1994, and takes up her new position June 15. Before the Bell, Kraczon was associate curator at the In]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/montclair-art-museum-hires-esteemed-curator-kate-kraczon-after-layoffs-at-brownuniversity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/montclair-art-museum-hires-esteemed-curator-kate-kraczon-after-layoffs-at-brownuniversity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian Culture Minister Launches Inspection of Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Only days before the opening of the 61st Venice Biennale, Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli has launched his long-teased investigation into the Russian Pavilion. Italian media reported today that an inspector sent by the minister to Venice has set up an office in Ca&rsquo; Giustinian, a palazzo on the Grand Canal in San Marco, and has demanded full access to all records related to Moscow&rsquo;s presence at the exhibition.&nbsp;According to La Stampa, the investigation is focused on any]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-culture-minister-launches-inspection-of-venice-biennales-russianpavilion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-culture-minister-launches-inspection-of-venice-biennales-russianpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Jury Resigns En Masse]]></title><description><![CDATA[The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale, which awards the exhibition&rsquo;s top prizes, announced Thursday that it had resigned.The news was posted to the Instagram account of journal e-flux, providing no reasoning for the decision. The statement, in full, reads: &ldquo;As of 30 April 2026, we, the international jury selected by Koyo Kouoh, Artistic Director of the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys, have resigned. We do so in acknowledgment of our Statement of Intention issued]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-enmasse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-enmasse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Jury Resigns En Masse, Organizers to Award “Visitors’ Lions” in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale, which awards the exhibition&rsquo;s top prizes, announced Thursday that it had resigned.The news was posted to the Instagram account of the journal e-flux, providing no reasoning for the decision. The statement, in full, reads: &ldquo;As of 30 April 2026, we, the international jury selected by Koyo Kouoh, Artistic Director of the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys, have resigned. We do so in acknowledgment of our Statement of Intention iss]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-en-masse-organizers-to-award-visitors-lions-innovember-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-en-masse-organizers-to-award-visitors-lions-innovember-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Jury Resigns En Masse, Organizers to Award ‘Visitors’ Lions’ in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale, which awards the exhibition&rsquo;s top prizes, announced Thursday that it had resigned.The news was posted to the Instagram account of journal e-flux, providing no reasoning for the decision. The statement, in full, reads: &ldquo;As of 30 April 2026, we, the international jury selected by Koyo Kouoh, Artistic Director of the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys, have resigned. We do so in acknowledgment of our Statement of Intention issued]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-en-masse-organizers-to-award-visitors-lions-innovember/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-en-masse-organizers-to-award-visitors-lions-innovember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucas Museum Reveals First Set of Exhibitions Curated by Founder George Lucas]]></title><description><![CDATA[With just under five months to go before its September opening, the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has announced a selection of exhibitions that will inaugurate the new institution, all of which are curated by cofounder George Lucas.The initial hang of the Lucas Museum will feature around 12,000 objects, drawn from the museum&rsquo;s holdings of more than 40,000 objects, that Lucas began collecting over 50 years ago. They will be spread across 30 galleries in the museum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-reveals-first-set-of-exhibitions-curated-by-founder-georgelucas/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-reveals-first-set-of-exhibitions-curated-by-founder-georgelucas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music critic Michael Steinberg, finding his profession “an irritant and a depressant,” went to work for orchestras]]></title><description><![CDATA[The music critic Michael Steinberg, finding&nbsp;his profession &ldquo;an irritant and a depressant,&rdquo; went to work for orchestras]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-music-critic-michael-steinberg-findinghis-profession-an-irritant-and-a-depressant-went-to-work-for-orchestras/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:44:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-music-critic-michael-steinberg-findinghis-profession-an-irritant-and-a-depressant-went-to-work-for-orchestras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advocates Try to Save Brutalist Fountain in San Francisco, José Aparicio Painting Returns to Prado Museum: Morning Links for April 30, 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.The Headlines	BLIND BLISS. A new sculpture has popped up in London&rsquo;s Waterloo Place, bearing the signature of the elusive Banksy, reports the&nbsp;BBC. In Banksy&rsquo;s style, the sculpture offers pointed political commentary on the state of the world. A man in a suit is seen marching confidently, right off a plinth, while holding a flag that completel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/advocates-try-to-save-brutalist-fountain-in-san-francisco-jos-aparicio-painting-returns-to-prado-museum-morning-links-for-april-302026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/advocates-try-to-save-brutalist-fountain-in-san-francisco-jos-aparicio-painting-returns-to-prado-museum-morning-links-for-april-302026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of Picasso’s lovers committed suicide; another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two of&nbsp;Picasso&rsquo;s lovers committed suicide; another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-ofpicassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:08:36 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-ofpicassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music critic Michael Steinberg thought his profession “an irritant and a depressant,” and so he went to work for orchestras]]></title><description><![CDATA[The music critic Michael Steinberg thought his profession &ldquo;an irritant and a depressant,&rdquo; and so he went to work for orchestras]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-music-critic-michael-steinberg-thought-his-profession-an-irritant-and-a-depressant-and-so-he-went-to-work-for-orchestras/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:15:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-music-critic-michael-steinberg-thought-his-profession-an-irritant-and-a-depressant-and-so-he-went-to-work-for-orchestras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kierkegaard vs. Copenhagen's tabloid press. "Twenty-five signatures make the most frightful stupidity into an opinion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kierkegaard vs. Copenhagen's tabloid press. "Twenty-five signatures make the most frightful stupidity into an opinion"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kierkegaard-vs-copenhagens-tabloid-press-twenty-five-signatures-make-the-most-frightful-stupidity-into-an-opinion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:15:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kierkegaard-vs-copenhagens-tabloid-press-twenty-five-signatures-make-the-most-frightful-stupidity-into-an-opinion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Bacon's "sound houses" to the Star Wars cantina: Why does science fiction sound like that?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Bacon's "sound houses" to the Star Wars cantina: Why does science fiction sound like that?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-bacons-sound-houses-to-the-star-wars-cantina-why-does-science-fiction-sound-like-that/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:15:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-bacons-sound-houses-to-the-star-wars-cantina-why-does-science-fiction-sound-like-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anna Zemánková Estate Joins Gladstone Gallery, Sándra Vasquez de la Horra Joins Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and More: Industry Moves for April 29, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;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.Industry MovesGladstone Takes&nbsp;on&nbsp;the Estate of Anna Zem&aacute;nkov&aacute;:&nbsp;The gallery, which staged an exhibition&nbsp;of her work last spring, will present a solo booth of the artist&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-zemnkov-estate-joins-gladstone-gallery-sndra-vasquez-de-la-horra-joins-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-292026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-zemnkov-estate-joins-gladstone-gallery-sndra-vasquez-de-la-horra-joins-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anna Zemánková Estate Joins Gladstone Gallery, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra Joins Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and More: Industry Moves for April 29, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;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.Industry MovesGladstone Takes&nbsp;on&nbsp;the Estate of Anna Zem&aacute;nkov&aacute;:&nbsp;The gallery, which staged an exhibition&nbsp;of her work last spring, will present a solo booth of the artist&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-zemnkov-estate-joins-gladstone-gallery-sandra-vsquez-de-la-horra-joins-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-292026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-zemnkov-estate-joins-gladstone-gallery-sandra-vsquez-de-la-horra-joins-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Will the Venice Biennale Impact Alma Allen’s Market?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Controversy has swirled around the artist&nbsp;Alma Allen&nbsp;since he was announced as America&rsquo;s representative at this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale, which opens to art professionals and press next week. The conversation&nbsp;has tended to highlight the compromised selection&nbsp;process under President Trump, with much of the scrutiny centered around the fact that a museum didn&rsquo;t commission&nbsp;the pavilion, as is common. Instead, the commissioner this time is a newly created bod]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-will-the-venice-biennale-impact-alma-allensmarket/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-will-the-venice-biennale-impact-alma-allensmarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portland’s Converge 45 Reveals Theme and Artists, Including Trisha Baga, Rose Salane, and Srijon Chowdhury]]></title><description><![CDATA[Converge 45, a citywide triennial in Portland, Oregon, has announced the theme and the 28 participating artists for the exhibition&rsquo;s upcoming edition, launching August 27.New York&ndash;based curator Lumi Tan has titled this iteration of the art festival &ldquo;Here, To you, Now,&rdquo; borrowing a phrase from Ursula K. Le Guin&rsquo;s 1985 science-fiction novel Always Coming Home. The novel focuses on the Kesh people, who have survived an ecological disaster and &ldquo;prioritize the impe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/portlands-converge-45-reveals-theme-and-artists-including-trisha-baga-rose-salane-and-srijonchowdhury/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/portlands-converge-45-reveals-theme-and-artists-including-trisha-baga-rose-salane-and-srijonchowdhury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ittai Gradel, Danish Gems Expert Who Uncovered British Museum Thefts, Has Died at 61]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ittai Gradel, the Danish gems specialist and art dealer who uncovered that some 2,000 objects had been stolen from the British Museum&rsquo;s collection, died on April 28 at age 61. BBC News reported that he died of renal cancer shortly after receiving a medal from the museum in honor of what its director, Nicholas Cullinan, called his &ldquo;very significant contribution.&rdquo;Initially dismissed by the museum, Gradel&rsquo;s investigation made international headlines and ultimately led to the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ittai-gradel-danish-gems-expert-who-uncovered-british-museum-thefts-has-died-at61/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ittai-gradel-danish-gems-expert-who-uncovered-british-museum-thefts-has-died-at61/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hermitage Museum Director and Putin Ally Mikhail Piotrovsky Sanctioned by European Union]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Council of the European Union announced on April 23 that it is formally sanctioning Mikhail Piotrovsky, the long-time director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The reasons given are that Piotrovsky is &ldquo;a close associate of Vladimir Putin&rdquo; and that &ldquo;he has actively supported and justified Russia&rsquo;s war of aggression against Ukraine.&rdquo; The news was first reported by The Art Newspaper.According to the Hermitage Development Foundation, Piotrovsky succe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hermitage-museum-director-and-putin-ally-mikhail-piotrovsky-sanctioned-by-europeanunion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hermitage-museum-director-and-putin-ally-mikhail-piotrovsky-sanctioned-by-europeanunion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of his Picasso’s lovers committed suicide; another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two of his Picasso&rsquo;s lovers committed suicide; another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-his-picassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:08:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-his-picassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After Seven Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram.&ldquo;I have always believed in hoping for the best while preparing for the unexpected,&rdquo; Zollinger said in a statement. &ldquo;A few months ago, I wrote to you about resilience and flexibility. At the start of this year, I was prepared to once again invest the time, energy, and conviction required to push the gallery forward. I wanted to believe in a recovering market and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurichs-galerie-philipp-zollinger-closes-after-sevenyears/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurichs-galerie-philipp-zollinger-closes-after-sevenyears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram.&ldquo;I have always believed in hoping for the best while preparing for the unexpected,&rdquo; Zollinger said in a statement. &ldquo;A few months ago, I wrote to you about resilience and flexibility. At the start of this year, I was prepared to once again invest the time, energy, and conviction required to push the gallery forward. I wanted to believe in a recovering market and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurichs-galerie-philipp-zollinger-closes-after-7years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurichs-galerie-philipp-zollinger-closes-after-7years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[7 Books We’re Looking Forward to in May]]></title><description><![CDATA[Happy park-reading (or porch-reading) season to those who celebrate! Whether you&rsquo;re grabbing a book for you flight to the Venice Biennale or to bask on a picnic blanket in the glorious sun elsewhere in the world, we&rsquo;ve got the latest and greatest art books for you below.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/7-books-were-looking-forward-to-inmay/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/7-books-were-looking-forward-to-inmay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence Painting Appears on Trump’s New US Passports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alongside Donald Trump&rsquo;s face, you can expect to soon see a piece of American art history on your US passport.As reported yesterday by Fox News, Trump&rsquo;s State Department has revealed a limited-edition passport for the nation&rsquo;s 250th anniversary that will feature John Trumbull&rsquo;s 1817 painting Declaration of Independence.Contrary to popular belief, the 18-foot-long painting does not depict the signing of its titular document but merely the presentation of a draft of it Cong]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-trumbulls-declaration-of-independence-painting-appears-on-trumps-new-uspassports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-trumbulls-declaration-of-independence-painting-appears-on-trumps-new-uspassports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giorno Poetry Systems Gives Grants to 12 Artists Including Jacolby Satterwhite, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and the Late Agosto Machado]]></title><description><![CDATA[Giorno Poetry Systems, a nonprofit organization founded by the artist and downtown New York scenemaker John Giorno in 1965, has launched a new need-based grant program inspired by a decade-long AIDS Treatment Project that Giorno oversaw in the 1980s and &rsquo;90s.The new Treat a Stranger Grant awards $4,545 each to a group of 12 artists: Samiya Bashir, Malcolm-X Betts, Pe Ferreira, Mercy Kelly, Agosto Machado, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Gavil&aacute;n Rayna Russom, Jacolby Sat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giorno-poetry-systems-gives-grants-to-12-artists-including-jacolby-satterwhite-puppies-puppies-jade-guanaro-kuriki-olivo-and-the-late-agostomachado/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giorno-poetry-systems-gives-grants-to-12-artists-including-jacolby-satterwhite-puppies-puppies-jade-guanaro-kuriki-olivo-and-the-late-agostomachado/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buffalo AKG Art Museum Director Janne Sirén to Depart After 13 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Janne Sir&eacute;n, the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Upstate New York, will depart his post in October after more than a decade, opening up yet another top role at a US art institution.Sir&eacute;n oversaw the museum as it expanded dramatically in 2023, adding another building to its campus that doubled the AKG&rsquo;s square footage. The expansion, which cost $230 million, was well-received, both within the art press and by locals, who flocked to the museum. The AKG reported that,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/buffalo-akg-art-museum-director-janne-sirn-to-depart-after-13years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/buffalo-akg-art-museum-director-janne-sirn-to-depart-after-13years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Misconduct at Palm Springs Art Museum, Where an Ex-Trustee Describes a ‘Shattered Moral Compass’]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous whistleblower has raised allegations of misconduct by leadership at California&rsquo;s Palm Springs Art Museum, claiming violations of the law and institutional best practices.&nbsp;The whistleblower claims that the museum improperly moved funds between various accounts in order to meet severe cash crunches. The whistleblower alleged that a former director was forced out based on trumped-up staff complaints, and that the museum failed to even interview two qualified candidates to re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whistleblower-complaint-alleges-misconduct-at-palm-springs-art-museum-where-an-ex-trustee-describes-a-shattered-moralcompass/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whistleblower-complaint-alleges-misconduct-at-palm-springs-art-museum-where-an-ex-trustee-describes-a-shattered-moralcompass/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Inside Look at Realizing Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale Exhibition and More: Morning Links for April 29, 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!An inside look at the realization of Koyo Kouoh&rsquo;s Venice Biennale.A Chicago judge has sentenced a man to 23 years for an art-backed cryptocurrency scam.&nbsp;A Renoir painting once owned by the Duchess of Alba will return to Spain.The Headlines	THE SHOW MUST GO ON.&nbsp;Ahead of the opening of the 2026&nbsp;Venice Biennale&nbsp;next week, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-inside-look-at-realizing-koyo-kouohs-venice-biennale-exhibition-and-more-morning-links-for-april-292026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-inside-look-at-realizing-koyo-kouohs-venice-biennale-exhibition-and-more-morning-links-for-april-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natasha Tontey to Unveil Major New Immersive Installation Exploring Indigenous Resistance During Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fresh off her first institutional exhibition, artist Natasha Toney is set to unveil an ambitious immersive installation during the Venice Biennale at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, a 16th-century building in San Marco.Jointly commissioned by Berlin&rsquo;s LAS Art Foundation and Helsinki&rsquo;s Amos Rex contemporary art museum, The Phantom Combatants and the Metabolism of Disobedient Organs, as the installation is called, combines video, sound, light, and sculptural elements to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/natasha-tontey-to-unveil-major-new-immersive-installation-exploring-indigenous-resistance-during-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/natasha-tontey-to-unveil-major-new-immersive-installation-exploring-indigenous-resistance-during-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Theatre Group of Exiled Belarusian Artists Arrive in Venice, With an Exhibition That Shows What Repression Feels Like]]></title><description><![CDATA[While much attention&mdash;and controversy&mdash;has been generated in recent months over the return of Russia to the Venice Biennale, another outcast nation will also have its first presence at the global art exhibition in six years, albeit in an unofficial capacity: Belarus.For the first time, the Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group, will stage an official collateral exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale. The show, titled &ldquo;Official. Unofficial. Belarus.,&rdquo; is set to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-theatre-group-of-exiled-belarusian-artists-arrive-in-venice-with-an-exhibition-that-shows-what-repression-feelslike/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-theatre-group-of-exiled-belarusian-artists-arrive-in-venice-with-an-exhibition-that-shows-what-repression-feelslike/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your sous vide wand. Your car. Your search results. All enshittified, all on purpose, all at once. Cory Doctorow explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your sous vide wand. Your car. Your search results. All enshittified, all on purpose, all at once. Cory Doctorow explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-sous-vide-wand-your-car-your-search-results-all-enshittified-all-on-purpose-all-at-once-cory-doctorow-explains/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:09:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-sous-vide-wand-your-car-your-search-results-all-enshittified-all-on-purpose-all-at-once-cory-doctorow-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of his Picasso’s lovers committed suicide, another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two of his Picasso&rsquo;s lovers committed suicide, another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-his-picassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:09:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-his-picassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney took Dante, not Yeats, as his model &mdash; and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney took Dante, not Yeats, as his model &mdash; and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seamus-heaney-took-dante-not-yeats-as-his-model-mdash-and-transformed-northern-irelands-troubles-into-purgatory/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:09:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seamus-heaney-took-dante-not-yeats-as-his-model-mdash-and-transformed-northern-irelands-troubles-into-purgatory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great writers do not reveal to us the admirable depth of their minds: they guide us in cultivating the depth of our own]]></title><description><![CDATA[Great writers do not reveal to us the admirable depth of their minds: they guide us in cultivating the depth of our own]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/great-writers-do-not-reveal-to-us-the-admirable-depth-of-their-minds-they-guide-us-in-cultivating-the-depth-of-our-own/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:09:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/great-writers-do-not-reveal-to-us-the-admirable-depth-of-their-minds-they-guide-us-in-cultivating-the-depth-of-our-own/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raphael Fonseca and Amanda Carneiro to Curate the 2027 Bienal de São Paulo]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bienal de S&atilde;o Paulo has announced the two chief curators for the 2027 edition of the Brazilian exhibition: Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca. The duo&rsquo;s theme for the Bienal will be announced in the coming months.	Held in Oscar Niemeyer&ndash;design Pavilh&atilde;o Ciccillo Matarazzo in Ibirapuera Park, the exhibition is the largest of its kind in Latin America.&ldquo;The selection of Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca for the 37th edition is part of this evolving history,&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raphael-fonseca-and-amanda-carneiro-to-curate-the-2027-bienal-de-sopaulo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raphael-fonseca-and-amanda-carneiro-to-curate-the-2027-bienal-de-sopaulo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Jersey Father and Daughter Plead Guilty to $2 M. Counterfeit Art Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two New Jersey residents pleaded guilty to running a years-long counterfeit art scheme that funneled fake works into the legitimate market, defrauding buyers of at least $2 million.Erwin Bankowski, 50, and Karolina Bankowska, 26,&nbsp;admitted in federal court&nbsp;in Brooklyn to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American&ndash;produced goods, according to the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The pair, a father and daughter, now face up to 20 year]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-jersey-father-and-daughter-plead-guilty-to-2-m-counterfeit-artscheme/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-jersey-father-and-daughter-plead-guilty-to-2-m-counterfeit-artscheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Orders Prado to Hold Disputed Velázquez Painting in Divorce Case]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Spanish judge has ordered the&nbsp;Museo del Prado in Madrid&nbsp;to hold onto a painting attributed to&nbsp;Diego Vel&aacute;zquez&nbsp;at the center of a divorce dispute between steel magnate Jos&eacute; Mar&iacute;a Aristrain and his ex-wife Gema Navarro, according to&nbsp;El Pa&iacute;s.&nbsp;The painting ended up at the Prado through a chain of state intervention. After Navarro filed a complaint alleging the work had been wrongly kept from her, a Madrid judge, acting with the support of p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-orders-prado-to-hold-disputed-velzquez-painting-in-divorcecase/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-orders-prado-to-hold-disputed-velzquez-painting-in-divorcecase/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Damien Hirst Have to Do With This Giant McDonald’s Ball Pit in Milan?]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;What does Damien Hirst have to do with McDonald&rsquo;s? Nothing.&rdquo; So begins a perplexing Instagram video introducing an installation organized by Nicolas Ballario, founder of a Milan-based communications agency, that was on view as part of Milan Design Week.The immersive installation, &ldquo;POOL. Ti sblocco un ricordo&rdquo; (&ldquo;Pool: I&rsquo;ll Unlock a Memory for You&rdquo;), is part of a series of offsite exhibitions collectively called Tortona Rocks, in the Tortona neighbo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-damien-hirst-have-to-do-with-this-giant-mcdonalds-ball-pit-inmilan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-damien-hirst-have-to-do-with-this-giant-mcdonalds-ball-pit-inmilan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans Push $400 M. White House Ballroom After Gala Attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Republicans in Congress are moving to fast-track funding for Donald Trump&rsquo;s planned White House ballroom, using the weekend attack at a Washington press gala to argue that current venues are too vulnerable.According to the&nbsp;New York Times, Senator Lindsey Graham said Monday that he wants lawmakers to approve roughly $400 million for the project, which would include not just an event space but secure facilities beneath it. The goal, he said, is to keep large, high-profile gatherings on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/republicans-push-400-m-white-house-ballroom-after-galaattack/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/republicans-push-400-m-white-house-ballroom-after-galaattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aspen AIR Festival to Feature Lucy Raven, Camille Henrot, Los Thuthanaka, Morgan Bassichis, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[After an inaugural edition last year, the AIR festival will return to Aspen, Colorado, in July with a program of performances, exhibitions, talks, and other events in the high-flying mountain town. The second edition, slated for July 27-31, will feature some artists who participated last time and others presenting work in Aspen for the first time, all under the theme &ldquo;Figures in a Landscape.&rdquo;Adri&aacute;n Villar Rojas, who last year featured in a talk with novelist &Aacute;lvaro Enri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspen-air-festival-to-feature-lucy-raven-camille-henrot-los-thuthanaka-morgan-bassichis-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspen-air-festival-to-feature-lucy-raven-camille-henrot-los-thuthanaka-morgan-bassichis-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art Gets $490 M. from Powerful Real Estate Firm]]></title><description><![CDATA[The forthcoming Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art has received a $490 million construction grant from Diriyah Company, a real estate juggernaut that has previously thrown its support behind an array of resorts, a digital art institution, and a shopping district in the country.Designed by Godwin Austen Johnson, a Dubai-based architecture firm that previously conceived the Sharjah Art Foundation, the museum will span 883,000 square feet, poising it to cover more ground than the Louvre in Par]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saudi-arabia-museum-of-contemporary-art-gets-490-m-from-powerful-real-estatefirm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saudi-arabia-museum-of-contemporary-art-gets-490-m-from-powerful-real-estatefirm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Pavilion Will Be Closed to the Public During Venice Biennale: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Russian Pavilion will be accessible to the public only during the Venice Biennale&rsquo;s pre-opening vernissage (May 5&ndash;8), Italian news outlets report, as the European Union threatens to withdraw funding from the prestigious exhibition amid mounting sanctions on Moscow.For weeks, voices across Europe&rsquo;s cultural and political spheres&mdash;including Italy&rsquo;s culture minister&mdash;have urged Venice Biennale organizers to shutter the Russian Pavilion, as the country&rsquo;s w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-pavilion-will-be-closed-to-the-public-during-venice-biennalereport/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-pavilion-will-be-closed-to-the-public-during-venice-biennalereport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$60 M. Lichtenstein Comes to the Block at Christie’s, Potentially Joining His Priciest Works at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 1960s canvas by Pop master Roy Lichtenstein, coming from the collection of a legendary New York collector-dealer who famously patronized the Pop artists, could become one of the artist&rsquo;s top works to sell at auction.	Anxious Girl (1964) bears an estimate of between $40 million and $60 million. If it achieves its high estimate, it will be his second-priciest work at any public sale. The painting, which will lead the house&rsquo;s marquee 20th-century art evening sale on May 18, comes from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/60-m-lichtenstein-comes-to-the-block-at-christies-potentially-joining-his-priciest-works-atauction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/60-m-lichtenstein-comes-to-the-block-at-christies-potentially-joining-his-priciest-works-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emails Suggest Venice Biennale Organizers Planned for Limited Russian Participation, SF Appoints First Arts and Culture Director, and More: Morning Links for April 28, 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!Emails between Venice Biennale organizers and the Russian Pavilion commissioner reveal plans to close the latter pavilion to the public after the vernissage.Matthew Goudeau has become San Francisco&rsquo;s first executive director of arts and culture.&nbsp;Republicans argue the attack at the press gala on Saturday justifies President Trump&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emails-suggest-venice-biennale-organizers-planned-for-limited-russian-participation-sf-appoints-first-arts-and-culture-director-and-more-morning-links-for-april-282026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emails-suggest-venice-biennale-organizers-planned-for-limited-russian-participation-sf-appoints-first-arts-and-culture-director-and-more-morning-links-for-april-282026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney took Dante as his model, not Yeats &mdash; and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney took Dante as his model, not Yeats &mdash; and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seamus-heaney-took-dante-as-his-model-not-yeats-mdash-and-transformed-northern-irelands-troubles-into-purgatory/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:48:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seamus-heaney-took-dante-as-his-model-not-yeats-mdash-and-transformed-northern-irelands-troubles-into-purgatory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwight Garner: “The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dwight Garner: &ldquo;The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-garner-the-thin-crust-of-american-intellectual-life-long-flaking-has-begun-to-show-bald-patches/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:48:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-garner-the-thin-crust-of-american-intellectual-life-long-flaking-has-begun-to-show-bald-patches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writing experiment reveals AI's likely future: individual productivity rises; collective intelligence decays]]></title><description><![CDATA[A writing experiment reveals AI's likely future: individual productivity rises; collective intelligence decays]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-writing-experiment-reveals-ais-likely-future-individual-productivity-rises-collective-intelligence-decays/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:48:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-writing-experiment-reveals-ais-likely-future-individual-productivity-rises-collective-intelligence-decays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newly Excavated Egyptian Tomb Sheds Light on Greco-Roman Era]]></title><description><![CDATA[A newly excavated Roman-era tomb found at Al-Bahnasa, site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, offers insights into Egyptian funerary practices during the Greek and Roman periods (332 BCE&ndash;641 CE). The find, announced by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry, was made by a team of Egyptian and Spanish researchers led by archeologists Esther Pons of Spain&rsquo;s National Archaeological Museum and Maite Mascort of the University of Barcelona. &nbsp;Among the contents of the tomb were]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-excavated-egyptian-tomb-sheds-light-on-greco-romanera/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-excavated-egyptian-tomb-sheds-light-on-greco-romanera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Choices: Should You Donate to Institutions Getting Gutted by Trump?]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen &amp; Lampert deliver a quiz full of&nbsp;hard choices&nbsp;for&nbsp;Art in America&nbsp;readers from far and wide.They say that culture should be free for all, yet we&rsquo;ve long been relying on our government to foot the bill in the form of grants and pork barrel spending. From the WPA to the NEA, America has underwritten the top tier of high culture for decades on end. The current president and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-choices-should-you-donate-to-institutions-getting-gutted-bytrump/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-choices-should-you-donate-to-institutions-getting-gutted-bytrump/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven-Foot-Tall Monument to Ramses II Discovered in Eastern Nile Delta Region]]></title><description><![CDATA[The top half of a large statue of the ancient Egyptian king Ramses II was discovered in northeastern Egypt at an archaeological site called Tell El-Faraoun. The fragment weights over 5 tons and is about 7 feet tall.Ahram Online reported that the monument was likely part of a group of three statues that once adorned a temple, though likely not the one at Tell El-Faraoun, where it was uncovered. Rather, it is believed to have initially been carved for a temple in Per-Ramesses, an ancient capital c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seven-foot-tall-monument-to-ramses-ii-discovered-in-eastern-nile-deltaregion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seven-foot-tall-monument-to-ramses-ii-discovered-in-eastern-nile-deltaregion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Show in London Canceled Over Allegations of Antisemitism from Pro-Israel Group]]></title><description><![CDATA[An exhibition at Delta House Gallery in London was cancelled after the group UK Lawyers for Israel raised concerns over drawings described by the Telegraph newspaper as &ldquo;dripping with Jew-hate.&rdquo;That appraisal ran in a review of a previous version of the show in Margate, where the artist Matthew Collings showed his work in an exhibition titled &ldquo;Drawings Against Genocide.&rdquo;As reported by the Jerusalem Post, &ldquo;The drawings in the collection are graphic. One depicts the o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-show-in-london-canceled-over-allegations-of-antisemitism-from-pro-israelgroup/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-show-in-london-canceled-over-allegations-of-antisemitism-from-pro-israelgroup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newsmakers: Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Entering the cavernous Magazzini del Sale in Venice, viewers encounter Nalini Malani&rsquo;s animations, which are projected directly onto the uneven brick walls of the former salt warehouse. Her images flicker, dissolve, and reappear as they are cast across architecture shaped by centuries of trade. The installation feels both contemporary and archaic: moving images that seem less like digital projections than pigment placed on stone, recalling cave paintings set in motion.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
This tension]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newsmakers-nalini-malani-lets-the-walls-speak-with-a-new-installation-invenice/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newsmakers-nalini-malani-lets-the-walls-speak-with-a-new-installation-invenice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 77, Painter Archie Rand Is Still Telling New Stories]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do you know when a painting is finished? It&rsquo;s a question asked of so many painters, many of whom struggle to come up with an answer. When I posed it to Archie Rand during a conversation in his Brooklyn studio, he stood up from his lounge chair and walked toward an easel on which sat a half-finished work. In it, a dapper street vendor sells ceramics from a wooden board balanced on his head. Two children watch him from behind while, in one sliver of the background on the top left side of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-77-painter-archie-rand-is-still-telling-newstories/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-77-painter-archie-rand-is-still-telling-newstories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharjah Biennial Lines Up 109 Artists for 2027 Edition, Titled ‘What Remains, Sits Restive’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the title, curatorial framework, and artist list for the 17th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from January 21, through June 13, 2027.Titled &ldquo;What remains, sits restive,&rdquo; the exhibition will bring together 109 artists across sites in the emirate, including Sharjah City, Al Dhaid, Khorfakkan, and the Kalba Ice Factory.The edition is co-curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento, who have structured the project around themes of unrealized so]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharjah-biennial-lines-up-109-artists-for-2027-edition-titled-what-remains-sitsrestive/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharjah-biennial-lines-up-109-artists-for-2027-edition-titled-what-remains-sitsrestive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics]]></title><description><![CDATA[At first glance, Nancy Burson&rsquo;s &ldquo;Quantum Entanglement&rdquo; paintings appear simply as white dots washing over black canvases in clusters and waves. Some dots resemble pairs of eyes; others appear as overlapping roundish figures. But when viewed as the 78-year-old artist intends&mdash;through a phone camera&mdash;the forms appear to jitter like static. Faint washes of color and a new sense of depth emerge. To Burson, the paintings&mdash;on view in the solo exhibition &ldquo;Light Ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/digital-art-pioneer-nancy-burson-collapses-the-border-between-mysticism-and-quantumphysics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/digital-art-pioneer-nancy-burson-collapses-the-border-between-mysticism-and-quantumphysics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Long-Running Case Centering on Alleged Robert Indiana Forgeries Is Resolved with a $102 M. Settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit claiming copyright infringement and forgery of the work of major American Pop artist Robert Indiana has come to a conclusion after eight long years.	A New York jury found that art publisher Michael McKenzie had created unauthorized and altered versions of Indiana&rsquo;s work, reports the New York Times. The suit included some versions of Indiana&rsquo;s trademark work, LOVE, which depicts the word love in lively serif characters, the LO situated atop the VE, with the O placed at an an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-long-running-case-centering-on-alleged-robert-indiana-forgeries-is-resolved-with-a-102-msettlement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-long-running-case-centering-on-alleged-robert-indiana-forgeries-is-resolved-with-a-102-msettlement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian Culture Minister Will Not Attend Venice Biennale Opening in Protest of Russia’s Participation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the opening of the Venice Biennale as a protest against the Russian Pavilion, which marks the country&rsquo;s return to the exhibition following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.&nbsp;The news was announced in a statement from the Ministry of Culture, which noted that Giuli will neither travel to Venice for the preview of the exhibition nor attend its opening ceremony on May 9.&nbsp;Russia&rsquo;s reopening of its national pavilion&mdash;with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-culture-minister-will-not-attend-venice-biennale-opening-in-protest-of-russiasparticipation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-culture-minister-will-not-attend-venice-biennale-opening-in-protest-of-russiasparticipation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Carolina Artist Aldwyth Dies, The Box Closes in LA, and More: Morning Links for April 27, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesLOVE ACTUALLY. After eight years of legal disputes, a New York federal jury has awarded the&nbsp;Morgan Art Foundation&nbsp;$102.2 million in damages, contending that art publisher&nbsp;Michael McKenzie&nbsp;isolated artist&nbsp;Robert Indiana&nbsp;near the end of his life and created unauthorized versions of his work, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;&nbsp;reports. Indiana is famous for his large sculpture depicting the word &ldquo;love&rdquo; in caps, with the L and O sitting atop the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-carolina-artist-aldwyth-dies-the-box-closes-in-la-and-more-morning-links-for-april-272026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-carolina-artist-aldwyth-dies-the-box-closes-in-la-and-more-morning-links-for-april-272026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Primary Structures” Turns 60]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 28, 1966, The New York Times ran a review of the Jewish Museum&rsquo;s &ldquo;Primary Structures&rdquo; exhibition by Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art. That contempt was amply displayed in his views on the show: &ldquo;Here are 42 American and British artists,&rdquo; Kramer observed, &ldquo;who care nothing for the personal touch, the subjective inflection, the private vocabulary&mdash;the whole panoply of individual expressive devices]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/primary-structures-turns60-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/primary-structures-turns60-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Primary Structures,” Turns 60]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 28, 1966, The New York Times ran a review of the Jewish Museum&rsquo;s &ldquo;Primary Structures&rdquo; exhibition by Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art. That contempt was amply displayed in his views on the show: &ldquo;Here are 42 American and British artists,&rdquo; Kramer observed, &ldquo;who care nothing for the personal touch, the subjective inflection, the private vocabulary&mdash;the whole panoply of individual expressive devices]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/primary-structures-turns60/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/primary-structures-turns60/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Addresses Venice Biennale Jury’s ‘Boycott’ of Pavilion: ‘A Contamination of the Art World’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel has responded to a statement released by the Venice Biennale jury, in which its five curators said last week that they would not consider any pavilions by countries who are charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.Calling that move a &ldquo;boycott,&rdquo; Israel&rsquo;s foreign ministry denounced the jury in a statement on X this morning that accused the group of aiding in &ldquo;a contamination of the art world.&rdquo;&ldquo;The political jury has transfo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-addresses-venice-biennale-jurys-boycott-of-pavilion-a-contamination-of-the-artworld/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-addresses-venice-biennale-jurys-boycott-of-pavilion-a-contamination-of-the-artworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists Sell More Than $1 M. in Art at Sotheby’s in Support of a Debt-Free Yale MFA Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists ranging from Mickalene Thomas to Tammy Nguyen are banding together to sell more than $1 million in art at Sotheby&rsquo;s next month, with all the funds going toward Yale University&rsquo;s MFA art program, among the most esteemed ones of its kind in the country. All of the works will appear in a contemporary art day sale during the marquee auctions.	The most expensive piece of the bunch, a 2005 Richard Prince photograph of a clothed, adult Brooke Shields from his &ldquo;Spiritual Americ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-sell-more-than-1-m-in-art-at-sothebys-in-support-of-a-debt-free-yale-mfaprogram/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-sell-more-than-1-m-in-art-at-sothebys-in-support-of-a-debt-free-yale-mfaprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is A Random Unknown Artist More Valuable Than Picasso? AI Thinks So.]]></title><description><![CDATA[What&rsquo;s worth more&mdash;a Picasso or a painting by a street artist no one has heard of? According to the AI model we built, the answer is the latter.That surprising result came out of an experiment I ran with a data scientist and an AI expert from Silicon Valley. Our goal was to see whether artificial intelligence could bring more transparency&mdash;and, perhaps, greater fairness&mdash;to the art market.The timing is urgent. The art world has been in a recession for 15 years, galleries are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-a-random-unknown-artist-more-valuable-than-picasso-ai-thinksso/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-a-random-unknown-artist-more-valuable-than-picasso-ai-thinksso/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upward Bound, a novel by a profoundly autistic author, raises an awful but unavoidable question: Who actually wrote it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Upward Bound, a novel by a profoundly autistic author, raises an awful but unavoidable question: Who actually wrote it?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/upward-bound-a-novel-by-a-profoundly-autistic-author-raises-an-awful-but-unavoidable-question-who-actually-wrote-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:42:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/upward-bound-a-novel-by-a-profoundly-autistic-author-raises-an-awful-but-unavoidable-question-who-actually-wrote-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Turning gold into gold." What's it like to translate the Bard into Bengali, and Lear&rsquo;s verdict on Cordelia into Chinese?]]></title><description><![CDATA["Turning gold into gold." What's it like to translate the Bard into Bengali, and Lear&rsquo;s verdict on Cordelia into Chinese?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/turning-gold-into-gold-whats-it-like-to-translate-the-bard-into-bengali-and-learrsquos-verdict-on-cordelia-into-chinese/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:42:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/turning-gold-into-gold-whats-it-like-to-translate-the-bard-into-bengali-and-learrsquos-verdict-on-cordelia-into-chinese/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here’s what the art world of the 1990s looked like]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here&rsquo;s what the art world of the 1990s looked like]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-york-art-critic-jerry-saltz-recently-unearthed-40000-slides-heres-what-the-art-world-of-the-1990s-looked-like/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:42:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-york-art-critic-jerry-saltz-recently-unearthed-40000-slides-heres-what-the-art-world-of-the-1990s-looked-like/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Smaller Art Brussels Represents a Shift in the Fair Ecosystem Toward a ‘Quality-First’ Approach]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the press conference for the 42nd edition Art Brussels fair (April 23&ndash;26), director Nele Verhaeren was refreshingly straightforward. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not going to hide it,&rdquo; she said, referring to the event&rsquo;s smaller numbers: 138 participating galleries, or 26 fewer than last year. The downsizing has meant a shift toward a &ldquo;quality-first&rdquo; approach, per organizers, who framed the current edition as an opportunity to create a different kind of art-fair experience]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-smaller-art-brussels-represents-a-shift-in-the-fair-ecosystem-toward-a-quality-first-approach/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-smaller-art-brussels-represents-a-shift-in-the-fair-ecosystem-toward-a-quality-first-approach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Art Historian’s Riotous Novel Melds Medieval Art with Monica Lewinsky]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you turned on cable news in the summer of 1998, you were all but guaranteed to see the face of then 24-year-old Monica Lewinsky. Earlier that year, in January, news of her relationship with President Bill Clinton broke, and for the months following, Lewinsky endured a shame-spinning spectacle of puritanism, contempt, and blame&mdash;much of it hurled at her first by Ken Starr in a hotel room at the Ritz Carlton in Pentagon City, where she was questioned for twelve hours, then later by members]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-art-historians-riotous-novel-melds-medieval-art-with-monicalewinsky/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-art-historians-riotous-novel-melds-medieval-art-with-monicalewinsky/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Box in Los Angeles announced this weekend that it would close after 19 years in business.Its final show was a two-venue collaboration with Parker Gallery for the late California artist Wally Hedrick, which ran through April 4. The gallery said they would mark the closure with a fashion show for Johanna Went, done in collaboration with artist and playwright Asher Hartman on June 6.&ldquo;While this decision has been brewing for some time, it has landed with urgency, shaped by a set of circums]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-the-box-gallery-to-close-after-19years/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-the-box-gallery-to-close-after-19years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How an Artist and Museum Conspired to Give a Delivery Worker What the Apps Won’t: PTO]]></title><description><![CDATA[fields harrington was biking through the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn one day when a delivery worker sped past him, only to be clipped by a car. The worker&rsquo;s groceries flew everywhere as he fell, and harrington, wanting to help, asked if they could call his boss. &ldquo;That was a realization for me,&rdquo; harrington told me. &ldquo;There is no boss to call. You&rsquo;re working for an algorithm.&rdquo;harrington, an artist and cyclist, had been on a somewhat more leisurely bike]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-an-artist-and-museum-conspired-to-give-a-delivery-worker-what-the-apps-wontpto/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-an-artist-and-museum-conspired-to-give-a-delivery-worker-what-the-apps-wontpto/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Discover Secret Chambers in one of Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using non-invasive technologies, researchers from Cairo University and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have located two air-filled spaces within Giza&rsquo;s Menkaure pyramid that hint at a possible secret entrance. Their findings were published in the academic journal&nbsp;NDT &amp; E International.The Menkaure pyramid is the smallest of the three main pyramids on Cairo&rsquo;s Giza plateau. Built for the Fourth Dynasty ruler Menkaure, it was completed in the 26th century BC. It was ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-discover-secret-chambers-in-one-of-egypts-pyramids-ofgiza/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-discover-secret-chambers-in-one-of-egypts-pyramids-ofgiza/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gagosian Opens a New Ground-Floor Flagship at 980 Madison Avenue with Duchamp-Rauschenberg Double Header]]></title><description><![CDATA[This weekend Gagosian is opening a new flagship at 980 Madison Avenue&rsquo;s ground floor with shows by Marcel Duchamp and early works by Robert Rauschenberg.The new space, designed by Caplan Colaku Architects (CCA), moves the gallery from its former upper-floor perch in the same building to street level, consolidating three former storefronts into a continuous, two-level layout totaling more than 12,000 square feet. Floor-to-ceiling steel doors align with the facade, creating what feels like a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-opens-a-new-ground-floor-flagship-at-980-madison-avenue-with-duchamp-rauschenberg-doubleheader/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-opens-a-new-ground-floor-flagship-at-980-madison-avenue-with-duchamp-rauschenberg-doubleheader/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Julia Stoschek Closes Down Berlin Exhibition Venue After 10 Years In Favor of International Projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Julia Stoschek, one of the world&rsquo;s top art collectors, is closing down the Berlin venue where she has displayed her extensive holdings of time-based art for the past decade.	Since 2016, the 3,000-square-meter exhibition space in the former Czech Cultural Center has hosted some 22 exhibitions and numerous public programs, as well as welcomed some 450,000 visitors. It will close its doors at the end of October 2026. The Stoschek Foundation will retain its D&uuml;sseldorf venue, which has bee]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-julia-stoschek-closes-down-berlin-exhibition-venue-after-10-years-in-favor-of-internationalprojects/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-julia-stoschek-closes-down-berlin-exhibition-venue-after-10-years-in-favor-of-internationalprojects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judd Foundation Taps Copper Hewitt Curator as New Director of Design]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Judd Foundation has named Alexandra Cunningham Cameron as director of design, a newly created role. She will begin in the position on April 27.As director of design, Cameron will oversee the nonprofit foundation&rsquo;s Donald Judd Furniture LLC, a company established to fabricate Donald Judd&rsquo;s furniture designs to his original specifications. Currently, Judd Furniture produces more than 70 designs, which are available for custom order.According to a press release, Cameron will guide J]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judd-foundation-taps-copper-hewitt-curator-as-new-director-ofdesign/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judd-foundation-taps-copper-hewitt-curator-as-new-director-ofdesign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judd Foundation Taps Cooper Hewitt Curator as New Director of Design]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Judd Foundation has named Alexandra Cunningham Cameron as director of design, a newly created role. She will begin in the position on April 27.As director of design, Cameron will oversee the nonprofit foundation&rsquo;s Donald Judd Furniture LLC, a company established to fabricate Donald Judd&rsquo;s furniture designs to his original specifications. Currently, Judd Furniture produces more than 70 designs, which are available for custom order.According to a press release, Cameron will guide J]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judd-foundation-taps-cooper-hewitt-curator-as-new-director-ofdesign/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judd-foundation-taps-cooper-hewitt-curator-as-new-director-ofdesign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, a New Sort of Street Artist, Rises from Art History’s Margins]]></title><description><![CDATA[After decades on the margins of art history,&nbsp;Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani&mdash;a collagist of singular, inimitable vision&mdash;is finally having his story told, though not in any linear fashion.&nbsp;The late artist is currently the subject of a solo exhibition on view through June at the Spencer Museum of Art in Kansas City&mdash;among the first serious institutional examinations of his practice. Co-curators Maki Kaneko and Kris Imants&nbsp;Ercums&nbsp;have organized the exhibition thematica]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jimmy-tsutomu-mirikitani-a-new-sort-of-street-artist-rises-from-art-historysmargins/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jimmy-tsutomu-mirikitani-a-new-sort-of-street-artist-rises-from-art-historysmargins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refik Anadol’s AI Art Museum DATALAND Will Open in Los Angeles in June]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2026, a museum dedicated to AI art feels inevitable. And on June 20, one will open in Los Angeles. DATALAND&mdash;tag line: Where human imagination meets the creative potential of machines&mdash;was announced in the fall of 2024, and will open in the Grand LA, a mixed-use complex in downtown Los Angeles designed by Frank Gehry.DATALAND was co-founded by Refik Anadol, the digital art pioneer who came to fame in 2022 thanks to his wildly popular generative art installation Underpervised in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/refik-anadols-ai-art-museum-dataland-will-open-in-los-angeles-injune/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/refik-anadols-ai-art-museum-dataland-will-open-in-los-angeles-injune/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold Trove Linked to Famed Aegina Treasure Discovered on Greek Isle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Excavations at Kolona, an archaeological site on the Greek island of Aegina, have uncovered a trove of gold jewelry dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The discovery was made inside a large stone building near a defensive wall built during the ancient settlement&rsquo;s expansion, just outside what is generally considered the site&rsquo;s inner area.The site, located near Aegina&rsquo;s modern northwest harbor, was under continuous excavation last year, with the jewelry hoard marking one of the sea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gold-trove-linked-to-famed-aegina-treasure-discovered-on-greekisle/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gold-trove-linked-to-famed-aegina-treasure-discovered-on-greekisle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson’s Signature Loafers Return to Auction as Biopic Hits Theaters]]></title><description><![CDATA[GWS Auctions is set to&nbsp;auction&nbsp;a pair of Michael Jackson&rsquo;s&nbsp;loafers&nbsp;on May 2, a&nbsp;Florsheim&nbsp;Imperial pair that were worn and signed by the musician. The minimum bid is set at $7,500.Jackson was known for wearing a distinctive combination of black loafers and white socks, typically with cropped pants. His loafers are associated with his signature moonwalk and &ldquo;Billie Jean&rdquo; performances. Antoine Fuqua&rsquo;s Michael Jackson biopic &ldquo;Michael&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michael-jacksons-signature-loafers-return-to-auction-as-biopic-hitstheaters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michael-jacksons-signature-loafers-return-to-auction-as-biopic-hitstheaters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Max Mara Will Stage Its Resort 2027 Show at Shanghai’s Long Museum West Bund]]></title><description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI&nbsp;BOUND:&nbsp;Max Mara&nbsp;has zeroed in on the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai as the location of its next show.As reported, the Italian brand is planning to hold its&nbsp;resort&nbsp;2027 show in the Chinese city on June 16. The event will coincide with the opening of an exhibition at the same space to mark the brand&rsquo;s 75th anniversary. Curated by Olivier Saillard, the showcase will be titled &ldquo;The Max!&rdquo; and will be open to the public from June 17 to 28.The venu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/max-mara-will-stage-its-resort-2027-show-atshanghais-long-museum-westbund/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/max-mara-will-stage-its-resort-2027-show-atshanghais-long-museum-westbund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid Epstein Blowback, Bard President Leon Botstein Talks About Succession Plan But With No Timeline: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leon Botstein, whose leadership of Bard College has been questioned after connections with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed, has talked about retiring and moving into another role at the school after a successor is found, according to a report in the Times Union. But no timeline has been set, and the 79-year-old &ldquo;appears to have no plans of leaving soon,&rdquo; according to the newspaper.Botstein has met numerous times with Bard students and workers since his relationship with Epstein was rev]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-epstein-blowback-bard-president-leon-botstein-talks-about-succession-plan-but-with-no-timelinereport/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-epstein-blowback-bard-president-leon-botstein-talks-about-succession-plan-but-with-no-timelinereport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudis Renege on Met Opera Financial Aid, Berlin’s Culture Senator Resigns, and More: Morning Links for April 24, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!The Metropolitan Opera says Saudi Arabia has backed out of a deal that would have provided the cash-strapped institution with millions over eight years.Berlin culture senator Sarah Wedl-Wilson has resigned amid a scandal related to funding projects supposed to combat antisemitism.&nbsp;President Trump now wants to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.The Headlines	DIRE STRAITS OF HORMUZ. The&nbsp;Saudi Arabian government&nbsp;has formally backed out of a deal with the&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saudis-renege-on-met-opera-financial-aid-berlins-culture-senator-resigns-and-more-morning-links-for-april-242026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saudis-renege-on-met-opera-financial-aid-berlins-culture-senator-resigns-and-more-morning-links-for-april-242026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tantrums, tears, and meltdowns. The history of chess grandmasters is replete with tragic stories of lives undone by delusion and paranoia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tantrums, tears, and meltdowns. The history of chess grandmasters is replete with tragic stories of lives undone by delusion and paranoia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tantrums-tears-and-meltdowns-the-history-of-chess-grandmasters-is-replete-with-tragic-stories-of-lives-undone-by-delusion-and-paranoia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:53:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tantrums-tears-and-meltdowns-the-history-of-chess-grandmasters-is-replete-with-tragic-stories-of-lives-undone-by-delusion-and-paranoia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Slavery has been such a widespread practice throughout human history that it has rarely needed a particular racial ideology in order to take root”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Slavery has been such a widespread practice throughout human history that it has rarely needed a particular racial ideology in order to take root&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/slavery-has-been-such-a-widespread-practice-throughout-human-history-that-it-has-rarely-needed-a-particular-racial-ideology-in-order-to-take-root/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:53:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/slavery-has-been-such-a-widespread-practice-throughout-human-history-that-it-has-rarely-needed-a-particular-racial-ideology-in-order-to-take-root/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malcolm Cowley, who rescued Faulkner, launched Kerouac, and shaped the canon, is a forgotten man who made others unforgettable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Malcolm Cowley, who rescued Faulkner, launched Kerouac, and shaped the canon, is a forgotten man who made others unforgettable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malcolm-cowley-who-rescued-faulkner-launched-kerouac-and-shaped-the-canon-is-a-forgotten-man-who-made-others-unforgettable/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:53:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malcolm-cowley-who-rescued-faulkner-launched-kerouac-and-shaped-the-canon-is-a-forgotten-man-who-made-others-unforgettable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan Revokes National Art Prize from Sakuliu Pavavaljung After Sexual Assault Conviction]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a landmark move, Taiwan&rsquo;s National Culture and Arts Foundation has revoked the National Award for Arts given to artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung in 2018 and instructed him to return the NTD 1 million ($32,000) prize following his conviction on sexual assault charges, Art Asia Pacific reports.Established in 1997 and administered by the Taiwanese government, the award is one of the nation&rsquo;s most prestigious honors bestowed to artists. Sakuliu was one of seven artists recognized in the awa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taiwan-revokes-national-art-prize-from-sakuliu-pavavaljung-after-sexual-assaultconviction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taiwan-revokes-national-art-prize-from-sakuliu-pavavaljung-after-sexual-assaultconviction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Justin Sun Sues Trump’s Memecoin Company, World Liberty Financial ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collector Justin Sun is suing World Liberty Financial, the Trump family&rsquo;s memecoin company, claiming that the company illegally froze his holdings of tokens, reports NBC News.In July 2025, Hong Kong&ndash;based Sun bought $100 million worth of the coin, $TRUMP, which would soon thereafter be traded on TRON, the blockchain Sun founded in 2017. Sun had already, as of May, sunk $75 million into World Liberty Financial coins, $WFI.	At the same time, Sun was being sued by the Securities and Exc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-justin-sun-sues-trumps-memecoin-company-world-libertyfinancial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-justin-sun-sues-trumps-memecoin-company-world-libertyfinancial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Press Photo of the Year Depicts a Family Torn Apart by ICE]]></title><description><![CDATA[The World Press Photo foundation has awarded its top honor to Separated by ICE, a harrowing image of two young girls clinging futilely to their father&rsquo;s shirt as he is detained. Taken by independent photojournalist Carol Guzy in a hallway of New York&rsquo;s Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, one of the few U.S. federal buildings where photography is permitted, the photograph has come to symbolize the human cost of President Trump&rsquo;s immigration crackdown.The annual contest recognizes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/world-press-photo-of-the-year-depicts-a-family-torn-apart-byice/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/world-press-photo-of-the-year-depicts-a-family-torn-apart-byice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edvard Munch Paintings for a Chocolate Factory Go on View in Norway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art aficionados who have not visited a certain Norwegian chocolate factory will be able to see a series of paintings by Edvard Munch for the first time starting in May, when the Munch Museum in Oslo opens a show focused on the artist&rsquo;s little-known public works from 1923. &nbsp;An exhibition titled &ldquo;Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory&rdquo; will feature large-scale paintings temporarily relocated to the museum from a manufacturing center for Freia chocolate, for which Munch creat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edvard-munch-paintings-for-a-chocolate-factory-go-on-view-innorway/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edvard-munch-paintings-for-a-chocolate-factory-go-on-view-innorway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei to Reenact His Own Detention in 24-Hour Performance in Manchester]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 15 years since his 81-day detention by China&rsquo;s Ministry of Public Security, artist and dissident artist Ai Weiwei has explicitly addressed the harrowing experience in his work. This summer, he will do so again, in what will likely be the most demanding presentation to date.As part of his site-specific exhibition called &ldquo;Button Up!&rdquo; at Factory International&rsquo;s Aviva Studios in Manchester, England, Ai will present Sewing a Button, a 24-hour performance piece in which]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-weiwei-to-reenact-his-own-detention-in-24-hour-performance-inmanchester/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-weiwei-to-reenact-his-own-detention-in-24-hour-performance-inmanchester/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dartmouth Students Turn to Moldy Beef Jerky Installation in Renewed Bid to Remove Leon Black’s Name from Arts Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[The removal of a controversial artwork in the exhibition &ldquo;Storage Room,&rdquo; which was curated by art students Erik Siegel and Angeles Juarez-Ruiz, is causing quite the stir beyond the walls of Dartmouth College&rsquo;s Black Family Visual Arts Center (BFVAC). The art center opened on Dartmouth&rsquo;s campus in 2012, thanks to a $48 million gift from billionaire financier and art collector&mdash;and 1973 Dartmouth alum&mdash;Leon Black and his wife Debra, whose friendship and business d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dartmouth-students-turn-to-moldy-beef-jerky-installation-in-renewed-bid-to-remove-leon-blacks-name-from-artscenter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dartmouth-students-turn-to-moldy-beef-jerky-installation-in-renewed-bid-to-remove-leon-blacks-name-from-artscenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin Modern Museum Delayed Again as Moisture Damage Pushes Opening to 2030]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another day, another setback for Berlin&rsquo;s long awaited Berlin Modern, as moisture damage in the building&rsquo;s shell and microbial contamination in other parts of the structure have forced the postponement of the museum to 2030.The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announced the delay earlier this week, according to Monopol, after the Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Corporation broke the story on the issues.	The latest delay adds approximately eight months to the construction timelin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-modern-museum-delayed-again-as-moisture-damage-pushes-opening-to2030/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-modern-museum-delayed-again-as-moisture-damage-pushes-opening-to2030/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Turner Prize Has Revealed Its 2026 Nominees—and Already Courted Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Turner Prize, the esteemed Tate-run award for British artists, has revealed this year&rsquo;s nominees, and in typical Turner Prize fashion, they&rsquo;ve already polarized critics.Simon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku are the four nominees for this year&rsquo;s award, which once again comes with a &pound;25,000 ($33,800) award for the winner. Facilitated by Tate Britain in London, the Turner Prize will this year stage a show of the nominees&rsquo; work at Teeside]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-turner-prize-has-revealed-its-2026-nomineesand-already-courtedcontroversy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-turner-prize-has-revealed-its-2026-nomineesand-already-courtedcontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering Napoleon Jones-Henderson, an AfriCOBRA Founding Member Who Imbued Art and Life with Exuberant Energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Do the work&rdquo; was Napoleon Jones-Henderson&rsquo;s mantra. He believed that beautiful things grow wherever people invest themselves in the labor of collective empowerment.&nbsp;Born in Chicago in 1943, Jones-Henderson grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago&rsquo;s South Side and attended George Washington Carver High School, where he was introduced to weaving by an influential art teacher. This teacher &ldquo;threw the doors open,&rdquo; as Jones-Henderson remembered, con]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/remembering-napoleon-jones-henderson-an-africobra-founding-member-who-imbued-art-and-life-with-exuberantenergy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/remembering-napoleon-jones-henderson-an-africobra-founding-member-who-imbued-art-and-life-with-exuberantenergy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas's experiment in disconnectedness]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas's experiment in disconnectedness]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-is-a-cost-to-being-unreachable-but-the-cost-of-being-available-is-far-higher-jerusalem-demsass-experiment-in-disconnectedness-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:12:51 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-is-a-cost-to-being-unreachable-but-the-cost-of-being-available-is-far-higher-jerusalem-demsass-experiment-in-disconnectedness-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gladstone Gallery to Relocate in Seoul, Doubling Exhibition Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gladstone Gallery will move its Seoul location to the city&rsquo;s Hannam-dong neighborhood later this year.Designed by Minsuk Cho of Seoul-based firm Mass Studies, Gladstone&rsquo;s new outpost will take over two floors of the 739-28 Hannam Building at Yongsan. Across the street is Pace Gallery&rsquo;s Seoul location and down the street is the Leeum Museum of Art.The space is scheduled to open in the late summer, ahead of Frieze Seoul in September. A solo exhibition for Ed Atkins, his first in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gladstone-gallery-to-relocate-in-seoul-doubling-exhibitionspace/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gladstone-gallery-to-relocate-in-seoul-doubling-exhibitionspace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel’s Swiss Fair Will Include a New Initiative Where Galleries Will Withhold Works from Their PDF Previews]]></title><description><![CDATA[With only two months before its marquee Swiss edition opens, Art Basel is hoping that a new initiative will help ensure that people make the trek to the Messeplatz to see art in-person.&ldquo;Basel Exclusive,&rdquo; as the fair is calling it, has a relatively simple premise: galleries will withhold at least one work, but up to their entire booth, from the PDF previews that they send out to clients ahead of the fair. Per a release, the initiative is meant to lean into one of the Swiss fair&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basels-swiss-fair-will-include-a-new-initiative-where-galleries-will-withhold-works-from-their-pdfpreviews/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basels-swiss-fair-will-include-a-new-initiative-where-galleries-will-withhold-works-from-their-pdfpreviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Fires Top Collector John Phelan, Looted Helmet Heads Home to Romania: Morning Links for April 23, 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.The Headlines	DIARY OF ORPHAN ART. Nazi-looted artworks known as &ldquo;orphaned&rdquo; or &ldquo;heirless,&rdquo; brought back to the Netherlands from Germany after World War II, should be managed by a new Jewish foundation rather than the Dutch government, a panel has announced, reports The New York Times. The collection, worth millions, comprises some 1,50]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-fires-top-collector-john-phelan-looted-helmet-heads-home-to-romania-morning-links-for-april-232026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-fires-top-collector-john-phelan-looted-helmet-heads-home-to-romania-morning-links-for-april-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Jury Says It Won’t Consider Countries Charged with Crimes Against Humanity, Including Israel and Russia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale&rsquo;s jury said on Thursday that it would not consider nations whose leaders have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court&mdash;a move that effectively tosses Israel and Russia out of the running for the top honors at the world&rsquo;s greatest art exhibition.Issued the day after the jury was announced by the Biennale, the statement spoke of &ldquo;a responsibility towards the historical role of the Biennale as a platform that connects]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-says-it-wont-consider-countries-charged-with-crimes-against-humanity-including-israel-andrussia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-says-it-wont-consider-countries-charged-with-crimes-against-humanity-including-israel-andrussia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Sales Are Surging as Auction Houses Lean into Exclusive, Experience-Led Selling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.In mid-March, just before Sotheby&rsquo;s modern and contemporary evening sale in London, the house&rsquo;s co-heads of UK private sales, James Francis Fox&nbsp;and&nbsp;David Rothschild&nbsp;, ushered me into a stately backroom for a look at its invitation-only selling exhibition, &ldquo;The Apartment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/private-sales-are-surging-as-auction-houses-lean-into-exclusive-experience-ledselling/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/private-sales-are-surging-as-auction-houses-lean-into-exclusive-experience-ledselling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Collector John Phelan Fired as Navy Secretary, After Reports of Pentagon Infighting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, who has appeared on multiple editions of ARTnews&rsquo;s Top 200 Collectors list, is stepping down from his position. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become acting secretary, according to a short post on X by Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson.While Parnell&rsquo;s statement contained little information about Phelan&rsquo;s departure, the New York Times characterized it as a &ldquo;firing,&rdquo; saying that it followed months of disagreements with senior m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-collector-john-phelan-fired-as-navy-secretary-after-reports-of-pentagoninfighting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-collector-john-phelan-fired-as-navy-secretary-after-reports-of-pentagoninfighting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Auction Without Bidding: Loïc Gouzer’s Latest Bet on How to Sell Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lo&iuml;c Gouzer has a new idea for how to sell art. It&rsquo;s untested, but for him that&rsquo;s part of the appeal.On April 23, his auction app&nbsp;Fair Warning&nbsp;will roll out a new format called &ldquo;No Warning.&rdquo; The premise is simple and a little unnerving if you are used to buying via fine art auctions, but perhaps not if you&rsquo;ve spent any time on eBay or Poshmark. To start, a work will appear for sale (with a price). You can either hit &ldquo;purchase now&rdquo; or submi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-auction-without-bidding-loc-gouzers-latest-bet-on-how-to-sellart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-auction-without-bidding-loc-gouzers-latest-bet-on-how-to-sellart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While many critics have recognized JG Ballard's talent, few could describe it. He's always been too anarchic and too unsettling for general acceptance]]></title><description><![CDATA[While many critics have recognized JG Ballard's talent, few could describe it. He's always been too anarchic and too unsettling for general acceptance]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/while-many-critics-have-recognized-jg-ballards-talent-few-could-describe-it-hes-always-been-too-anarchic-and-too-unsettling-for-general-acceptance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:17:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/while-many-critics-have-recognized-jg-ballards-talent-few-could-describe-it-hes-always-been-too-anarchic-and-too-unsettling-for-general-acceptance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas’s experiment in disconnectedness]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas&rsquo;s experiment in disconnectedness]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-is-a-cost-to-being-unreachable-but-the-cost-of-being-available-is-far-higher-jerusalem-demsass-experiment-in-disconnectedness/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:17:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-is-a-cost-to-being-unreachable-but-the-cost-of-being-available-is-far-higher-jerusalem-demsass-experiment-in-disconnectedness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to changes in the DSM, it’s now difficult to be diagnosed with hypochondria. And yet the disease persists as a character type]]></title><description><![CDATA[Due to changes in the DSM, it&rsquo;s now difficult to be diagnosed with hypochondria. And yet the disease persists as a character type]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/due-to-changes-in-the-dsm-its-now-difficult-to-be-diagnosed-with-hypochondria-and-yet-the-disease-persists-as-a-character-type/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:17:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/due-to-changes-in-the-dsm-its-now-difficult-to-be-diagnosed-with-hypochondria-and-yet-the-disease-persists-as-a-character-type/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architectural Competition for Louvre ‘New Renaissance’ Project Reportedly Set to Relaunch in May]]></title><description><![CDATA[Originally delayed earlier this year, reportedly amid staff unrest, and later postponed until after the French municipal elections, the jury tasked with selecting the architects for the Louvre Museum renovation is now set to convene in mid-May, Le Figaro reports. Its members will assess five shortlisted architectural proposals, formally launching the $778 million renovation plan spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron.Quoting sources close to the project, the French newspaper reports tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/architectural-competition-for-louvre-new-renaissance-project-reportedly-set-to-relaunch-inmay/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/architectural-competition-for-louvre-new-renaissance-project-reportedly-set-to-relaunch-inmay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump White House Ballroom Contract Allowed Anonymous Donors, Limited Oversight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A previously undisclosed contract governing the fundraising for President Donald Trump&rsquo;s planned White House ballroom shields donor identities and omits key conflict-of-interest protections, according to documents obtained by&nbsp;the Washington Post&nbsp;after a court order forced their release.&nbsp;The agreement, signed in early October between the White House, the National Park Service, and the Trust for the National Mall, sets the legal framework for what Trump has described as a roug]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-white-house-ballroom-contract-allowed-anonymous-donors-limitedoversight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-white-house-ballroom-contract-allowed-anonymous-donors-limitedoversight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch Commission Recommends New Guardianship for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[A committee appointed by the Dutch government has come up with a plan for a state-owned collection&rsquo;s controversial holdings, reports the New York Times.The Netherlands Art Property Collection (known as the NK Collection) comprises thousands of priceless objects, including paintings worth millions by Dutch Golden Age masters, repatriated by the Allies from Germany to the Netherlands after World War II. Most of these objects were looted from Jews who were killed, deported, or forced to sell]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dutch-commission-recommends-new-guardianship-for-orphaned-nazi-lootedart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dutch-commission-recommends-new-guardianship-for-orphaned-nazi-lootedart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale’s 2026 Golden Lion Jury to Be Led by Videobrasil Founder]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale has revealed the members of the five-person jury that will decide the Golden Lions for the 2026 edition. The president of the jury is Solange Oliveira Farkas, who will be joined by Zoe Butt, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marta Kuzma, and Giovanna Zapperi.Farkas founded the Videobrasil Biennial in S&atilde;o Paulo in 1983, serving as its artistic director until 2004. Farkas is currently the founder and artistic director of Associa&ccedil;&atilde;o Cultural Videobrasil, which supports t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-2026-golden-lion-jury-to-be-led-by-videobrasilfounder/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-2026-golden-lion-jury-to-be-led-by-videobrasilfounder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 200 Collector Mitchell Rales Gifts $116 M. to National Gallery of Art for Lending Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., launched Across the Nation last spring, it wasn&rsquo;t clear how long the initiative to lend artworks from its collection to regional American museums would last. At the time, the NGA&mdash;with financial support from billionaire art collector and museum trustee Mitchell Rales&mdash;committed to lend up to ten artworks to ten partner institutions in in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, and Wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collector-mitchell-rales-gifts-116-m-to-national-gallery-of-art-for-lendingprogram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collector-mitchell-rales-gifts-116-m-to-national-gallery-of-art-for-lendingprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 200 Collector Mitchell Rales Gifts $116 M. to National Gallery if Art for Lending Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., launched Art Across the Nation last spring, it wasn&rsquo;t clear how long the initiative to lend artworks from its collection to regional American museums would last. At the time, the NGA&mdash;with financial support from billionaire art collector and museum trustee Mitchell Rales&mdash;committed to lend up to ten artworks to ten partner institutions in in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collector-mitchell-rales-gifts-116-m-to-national-gallery-if-art-for-lendingprogram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collector-mitchell-rales-gifts-116-m-to-national-gallery-if-art-for-lendingprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Lalanne Mirror Ensemble Sells for $33.5 M., Breaking Design Auction Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bespoke ensemble of 15 mirrors by Claude Lalanne sold at Sotheby&rsquo;s New York today for $33.5 million, breaking the artist&rsquo;s secondary-market record and becoming the most valuable design work ever to leave the auction block.&nbsp;&nbsp;Collectively titled Important and Unique Ensemble of Fifteen Mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berg&eacute;, the piece sold for more than double its pre-sale high estimate ($10 million&ndash;15 million), surpassing a functioning bar in the shap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claude-lalanne-mirror-ensemble-sells-for-335-m-breaking-design-auctionrecords/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claude-lalanne-mirror-ensemble-sells-for-335-m-breaking-design-auctionrecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin Museum Oversees Digital Resurrection of Hundreds of Paintings Destroyed During World War II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of paintings lost to the ravages of war&mdash;including multiple works by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Caravaggio&mdash;will soon be viewable online courtesy of a digitization initiative by Berlin&rsquo;s Gem&auml;ldegalerie.The museum&rsquo;s formidable collection of Old Master paintings was damaged by two fires around the end of World War II. But as reported by the Art Newspaper, digital renderings made from high-resolution glass negatives from a photo-docu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-museum-oversees-digital-resurrection-of-hundreds-of-paintings-destroyed-during-world-warii/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-museum-oversees-digital-resurrection-of-hundreds-of-paintings-destroyed-during-world-warii/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Shows Off New Public Art Projects in Advance of NFL Draft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The three-day NFL draft, hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, kicks off in the Steel City on Thursday. The main events will take place downtown: at Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore and Point State Park, where Pittsburgh&rsquo;s famous three rivers meet. The city is expecting hundreds of thousands of visitors&mdash;by some estimates, far more than the population of the city itself. The draft is taking over the city to such a degree that roads downtown have preemptively closed and the public scho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pittsburgh-shows-off-new-public-art-projects-in-advance-of-nfldraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pittsburgh-shows-off-new-public-art-projects-in-advance-of-nfldraft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraenkel Gallery Partners with New York’s Metrograph for Artist-Curated Series]]></title><description><![CDATA[San Francisco&ndash;based Fraenkel Gallery has partnered with Metrograph to have six of the artists it represents select one film each that will screen at the theater from May 8&ndash;17, with select encore screenings to follow.The collaboration will open with Weems&rsquo;s selection, No Country for Old Men (2007). In addition to choosing the film, which a release describes as pointing to the artist&rsquo;s &ldquo;sustained engagement with power, violence, and the shaping of American mythologies]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fraenkel-gallery-partners-with-new-yorks-metrograph-for-artist-curatedseries/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fraenkel-gallery-partners-with-new-yorks-metrograph-for-artist-curatedseries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What You Need to Know About the Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale always brings with it a flurry of controversies, many of them centered on the national pavilions. For that reason, most observers and attendees expect there to be some degree of scandal built into each each edition of the world&rsquo;s greatest art festival.But this year&rsquo;s Biennale, opening in May, has already proven more controversial than most. Artists have repeatedly protested Israel&rsquo;s presence, continuing calls for the nation&rsquo;s removal that began in 2024]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-venice-biennales-russian-pavilioncontroversy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-venice-biennales-russian-pavilioncontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Think Tank and a Foundation Team Up On $1 M. in Accelerator Grants for Museum and Performing Arts Leaders—Timothée Chalamet Be Damned]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was the dismissal heard around the performing arts world when Timoth&eacute;e Chalamet said, in a February conversation with fellow-actor Matthew McConaughey, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it&rsquo;s like, &lsquo;Hey, keep this thing alive, even though, like, no one cares about this anymore.&rsquo;&rdquo;Even if ticket sales soared at some venues after the ill-considered remark, Chalamet had certainly put his finger on a real problem, as generati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-think-tank-and-a-foundation-team-up-on-1-m-in-accelerator-grants-for-museum-and-performing-arts-leaderstimothe-chalamet-bedamned/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-think-tank-and-a-foundation-team-up-on-1-m-in-accelerator-grants-for-museum-and-performing-arts-leaderstimothe-chalamet-bedamned/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Says It ‘Intends’ to Cut Funding to Venice Biennale Because of Russian Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[In its most forceful condemnation yet of the world&rsquo;s greatest art exhibition, the European Union said it planned to cut funding to the Venice Biennale, which will host this year host Russia&rsquo;s first pavilion since the nation&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.The pavilion has faced a bitter, negative response from European leaders and artists alike. Even participants in the main exhibition have called for the exclusion of Russia, with dozens of artists in that portion of the Biennale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-says-it-intends-to-cut-funding-to-venice-biennale-because-of-russianpavilion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-says-it-intends-to-cut-funding-to-venice-biennale-because-of-russianpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Alexander Calder Retrospective in Paris Underscores His Inventiveness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few artists have altered the course of modern sculpture as profoundly as Alexander Calder (1898&ndash;1976). From the late 1920s onward, he worked both in the United States and France, creating a new sculptural language grounded in movement and chance. It was in Paris that he introduced his first &ldquo;mobiles,&rdquo; setting in motion a practice that would unfold over more than five decades and ensure him global acclaim.Calder&rsquo;s current exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-alexander-calder-retrospective-in-paris-underscores-hisinventiveness/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-alexander-calder-retrospective-in-paris-underscores-hisinventiveness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all]]></title><description><![CDATA[What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to &ldquo;culture,&rdquo; a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-causes-x-for-lazy-social-scientists-everything-can-be-attributed-to-culture-a-point-so-vague-that-it-effectively-argues-nothing-at-all/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:27:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-causes-x-for-lazy-social-scientists-everything-can-be-attributed-to-culture-a-point-so-vague-that-it-effectively-argues-nothing-at-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophets used to be executed for being wrong. While the penalties are less severe, the lure of prediction remains the same]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prophets used to be executed for being wrong. While the penalties are less severe, the lure of prediction remains the same]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prophets-used-to-be-executed-for-being-wrong-while-the-penalties-are-less-severe-the-lure-of-prediction-remains-the-same/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:01:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prophets-used-to-be-executed-for-being-wrong-while-the-penalties-are-less-severe-the-lure-of-prediction-remains-the-same/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein: “To attribute social terribleness to liberalism is reckless. Liberalism isn’t a force in history. It’s not Voldemort”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein: &ldquo;To attribute social terribleness to liberalism is reckless. Liberalism isn&rsquo;t a force in history. It&rsquo;s not Voldemort&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cass-sunstein-to-attribute-social-terribleness-to-liberalism-is-reckless-liberalism-isnt-a-force-in-history-its-not-voldemort/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:01:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cass-sunstein-to-attribute-social-terribleness-to-liberalism-is-reckless-liberalism-isnt-a-force-in-history-its-not-voldemort/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos’s NEON to Conclude After ‘Having Fulfilled Its Mission’]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEON, the Athens-based initiative founded by leading collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude its activities later this year, &ldquo;after 14 years of activity, having fulfilled its cultural and social mission,&rdquo; according to a release.NEON&rsquo;s final project began last year when the first of three exhibitions by Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz opened at the Acropolis Museum in May, while the second exhibition opened last October.The trilogy of exhibitions, collectively titl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-dimitris-daskalopouloss-neon-to-conclude-after-having-fulfilled-itsmission/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-dimitris-daskalopouloss-neon-to-conclude-after-having-fulfilled-itsmission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiffany Window From Connecticut Church Could Fetch $2 M. at Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[A late 19th-century stained-glass window by Tiffany Studios, which hung in a Connecticut church for more than a century, is headed to auction this June and expected to bring in up to $2 million.The Boyd Family Memorial Window (The Falls), from 1898, will headline a design sale at Christie&rsquo;s New York, according to&nbsp;Artnet News.&nbsp;The two-panel composition, installed in 1899 at the Second Congregational Church in Winsted, shows a lush landscape at sunset, with a cascading waterfall in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tiffany-window-from-connecticut-church-could-fetch-2-m-atchristies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tiffany-window-from-connecticut-church-could-fetch-2-m-atchristies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iran War Is Already Tanking Luxury Sales in the Gulf—Could Art Be Next?]]></title><description><![CDATA[By the end of last year, 2026 seemed poised to be the year of the Gulf for the art market. In December 2025, Sotheby&rsquo;s held the first edition of Abu Dhabi Collectors&rsquo; Week, netting $133 million in the process. This past February, Art Basel held the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar. And, in November, Frieze is set to host the first edition of its newly rebranded fair Frieze Abu Dhabi.&nbsp;But then, after weeks of saber rattling, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. The Isl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-iran-war-is-already-tanking-luxury-sales-in-the-gulfcould-art-benext/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-iran-war-is-already-tanking-luxury-sales-in-the-gulfcould-art-benext/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diego Rivera’s Grandson Donates 150,000 Objects to Major Mexico City Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mexico City&rsquo;s Museo Anahuacalli is set to receive more than 150,000 objects from Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, in a donation that significantly expands the museum&rsquo;s holdings and renews attention on the artist&rsquo;s original vision for the site.As first reported by&nbsp;The Art Newspaper, the gift spans centuries, from 16th-century ceramics to textiles, photographs, wooden objects, prints, and archival material tied to Rivera and his circle. The works wil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/diego-riveras-grandson-donates-150000-objects-to-major-mexico-citymuseum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/diego-riveras-grandson-donates-150000-objects-to-major-mexico-citymuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auction of Diane Keaton’s Collection Includes Art, Fashion, and Personal Treasures from Decades on Film]]></title><description><![CDATA[The personal treasures of Diane Keaton, the commanding actress who established a significant sartorial presence and wore hats as well as a milliner could ever dream, are the subject of an in-person auction in New York and three online sales courtesy of Bonhams. Exhibitions of the lots on offer will be mounted in Los Angeles, starting May 5, and New York, beginning May 29.&ldquo;Diane Keaton: The Architecture of an Icon&rdquo; is the main event, at Bonhams US flagship on West 57th Street on the e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auction-of-diane-keatons-collection-includes-art-fashion-and-personal-treasures-from-decades-onfilm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auction-of-diane-keatons-collection-includes-art-fashion-and-personal-treasures-from-decades-onfilm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexican President Calls for Stricter Gun Control After Deadly Shooting at Teotihuacán Pyramids]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man standing atop one of the ancient pyramids at Teotihuac&aacute;n in Mexico opened fire on tourists Monday, killing a Canadian woman and injuring at least 13 others, according to Mexican authorities.The shooter was identified by the Associated Press as 27-year-old Mexican national Julio C&eacute;sar Jasso Ram&iacute;rez. Authorities said he later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the attack. Security officials added that he was found in possession of a firearm, a knife, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mexican-president-calls-for-stricter-gun-control-after-deadly-shooting-at-teotihuacnpyramids/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mexican-president-calls-for-stricter-gun-control-after-deadly-shooting-at-teotihuacnpyramids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $53 M. Wingate Collection Comes to Sotheby’s, Led by a $25 M. Giacometti]]></title><description><![CDATA[The collection of modern and contemporary art built over some seven decades by David and Shoshanna Wingate will come to auction at Sotheby&rsquo;s New York and London over evening and day sales on May 19 and 20. The group of over 50 works, including canonical artists like Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Roy Lichtenstein, Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko, and Varvara Stepanova, is estimated to sell for between $37 million and $53 million.Leading the collection and accounting for as much as half]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-53-m-wingate-collection-comes-to-sothebys-led-by-a-25-mgiacometti/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-53-m-wingate-collection-comes-to-sothebys-led-by-a-25-mgiacometti/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smithsonian Taps Peabody Essex’s Lynda Roscoe Hartigan to Lead American Art Museum, a Target of Trump Administration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian on Tuesday named Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, currently the executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, as the next Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). She begins September 8.Hartigan succeeds Jane Carpenter-Rock, who has led SAAM on an interim basis since September 2024, when Stephanie Stebich was removed as director and reassigned to an advisory role at the Smithsonian Institution. Stebich&rsquo;s exit f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smithsonian-taps-peabody-essexs-lynda-roscoe-hartigan-to-lead-american-art-museum-a-target-of-trumpadministration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smithsonian-taps-peabody-essexs-lynda-roscoe-hartigan-to-lead-american-art-museum-a-target-of-trumpadministration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if the conscious self is an illusion that can’t absorb the philosophical heft we assign it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if the conscious self is an illusion that can&rsquo;t absorb the philosophical heft we assign it?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-if-the-conscious-self-is-an-illusion-that-cant-absorb-the-philosophical-heft-we-assign-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:28:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-if-the-conscious-self-is-an-illusion-that-cant-absorb-the-philosophical-heft-we-assign-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larry McMurtry in Hollywood. His novels became source material for movies that reinscribed the very myths of the West that he'd sought to undo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Larry McMurtry in Hollywood. His novels became source material for movies that reinscribed the very myths of the West that he'd sought to undo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/larry-mcmurtry-in-hollywood-his-novels-became-source-material-for-movies-that-reinscribed-the-very-myths-of-the-west-that-hed-sought-to-undo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:28:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/larry-mcmurtry-in-hollywood-his-novels-became-source-material-for-movies-that-reinscribed-the-very-myths-of-the-west-that-hed-sought-to-undo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Francis Bacon was as much a creature of his own era as he was a technocratic prophet of ours. The two designations are inseparable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Francis Bacon was as much a creature of his own era as he was a technocratic prophet of ours. The two designations are inseparable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francis-bacon-was-as-much-a-creature-of-his-own-era-as-he-was-a-technocratic-prophet-of-ours-the-two-designations-are-inseparable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:28:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francis-bacon-was-as-much-a-creature-of-his-own-era-as-he-was-a-technocratic-prophet-of-ours-the-two-designations-are-inseparable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbara Chase-Riboud Says She Declined US Pavilion Offer Because It Was ‘Not the Moment’]]></title><description><![CDATA[As questions continue to swirl around Alma Allen&rsquo;s US Pavilion for this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale, sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud revealed that she was also offered the opportunity to represent the country&mdash;and that she had declined it.News of Chase-Riboud&rsquo;s decision to say no was first reported by the New York Times yesterday, in an extensive feature by Zachary Small on the rocky run-up to Allen&rsquo;s choice, which came after the Trump administration removed language about]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/barbara-chase-riboud-says-she-declined-us-pavilion-offer-because-it-was-not-themoment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/barbara-chase-riboud-says-she-declined-us-pavilion-offer-because-it-was-not-themoment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shooting at Mexico’s Teotihuacán Pyramid of the Moon, Diego Rivera’s Grandson Donates Collection to Mexico’s Museo Anahuacalli, and More: Morning Links for April 21, 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!A Canadian tourist was killed, and others injured in a shooting atop Mexico&rsquo;s ancient Teotihuac&aacute;n Pyramid of the Moon.The grandson of Diego Rivera, Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, has gifted over 150,000 items to Mexico&rsquo;s Museo Anahuacalli.&nbsp;A papyrus fragment of Homer&rsquo;s&nbsp;Iliad&nbsp;was found inside an ancient Egyptia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/shooting-at-mexicos-teotihuacn-pyramid-of-the-moon-diego-riveras-grandson-donates-collection-to-mexicos-museo-anahuacalli-and-more-morning-links-for-april-212026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/shooting-at-mexicos-teotihuacn-pyramid-of-the-moon-diego-riveras-grandson-donates-collection-to-mexicos-museo-anahuacalli-and-more-morning-links-for-april-212026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twombly Foundation to Exhibit Rare Rauschenberg Works at Gagosian]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cy Twombly Foundation will exhibit six works by Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian gallery next week, marking an opportunity to see these rarely exhibited pieces, all from the early part of the artist&rsquo;s career.Among the works headed to Gagosian&rsquo;s new 980 Madison Avenue location on New York&rsquo;s Upper East Side is a 1950 assemblage partially composed of twigs and glass. It&rsquo;s an unusual piece, according to Gagosian, whose release touts the assemblage as one of the few remaini]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/twombly-foundation-to-exhibit-rare-rauschenberg-works-atgagosian/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/twombly-foundation-to-exhibit-rare-rauschenberg-works-atgagosian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marian Goodman Gallery to ‘Pause’ Operations in Los Angeles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marian Goodman Gallery will pause operations at its Los Angeles outpost after two and a half years at the conclusion of its current solo show for Tacita Dean on April 25.In a statement sent to ARTnews, the gallery&rsquo;s four partners, Rose Lord,&nbsp;Junette Teng,&nbsp;Emily-Jane Kirwan and Leslie Nolen, said, &ldquo;The Partners of&nbsp;Marian&nbsp;Goodman&nbsp;Gallery are consolidating programming to our historic homes in New York and Paris.&nbsp;Our programming will continue to be anchored]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marian-goodman-gallery-to-pause-operations-in-losangeles/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marian-goodman-gallery-to-pause-operations-in-losangeles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[13 Nudes That Changed Western Art History]]></title><description><![CDATA[For as long as people have made art, they have depicted something they know intimately: the nude human form. One of the oldest surviving works of art&mdash;the Paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, which dates to between 24,000 and 22,000 B.C.&mdash;is a limestone figurine of a voluptuous nude woman. In the subsequent millennia, the nude has populated religious art, illustrations of mythological stories, works made for the pure enjoyment of looking, and images that distill the human shape to its most]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/13-nudes-that-changed-western-arthistory/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/13-nudes-that-changed-western-arthistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnes Gryczkowska Discusses Curating Marina Abramović’s New Berlin Mega Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story is part of&nbsp;Newsmakers, a new&nbsp;ARTnews&nbsp;series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.Last week, Marina Abramovi&#263; opened her first solo presentation in Berlin since the 1990s, the bombastically named, &ldquo;Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition&rdquo; at Gropius Bau.Set to run through August 23, the show brings together historical and recent works, tracing her long-standing engagement with ritual, eroti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/agnes-gryczkowska-discusses-curating-marina-abramovis-new-berlin-megashow/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/agnes-gryczkowska-discusses-curating-marina-abramovis-new-berlin-megashow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if the conscious self is a mental illusion that can’t absorb the philosophical heft we put on it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if the conscious self is a mental illusion that can&rsquo;t absorb the philosophical heft we put on it?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-if-the-conscious-self-is-a-mental-illusion-that-cant-absorb-the-philosophical-heft-we-put-on-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:54:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-if-the-conscious-self-is-a-mental-illusion-that-cant-absorb-the-philosophical-heft-we-put-on-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larry McMurtry in Hollywood. His novels became source material for movies that reinscribed the very myths of the West that he had sought to undo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Larry McMurtry in Hollywood. His novels became source material for movies that reinscribed the very myths of the West that he had sought to undo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/larry-mcmurtry-in-hollywood-his-novels-became-source-material-for-movies-that-reinscribed-the-very-myths-of-the-west-that-he-had-sought-to-undo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:54:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/larry-mcmurtry-in-hollywood-his-novels-became-source-material-for-movies-that-reinscribed-the-very-myths-of-the-west-that-he-had-sought-to-undo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Francis Bacon was as much a creature of his own era as he was a technocratic prophet of ours. Those two designations are inseparable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Francis Bacon was as much a creature of his own era as he was a technocratic prophet of ours. Those two designations are inseparable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francis-bacon-was-as-much-a-creature-of-his-own-era-as-he-was-a-technocratic-prophet-of-ours-those-two-designations-are-inseparable/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:54:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francis-bacon-was-as-much-a-creature-of-his-own-era-as-he-was-a-technocratic-prophet-of-ours-those-two-designations-are-inseparable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s to Offer $35 M. Renoir Painting Owned by Whitney Family For Nearly a Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time in 97 years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir&rsquo;s La femme aux lilas (Portrait de Nini Lopez) will hit the auction block, with an estimate of $25 million to $35 million.Set for Christie&rsquo;s 20th Century Evening Sale on May 18, the 1876&ndash;77 painting depicts Nini Lopez, a young Parisian actress, as a golden-haired woman with milky-pale skin and ruddy cheeks gazing into the distance, as she clasps a bouquet of white and pink flowers.The painting has a unique provenance: since 1]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-offer-35-m-renoir-painting-owned-by-whitney-family-for-nearly-acentury/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-offer-35-m-renoir-painting-owned-by-whitney-family-for-nearly-acentury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Work Gifted to David Drake’s Descendants Is the Star of Theaster Gates’s Powerful Gagosian Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It started out as young scholarly curiosity,&rdquo; the artist Theaster Gates said of his initial interest in the work of the 19th-century enslaved potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter.Gates was an undergraduate at Iowa State University in the early &rsquo;90s, making ceramics that he said referenced &ldquo;white Americana craft&rdquo; from the &rsquo;60s, like Peter Voulkos and Rudy Autio. While he admired that work, Gates recalled talking to his professor, Ingrid Lilligren,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-work-gifted-to-david-drakes-descendants-is-the-star-of-theaster-gatess-powerful-gagosianshow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-work-gifted-to-david-drakes-descendants-is-the-star-of-theaster-gatess-powerful-gagosianshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Model Reveals New Information About Authorship of 17th-Century El Greco Altarpiece]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has built a new machine-learning program that might help art historians determine how many artists&rsquo; hands contributed to the creation of centuries-old artworks. The dozen researchers who published the paper in Science Advances range from physicists and computer scientists to art historians and anthropologists.The AI model is called PATCH, which stands for pairwise assignment training for classifying heterogeneity.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-model-reveals-new-information-about-authorship-of-17th-century-el-grecoaltarpiece/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-model-reveals-new-information-about-authorship-of-17th-century-el-grecoaltarpiece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Months Out from Mandated Deadline, Trump’s Sculpture Garden Languishes]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has long fondly envisioned a sculpture garden dedicated to 250 American heroes. You know, people like George Washington, the country&rsquo;s first president, and Alex Trebek, the longtime host of TV game show Jeopardy! Sculpted in traditional materials at larger than life size, these mythical sculptures have been on his mind for six years, and he has publicly promised &ldquo;a beautiful complex.&rdquo;But now, the National Garden of American Heroes is less than three month]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-months-out-from-mandated-deadline-trumps-sculpture-gardenlanguishes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-months-out-from-mandated-deadline-trumps-sculpture-gardenlanguishes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare Books Stolen from Former MoMA President Are Returned]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., has announced the return of 17 rare books to the heirs of John Hay and Betsey Cushing Whitney. The books, which were stolen from the couple&rsquo;s Long Island home in the 1980s, include works by John Keats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and the Brothers Grimm.	John Whitney, who died in 1982, served as publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, president of the Museum of Modern Art, and Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Betsey Whitney, who died in 1998]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-books-stolen-from-former-moma-president-arereturned/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-books-stolen-from-former-moma-president-arereturned/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Hayward, West Coast Painter with a Cult Following, Dies at 82]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Hayward, a West Coast painter whose abstractions earned him a loyal cult following among artists, died on April 16. He was 82, according to a brief obituary posted by his studio over the weekend.Hayward may not be among the most well-known names to emerge from the postwar period, but many artists knew and loved his work. Mike Kelley, for example, once praised him as &ldquo;one of the few truly important West Coast painters.&rdquo;His process was marked by a certain eccentricity that differ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-hayward-west-coast-painter-with-a-cult-following-dies-at82/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-hayward-west-coast-painter-with-a-cult-following-dies-at82/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alma Allen’s US Pavilion Heads to Venice Amid Questions Over Selection Process]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alma Allen&rsquo;s&nbsp;pavilion for the United States at the 2026&nbsp;Venice Biennale&nbsp;has become a proxy fight over politics, process, and cultural authority&mdash;questions the artist himself has little interest in adjudicating.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think my work is political in respect to party politics,&rdquo; Allen said as he prepared his exhibition, adding that his more immediate concern was practical: &ldquo;some of the pieces barely fit in the doorway.&rdquo;&nbsp;A report by&nbsp;t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alma-allens-us-pavilion-heads-to-venice-amid-questions-over-selectionprocess/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alma-allens-us-pavilion-heads-to-venice-amid-questions-over-selectionprocess/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealer Matthew Brown More Than Doubles His Los Angeles Space with Move to Hollywood Media District: ‘I Really Believe in LA’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dealer Matthew Brown is more than doubling his Los Angeles footprint with a move to a former warehouse at 1145 Seward Street in the Hollywood Media District. It&rsquo;s just a mile or so from the two Hollywood spaces he has occupied since opening in 2019, at 712 N La Brea Avenue, but the design is worlds apart, he said in a phone conversation.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s night and day,&rdquo; said Brown. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the details, it&rsquo;s the lighting, it&rsquo;s the placement of the skylights, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealer-matthew-brown-more-than-doubles-his-los-angeles-space-with-move-to-hollywood-media-district-i-really-believe-inla/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealer-matthew-brown-more-than-doubles-his-los-angeles-space-with-move-to-hollywood-media-district-i-really-believe-inla/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter to Co-Headline ‘Immersive Experience’ at Art Basel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good news for any Art Basel attendees hoping to relive their early aughts salad days: Thomas Bangalter, one half of legendary French electro duo Daft Punk, will take over Hall 1.1 South at Messe Basel on Saturday June 20.Advertised as immersive experience and presented by art.klub, the event &ldquo;WAREHOUSE ARTEFACTS&rdquo; will feature Bangalter, house music producer Rampa, and French Swiss conceptual artist Julian Charri&egrave;re. Info on the event is pretty scant, so it&rsquo;s not clear if]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/daft-punks-thomas-bangalter-to-co-headline-immersive-experience-at-artbasel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/daft-punks-thomas-bangalter-to-co-headline-immersive-experience-at-artbasel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspect Charged in $45,000 Fraud Incident Involving Floridian Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Boca Raton woman faces felony charges over a forged check linked to Florida&rsquo;s Flagler Museum, police report.&nbsp;An affidavit of probable cause from the Palm Beach Police Department details how Alexandra C. Kaiser, 31, was arrested on April 14 for allegedly depositing a counterfeit check drawn on the museum&rsquo;s Northern Trust account into her personal JPMorgan Chase account earlier this year. Kaiser was charged with grand theft, uttering a forged check, and criminal use of personal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/suspect-charged-in-45000-fraud-incident-involving-floridianmuseum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/suspect-charged-in-45000-fraud-incident-involving-floridianmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hans Ulrich Obrist Reveals the One Artist Who Refused to Let Him Into Their Studio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the art world&rsquo;s great curators, is more deeply connected with artists than most could dream: he has estimated that he&rsquo;s recorded over 2,000 hours worth of interviews with artists, and he regularly posts handwritten notes from painters, sculptors, and filmmakers whose studios he&rsquo;s visited.But one artist has regularly refused his requests for a studio visit, and that artist is one of the most secretive painters still alive today.In an interview with the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hans-ulrich-obrist-reveals-the-one-artist-who-refused-to-let-him-into-theirstudio/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hans-ulrich-obrist-reveals-the-one-artist-who-refused-to-let-him-into-theirstudio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Photos from Archives of Nine Photographers Going to Center for Creative Photography]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson has acquired the archives of nine photographers: Laura Aguilar, Jack Dykinga, Jody Forster, Frank Gohlke, Mark Klett, Nathan Lyons, Stephen Marc, Patrick Nagatani, and Susan Wood. The collections include photo prints but also other materials, and they join archives in the CCP&rsquo;s holdings associated with such prominent artists as Ansel Adams, Robert Heinecken, David Hume Kennerly, and Lola &Aacute;lvarez Bravo.&ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-photos-from-archives-of-nine-photographers-going-to-center-for-creativephotography/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-photos-from-archives-of-nine-photographers-going-to-center-for-creativephotography/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investor Says Artnet Layoffs Were Necessary for ‘Financial Strength’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Days after layoffs at&nbsp;Artnet&nbsp;and&nbsp;Artsy&nbsp;shook the art world, investor and owner Andrew E. Wolff has offered his clearest explanation yet for the cuts, framing them as part of a broader consolidation strategy already underway at the two companies.That strategy was&nbsp;laid out publicly&nbsp;on April 15, when&nbsp;ARTnews&nbsp;reported that&nbsp;Artsy&nbsp;CEO Jeffrey Yin would lead the combined company, with Wolff as chairman, as Artnet and Artsy were brought under the same le]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/investor-says-artnet-layoffs-were-necessary-for-financial-strength/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/investor-says-artnet-layoffs-were-necessary-for-financial-strength/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Transport Hobbled and Prices Surging in Asia Amid US and Israel’s War in Iran]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art shippers are feeling stark impacts from the United States and Israel&rsquo;s war in Iran, seeing costs rise and shipping routes severely disrupted, particularly in Asia, according to a new report in the Art Newspaper.Oil prices have risen drastically since the conflict began in February, leading airlines to charge higher cargo fuel surcharges. Just in the war&rsquo;s opening weeks, international air freight costs for fine art spiked as much as 300 percent, according to Wang Jianmin, founder]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-transport-hobbled-and-prices-surging-in-asia-amid-us-and-israels-war-iniran/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-transport-hobbled-and-prices-surging-in-asia-amid-us-and-israels-war-iniran/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Turkish novelist Leylâ Erbil, an autodidact and outcast, liked being mad, bad, and sad in a nation of pious Kemalists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Turkish novelist Leyl&acirc; Erbil, an autodidact and outcast, liked being mad, bad, and sad in a nation of pious Kemalists]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-turkish-novelist-leyl-erbil-an-autodidact-and-outcast-liked-being-mad-bad-and-sad-in-a-nation-of-pious-kemalists/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:57:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-turkish-novelist-leyl-erbil-an-autodidact-and-outcast-liked-being-mad-bad-and-sad-in-a-nation-of-pious-kemalists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elitist critics condemn literary “slop,” but in 50 years they may be writing redemptive theories of such slop and cutting the ribbon at the Slop Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elitist critics condemn literary &ldquo;slop,&rdquo; but in 50 years they may be writing redemptive theories of such slop and cutting the ribbon at the Slop Museum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elitist-critics-condemn-literary-slop-but-in-50-years-they-may-be-writing-redemptive-theories-of-such-slop-and-cutting-the-ribbon-at-the-slop-museum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:57:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elitist-critics-condemn-literary-slop-but-in-50-years-they-may-be-writing-redemptive-theories-of-such-slop-and-cutting-the-ribbon-at-the-slop-museum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pet Food Store Owner Behind the Venice Biennale’s US Pavilion, 400-Year-Old Pendant in English Painting Resurfaces, and More: Morning Links for April 20, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlineANATOMY OF A PAVILION. The&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;dug into the making of the forthcoming US Pavilion at the&nbsp;Venice Biennale, and found that its 37-year-old commissioner,&nbsp;Jenni Parido,&nbsp;&nbsp;has no professional experience in the arts. She recently ran a luxury pet food store in Florida, setting her on an &ldquo;unlikely path from selling venison nuggets and dried sardines to organizing a federally sponsored pavilion on a global stage,&rdquo; according to the&nbsp;Time]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-pet-food-store-owner-behind-the-venice-biennales-us-pavilion-400-year-old-pendant-in-english-painting-resurfaces-and-more-morning-links-for-april-202026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-pet-food-store-owner-behind-the-venice-biennales-us-pavilion-400-year-old-pendant-in-english-painting-resurfaces-and-more-morning-links-for-april-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ruins of a ‘Unique’ Temple Complex Discovered in Northern Sinai]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archeological mission has announced their discovery of a temple complex at Tell el-Farama, the site of the ancient city of Pelusium in northern Sinai. The ruin feaures a large circular basin, around 100 feet in diameter, once attached to an easternmost branch of the Nile (now long dry). Surrounding the basin, which would have been filled with water, is a complex system of drainage channels; at its center is a square plinth that may have supported a statue of the local deity Pelusius.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ruins-of-a-unique-temple-complex-discovered-in-northernsinai-2/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ruins-of-a-unique-temple-complex-discovered-in-northernsinai-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ruins of a ‘Unique‘ Temple Complex Discovered in Northern Sinai]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archeological mission has announced their discovery of a temple complex at Tell el-Farama, the site of the ancient city of Pelusium in northern Sinai. The ruin feaures a large circular basin, around 100 feet in diameter, once attached to an easternmost branch of the Nile (now long dry). Surrounding the basin, which would have been filled with water, is a complex system of drainage channels; at its center is a square plinth that may have supported a statue of the local deity Pelusius.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ruins-of-a-unique-temple-complex-discovered-in-northernsinai/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ruins-of-a-unique-temple-complex-discovered-in-northernsinai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Art Speaks in a Language Left for Us to Translate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theresa Hak Kyung Cha was an artist never satisfied with one mode of art-making, she flitted between mediums, selecting whichever best reflect her preoccupations: the traces of history, the movement of people in exile and diaspora, and the slippery nature of language in just one way. In her hands, no concept feels definitive or fixed; rather, these weighty ideas are always fluid, ever adapting to the moment&mdash;even now, four decades after her untimely death.Cha&rsquo;s distinctive approach is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/theresa-hak-kyung-chas-art-speaks-in-a-language-left-for-us-totranslate/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/theresa-hak-kyung-chas-art-speaks-in-a-language-left-for-us-totranslate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finland Pulls Back Venice Biennale Presence Over Return of Russian Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finland&rsquo;s political leadership will not attend the Venice Biennale this year if the Russian Pavilion goes on view as planned, marking the latest escalation of European opposition to Russia&rsquo;s return to international exhibition.	In a statement released Thursday, Finland&rsquo;s Ministry of Education and Culture said that its position is that Russia must not be allowed to participate &ldquo;as long as Russia&rsquo;s war of aggression in Ukraine continues.&rdquo; However, Minister of Sci]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/finland-pulls-back-venice-biennale-presence-over-return-of-russianpavilion/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/finland-pulls-back-venice-biennale-presence-over-return-of-russianpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Turkish novelist Leylâ Erbil was an autodidact and outcast who liked being mad, bad, and sad in a nation of pious Kemalists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Turkish novelist Leyl&acirc; Erbil was an autodidact and outcast who liked being mad, bad, and sad in a nation of pious Kemalists]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-turkish-novelist-leyl-erbil-was-an-autodidact-and-outcast-who-liked-being-mad-bad-and-sad-in-a-nation-of-pious-kemalists/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:21:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-turkish-novelist-leyl-erbil-was-an-autodidact-and-outcast-who-liked-being-mad-bad-and-sad-in-a-nation-of-pious-kemalists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elitist critics condemn literary “slop,” but in 50 years they may write redemptive theories of such slop and cut the ribbon at the Slop Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elitist critics condemn literary &ldquo;slop,&rdquo; but in 50 years they may write redemptive theories of such slop and cut the ribbon at the Slop Museum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elitist-critics-condemn-literary-slop-but-in-50-years-they-may-write-redemptive-theories-of-such-slop-and-cut-the-ribbon-at-the-slop-museum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:21:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elitist-critics-condemn-literary-slop-but-in-50-years-they-may-write-redemptive-theories-of-such-slop-and-cut-the-ribbon-at-the-slop-museum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooding on verandas, slurping Pepsi Max, carefully observing the color of urine — across thousands of pages, certain Knausgaardian tropes repeat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brooding on verandas, slurping Pepsi Max, carefully observing the color of urine &mdash; across thousands of pages, certain Knausgaardian tropes repeat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooding-on-verandas-slurping-pepsi-max-carefully-observing-the-color-of-urine-across-thousands-of-pages-certain-knausgaardian-tropes-repeat/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:21:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooding-on-verandas-slurping-pepsi-max-carefully-observing-the-color-of-urine-across-thousands-of-pages-certain-knausgaardian-tropes-repeat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catalan Museum Has Yet to Follow Through on Court Order to Return Contested Murals to Aragon Monastery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly a year after Spain&rsquo;s Supreme Court ruled that the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) must return the Sijena Monastery murals to the Royal Monastery in Aragon, in northeastern Spain, the Barcelona museum still hasn&rsquo;t let go of the disputed&mdash;and delicate&mdash;13th-century artworks.The ruling, in May 2025, followed more than a decade of legal battles between the Aragonese government and MNAC. The Sijena murals&mdash;often referred to as the &ldquo;Sistine Chapel of Rom]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/catalan-museum-has-yet-to-follow-through-on-court-order-to-return-contested-murals-to-aragonmonastery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/catalan-museum-has-yet-to-follow-through-on-court-order-to-return-contested-murals-to-aragonmonastery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Paris Notches a $41 M. Modern and Contemporary Sale, Led by a $12 M. Monet Unseen for a Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet led a Sotheby&rsquo;s Paris sale of modern and contemporary art on Thursday that racked up &euro;35 million ($41 million). That figure is up more than 84 percent on the equivalent sale from last year and exceeds the pre-sale estimate of &euro;22.4&ndash;&euro;32.1 million ($26.6&ndash;$37.8 million). The total was the house&rsquo;s second-highest ever in France for a sale in the category. Nearly 63 percent of lots sold above their high estimates]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-paris-notches-a-41-m-modern-and-contemporary-sale-led-by-a-12-m-monet-unseen-for-acentury/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-paris-notches-a-41-m-modern-and-contemporary-sale-led-by-a-12-m-monet-unseen-for-acentury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Returns to Profit as Sales Rise, Though Cash Pressures Persist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s has returned to profit after several loss-making years,&nbsp;though the underlying financial picture remains complicated.The auction house posted a $53 million pre-tax profit in 2025, according to financial documents reviewed by the&nbsp;Financial Times, a turnaround from a $190 million loss the year prior. Sales rose nearly 20 percent to $7.1 billion, with revenue from its core auction business climbing 26 percent to about $1 billion.&nbsp;The rebound reflects a modest recovery]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-returns-to-profit-as-sales-rise-though-cash-pressurespersist/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-returns-to-profit-as-sales-rise-though-cash-pressurespersist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkey Notches Another Successful Restitution After Denver Art Museum Returns 1500-Year-Old Marble Head]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Denver Art Museum has returned a marble head of a bearded man stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna to Turkey. This marks the latest in a growing list of successful restitutions tied to the country&rsquo;s renewed campaign to reclaim its cultural heritage from museums worldwide.&nbsp;The sculpture&rsquo;s provenance indicates it was likely carved in the fifth century BCE in Smyrna&mdash;the ancient Greek name for present-day Izmir. Situated on Turkey&rsquo;s Aegean coast, the city is among]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/turkey-notches-another-successful-restitution-after-denver-art-museum-returns-1500-year-old-marblehead/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/turkey-notches-another-successful-restitution-after-denver-art-museum-returns-1500-year-old-marblehead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer Gilbert Consigns Blue-Chip Works to Sotheby’s to Fund Detroit Arts Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[A small group of high-value works from the collection of entrepreneur and philanthropist Jennifer Gilbert will go to auction at Sotheby&rsquo;s this spring, with proceeds directed toward Lumana, a Detroit-based arts nonprofit she is developing.The works will be split across Sotheby&rsquo;s May contemporary sales and its June design auction. The top lots include&nbsp;Joan Mitchell&rsquo;s&nbsp;Loom II&nbsp;(1976), estimated at $5 million to $7 million, and&nbsp;Kenneth Noland&rsquo;s&nbsp;Circle&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jennifer-gilbert-consigns-blue-chip-works-to-sothebys-to-fund-detroit-artsspace/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jennifer-gilbert-consigns-blue-chip-works-to-sothebys-to-fund-detroit-artsspace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why AI can’t smell. Current “e-nose” technology is the size of a fridge, costs a half-million dollars, and takes six hours to run a sample]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why AI can&rsquo;t smell. Current &ldquo;e-nose&rdquo; technology is the size of a fridge, costs a half-million dollars, and takes six hours to run a sample]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-ai-cant-smell-current-e-nose-technology-is-the-size-of-a-fridge-costs-a-half-million-dollars-and-takes-six-hours-to-run-a-sample-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:30:26 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-ai-cant-smell-current-e-nose-technology-is-the-size-of-a-fridge-costs-a-half-million-dollars-and-takes-six-hours-to-run-a-sample-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporary writing about womanhood is full of apologizing or justifying or moralizing. Such frameworks shed little light]]></title><description><![CDATA[Contemporary writing about womanhood is full of apologizing or justifying or moralizing. Such frameworks shed little light]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contemporary-writing-about-womanhood-is-full-of-apologizing-or-justifying-or-moralizing-such-frameworks-shed-little-light/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:30:26 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contemporary-writing-about-womanhood-is-full-of-apologizing-or-justifying-or-moralizing-such-frameworks-shed-little-light/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A major discovery in Central Asia. More than a dozen books published in a single week. Is “Blake Whiting” the most productive historian working today?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major discovery in Central Asia. More than a dozen books published in a single week. Is &ldquo;Blake Whiting&rdquo; the most productive historian working today?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-major-discovery-in-central-asia-more-than-a-dozen-books-published-in-a-single-week-is-blake-whiting-the-most-productive-historian-working-today/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:30:26 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-major-discovery-in-central-asia-more-than-a-dozen-books-published-in-a-single-week-is-blake-whiting-the-most-productive-historian-working-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Discover 6,000-Year-Old ‘Megastructure’ in Romania]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists in northeastern Romania discovered remnants of a &ldquo;megastructure&rdquo; that may have figured in the social and organizational structure of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture that thrived around 5,050-2,950 BCE.As reported by Phys.org, an excavation at the archaeological site known as St&#259;uceni-&ldquo;Holm&rdquo;&nbsp;led to findings related to a building measuring 350 square meters (around 3,800 square feet). The size, larger than individual dwellings found in the area, qualifie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-discover-6000-year-old-megastructure-inromania/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-discover-6000-year-old-megastructure-inromania/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edmonia Lewis Was the Earliest Known Black Artist to Depict Emancipation. This Is Her First Retrospective.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Edmonia Lewis exhibition &ldquo;Said in Stone,&rdquo; currently at the Peabody Essex Museum, marks the first time that the tremendous late 19th-century sculptor has been featured in a comprehensive show of her own. More than a hundred years after unformed marble passed through her hands and into human form, her works are at long last assembled together to speak as a kind of family. As such, the museum serves as a space of historical vindication for an artist who struggled, rock hammer in han]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edmonia-lewis-was-the-earliest-known-black-artist-to-depict-emancipation-this-is-her-firstretrospective/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edmonia-lewis-was-the-earliest-known-black-artist-to-depict-emancipation-this-is-her-firstretrospective/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Triumphant New LACMA Has the Potential to Rewrite Art History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can an art museum tell a non-linear version of art history and still be legible to its visitors? That&rsquo;s the question guiding the David Geffen Galleries, the new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that opens to members on April 19 and to the public on May 4.Typically, museums narrate millennia of artistic expression as a series of progressive movements limited to the US and Europe, with everything else pushed to the margins. LACMA has historically been one of those museums, w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-triumphant-new-lacma-has-the-potential-to-rewrite-arthistory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-triumphant-new-lacma-has-the-potential-to-rewrite-arthistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andrew Lloyd Webber Says He's Writing a New Musical About the Time the 'Mona Lisa' Vanished Without a Trace in 1911]]></title><description><![CDATA[Known for spectacles like "The Phantom of the Opera," Broadway's most commercially successful composer now wants to tell the story of the world's most famous painting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/andrew-lloyd-webber-says-hes-writing-a-new-musical-about-the-time-the-mona-lisa-vanished-without-a-trace-in-1911/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/andrew-lloyd-webber-says-hes-writing-a-new-musical-about-the-time-the-mona-lisa-vanished-without-a-trace-in-1911/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 2026, DeviantArt Is Helping Artists Cut Through The Noise and Fuel Sustainable Careers]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 25 years after its founding, the site has evolved into the internet&rsquo;s leading platform for artists to grow and monetize their audience.Related ArticlesJudge Says Major AI Companies Did Not Profit Unfairly from Artists' Work	New Data 'Poisoning' Tool Enables Artists To Fight Back Against Image Generating AI	If you spend much time online &mdash; especially around Gen Z &mdash; you may have noticed that Y2K&nbsp; internet culture is having a moment. Scrolling fatigue, coupled with a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-2026-deviantart-is-helping-artists-cut-through-the-noise-and-fuel-sustainablecareers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-2026-deviantart-is-helping-artists-cut-through-the-noise-and-fuel-sustainablecareers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walker Art Center Severs Ties with Restaurant for Laying Off Workers in Favor of QR Codes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cardamom, a beloved restaurant at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, is no more following a controversial decision by the eatery to lay off its front-of-house workers and institute a QR code ordering system.The museum said on Thursday that such a move &ldquo;does not align with our core values.&rdquo;&ldquo;We are committed to creating a welcoming environment for all of our guests at the Walker,&rdquo; director Mary Ceruti said in a statement. &ldquo;While we do not oversee the restaurant in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/walker-art-center-severs-ties-with-restaurant-for-laying-off-workers-in-favor-of-qrcodes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/walker-art-center-severs-ties-with-restaurant-for-laying-off-workers-in-favor-of-qrcodes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why AI can’t smell. Current “e-nose” technology is the size of a fridge, costs a half million dollars, and takes six hours to run a sample]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why AI can&rsquo;t smell. Current &ldquo;e-nose&rdquo; technology is the size of a fridge, costs a half million dollars, and takes six hours to run a sample]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-ai-cant-smell-current-e-nose-technology-is-the-size-of-a-fridge-costs-a-half-million-dollars-and-takes-six-hours-to-run-a-sample/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:58:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-ai-cant-smell-current-e-nose-technology-is-the-size-of-a-fridge-costs-a-half-million-dollars-and-takes-six-hours-to-run-a-sample/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporary writing about womanhood is full of apologizing, justifying, or moralizing. Such approaches shed little light]]></title><description><![CDATA[Contemporary writing about womanhood is full of apologizing, justifying, or moralizing. Such approaches shed little light]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contemporary-writing-about-womanhood-is-full-of-apologizing-justifying-or-moralizing-such-approaches-shed-little-light/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:58:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contemporary-writing-about-womanhood-is-full-of-apologizing-justifying-or-moralizing-such-approaches-shed-little-light/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A major discovery in Central Asia, over a dozen books published in a single week &mdash; is "Blake Whiting" the most productive historian working today?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major discovery in Central Asia, over a dozen books published in a single week &mdash; is "Blake Whiting" the most productive historian working today?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-major-discovery-in-central-asia-over-a-dozen-books-published-in-a-single-week-mdash-is-blake-whiting-the-most-productive-historian-working-today/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:58:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-major-discovery-in-central-asia-over-a-dozen-books-published-in-a-single-week-mdash-is-blake-whiting-the-most-productive-historian-working-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prominent German Art Foundation Accuses Top Culture Official of ‘Attempted Intimidation’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jurors from the Kunstfonds Foundation, a prominent German body that funds contemporary art projects, have publicly denounced the country&rsquo;s top cultural policy official after he requested the names of its current members.In a statement first reported by Der Spiegel, the art fund&rsquo;s jury described the initial request from Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer, made in March 2025, as &ldquo;political interference&rdquo; that had the potential to infringe on artistic freedom of exp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prominent-german-art-foundation-accuses-top-culture-official-of-attempted-intimidation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prominent-german-art-foundation-accuses-top-culture-official-of-attempted-intimidation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lorna Simpson’s David Adjaye–Designed Brooklyn Home and Studio Remains On the Market—At a Much-Reduced Price]]></title><description><![CDATA[Renowned artist Lorna Simpson is still seeking a buyer for her light-filled Brooklyn home and studio, which has been on the market for months, reports Curbed, which notes that the price has been slashed.Located at 208 Vanderbilt Avenue in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, the property was listed with Corcoran as recently as August 2025 at $6.5 million, Artnet News reported at the time. The 3,300-square-foot townhouse, built by architect David Adjaye in 2006, features three bedrooms, 2.5]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lorna-simpsons-david-adjayedesigned-brooklyn-home-and-studio-remains-on-the-marketat-a-much-reducedprice/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lorna-simpsons-david-adjayedesigned-brooklyn-home-and-studio-remains-on-the-marketat-a-much-reducedprice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts Groups Speak Out Against US Trade Representative’s Potential New Tariffs]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has said that tariff is &ldquo;the most beautiful word,&rdquo; and he has done his best to unilaterally impose these duties to correct what he sees as exploitative trade imbalances. In February, the United States Supreme Court struck down most of Trump&rsquo;s tariffs on major trading partners Canada, Mexico, and China, ruling that Trump exceeded his authority when instituting sweeping tariffs under a 1977 law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Exper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arts-groups-speak-out-against-us-trade-representatives-potential-newtariffs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arts-groups-speak-out-against-us-trade-representatives-potential-newtariffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maurizio Cattelan Opens Up About Sin, Silence, and Stealing: ‘I’m Guilty Too’]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you have been in the art world for a minute, you have probably attended a benefit gala or two for an art nonprofit. The expectations for these events are pretty well established. After a cocktail hour, attendees get their seat assignments and dine on fine cuisine while they get acquainted and exchange gossip with their neighbors. Remarks are addressed to a restive crowd. Photographers record flashy outfits for the society pages. Perhaps a celebrity auctioneer takes bids on artworks or experie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/maurizio-cattelan-opens-up-about-sin-silence-and-stealing-im-guiltytoo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/maurizio-cattelan-opens-up-about-sin-silence-and-stealing-im-guiltytoo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Critics Disagree on MoMA PS1’s Greater New York, a Wide-Ranging Survey Defined by a Fascination with Fragility]]></title><description><![CDATA[When New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took his oath at the start of this year, he vowed to tell a &ldquo;new story of our city.&rdquo; MoMA PS1, one of the city&rsquo;s defining contemporary art institutions, has now endeavored to do the same with Greater New York, its quinquennial for artists who live and work in all five boroughs.The occasion is a grand one, and not only because it&rsquo;s the first Greater New York since the Covid-era 2021 edition. This one, the exhibition&rsquo;s sixth, is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/our-critics-disagree-on-moma-ps1s-greater-new-york-a-wide-ranging-survey-defined-by-a-fascination-withfragility/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/our-critics-disagree-on-moma-ps1s-greater-new-york-a-wide-ranging-survey-defined-by-a-fascination-withfragility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to Skip Met Gala, Sources Say]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long list of stars attending the Met Gala in May will not include New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji, if unnamed sources cited by the New York Post&rsquo;s &ldquo;Page Six&rdquo; prove to be correct.As reported by the paper, &ldquo;New York City&rsquo;s mayor is traditionally invited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the lavish event every year, but we&rsquo;re told that Mamdani, 34, won&rsquo;t be joining Cond&eacute; Nast&rsquo;s Anna Wintour and her coterie of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-to-skip-met-gala-sourcessay/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-to-skip-met-gala-sourcessay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artnet Makes Significant Layoffs Following Consolidation with Artsy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following yesterday&rsquo;s news that Artsy and Artnet had been brought under the leadership, the latter online art marketplace has laid off dozens of employees.Sources told ARTnews that the layoffs particularly impacted Artnet&rsquo;s editorial arm, Artnet News, one of the most widely read art publications in the US and Europe. Andrew Russeth, who previously served as executive editor of ARTnews, will reportedly now serve as the interim editor of Artnet News.Also impacted, according to those so]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnet-makes-significant-layoffs-following-consolidation-withartsy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnet-makes-significant-layoffs-following-consolidation-withartsy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foundation, a Prominent NFT Platform of the 2021 Boom, Shuts Down After Failed Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Add one more casualty of the collapsed NFT market to the list: Foundation, a curated Ethereum-based marketplace that rose to prominence during the 2021 digital art boom. On Wednesday, cofounder and CEO Kayvon Tehranian announced in an open letter on X that the platform&rsquo;s sale to digital art company Blackdove collapsed, leaving no viable way to keep operating.&ldquo;Our goal in pursuing a sale was always to see Foundation live on&mdash;to find someone who would keep the platform running and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/foundation-a-prominent-nft-platform-of-the-2021-boom-shuts-down-after-failedsale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/foundation-a-prominent-nft-platform-of-the-2021-boom-shuts-down-after-failedsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti]]></title><description><![CDATA[What We Miss When We Talk About Giacometti&ldquo;Everyone knows what a head is!&rdquo;&nbsp;Thus Andr&eacute; Breton&mdash;the imperious leader of the French Surrealist group with which Alberto Giacometti had made common cause in the late 1920s&mdash;chided the artist for his return to sculpting human likenesses after 1935. The Swiss-born, Paris-based Giacometti had distinguished his tenure as a Surrealist with a range of enigmatic objects: inscrutable gameboards wrought from sleek marble slabs;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-we-miss-when-we-talk-aboutgiacometti/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-we-miss-when-we-talk-aboutgiacometti/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activist Super-Glues Herself to Display Cabinet at Berlin’s Bode Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday afternoon, police were called when an activist super-glued herself to a display cabinet at the Bode Museum on Berlin&rsquo;s Museum Island. The news was reported by the German magazine Monopol.The action was claimed by New Generation, a successor movement to Last Generation, a German/Italian group of climate activists best known for gluing themselves to roadways. Last Generation disbanded in January 2025.The woman, dressed like Germany&rsquo;s Economic Affairs Minister, Katherina Reic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/activist-super-glues-herself-to-display-cabinet-at-berlins-bodemuseum/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/activist-super-glues-herself-to-display-cabinet-at-berlins-bodemuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why can humans, unlike all other animals, make pyramids, or spaceships, or musical instruments? Language]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why can humans, unlike all other animals, make pyramids, or spaceships, or musical instruments? Language]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-can-humans-unlike-all-other-animals-make-pyramids-or-spaceships-or-musical-instruments-language/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-can-humans-unlike-all-other-animals-make-pyramids-or-spaceships-or-musical-instruments-language/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helen DeWitt turned down a $175,000 prize because of the strings attached. Is she a principled actor or a spoiled, entitled nightmare?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Helen DeWitt turned down a $175,000 prize because of the strings attached. Is she a principled actor or a spoiled, entitled nightmare?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/helen-dewitt-turned-down-a-175000-prize-because-of-the-strings-attached-is-she-a-principled-actor-or-a-spoiled-entitled-nightmare/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/helen-dewitt-turned-down-a-175000-prize-because-of-the-strings-attached-is-she-a-principled-actor-or-a-spoiled-entitled-nightmare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ben Lerner: “Wherever I am now, I am not a young novelist. Heart surgery will do that to you, in addition to everything else”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ben Lerner: &ldquo;Wherever I am now, I am not a young novelist. Heart surgery will do that to you, in addition to everything else&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ben-lerner-wherever-i-am-now-i-am-not-a-young-novelist-heart-surgery-will-do-that-to-you-in-addition-to-everything-else/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ben-lerner-wherever-i-am-now-i-am-not-a-young-novelist-heart-surgery-will-do-that-to-you-in-addition-to-everything-else/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Dubai Unveils Leaner ‘Special Edition’ Built Around Regional Core]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art Dubai has released the exhibitor list for its 2026 &ldquo;special edition,&rdquo; a scaled-back fair that will run May 15&ndash;17 at Madinat Jumeirah, with a VIP preview on May 14, bringing together roughly 75 presentations across galleries, institutions, and partners.&nbsp;The revised format, announced amid ongoing regional instability and rising costs across the fair circuit, places a tighter focus on galleries with longstanding ties to the region: roughly 60 percent of participants in th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-dubai-unveils-leaner-special-edition-built-around-regionalcore/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-dubai-unveils-leaner-special-edition-built-around-regionalcore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Pulls Catalog Materials Due to Chinese Censorship&nbsp;Laws]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Victoria and Albert Museum in London removed material from at least two recent exhibition catalogs at the request of a Chinese printing company, according to documents obtained by The Guardian through freedom of information requests. The report found that certain maps and images were flagged as violating China&rsquo;s censorship laws.Partnering with foreign printing companies isn&rsquo;t unusual among major arts institutions; both the British Museum and Tate do so, as the report notes. In t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-pulls-catalog-materials-due-to-chinese-censorshipnbsplaws/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-pulls-catalog-materials-due-to-chinese-censorshipnbsplaws/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beowolff Combines Artsy and Artnet in Digital Art Market Push]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artsy and Artnet are being brought under the same ownership, consolidating two of the art world&rsquo;s largest online platforms across data, media, auctions, and e-commerce.The companies said Wednesday that they will continue to operate as separate brands, even as they combine their underlying infrastructure and data. The move follows Beowolff Capital&rsquo;s acquisition of a controlling stake in Artsy and its decision last year to&nbsp;take Artnet private, bringing both businesses under the sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beowolff-combines-artsy-and-artnet-in-digital-art-marketpush/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beowolff-combines-artsy-and-artnet-in-digital-art-marketpush/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NBA Star Devon Booker Finds Perspective at James Turrell’s Fabled Roden Crater]]></title><description><![CDATA[Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA&rsquo;s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell&rsquo;s fabled Roden Crater three times&mdash;and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an &ldquo;amazing person &hellip; taking it to another level, and that&rsquo;s what all artists try to do.&rdquo;As reported in a lengthy profile in The Athletic, the sports section of the New York Times, Booker first traveled to Roden Crater in 2020, when he was first rapt by]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nba-star-devon-booker-finds-perspective-at-james-turrells-fabled-rodencrater/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nba-star-devon-booker-finds-perspective-at-james-turrells-fabled-rodencrater/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met Museum to Stage Giacometti Show in Temple of Dendur This Summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian structure that counts among the most beloved attractions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will this summer host an exhibition of sculptures by the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti&mdash;a rarity, since the Temple of Dendur does not often act as a space for shows of any kind.The exhibition, simply titled &ldquo;Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur,&rdquo; is a small one, with just 17 of the artist&rsquo;s sculptures. Fourteen of them belong to the Fonda]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-to-stage-giacometti-show-in-temple-of-dendur-thissummer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-to-stage-giacometti-show-in-temple-of-dendur-thissummer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met is Finally Treating Lee Krasner as Pollock’s Equal—Will the Market Follow?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.The Metropolitan Museum of Art says its upcoming exhibition, &ldquo;Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,&rdquo; is a &ldquo;story of equals.&rdquo; Set to open in October, the survey brings together 120 works&nbsp; by more than 80 lenders, with an explicit focus on considering Jackson Pollock and Lee K]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-is-finally-treating-lee-krasner-as-pollocks-equalwill-the-marketfollow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-is-finally-treating-lee-krasner-as-pollocks-equalwill-the-marketfollow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential List Includes Artist Cao Fei and Photojournalist Lynsey Addario]]></title><description><![CDATA[Time magazine has released the 2026 edition of its &ldquo;most influential&rdquo; list, spanning leaders and notable figures in politics, sport, technology, fashion, medicine, and many other fields. Included this year are artist Cao Fei and photojournalist Lynsey Addario.Founded in 1923, Time published its first &ldquo;most influential&rdquo; list in 1999. &ldquo;There is no single metric that defines influence,&rdquo; writes editor in chief Sam Jacobs. &ldquo;Our selections are led by the stori]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/time-magazines-100-most-influential-list-includes-artist-cao-fei-and-photojournalist-lynseyaddario/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/time-magazines-100-most-influential-list-includes-artist-cao-fei-and-photojournalist-lynseyaddario/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Parisian Man Just Won a $1 Million Picasso Painting with a $117 Raffle Ticket]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 58-year-old Paris-based engineer named Ari Hodara bought a raffle ticket on a whim, and ended up winning a gouache-on-paper painting by Picasso a few days later. The 1941 painting, Head of a Woman, is a portrait of the French artist&rsquo;s lover and muse Dora Maar, an artist in her own right who was frequently painted by Picasso.Before Hodara, the portrait was owned by Opera Gallery, an international operation with branches in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the U.S. The gallery sold 120,0]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-parisian-man-just-won-a-1-million-picasso-painting-with-a-117-raffleticket/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-parisian-man-just-won-a-1-million-picasso-painting-with-a-117-raffleticket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erewhon, Grocery Store Known for $20-Plus Smoothies, to Set Up Shop in LACMA’s New Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Erewhon, the iconic LA grocery store known for its $20-plus smoothies, will soon open at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as part of a new partnership.LACMA is currently preparing to open its new, Peter Zumthor&ndash;design building, officially called the David Geffen Galleries, this spring, with members getting access beginning April 19 and the public opening coming on May 4. Erewhon will similarly have its opening timed to the new building, with members getting early access ahead of the ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/erewhon-grocery-store-known-for-20-plus-smoothies-to-set-up-shop-in-lacmas-newbuilding/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/erewhon-grocery-store-known-for-20-plus-smoothies-to-set-up-shop-in-lacmas-newbuilding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaire Art Collector Ken Griffin Warns of Global Recession if Strait of Hormuz Remains Closed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kenneth C. Griffin, the billionaire hedge fund founder and one of the world&rsquo;s most prominent art collectors, warned Tuesday that the global economy faces a recession if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed through the end of this year.&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s assume it&rsquo;s shut down for the next six to 12 months,&rdquo; Griffin said at the Semafor World Economy summit in Washington, D.C. &ldquo;The world&rsquo;s going to end up in a recession. There&rsquo;s no way to avoid that.&rdquo;Griffin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-art-collector-ken-griffin-warns-of-global-recession-if-strait-of-hormuz-remainsclosed/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-art-collector-ken-griffin-warns-of-global-recession-if-strait-of-hormuz-remainsclosed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lincoln Center Kicks Off Accessibility Project With Vibrant New Mural]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts unveiled a mural adorning construction fencing along Amsterdam Avenue, marking the western edge of LCPA&rsquo;s Upper West Side campus. The mural was designed by Vanesa &Aacute;lvarez, a Spanish artist based in Brooklyn. Derval Fairweather, a local artist who grew up in public housing on Amsterdam adjacent to Lincoln Center, assisted &Aacute;lvarez on the mural, titled The Future We Create.LCPA collaborated with ArtBridge on the project.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lincoln-center-kicks-off-accessibility-project-with-vibrant-newmural/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lincoln-center-kicks-off-accessibility-project-with-vibrant-newmural/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Schiaparelli Show Offers a Properly Surrealist Mash-Up of Art and Fashion]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;See you tomorrow night,&rdquo; Salvador Dal&iacute; wrote on the bottom of a sketch of a dress made to look like a skeleton before sending it over to his friend Elsa Schiaparelli. Framed on a wall at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum next to the famous skeleton dress itself, made in 1938, the offhand note offers striking insight into the fashion designer&rsquo;s place at the center of a dynamic, radical web of artists and designers in Paris in the 1930s. &ldquo;Schiaparelli: Fashion Become]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-schiaparelli-show-offers-a-properly-surrealist-mash-up-of-art-andfashion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-schiaparelli-show-offers-a-properly-surrealist-mash-up-of-art-andfashion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Censors Catalogue After Pressure from China, Former High Museum COO Pleads Not Guilty to Theft Charge: Morning Links for April 15,&nbsp;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.The Headlines<br />
CHINA&rsquo;S RED PEN. The Victoria and Albert Museum censored maps and images in its catalogues following objections from its Chinese printer and state authorities over content deemed sensitive to Beijing, the Guardian reports. The museum agreed to remove material from at least two recent exhibition publications, including an image of Vladimir]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-censors-catalogue-after-pressure-from-china-former-high-museum-coo-pleads-not-guilty-to-theft-charge-morning-links-for-april-15nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-censors-catalogue-after-pressure-from-china-former-high-museum-coo-pleads-not-guilty-to-theft-charge-morning-links-for-april-15nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Sued Over $10.2 M. Fee as Cash Squeeze Comes Into Focus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s has been sued for allegedly failing to pay a $10.2 million commission tied to the $510 million sale of its former New York headquarters, according to a report by&nbsp;Artnet News.&nbsp;The lawsuit, filed April 9 in New York State Supreme Court by the real estate firm Cushman &amp; Wakefield, centers on the auction house&rsquo;s 2025 sale of its longtime home at 1334 York Avenue to Weill Cornell Medicine. The brokerage firm claims it helped secure the medical school as a tenant in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-sued-over-102-m-fee-as-cash-squeeze-comes-intofocus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-sued-over-102-m-fee-as-cash-squeeze-comes-intofocus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former High Museum COO Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Theft Charges]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta&rsquo;s High Museum of Art, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to a federal theft charge stemming from allegations that he misappropriated museum funds.In February, news broke that Lum, 59, had resigned from his position in December after an internal investigation at the museum concluded that Lum was responsible for misappropirating $600,000 over several years. The institution referred the matter to federal prosecutors.	On Tuesday, during L]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-high-museum-coo-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-theftcharges/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-high-museum-coo-pleads-not-guilty-to-federal-theftcharges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gets Guggenheim fellowships? A century’s worth of data shows the rise of creative artists, and the decline of humanists and natural scientists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who gets Guggenheim fellowships? A century&rsquo;s worth of data shows the rise of creative artists, and the decline of humanists and natural scientists]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-gets-guggenheim-fellowships-a-centurys-worth-of-data-shows-the-rise-of-creative-artists-and-the-decline-of-humanists-and-natural-scientists/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:43:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-gets-guggenheim-fellowships-a-centurys-worth-of-data-shows-the-rise-of-creative-artists-and-the-decline-of-humanists-and-natural-scientists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nietzsche the mystic. There is something odd about a profoundly atheistic thinker holding quasi-religious convictions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nietzsche the mystic.&nbsp;There is something odd about a profoundly atheistic thinker holding quasi-religious convictions]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nietzsche-the-mysticthere-is-something-odd-about-a-profoundly-atheistic-thinker-holding-quasi-religious-convictions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:43:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nietzsche-the-mysticthere-is-something-odd-about-a-profoundly-atheistic-thinker-holding-quasi-religious-convictions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Greek cities joined the Delian League to resist Persian aggression. They soon found themselves under the thumb of Athens ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ancient Greek cities joined the Delian League to resist Persian aggression. They soon found themselves under the thumb of Athens&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-greek-cities-joined-the-delian-league-to-resist-persian-aggression-they-soon-found-themselves-under-the-thumb-of-athens/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:43:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-greek-cities-joined-the-delian-league-to-resist-persian-aggression-they-soon-found-themselves-under-the-thumb-of-athens/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joyce Awards to Relaunch After Yearlong Pause with $100,000 Unrestricted Grants for Great Lakes Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Chicago-based Joyce Foundation will relaunch its Joyce Awards, which have supported artists working in the Great Lakes region since 2004. The foundation will do so under a new funding model, having taken a year-long pause following its 2024 awards cycle.The awards will pivot from a project-based grant of $100,000 to an unrestricted grant of $100,000 that will go directly to each of the four selected artists. Accompanying the $100,000 unrestricted grant is a $40,000 grant that will go to a Gr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joyce-awards-to-relaunch-after-yearlong-pause-with-100000-unrestricted-grants-for-great-lakesartists/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joyce-awards-to-relaunch-after-yearlong-pause-with-100000-unrestricted-grants-for-great-lakesartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Native Americans Played Dice Games Far Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Native Americans were using dice for gaming long before Bronze Age societies in the Old World, according to a new Colorado State University study. Research published in the journal American Antiquity by Robert J. Madden, a PhD student at CSU, presents evidence that dice were made by hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 years ago.Dice games are considered humanity&rsquo;s earliest structured engagement with the idea of randomness, the intellectual precursor to probabilist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/native-americans-played-dice-games-far-earlier-than-previously-known-studyshows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/native-americans-played-dice-games-far-earlier-than-previously-known-studyshows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brian Eno, FKA Twigs, Jim Jarmusch Among Sound Artists Commissioned for Vatican Pavilion at Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pavilion of the Holy See at this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale will focusing on listening by way of commissioned sound works by artists and musicians including Brian Eno, FKA Twigs, Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith, Devont&eacute; Hynes, Laraaji, Kali Malone, Caterina Barbieri, and Terry Riley. The work in the pavilion will take the form of a &ldquo;sonic prayer&rdquo; and is inspired by the 12th-century abbess and musical composer Saint Hildegard of Bingen.Under the title &ldquo;The Ear Is the Eye]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brian-eno-fka-twigs-jim-jarmusch-among-sound-artists-commissioned-for-vatican-pavilion-at-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brian-eno-fka-twigs-jim-jarmusch-among-sound-artists-commissioned-for-vatican-pavilion-at-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Five Years of Community Building, Social Practice CUNY Initiative to End in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever,&rdquo; artist and Chlo&euml; Bass told ARTnews in a recent interview about Social Practice CUNY, the initiative she has co-directed for the past five years. &ldquo;Somewhere in between those two things comes the decision to sunset.&rdquo;Social Practice CUNY will sunset in February 2027, with its 2025&ndash;26]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-five-years-of-community-building-social-practice-cuny-initiative-to-end-in2027/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-five-years-of-community-building-social-practice-cuny-initiative-to-end-in2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hampshire College, Whose Alumni List Includes Many Well-Known Artists, to Close After 51 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hampshire College, a liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, will close after 51 years in operation, becoming the latest school of its kind to shutter amid financial difficulties.Though small in scale, the college has had an outsize effect on the art world, with its art department graduating a number of painters, sculptors, and photographers who went on to achieve fame in the years after their undergraduate education there.The alumni list includes Christina Quarles, a painter who is now]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hampshire-college-whose-alumni-list-includes-many-well-known-artists-to-close-after-51years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hampshire-college-whose-alumni-list-includes-many-well-known-artists-to-close-after-51years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists Criticize Somalia’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion: ‘This Pavilion Does Not Speak for Us’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Each Venice Biennale brings with it the debut pavilions of nations who&rsquo;ve never before shown at the world&rsquo;s biggest art exhibition, and these are typically causes for celebration. But in the run-up to the show&rsquo;s opening in May, the inaugural Somali Pavilion has instead become a source of controversy, with artists from the country saying the organizers &ldquo;neither meaningfully consulted nor included&rdquo; representatives of the Somali art scene.In an extended statement poste]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-criticize-somalias-first-ever-venice-biennale-pavilion-this-pavilion-does-not-speak-forus/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-criticize-somalias-first-ever-venice-biennale-pavilion-this-pavilion-does-not-speak-forus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2026 Guggenheim Fellowships Go to Sonya Clark, John Miller, and American Artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[The John Simon&nbsp;Guggenheim&nbsp;Memorial Foundation has announced this week the 223 scholars and artists who received a 2026&nbsp;Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most coveted honors in the arts.This is the foundation&rsquo;s 101st class of fellows. The class spans 55 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, with fellows chosen from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants. Fellows are divided into creative arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. The creative arts portion has 30]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2026-guggenheim-fellowships-go-to-sonya-clark-john-miller-and-americanartist/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2026-guggenheim-fellowships-go-to-sonya-clark-john-miller-and-americanartist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bennett Prize Just Raised Its Award to $75,000. These Artists Think You Should Apply.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The art world isn&rsquo;t having an easy moment. Galleries are closing, federal arts funding has dried up, and collectors have pulled back from big-ticket purchases. Against that backdrop, The Bennett Prize &mdash; a biennial award for women painters working in figurative realism &mdash; just raised its grand prize from $50,000 to $75,000.Related ArticlesAfter Deliberation by First All-Women Jury, Winner of Bennett Prize Announced	Ayana Ross, Winner of the Second Bennett Prize, On Showing Her Wo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-bennett-prize-just-raised-its-award-to-75000-these-artists-think-you-shouldapply/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-bennett-prize-just-raised-its-award-to-75000-these-artists-think-you-shouldapply/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Truths: Can an Artist Exact Revenge on a Dealer Treating Her Like a Pariah?]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen &amp; Lampert deliver&nbsp;hard truths&nbsp;in response to questions sent by&nbsp;Art in America&nbsp;readers from far and wide.I fired my gallery of 25 years after they refused to release me from a contract that forbade me from selling my work anywhere else in the United States for two years. I was their top-selling artist for a while and tried negotiating, even offering a cut of sales, but they sti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-truths-can-an-artist-exact-revenge-on-a-dealer-treating-her-like-apariah/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-truths-can-an-artist-exact-revenge-on-a-dealer-treating-her-like-apariah/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Politicians Vote in Favor of Bill on Artifacts Looted During Colonial Era: ‘A True Historic Monument’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last night, France&rsquo;s lower house of parliament&nbsp;unanimously voted&nbsp;in favor of a long-anticipated bill to facilitate the restitution of artworks looted during the colonial era, making good on a nearly 10-year-old&nbsp;pledge&nbsp;by French President&nbsp;Emmanuel Macron to return African heritage to the continent. The vote, which came following a lively debate that went late into the night, comes after the Senate&rsquo;s adoption of the bill in January, and sets it on a smooth path]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-politicians-vote-in-favor-of-bill-on-artifacts-looted-during-colonial-era-a-true-historicmonument/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-politicians-vote-in-favor-of-bill-on-artifacts-looted-during-colonial-era-a-true-historicmonument/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IFPDA Print Fair Draws Record Crowds as Expansion Into Drawings Gets a First Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[The&nbsp;2026 edition of the annual IFPDA Print Fair&nbsp;closed Sunday with record attendance and strong sales, offering an early look at what happens when a fair built on prints starts to stretch beyond them.Held at the&nbsp;Park Avenue Armory, this year&rsquo;s edition drew more than 21,000 visitors over four days, including roughly 5,000 on opening night, according to organizers, with ticket sales up&nbsp;20 percent from last year.&nbsp;The bigger story, though, wasn&rsquo;t the crowds&mdash]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ifpda-print-fair-draws-record-crowds-as-expansion-into-drawings-gets-a-firsttest/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ifpda-print-fair-draws-record-crowds-as-expansion-into-drawings-gets-a-firsttest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dubai’s Alserkal Art Week Expands to Month-Long Program as Gulf’s Art Calendar Adjusts to Regional Strain]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alserkal Avenue will stretch its usual Art Week into a five-week &ldquo;Art Month&rdquo; from April 18 to May 18, adding grants, temporary warehouse space for collectives, and a commercially focused group show organized with 12 galleries from around the United Arab Emirates. The extension is an effort to keep exhibitions and sales moving at a moment when pressure is building across the market and the global stage.&nbsp;The initiative broadens what was once a tightly packed week of openings into]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dubais-alserkal-art-week-expands-to-month-long-program-as-gulfs-art-calendar-adjusts-to-regionalstrain/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dubais-alserkal-art-week-expands-to-month-long-program-as-gulfs-art-calendar-adjusts-to-regionalstrain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France’s Lower House Unanimously Backs Colonial-Era Art Restitution Bill, Trial Begins in Stolen Golden Helmet Case: Morning Links for April 14, 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.The HeadlinesHISTORIC VOTE. France&rsquo;s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, unanimously voted&nbsp;late last night in favor of a long-anticipated bill to facilitate the restitution of artworks looted during the colonial era, making good on a nearly decade-old pledge by president Emmanuel Macron. ARTnews attended the lively late-night debate,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frances-lower-house-unanimously-backs-colonial-era-art-restitution-bill-trial-begins-in-stolen-golden-helmet-case-morning-links-for-april-142026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frances-lower-house-unanimously-backs-colonial-era-art-restitution-bill-trial-begins-in-stolen-golden-helmet-case-morning-links-for-april-142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“In my day, artists kept it real” is a sentiment that will never get old — as long as aging critics keep employing it]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;In my day, artists kept it real&rdquo; is a sentiment that will never get old &mdash; as long as aging critics keep employing it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-my-day-artists-kept-it-real-is-a-sentiment-that-will-never-get-old-as-long-as-aging-critics-keep-employing-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:33:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-my-day-artists-kept-it-real-is-a-sentiment-that-will-never-get-old-as-long-as-aging-critics-keep-employing-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“The American novel offers the dream of escape: away from civilization and into the forest, away from marriage and onto the sea, away from history and back to boyhood”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The American novel offers the dream of escape: away from civilization and into the forest, away from marriage and onto the sea, away from history and back to boyhood&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-american-novel-offers-the-dream-of-escape-away-from-civilization-and-into-the-forest-away-from-marriage-and-onto-the-sea-away-from-history-and-back-to-boyhood/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:03:24 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-american-novel-offers-the-dream-of-escape-away-from-civilization-and-into-the-forest-away-from-marriage-and-onto-the-sea-away-from-history-and-back-to-boyhood/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“In my day, artists kept it real” is a sentiment that will never get old — as long as ageing critics keep employing it]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;In my day, artists kept it real&rdquo; is a sentiment that will never get old &mdash; as long as ageing critics keep employing it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-my-day-artists-kept-it-real-is-a-sentiment-that-will-never-get-old-as-long-as-ageing-critics-keep-employing-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:03:24 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-my-day-artists-kept-it-real-is-a-sentiment-that-will-never-get-old-as-long-as-ageing-critics-keep-employing-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would save the planet, forget The Planet. Think only of the sensual properties of one dear place]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you would save the planet, forget The Planet. Think only of the sensual properties of one dear place]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/if-you-would-save-the-planet-forget-the-planet-think-only-of-the-sensual-properties-of-one-dear-place/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:03:24 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/if-you-would-save-the-planet-forget-the-planet-think-only-of-the-sensual-properties-of-one-dear-place/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prehistoric Stone Altar with Human Remains Discovered in Central Mexico]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers working on an archaeological salvage project related to construction of a passenger train between Quer&eacute;taro and Mexico City discovered a 1,000-year-old stone altar. The discovery was first reported in March, and was uncovered within the Tula Archaeological Monument Zone, a Toltec site in the central state of Hidalgo, according to Mexico&rsquo;s INAH (the National Institute of Anthropology and History).When the three-level altar was excavated from the test pit, the project arch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prehistoric-stone-altar-with-human-remains-discovered-in-centralmexico/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prehistoric-stone-altar-with-human-remains-discovered-in-centralmexico/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did This Photographer’s Provocative Work Inspire a Key Plot Point in The Drama?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article includes spoilers for The Drama, which is now playing theatrically.By now, you&rsquo;ve probably heard that The Drama, a new film by Kristoffer Borgli that stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a soon-to-be-married couple, has what many are calling a &ldquo;twist.&rdquo; In actuality, it&rsquo;s more of a reveal, and it happens about a half hour in: Emma (Zendaya) reveals to Charlie (Pattinson) and her friends that she planned to shoot up her school as a kid but failed to execute on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/did-this-photographers-provocative-work-inspire-a-key-plot-point-in-thedrama/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/did-this-photographers-provocative-work-inspire-a-key-plot-point-in-thedrama/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation Is Building its First Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Barjeel Art Foundation, the organization that facilitates the celebrated trove of modern and Arab art assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum in Sharjah, due to open in January 2028.Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi announced the news on Instagram yesterday alongside a photograph from a recent visit to the 38,750-square-foot site on Sheik Mohammed Bin Zayed Road earmarked for the museum, noting that Abdelmoneam Essa of Architecture Corner Consultants has b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharjahs-barjeel-art-foundation-is-building-its-firstmuseum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharjahs-barjeel-art-foundation-is-building-its-firstmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andrew Lloyd Webber Is Writing a Musical About the Heist that Made ‘Mona Lisa’ Famous]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer behind such durable hits as Cats (1981),&nbsp;Phantom of the Opera, and&nbsp;Evita,&nbsp;has teased a new musical about the early 20th century theft of Leonardo da Vinci&rsquo;s painting, the Mona Lisa. The news was first reported by the British publication The Stage.Lloyd Webber had already announced he was currently working on a musical based on the 2006 film The Illusionist. Speaking to entertainment journalist Frank DiLella after the April 7 opening of Lloyd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/andrew-lloyd-webber-is-writing-a-musical-about-the-heist-that-made-mona-lisafamous/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/andrew-lloyd-webber-is-writing-a-musical-about-the-heist-that-made-mona-lisafamous/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walker Art Center Restaurant Cuts Front-of-House Staff as QR Codes Take Over]]></title><description><![CDATA[The restaurant inside the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is eliminating its front-of-house staff and replacing traditional service with QR-code ordering.Cardamom, the museum&rsquo;s in-house restaurant operated by DDP Restaurant Group, will shift to a counter-service model this week, with customers ordering via their phones rather than through servers. Sixteen hosts and servers are being laid off as part of the transition, though kitchen staff and bartenders will remain, according to reporting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/walker-art-center-restaurant-cuts-front-of-house-staff-as-qr-codes-takeover/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/walker-art-center-restaurant-cuts-front-of-house-staff-as-qr-codes-takeover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Wants to Paint the Eisenhower Building White—Experts Say His ‘Magic’ Paint Won’t Work on Granite]]></title><description><![CDATA[Late last week, the Trump administration published plans proposing to make exterior improvements to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a building adjacent to the White House.In a 15-page proposal, the administration calls for painting the French Second Empire&ndash;style building&rsquo;s facade white, with renderings of the repainted building from various angles. CNN reported on Saturday, however, that Trump has privately called for using a &ldquo;magic paint with silicate&rdquo; on the b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-wants-to-paint-the-eisenhower-building-whiteexperts-say-his-magic-paint-wont-work-ongranite/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-wants-to-paint-the-eisenhower-building-whiteexperts-say-his-magic-paint-wont-work-ongranite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Wants to Paint the Eisenhower Building White, But Experts Say His ‘Magic’ Paint Won’t Work on Granite]]></title><description><![CDATA[Late last week, the Trump administration published plans proposing to make exterior improvements to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a building adjacent to the White House.In a 15-page proposal, the administration calls for painting the French Second Empire&ndash;style building&rsquo;s facade white, with renderings of the repainted building from various angles. CNN reported on Saturday, however, that Trump has privately called for using a &ldquo;magic paint with silicate&rdquo; on the b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-wants-to-paint-the-eisenhower-building-white-but-experts-say-his-magic-paint-wont-work-ongranite/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-wants-to-paint-the-eisenhower-building-white-but-experts-say-his-magic-paint-wont-work-ongranite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[European Commission Tells Venice Biennale to ‘Clear Its Name’ Regarding Russian Pavilion or Risk Losing $2.3 M. Grant for 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission, an independent arm of the EU responsible for enforcing EU law, has given the Venice Biennale 30 days to &ldquo;clear its name&rdquo; regarding the inclusion of the Russian Pavilion in the 2026 edition, according to a report by La Repubblica, which reviewed the letter.The letter, invoking the charge that the Biennale had violated EU sanctions against Russia, asks the exhibition to &ldquo;respond to these allegations&rdquo; and &ldquo;inform us of any corrective measures y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/european-commission-tells-venice-biennale-to-clear-its-name-regarding-russian-pavilion-or-risk-losing-23-m-grant-for2028/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/european-commission-tells-venice-biennale-to-clear-its-name-regarding-russian-pavilion-or-risk-losing-23-m-grant-for2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[European Commission Tells Venice Biennale to ‘Clear Its Name’ Regarding Russian Pavilion or Risk Losing €2 M. Grant for 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Commission, an independent arm of the EU responsible for enforcing EU law, has given the Venice Biennale 30 days to &ldquo;clear its name&rdquo; regarding the inclusion of the Russian Pavilion in the 2026 edition, according to a report by La Repubblica, which reviewed the letter.The letter, invoking the charge that the Biennale had violated EU sanctions against Russia, asks the exhibition to &ldquo;respond to these allegations&rdquo; and &ldquo;inform us of any corrective measures y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/european-commission-tells-venice-biennale-to-clear-its-name-regarding-russian-pavilion-or-risk-losing-2-m-grant-for2028/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/european-commission-tells-venice-biennale-to-clear-its-name-regarding-russian-pavilion-or-risk-losing-2-m-grant-for2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Tries Again to Sell $40 M. Picasso Painting That Didn’t Make It to Auction in 2008]]></title><description><![CDATA[A $40 million Pablo Picasso painting from the artist&rsquo;s Cubist period will hit the block at Sotheby&rsquo;s this May during the marquee New York auctions.Part of a cache of works from the collection of late Surrealist artist Enrico Donati and his wife Adele, who died last year, Arlequin (Buste), from 1909, is likely to be one of the most expensive works by Picasso sold during the marquee sales this season. It features a harlequin that appears to emerge from a cascade of three-dimensional ge]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-tries-again-to-sell-40-m-picasso-painting-that-didnt-make-it-to-auction-in2008/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-tries-again-to-sell-40-m-picasso-painting-that-didnt-make-it-to-auction-in2008/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s Newest Triennial Lines Up 39 Artists for Star-Studded First Edition Along the Erie Canal]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Medina Triennial, a new recurring art exhibition set to launch in the titular Western New York village this summer, has revealed the artist list for its inaugural edition, due to open on June 6 in close proximity to the Erie Canal. The 39 participants include a range of artists well-known on the biennial circuit.	Lina Lapelyt&#279;, one of the artist&rsquo;s behind the Golden Lion&ndash;winning Lithuanian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, is taking part, staging Faithfully Recording, thr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-newest-triennial-lines-up-39-artists-for-star-studded-first-edition-along-the-eriecanal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-newest-triennial-lines-up-39-artists-for-star-studded-first-edition-along-the-eriecanal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gagosian to Open New Upper East Side Gallery with a Duchamp Show, a Rarity in a Commercial Setting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having been kicked out of its longtime home on Manhattan&rsquo;s Upper East Side, Gagosian is starting over in the neighborhood with a new space on the ground floor of 980 Madison Avenue, the same building where it formerly had a multilevel gallery.Because Gagosian is such a force within the art industry, the inauguration of the new Upper East Side gallery will be closely watched by market observers. But the show being staged there, opening on April 25, is also an event for more art historically]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-to-open-new-upper-east-side-gallery-with-a-duchamp-show-a-rarity-in-a-commercialsetting/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-to-open-new-upper-east-side-gallery-with-a-duchamp-show-a-rarity-in-a-commercialsetting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Painter Who Used Her Art to Fight for Justice, Dies at 46]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, a painter whose work dealt with racism and upheaval in an America riven by inequalities, died at her home in Los Angeles on Friday. She was 46. Jeffrey Deitch gallery, which will open a Dupuy-Spencer show in LA next week, announced her death on Saturday morning, but did not state a cause.Dupuy-Spencer moved freely between unflinching images of protests and tender pictures of intimacy. She was just as likely to paint a fallen Confederate monument as she was to capture sexua]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/celeste-dupuy-spencer-painter-who-used-her-art-to-fight-for-justice-dies-at46/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/celeste-dupuy-spencer-painter-who-used-her-art-to-fight-for-justice-dies-at46/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In early-19th-century Britain, body snatchers were such a problem that lead-lined coffins, metal cages, and other hardware were used to protect the dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[In early-19th-century Britain, body snatchers were such a problem that lead-lined coffins, metal cages, and other hardware were used to protect the dead]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-early-19th-century-britain-body-snatchers-were-such-a-problem-that-lead-lined-coffins-metal-cages-and-other-hardware-were-used-to-protect-the-dead/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:41:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-early-19th-century-britain-body-snatchers-were-such-a-problem-that-lead-lined-coffins-metal-cages-and-other-hardware-were-used-to-protect-the-dead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Expo Chicago, From a 16th-Century Belgian Manuscript to a Painting of a Mariachi Band]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 13th edition of Expo Chicago is currently buzzing as huge squads of museum directors, curators, and collectors have descended on the Windy City this week for the fair. This edition is smaller than years past, with a pared-down group of 130 exhibitors&mdash;coming from cities as far-flung as New York, Tokyo, Memphis, London, Buenos Aires, and Lagos&mdash;spread across the Navy Pier. &nbsp;&ldquo;The scaling down in size allowed for a raising of the bar in terms of the overall quality of prese]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-expo-chicago-from-a-16th-century-belgian-manuscript-to-a-painting-of-a-mariachiband/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-expo-chicago-from-a-16th-century-belgian-manuscript-to-a-painting-of-a-mariachiband/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most historians would rather go out naked in public than prune their copious footnotes." Not Albert O. Hirschman&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA["Most historians would rather go out naked in public than prune their copious footnotes." Not Albert O. Hirschman&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/most-historians-would-rather-go-out-naked-in-public-than-prune-their-copious-footnotes-not-albert-o-hirschmannbsp/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:48:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/most-historians-would-rather-go-out-naked-in-public-than-prune-their-copious-footnotes-not-albert-o-hirschmannbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making it in a non-existent profession. The economics of the writing life are grim, mercurial, and infrequently discussed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making it in a non-existent profession. The economics of the writing life are grim, mercurial, and infrequently discussed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/making-it-in-a-non-existent-profession-the-economics-of-the-writing-life-are-grim-mercurial-and-infrequently-discussed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:48:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/making-it-in-a-non-existent-profession-the-economics-of-the-writing-life-are-grim-mercurial-and-infrequently-discussed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamaica Kincaid: “I find England ugly…I hate England; the weather is like a jail sentence…the food in England is like a jail sentence”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jamaica Kincaid: &ldquo;I find England ugly&hellip;I hate England; the weather is like a jail sentence&hellip;the food in England is like a jail sentence&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jamaica-kincaid-i-find-england-uglyi-hate-england-the-weather-is-like-a-jail-sentencethe-food-in-england-is-like-a-jail-sentence/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:48:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jamaica-kincaid-i-find-england-uglyi-hate-england-the-weather-is-like-a-jail-sentencethe-food-in-england-is-like-a-jail-sentence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institute of Museum and Library Services Saved from Defunding After Legal Challenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American Library Association, together with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees&ndash;the nation&rsquo;s largest union of cultural workers&ndash; has reached a favorable settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, thwarting the Trump administration&rsquo;s plan to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).According to an April 9 press release from the American Library Association (ALA), the settlement ensures the agency will continue award]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-saved-from-defunding-after-legalchallenge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/institute-of-museum-and-library-services-saved-from-defunding-after-legalchallenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Geffen Settles Divorce With David Armstrong After Bitter Legal Fight]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARTnews&nbsp;Top 200 Collector&nbsp;David Geffen&rsquo;s short-lived marriage has come to an unceremonious end, with the billionaire entertainment mogul reaching a private settlement with his estranged husband, David Armstrong, capping months of unusually public legal sparring.According to court filings reported on by&nbsp;TMZ&nbsp;this week, Geffen, 83, and Armstrong, 33, have agreed to resolve their divorce, though the financial terms remain undisclosed. The split follows less than two years o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-geffen-settles-divorce-with-david-armstrong-after-bitter-legalfight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-geffen-settles-divorce-with-david-armstrong-after-bitter-legalfight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Made Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades So Revolutionary?]]></title><description><![CDATA[When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it&rsquo;s been painted? A block of marble once it&rsquo;s been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887&ndash;1968), the answer was much more direct and far more radical: Anything&mdash;indeed, everything&mdash;could be art if an artist deemed it so. &ldquo;An ordinary object,&rdquo; he said, can be &ldquo;elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist.&rdquo; This notion, which found expression in his iconic Readymades,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-made-marcel-duchamps-readymades-sorevolutionary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-made-marcel-duchamps-readymades-sorevolutionary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tensions Rise Over Proposed New Zealand Statue Commemorating ‘Comfort Women’ Japan Forced into Sexual Slavery, Have a Bartering Breakfast with Maurizio Cattelan: Morning Links for April 10, 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.The HeadlinesCOLD COMFORT. A proposed bronze statue depicting a seated girl, intended as a symbol of wartime sexual violence, has sparked tensions between Japan and New Zealand, the&nbsp;Guardian reports. The sculpture, donated to the Korean cultural garden at Barry&rsquo;s Point Reserve in Auckland by the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance, commemora]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tensions-rise-over-proposed-new-zealand-statue-commemorating-comfort-women-japan-forced-into-sexual-slavery-have-a-bartering-breakfast-with-maurizio-cattelan-morning-links-for-april-102026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tensions-rise-over-proposed-new-zealand-statue-commemorating-comfort-women-japan-forced-into-sexual-slavery-have-a-bartering-breakfast-with-maurizio-cattelan-morning-links-for-april-102026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre Museum Jewel Heist Inspires Latest &lsquo;Law &amp; Order&rsquo;&nbsp;Episode]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s Ash Wednesday in Brooklyn and two plainclothes detectives are getting coffee from a street cart. They continue walking down the street past a church. As they approach a museum, a commotion ensues. Someone has been shot, and the shooters are on the second floor of the museum, they are told.&ldquo;Beyond Measure,&rdquo; the 17th episode of Law &amp; Order&rsquo;s 25th season, was ripped from the many, many headlines related to the recent Louvre Museum heist, a story that dominated inter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-museum-jewel-heist-inspires-latest-lsquolaw-amp-orderrsquonbspepisode/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-museum-jewel-heist-inspires-latest-lsquolaw-amp-orderrsquonbspepisode/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome’s Colosseum Gets a New Pedestrian Plaza]]></title><description><![CDATA[A restoration of the Roman Colosseum&rsquo;s southern piazza has been completed after four years of construction, according to Artnet News. The project, led by Stefano Boeri Interiors, has recreated the travertine-paved pedestrian plaza outside the amphitheater&rsquo;s southern fa&ccedil;ade, where spectators once waited to enter the arena.Built between 70 and 80 CE, the Roman Colosseum remains one of the engineering marvels of the world. At four stories high and with 80 arched entrances, the am]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/romes-colosseum-gets-a-new-pedestrianplaza/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/romes-colosseum-gets-a-new-pedestrianplaza/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Presidential Center Announces Final Cohort of Commissions Ahead of June Opening, Including María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Lorna Simpson]]></title><description><![CDATA[The forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has announced the final round of artist commissions that will decorate its campus in the Windy City&rsquo;s South Side when it opens in June.The latest set of commissions will be realized by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Jeffrey Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Hugo McCloud, Martin Puryear, Lorna Simpson, and Norman Teague.Several of the works will be directly about Barack and Michelle Obama. Crosby will make a portrait of the f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obama-presidential-center-announces-final-cohort-of-commissions-ahead-of-june-opening-including-mara-magdalena-campos-pons-jeffrey-gibson-lornasimpson/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obama-presidential-center-announces-final-cohort-of-commissions-ahead-of-june-opening-including-mara-magdalena-campos-pons-jeffrey-gibson-lornasimpson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Unveils Latest Plans for Proposed 250-Foot Tall Triumphal Arch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration released on Friday its design for a 250-foot triumphal arch that would face the Lincoln Memorial, part of a portfolio of projects intended to monumentalize the president&rsquo;s time in Washington, D.C.According to The New York Times, which first reported the news, the plan was submitted to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The federal design panel, composed of members appointed during the Trump administration, will deliberate on the proposal when convened next week.The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-unveils-latest-plans-for-proposed-250-foot-tall-triumphalarch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-unveils-latest-plans-for-proposed-250-foot-tall-triumphalarch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Long Legal Saga Between Artist Ryder Ripps and the Bored Ape Yacht Club Is Finally Over]]></title><description><![CDATA[A long-running legal saga between Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club, and artist Ryder Ripps and his business partner Jeremy Cahen, has finally ended, with the parties reaching a settlement on Tuesday. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, the parties disclosed that they agreed to a permanent injunction against Ripps and Cahen using any trademarks or images owned by Yuga Labs.The lawsuit stemmed from Ripps&rsquo;s quest, at the height of the NFT craze in 2022, to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-long-legal-saga-between-artist-ryder-ripps-and-the-bored-ape-yacht-club-is-finallyover/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-long-legal-saga-between-artist-ryder-ripps-and-the-bored-ape-yacht-club-is-finallyover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukraine Sanctions Russian Culture Figures Linked to Country’s Participation in Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on Friday that has imposed sanctions on five Russian cultural figures who are involved with organizing the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The news was first reported by UA News.They include Anastasia Karneeva, who is the commissioner of this year&rsquo;s Russian Pavilion, and Mikhail Shvydkoy, Russia&rsquo;s delegate for international cultural exchanges and a former culture minister.In a release about the decree, the Ukrainia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ukraine-sanctions-russian-culture-figures-linked-to-countrys-participation-in-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ukraine-sanctions-russian-culture-figures-linked-to-countrys-participation-in-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beeple’s Elon Musk–Robot Dog Is Roaming the Streets of San Francisco in Viral Stunt]]></title><description><![CDATA[You couldn&rsquo;t possibly have thought that you&rsquo;d seen the last of Beeple&rsquo;s grotesque robot dogs? Last appearing in Art Basel Miami Beach&rsquo;s new Zero10 digital art section in December, Regular Animals is now on the loose in San Francisco.So, if you&rsquo;ll permit me, who let the dogs out?The answer to that age-old question is none other than Palo Alto&rsquo;s Node Foundation, a digital arts nonprofit and exhibition space that will open a mid-career survey for Beeple, a.k.a. M]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beeples-elon-muskrobot-dog-is-roaming-the-streets-of-san-francisco-in-viralstunt/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beeples-elon-muskrobot-dog-is-roaming-the-streets-of-san-francisco-in-viralstunt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Shows to See in New York This Month Are at Nonprofit Spaces]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bell tolls frequently these days for New York galleries of all sizes, suggesting that something in our art ecosystem is seriously broken. (Josh Kline has a diagnosis for that, as you may have heard.) Amid yet another wave of gallery closures, there is much to mourn. But there is also a ray of hope in the form of nonprofits that have sprung up across New York in the past few years, organizing shows that commercial galleries will not&mdash;and perhaps cannot&mdash;stage.Perhaps more so than ot]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-shows-to-see-in-new-york-this-month-are-at-nonprofitspaces/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-shows-to-see-in-new-york-this-month-are-at-nonprofitspaces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check Out Some of the Incredible NASA Photographs from Artemis II’s Historic Mission to the Moon]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 6, the four astronauts aboard the Integrity spacecraft as part of the Artemis II mission documented their breathtaking view as they circled the far side of the moon and began their return to Earth.NASA shared a gallery of spectacular images of the first flyby, revealing areas of the moon that no human has laid eyes on before, as well as a surprise solar eclipse.The four astronauts&mdash;commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/check-out-some-of-the-incredible-nasa-photographs-from-artemis-iis-historic-mission-to-themoon/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/check-out-some-of-the-incredible-nasa-photographs-from-artemis-iis-historic-mission-to-themoon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maurizio Cattelan to Open Milan Design Week with Dawn ‘Breakfast-Barter’ in Piazza Duomo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maurizio Cattelan will inaugurate Milan Design Week at 7 a.m. on April 20 with what can only be described as a hopefully civilized and very caffeinated experiment in amateur economics: a public &ldquo;breakfast-barter&rdquo; in Piazza Duomo.According to Artribune, the premise is simple. Bring an object&mdash;ideally something &ldquo;curious, iconic, affective, eccentric or unexpected&rdquo;&mdash;and attempt to trade it with a stranger before the espresso runs out. Coffee will be provided by Lav]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/maurizio-cattelan-to-open-milan-design-week-with-dawn-breakfast-barter-in-piazzaduomo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/maurizio-cattelan-to-open-milan-design-week-with-dawn-breakfast-barter-in-piazzaduomo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealers Are Doing Brisk Business at a Smaller and ‘More Intentional’ Expo Chicago ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tears of joy are not the first thing you expect to hear about at art fairs, but that was the order of the day for Tennessee artist Annie Brito Hodgin at Thursday&rsquo;s VIP preview at the thirteenth edition of Expo Chicago (April 9&ndash;12), where she is showing her paintings with Red Arrow Gallery.	&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the artist&rsquo;s first time showing outside Nashville and her first time showing at an art fair, and she&rsquo;s here with us,&rdquo; gallery director Ashley Layendecker told AR]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-are-doing-brisk-business-at-a-smaller-and-more-intentional-expochicago/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-are-doing-brisk-business-at-a-smaller-and-more-intentional-expochicago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Moses and Isamu Noguchi Battled for Decades—About Playgrounds]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1980, an Isamu Noguchi sculpture was abruptly removed from the lobby of the Bank of Tokyo in New York. Some customers had found the looming presence of the suspended 17-foot cube unsettling, and the bank&rsquo;s leadership shared their unease; one report likened the folded aluminum structure to a guillotine. Once it was removed, Noguchi quipped to a friend, &ldquo;We are out in the street where we belong.&rdquo; His tongue-in-cheek remark reflected his conviction: that sculpture belonged not]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-moses-and-isamu-noguchi-battled-for-decadesaboutplaygrounds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-moses-and-isamu-noguchi-battled-for-decadesaboutplaygrounds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone’s Talking About Duchamp. These 5 Artists Are the Ones to Listen To.]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is said that artists are the ones to decide which of their peers and predecessors go down in history. Most memorable are the works that influence others and start arguments or conversations, with others replying either in work or words. It is hard, then, to think of an artist more influential today than Marcel Duchamp, who lead the charge in breaking art out of the confines of sculpture and painting. Even artists who don&rsquo;t give him much thought directly find themselves contending with h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/everyones-talking-about-duchamp-these-5-artists-are-the-ones-to-listento/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/everyones-talking-about-duchamp-these-5-artists-are-the-ones-to-listento/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In early-19th century Britain, body snatchers were such a problem that lead coffins, metal cages, and other hardware were used to protect the dead]]></title><description><![CDATA[In early-19th century Britain, body snatchers were such a problem that lead coffins, metal cages, and other hardware were used to protect the dead]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-early-19th-century-britain-body-snatchers-were-such-a-problem-that-lead-coffins-metal-cages-and-other-hardware-were-used-to-protect-the-dead/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:35:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-early-19th-century-britain-body-snatchers-were-such-a-problem-that-lead-coffins-metal-cages-and-other-hardware-were-used-to-protect-the-dead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart palpitations, stomach lurches, sweaty palms: What it's like to spend a year inside the Stephen King archive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heart palpitations, stomach lurches, sweaty palms: What it's like to spend a year inside the Stephen King archive]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heart-palpitations-stomach-lurches-sweaty-palms-what-its-like-to-spend-a-year-inside-the-stephen-king-archive/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:35:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heart-palpitations-stomach-lurches-sweaty-palms-what-its-like-to-spend-a-year-inside-the-stephen-king-archive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are do-gooders an inferior class, consigned to drudgery? Elizabeth Anderson traces the contours of the progressive work ethic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are do-gooders an inferior class, consigned to drudgery? Elizabeth Anderson traces the contours of the progressive work ethic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-do-gooders-an-inferior-class-consigned-to-drudgery-elizabeth-anderson-traces-the-contours-of-the-progressive-work-ethic/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:35:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-do-gooders-an-inferior-class-consigned-to-drudgery-elizabeth-anderson-traces-the-contours-of-the-progressive-work-ethic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian Winemaker Ornellaia Reveals Marina Abramović’s Designs for Its 2023 Vintages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ornellaia, the maker of Super Tuscan wines near the medieval town of Bolgheri, has revealed the designs it has commissioned performance artist Marina Abramovi&#263; to make for its 2023 vintages.Part of the vintner&rsquo;s Vendemmia d&rsquo;Artista project, Abramovi&#263; has created designs for the standard 750ml bottle, as well as its larger 3L, 6L, and 9L bottles. While the 750 ml have a much larger production, Ornellaia only makes 100 bottles in the 3L size, 10 in the 6L, and one in the 9L.S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-winemaker-ornellaia-reveals-marina-abramovis-designs-for-its-2023vintages/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-winemaker-ornellaia-reveals-marina-abramovis-designs-for-its-2023vintages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a Decade of Delays, a 5th-Century Church in Glasgow Will Become a Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The future of a 5th-century church in Glasgow, known locally as &ldquo;Govan Old,&rdquo; has been in a state of flux for the past decade. In 2016, according to a report by the BBC, the Govan Heritage Trust began managing the site (Govan is the name of a district in southwest Glasgow) and announced a plan to &ldquo;develop the church into a self-sustaining community-run cultural, museum and business complex.&rdquo;Several years prior, in 2008, the Govan Old congregation joined forces with two oth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-decade-of-delays-a-5th-century-church-in-glasgow-will-become-amuseum/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-decade-of-delays-a-5th-century-church-in-glasgow-will-become-amuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LA’s Getty Center to Close for Renovations Beginning in 2027]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Getty Center, the main campus for the Getty Foundation&rsquo;s two Los Angeles museums, announced that it will close for renovations for about a year.The closure is expected to last from spring 2027 to spring 2028, meaning that the institution will reopen in time for the Olympics. The last public day of the museum will be in about 11 months from now, on March 15, 2027.In a release, the Getty termed the renovations &ldquo;modernization initiatives,&rdquo; which would be the first since the mu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-getty-center-to-close-for-renovations-beginning-in2027/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-getty-center-to-close-for-renovations-beginning-in2027/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Piece of the Eiffel Tower Is Heading to Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[There was a time when monuments were meant to be visited; now, it seems, they can be owned&mdash;at least in parts.A section of the original staircase from the&nbsp;Eiffel Tower&nbsp;will go up for auction in Paris on May 21,&nbsp;CNN&nbsp;reported,&nbsp;offering collectors the chance to take home a fragment of one of the world&rsquo;s most recognizable tourist attractions. Aspiring bidders will need more than just deep pockets&mdash;the estimate is set at $140,000-$175,000&mdash;they&rsquo;ll a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-piece-of-the-eiffel-tower-is-heading-toauction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-piece-of-the-eiffel-tower-is-heading-toauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portland Museum of Art Buys New Building For $14 M., Freeing Up Space For Exhibitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine closed on its purchase of a new building in the city&rsquo;s downtown, as well as two adjacent parking lots late last month.The building, previously owned by MaineHealth, a major regional hospital system and the largest private employer in the state, was sold for $14 million.	The plan is for the PMA to move its administrative offices to the new Free Street building, which is next door to the museum as a way to open up space for more galleries in its main]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/portland-museum-of-art-buys-new-building-for-14-m-freeing-up-space-forexhibitions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/portland-museum-of-art-buys-new-building-for-14-m-freeing-up-space-forexhibitions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece Introduces New Law to Combat Art Forgery and Vandalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greece has introduced sweeping new legislation aimed at protecting its cultural property from forgery and damage, marking the country&rsquo;s first comprehensive legal framework for crimes against art and collectibles.The bill, approved by Parliament in late January, establishes strict criminal penalties calibrated to the severity of the offense, including prison sentences ranging from six months to ten years and fines of up to &euro;300,000 in the most serious cases. It also broadens the legal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greece-introduces-new-law-to-combat-art-forgery-andvandalism/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greece-introduces-new-law-to-combat-art-forgery-andvandalism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proposed Restitution Law in France Advances in National Assembly]]></title><description><![CDATA[In what was described as &ldquo;a decisive step in the long road to the restitution of property looted in Africa during the colonial era,&rdquo; on Wednesday the French National Assembly&rsquo;s Cultural Affairs Committee approved a proposed bill that was&nbsp;unanimously passed by the Senate&rsquo;s Cultural Affairs Committee in January, setting up a plenary session debate on April 13.As reported by Le Monde, B&eacute;n&eacute;dicte Savoy, the historian who co-authored a momentous restitution r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/proposed-restitution-law-in-france-advances-in-nationalassembly/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/proposed-restitution-law-in-france-advances-in-nationalassembly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works from Marian Goodman’s Collection to Anchor Christie’s May Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just months after&nbsp;her death in January at 97, Marian Goodman is returning to the market&mdash;this time as a consignor.Christie&rsquo;s will offer works from the dealer&rsquo;s personal collection during its May marquee sales in New York, led by a group of paintings by Gerhard Richter, with one carrying an estimate as high as $50 million. The material, which once hung Goodman&rsquo;s Manhattan home, is expected to total around $65 million.&nbsp;The centerpiece is a selection of seven Richte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/works-from-marian-goodmans-collection-to-anchor-christies-maysales/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/works-from-marian-goodmans-collection-to-anchor-christies-maysales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hirshhorn Museum Director Melissa Chiu Leaves for Guggenheim, Another Smithsonian Departure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Melissa Chiu will depart her post as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., to lead the Guggenheim Museum in New York, making her the latest person to depart a Smithsonian-run museum as the Trump administration continues its crackdown.She will report to Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation director and CEO Mari&euml;t Westermann, who facilitates all the museums worldwide in the Guggenheim network, among them a long-awaited Abu Dhabi institution that is reportedly]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-director-melissa-chiu-leaves-for-guggenheim-another-smithsoniandeparture/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-director-melissa-chiu-leaves-for-guggenheim-another-smithsoniandeparture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Inside the Long-Lost Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton Album Full of WW2-Era Photographs]]></title><description><![CDATA[An annotated photographic scrapbook&mdash;often called a &ldquo;daybook&rdquo;&mdash;featuring newspaper clippings and hundreds of photos by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton has been acquired by the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. The album was compiled by British Vogue darkroom assistant Roland Haupt between 1943 and &rsquo;49; Haupt developed film by both Miller and Beaton when they worked for Vogue magazine during this time period.The deal was brokered by the London-based photograp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-inside-the-long-lost-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton-album-full-of-ww2-eraphotographs/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-inside-the-long-lost-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton-album-full-of-ww2-eraphotographs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met Hires MoMA’s Rising Star Photography Curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has hired Oluremi C. Onabanjo as its new curator in the Department of Photographs. She will begin at the museum this summer.At the Met, Onabanjo will be focused on managing the Walther Collection, a 2025 gift of more than 6,500 historical and contemporary photographs and albums that spans Africa, China, Japan, Germany, Mexico, and the United States, among other locals. Onabanjo also has familiarity with the Walther Collection, having previously served a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-hires-momas-rising-star-photography-curator-oluremi-conabanjo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-hires-momas-rising-star-photography-curator-oluremi-conabanjo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Zwirner to Exhibit ‘The Great Unseen Collection’ in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[While New York&rsquo;s top auction houses prepare to sell multimillion-dollar consignments from private patrons this May, one of the city&rsquo;s mega-galleries is getting ready to exhibit a collection that has gone largely unseen&mdash;until now.On May 7, at one of its Chelsea galleries, David Zwirner will open a show of works from the collection of Joel and Carole Bernstein, a married couple that owned works that have appeared in major museum shows in recent years, despite the fact that the co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-zwirner-to-exhibit-the-great-unseen-collection-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-zwirner-to-exhibit-the-great-unseen-collection-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Chicago for Expo? Don’t Miss These 6 Standout Shows at the City’s Museums and Galleries]]></title><description><![CDATA[All eyes will be on the Windy City this month as more than 130 galleries convene for the 15th edition of Expo Chicago at Navy Pier&nbsp;(April 9&ndash;12), its third outing as part of the international Frieze brand, which purchased the fair (along with New York&rsquo;s Armory Show) in 2023.More than 35,000 art lovers attended the 2025 edition, and this year&rsquo;s visitors will take advantage of the city&rsquo;s rich art scene, with longstanding commercial galleries as well as scrappy artist-ru]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-chicago-for-expo-dont-miss-these-6-standout-shows-at-the-citys-museums-andgalleries/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-chicago-for-expo-dont-miss-these-6-standout-shows-at-the-citys-museums-andgalleries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Now both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Now both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-book-review-flourished-in-tandem-with-the-enlightenment-now-both-are-in-decline-leaving-a-great-deal-at-stake-david-bell-explains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:43:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-book-review-flourished-in-tandem-with-the-enlightenment-now-both-are-in-decline-leaving-a-great-deal-at-stake-david-bell-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gin and secrets: We know that the Cambridge Five betrayed Britain, but the damage runs deeper than previously thought]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gin and secrets: We know that the Cambridge Five betrayed Britain, but the damage runs deeper than previously thought]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gin-and-secrets-we-know-that-the-cambridge-five-betrayed-britain-but-the-damage-runs-deeper-than-previously-thought/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:43:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gin-and-secrets-we-know-that-the-cambridge-five-betrayed-britain-but-the-damage-runs-deeper-than-previously-thought/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-book-review-flourished-in-tandem-with-the-enlightenment-both-are-in-decline-leaving-a-great-deal-at-stake-david-bell-explains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:49:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-book-review-flourished-in-tandem-with-the-enlightenment-both-are-in-decline-leaving-a-great-deal-at-stake-david-bell-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“People in government today obviously don’t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;People in government today obviously don&rsquo;t care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmless&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/people-in-government-today-obviously-dont-care-about-literature-so-the-effort-to-ridicule-them-in-literature-can-seem-pointless-or-worse-harmless/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:49:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/people-in-government-today-obviously-dont-care-about-literature-so-the-effort-to-ridicule-them-in-literature-can-seem-pointless-or-worse-harmless/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gin and secrets: We know the Cambridge Five betrayed Britain, but the damage they caused runs deeper than we previously knew]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gin and secrets: We know the Cambridge Five betrayed Britain, but the damage they caused runs deeper than we previously knew]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gin-and-secrets-we-know-the-cambridge-five-betrayed-britain-but-the-damage-they-caused-runs-deeper-than-we-previously-knew/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:49:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gin-and-secrets-we-know-the-cambridge-five-betrayed-britain-but-the-damage-they-caused-runs-deeper-than-we-previously-knew/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Uncover a 2,000-Year-Old Hillfort in Estonia]]></title><description><![CDATA[A long-lost Estonian Iron-Age fortification has been found, according to Arkeonews.While 19th-century written accounts and oral traditions had long hinted at its existence, the 2000-year-old hillfort was identified this month by archaeologists at the University of Tartu using high-resolution terrain mapping tools.The find, located at K&ouml;strim&auml;gi in Tartu County, provides insight into early settlements in the Balkan region. Apparently occupied for only a short period of time, it appears]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-uncover-a-2000-year-old-hillfort-inestonia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-uncover-a-2000-year-old-hillfort-inestonia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[500-Plus And Just Like That… Items Head to Online Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Julien&rsquo;s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, is currently hosting an online auction of various fashion, homewares, and other props from And Just Like That&hellip;, the recently ended sequel to HBO&rsquo;s famed Sex and the City series. The sale closes on April 30.The auction includes more than 500 items related to both show&rsquo;s three central characters, Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York-Goldenblatt, and Miranda Hobbes, as well as the other characters that were introduced for And Just]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/500-plus-and-just-like-that-items-head-to-onlineauction/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/500-plus-and-just-like-that-items-head-to-onlineauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do We Have Duchamp All Wrong? A Brilliant MoMA Retrospective Reintroduces One of Modernism’s Greats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists are often secretive creatures, hesitant to disclose too much, and none more so than Marcel Duchamp, who spun slipperiness into an art form. But I think Duchamp may have given the game away when he made Genre Allegory (1943), one of the more than 300 works included in his Museum of Modern Art retrospective opening this Sunday. Produced as a commission for an &ldquo;Americana&rdquo; issue of Vogue, it&rsquo;s a star-studded map of the United States turned sideways. Duchamp constructed the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/do-we-have-duchamp-all-wrong-a-brilliant-moma-retrospective-reintroduces-one-of-modernismsgreats/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/do-we-have-duchamp-all-wrong-a-brilliant-moma-retrospective-reintroduces-one-of-modernismsgreats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Siri Aurdal, Artist Who Elevated Industrial Materials Into Visions of Shared Humanity, Dies at 88]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siri Aurdal, a Norwegian sculptor and painter who elevated industrial materials into sleek expressions of art&rsquo;s social imperative, died on March 31. She was 88. Galleri Riis, her representative, announced her death on social media, writing that she died in Oslo surrounded by friends and family.Though born in 1937 to two prominent Scandinavian artists&mdash;Synn&oslash;ve Anker Aurdal (1908&ndash;2000), a textile artist who represented Norway at the 1982 Venice Biennale, and painter Leon Au]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/siri-aurdal-artist-who-elevated-industrial-materials-into-visions-of-shared-humanity-dies-at88/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/siri-aurdal-artist-who-elevated-industrial-materials-into-visions-of-shared-humanity-dies-at88/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bronze Age State Metal-Working Center Unearthed Near China’s Yangtse River]]></title><description><![CDATA[During China&rsquo;s Bronze Age (c. 2070 &ndash; 771 B.C.), the durable alloy was an indispensable resource, central to the development of early Chinese civilization. Under the Zia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, China developed advanced metallurgy techniques and, along with them, systems for managing them at scale. The Bronze age in China was thus not only characterized by its bronze tools and weaponry, but by its advanced social and political structures.As reported in the China Daily, excavations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bronze-age-state-metal-working-center-unearthed-near-chinas-yangtseriver/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bronze-age-state-metal-working-center-unearthed-near-chinas-yangtseriver/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bronze Age Metal-Working Center Unearthed Near China’s Yangtse River]]></title><description><![CDATA[During China&rsquo;s Bronze Age (c. 2070 &ndash; 771 B.C.), the durable alloy was an indispensable resource, central to the development of early Chinese civilization. Under the Zia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, China developed advanced metallurgy techniques and, along with them, systems for managing them at scale. The Bronze age in China was thus not only characterized by its bronze tools and weaponry, but by its advanced social and political structures.As reported in the China Daily, excavations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bronze-age-metal-working-center-unearthed-near-chinas-yangtseriver/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bronze-age-metal-working-center-unearthed-near-chinas-yangtseriver/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Comedian Pete Davidson’s Art-Filled New York Home for Sale for $2 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pete Davidson, the lovable lunk who made his name on Saturday Night Live and went on to star on the silver screen (as well as in the annals of dubious boat-ownership), put his house in suburban Westchester, New York, on the market&mdash;while revealing a considerable art collection assembled over the years.The listing with Ginnel Real Estate includes an asking price of $2.28 million for a 2,300-square-foot country house with four bedrooms and three bathrooms on a lot with an idyllic pond and &ld]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-comedian-pete-davidsons-art-filled-new-york-home-for-sale-for-2m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-comedian-pete-davidsons-art-filled-new-york-home-for-sale-for-2m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outgoing MCA Chicago Director Madeleine Grynsztejn Offers the Consummate Insider’s Guide to the Windy City]]></title><description><![CDATA[At year&rsquo;s end, Madeleine Grynsztejn will leave her post after 18 years as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which bills itself as one of the world&rsquo;s largest museums devoted to the art of today. The museum, which launched in 1967 with a Fluxus happening by John Cage, Dick Higgins, and Allison Knowles, soon expanded its mission to collecting, and its holdings have now grown to include over 2,000 pieces. One early claim to fame: It was the first US building to be wrapp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/outgoing-mca-chicago-director-madeleine-grynsztejn-offers-the-consummate-insiders-guide-to-the-windycity/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/outgoing-mca-chicago-director-madeleine-grynsztejn-offers-the-consummate-insiders-guide-to-the-windycity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain’s Culture Minister Rejects Guernica Transfer, but Basque Leaders Refuse to Take No for an Answer]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Basque regional government made a formal request last week to Spain&rsquo;s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso&rsquo;s Guernica (1937), the region&rsquo;s head of government, Lehendakari Imanol Pradales, said he expected more robust discussion on the issue after Easter Sunday.According to El Pa&iacute;s, that discussion came on Tuesday&mdash;and the culture minister, Ernest Urtasun, was unequivocal. During a government oversight session in Spain&rsquo;s S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spains-culture-minister-rejects-guernica-transfer-but-basque-leaders-refuse-to-take-no-for-ananswer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spains-culture-minister-rejects-guernica-transfer-but-basque-leaders-refuse-to-take-no-for-ananswer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[70 of Stephen Curry’s Game-Worn NBA Sneakers to Be Sold at Sotheby’s, Including a Pair of Nike Kobe 6 Protro ‘Mambacita’]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 70 pairs of sneakers worn by Stephen Curry during the 2025-26 NBA season will hit the auction block at Sotheby&rsquo;s from April 13 to April 28, with proceeds benefiting the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation.The online sale follows Curry&rsquo;s announcement last November, that he would enter what he described as &ldquo;sneaker free agency,&rdquo; marking the first time in his career he was no longer tied to a single footwear partner. (For the previous 12 years, Curry was signed to Under A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/70-of-stephen-currys-game-worn-nba-sneakers-to-be-sold-at-sothebys-including-a-pair-of-nike-kobe-6-protro-mambacita/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/70-of-stephen-currys-game-worn-nba-sneakers-to-be-sold-at-sothebys-including-a-pair-of-nike-kobe-6-protro-mambacita/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a New Director, US Latinx Art Forum Plots Its Future]]></title><description><![CDATA[A decade ago, Latinx art within the US didn&rsquo;t have as much visibility as it has now. One of the key organizations advocating for this increased prominence in mainstream institutions is the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), founded in 2015 by a group of scholars who wanted to ensure that Latinx artists would not gain not just recognition but canonization too.Now, USLAF is charting its next steps. At the end of last year, the organization appointed artist, archivist, and curator Josh T. Franco]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-a-new-director-us-latinx-art-forum-plots-itsfuture/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-a-new-director-us-latinx-art-forum-plots-itsfuture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a Slimmed-Down Expo Chicago Still Throw Its Weight Around?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Ask incoming Expo Chicago fair director Kate Sierzputowski what her city&rsquo;s art scene is like, and you get a couple of very illuminating examples to illustrate its nature, which she describes as &ldquo;distinctly collaborative.&rdquo;&nbsp;For many years, dealer Rhona Hoffman hosted an August ping-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/can-a-slimmed-down-expo-chicago-still-throw-its-weightaround/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/can-a-slimmed-down-expo-chicago-still-throw-its-weightaround/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When contrarianism becomes its own orthodoxy: The heterodox movement is replicating the groupthink it set out to cure]]></title><description><![CDATA[When contrarianism becomes its own orthodoxy: The heterodox movement is replicating the groupthink it set out to cure]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-contrarianism-becomes-its-own-orthodoxy-the-heterodox-movement-is-replicating-the-groupthink-it-set-out-to-cure-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:21:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-contrarianism-becomes-its-own-orthodoxy-the-heterodox-movement-is-replicating-the-groupthink-it-set-out-to-cure-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Musil offers a salve for Western egocentrism: The self is not a single, enduring substance but a collection of sensations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Musil offers a salve for Western egocentrism: The self is not a single, enduring substance but a collection of sensations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-musil-offers-a-salve-for-western-egocentrism-the-self-is-not-a-single-enduring-substance-but-a-collection-of-sensations-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:48:49 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-musil-offers-a-salve-for-western-egocentrism-the-self-is-not-a-single-enduring-substance-but-a-collection-of-sensations-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-European Artists Are Sorely Under-Represented in Paris Galleries, Spanish Minister Officially Rejects ‘Guernica’ Loan Request by Basque Government: Morning Links for April 8, 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.The HeadlinesREALITY CHECK. Timed with the opening of Art Paris this week, a new study on the diversity of Parisian galleries has revealed some striking findings, reports The Art Newspaper France. Led by curator and author Louise Thurin alongside C&eacute;sar L&eacute;vy, founder of 193 Gallery, the study surveyed 108 established galleries across the French c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/non-european-artists-are-sorely-under-represented-in-paris-galleries-spanish-minister-officially-rejects-guernica-loan-request-by-basque-government-morning-links-for-april-82026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/non-european-artists-are-sorely-under-represented-in-paris-galleries-spanish-minister-officially-rejects-guernica-loan-request-by-basque-government-morning-links-for-april-82026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Australian Chefs and Farmers are Rediscovering the Ingredients That Have Been There All Along]]></title><description><![CDATA[From kangaroo grass to Kakadu plums, native foods are redefining diners' taste buds and deepening their connection to the land]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-australian-chefs-and-farmers-are-rediscovering-the-ingredients-that-have-been-there-all-along/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-australian-chefs-and-farmers-are-rediscovering-the-ingredients-that-have-been-there-all-along/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When contrarianism becomes its own orthodoxy. The heterodox movement is replicating the groupthink it set out to cure ]]></title><description><![CDATA[When contrarianism becomes its own orthodoxy. The heterodox movement is replicating the groupthink it set out to cure&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-contrarianism-becomes-its-own-orthodoxy-the-heterodox-movement-is-replicating-the-groupthink-it-set-out-to-cure/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:36 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-contrarianism-becomes-its-own-orthodoxy-the-heterodox-movement-is-replicating-the-groupthink-it-set-out-to-cure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Musil offers a salve for Western egocentrism: the self is not a single, enduring substance but a collection of sensations ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Musil offers a salve for Western egocentrism: the self is not a single, enduring substance but a collection of sensations&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-musil-offers-a-salve-for-western-egocentrism-the-self-is-not-a-single-enduring-substance-but-a-collection-of-sensations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:36 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-musil-offers-a-salve-for-western-egocentrism-the-self-is-not-a-single-enduring-substance-but-a-collection-of-sensations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI’s grandiose paradoxes. It will bring us heaven on earth or kill us all, we’re told; it is the most important invention in history or a scam]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI&rsquo;s grandiose paradoxes. It will bring us heaven on earth or kill us all, we&rsquo;re told; it is the most important invention in history or a scam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ais-grandiose-paradoxes-it-will-bring-us-heaven-on-earth-or-kill-us-all-were-told-it-is-the-most-important-invention-in-history-or-a-scam/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:36 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ais-grandiose-paradoxes-it-will-bring-us-heaven-on-earth-or-kill-us-all-were-told-it-is-the-most-important-invention-in-history-or-a-scam/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riyadh’s New Black Gold Museum Attempts to Convey ‘The Legacy of Oil Through Art’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Black Gold Museum opened this week in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia as part of the country&rsquo;s Vision 2030 initiative, the goals of which include diversifying the country&rsquo;s economy and transforming its socioeconomic landscape.As its name more than implies, the new museum, which was announced in September 2020, deals with the intersection of oil and contemporary art. (Saudia Arabia has the world&rsquo;s second largest oil reserves, after Venezuela.) The Black Gold Museum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/riyadhs-new-black-gold-museum-attempts-to-convey-the-legacy-of-oil-throughart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/riyadhs-new-black-gold-museum-attempts-to-convey-the-legacy-of-oil-throughart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Duchamp Retrospective at MoMA Presents an Artist Who Challenged the Very Definition of Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than any of his early modernist contemporaries, Marcel Duchamp (1887&ndash;1968) has had a huge impact on art throughout the last century into our own. He pioneered a cerebral, ironic practice whose DNA is still apparent in works like Maurizio Cattelan&rsquo;s Comedian: a banana duct-taped to the wall which became a sensation when it sold at the 2019 Basel Art fair for $120,000 before fetching $6.2 million at auction five years later.Whether this was a good thing or a bad one, Duchamp would]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-duchamp-retrospective-at-moma-presents-an-artist-who-challenged-the-very-definition-ofart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-duchamp-retrospective-at-moma-presents-an-artist-who-challenged-the-very-definition-ofart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[100 Masterpieces to See at the Art Institute of Chicago]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the nation&rsquo;s oldest museums&mdash;and one of its greatest. Spanning two connected buildings and covering nearly one million square feet, it is also one of the largest, making a visit to the Art Institute a potentially intimidating endeavor.Ask 10 people what to see there, and you may get 10 different answers. Some will direct you to the Impressionist galleries, where world-famous works by Van Gogh, Caillebotte, and Seurat lie in wait.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/100-masterpieces-to-see-at-the-art-institute-ofchicago/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/100-masterpieces-to-see-at-the-art-institute-ofchicago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christine Ruiz-Picasso, Founder of Museo Picasso Málaga and Artist’s Daughter-in-Law, Dies at 97]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christine Ruiz-Picasso, who helped found a museum in M&aacute;laga, Spain, dedicated to the Cubist artist, died on April 6 at 97. She died at her home in Provence, France, according to Europa Press. &nbsp;In a press release announcing her passing, the Museo Picasso M&aacute;laga described Ruiz-Picasso, who was Picasso&rsquo;s daughter-in-law, as an &ldquo;essential figure in the creation of this institution and a tireless advocate of the artistic legacy of Pablo Picasso.&rdquo; The release conti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christine-ruiz-picasso-founder-of-museo-picasso-mlaga-and-artists-daughter-in-law-dies-at97/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christine-ruiz-picasso-founder-of-museo-picasso-mlaga-and-artists-daughter-in-law-dies-at97/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tokyo Architect Kengo Kuma Beats Out Renzo Piano and Selldorf to Design National Gallery’s £350 M. New Wing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Gallery in London has selected Kengo Kuma and Associates, the Tokyo-based firm known for designing the V&amp;A Dundee in Scotland, to design its new extension as part of Project Domani, the institution&rsquo;s &pound;750 million ($995 million) campaign to transform its campus and expand its collection into the 20th and 21st centuries.Two UK-based firms, BDP and MICA, will collaborate with Kuma on the project, which is subject to ratification at the end of a standstill period ending]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tokyo-architect-kengo-kuma-beats-out-renzo-piano-and-selldorf-to-design-national-gallerys-350-m-newwing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tokyo-architect-kengo-kuma-beats-out-renzo-piano-and-selldorf-to-design-national-gallerys-350-m-newwing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Gallery The Hole Sued Over Back Rent, Accused of Not Paying Artists and Workers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hole, a gallery known for exhibiting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, is accused in legal filings of being in significant arrears on rent. The New York&ndash;based gallery has reportedly closed its Los Angeles outpost, and artists and workers have alleged that it has has been late in sending payment, according to new report in the Art Newspaper.&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been here for 15 years and after two extra-successful years, sales were down significantly starting at the end o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-gallery-the-hole-sued-over-back-rent-accused-of-not-paying-artists-andworkers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-gallery-the-hole-sued-over-back-rent-accused-of-not-paying-artists-andworkers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seoul’s Centre Pompidou, Three Years in the Making, Will Open in June]]></title><description><![CDATA[After three years of anticipation, the Centre Pompidou Hanwha will open in Seoul on June 4, a date that marks the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. The new institution is a joint initiative with the Hanwha Foundation of Culture&mdash;the influential philanthropic arm of the Hanwha business conglomerate&mdash;and, as the Paris institution described it, the latest star in its &ldquo;constellation&rdquo; of international cultural ventures. KANAL &ndash; Centre Pomp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seouls-centre-pompidou-three-years-in-the-making-will-open-injune/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seouls-centre-pompidou-three-years-in-the-making-will-open-injune/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Artist Whose Shimmering Obelisks Are Cropping Up All Over the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I learned that Gisela Col&oacute;n was having a retrospective at Museo de Arte Contempor&aacute;neo de Puerto Rico (MAC), I leapt at the chance to check it out. I knew that I felt deeply conflicted about her work, and thought the survey would offer a chance to sort out my thoughts.Before arriving in San Juan, I&rsquo;d only seen her glittering, monumental obelisks shown in isolation, one at a time. It&rsquo;s easy to see why they get shown that way: they have this commanding presence and ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-artist-whose-shimmering-obelisks-are-cropping-up-all-over-theworld/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-artist-whose-shimmering-obelisks-are-cropping-up-all-over-theworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Counterpublic Triennial Names 47 Artists and Collectives for Upcoming Third Edition, Including Glenn Ligon, Rebecca Belmore, Rirkrit Tiravanija]]></title><description><![CDATA[Counterpublic has named the 47 artists and collectives that will take part in the triennial&rsquo;s upcoming third edition, scheduled to run September 12&ndash;December 12 in St. Louis, Missouri.In February, the five-person curatorial team&mdash;Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora N. Khan, and Wanda Nanibush&mdash;announced that their exhibition would be titled &ldquo;Coyote Time,&rdquo; which takes its name from a commission by Alice Bucknell.In a statement, the curators said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/counterpublic-triennial-names-47-artists-and-collectives-for-upcoming-third-edition-including-glenn-ligon-rebecca-belmore-rirkrittiravanija/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/counterpublic-triennial-names-47-artists-and-collectives-for-upcoming-third-edition-including-glenn-ligon-rebecca-belmore-rirkrittiravanija/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze Taps Art Basel Veteran Frank Lasry as Chief Operating Officer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frieze announced today that it has named Frank Lasry as its new chief operating officer, beginning in June. Lasry will report directly to Frieze CEO Simon Fox.With more than two decades of managing blue-chip art world companies, Lasry will bring to Frieze a mix of auction house, art fair, and gallery experience. He was most recently the chief operating officer of Perrotin, managing the logistics and operations across the gallery&rsquo;s nine locations across the world. Prior to Perrotin, he work]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-taps-art-basel-veteran-frank-lasry-as-chief-operatingofficer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-taps-art-basel-veteran-frank-lasry-as-chief-operatingofficer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politicians Trade Barbs Over ‘Guernica’ Loan Request, Artist Thomas Zipp Dies, Henry Taylor in Paris: Morning Links for April 7, 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.The HeadlinesFOR WHOM THE BELL TOL&Eacute;DOS. Spanish leaders are trading insults in a heated, increasingly political clash over the Basque regional government&rsquo;s recent request to borrow Pablo Picasso&rsquo;s Guernica for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, reports El Pais. &ldquo;It makes no sense for everything to be returned to its or]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/politicians-trade-barbs-over-guernica-loan-request-artist-thomas-zipp-dies-henry-taylor-in-paris-morning-links-for-april-72026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/politicians-trade-barbs-over-guernica-loan-request-artist-thomas-zipp-dies-henry-taylor-in-paris-morning-links-for-april-72026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The Queen of the Ghetto’ Gave New York’s Immigrant Community a Voice. A Century Later, It’s Re-emerging]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anzia Yezierska wrote from experience then worked hard to make sure her work found an audience. Then a new audience found her]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-queen-of-the-ghetto-gave-new-yorks-immigrant-community-a-voice-a-century-later-its-re-emerging/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-queen-of-the-ghetto-gave-new-yorks-immigrant-community-a-voice-a-century-later-its-re-emerging/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“The humanities are not a system for the production of positive ‘research results.’ They are a practice of self-cultivation, or they are nothing”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The humanities are not a system for the production of positive &lsquo;research results.&rsquo; They are a practice of self-cultivation, or they are nothing&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-humanities-are-not-a-system-for-the-production-of-positive-research-results-they-are-a-practice-of-self-cultivation-or-they-are-nothing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:13:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-humanities-are-not-a-system-for-the-production-of-positive-research-results-they-are-a-practice-of-self-cultivation-or-they-are-nothing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great diarists open up the entire folio of their lives. Samuel Pepys was a great diarist. He was also a wretched human being]]></title><description><![CDATA[Great diarists open up the entire folio of their lives. Samuel Pepys was a great diarist. He was also a wretched human being]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/great-diarists-open-up-the-entire-folio-of-their-lives-samuel-pepys-was-a-great-diarist-he-was-also-a-wretched-human-being/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:13:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/great-diarists-open-up-the-entire-folio-of-their-lives-samuel-pepys-was-a-great-diarist-he-was-also-a-wretched-human-being/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncanny and vaguely malevolent, the institutional Gothic style replaces bloodthirsty lords with soulless corporations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Uncanny and vaguely malevolent, the institutional Gothic style replaces bloodthirsty lords with soulless corporations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uncanny-and-vaguely-malevolent-the-institutional-gothic-style-replaces-bloodthirsty-lords-with-soulless-corporations/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:49:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uncanny-and-vaguely-malevolent-the-institutional-gothic-style-replaces-bloodthirsty-lords-with-soulless-corporations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Zipp, Visionary Installation Artist With a Punk Sensibility, Has Died]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Zipp, the German punk musician, painter, and installation artist with a relentlessly critical eye, has died. His gallery, Berlin&rsquo;s Galerie Barbara Thumm, announced the news on social media, writing that he &ldquo;passed away far too soon.&rdquo;&ldquo;Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family,&rdquo; the gallery added. &ldquo;Dear Thomas Zipp, may you rest in peace.&rdquo;With a zeal for immersion, Zipp reimagined site-specific art as a kind of psychological theater, f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-zipp-visionary-installation-artist-with-a-punk-sensibility-hasdied/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-zipp-visionary-installation-artist-with-a-punk-sensibility-hasdied/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Josh Kline Wrote the Essay That the Art World Can’t Stop Talking About]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2011, Andrea Fraser wrote that &ldquo;what has been good for the art world has been disastrous for the rest of the world.&rdquo; Fifteen years on, Fraser&rsquo;s words still ring true. But finding the words for why is not always so easy, and maybe that is the reason a recently published essay on the subject, by artist Josh Kline, has taken the New York art world by storm, becoming the subject of social media posts issued by artists, critics, curators, and even dealers.Titled &ldquo;New York R]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-josh-kline-wrote-the-essay-that-the-art-world-cant-stop-talkingabout/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-josh-kline-wrote-the-essay-that-the-art-world-cant-stop-talkingabout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Warning Expands With Saara Pritchard, Doubling Down on ‘Conviction’ in a Crowded Art Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2020, as the art market scrambled to move online, Lo&iuml;c Gouzer tried something smaller. After years staging blockbuster evening sales at Christie&rsquo;s as chairman of post-war and contemporary art, he launched the app Fair Warning. Its premise was simple: sell one work at time to a tightly screened group of collectors.Five years on, that constraint defines the company. Fair Warning has sold roughly $81.9 million worth of art not through volume, but through a steady cadence of tightly ed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fair-warning-expands-with-saara-pritchard-doubling-down-on-conviction-in-a-crowded-artmarket/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fair-warning-expands-with-saara-pritchard-doubling-down-on-conviction-in-a-crowded-artmarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famed Gelman Collection Will Return to Mexico by 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fundaci&oacute;n Banco Santander in Spain has announced that it will return the Gelman Collection, which includes several important works of 20th-century Mexican art, to Mexico by 2028, according to a report by dpa.The planned return comes after an open letter signed by more than 200 art professionals last month that accused the Mexican government of an &ldquo;institutional blunder&rdquo; by allowing part of the Gelman Collection to travel to Spain, where they were meant to be house permanen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/famed-gelman-collection-will-return-to-mexico-by2028/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/famed-gelman-collection-will-return-to-mexico-by2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Rare Keith Haring Art Cars to Be Exhibited in New York This Month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although work by graffiti-turned-gallery artist Keith Haring (1958&ndash;90) remained highly collectible after his death of AIDS at 31, there has been a surge of interest in it of late, with pieces by him bringing millions at auction, a traveling exhibition in 2023, and collaborations by the estate with such popular brands as Polaroid, Converse, Swatch, Casetify, and Uniqlo.Now, according to a report in Hypebeast, two of the four automobiles that Haring decorated in the last 10 years of his lif]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-rare-keith-haring-art-cars-to-be-exhibited-in-new-york-thismonth/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-rare-keith-haring-art-cars-to-be-exhibited-in-new-york-thismonth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Claims Halting $400 M. White House Ballroom Renovation Is National Security Risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just days after a federal judge put the kibosh on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s $400 million plan to renovate the White House with a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, the administration filed an emergency motion to undo the ruling.On Friday, the Trump Administration filed a motion in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia arguing that US District Judge Richard Leon&rsquo;s decision to halt the project has left the White House &ldquo;open and exposed&rdquo; and &ldquo;threaten[s] grave]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-claims-halting-400-m-white-house-ballroom-renovation-is-national-securityrisk/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-claims-halting-400-m-white-house-ballroom-renovation-is-national-securityrisk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon.” Marx on a work-free future. His son-in-law had a stranger cause: the right to be lazy]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon.&rdquo; Marx on a work-free future. His son-in-law had a stranger cause: the right to be lazy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hunt-in-the-morning-fish-in-the-afternoon-marx-on-a-work-free-future-his-son-in-law-had-a-stranger-cause-the-right-to-be-lazy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:47:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hunt-in-the-morning-fish-in-the-afternoon-marx-on-a-work-free-future-his-son-in-law-had-a-stranger-cause-the-right-to-be-lazy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Staffers Say the US Holocaust Museum Altered Website and Canceled Programming to Avoid Angering Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two former employees say the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C., altered content on its website and canceled long-planned programming preemptively to avoid angering the Trump administration. Speaking on condition of anonymity, one ex-staffer told Politico that museum administrators appeared to be &ldquo;trying to proactively fall in line as to not then be forced to change.&rdquo;The changes come amid a broader effort by President Donald Trump and his administration to contr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ex-staffers-say-the-us-holocaust-museum-altered-website-and-canceled-programming-to-avoid-angeringtrump/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ex-staffers-say-the-us-holocaust-museum-altered-website-and-canceled-programming-to-avoid-angeringtrump/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Essential Books About Marcel Duchamp]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few artists have sparked more critical response than Marcel Duchamp&mdash;the subject of a big MoMA retrospective on view April 12 through August 22. Even Picasso&rsquo;s legacy finds in the Frenchman&rsquo;s conceptual practice a divergent and influential foil. While Cubism and collage revolutionized pictorial space and its aesthetic offshoots, Duchamp upended the very premise of aesthetics. In his wake, objects and images appear no longer as ends unto themselves, but rather vectors of unresol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/five-essential-books-about-marcelduchamp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/five-essential-books-about-marcelduchamp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel’s Venice Biennale Artist Responds to Calls for Exclusion: ‘I Do Not Support Cultural Boycotts’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist representing Israel at the forthcoming Venice Biennale, responded at length this weekend to continued calls for his nation&rsquo;s ejection from the show.&ldquo;As an artist, I do not support cultural boycotts,&rdquo; Fainaru wrote in an extended statement sent to ARTnews. &ldquo;I believe in dialogue and exchange, especially in challenging times. Art thrives on openness, and any narrowing of that space diminishes it. Embracing diverse perspectives enriches the di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israels-venice-biennale-artist-responds-to-calls-for-exclusion-i-do-not-support-culturalboycotts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israels-venice-biennale-artist-responds-to-calls-for-exclusion-i-do-not-support-culturalboycotts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Museum’s ‘New Humans’ Reckons With Human-Machine Relations in the Workplace ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the beginning, there was a lot of work to do.&nbsp;In the Mesopotamian creation myth, the Anunnaki, the Big Gods, and the Igigi, the Little Gods, drew sticks to decide who would do the hard labor of digging the channel that would become the Euphrates river. It was the Igigi who drew the short stick. For 3,600 years they worked, crying out to the big gods for relief but never being answered. Nusku encouraged his fellow Igigi to rebel by setting fire to their tools and surrounding the house of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-museums-new-humans-reckons-with-human-machine-relations-in-theworkplace/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-museums-new-humans-reckons-with-human-machine-relations-in-theworkplace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Time Capsule’ Scrapbook of Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton Photographs Discovered, and More: Morning Links for April 6, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesSTICKING IT TO HITLER. A previously unseen trove of World War II&ndash;era photographs by&nbsp;Lee Miller&nbsp;and&nbsp;Cecil Beaton&nbsp;has surfaced in a carefully preserved, personal scrapbook by their former assistant,&nbsp;Roland Haupt,&nbsp;reports the&nbsp;&nbsp;Times of London. The discovery of this &ldquo;empirical time capsule&rdquo; is being celebrated as one of the greatest photographic records of the pivotal period in world history, and yet, for decades, it sat out of s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/time-capsule-scrapbook-of-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton-photographs-discovered-and-more-morning-links-for-april-62026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/time-capsule-scrapbook-of-lee-miller-and-cecil-beaton-photographs-discovered-and-more-morning-links-for-april-62026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the Spectacular Winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 23rd Annual Photography Contest]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year&rsquo;s best photos command attention by capturing intimate moments and bold colors]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-the-spectacular-winners-of-smithsonian-magazines-23rd-annual-photography-contest/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-the-spectacular-winners-of-smithsonian-magazines-23rd-annual-photography-contest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 16th century, with telescopes and microscopes emerging, a curious malady emerged: Men believing they were made of glass]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 16th century, with telescopes and microscopes emerging, a curious malady emerged: Men believing they were made of glass]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-16th-century-with-telescopes-and-microscopes-emerging-a-curious-malady-emerged-men-believing-they-were-made-of-glass/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:56:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-16th-century-with-telescopes-and-microscopes-emerging-a-curious-malady-emerged-men-believing-they-were-made-of-glass/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon.” Marx on a work-free future. His son-in-law had a stranger defense: the right to be lazy]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon.&rdquo; Marx on a work-free future. His son-in-law had a stranger defense: the right to be lazy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hunt-in-the-morning-fish-in-the-afternoon-marx-on-a-work-free-future-his-son-in-law-had-a-stranger-defense-the-right-to-be-lazy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:56:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hunt-in-the-morning-fish-in-the-afternoon-marx-on-a-work-free-future-his-son-in-law-had-a-stranger-defense-the-right-to-be-lazy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“At its most idyllic, siblinghood can be a fragile utopia, a protomarriage of equals, a playroom, a shelter from the parents or the world”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;At its most idyllic, siblinghood can be a fragile utopia, a protomarriage of equals, a playroom, a shelter from the parents or the world&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-its-most-idyllic-siblinghood-can-be-a-fragile-utopia-a-protomarriage-of-equals-a-playroom-a-shelter-from-the-parents-or-the-world/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:56:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-its-most-idyllic-siblinghood-can-be-a-fragile-utopia-a-protomarriage-of-equals-a-playroom-a-shelter-from-the-parents-or-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the New Deal Treated Art as Essential to Democracy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine a world where an artist is considered an essential worker. The government commissions murals and sculptures for schools, libraries, and hospitals. Taxes fund free classes in pottery and printmaking at a community art center. The president of the United States promotes art as vital to a healthy democracy.&nbsp;This world flickered into view between 1933 and 1943, a decade when the US government treated art as a public resource rather than a private luxury. The output was staggering: hundr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-new-deal-treated-art-as-essential-todemocracy/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-new-deal-treated-art-as-essential-todemocracy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[11-Year Restitution Dispute Over Prized Modigliani Ends With Loss for Nahmad Family]]></title><description><![CDATA[An 11-year-long legal dispute over a prized Amedeo Modigliani painting looted during World War II has concluded in a loss for billionaire art dealer David Nahmad and his family, marking an unlikely restitution victory for the heirs of its original Jewish owner.A New York judge ruled this week that Seated Man With a Cane (1918) rightfully belongs to the estate of Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish art dealer who left the portrait behind under duress while fleeing Paris ahead of the Nazi occupation. The co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/11-year-restitution-dispute-over-prized-modigliani-ends-with-loss-for-nahmadfamily/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/11-year-restitution-dispute-over-prized-modigliani-ends-with-loss-for-nahmadfamily/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gisela Colón on Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny, and the Power Beneath the Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gisela Col&oacute;n didn&rsquo;t plan to become an artist.&ldquo;I studied law because I thought it would protect me,&rdquo; she told ARTnews, looking back on a childhood in Puerto Rico shaped as much by instability as it was by the farm in the outskirts of Bayam&oacute;n where she grew up.&nbsp;She left San Juan in 1987 on a Truman scholarship, built a career in environmental law in California, and spent her twenties and thirties raising two sons. Making art, which she learned from her mother,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gisela-coln-on-puerto-rico-bad-bunny-and-the-power-beneath-theisland/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gisela-coln-on-puerto-rico-bad-bunny-and-the-power-beneath-theisland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Filmmaker Ming Wong Is the Ultimate Shape-Shifter]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the hushed, reverent galleries of the National Gallery in London, saints usually suffer in silence. Not so in the hands of Ming Wong, who was given unparalleled access to the museum&rsquo;s collection of European masterpieces during a residency last year. In his latest film Dance of the Sun on the Water | Saltatio Solis in Aqua, the Berlin-based, Singaporean artist reimagines Saint Sebastian, the third-century Roman centurion and Christian martyr who was shot through with arrows, as a slipper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-filmmaker-ming-wong-is-the-ultimateshape-shifter/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-filmmaker-ming-wong-is-the-ultimateshape-shifter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Painting, Now Owned by Ken Griffin, to Go on View in Miami This Summer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The P&eacute;rez Art Museum Miami announced this week that it will host an exhibition bringing together about 10 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat that are owned by Kenneth C. Griffin, one of the world&rsquo;s top collectors.Titled &ldquo;Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,&rdquo; the exhibition will feature nine paintings and one sculpture by the artist and concentrate on his &ldquo;implementation of classic themes such as portraiture and the figure, script and language, and his conceptual amplifica]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/record-breaking-1105-m-basquiat-painting-now-owned-by-ken-griffin-to-go-on-view-in-miami-thissummer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/record-breaking-1105-m-basquiat-painting-now-owned-by-ken-griffin-to-go-on-view-in-miami-thissummer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patron Gallery Adds Miao Wang to Its Roster, and More: Industry Moves for April 1, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Industry MovesPatron&nbsp;Gallery Adds Miao Wang to Its Roster:&nbsp;The Chicago-based painter will be featured in a two-artist presentation&nbsp;with Alice Tippit at Expo Chicago next week.Open Restitution&nbsp;Africa Launches AI-Powered Restitution&nbsp;Data Platform:&nbsp;The initiative has released]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/patrongallery-adds-miao-wang-to-its-roster-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-12026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/patrongallery-adds-miao-wang-to-its-roster-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-12026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Rights Foundation Petitions UN on Behalf of Jailed Chinese Dissident Artist Gao Zhen]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Human Rights Foundation has submitted a complaint to a United Nations body that reviews detention cases on behalf of Chinese dissident artist Gao Zhen, seeking a finding that his prolonged detention is arbitrary under international law.Gao, 69, was arrested in China in 2024 on &ldquo;suspicion of slandering China&rsquo;s heroes and martyrs,&rdquo; a charge tied to his longstanding sculptural practice repurposing art historical icons to challenge official narratives and mythmaking. That year,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/human-rights-foundation-petitions-un-on-behalf-of-jailed-chinese-dissident-artist-gaozhen/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/human-rights-foundation-petitions-un-on-behalf-of-jailed-chinese-dissident-artist-gaozhen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local Resort Reportedly Pays $45 M. for Rauschenberg’s Famed Captiva Island Property]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Seas, a resort located on Captiva Island, off the coast of Florida, is the buyer of Robert Rauschenberg&rsquo;s famed 22-acre property on the island, which had been home to one of the country&rsquo;s top artist residency programs following his death.The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the steward of the namesake artist&rsquo;s legacy, had announced last year that it would sell the property, which also includes about 1,000 feet of beachfront property and Rauschenberg&rsquo;s 8,000-square-fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/local-resort-reportedly-pays-45-m-for-rauschenbergs-famed-captiva-islandproperty/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/local-resort-reportedly-pays-45-m-for-rauschenbergs-famed-captiva-islandproperty/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raja Ravi Varma Painting Sells for $17.9 M., New Auction Record for Indian Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[A painting by Raja Ravi Varma has set a new auction record for the work of an Indian artist, signaling continued strength at the top end of the market.Yashoda and Krishna&nbsp;(ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 million at Saffronart in Delhi on April 1, surpassing the previous benchmark for Indian painting at auction, held by M.F. Husain&rsquo;s&nbsp;Untitled (Gram Yatra), which sold for $13.8 million at Christie&rsquo;s&nbsp;New York last year and was purchased by ARTnews Top 200 Collector Kiran Nadar.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raja-ravi-varma-painting-sells-for-179-m-new-auction-record-for-indianart/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raja-ravi-varma-painting-sells-for-179-m-new-auction-record-for-indianart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uffizi Museum in Florence Denies Severity of Security Breaches Resulting From February Cyber Attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, home to one of the world&rsquo;s most well-known collections of Italian Renaissance art, is denying a report that a recent cyber attack gave hackers &ldquo;access everywhere&rdquo; in the museum.The article, published on Apr. 3 in the Italian daily newspaper Correre della Sera, said that the hackers infiltrated the museum complex&rsquo;s IT network, demanded a ransom directly from museum director Simone Verde, and threatened to sell information stolen from the Uff]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uffizi-museum-in-florence-denies-severity-of-security-breaches-resulting-from-february-cyberattack/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uffizi-museum-in-florence-denies-severity-of-security-breaches-resulting-from-february-cyberattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Max Levai Bets on Scale—and Himself—with New Chelsea Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Max Levai is expanding into Chelsea at a moment when much of the market is pulling back.The former president of Marlborough Gallery will open a 7,000-square-foot flagship at 529 West 20th Street this fall, his first permanent New York space after several years of operating between pop-ups, international projects like his presentation of works by Frank Auerbach at the 2024 Venice Biennale, and his Montauk compound, The Ranch.&ldquo;Having a gallery that is permanent&hellip; has been on my mind fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/max-levai-bets-on-scaleand-himselfwith-new-chelseagallery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/max-levai-bets-on-scaleand-himselfwith-new-chelseagallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bic Family Heirs File Lawsuit for Return of Fra Angelico Painting ‘Stolen’ by Chauffeur]]></title><description><![CDATA[The heirs of the Bic family fortune filed suit in March for the return of a painting by Fra Angelico that sold at Christie&rsquo;s for $5.4 million in 2018. That sale was only possible, the heirs allege, because a chauffeur for the family had stolen the work, then sold it to a prominent art dealer who then consigned it to the auction house.There is no publicly listed record for the painting on the website for Christie&rsquo;s, which is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, potentially indicat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bic-family-heirs-file-lawsuit-for-return-of-fra-angelico-painting-stolen-bychauffeur/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bic-family-heirs-file-lawsuit-for-return-of-fra-angelico-painting-stolen-bychauffeur/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[German Provocateur Artist Sentenced to 8.5 Years in Prison in Russia After Mocking Putin]]></title><description><![CDATA[German sculptor and illustrator Jacques Tilly was convicted on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military and insulting religious feelings, after creating carnival displays mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Associated Press reported Thursday.The 62-year-old artist has been designing and building floats for D&uuml;sseldorf&rsquo;s Carnival parade for nearly 40 years. His floats, like many German carnival floats, often mock political figures, both from Germany an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/german-provocateur-artist-sentenced-to-85-years-in-prison-in-russia-after-mockingputin/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/german-provocateur-artist-sentenced-to-85-years-in-prison-in-russia-after-mockingputin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Exhibition at the British Museum Dismantles the Popular Understanding of Samurai]]></title><description><![CDATA[The myth of the samurai gained prominence outside Japan in the early 20th century through films, TV shows, art, and literature. This widespread interest contributed to various misconceptions about them. However, a new exhibition at the British Museum, simply titled &ldquo;Samurai,&rdquo; is more comprehensive and dramatic than its name suggests. The show, on view through May 4, dismantles the popular, singular image of the samurai as merely warriors, presenting a nuanced view of the class.In an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-exhibition-at-the-british-museum-dismantles-the-popular-understanding-ofsamurai/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-exhibition-at-the-british-museum-dismantles-the-popular-understanding-ofsamurai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manitoba Anishinaabe Artist’s Design Heads to the Moon, Uffizi Cyberattacked, and More: Morning Links for April 3, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Artist Henry Guimond, from Sagkeeng First Nation, designed a patch worn by Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis II mission to the Moon.The Uffizi Galleries were the target of a cyberattack in February, but deny reports of damage.&nbsp;New Louvre leader ousts painting department director S&eacute;batien Allard.The Headlines	SHOOTING ART STAR.&nbsp;Artists often dream of having their work shown in prestigious institutions, but what about in outer space? Anishinaabe artist&n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manitoba-anishinaabe-artists-design-heads-to-the-moon-uffizi-cyberattacked-and-more-morning-links-for-april-32026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manitoba-anishinaabe-artists-design-heads-to-the-moon-uffizi-cyberattacked-and-more-morning-links-for-april-32026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willa Cather’s will prohibited the direct quotation of her letters. The result was a bizarre, confused scholarly morass]]></title><description><![CDATA[Willa Cather&rsquo;s will prohibited the direct quotation of her letters. The result was a bizarre, confused scholarly morass]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/willa-cathers-will-prohibited-the-direct-quotation-of-her-letters-the-result-was-a-bizarre-confused-scholarly-morass/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:37:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/willa-cathers-will-prohibited-the-direct-quotation-of-her-letters-the-result-was-a-bizarre-confused-scholarly-morass/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "literacy crisis" is older than the iPhone and AI. Dante faced it, so did Wordsworth. Crisis is writing's natural condition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The "literacy crisis" is older than the iPhone and AI. Dante faced it, so did Wordsworth. Crisis is writing's natural condition]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-literacy-crisis-is-older-than-the-iphone-and-ai-dante-faced-it-so-did-wordsworth-crisis-is-writings-natural-condition/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:37:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-literacy-crisis-is-older-than-the-iphone-and-ai-dante-faced-it-so-did-wordsworth-crisis-is-writings-natural-condition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the mid-1930s Frank Lloyd Wright was seen as a relic of a previous era. Then he created a new kind of American sublime]]></title><description><![CDATA[By the mid-1930s Frank Lloyd Wright was seen as a relic of a previous era. Then he created a new kind of American sublime]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/by-the-mid-1930s-frank-lloyd-wright-was-seen-as-a-relic-of-a-previous-era-then-he-created-a-new-kind-of-american-sublime/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:37:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/by-the-mid-1930s-frank-lloyd-wright-was-seen-as-a-relic-of-a-previous-era-then-he-created-a-new-kind-of-american-sublime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MoMA Plans a Retrospective for Marcel Duchamp, the Dada Artist Who Was Unimpressed With His Own Masterpieces]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French-American avant garde artist said painting and sculpture exhibitions made him sick. But the collection of 200 of his works may tell the story of art in the 20th century]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-plans-a-retrospective-for-marcel-duchamp-the-dada-artist-who-was-unimpressed-with-his-own-masterpieces/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-plans-a-retrospective-for-marcel-duchamp-the-dada-artist-who-was-unimpressed-with-his-own-masterpieces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[&ldquo;Manet &amp; Morisot&rdquo; Brings a Fabled Impressionist Friendship to&nbsp;Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sign of the times: Berthe Morisot, usually relegated to the realm of &ldquo;women&rdquo; Impressionists, gets equal billing with Edouard Manet, the arch modernist described as the &ldquo;father&rdquo; of Impressionism in &ldquo;Manet &amp; Morisot.&rdquo; The exhibition, now on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art, originated at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Morisot, one of few women exhibiting with the Impressionists, has offered fertile ground for feminist art historians looking to di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ldquomanet-amp-morisotrdquo-brings-a-fabled-impressionist-friendship-tonbsplife/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ldquomanet-amp-morisotrdquo-brings-a-fabled-impressionist-friendship-tonbsplife/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ariana Papademetropoulos Discusses Her Immersive Paris Exhibition, Featuring a Nine-Foot-Wide Fish Tank]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ariana Papademetropoulos&rsquo;s latest exhibition, titled &ldquo;Glass Slipper,&rdquo; is more than a fairy tale. Currently on view through April 11 at Thaddaeus Ropac&rsquo;s space in Paris, the show features paintings from two different series&mdash;one hyper-realistically depicts dresses in dry cleaning bags, the other chairs floating in different landscapes&mdash;as well as an installation consisting of a fish tank and mattress in which visitors are invited to lay on and don some headphones]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ariana-papademetropoulos-discusses-her-immersive-paris-exhibition-featuring-a-nine-foot-wide-fishtank/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ariana-papademetropoulos-discusses-her-immersive-paris-exhibition-featuring-a-nine-foot-wide-fishtank/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s White House Ballroom Plan Stalls as Congress Balks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump&rsquo;s $400 million plan to remake the White House with a sprawling ballroom has hit a familiar Washington obstacle: Congress&mdash;and a judge who says he cannot go around it.A federal judge earlier this week, passionately and emphatically, ordered construction on the project to stop unless lawmakers authorize it, throwing the future of the ballroom into doubt and forcing the administration into a choice it has so far avoided: fight on Capitol Hill or in the courts.&nbsp;On Capito]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-white-house-ballroom-plan-stalls-as-congressbalks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-white-house-ballroom-plan-stalls-as-congressbalks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 Books We’re Looking Forward to in April]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spring is here, and new art books and baby bunnies alike are entering the world en masse. Fiction fans can expect a new novel by Ben Lerner, a &ldquo;medieval weird&rdquo; tale story starring Monica Lewinsky, and an unhinged art-world satire imagining Sackler revenge. In nonfiction, look for a memoir from Hans Ulrich Obrist, new books on Dorothea Tanning and Alberto Giacometti, and much more.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/8-books-were-looking-forward-to-inapril/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/8-books-were-looking-forward-to-inapril/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lebanese Artist Ali Cherri Files War Crimes Complaint Against Israel After 2024 Beirut Bombing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has filed a civil complaint in France calling for an investigation into Israeli authorities&rsquo; bombing of a residential building in Beirut in November 2024, which killed seven civilians, including the artist&rsquo;s mother and father.The complaint, filed on April 2 with the French War Crimes Unit against unknown perpetrators, draws on a reconstruction and analysis of the attack by Forensic Archite]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lebanese-artist-ali-cherri-files-war-crimes-complaint-against-israel-after-2024-beirutbombing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lebanese-artist-ali-cherri-files-war-crimes-complaint-against-israel-after-2024-beirutbombing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy Warhol’s Former Studio Building Now Home to New Uniqlo Union Square Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Andy Warhol&rsquo;s former studio building on Broadway and East 17th Street has been home to many businesses since the Pop artist decamped from his third-floor Factory in 1984, after a decade at 860 Broadway. A nightclub (the Underground) was there in the &lsquo;80s, followed by a Petco in the mid-90s, which relocated nearby in 2023.The commercial building&rsquo;s ground floor retail space has been vacant for the intervening years, but a new tenant has moved it. The Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/andy-warhols-former-studio-building-now-home-to-new-uniqlo-union-squarestore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/andy-warhols-former-studio-building-now-home-to-new-uniqlo-union-squarestore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Dealer Larry Gagosian Recalls Rare Misstep With San Francisco Gallery: ‘Nobody Showed Up’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Larry Gagosian doesn&rsquo;t do a lot of interviews, but one supposes when Elle Decor asks to do a glossy profile on the rocket-ship trajectory of his eponymous gallery, you say yes.Speaking on the occasion of a new gallery opening at 980 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side this spring, Gagosian reflected on his many successes&mdash;and two notable failures.His short-lived San Francisco gallery, which opened in 2016 near SFMoMA and closed in 2021, was one such failure. At the time, a spokesper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-dealer-larry-gagosian-recalls-rare-misstep-with-san-francisco-gallery-nobody-showedup/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-dealer-larry-gagosian-recalls-rare-misstep-with-san-francisco-gallery-nobody-showedup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Priceless Romanian Golden Helmet, Heisted from a Dutch Museum, Has Been Recovered]]></title><description><![CDATA[Romanian culturati and historians, as well as Dutch museum officials, were shocked in January 2025 when thieves blew up a wall at a Netherlands museum to get at one of the great treasures of the National Museum of Romanian History: the golden Cotofenesti helmet, which dates to the 5th&ndash;4th centuries BCE. The thieves were seen on surveillance video opening a museum door with a crowbar before an explosion occurred.&nbsp;But at a press conference in Assen on Thursday, police wearing balaclavas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-priceless-romanian-golden-helmet-heisted-from-a-dutch-museum-has-beenrecovered/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-priceless-romanian-golden-helmet-heisted-from-a-dutch-museum-has-beenrecovered/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Arena Launches Art Program, with Paul Pfeiffer As First Artist-in-Residence]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Barclays Center arena in downtown Brooklyn is expanding its arts programming in the service of &ldquo;Brooklyn Art Encounters,&rdquo; a new multi-year initiative to continue public art presentations on the building&rsquo;s high-profile plaza but also move into other realms including an artist-in-residence program to be inaugurated by Paul Pfeiffer. &nbsp;Pfeiffer, whose work has engaged the spectacle around sports, will lead what a press release describes as &ldquo;a year-long media workshop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooklyns-barclays-center-arena-launches-art-program-with-paul-pfeiffer-as-first-artist-in-residence/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooklyns-barclays-center-arena-launches-art-program-with-paul-pfeiffer-as-first-artist-in-residence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pharmaceuticals Billionaire Buys Record-Breaking Indian Painting, Venice Biennale Faces Artist Protest: Morning Links for April 2, 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.The HeadlinesBEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against &ldquo;unknown perpetrators,&rdquo; and denouncing the Israeli army&rsquo;s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a press release. On November]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pharmaceuticals-billionaire-buys-record-breaking-indian-painting-venice-biennale-faces-artist-protest-morning-links-for-april-22026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pharmaceuticals-billionaire-buys-record-breaking-indian-painting-venice-biennale-faces-artist-protest-morning-links-for-april-22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Ali Cherri Files Complaint After Israeli Army Kills His Parents, Indian Painting Sets Auction Record: Morning Links for April 2, 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.The HeadlinesBEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against &ldquo;unknown perpetrators,&rdquo; and denouncing the Israeli army&rsquo;s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a press release. On November]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-ali-cherri-files-complaint-after-israeli-army-kills-his-parents-indian-painting-sets-auction-record-morning-links-for-april-22026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-ali-cherri-files-complaint-after-israeli-army-kills-his-parents-indian-painting-sets-auction-record-morning-links-for-april-22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze New York to Include Whitney Biennial Commission and New $50,000 Acquisition Fund]]></title><description><![CDATA[In just over a month, Frieze New York will open its 2026 edition, which will include several institutional collaborations and a new acquisition fund.Scheduled to run May 13&shy;&ndash;17 at the Shed with more than 65 exhibitors, Frieze New York will partner will the Whitney Museum, the Dia Art Foundation, and the Counterpublic triennial, to present a suite of performances and installations both in and out of the fair.The most high-profile of these is Frieze&rsquo;s collaboration with this year&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-new-york-to-include-whitney-biennial-commission-and-new-50000-acquisitionfund/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-new-york-to-include-whitney-biennial-commission-and-new-50000-acquisitionfund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Massive Collection of More Than a Million Tools Tells the Striking History of Jewelry Making in America]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before computers and A.I., beautiful trinkets were formed with a combination of hubs, dies, finesse and force. Kevin Potter has perhaps the world&rsquo;s largest assemblage of them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-massive-collection-of-more-than-a-million-tools-tells-the-striking-history-of-jewelry-making-in-america/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-massive-collection-of-more-than-a-million-tools-tells-the-striking-history-of-jewelry-making-in-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody understands Gertrude Stein. With her, incomprehension was always, at least partly, the point]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nobody understands Gertrude Stein. With her, incomprehension was always, at least partly, the point]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nobody-understands-gertrude-stein-with-her-incomprehension-was-always-at-least-partly-the-point/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:11:26 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nobody-understands-gertrude-stein-with-her-incomprehension-was-always-at-least-partly-the-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jürgen Habermas, “a rationalist when it was unfashionable to be one,” died last month. He was 96... Foreign Policy... Jan-Werner Müller... Matt McManus... Cass Sunstein... Nancy Fraser... Alexander C. Karp...]]></title><description><![CDATA[J&uuml;rgen Habermas, &ldquo;a rationalist when it was unfashionable to be one,&rdquo; died last month. He was 96...&nbsp;Foreign Policy...&nbsp;Jan-Werner M&uuml;ller...&nbsp;Matt McManus... Cass Sunstein... Nancy Fraser...&nbsp;Alexander C. Karp...]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jrgen-habermas-a-rationalist-when-it-was-unfashionable-to-be-one-died-last-month-he-was-96foreign-policyjan-werner-mllermatt-mcmanus-cass-sunstein-nancy-fraseralexander-c-karp/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:11:26 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jrgen-habermas-a-rationalist-when-it-was-unfashionable-to-be-one-died-last-month-he-was-96foreign-policyjan-werner-mllermatt-mcmanus-cass-sunstein-nancy-fraseralexander-c-karp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jan Morris correctly predicted that whatever her merits as writer, her obituary would inevitably read "Sex Change Author Dies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jan Morris correctly predicted that whatever her merits as writer, her obituary would inevitably read "Sex Change Author Dies"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jan-morris-correctly-predicted-that-whatever-her-merits-as-writer-her-obituary-would-inevitably-read-sex-change-author-dies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:11:26 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jan-morris-correctly-predicted-that-whatever-her-merits-as-writer-her-obituary-would-inevitably-read-sex-change-author-dies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teresinha Soares, Brazilian Artist Behind Erotic-Inflected Works That Slyly Defied Taboos, Dies at 99]]></title><description><![CDATA[Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose paintings and installations from the 1960s and &rsquo;70s challenged gendered-conventions of how women were both treated in Brazilian society and depicted throughout art history, died on March 31 in Belo Horizonte. She was 99 years old.She had been hospitalized after breaking her femur and never recovered, according to her daughter, artist Valeska Soares, as reported by Brazilian newspaper Estado de Minas.	&ldquo;Teresinha Soares leaves a legacy that,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/teresinha-soares-brazilian-artist-behind-erotic-inflected-works-that-slyly-defied-taboos-dies-at99/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/teresinha-soares-brazilian-artist-behind-erotic-inflected-works-that-slyly-defied-taboos-dies-at99/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With 18 Exclamation Marks, a DC Judge Orders a Stop to Trump’s Ballroom Project: ‘Please!’]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an opinion filed March 31, &nbsp;a US District Court judge for the District of Columbia has rejected the Trump administration&rsquo;s arguments for a 90,000-square-foot, $400 million ballroom to be erected on the former site of the East Wing, which Trump unceremoniously demolished last year.&nbsp;Judge Richard J. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, came out of the gate strong, in an opinion that starts, &ldquo;The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future gener]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-18-exclamation-marks-a-dc-judge-orders-a-stop-to-trumps-ballroom-projectplease/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-18-exclamation-marks-a-dc-judge-orders-a-stop-to-trumps-ballroom-projectplease/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Immersive Art Exhibition on the Sistine Chapel Is Coming to New Jersey Mall]]></title><description><![CDATA[The similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo&rsquo;s hallowed paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The setting will be the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall, and the occasion will be &ldquo;Michelangelo&rsquo;s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,&rdquo; an &ldquo;immersive experience&rdquo; opening April 10.&ldquo;Rated 4.8 stars globally, the exhibition faithfully recreates all 34 of Michelangelo&rsquo;s c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-immersive-art-exhibition-on-the-sistine-chapel-is-coming-to-new-jerseymall/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-immersive-art-exhibition-on-the-sistine-chapel-is-coming-to-new-jerseymall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caravaggio Documentary Will Premiere on Marquee TV Next Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Caravaggio, a feature-length documentary about the Baroque Italian painter, was released in theaters last fall. The film, directed by Phil Grabsky and David Bickerstaff, is part of the &ldquo;Exhibition on Screen&rdquo; series, which is produced by UK-based company Seventh Art Productions. It will now be more widely available, premiering on Marquee TV, a streaming platform that mostly focuses on performing arts, starting on April 6.Grabsky told the Art Newspaper that the film does not overly emp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/caravaggio-documentary-will-premiere-on-marquee-tv-nextweek/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/caravaggio-documentary-will-premiere-on-marquee-tv-nextweek/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Orders Nationwide Museum Audit After Missing Masterpieces Scandal]]></title><description><![CDATA[China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had quietly slipped into the private market, according to Hong Kong newspaper South Morning China Post.The directive, issued this week by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, requires every state-owned museum to conduct a physical, item-by-item inventory of its collections, checking each object against official records. The goal is simp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/china-orders-nationwide-museum-audit-after-missing-masterpiecesscandal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/china-orders-nationwide-museum-audit-after-missing-masterpiecesscandal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drug addict, confidence man, adulterer: The attacks on Freud’s reputation may matter in an academic context, but not in a literary one]]></title><description><![CDATA[Drug addict, confidence man, adulterer: The attacks on Freud&rsquo;s reputation may matter in an academic context, but not in a literary one]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/drug-addict-confidence-man-adulterer-the-attacks-on-freuds-reputation-may-matter-in-an-academic-context-but-not-in-a-literary-one/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:02:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/drug-addict-confidence-man-adulterer-the-attacks-on-freuds-reputation-may-matter-in-an-academic-context-but-not-in-a-literary-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $5.5 M. Online Sale of a Triceratops on Pharrell’s Auction Platform Joopiter Says A Lot About Where the Market Is Headed]]></title><description><![CDATA[A triceratops sold online for $5.5 million on Tuesday on musician and designer Pharrell Williams&rsquo;s auction platform Joopiter.The result set a record for a dinosaur sold in an online-only sale, the Art Newspaper reported Wednesday. The sale of the 66-million-year-old skeleton known as &ldquo;Trey&rdquo; is further evidence of a larger trend in the auction market: fossils and dinosaur skeletons are increasingly moving out of the siloed category of natural history and being traded like any ot]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-55-m-online-sale-of-a-triceratops-on-pharrells-auction-platform-joopiter-says-a-lot-about-where-the-market-isheaded/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-55-m-online-sale-of-a-triceratops-on-pharrells-auction-platform-joopiter-says-a-lot-about-where-the-market-isheaded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maurizio Cattelan’s Latest Work is Hotline for People to Confess Their Sins… to Him]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new hotline inviting people to &ldquo;confess their sins&rdquo; is launching on Thursday, but it&rsquo;s not backed by the Church. Instead, it&rsquo;s the latest project by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose work often mixes religious imagery with controversy and dark humor.As reported by The Guardian, the phone line is going live just ahead of Easter as part of a wider project marking 21 years since the death of Pope John Paul II. Alongside it, Cattelan is releasing a limited]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/maurizio-cattelans-latest-work-is-hotline-for-people-to-confess-their-sins-tohim/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/maurizio-cattelans-latest-work-is-hotline-for-people-to-confess-their-sins-tohim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Halts Construction of Trump Ballroom, Maurizio Cattelan Wants You to Confess… to Him: Morning Links for April 1, 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.The HeadlinesTHE LAST DANCE. Yesterday, Judge Richard Leon halted construction of President Trump&rsquo;s contentious White House ballroom, ruling that Congress must approve the major building project first, reports the New York Times. It is the first time a federal judge has put the brakes on the president&rsquo;s renovation plans at the White House, but it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-halts-construction-of-trump-ballroom-maurizio-cattelan-wants-you-to-confess-to-him-morning-links-for-april-12026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-halts-construction-of-trump-ballroom-maurizio-cattelan-wants-you-to-confess-to-him-morning-links-for-april-12026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bicoastal Art World Satire ‘Kill Dick’ Imagines Sackler Revenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before you even begin reading Luke Goebel&rsquo;s Kill Dick, there are clues that it&rsquo;s going to be a wild ride. Blurbs on the back cover are attributed to Anna Delvey, the socialite-scammer, and to Ottessa Moshfegh of My Year of Rest and Relaxation fame&mdash;also, the author&rsquo;s wife. Moshfegh says, &ldquo;If this book were any better, I&rsquo;d cut my own head off.&rdquo;The novel satirizes the art world and its thorny relationship to the Sackler family, those opioid-peddling philant]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bicoastal-art-world-satire-kill-dick-imagines-sacklerrevenge/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bicoastal-art-world-satire-kill-dick-imagines-sacklerrevenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just 25 literary agents collectively represent half of all authors short-listed for major American literary prizes this century]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just 25 literary agents collectively represent half of all authors short-listed for major American literary prizes this century]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/just-25-literary-agents-collectively-represent-half-of-all-authors-short-listed-for-major-american-literary-prizes-this-century/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:28:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/just-25-literary-agents-collectively-represent-half-of-all-authors-short-listed-for-major-american-literary-prizes-this-century/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danielle Allen is a rare liberal academic who takes conservatism seriously. But she is far more interesting than the label “moderate” might suggest ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Danielle Allen is a rare liberal academic who takes conservatism seriously. But she is far more interesting than the label &ldquo;moderate&rdquo; might suggest&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/danielle-allen-is-a-rare-liberal-academic-who-takes-conservatism-seriously-but-she-is-far-more-interesting-than-the-label-moderate-might-suggest/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:28:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/danielle-allen-is-a-rare-liberal-academic-who-takes-conservatism-seriously-but-she-is-far-more-interesting-than-the-label-moderate-might-suggest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A drug addict, a confidence man, an adulterer: The attacks on Freud’s reputation may matter in an academic context, but not in a literary one]]></title><description><![CDATA[A drug addict, a confidence man, an adulterer: The attacks on Freud&rsquo;s reputation may matter in an academic context, but not in a literary one]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-drug-addict-a-confidence-man-an-adulterer-the-attacks-on-freuds-reputation-may-matter-in-an-academic-context-but-not-in-a-literary-one/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:28:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-drug-addict-a-confidence-man-an-adulterer-the-attacks-on-freuds-reputation-may-matter-in-an-academic-context-but-not-in-a-literary-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany Creates New Council to Oversee Returns of Looted Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[The German government is creating a new council to oversee the restitution of artifacts acquired in a colonial context, the Art Newspaper reported Tuesday. The new panel, known as the Coordination Council for Returns of Cultural Property and Human Remains from Colonial Contexts, will be made up of representatives from German government, state, and municipal authorities, according to a statement released yesterday.The council is &ldquo;an important step in responsibly handling cultural property a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/germany-creates-new-council-to-oversee-returns-of-lootedart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/germany-creates-new-council-to-oversee-returns-of-lootedart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getty Museum Acquires Two Significant Dutch Still Lifes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired two Dutch still lifes of note&mdash;including one that the institution said it &ldquo;has been seeking over two decades,&rdquo; according to a press release announcing the news.Jan Davidsz. de Heem&rsquo;s Glass Vase with Flowers and Fruit (ca. 1673&ndash;74) is one of nine similar paintings that demonstrate the artist&rsquo;s &ldquo;skill of illusionism and accurate botanical and entomological observations,&rdquo; per the release, and was unrecorded]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-museum-acquires-two-significant-dutch-stilllifes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-museum-acquires-two-significant-dutch-stilllifes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Louvre Remains the World’s Most-Visited Museum, with Competition Coming from the Middle East and Asia in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some 200 million visitors streamed through the 100 top-attended museums around the world in 2025, according to the latest attendance ranking by the Art Newspaper. That figure is still down a bit from the 230 million who punched their tickets in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic shut museums down for months, indicating that overall museums haven&rsquo;t quite regained their footing even five years later.Many new museums in the Middle East and Asia, which are relatively new to museum-bui]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-louvre-remains-the-worlds-most-visited-museum-with-competition-coming-from-the-middle-east-and-asia-in2025/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-louvre-remains-the-worlds-most-visited-museum-with-competition-coming-from-the-middle-east-and-asia-in2025/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pinakothek in Munich Returns Nazi-Looted Painting by Lesser Ury to Jewish Heirs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pinakotheken in Munich will return a painting by the German painter Lesser Ury that was auctioned under duress during the Nazi regime in Bavaria. First reported by&nbsp;Monopol, the news signals a renewed push for restitution within Bavaria&rsquo;s museum sector, long scrutinized for its sluggish handling of Nazi-looted art.Ury, a German-Jewish Impressionist who died in 1931, was known for his evocative depictions of Berlin and Bavaria&mdash;nocturnal caf&eacute;s, rain-drenched streets, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pinakothek-in-munich-returns-nazi-looted-painting-by-lesser-ury-to-jewishheirs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pinakothek-in-munich-returns-nazi-looted-painting-by-lesser-ury-to-jewishheirs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Koons Designs Two Bottles for Evian’s 200th Anniversary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Evian water, filtered through glacial rocks in the town &Eacute;vian-les-Bain in the French Alps, was discovered in 1789, and 37 years later, in 1826, it was first bottled by the King of Piedmont-Sardinia.The ubiquitous and bougie water brand is now celebrating its 200th anniversary by collaborating with a cohort of athletes (tennis stars Carlos Alcaraz, Emma Raducanu, and Francis Tiafoe, and golfer C&eacute;line Boutier) and the artist Jeff Koons.Koons&rsquo;s limited-edition clear glass bottle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-designs-two-bottles-for-evians-200thanniversary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-designs-two-bottles-for-evians-200thanniversary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Koons Designs Two Bottles for Evain’s 200th Anniversary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Evian water, filtered through glacial rocks in the town &Eacute;vian-les-Bain in the French Alps, was discovered in 1789, and 37 years later, in 1826, it was first bottled by the King of Piedmont-Sardinia.The ubiquitous and bougie water brand is now celebrating its 200th anniversary by collaborating with a cohort of athletes (tennis stars Carlos Alcaraz, Emma Raducanu, and Francis Tiafoe, and golfer C&eacute;line Boutier) and the artist Jeff Koons.Koons&rsquo;s limited-edition clear glass bottle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-designs-two-bottles-for-evains-200thanniversary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-designs-two-bottles-for-evains-200thanniversary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[François-Xavier Gbré Uses His Photography to Fill in History’s Gaps]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;What I try to do with my work is to fill the many gaps in history, and to tell history in different ways,&rdquo; said artist Fran&ccedil;ois-Xavier Gbr&eacute;, speaking via a video call.It was fitting that Gbr&eacute; spoke these words, since so much information is still transmitted orally from older to younger generations in Africa. Born in France to French and Ivorian parents, Gbr&eacute; uses his art to keep alive &ldquo;the memory of the continent.&rdquo; He added, &ldquo;This story]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/franois-xavier-gbr-uses-his-photography-to-fill-in-historysgaps/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/franois-xavier-gbr-uses-his-photography-to-fill-in-historysgaps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California’s High Desert Is Rich With Natural and Artistic Beauty—All Amplified by a Budding Art Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you got the uncanny feeling, while visiting the High Desert Art Fair (HDAF) last weekend, that you were on a movie set, that&rsquo;s because, in a way, you were. The event took place in California&rsquo;s High Desert, at the Pioneertown Motel, built in 1946 by Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to simulate a Western town on screen. It&rsquo;s located a couple of hours&rsquo; drive (if you time it right) from Los Angeles; about an hour from Palm Springs, with its thriving artistic and design communitie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/californias-high-desert-is-rich-with-natural-and-artistic-beautyall-amplified-by-a-budding-artfair/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/californias-high-desert-is-rich-with-natural-and-artistic-beautyall-amplified-by-a-budding-artfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Trump Has Unveiled Plans for $1 B. Presidential Library Skyscraper in Miami]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday, President Donald Trump posted a short video to Truth Social unveiling a rendering of his planned Donald J. Trump Presidential Library in downtown Miami.The video shows a 47-story tower emblazoned with Trump across the top, a red-white-and-blue spire, and an American flag at its center. The promo also shows a gold entranceway and escalator, naturally, as well as models of Air Force One and several military aircraft. It also depicts a 20-foot-tall golden statue of Trump, as well as a re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/president-trump-has-unveiled-plans-for-1-b-presidential-library-skyscraper-inmiami/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/president-trump-has-unveiled-plans-for-1-b-presidential-library-skyscraper-inmiami/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1-54 New York Lines-Up More Than 20 Exhibitors, with a Special Focus on Brazil]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has announced the more than 20 galleries that will participate in its upcoming edition, scheduled to run May 13&ndash;17 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea.The fair takes place in tandem with Frieze New York at the Shed, and another fair, NADA New York, will also be on view at the Starrett-Lehigh. 1-54 returns to the iconic Chelsea building after last hosting its 2024 iteration there.The fair will feature a mix of returning galleries, like 193 Galle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/1-54-new-york-lines-up-more-than-20-exhibitors-with-a-special-focus-onbrazil/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/1-54-new-york-lines-up-more-than-20-exhibitors-with-a-special-focus-onbrazil/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gladstone Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Pope.L, Boundary-Crossing Performance Artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gladstone Gallery now represents the estate of Pope.L, the boundary-crossing artist whose performances and conceptual art left an indelible mark on contemporary art. The gallery will mount its first solo show for the artist in 2027 in New York.Gladstone will represent Pope.L with Modern Art in London and Vielmetter Los Angeles, which both represented the artist at the time of his death in December 2023. (At that time, Pope.L was also represented by Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash, which closed its New]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gladstone-gallery-now-represents-the-estate-of-popel-boundary-crossing-performanceartist/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gladstone-gallery-now-represents-the-estate-of-popel-boundary-crossing-performanceartist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melvin Edwards, Sculptor Whose Steel Assemblages Influenced Generations of Artists, Dies at 88]]></title><description><![CDATA[Melvin Edwards, a sculptor whose assemblages of welded steel and barbed wire nodded toward centuries of violence and reframed the visual language of Minimalism, died on Monday in Baltimore. He was 88, according to his gallery, Alexander Gray Associates, which said in its obituary that he died peacefully, in the presence of his wife, Diala Toure.Edwards remains best known for his &ldquo;Lynch Fragments,&rdquo; a body of work he began producing in the 1960s. Working primarily with found steel obje]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/melvin-edwards-sculptor-whose-steel-assemblages-influenced-generations-of-artists-dies-at88/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/melvin-edwards-sculptor-whose-steel-assemblages-influenced-generations-of-artists-dies-at88/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met Touted Her as Its First Native American Curator. Amid Criticism, She Quietly Left.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patricia Marroquin Norby, the first curator of Native American art ever hired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, quietly left her post in December 2025. Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York posted a job listing for a curator of Native American art to replace Norby, who had been the museum&rsquo;s associate curator of Native American art since 2020.&nbsp;Norby had been hired to great fanfare, as both the first person to hold the role at the Met and the first Native Ameri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-touted-her-as-its-first-native-american-curator-amid-criticism-she-quietlyleft/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-touted-her-as-its-first-native-american-curator-amid-criticism-she-quietlyleft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Typed Bob Dylan Lyrics Found Inside Ginsberg Book Heads to Auction, Germany to Create New Council on Colonial-Era Art Restitution, and More: Morning Links for March 31, 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.Germany is setting up a new panel called the Coordination Council for Returns of Cultural Property and Human Remains from Colonial Contexts.A rare scrap of typed lyrics from Bob Dylan&rsquo;s song &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Not There&rdquo; was found hidden in a book and will be auctioned.Plans for Donald Trump&rsquo;s presidential library in Miami were revealed yester]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/typed-bob-dylan-lyrics-found-inside-ginsberg-book-heads-to-auction-germany-to-create-new-council-on-colonial-era-art-restitution-and-more-morning-links-for-march-312026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/typed-bob-dylan-lyrics-found-inside-ginsberg-book-heads-to-auction-germany-to-create-new-council-on-colonial-era-art-restitution-and-more-morning-links-for-march-312026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ‘Doonesbury,’ Garry Trudeau Found a Way to Inform and Entertain a Generation of Newspaper Readers, One Panel at a Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new biography chronicles the history and evolution of the reserved artist who has always let his pen do the talking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-doonesbury-garry-trudeau-found-a-way-to-inform-and-entertain-a-generation-of-newspaper-readers-one-panel-at-a-time/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-doonesbury-garry-trudeau-found-a-way-to-inform-and-entertain-a-generation-of-newspaper-readers-one-panel-at-a-time/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a nightmare year for nonfiction, sales dropped by more than 8 percent and only one of the 10 best sellers was a new book. Any hope in sight?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a nightmare year for nonfiction, sales dropped by more than 8 percent and only one of the 10 best sellers was a new book. Any hope in sight?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-nightmare-year-for-nonfiction-sales-dropped-by-more-than-8-percent-and-only-one-of-the-10-best-sellers-was-a-new-book-any-hope-in-sight/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:20:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-nightmare-year-for-nonfiction-sales-dropped-by-more-than-8-percent-and-only-one-of-the-10-best-sellers-was-a-new-book-any-hope-in-sight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Always read the magazine you’re submitting to.” “Don’t resubmit the same day.” And other advice from literary magazine editors]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Always read the magazine you&rsquo;re submitting to.&rdquo; &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t resubmit the same day.&rdquo; And other advice from literary magazine editors]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/always-read-the-magazine-youre-submitting-to-dont-resubmit-the-same-day-and-other-advice-from-literary-magazine-editors-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:20:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/always-read-the-magazine-youre-submitting-to-dont-resubmit-the-same-day-and-other-advice-from-literary-magazine-editors-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asked Ben Lerner to Name One Artwork He Considers a “Revelation”]]></title><description><![CDATA[We asked the beloved novelist, whose book Transcription is out in April, to single out one artwork that impacted him.&nbsp;I thought of Rose Salane&rsquo;s 60 Detected Rings (1991&ndash;2021) when asked to inaugurate a column called Revelations because the word is so close to &ldquo;revaluations,&rdquo; and what the art I love reveals to me is how our measures of value might be challenged and transformed. Salane bought the rings in 60 Detected Rings at an estate sale; they&rsquo;d been collected]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-ben-lerner-to-name-one-artwork-he-considers-a-revelation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-ben-lerner-to-name-one-artwork-he-considers-a-revelation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedants are irritating. They're also essential. The know-it-all is civilization's last line of defense]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pedants are irritating. They're also essential. The know-it-all is civilization's last line of defense]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pedants-are-irritating-theyre-also-essential-the-know-it-all-is-civilizations-last-line-of-defense/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:26:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pedants-are-irritating-theyre-also-essential-the-know-it-all-is-civilizations-last-line-of-defense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a nightmare year for nonfiction, sales dropped over 8 percent and only one of the 10 bestsellers was a new book. Is there any hope? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a nightmare year for nonfiction, sales dropped over 8 percent and only one of the 10 bestsellers was a new book. Is there any hope?&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-nightmare-year-for-nonfiction-sales-dropped-over-8-percent-and-only-one-of-the-10-bestsellers-was-a-new-book-is-there-any-hope/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:26:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-nightmare-year-for-nonfiction-sales-dropped-over-8-percent-and-only-one-of-the-10-bestsellers-was-a-new-book-is-there-any-hope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Always read the magazine you’re submitting to,” “don’t resubmit the same day,” and other advice from literary magazine editors]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Always read the magazine you&rsquo;re submitting to,&rdquo; &ldquo;don&rsquo;t resubmit the same day,&rdquo; and other advice from literary magazine editors]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/always-read-the-magazine-youre-submitting-to-dont-resubmit-the-same-day-and-other-advice-from-literary-magazine-editors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:26:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/always-read-the-magazine-youre-submitting-to-dont-resubmit-the-same-day-and-other-advice-from-literary-magazine-editors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Marquee Art Sales Total $164.9 M., Up 18 Percent From Equivalent 2025 Auctions]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the second consecutive year, Christie&rsquo;s, Phillips, and Sotheby&rsquo;s aligned their marquee spring auctions in Asia with the week of Art Basel Hong Kong. The strategy clearly worked, with the three houses generating a combined $164.9 million across their modern and contemporary art evening sales. That result marked a significant rebound from last autumn&rsquo;s $136.3 million &mdash; the lowest total in eight years &mdash; and also surpassed last spring&rsquo;s comparable total of $13]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hong-kong-marquee-art-sales-total-1649-m-up-18-percent-from-equivalent-2025auctions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hong-kong-marquee-art-sales-total-1649-m-up-18-percent-from-equivalent-2025auctions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist and Filmmaker Steve McQueen Wins $172,000 Erasmus Prize ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen is this year&rsquo;s winner of the Erasmus Prize, given annually by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch cultural institution. The award comes with a 150,000 euro (about $172,000) cash prize plus &ldquo;adornments&rdquo;&mdash;in this case, a folded paper booklet printed with text in the 16th century Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus&rsquo;s script. &nbsp;As an artist, McQueen is best known for films like Occupied City (2023), a four-and-a-hal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-and-filmmaker-steve-mcqueen-wins-172000-erasmusprize/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-and-filmmaker-steve-mcqueen-wins-172000-erasmusprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scholar Attributes Long-Suspected ‘Workshop Copy’ Painting to Rembrandt]]></title><description><![CDATA[A painting long thought to be a &ldquo;workshop copy&rdquo; of a cherished Rembrandt in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago has been attributed to Rembrandt himself by a scholar with significant credit to his claim.As reported by the Guardian, Gary Schwartz, who has written books on Rembrandt and Dutch painting and will deliver a talk on Monday at the National Gallery in London, said a canvas in a private collection in the UK is in fact a Rembrandt in the same way as Old Man with a Go]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/scholar-attributes-long-suspected-workshop-copy-painting-torembrandt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/scholar-attributes-long-suspected-workshop-copy-painting-torembrandt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ Could Leave Madrid for the First Time in Over 30 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Basque regional government has formally asked Spain&rsquo;s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso&rsquo;s Guernica to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, according to Ara, a Catalan-language newspaper. If the move is approved, it would mark the first time the painting has traveled since it was installed at Madrid&rsquo;s Museo Reina Sof&iacute;a in 1992.The proposed transfer would take place between October 2026 and June 2027, coinciding with the 90th anniversary of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/picassos-guernica-could-leave-madrid-for-the-first-time-in-over-30years/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/picassos-guernica-could-leave-madrid-for-the-first-time-in-over-30years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sky Hopinka Reframes the American Landscape at the Barnes Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story is part of&nbsp;Newsmakers, an&nbsp;ARTnews&nbsp;series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of&nbsp;Luise&ntilde;o Indians) has spent the last year and a half photographing the American landscape. That journey across the United States has culminated in the new site-specific installation, titled Red Metal Dust, at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. For it, the multidisc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sky-hopinka-reframes-the-american-landscape-at-the-barnesfoundation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sky-hopinka-reframes-the-american-landscape-at-the-barnesfoundation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thieves Make Off with $10 M. Worth of Art During Three-Minute Heist in Italy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four masked men stole three artworks, one each by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul C&eacute;zanne, and Henri Matisse, from a private art museum in Italy last week, according to a report by the Bologna-based newspaper&nbsp;La Repubblica. The paintings are reportedly worth millions of dollars.The heist, which took place on the night of March 22, lasted just three minutes. It happened at the Magnani Rocca Foundation, located in a villa outside Parma, and involved the theft of C&eacute;zanne&rsquo;s Stil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thieves-make-off-with-10-m-worth-of-art-during-three-minute-heist-initaly/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thieves-make-off-with-10-m-worth-of-art-during-three-minute-heist-initaly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret Trial of Artist Gao Zhen Begins in China, Trump’s Design for White House Ballroom Critiqued, and More: Morning Links for March 30, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesVILLA VANDALIZED. Three masterpieces by&nbsp;Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Paul C&eacute;zanne&nbsp;were stolen from the&nbsp;Magnani Rocca Foundation&rsquo;s&nbsp;villa near Parma on the night of March 22, as first reported by the Italian broadcaster&nbsp;Rai&nbsp;on Sunday and later aggregated by&nbsp;&nbsp;Le Monde&nbsp;and the Agence France-Presse. Police said four masked burglars forced open a door to the building. In just a few minutes,they&nbsp; made off]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/secret-trial-of-artist-gao-zhen-begins-in-china-trumps-design-for-white-house-ballroom-critiqued-and-more-morning-links-for-march-302026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/secret-trial-of-artist-gao-zhen-begins-in-china-trumps-design-for-white-house-ballroom-critiqued-and-more-morning-links-for-march-302026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant Golden Toilet Sculpture Appears Near Lincoln Memorial in D.C.: ‘A Throne Fit for a King’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest in a series of politically inflected sculptures to appear on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a giant golden toilet that can now be found near the Lincoln Memorial.Its title, as its plaque states, is A Throne Fit for a King, and its makers is the Secret Handshake, the same group of anonymous artists that also produced Best Friends Forever, a sculpture that featured a beaming Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.&ldquo;With so much horror happening on a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giant-golden-toilet-sculpture-appears-near-lincoln-memorial-in-dc-a-throne-fit-for-aking/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giant-golden-toilet-sculpture-appears-near-lincoln-memorial-in-dc-a-throne-fit-for-aking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The IFPDA Print Fair Returns to the Park Avenue Armory, Illuminating the Relationship Between Prints and Drawings]]></title><description><![CDATA[For centuries, drawings and prints were collected and exhibited together, with the blurry distinction between the two sometimes dissolving altogether. The upcoming IFPDA Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory (April 9&ndash;12) will offer an illuminating exploration of this relationship, with 80 exhibitors from Singapore to Stockholm (including blue chip galleries Hauser &amp; Wirth, Pace Prints, and David Zwirner) presenting 500 years of drawings, prints, and editions to train your eye and, perha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-ifpda-print-fair-returns-to-the-park-avenue-armory-illuminating-the-relationship-between-prints-anddrawings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-ifpda-print-fair-returns-to-the-park-avenue-armory-illuminating-the-relationship-between-prints-anddrawings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The MAGA Theory of Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a fable that persists in even themost respectable quarters, perhaps because it has retained its power to shock for more than half a century. Get any card-carrying liberal into a sufficiently confessional mood and she will tell you, sotto voce, that there was one domain in which the Nazis were perversely and chillingly formidable: the domain of the aesthetic.&nbsp;Even the Nazis&rsquo; detractors hailed their movies as sensations. Most famously, Susan Sontag noted in her landmark essay &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-maga-theory-ofart/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-maga-theory-ofart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher and the tsar. Leibniz courted Peter the Great for decades, seeking influence and ducats. The effort resulted in frustration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The philosopher and the tsar. Leibniz courted Peter the Great for decades, seeking influence and ducats. The effort resulted in frustration]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-philosopher-and-the-tsar-leibniz-courted-peter-the-great-for-decades-seeking-influence-and-ducats-the-effort-resulted-in-frustration/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:10:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-philosopher-and-the-tsar-leibniz-courted-peter-the-great-for-decades-seeking-influence-and-ducats-the-effort-resulted-in-frustration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claire Tabouret’s Stained-Glass Windows for Notre-Dame Divide French Society, with a Legal Threat Looming]]></title><description><![CDATA[On a recent visit to the Notre-Dame de Paris, the 12th-century cathedral was bustling with a steady flow of visitors who had come inside the Gothic monument from a wintery afternoon. It seemed more packed than it had been before its closure in 2019, after the collapse of its iconic spire and roof in a horrific blaze. But the line to get in moved quickly, and once under its vaulted ceiling, the sheer size of the structure left room to linger. I had gone to see the stained-glass windows designed b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claire-tabourets-stained-glass-windows-for-notre-dame-divide-french-society-with-a-legal-threatlooming/</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claire-tabourets-stained-glass-windows-for-notre-dame-divide-french-society-with-a-legal-threatlooming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Updike and the Jews: the men grotesque, hairy, hunched; the women dumpy and frizzy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Updike and the Jews: the men grotesque, hairy, hunched; the women dumpy and frizzy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/updike-and-the-jews-the-men-grotesque-hairy-hunched-the-women-dumpy-and-frizzy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:13:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/updike-and-the-jews-the-men-grotesque-hairy-hunched-the-women-dumpy-and-frizzy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher and the tsar. Leibniz courted Peter the Great for decades, seeking influence and ducats. It mostly resulted in frustration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The philosopher and the tsar. Leibniz courted Peter the Great for decades, seeking influence and ducats. It mostly resulted in frustration]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-philosopher-and-the-tsar-leibniz-courted-peter-the-great-for-decades-seeking-influence-and-ducats-it-mostly-resulted-in-frustration/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:13:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-philosopher-and-the-tsar-leibniz-courted-peter-the-great-for-decades-seeking-influence-and-ducats-it-mostly-resulted-in-frustration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial — as well as aesthetic — expertise]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial &mdash; as well as aesthetic &mdash; expertise]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-to-define-a-color-a-seemingly-simple-task-came-to-require-scientific-and-industrial-as-well-as-aesthetic-expertise/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:13:26 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-to-define-a-color-a-seemingly-simple-task-came-to-require-scientific-and-industrial-as-well-as-aesthetic-expertise/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning]]></title><description><![CDATA[An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI&nbsp;has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-idolatrous-consumerist-faith-in-aihas-distorted-our-thinking-about-human-life-and-human-meaning/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:56:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-idolatrous-consumerist-faith-in-aihas-distorted-our-thinking-about-human-life-and-human-meaning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center Begins Staff Layoffs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center began laying off staff on Thursday, according to a report in the Washington Post. The cuts, which employees say affected multiple departments, are tied to President Donald Trump&rsquo;s plan to shut down the Washington, D.C., cultural institution for two years, which was approved by its board earlier this month.Included in the layoffs were the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s executive vice president Nick Meade and vice president Rick Loughery, both of whom were installed in their roles]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-begins-stafflayoffs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-begins-stafflayoffs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guillaume Cerutti, Former Christie’s CEO, Leaves Post as Pinault Collection President]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guillaume Cerutti, the former CEO of Christie&rsquo;s auction house, has left his position at the Pinault Collection after just 13 months, the French investigative news outlet Glitz reported earlier this week.In February 2025, Cerutti became president of the collection owned by French billionaire Fran&ccedil;ois Pinault. In addition to the 10,000 works in its holdings, the Pinault Collection also maintains several private museums: the Bourse de Commerce in Paris and the Palazzo Grassi and Punta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guillaume-cerutti-former-christies-ceo-leaves-post-as-pinault-collectionpresident/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guillaume-cerutti-former-christies-ceo-leaves-post-as-pinault-collectionpresident/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Antonio Homem, Champion of the Ileana Sonnabend Collection, Dies at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Antonio Homem, who started working with the storied gallerist Ileana Sonnabend in the 1960s and went on to oversee her collection and maintain her and husband Michael Sonnabend&rsquo;s legacy as supporters of some of the most important figures of post-war contemporary art, has died at the age of 86. The news was announced by the Sonnabend Collection Mantova, a museum Homem helped open in the north of Italy in 2025.Born in Portugal in 1939, Homem moved to Switzerland as a teenager and studied eng]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/antonio-homem-champion-of-the-ileana-sonnabend-collection-dies-at86/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/antonio-homem-champion-of-the-ileana-sonnabend-collection-dies-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch K-Pop Superstars BTS Perform New Singles “SWIM” and “2.0” at the Guggenheim Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Countless bands and musical artists have celebrated new album releases on late-night television, but no one has done so with quite the art world flair as BTS, the mega-famous K-pop boy band fronted by art enthusiast and collector RM. (The other six members are Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook.)Fresh off a four-year hiatus, BTS&rsquo;s new album Arirang came out on Mar. 20. The band was interviewed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night. But instead of performing t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/watch-k-pop-superstars-bts-perform-new-singles-swim-and-20-at-the-guggenheimmuseum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/watch-k-pop-superstars-bts-perform-new-singles-swim-and-20-at-the-guggenheimmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[European Parliament Members Call on EU to Strip Funding from Venice Biennale Amid Russian Pavilion Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[As controversy mounts over Russia&rsquo;s plans to mount its first Venice Biennale pavilion since the nation&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter that calls for the European Union to cease all funding to the Biennale.The EU has not publicly stated how much money it gives to the Biennale, which is not just the top art exhibition in Europe but the biggest show of its kind anywhere in the world. But according to the letter, which was obtained by]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/european-parliament-members-call-on-eu-to-strip-funding-from-venice-biennale-amid-russian-pavilioncontroversy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/european-parliament-members-call-on-eu-to-strip-funding-from-venice-biennale-amid-russian-pavilioncontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guillaume Cerutti Departs Pinault Collection, Rediscovered Napoleon Hat on View, and More: Morning Links for March 27, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Guillaume Cerutti is stepping down from his relatively new role as president of the Pinault Collection.Forgotten in storage for nearly a century, one of Napoleon&rsquo;s two-cornered hats has been identified and will go on display in June.Precious Okoyomon&rsquo;s Whitney Biennial installation of around 50 hanging stuffed animals and dolls has gone on view after a delay.The Headlines	SACKED.&nbsp;Guillaume Cerutti&nbsp;has been dismissed from his plush position as president of the&n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guillaume-cerutti-departs-pinault-collection-rediscovered-napoleon-hat-on-view-and-more-morning-links-for-march-272026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:21:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guillaume-cerutti-departs-pinault-collection-rediscovered-napoleon-hat-on-view-and-more-morning-links-for-march-272026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Saw a Great Show in China That Would Be Censored in the United States]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a famous photograph of W.E.B. Du Bois with Mao Zedong, both men are absolutely giddy and dressed to the nines: big smiles, stylish hats, long wool coats. That picture&mdash;and the 20th-century Afro-Asian alliances it symbolizes&mdash;was something of an impetus for &ldquo;The Great Camouflage,&rdquo; a show on view at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai through April 26.Co-curators X Zhu-Nowell and Kandis Williams began with a shared interest in overlapping revolutionary histories and cross-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/i-saw-a-great-show-in-china-that-would-be-censored-in-the-unitedstates/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/i-saw-a-great-show-in-china-that-would-be-censored-in-the-unitedstates/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precious Okoyomon’s Whitney Biennial Installation Is on View After a Delay, and It’s a True Shocker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Whitney Biennial went on view to the usual amount of fanfare&mdash;but one work was notably missing from the show. That work, a room-filling installation by Precious Okoyomon featuring stuffed animals and racist dolls suspended from the ceiling by nooses, was initially meant to appear in the lobby. But shortly before the exhibition opened to the press, the artist and the show&rsquo;s curators pulled the plug on that plan.The issue, Okoyomon told ARTnews this week, was not]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/precious-okoyomons-whitney-biennial-installation-is-on-view-after-a-delay-and-its-a-trueshocker/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/precious-okoyomons-whitney-biennial-installation-is-on-view-after-a-delay-and-its-a-trueshocker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-macfarlane-is-one-of-the-great-nature-writers-of-his-generation-making-him-an-unusual-critic-of-the-genre/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:45:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-macfarlane-is-one-of-the-great-nature-writers-of-his-generation-making-him-an-unusual-critic-of-the-genre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oliver-sacks-and-the-art-of-annotation-his-marginalia-spanned-10000-books-the-chronicle-of-a-life-well-read/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:45:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oliver-sacks-and-the-art-of-annotation-his-marginalia-spanned-10000-books-the-chronicle-of-a-life-well-read/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning]]></title><description><![CDATA[An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-idolatrous-consumerist-faith-in-ai-that-has-distorted-our-thinking-about-human-life-and-human-meaning/</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:45:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-idolatrous-consumerist-faith-in-ai-that-has-distorted-our-thinking-about-human-life-and-human-meaning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith Banks on NFTs, Agrees to Buy Collectibles Platform Candy Digital]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tad Smith, chairman of Doodles and former CEO of Sotheby&rsquo;s, has agreed to buy most of the assets of digital collectibles platform Candy Digital.He wrote on X that he&rsquo;s &ldquo;doubling down&rdquo; on his &ldquo;commitment to digital collectibles, adding that &ldquo;when the transaction closes in a week or two, I will also serve as CEO.&rdquo;The acquisition comes at a pivotal moment for Candy Digital, which launched in 2021 amid heightened interest in NFTs and blockchain-based collect]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ex-sothebys-ceo-tad-smith-banks-on-nfts-agrees-to-buy-collectibles-platform-candydigital/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:08:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ex-sothebys-ceo-tad-smith-banks-on-nfts-agrees-to-buy-collectibles-platform-candydigital/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manhattan D.A.’s Office Returns 17 Stolen Antiquities and Rare Books to Italy]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a restitution ceremony held this week, the Manhattan District Attorney&rsquo;s Office returned 17 stolen antiquities and rare books collectively valued at more than $1.5 million to Italy and the Vatican. According to a statement by D.A.&rsquo;s office, the objects were recovered after &ldquo;multiple investigations into antiquities trafficking networks.&rdquo;The items include six rare Chinese-language books&mdash;largely on scientific subjects&mdash;written by Jesuit clerics in the 16th&ndas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-das-office-returns-17-stolen-antiquities-and-rare-books-toitaly/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-das-office-returns-17-stolen-antiquities-and-rare-books-toitaly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-Lost Skeleton of D’Artagnan, the Fourth Musketeer, Discovered in Dutch Church]]></title><description><![CDATA[The skeletal remains of the 17th-century French folk hero D&rsquo;Artangnan&mdash;born: Charles de Batz de Castelmore&mdash;have perhaps been recovered after being buried under a church in the Netherlands for centuries. The floor of the church, St. Peter and Paul in Maastricht, suffered damage last month, and subsequent repair work revealed the remains.D&rsquo;Artagnan, a French soldier who served under Louis XIV, rose through the ranks to eventually became a captain of the Musketeers of the Gua]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/long-lost-skeleton-of-dartagnan-the-fourth-musketeer-discovered-in-dutchchurch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/long-lost-skeleton-of-dartagnan-the-fourth-musketeer-discovered-in-dutchchurch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Klee Painting Once Owned by Walter Benjamin Thwarted from US Debut Because of Mideast War]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Paul Klee painting famously owned by the philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin is currently stuck in Israel as a result of the war waged by Israel and the United States in Iran. The work was to make its American debut earlier this month.	As noted in a Hyperallergic review and then reported out by the New York Times, Klee&rsquo;s Angelus Novus (1920) was supposed to appear in &ldquo;Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,&rdquo; an exhibition that opened last week at the Jewish Museum in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-klee-painting-once-owned-by-walter-benjamin-thwarted-from-us-debut-because-of-mideastwar/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-klee-painting-once-owned-by-walter-benjamin-thwarted-from-us-debut-because-of-mideastwar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Signs Five-Year Agreement to Keep Hosting Art Basel Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hong Kong may be halfway through Mega 8, the city&rsquo;s new name for its months-long lineup of major arts, culture, and sporting events, but the undoubted highlight is this week&rsquo;s Art Basel Hong Kong. The fair has become a must-attend for locals and a major draw for international visitors, with attendance reaching 80,400 in 2024 and 86,500 last year.As such, it is no surprise that the city has signed a new agreement with Art Basel to ensure it remains the region&rsquo;s sole host for ano]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hong-kong-signs-five-year-agreement-to-keep-hosting-art-baselfair/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hong-kong-signs-five-year-agreement-to-keep-hosting-art-baselfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong, From AI Magical Girls to Asia’s Unsung Masters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sore feet, lean pockets, sustainability woes&mdash;what&rsquo;s&nbsp;a 21st-century art fair&nbsp;really good&nbsp;for, some might wonder? Surpassing the skepticism, this edition of Art Basel Hong Kong offered a compelling glimpse at the talent flourishing across Asia. Sure, Pace Gallery&rsquo;s Modigliani made the early headlines&mdash;but by our reckoning, the fair belonged to Asia&rsquo;s modern masters and its next generation of stars, some who sorely deserve their spotlight.&nbsp;&nbsp;Brig]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-art-basel-hong-kong-from-ai-magical-girls-to-asias-unsungmasters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-art-basel-hong-kong-from-ai-magical-girls-to-asias-unsungmasters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Government Plans to Charge Admission to National Museums for International Visitors]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Kingdom&rsquo;s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has accepted several recommendations from a report last year aimed at increasing access to the arts in the country. One of these would require international visitors to pay an entry fee to visit the UK&rsquo;s national museums, according to a report in the Financial Times.The initial report, reviewing the Arts Council England, was published last December and led by Baroness Margaret Hodge, a former member of Parliament. It]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-government-plans-to-charge-admission-to-national-museums-for-internationalvisitors/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-government-plans-to-charge-admission-to-national-museums-for-internationalvisitors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukrainian Official Calls For Russia to be Banned from Venice Biennale After Drone Strike Damages UNESCO-Listed Monastery ]]></title><description><![CDATA[For months Russia and Ukraine have been trading deadly drone strikes, and over the last couple of days Russia launched its most extensive drone campaign yet. A March 24 Russian strike in the historic center of the city of Lviv damaged a 17th-century Bernardine monastery that includes a church devoted to St. Andrew, designed by Italian architects in a Mannerist style.&nbsp;Founded in the late Middle Ages, the historic center of the city was named a World Heritage Site in 1998; per UNESCO, it was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ukrainian-official-calls-for-russia-to-be-banned-from-venice-biennale-after-drone-strike-damages-unesco-listedmonastery/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ukrainian-official-calls-for-russia-to-be-banned-from-venice-biennale-after-drone-strike-damages-unesco-listedmonastery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marica Vilcek, Art Historian Whose Foundation Upheld the Work of Immigrants, Dies at 89]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marica Vilcek, an art historian who, with her husband Jan, cofounded the grant-making Vilcek Foundation, died on Monday in New York. She was 89, according to the foundation, which said she died peacefully at her home.The Vilcek Foundation is an unusual one, since it funds endeavors in both art history and biomedical science, the respective fields of Marica and Jan. Just like the foundation&rsquo;s creators, both of whom moved from Czechoslovakia to the US, many of the grantees were immigrants&md]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marica-vilcek-art-historian-whose-foundation-upheld-the-work-of-immigrants-dies-at89/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marica-vilcek-art-historian-whose-foundation-upheld-the-work-of-immigrants-dies-at89/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following Shutdown of AI Video Platform Sora, Disney Pulls Out of $1 B. Deal with OpenAI]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a surprise move,&nbsp;OpenAI&nbsp;will shut down its Sora&nbsp;AI&nbsp;video app, just months after it was first launched.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,&rdquo; the company said in a&nbsp;statement. &ldquo;What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We&rsquo;ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.&rdquo;A sour]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/following-shutdown-of-ai-video-platform-sora-disney-pulls-out-of-1-b-deal-withopenai/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/following-shutdown-of-ai-video-platform-sora-disney-pulls-out-of-1-b-deal-withopenai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Hockney Says ‘There’s Too Much Abstraction in the Art World’]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the ripe old age of 88, David Hockney has sounded a warning to the art world: &ldquo;There&rsquo;s much too much abstract painting being done now.&rdquo;	He was recently speaking to the Times from his Kensington studio while recovering from an infection, and he was discussing his latest exhibition, &ldquo;A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting&rdquo; at the Serpentine, which he was unable to attend in person.The show runs through August 23 and stretches nearly 300 feet, pr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-hockney-says-theres-too-much-abstraction-in-the-artworld/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-hockney-says-theres-too-much-abstraction-in-the-artworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek TV Auctioneer and Gallery Owner Arrested Following Investigation into Illegal Antiquities Trade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, Greek authorities detained an Athens-based art dealer as part of an investigation into alleged the forgery, theft, and illegal trade of antiquities.According to the Greek Reporter, Giorgos Tsagarakis, 51, and one of his employees were arrested by the country&rsquo;s Organized Crime Division. The move was was part of an operation targeting what officials said was a coordinated network dealing in counterfeit and unlawfully obtained artworks.Tsagarakis is known in Greece for appearing on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-tv-auctioneer-and-gallery-owner-arrested-following-investigation-into-illegal-antiquitiestrade/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-tv-auctioneer-and-gallery-owner-arrested-following-investigation-into-illegal-antiquitiestrade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Considers Charging Museum Entry, Canada’s Azrieli Foundation Stops Funding for Toronto Arts Foundation, and More: Morning Links for March 26, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good morning!The UK government is exploring the option of charging foreign tourists for entry to national museums.The Azrieli Foundation maintains it did not end funding for the Toronto Arts Foundation over Gaza-related protests.Art Basel Hong Kong day-one sales are in.The Headlines	NO MORE FREE LUNCH?&nbsp;Today, the UK&rsquo;s culture secretary,&nbsp;Lisa Nandy, introduced a proposal to consider charging foreign tourists an entry fee to national museums in a bid to address lackluster funding f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-considers-charging-museum-entry-canadas-azrieli-foundation-stops-funding-for-toronto-arts-foundation-and-more-morning-links-for-march-262026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:38:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-considers-charging-museum-entry-canadas-azrieli-foundation-stops-funding-for-toronto-arts-foundation-and-more-morning-links-for-march-262026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the ’60s, Richard Hofstadter identified a “paranoid style.” Today’s version of that impulse, a “woke style,” is similarly inescapable — even on the Right]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the &rsquo;60s, Richard Hofstadter identified a &ldquo;paranoid style.&rdquo; Today&rsquo;s version of that impulse, a &ldquo;woke style,&rdquo; is similarly inescapable &mdash; even on the Right]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-60s-richard-hofstadter-identified-a-paranoid-style-todays-version-of-that-impulse-a-woke-style-is-similarly-inescapable-even-on-the-right-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:18:38 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-60s-richard-hofstadter-identified-a-paranoid-style-todays-version-of-that-impulse-a-woke-style-is-similarly-inescapable-even-on-the-right-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Francis Bacon put it in 1597: “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested”]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Francis Bacon put it in 1597: &ldquo;Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-francis-bacon-put-it-in-1597-some-books-are-to-be-tasted-others-to-be-swallowed-and-some-few-to-be-chewed-and-digested/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:08:44 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-francis-bacon-put-it-in-1597-some-books-are-to-be-tasted-others-to-be-swallowed-and-some-few-to-be-chewed-and-digested/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Trivers reveled in explaining the contradictions of the human condition, and he himself was a mess of them. Steven Pinker explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Trivers reveled in explaining the contradictions of the human condition, and he himself was a mess of them. Steven Pinker explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-trivers-reveled-in-explaining-the-contradictions-of-the-human-condition-and-he-himself-was-a-mess-of-them-steven-pinker-explains/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:43:13 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-trivers-reveled-in-explaining-the-contradictions-of-the-human-condition-and-he-himself-was-a-mess-of-them-steven-pinker-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the ’60s Richard Hofstadter identified a “paranoid style.” Today’s version of that impulse, a “woke style,” is similarly inescapable — even on the Right]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the &rsquo;60s Richard Hofstadter identified a &ldquo;paranoid style.&rdquo; Today&rsquo;s version of that impulse, a &ldquo;woke style,&rdquo; is similarly inescapable &mdash; even on the Right]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-60s-richard-hofstadter-identified-a-paranoid-style-todays-version-of-that-impulse-a-woke-style-is-similarly-inescapable-even-on-the-right/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:43:13 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-60s-richard-hofstadter-identified-a-paranoid-style-todays-version-of-that-impulse-a-woke-style-is-similarly-inescapable-even-on-the-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Art Basel Hong Kong, Blue-Chips Report Flurry of 7-Figure Deals, While Others Lament ‘Slower Than Usual’ Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Cash flowed, but confidence trickled on Day&#8239;1 of Art Basel Hong Kong, where&nbsp;a cross-section of the 240 galleries offered a spectrum of&nbsp;responses to one simple question: How are sales?&nbsp;At Hauser &amp; Wirth, Marc&nbsp;Payot,&nbsp;presiding over&nbsp;a packed booth, described a &ldquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-art-basel-hong-kong-blue-chips-report-flurry-of-7-figure-deals-while-others-lament-slower-than-usualsales/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-art-basel-hong-kong-blue-chips-report-flurry-of-7-figure-deals-while-others-lament-slower-than-usualsales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pat Steir, Famed for Her Abstract ‘Waterfall’ Paintings, Dies at 87]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pat Steir, who made a name for herself via wall-size abstractions that she achieved by pouring paint from a ladder, died on Wednesday in Manhattan of natural causes. She was 87.Her death was confirmed by her husband Joost Elffers, her niece Lily Sukoneck-Cohen, and Marc Payot, president of Hauser &amp; Wirth, which had represented Steir since 2022.&ldquo;Working so closely with&nbsp;Pat&nbsp;Steir&mdash;spending so much time with her, immersed in her work together and enjoying such a close frien]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pat-steir-famed-for-her-abstract-waterfall-paintings-dies-at87/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pat-steir-famed-for-her-abstract-waterfall-paintings-dies-at87/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yto Barrada Says France Had ‘Full Awareness’ of Her Views on Israel When It Chose Her for Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[After her forthcoming French Pavilion for the Venice Biennale was denounced by a prominent Jewish group, artist Yto Barrada appeared to address the controversy, saying that the pavilion&rsquo;s organizers knew about her views on Israel when they selected her.Barrada, who was born in Paris and is of Moroccan descent, was among the more than 200 artists who signed an open letter to the Biennale calling for the ejection of Israel from the show. Organized by the Art Not Genocide Alliance, the letter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yto-barrada-says-france-had-full-awareness-of-her-views-on-israel-when-it-chose-her-for-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yto-barrada-says-france-had-full-awareness-of-her-views-on-israel-when-it-chose-her-for-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[K-Pop Band BTS Performed Two Songs from New Album ‘ARIRANG’ at the Guggenheim on Wednesday Morning]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Guggenheim in New York City is one of the most famous art museums in the world, and on the morning of Wednesday (March 25),&nbsp;BTS&nbsp;descended on the landmark to add a little performance art to its galleries ahead of the band&rsquo;s&nbsp;Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon&nbsp;appearance.Billboard&nbsp;was on the scene as RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook sang and danced to two tracks from their new album,&nbsp;ARIRANG, which dropped earlier in March. One of them was &ldquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/k-pop-band-bts-performed-two-songs-from-new-album-arirang-at-the-guggenheim-on-wednesdaymorning/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/k-pop-band-bts-performed-two-songs-from-new-album-arirang-at-the-guggenheim-on-wednesdaymorning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elsa Schiaparelli Gets Her UK Museum Debut at the V&amp;A, in a Show Featuring Dal&iacute;, Man Ray, and&nbsp;Picasso]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK has never before seen an exhibition of the legendary Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and now more than 400 objects are going on view at the V&amp;A, including 100 ensembles and 50 artworks, along with accessories, jewelry, paintings, photographs, furniture, perfumes, and items from the archive. &ldquo;Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art&rdquo; encompasses looks from the house spanning from her first designs, from the 1920s, to the present day, under creative director Daniel Rose]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elsa-schiaparelli-gets-her-uk-museum-debut-at-the-vampa-in-a-show-featuring-daliacute-man-ray-andnbsppicasso/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elsa-schiaparelli-gets-her-uk-museum-debut-at-the-vampa-in-a-show-featuring-daliacute-man-ray-andnbsppicasso/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hauser &amp; Wirth Partner Cristopher Canizares Departs to Start Artist&nbsp;Agency]]></title><description><![CDATA[After 16 years helping build one of the most powerful galleries in the world, Cristopher Canizares is stepping away from Hauser &amp; Wirth to try something the art market still hasn&rsquo;t quite figured out how to define: an artist management agency.The longtime partner will leave at the end of May to launch the Artist Legacy Bureau, a tightly run operation focused on long-term career strategy. He plans to work with a small group of artists&mdash;around five or six&mdash;keeping the model inte]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hauser-amp-wirth-partner-cristopher-canizares-departs-to-start-artistnbspagency/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hauser-amp-wirth-partner-cristopher-canizares-departs-to-start-artistnbspagency/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Female Pharaoh’s Erasure From Memory Was Not Revenge, Researcher Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hatshepsut (ca. 1505&ndash;1458 BCE), the most powerful of ancient Egypt&rsquo;s female rulers, was also one of the most successful, notable for reopening old trade routes, commissioning massive building projects&mdash;including her own mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri&mdash;and ushering in an era of political stability, economic growth, and artistic innovation. Her rise to the throne began when, after the death of her husband Thutmose II, she appointed herself regent for her young stepson, Thut]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/female-pharaohs-erasure-from-memory-was-not-revenge-researchersays/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/female-pharaohs-erasure-from-memory-was-not-revenge-researchersays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Underground Railroad Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Canceled Grant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, the Underground Railroad Education Center (UREC) in Albany, New York, filed a lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities, accusing it of cancelling a $250,000 grant on the basis of race. The suit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York by a group of lawyers affiliated with the organization Lawyers for Good Government, according to an NBC News report.The canceled grant, the suit states, is part of the Trump administration&rsquo;s ongoing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/underground-railroad-museum-sues-trump-administration-over-canceledgrant/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/underground-railroad-museum-sues-trump-administration-over-canceledgrant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooklyn Museum Plans New $13 M. Home for African Art Collection, One of America’s First]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Museum revealed plans to renovate and build a new home for its African art collection dating back to the early 1900s, making it one of America&rsquo;s oldest institutional collections of art from Africa and the diaspora it informs. The $13-million project aims to establish a dedicated 6,400-square-foot destination on the museum&rsquo;s third floor, to open with a display of more than 300 artworks from antiquity to the present in the fall of 2027.&ldquo;This is more than a new collec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooklyn-museum-plans-new-13-m-home-for-african-art-collection-one-of-americasfirst/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooklyn-museum-plans-new-13-m-home-for-african-art-collection-one-of-americasfirst/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newly Authenticated Modigliani Heads to Sale at Art Basel Hong Kong via Pace with a $13.3 M. Price Tag]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just weeks after announcing a book launch for Institut Restellini&rsquo;s decades-in-the-making Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonn&eacute;, Pace is offering a painting by the artist at Art Basel Hong Kong that was only recently authenticated. The work has a long legal backstory.Titled Jeune femme brune (1917&ndash;18), the work is the highest priced piece on offer at the Hong Kong fair, according to ARTnews&rsquo;s Tessa Solomon, who is on the ground reporting from Art Basel. Pace CEO Marc Glim]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-authenticated-modigliani-heads-to-sale-at-art-basel-hong-kong-via-pace-with-a-133-m-pricetag/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-authenticated-modigliani-heads-to-sale-at-art-basel-hong-kong-via-pace-with-a-133-m-pricetag/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Must-See Raphael Retrospective at the Met Proves He Was ‘One of the Greatest Influencers’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The closing image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s Raphael blockbuster, opening to the public on Sunday, is of a muscular man bursting out of a craggy hillside. As he does so, one jacked forearm blows right through the frame that surrounds him. Part of a monumentally scaled tapestry called Saint Paul in Prison (ca. 1517&ndash;21), it&rsquo;s a ferocious picture of unbridled masculinity, bulging pecs and all. It might be read as the logical parting shot for a retrospective about a man wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-must-see-raphael-retrospective-at-the-met-proves-he-was-one-of-the-greatestinfluencers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:31:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-must-see-raphael-retrospective-at-the-met-proves-he-was-one-of-the-greatestinfluencers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banned South Africa Pavilion Show Moves to Another Venice Venue, Enslaved Girl Identified in 18th-Century Portrait at Art Gallery of Ontario: Morning Links for March 25, 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.The HeadlinesTHE SHOW MUST GO ON. Gabrielle Goliath&rsquo;s banned performance artwork commemorating Palestinian poet Hiba Abu Nada, initially meant to be shown at South Africa&rsquo;s Venice Biennale pavilion, will now go on display outside the main exhibition, reports the Guardian. The Chiesa di Sant&rsquo;Antonin church in Venice&rsquo;s Castello district]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/banned-south-africa-pavilion-show-moves-to-another-venice-venue-enslaved-girl-identified-in-18th-century-portrait-at-art-gallery-of-ontario-morning-links-for-march-252026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/banned-south-africa-pavilion-show-moves-to-another-venice-venue-enslaved-girl-identified-in-18th-century-portrait-at-art-gallery-of-ontario-morning-links-for-march-252026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Sits Empty as Gabrielle Goliath’s Banned Work on Gaza Appears Nearby]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Africa&rsquo;s contribution to this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale will be both absent and impossible to ignore. Months after the government abruptly canceled a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath, the work at the center of the dispute is now set to appear in Venice anyway, just not inside the Biennale proper.	Instead, according to&nbsp;The Guardian,&nbsp;Goliath&rsquo;s&nbsp;Elegy&nbsp;will be installed nearby at the Chiesa di Sant&rsquo;Antonin, where it will run for three months]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-africas-venice-biennale-pavilion-sits-empty-as-gabrielle-goliaths-banned-work-on-gaza-appearsnearby/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-africas-venice-biennale-pavilion-sits-empty-as-gabrielle-goliaths-banned-work-on-gaza-appearsnearby/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hirshhorn Unveils First Sculptures for Revamped Garden Ahead of October Reopening]]></title><description><![CDATA[The&nbsp;Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. is starting to show its hand ahead of October&rsquo;s long-awaited reopening of its rethought and improved sculpture garden. The museum has announced the first round of acquisitions for its overhauled garden, redesigned by&nbsp;Hiroshi Sugimoto, with a lineup that leans heavily on contemporary names now entering the institution&rsquo;s orbit.The group includes works by&nbsp;Mark Grotjahn,&nbsp;Raven Halfmoon,&nbsp;Lauren Halsey,&nbsp;Izumi Kato,&nbsp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-unveils-first-sculptures-for-revamped-garden-ahead-of-octoberreopening/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-unveils-first-sculptures-for-revamped-garden-ahead-of-octoberreopening/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long fact, literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction: The genre is hard to define, essential, and imperiled. Paul Elie explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long fact, literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction: The genre is hard to define, essential, and imperiled. Paul Elie explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/long-fact-literary-nonfiction-narrative-nonfiction-the-genre-is-hard-to-define-essential-and-imperiled-paul-elie-explains/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:25:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/long-fact-literary-nonfiction-narrative-nonfiction-the-genre-is-hard-to-define-essential-and-imperiled-paul-elie-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In response to AI, artists and critics are increasingly retreating to a Romantic conception of art, but there are problems with that defense]]></title><description><![CDATA[In response to AI, artists and critics are increasingly retreating to a Romantic conception of art, but there are problems with that defense]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-response-to-ai-artists-and-critics-are-increasingly-retreating-to-a-romantic-conception-of-art-but-there-are-problems-with-that-defense/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:25:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-response-to-ai-artists-and-critics-are-increasingly-retreating-to-a-romantic-conception-of-art-but-there-are-problems-with-that-defense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constantine Cavafy preferred mystery, candlelight, and shadow. His biographers are still squinting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Constantine Cavafy preferred mystery, candlelight, and shadow. His biographers are still squinting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/constantine-cavafy-preferred-mystery-candlelight-and-shadow-his-biographers-are-still-squinting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:25:30 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/constantine-cavafy-preferred-mystery-candlelight-and-shadow-his-biographers-are-still-squinting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre Plans Its ‘Most Ambitious’ Painting Restoration Ever: A Refresh for Rubens’s Medici Cycle]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you want to see one of Peter Paul Rubens&rsquo;s beloved paintings in the Marie de&rsquo; Medici cycle, head to the Louvre before the fall. After that, these canvases, considered by some to be the high watermark of Rubens&rsquo;s career, will be off view for four years.The reason they will leave the public eye for so long is a restoration project that was announced by the Louvre on Tuesday. In its release about the project, the Paris museum called the initiative &ldquo;the most ambitious rest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-plans-its-most-ambitious-painting-restoration-ever-a-refresh-for-rubenss-medicicycle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:55:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-plans-its-most-ambitious-painting-restoration-ever-a-refresh-for-rubenss-medicicycle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashid Johnson Photographs Jay-Z for New GQ Cover Story]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Adam Baidawi era of GQ has begun with a bang. On Tuesday, the magazine unveiled the cover for its new special global issue featuring an extensive interview with Jay-Z&mdash;who is now styling his name JA&Yuml;-Z in honor of the 30th anniversary of his 1996 debut album Reasonable Doubt.For the cover, GQ tapped contemporary art star Rashid Johnson, who has interrogated the Black male psyche in paintings, installations, and photographs, while also resisting the notion that Blackness is monolith]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rashid-johnson-photographs-jay-z-for-new-gq-coverstory/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rashid-johnson-photographs-jay-z-for-new-gq-coverstory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15th-Century Bellini Altarpiece in Venice to Be Restored While the Public Watches]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice&rsquo;s vaunted Gallerie dell&rsquo;Accademia will be restored behind glass&mdash;giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process&mdash;over a two-year period estimated to cost &euro;500,000 (around $580,000). The work will be conducted in what the Gallerie Dell&rsquo;Accademia described as &ldquo;a construction site open to the public that will allow visitors to closely follow all the phases of the conservation of this masterpiec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/15th-century-bellini-altarpiece-in-venice-to-be-restored-while-the-publicwatches-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/15th-century-bellini-altarpiece-in-venice-to-be-restored-while-the-publicwatches-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15th Century Bellini Altarpiece in Venice to Be Restored While the Public Watches]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice&rsquo;s vaunted Gallerie dell&rsquo;Accademia will be restored behind glass&mdash;giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process&mdash;over a two-year period estimated to cost &euro;500,000 (around $580,000). The work will be conducted in what the Gallerie Dell&rsquo;Accademia described as &ldquo;a construction site open to the public that will allow visitors to closely follow all the phases of the conservation of this masterpiec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/15th-century-bellini-altarpiece-in-venice-to-be-restored-while-the-publicwatches/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/15th-century-bellini-altarpiece-in-venice-to-be-restored-while-the-publicwatches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preservation Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Renovation of Kennedy Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of eight preservation societies filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president&rsquo;s plans for a two-year renovation of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.Last week, the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s board approved the closure of the institution for two years, beginning after its July 4 celebrations for the US&rsquo;s 250th anniversary, so that it could undergo renovations. The extent of the planned renovations remains unclear. President Donald Trump said in February t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/preservation-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-planned-renovation-of-kennedycenter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/preservation-groups-sue-trump-administration-over-planned-renovation-of-kennedycenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preservation Group Sues Trump Administration Over Planned Renovation of Kennedy Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of eight preservation societies filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the president&rsquo;s plans for a two-year renovation of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.Last week, the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s board approved to close the institution for two years, beginning after its July 4 celebrations for the US&rsquo;s 250th anniversary, so that it could undergo renovations. The extent of the planned renovations remains unclear. President Donald Trump said in February the Ken]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/preservation-group-sues-trump-administration-over-planned-renovation-of-kennedycenter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/preservation-group-sues-trump-administration-over-planned-renovation-of-kennedycenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zurich Transfers Ownership of Looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria]]></title><description><![CDATA[Switzerland&rsquo;s Museum Rietberg has transferred ownership of 11 looted artifacts to Nigeria, according to the city of Zurich, which oversees the museum. They are just a few of the estimated thousands of works of art taken when British forces raided Edo, the capital of the Kingdom of Benin (now Edo state in modern-day Nigeria), in 1897. Dispersed among collections in the West, these objects have been the focus of a long&mdash;and in recent years, highly publicized&mdash;effort to retrieve the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurich-transfers-ownership-of-looted-benin-bronzes-tonigeria/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurich-transfers-ownership-of-looted-benin-bronzes-tonigeria/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France Blocks Sale of Newly Discovered Hans Baldung Drawing at Last Minute]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French government has stepped in to stop the sale of a newly identified drawing by Hans Baldung, according to&nbsp;the Art Newspaper,&nbsp;throwing a last-minute wrench into what was shaping up to be a major Old Master auction in Paris.The small portrait, dated to 1517 and attributed to the German Renaissance artist, was slated to hit the block at French auction house Beaussant Lef&egrave;vre, carrying an estimate of $1.74 million to $3.5 million. Two days before the auction, France&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/france-blocks-sale-of-newly-discovered-hans-baldung-drawing-at-lastminute/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/france-blocks-sale-of-newly-discovered-hans-baldung-drawing-at-lastminute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raphael Died Before 40. His Met Retrospective Begs the Question: What if He Had Lived?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine I asked you to name the famous Italian Renaissance artist who angered his patron by repeatedly missing deadlines because he was busy studying perspective. You&rsquo;d probably answer Leonardo da Vinci. Other artists could be dilatory, but no other artist is as famous for putting his research before his painting. It&rsquo;s practically Leonardo&rsquo;s signature.&nbsp;Yet, in this case, you&rsquo;d be mistaken. The artist in question is somebody unexpected&mdash;somebody set to receive a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raphael-died-before-40-his-met-retrospective-begs-the-question-what-if-he-hadlived/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raphael-died-before-40-his-met-retrospective-begs-the-question-what-if-he-hadlived/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newsmakers: Founders of Chicago’s Neighbors Fair on ‘Focusing on Quality over Quantity’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story is part of&nbsp;Newsmakers, a new&nbsp;ARTnews&nbsp;series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.Chicago&rsquo;s art scene is getting a new, more intimate addition this spring. Timed to coincide with Expo Chicago, a new satellite fair called Neighbors will debut inside a historic Gold Coast apartment a stone&rsquo;s throw from from Navy Pier. Founded by Texas-based collector Mirka Serrato and UK-based dealer Jonny Ta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newsmakers-founders-of-chicagos-neighbors-fair-on-focusing-on-quality-overquantity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newsmakers-founders-of-chicagos-neighbors-fair-on-focusing-on-quality-overquantity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Star Artist Ibrahim Mahama Weighs Legal Action Against Police after ‘Brutal Assault’ in Ghana]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist whose work has appeared in an array of shows ranging from the Bienal de S&atilde;o Paulo to the Venice Biennale, was hospitalized after he was attacked on Saturday in Tamale, Ghana. Mahama alleged that his attackers were part of a special operations police unit known as the Black Maria.According to Mahama, officers with the unit made their way through a traffic jam and entered a bus that the artist was riding following a visit to a mosque. After a passenger ques]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/star-artist-ibrahim-mahama-weighs-legal-action-against-police-after-brutal-assault-inghana/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/star-artist-ibrahim-mahama-weighs-legal-action-against-police-after-brutal-assault-inghana/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Raphael: Sublime Poetry” at the Met Reunites Works with Their Historical Companions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Italian Renaissance artist Raphael may have been called the &ldquo;prince of painters,&rdquo; but his masterful drawings were his calling card, even from a young age. We know him best today for paintings such as The Marriage of the Virgin (1504), The School of Athens (1509&ndash;11), and The Sistine Madonna (1512&ndash;13), but an exhibition opening this month at New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art reminds us not to overlook his sketches, tapestries, and other artworks.This landmark]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raphael-sublime-poetry-at-the-met-reunites-works-with-their-historicalcompanions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raphael-sublime-poetry-at-the-met-reunites-works-with-their-historicalcompanions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek TV Auctioneer Arrested for Trafficked Artworks, Paul Klee’s ‘Angelus Novus’ Stuck in Israel: Morning Links for March 24, 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.The HeadlinesCRIME SHOW. The well-known Greek dealer Giorgos Tsagarakis, who hosted televised art auctions, was arrested in Athens on Friday on felony charges for trafficking forged and stolen artwork and antiquities, according to The Greek Reporter. Greece&rsquo;s Organized Crime Division made the arrest and dismantled the dealer&rsquo;s alleged counterfeit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-tv-auctioneer-arrested-for-trafficked-artworks-paul-klees-angelus-novus-stuck-in-israel-morning-links-for-march-242026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-tv-auctioneer-arrested-for-trafficked-artworks-paul-klees-angelus-novus-stuck-in-israel-morning-links-for-march-242026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thaddaeus Ropac Takes on Martha Diamond Trust, Signaling New Attention for Overlooked New York Painter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thaddaeus Ropac has taken on Martha Diamond, the New York painter whose cityscapes are admired by artists yet largely under-recognized on the market. The gallery will represent the trust in collaboration with David Kordansky, with a first European museum survey set to open at the Sara Hild&eacute;n Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, in September 2026.Diamond, who died in 2023 at 79, spent more than six decades developing a body of work that translated the architecture of Manhattan into a distinct v]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thaddaeus-ropac-takes-on-martha-diamond-trust-signaling-new-attention-for-overlooked-new-yorkpainter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thaddaeus-ropac-takes-on-martha-diamond-trust-signaling-new-attention-for-overlooked-new-yorkpainter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thaddaeus Ropac Takes on Martha Diamond Estate, Signaling New Attention for Overlooked New York Painter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thaddaeus Ropac has taken on the estate of Martha Diamond, the New York painter whose cityscapes are admired by artists yet largely under-recognized on the market. The gallery will represent the estate in collaboration with David Kordansky, with a first European museum survey set to open at the Sara Hild&eacute;n Museum in Tampere, Finland, in September 2026.Diamond, who died in 2023 at 79, spent more than six decades developing a body of work that translated the architecture of Manhattan into a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thaddaeus-ropac-takes-on-martha-diamond-estate-signaling-new-attention-for-overlooked-new-yorkpainter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thaddaeus-ropac-takes-on-martha-diamond-estate-signaling-new-attention-for-overlooked-new-yorkpainter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the 2026 Hong Kong Cultural Summit, Museum Leaders Pitch New Models for Institutions ]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We are&nbsp;witnessing&nbsp;growing geopolitical complexity around the world. In times like&nbsp;these, culture matters more than ever. Culture transcends borders,&rdquo; said Hong Kong&rsquo;s Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism,&nbsp;Rosanna Law, at the opening ceremony of this&nbsp;year&rsquo;s Hong Kong International Cultural Summit on Monday.&nbsp;The remark offered&nbsp;one of&nbsp;the&nbsp;summit&rsquo;s&nbsp;few,&nbsp;curated&nbsp;nods to&nbsp;the destabilizing effects of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/atthe-2026-hong-kong-cultural-summit-museum-leaders-pitch-new-models-forinstitutions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:05:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/atthe-2026-hong-kong-cultural-summit-museum-leaders-pitch-new-models-forinstitutions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot on the pressure to be an intelligent correspondent: “If I ever had any small gift for letter writing, it has been ruined years ago”]]></title><description><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot on the pressure to be an intelligent correspondent: &ldquo;If I ever had any small gift for letter writing, it has been ruined years ago&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ts-eliot-on-the-pressure-to-be-an-intelligent-correspondent-if-i-ever-had-any-small-gift-for-letter-writing-it-has-been-ruined-years-ago/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:50:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ts-eliot-on-the-pressure-to-be-an-intelligent-correspondent-if-i-ever-had-any-small-gift-for-letter-writing-it-has-been-ruined-years-ago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Thomas De Quincey was famous first for his opium eating, second for his prose style, and in both he pressed to the extremes”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Thomas De Quincey was famous first for his opium eating, second for his prose style, and in both he pressed to the extremes&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-de-quincey-was-famous-first-for-his-opium-eating-second-for-his-prose-style-and-in-both-he-pressed-to-the-extremes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:50:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-de-quincey-was-famous-first-for-his-opium-eating-second-for-his-prose-style-and-in-both-he-pressed-to-the-extremes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marc Andreessen says introspection is a Viennese import from the 1920s. Montaigne, Bacon, and Descartes beg to differ ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marc Andreessen says introspection is a Viennese import from the 1920s. Montaigne, Bacon, and Descartes beg to differ&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marc-andreessen-says-introspection-is-a-viennese-import-from-the-1920s-montaigne-bacon-and-descartes-beg-to-differ/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:50:50 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marc-andreessen-says-introspection-is-a-viennese-import-from-the-1920s-montaigne-bacon-and-descartes-beg-to-differ/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Collector and ‘Galerie’ Magazine Founder Lisa Fayne Cohen Fawned Over Jeffrey Epstein in Emails: ‘There Is No One Else Like You’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Documents in the Justice Department&rsquo;s release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein appear to show ties between the financier and convicted sex offender and a New York art collector and magazine publisher, and her developer-investor husband.Lisa Fayne Cohen and her husband, Jimmy Cohen&mdash;founder, CEO, and chairman of the real estate and development firm Hudson Capital Properties&mdash;were in close contact with Epstein in 2015 and early 2016, long after his crimes were a matter of public]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-collector-and-galerie-magazine-founder-lisa-fayne-cohen-fawned-over-jeffrey-epstein-in-emails-there-is-no-one-else-likeyou/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-collector-and-galerie-magazine-founder-lisa-fayne-cohen-fawned-over-jeffrey-epstein-in-emails-there-is-no-one-else-likeyou/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newly Translated 2,000-Year-Old Graffiti Proves Presence of Indian Visitors to Egypt’s Valley of the Kings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Egypt&rsquo;s Valley of the Kings, on the banks of the Nile River, is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. Newly translated graffiti reveals just how long visitors have come from far and wide to this region, and felt compelled to mark their presence by inscribing their names on the walls of tombs.Earlier this month, Live Science reported on the findings from a February conference held in Chennai, India, that translated several examples of 2,000-year-old graffiti found on the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-translated-2000-year-old-graffiti-proves-presence-of-indian-visitors-to-egypts-valley-of-thekings/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-translated-2000-year-old-graffiti-proves-presence-of-indian-visitors-to-egypts-valley-of-thekings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egyptian Archeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Coffins of Temple Chanters in Luxor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archeologists working near Luxor have uncovered 22 painted wooden coffins containing mummies, according to the Daily News Egypt, which reported the news in February. The well-preserved sarcophagi date to Egypt&rsquo;s Third Intermediate Period (1077&ndash;664 BCE).The archeological mission, which was affiliated with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Heritage and Antiquities, also found a group of eight papyrus scrolls, some with their seals intact, in a potter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egyptian-archeologists-find-3000-year-old-coffins-of-temple-chanters-inluxor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egyptian-archeologists-find-3000-year-old-coffins-of-temple-chanters-inluxor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Inside the Venice Biennale’s Newly Renovated Central Pavilion Ahead of the 2026 Edition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Central Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, located within the Giardini della Biennale, has undergone a complete renovation ahead of the opening of the show&rsquo;s 2026 edition in May.The total budget for the renovation was &euro;31 million ($36 million); public funding was supplied by the the Italian Ministry of Culture&rsquo;s National Plan for Complementary Investments of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The project is also part of the Culture Ministry&rsquo;s &ldquo;Great]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-inside-the-venice-biennales-newly-renovated-central-pavilion-ahead-of-the-2026edition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:53:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-inside-the-venice-biennales-newly-renovated-central-pavilion-ahead-of-the-2026edition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statue Removed from Delaware During Black Lives Matter Protests to Be Reinstated in Washington D.C.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney&mdash;a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved more than 200 people at the plantation he owned&mdash;in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.As reported by the Washington Post, which cited Interior Department documents obtained by the paper, the statue&rsquo;s resurrection is a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/statue-removed-from-delaware-during-black-lives-matter-protests-to-be-reinstated-in-washingtondc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/statue-removed-from-delaware-during-black-lives-matter-protests-to-be-reinstated-in-washingtondc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Installs Christopher Columbus Statue on White House Grounds]]></title><description><![CDATA[A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed early Sunday on the White House grounds, as part of President Trump&rsquo;s effort to restore the explorer&rsquo;s public standing after monuments to him were removed across the country in 2020.The sculpture was placed on the north side of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building facing Pennsylvania Avenue, according to the&nbsp;New York Times.&nbsp;It is a replica of a statue that protesters in Baltimore&nbsp;tore down&nbsp;and dumped into the Inne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-installs-christopher-columbus-statue-on-white-housegrounds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:40:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-installs-christopher-columbus-statue-on-white-housegrounds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[East Village Brownstone Where Mark Rothko Once Lived Now for Sale as Luxury Condominiums]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan&rsquo;s East Village&nbsp;neighborhood in the 1930s. There, the late abstract expressionist&mdash;famously known for his color field technique&mdash;created the painting titled &ldquo;Thru the Window,&rdquo; inscribing the back with the building&rsquo;s address, &ldquo;313 E 6th,&rdquo; along with his signature.The entire multifamily building sold for $45,000 in the 197]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/east-village-brownstone-where-mark-rothko-once-lived-now-for-sale-as-luxurycondominiums/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:59:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/east-village-brownstone-where-mark-rothko-once-lived-now-for-sale-as-luxurycondominiums/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice’s Mayor Warns that Russia’s Pavilion Will Be Closed if It Peddles Propaganda at Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russia has been warned by Venice&rsquo;s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, that if its pavilion peddles propaganda at the upcoming biennial, it will be shutdown.Brugnaro was addressing media at the opening of the Venice Biennale&rsquo;s revamped Central Pavilion, which cost &euro;31 million and took 16 months to complete. &ldquo;If the Russian government were to carry out propaganda, we would be the first to close the pavilion,&rdquo; Brugnaro told the Ansa press agency.Russia&rsquo;s decision to reopen it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venices-mayor-warns-that-russias-pavilion-will-be-closed-if-it-peddles-propaganda-atbiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venices-mayor-warns-that-russias-pavilion-will-be-closed-if-it-peddles-propaganda-atbiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light Art Installation Returns to San Francisco Bay Bridge, ‘Pre-Stonewall Street Queen’ Artist Agosto Machado Has Died: Morning Links for March 23, 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.The HeadlinesLIGHTS, ART, ACTION. After a three-year absence, a popular light art installation has returned brighter and revamped to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in a sign of &ldquo;commitment&rdquo; to the arts, reports ABC 7. During a Friday lighting ceremony, artist Leo Villareal, who designed the work first installed in 2013, said its much-awaited, upgra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/light-art-installation-returns-to-san-francisco-bay-bridge-pre-stonewall-street-queen-artist-agosto-machado-has-died-morning-links-for-march-232026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:29:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/light-art-installation-returns-to-san-francisco-bay-bridge-pre-stonewall-street-queen-artist-agosto-machado-has-died-morning-links-for-march-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The em dash—sleek, suave, far superior to the measly comma—must not be ceded to the large-language models]]></title><description><![CDATA[The em dash&mdash;sleek, suave, far superior to the measly comma&mdash;must not be ceded to the large-language models]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-em-dashsleek-suave-far-superior-to-the-measly-commamust-not-be-ceded-to-the-large-language-models/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:00:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-em-dashsleek-suave-far-superior-to-the-measly-commamust-not-be-ceded-to-the-large-language-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those books lying all over your house unfinished? They’re not signs not of readerly fickleness, but of a robust indifference to societal norms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Those books lying all over your house unfinished? They&rsquo;re not signs not of readerly fickleness, but of a robust indifference to societal norms]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/those-books-lying-all-over-your-house-unfinished-theyre-not-signs-not-of-readerly-fickleness-but-of-a-robust-indifference-to-societal-norms/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:41:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/those-books-lying-all-over-your-house-unfinished-theyre-not-signs-not-of-readerly-fickleness-but-of-a-robust-indifference-to-societal-norms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emdash is sleek, suave, and vastly superior to the measly comma. They must not be ceded to the large language models]]></title><description><![CDATA[The emdash is sleek, suave, and vastly superior to the measly comma. They must not be ceded to the large language models]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-emdash-is-sleek-suave-and-vastly-superior-to-the-measly-comma-they-must-not-be-ceded-to-the-large-language-models/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:41:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-emdash-is-sleek-suave-and-vastly-superior-to-the-measly-comma-they-must-not-be-ceded-to-the-large-language-models/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the guy who got evolution wrong, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, managed to be right about so much else]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the guy who got evolution wrong, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, managed to be right about so much else]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-guy-who-got-evolution-wrong-jean-baptiste-lamarck-managed-to-be-right-about-so-much-else/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:41:25 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-guy-who-got-evolution-wrong-jean-baptiste-lamarck-managed-to-be-right-about-so-much-else/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Hong Kong for Art Basel? Don’t Miss These Local Galleries and Museums]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2025,&nbsp;nearly&nbsp;100,000&nbsp;people&mdash;collectors, curators, and the merely curious&mdash;descended on the archipelago of Hong Kong for&nbsp;Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest and busiest art event on the global calendar. But woe unto any fairgoer in 2026 who confines their time to the&nbsp;Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre:&nbsp;Even if its 240 galleries dazzle and exhaust in equal measure,&nbsp;Art Basel anchors a constellation of exhibitions&nbsp;and events&nbsp;during&nbs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-hong-kong-for-art-basel-dont-miss-these-local-galleries-andmuseums/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-hong-kong-for-art-basel-dont-miss-these-local-galleries-andmuseums/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Readies for Art Week With Optimism for a Rebound—and a Healthy Dose of Caution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hong Kong&rsquo;s art market is staging a cautious comeback in 2026, as industry players bet that collectors will return for the city&rsquo;s marquee art week after years of political upheaval and pandemic-driven isolation.At the macroeconomic level, signs of recovery have emerged since late 2025, spanning high-end residential real estate in the city to equity markets. A recent report by Morgan Stanley suggested that prolonged instability in the Middle East could prompt further capital and talen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hong-kong-readies-for-art-week-with-optimism-for-a-reboundand-a-healthy-dose-ofcaution/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hong-kong-readies-for-art-week-with-optimism-for-a-reboundand-a-healthy-dose-ofcaution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Report Suggests AI is Widely Used in Commercial Galleries, But Mostly Without Oversight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new report suggests artificial intelligence is already widely used in commercial galleries, but largely without oversight.According to the AI in Galleries report by the art industry network First Thursday, 84 percent of galleries surveyed say they are using AI tools in their daily work. Yet only 8 percent have a formal policy governing how those tools should be used.The findings are based on interviews with 103 gallery professionals around the world, including owners, directors, and staff work]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-report-suggests-ai-is-widely-used-in-commercial-galleries-but-mostly-withoutoversight/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-report-suggests-ai-is-widely-used-in-commercial-galleries-but-mostly-withoutoversight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Orientalist Painting Central to the Penn Museum’s History To Be Offered for $4 M. at Bonhams]]></title><description><![CDATA[American universities facing financial crunches come under fire when they either close their art museums or sell paintings from their collections to narrow a budget gap. Just in the last few years, Chicago&rsquo;s DePaul University, Indiana&rsquo;s Valparaiso University, and Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Albright College have alienated donors and their respective school communitues in this fashion. Professional organizations like the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Mu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-orientalist-painting-central-to-the-penn-museums-history-to-be-offered-for-4-m-atbonhams/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:01:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-orientalist-painting-central-to-the-penn-museums-history-to-be-offered-for-4-m-atbonhams/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Art History from A to Z]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Art in America was founded in 1913, it was an important year for American art. The inaugural Armory Show introduced the European avant-garde to the United States, galvanizing generations of artists while shocking audiences with paintings like Marcel Duchamp&rsquo;s Nude Descending a Staircase (1912). By 1917, Duchamp even-more-famously caused a stir with his porcelain urinal Fountain, a work that changed art forever and helped make New York an artistic center.&nbsp;American art&rsquo;s endu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/american-art-history-from-a-toz/</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/american-art-history-from-a-toz/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Qualeasha Wood Says Viral ‘BedRot’ Performance Copied Her Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Saturday, a performance by artist who goes by the alias Aphex Redditor went viral on social media after she laid down and continually scrolled through Instagram Reels for 24 hours. But as the performance gained attention on Instagram and X, another artist, Qualeasha Wood, accused Aphex Redditor of copying a similar performance she had staged the year before.In March 2025, Wood staged a performance called Attention Economy at London&rsquo;s Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, whose release for the exhi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-qualeasha-wood-says-viral-bedrot-performance-copied-herwork/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-qualeasha-wood-says-viral-bedrot-performance-copied-herwork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agosto Machado, Artist and Activist Whose Shrine Sculptures Kept Queer History Alive, Has Died]]></title><description><![CDATA[Agosto Machado, an artist and activist associated with the Downtown New York art scene whose altar sculptures currently appear in the Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday following a brief illness.	In keeping with his own wishes, his gallery, the New York&ndash;based Gordon Robichaux, did not announce Machado&rsquo;s age in the obituary it sent out on Sunday. Speaking of his decision never to publicly share his birth year last year, Machado said, &ldquo;A lady never tells.&rdquo;Within the art wor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/agosto-machado-artist-and-activist-whose-shrine-sculptures-kept-queer-history-alive-hasdied/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/agosto-machado-artist-and-activist-whose-shrine-sculptures-kept-queer-history-alive-hasdied/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cesar Chavez Mural Painted Over in San Francisco Amid Growing Fallout from Abuse Allegations]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mural of Cesar Chavez in San Francisco&rsquo;s Mission District was painted over this week, becoming one of the first visible public reckonings with newly surfaced allegations of sexual abuse against the labor leader.The artwork, which covered the facade of the Latin Rock Music House at 25th and York Streets, was removed Wednesday by the building&rsquo;s owner, Richard Segovia, along with artist Carlos &ldquo;Kookie&rdquo; Gonzalez, according to&nbsp;ABC7 Eyewitness News. The decision came day]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cesar-chavez-mural-painted-over-in-san-francisco-amid-growing-fallout-from-abuseallegations/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cesar-chavez-mural-painted-over-in-san-francisco-amid-growing-fallout-from-abuseallegations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Murdoch and Art Basel’s Parent Company Are Working on a Big Ideas Festival to Launch in 2028]]></title><description><![CDATA[James and Kathryn Murdoch are working with MCH Group, the parent company of Art Basel, on a new festival meant to rival the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and other &ldquo;ideas&rdquo;-driven gatherings that convene the world&rsquo;s wealthy and powerful.While details remain scarce and no formal announcement has been made, Vanity Fair&rsquo;s Nate Freeman reported that he confirmed the in-the-works event with multiple sources. According to Freeman, the project is a join]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-murdoch-and-art-basels-parent-company-are-working-on-a-big-ideas-festival-to-launch-in2028/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-murdoch-and-art-basels-parent-company-are-working-on-a-big-ideas-festival-to-launch-in2028/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czech Culture Minister Dismisses Director of Prague’s National Gallery, Generating Scrutiny]]></title><description><![CDATA[Czech culture minister Oto Klemp&iacute;&#345; dismissed Alicja Knast from her post as director of Prague&rsquo;s National Gallery, generating scrutiny over what precipitated the decision.Within the Czech Republic, the dismissal has been viewed by some as a politically motivated gesture. Knast took up the position in 2021, having been appointed to the role by Lubomir Zaoralek, a Social Democrat who was then serving as culture minister. Klemp&iacute;&#345;, a member of the right-wing Motorists pa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/czech-culture-minister-dismisses-director-of-pragues-national-gallery-generatingscrutiny/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/czech-culture-minister-dismisses-director-of-pragues-national-gallery-generatingscrutiny/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Year’s Outsider Art Fair Is More Wide-Ranging Than Ever In Its Definition of ‘Outsider’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The field of outsider art continues to expand its parameters, encompassing not only the output of self-taught artists, visionary artists, folk artists, vernacular artists, and artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities, but virtually any maker working outside the mainstream, whether by choice or by circumstance. At the same time, however, outsider art itself is going mainstream: in recent years it has been a focus of, or significant presence in, institutional exhibitions and b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-years-outsider-art-fair-is-more-wide-ranging-than-ever-in-its-definition-ofoutsider/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:36:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-years-outsider-art-fair-is-more-wide-ranging-than-ever-in-its-definition-ofoutsider/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexican Culture Ministry Calls on eBay to Halt Sales of Pre-Columbian Artifacts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The culture ministry of Mexico has called on eBay to remove sale listings for 195 pre-Colombian artifacts, claiming they were obtained by way of &ldquo;illicit extraction&rdquo; and that they should be returned to their country of origin.As reported by The Art Newspaper, the case was made public when Mexico&rsquo;s secretary of culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, wrote in a posting on X that the Orlando, Florida&ndash;based enterprise Coins Artifacts was selling objects deemed part of Mexico&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mexican-culture-ministry-calls-on-ebay-to-halt-sales-of-pre-columbianartifacts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mexican-culture-ministry-calls-on-ebay-to-halt-sales-of-pre-columbianartifacts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calvin Tomkins, Who Chronicled Generations of Vanguard Artists, Dies at 100]]></title><description><![CDATA[Calvin Tomkins, who wrote defining profiles of scores of leading artists, bringing their work to a broad public in crystalline prose that was insightful, generous, and witty, died on Friday. He was 100, according to David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, where Tomkins published numerous profiles. Remnick did not state where Tomkins died in the obituary he wrote for the New Yorker&rsquo;s website.For more than 60 years, Tomkins immersed himself in the contemporary art world, meeting with hi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/calvin-tomkins-who-chronicled-generations-of-vanguard-artists-dies-at100/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/calvin-tomkins-who-chronicled-generations-of-vanguard-artists-dies-at100/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan Wolfson’s Newest Provocation Is a Creepy Prada Ad Campaign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prada&rsquo;s current ad campaign for its Spring/Summer 2026 collection is an unsettling affair, and no surprise its maker is an artist known for disturbing video art and sculptures: Jordan Wolfson, whose past works have featured a gyrating cyborg, chained-up puppets, and other terrors.Wolfson&rsquo;s art is famous&mdash;and, in some cases, notorious&mdash;for its depictions of violence, both of the physical and emotional variety. A VR work that he produced for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, for exa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jordan-wolfsons-newest-provocation-is-a-creepy-prada-adcampaign/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jordan-wolfsons-newest-provocation-is-a-creepy-prada-adcampaign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco Mural of Cesar Chavez Painted Over, Venice Mayor Warns Russian Pavilion Against Peddling Propaganda: Morning Links for March 20, 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.The HeadlinesPAINTING OVER THE CRACKS: Amid ongoing fallout over sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, a prominent mural honoring the labor and farmworker leader was painted over yesterday in San Francisco, reports&#8239;ABC 7 News. The artwork had adorned the Mission District&rsquo;s Latin Rock Music House, a venue that has hosted legendary Latino p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/san-francisco-mural-of-cesar-chavez-painted-over-venice-mayor-warns-russian-pavilion-against-peddling-propaganda-morning-links-for-march-202026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/san-francisco-mural-of-cesar-chavez-painted-over-venice-mayor-warns-russian-pavilion-against-peddling-propaganda-morning-links-for-march-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[30 Iconic Feminist Works By Women Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last March, we presented&nbsp;15&nbsp;iconic works of&nbsp;feminist&nbsp;art stretching from the first wave of feminism to the intersectional movement of today. But that roster could only scratch the surface of a potent artistic point of view. Here we add another 15&nbsp;artworks that powerfully advance the&nbsp;feminist&nbsp;argument.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/30-iconic-feminist-works-by-womenartists/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/30-iconic-feminist-works-by-womenartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a Show at Stanford, Miljohn Ruperto Trolls the Death Drive of AI Guys]]></title><description><![CDATA[As I stood in front of a black screen, a luminous alien creature with five legs and translucent antennae appeared. After a minute, it morphed into an isopod with larger, more articulated limbs. Fathoms (Tartarapelagic), 2025&ndash;26, by Miljohn Ruperto, uses AI to generate otherworldly creatures like these, all based on species recently discovered in the Pacific Ocean&rsquo;s Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). But there&rsquo;s a dark irony: the extensive mining of manganese, nickel, copper, and co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-show-at-stanford-miljohn-ruperto-trolls-the-death-drive-of-aiguys/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-show-at-stanford-miljohn-ruperto-trolls-the-death-drive-of-aiguys/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unmasking Banksy. The investigation hinged on graffiti in Ukraine and a breakthrough discovery around a New York arrest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unmasking Banksy. The investigation hinged on graffiti in Ukraine and a breakthrough discovery around a New York arrest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unmasking-banksy-the-investigation-hinged-on-graffiti-in-ukraine-and-a-breakthrough-discovery-around-a-new-york-arrest/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:10:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unmasking-banksy-the-investigation-hinged-on-graffiti-in-ukraine-and-a-breakthrough-discovery-around-a-new-york-arrest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There should be a simple rule for being a thinker," says Cal Newport. "Don&rsquo;t let AI write anything for you. Writing is to cognitive health what steps are to physical health"]]></title><description><![CDATA["There should be a simple rule for being a thinker," says Cal Newport. "Don&rsquo;t let AI write anything for you. Writing is to cognitive health what steps are to physical health"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-should-be-a-simple-rule-for-being-a-thinker-says-cal-newport-donrsquot-let-ai-write-anything-for-you-writing-is-to-cognitive-health-what-steps-are-to-physical-health/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:10:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-should-be-a-simple-rule-for-being-a-thinker-says-cal-newport-donrsquot-let-ai-write-anything-for-you-writing-is-to-cognitive-health-what-steps-are-to-physical-health/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ibram X. Kendi treats racist ideas as an all-powerful means of control, and the realities underlying right-wing grievance as exaggerated — if not illusory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ibram X. Kendi treats racist ideas as an all-powerful means of control, and the realities underlying right-wing grievance as exaggerated &mdash; if not illusory]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ibram-x-kendi-treats-racist-ideas-as-an-all-powerful-means-of-control-and-the-realities-underlying-right-wing-grievance-as-exaggerated-if-not-illusory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:10:40 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ibram-x-kendi-treats-racist-ideas-as-an-all-powerful-means-of-control-and-the-realities-underlying-right-wing-grievance-as-exaggerated-if-not-illusory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance.Layers of paint were removed during a recent conservation to reveal the figure of Saint John the Evangelist in the canvas&rsquo;s lower-right portion. With the overpaint now gone, the painting has now been identified as Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist (1512/1513) by 16th-century painter Rosso Fiorentino. The pain]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-to-acquire-rediscovered-renaissance-painting-admired-byvasari/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-to-acquire-rediscovered-renaissance-painting-admired-byvasari/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California Museum to Remove Cesar Chavez From Hall of Fame Following Abuse Allegations]]></title><description><![CDATA[A California museum is moving to strip Cesar Chavez of one of the state&rsquo;s highest honors following newly published allegations of sexual abuse.According to Sacramento&rsquo;s news outlet&nbsp;ABC10, the California Museum in Sacramento said its board of trustees plans to remove Chavez from the California Hall of Fame after a&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;investigation detailed claims that the labor leader sexually abused multiple girls and engaged in misconduct with women tied to the United Farm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/california-museum-to-remove-cesar-chavez-from-hall-of-fame-following-abuseallegations/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/california-museum-to-remove-cesar-chavez-from-hall-of-fame-following-abuseallegations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fort Lauderdale Still Fighting Removal of Rainbow Crosswalks: ‘We Are the Last Man Standing’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The legal battle between Fort Lauderdale and state officials over a recent crackdown on street art may conclude in May, when both parties may have a one-day final hearing.The crackdown began in August 2025 under Governor Ron DeSantis, with roughly 100 public artworks across Florida slated for removal under his Safe Streets program in collaboration with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).The directive reportedly stems from an FDOT memo prohibiting painted pavement featuring &ldquo;so]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fort-lauderdale-still-fighting-removal-of-rainbow-crosswalks-we-are-the-last-manstanding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fort-lauderdale-still-fighting-removal-of-rainbow-crosswalks-we-are-the-last-manstanding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum Plans to Sell Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco announced this week that it will look to sell its building in the city&rsquo;s Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood, which also includes some of the city&rsquo;s other top cultural organizations.The decision to sell is part of &ldquo;a series of strategic steps to ensure a sustainable and impactful future for The Museum,&rdquo; according to a release, which includes stabilizing the organization&rsquo;s finances and ensuring that its endowments ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/san-franciscos-contemporary-jewish-museum-plans-to-sellbuilding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/san-franciscos-contemporary-jewish-museum-plans-to-sellbuilding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauren Halsey’s Long-Awaited LA Sculpture Park in South Central Is Finally Here—See Inside]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost two decades ago, while she was an architecture student at El Camino College, Lauren Halsey began conceiving a sculpture park for South Central, the Los Angeles neighborhood where she grew up. At long last, that sculpture park has finally arrived and is now open to the public.Curated by Christine Y. Kim and organized by the arts organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division, the park is officially titled sister dreamer lauren halsey&rsquo;s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south cen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lauren-halseys-long-awaited-la-sculpture-park-in-south-central-is-finally-hereseeinside/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lauren-halseys-long-awaited-la-sculpture-park-in-south-central-is-finally-hereseeinside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Dubai Postpones Fair to May Amid Wider Middle East Conflict]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art Dubai is the latest fair to be upended by the ongoing conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran. With Iran continuing to stirke the United Arab Emirates, leading to eight dead and 157 injured and damage to Dubai International Airport, the emirate&rsquo;s leading art fair announced that its upcoming ediiton will not be held as planned in April.Instead, the fair said in a statement Thursday that it will be moving foward in an &ldquo;adapted format&rdquo; on May 14 to May 17 at the resort Madin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-dubai-postpones-fair-to-may-amid-wider-middle-eastconflict/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-dubai-postpones-fair-to-may-amid-wider-middle-eastconflict/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Women’s History Museum Annonuces Seven-Figure Donation from Meryl Streep]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the National Women&rsquo;s History Museum&mdash;a nonprofit that organizes mostly virtual exhibitions that &ldquo;illuminate the stories of women who have shaped our past and who continue to inform our shared future&rdquo;&mdash;announced that Meryl Streep made a seven-figure donation to the Washington, D.C.-based institution.According to a statement, the Academy Award-winning actor has been a long-time supporter of the National Women&rsquo;s History Museum, which was founded]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-womens-history-museum-annonuces-seven-figure-donation-from-merylstreep/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-womens-history-museum-annonuces-seven-figure-donation-from-merylstreep/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The Sopranos’ Set Photos and Archives Part of Show at the Museum of the Moving Image]]></title><description><![CDATA[The wildly popular TV series &ldquo;The Sopranos&rdquo; aired its much-hyped season finale almost 20 years ago. The critically acclaimed show, starring the late James Gandolfini as troubled mob boss/family man Tony Soprano, premiered on HBO in 1999 and ran for six seasons. &ldquo;The Sopranos,&rdquo; often credited with initiating a golden age of prestige television, is now the subject of an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image.&ldquo;Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos&rdquo; is on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-sopranos-set-photos-and-archives-part-of-show-at-the-museum-of-the-movingimage/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-sopranos-set-photos-and-archives-part-of-show-at-the-museum-of-the-movingimage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emmanuel Di Donna Mounts Major Salvador Dalí Show as Final Exhibition in Madison Avenue Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Emmanuel Di Donna&nbsp;prepares to leave his Madison Avenue gallery,&nbsp;the veteran dealer&nbsp;is returning to the artist most people think they already understand.This spring, Di Donna Galleries will mount one of the most significant exhibitions of&nbsp;Salvador Dal&iacute;&nbsp;seen in New York in decades. &ldquo;Dal&iacute;: The Great Years, 1929&ndash;1939,&rdquo; on view from April 16 through June 13, brings together more than two dozen paintings, sculptures, and works on paper focuse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emmanuel-di-donna-mounts-major-salvador-dal-show-as-final-exhibition-in-madison-avenuespace/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emmanuel-di-donna-mounts-major-salvador-dal-show-as-final-exhibition-in-madison-avenuespace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emmanuel Di Donna Closes His Madison Avenue Chapter With a Major Salvador Dalí Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Emmanuel Di Donna&nbsp;prepares to leave his Madison Avenue gallery,&nbsp;the veteran dealer&nbsp;is returning to the artist most people think they already understand.This spring, Di Donna Galleries will mount one of the most significant exhibitions of&nbsp;Salvador Dal&iacute;&nbsp;seen in New York in decades. &ldquo;Dal&iacute;: The Great Years, 1929&ndash;1939,&rdquo; on view from April 16 through June 13, brings together more than two dozen paintings, sculptures, and works on paper focuse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emmanuel-di-donna-closes-his-madison-avenue-chapter-with-a-major-salvador-dalshow/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emmanuel-di-donna-closes-his-madison-avenue-chapter-with-a-major-salvador-dalshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Critics Say the New Museum Finally Has a Building to Match Its Ambitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Almost two years ago to the day, the New Museum in New York closed its doors to the public, leaving behind a void&mdash;this is one of the country&rsquo;s few major museums that is focused solely on contemporary art, after all. Now, following an expansion overseen by OMA, the museum is finally back and ready to welcome visitors once more.&nbsp;Ahead of the public opening on Saturday, the museum hosted a press preview on Wednesday to show off its refreshed digs, which are occupied almost entirely]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/our-critics-say-the-new-museum-finally-has-a-building-to-match-itsambitions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/our-critics-say-the-new-museum-finally-has-a-building-to-match-itsambitions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meryl Streep Makes Big Donation to National Women’s History Museum, Musée d’Orsay Receives Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fan Paintings: Morning Links for March 19, 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.The HeadlinesSTREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women&rsquo;s History Museum (NWHM)&nbsp;in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her honor, while the donation, the amount of which is unspecified, will fund storytelling projects and digital programming.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/meryl-streep-makes-big-donation-to-national-womens-history-museum-muse-dorsay-receives-collection-of-impressionist-and-post-impressionist-fan-paintings-morning-links-for-march-192026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/meryl-streep-makes-big-donation-to-national-womens-history-museum-muse-dorsay-receives-collection-of-impressionist-and-post-impressionist-fan-paintings-morning-links-for-march-192026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the institution announced Wednesday.	Legg will start in the role in June and will be responsible for the institution&rsquo;s exhibitions, collection, and public programs.Legg&rsquo;s tenure at the Tate Liverpool began in 2018. Under her leadership, the museum has undergone a $46 million renovation, closing in 2023 to the &ldquo;reimagining&rdquo; of the building]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tate-liverpool-director-helen-legg-appointed-to-lead-royal-academy-ofarts/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tate-liverpool-director-helen-legg-appointed-to-lead-royal-academy-ofarts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s and Gagosian Veteran Publishes a History of the Art Market, From the Renaissance to Today]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Valentina Castellani was invited to teach a class at New York University on the history of the art market from the Renaissance to today, she came up against one obstacle in her preparation of the syllabus, even despite her expertise in the matter, with longtime art market experience at both Sotheby&rsquo;s and Gagosian.&ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t find a book that actually covered all this span,&rdquo; she said in a phone interview. &ldquo;There are excellent books and academic studies on many o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-and-gagosian-veteran-publishes-a-history-of-the-art-market-from-the-renaissance-totoday/</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-and-gagosian-veteran-publishes-a-history-of-the-art-market-from-the-renaissance-totoday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monet Once Pledged His Paintings to Secure a Loan, a Letter Reveals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paintings by Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840&ndash;1926) are some of the most valuable artworks in the world; in 2019 his&nbsp;Meules&nbsp;(Haystacks) soared to $110.7&nbsp;million at Sotheby&rsquo;s New York, setting an auction record for an Impressionist painting that still stands today. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental Nymph&eacute;as&nbsp;(Water Lilies) canvases and ethereal Venetian cityscapes, Monet&rsquo;s work has attracted a global f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monet-once-pledged-his-paintings-to-secure-a-loan-a-letterreveals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monet-once-pledged-his-paintings-to-secure-a-loan-a-letterreveals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf envisioned female intellectuals with the time and space to write. Hers was an enduring vision — but also a lonely one]]></title><description><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf envisioned female intellectuals with the time and space to write. Hers was an enduring vision &mdash; but also a lonely one]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-woolf-envisioned-female-intellectuals-with-the-time-and-space-to-write-hers-was-an-enduring-vision-but-also-a-lonely-one/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:37:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-woolf-envisioned-female-intellectuals-with-the-time-and-space-to-write-hers-was-an-enduring-vision-but-also-a-lonely-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Trivers, who died this week, “could be hilarious, infuriating, inappropriate, jocund, tactless, volatile, sometimes aggressive”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Trivers, who died this week, &ldquo;could be hilarious, infuriating, inappropriate, jocund, tactless, volatile, sometimes aggressive&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-trivers-who-died-this-week-could-be-hilarious-infuriating-inappropriate-jocund-tactless-volatile-sometimes-aggressive/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:37:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-trivers-who-died-this-week-could-be-hilarious-infuriating-inappropriate-jocund-tactless-volatile-sometimes-aggressive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A question for astrobiologists: If space dolphins or celestial jellyfishes live somewhere beyond Alpha Centauri, great — but then what?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A question for astrobiologists: If space dolphins or celestial jellyfishes live somewhere beyond Alpha Centauri, great&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;but then what?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-question-for-astrobiologists-if-space-dolphins-or-celestial-jellyfishes-live-somewhere-beyond-alpha-centauri-greatbut-then-what/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:37:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-question-for-astrobiologists-if-space-dolphins-or-celestial-jellyfishes-live-somewhere-beyond-alpha-centauri-greatbut-then-what/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue, Founded Over Five Decades Ago ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The baton is being passed from an elder generation of French art dealer to a younger one, with the purchase of Galerie Malingue by dealer Kamel Mennour, who will take over Malingue&rsquo;s 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris&rsquo;s Matignon district.&ldquo;Located in a space with a long history in modern art, formerly Galerie Malingue, this new venue reflects Mennour&rsquo;s continued growth while setting out a clear direction: the showcasing of significant works by modern]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-dealer-kamel-mennour-buys-galerie-malingue-founded-over-five-decadesago/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-dealer-kamel-mennour-buys-galerie-malingue-founded-over-five-decadesago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Turns Pop Culture Into a Stadium Event With $94.5 M. Jim Irsay Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a few days in March, Christie&rsquo;s Rockefeller Center galleries felt less like an auction house than a public exhibition of 20th-century mythmaking. Fans came to see Kurt Cobain&rsquo;s guitar, Jerry Garcia&rsquo;s &ldquo;Tiger,&rdquo; and John Lennon&rsquo;s piano from &ldquo;Sgt. Pepper&rdquo; and Ringo Starr&rsquo;s &ldquo;Ed Sullivan&rdquo; drum kit up close. Then the sales began, and what had been a museum-like display turned into something louder, faster, and far more competitive.Ac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-turns-pop-culture-into-a-stadium-event-with-945-m-jim-irsaysale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-turns-pop-culture-into-a-stadium-event-with-945-m-jim-irsaysale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dizzy, Nauseous Columbus Art Museum Workers Issue Complaints About Chemical Fumes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Workers at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio have complained to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about headaches, nausea, and dizziness thought to be caused by a chemical sealant used on gallery floors.As reported Tuesday by the Columbus Dispatch, the museum used the floor sealing product GT 275 on floors during recently commenced renovation work on its Ross building, and employees have complained about fumes throughout the institution in the weeks since work began. A fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dizzy-nauseous-columbus-art-museum-workers-issue-complaints-about-chemicalfumes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dizzy-nauseous-columbus-art-museum-workers-issue-complaints-about-chemicalfumes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major Corporate Sponsor Withdraws from Sydney Biennale, Citing Alleged Hate Speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major corporate sponsor of the Sydney Biennale, Australia&rsquo;s biggest art exhibition, has withdrawn following allegations of antisemitism involving a DJ in its program.On Tuesday, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies filed a police complaint over comments allegedly made by US electronic music producer Zubeyda Muzeyyen, who performs as DJ Haram, during a set at the Biennale&rsquo;s opening night party last week at White Bay Power Station, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Muzeyyen is accused]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/major-corporate-sponsor-withdraws-from-sydney-biennale-citing-alleged-hatespeech/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:26:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/major-corporate-sponsor-withdraws-from-sydney-biennale-citing-alleged-hatespeech/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Causes ‘Catastrophic Damage’ to Chihuly Glass Museum in Seattle]]></title><description><![CDATA[A man caused $240,000 in damage to the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum in Seattle late on Monday night, according to a report by the local police.The Seattle Police Department did not name the man, saying only that he was 40 and that he was arrested for assault. The blotter report described the vandalism as &ldquo;catastrophic damage.&rdquo;According to the report, the man destroyed several sculptures of plants located on the museum&rsquo;s grounds. Those sculptures are by Dale Chihuly, whose gl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-causes-catastrophic-damage-to-chihuly-glass-museum-inseattle/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:03:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-causes-catastrophic-damage-to-chihuly-glass-museum-inseattle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise Shadows’s New Sales Director and Para Site Names Executive Director: Industry Moves for March 18, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;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.Praise Shadows Hires Rebecca Hayes as Sales Director:&nbsp;Hayes will lead sales at the Boston gallery&rsquo;s new downtown space.&nbsp;She previously held roles at the Museum of Modern Art and the Addi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/praise-shadowss-new-sales-director-and-para-site-names-executive-director-industry-moves-for-march-182026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/praise-shadowss-new-sales-director-and-para-site-names-executive-director-industry-moves-for-march-182026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and Spirits Sales at Sotheby’s Grew 12% Last Year to $127.5 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The&nbsp;news&nbsp;has not been great for the global spirits marketplace, as we&rsquo;ve reported many times over the past year. Still, despite distilleries&nbsp;pausing production&nbsp;and corporate sales figures slipping, one bright spot seems to be in the&nbsp;auction&nbsp;market&nbsp;for rare and expensive whiskeys. One of the leading auction houses, Sotheby&rsquo;s, released its 2025 Wine &amp; Spirits Market Report late last week, and it details a bevy of information showing how it is out]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wine-and-spirits-sales-at-sothebys-grew-12-last-year-to-1275m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wine-and-spirits-sales-at-sothebys-grew-12-last-year-to-1275m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress Moves to Expand Holocaust Art Restitution Claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Congress has moved to give new life to a law meant to help families recover art stolen during the Holocaust, while at the same time reopening a long-running battle between heirs and the institutions that still hold those works.The US House of Representatives on Monday approved an extension of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, a 2016 law designed to make it easier for victims&rsquo; descendants to bring restitution claims decades after the fact. The measure, according to the&nbs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/congress-moves-to-expand-holocaust-art-restitutionclaims/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/congress-moves-to-expand-holocaust-art-restitutionclaims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition in the Auction Business’s Middle Market is Fierce, and Growing Fiercer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.A former executive at a global auction house recently shared an interesting statistic with me about what the industry calls the &ldquo;middle market.&rdquo; This term means different things to different houses, but generally it refers to lots valued below $1 million and collections below $5 million. Thi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/competition-in-the-auction-businesss-middle-market-is-fierce-and-growingfiercer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/competition-in-the-auction-businesss-middle-market-is-fierce-and-growingfiercer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Says No Sanctions Have Been Broken in Allowing Russia Pavilion to Reopen]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale is standing by its polarizing decision to ignore calls to ban Russia from taking part in this year&rsquo;s exhibition, insisting it hasn&rsquo;t broken any rules.In a statement released on Tuesday, the biennale&rsquo;s organizers said they&rsquo;ve fully complied with all sanctions imposed on Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. &ldquo;No regulations have been violated,&rdquo; they said, adding that the Italian culture ministry has been provided with documentation to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-says-no-sanctions-have-been-broken-in-allowing-russia-pavilion-toreopen/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-says-no-sanctions-have-been-broken-in-allowing-russia-pavilion-toreopen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Sayd No Sanctions Have Been Broken in Allowing Russia Pavilion to Reopen]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale is standing by its polarizing decision to ignore calls to ban Russia from taking part in this year&rsquo;s exhibition, insisting it hasn&rsquo;t broken any rules.In a statement released on Tuesday, the biennale&rsquo;s organizers said they&rsquo;ve fully complied with all sanctions imposed on Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. &ldquo;No regulations have been violated,&rdquo; they said, adding that the Italian culture ministry has been provided with documentation to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-sayd-no-sanctions-have-been-broken-in-allowing-russia-pavilion-toreopen/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-sayd-no-sanctions-have-been-broken-in-allowing-russia-pavilion-toreopen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curator Liz Munsell Named Vice President of Curatorial and Arts Programs at New York’s Powerhouse Arts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Powerhouse Arts, a nonprofit creative production center in Brooklyn&rsquo;s Gowanus neighborhood, announced that curator Liz Munsell to the role of vice president of curatorial and arts programs. Munzell will replace Diya Vij, who was recently appointed as the commissioner of cultural affairs for New York City.In her role, Munsell will work on expanding Powerhouse&rsquo;s annual exhibitions and public programming, as well as overseeing its artist residency and subsidy initiatives and the art fai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/curator-liz-munsell-named-vice-president-of-curatorial-and-arts-programs-at-new-yorks-powerhousearts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/curator-liz-munsell-named-vice-president-of-curatorial-and-arts-programs-at-new-yorks-powerhousearts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camille Henrot Returns to Film After a Decade—with An Instant Classic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Camille Henrot&rsquo;s breakout film Grosse Fatigue (2013) was a tour-de-force: it won her the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale, and ranked on two lists&mdash;ARTnews&rsquo;s and Frieze&rsquo;s&mdash;of the 21st century&rsquo;s best artworks.But it&rsquo;s been nearly a decade since she&rsquo;s shown a new film: her last was Saturday (2017). This week, that&rsquo;s changing: Henrot is premiering her new, hotly anticipated In the Veins (2026) at the reopened New Museum, as part of the sprawling]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/camille-henrot-returns-to-film-after-a-decadewith-an-instantclassic/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/camille-henrot-returns-to-film-after-a-decadewith-an-instantclassic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Gallery of Art Acquires Hundreds of Works, from Civil War Photographs to a Salman Toor Painting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., announced today the acquisition of hundreds of works to its permanent collection, spanning from the 17th century to today.This round of acquisitions shows some of the museum&rsquo;s current priorities in terms of shoring up its holdings, including early photography and recent large-scale works. Among these is a trove of 35 Civil War photographs by the likes of Alexander Gardner, George N. Barnard, and Andrew Joseph Russell, alongside pieces by Dan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-gallery-of-art-acquires-hundreds-of-works-from-civil-war-photographs-to-a-salman-toorpainting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-gallery-of-art-acquires-hundreds-of-works-from-civil-war-photographs-to-a-salman-toorpainting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin Academy of Art Slams Art Prize Cuts, US President Called ‘Steward, Not Owner’ of White House Over Ballroom Plans: Morning Links for March 18, 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.The HeadlinesPOLITICAL MISSTEP? Berlin&rsquo;s&nbsp;Academy of Arts is pushing back against plans to cut the Berlin Art Prize&rsquo;s prize money in half, calling it both a cultural and political misstep, Monopol reported. In a statement on Tuesday, the Academy also criticized the fact that Berlin&rsquo;s Governing Mayor, Kai Wegner, hasn&rsquo;t responded to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-academy-of-art-slams-art-prize-cuts-us-president-called-steward-not-owner-of-white-house-over-ballroom-plans-morning-links-for-march-182026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-academy-of-art-slams-art-prize-cuts-us-president-called-steward-not-owner-of-white-house-over-ballroom-plans-morning-links-for-march-182026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Kingsnorth argues that&nbsp;technocratic civilization is not merely misguided but malevolent. Blame "the Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Kingsnorth argues that&nbsp;technocratic civilization is not merely misguided but malevolent. Blame "the Machine"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-kingsnorth-argues-thatnbsptechnocratic-civilization-is-not-merely-misguided-but-malevolent-blame-the-machine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:06:36 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-kingsnorth-argues-thatnbsptechnocratic-civilization-is-not-merely-misguided-but-malevolent-blame-the-machine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What began as a magazine in search of answers became an activist organ certain it possessed them all. Marco Roth on how n+1 lost its way]]></title><description><![CDATA[What began as a magazine in search of answers became an activist organ certain it possessed them all. Marco Roth on how n+1 lost its way]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-began-as-a-magazine-in-search-of-answers-became-an-activist-organ-certain-it-possessed-them-all-marco-roth-on-how-n1-lost-its-way/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:18:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-began-as-a-magazine-in-search-of-answers-became-an-activist-organ-certain-it-possessed-them-all-marco-roth-on-how-n1-lost-its-way/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Kingsnorth argues technocratic civilization is not merely misguided but malevolent. Blame "the Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Kingsnorth argues technocratic civilization is not merely misguided but malevolent. Blame "the Machine"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-kingsnorth-argues-technocratic-civilization-is-not-merely-misguided-but-malevolent-blame-the-machine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:18:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-kingsnorth-argues-technocratic-civilization-is-not-merely-misguided-but-malevolent-blame-the-machine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Joyce on typos: “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of”]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Joyce on typos: &ldquo;These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-joyce-on-typos-these-are-not-misprints-but-beauties-of-my-style-hitherto-undreamt-of/</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:18:33 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-joyce-on-typos-these-are-not-misprints-but-beauties-of-my-style-hitherto-undreamt-of/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remnants of 3,400-Year-Old Loom in Spain Sheds Light on Bronze Age Textile Production]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of six researchers led by Ricardo E. Basso Rial and Gabriel Garc&iacute;a Ati&eacute;nzar, archaeologists at the University of Grenada and the University of Alicante, respectively, have published new research concerning remnants of a wooden Bronze Age loom discovered in Spain in 2008.The 3,450-year-old loom was inadvertently preserved when a fire decimated the surrounding Iberian village and a roof collapsed on top of it; typically, wooden looms don&rsquo;t survive, with only the loom wei]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/remnants-of-3400-year-old-loom-in-spain-sheds-light-on-bronze-age-textileproduction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/remnants-of-3400-year-old-loom-in-spain-sheds-light-on-bronze-age-textileproduction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting in the Vatican’s Collection Is Newly Identified as an El Greco]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Vatican has announced the discovery of a newly identified painting by Mannerist painter El Greco, Artnet News reports. Titled The Redeemer and dating to the late 1500s, the piece was uncovered by restorers Alessandra Zarelli&nbsp;and Paolo Violini. While conserving the work, they realized that an unknown artist had overpainted the original.A small oil painting on board, The Redeemer was donated to Pope Paul VI by Spanish official Jos&eacute; Mar&iacute;a S&aacute;nchez de Munia&iacute;n Gil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/painting-in-the-vaticans-collection-is-newly-identified-as-an-elgreco/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/painting-in-the-vaticans-collection-is-newly-identified-as-an-elgreco/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Decision Ends Dispute Over Who Actually Bought Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days for $69.3 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Beeple&rsquo;s Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for a record $69.3 million at Christie&rsquo;s in 2021, the winning buyer was quick to reveal itself: a Singapore-based crypto fund called Metapurse, which was founded by a man going by the pseudonym Metakovan, ostensibly with the help of another person who went by the pseudonym Twobadour.By 2022, Metakovan and Twobadour (real names: Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran, respectively) had split up. A year later, Sundaresan and his com]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/court-decision-ends-dispute-over-who-actually-bought-beeples-everydays-the-first-5000-days-for-693m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/court-decision-ends-dispute-over-who-actually-bought-beeples-everydays-the-first-5000-days-for-693m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Whitney Biennial, Artists Explore the Horrifying Boundary Between Human and Machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[As I stood in the Whitney Museum&rsquo;s sixth-floor gallery for the opening of this year&rsquo;s Biennial, I found the eye of a surveillance camera, iridescent and round as a soap bubble, staring back at me. It was implanted in a rectangular body the color of aging plastic, decades-old desktop computers, and exposed bone. There was also a small embedded LED screen marking hours, months, days, and years, but since what was not clear. I was about to walk away, confused, when the voice of an elder]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-whitney-biennial-artists-explore-the-horrifying-boundary-between-human-andmachine/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-whitney-biennial-artists-explore-the-horrifying-boundary-between-human-andmachine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egidio Marzona, Collector Who Built a Monument to the Avant-Garde, Dies at 81]]></title><description><![CDATA[Egidio Marzona, the German-Italian collector, publisher, and patron whose vast holdings helped define the study and display of 20th-century avant-garde art, has died at 81. He died Sunday in Berlin, according to the&nbsp;Prussian Cultural Heritage&nbsp;Foundation (Stiftung Preu&szlig;ischer Kulturbesitz, or SPK).	Unlike many collectors of his generation, Marzona treated archives not as secondary material but as&nbsp;the core of the work itself, amassing not just paintings and objects but the pap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egidio-marzona-collector-who-built-a-monument-to-the-avant-garde-dies-at81/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egidio-marzona-collector-who-built-a-monument-to-the-avant-garde-dies-at81/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DePaul Art Museum Advisory Board Calls on University to Save the Institution, Expressing ‘Anger, Frustration, and Deep Sadness’ Over Abrupt Closure]]></title><description><![CDATA[The members of the advisory board of Chicago&rsquo;s DePaul Art Museum have penned a scathing letter to the leadership of DePaul University, which houses the museum, to reconsider its decision to shutter the 40-year-old institution on June 30, which was announced last month.The letter is addressed to school president Robert L. Manuel, provost Salma Ghanem, and other leaders as well as the board of trustees of the university, which is sited in the Windy City&rsquo;s Lincoln Park neighborhood. It]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/depaul-art-museum-advisory-board-calls-on-university-to-save-the-institution-expressing-anger-frustration-and-deep-sadness-over-abruptclosure/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:57:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/depaul-art-museum-advisory-board-calls-on-university-to-save-the-institution-expressing-anger-frustration-and-deep-sadness-over-abruptclosure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open Letter Published by Activist Group Calling for Venice Biennale to Eject Israel Signed by Nearly 200 Participating Artists and Curators]]></title><description><![CDATA[The activist group Art Not Genocide Alliance released an open letter this week demanding that the Venice Biennale prevent Israel from participating in this year&rsquo;s exhibition.The letter has been signed by nearly 200 artists, curators, and arts workers associated with this year&rsquo;s edition of the Biennale.Among the signatories to the letter are curators Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo and Rasha Salti, two members of the team tasked with realizing the vision of the late curator Koyo Kouoh. Kouoh di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/open-letter-published-by-activist-group-calling-for-venice-biennale-to-eject-israel-signed-by-nearly-200-participating-artists-andcurators/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:46:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/open-letter-published-by-activist-group-calling-for-venice-biennale-to-eject-israel-signed-by-nearly-200-participating-artists-andcurators/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MCA Chicago Director Madeleine Grynsztejn to Depart After 18 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Madeleine Grynsztejn, one of the key figures of Chicago&rsquo;s art scene, will leave her post as director of the city&rsquo;s Museum of Contemporary Art at the end of the year, bringing to an end an 18-year-long tenure thathas seen a range of celebrated retrospectives and a dramatic expansion of the institution&rsquo;s collection and operating budget.In a phone interview, Grynsztejn pointed out that next year will mark the MCA&rsquo;s 60th anniversary, and said that she felt it was time to step]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mca-chicago-director-madeleine-grynsztejn-to-depart-after-18years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mca-chicago-director-madeleine-grynsztejn-to-depart-after-18years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen Wins Guggenheim Museum’s $100,000 LG Award for Art and Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen is this year&rsquo;s winner of the Guggenheim LG Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the costs of his work, which contends with surveillance technology and AI.&ldquo;This is very expensive work to do,&rdquo; Paglen told ARTnews. &ldquo;The R&amp;D costs are insane. So this definitely helps me fund a project I didn&rsquo;t know how to fund, one that&rsquo;s pretty]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trevor-paglen-wins-guggenheim-museums-100000-lg-award-for-art-andtechnology/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trevor-paglen-wins-guggenheim-museums-100000-lg-award-for-art-andtechnology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen Wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award for Art and Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen is this year&rsquo;s winner of the LG Guggenheim Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the costs of his work, which contends with surveillance technology and AI.&ldquo;This is very expensive work to do,&rdquo; Paglen told ARTnews. &ldquo;The R&amp;D costs are insane. So this definitely helps me fund a project I didn&rsquo;t know how to fund, one that&rsquo;s pretty]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trevor-paglen-wins-100000-lg-guggenheim-award-for-art-andtechnology/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trevor-paglen-wins-100000-lg-guggenheim-award-for-art-andtechnology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress Adopts HEAR Act, Hockney to Celebrate 90th Birthday at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall: Morning Links for March 17, 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.The HeadlinesHEAR, HEAR. The HEAR Act&nbsp;was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times. The bipartisan bill is designed to make it easier to restitute Nazi-looted artworks by extending the original 2016 act, which expires later this year. However, new amendments to the bill]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/congress-adopts-hear-act-hockney-to-celebrate-90th-birthday-at-tate-moderns-turbine-hall-morning-links-for-march-172026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/congress-adopts-hear-act-hockney-to-celebrate-90th-birthday-at-tate-moderns-turbine-hall-morning-links-for-march-172026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joseph Beuys Might Be the 20th Century’s Most Influential Artist—but We Have Him All Wrong.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joseph Beuys was full of contradictions&mdash;in his art and in his life. Born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1921, he enlisted in the Hitler Youth months before membership was mandatory. At 18, he worked in a circus, and two years later, he volunteered for the Nazi Air Force. After serving on the front lines of the wrong side of history, he crafted a public persona as Germany&rsquo;s healer, identifying as a &ldquo;shaman.&rdquo; He died young, at 64, and is remembered as a leftist radical, even a nai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joseph-beuys-might-be-the-20th-centurys-most-influential-artistbut-we-have-him-allwrong/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joseph-beuys-might-be-the-20th-centurys-most-influential-artistbut-we-have-him-allwrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath meditated in hers. Frida Kahlo painted her whole life floating in one. Is the bathtub a political object?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath meditated in hers. Frida Kahlo painted her whole life floating in one. Is the bathtub a political object?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sylvia-plath-meditated-in-hers-frida-kahlo-painted-her-whole-life-floating-in-one-is-the-bathtub-a-political-object/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:56:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sylvia-plath-meditated-in-hers-frida-kahlo-painted-her-whole-life-floating-in-one-is-the-bathtub-a-political-object/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Aubrey, born 400 years ago, lived a prodigiously productive literary life, starting innumerable projects and finishing just a few]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Aubrey, born 400 years ago, lived a prodigiously productive literary life, starting innumerable projects and finishing just a few]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-aubrey-born-400-years-ago-lived-a-prodigiously-productive-literary-life-starting-innumerable-projects-and-finishing-just-a-few/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:56:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-aubrey-born-400-years-ago-lived-a-prodigiously-productive-literary-life-starting-innumerable-projects-and-finishing-just-a-few/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Janet Flanner profiled Hitler the way she'd profiled Coco Chanel: as a human being. Hitler was pleased. American readers were not]]></title><description><![CDATA[Janet Flanner profiled Hitler the way she'd profiled Coco Chanel: as a human being. Hitler was pleased. American readers were not]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/janet-flanner-profiled-hitler-the-way-shed-profiled-coco-chanel-as-a-human-being-hitler-was-pleased-american-readers-were-not/</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:56:47 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/janet-flanner-profiled-hitler-the-way-shed-profiled-coco-chanel-as-a-human-being-hitler-was-pleased-american-readers-were-not/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[View 60 Captivating Finalists From the 23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. Then, Vote for Your Favorite!]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year&rsquo;s finalists carry us across landscapes and cultures, into moments with people and wildlife. Now, you too can select the one you deem most deserving of the Readers' Choice award.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/view-60-captivating-finalists-from-the-23rd-annual-smithsonian-magazine-photo-contest-then-vote-for-your-favorite/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:24:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/view-60-captivating-finalists-from-the-23rd-annual-smithsonian-magazine-photo-contest-then-vote-for-your-favorite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Confirm Location of Lost City of Alexandria on the Tigris]]></title><description><![CDATA[An international team of researchers has confirmed the rediscovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE&ndash;323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus River and encompassed swathes of Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia, it was a vital trading center until the 3rd century CE.News of the find was announced in January by the University of Konstanz in Germany, whose chair of Mediterranean and Near Easter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/researchers-confirm-location-of-lost-city-of-alexandria-on-thetigris/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/researchers-confirm-location-of-lost-city-of-alexandria-on-thetigris/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center Board Votes in Favor of Two-Year Closure]]></title><description><![CDATA[The board of directors the Kennedy Center voted on Monday in favor of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s proposal to shut the institution down for two years, according to the Associated Press.Related ArticlesRenowned Composer Philip Glass Withdraws Symphony from the Kennedy&nbsp;Center	Trump Plans to Close Kennedy Center for Two Years, Beginning July&nbsp;4	The closure will begin after celebrations there on July 4, marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. When Trump announced plans to clo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-board-votes-in-favor-of-two-yearclosure/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:22:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-board-votes-in-favor-of-two-yearclosure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s Timothy Taylor to Close New York Outpost After a Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London-based gallery Timothy Taylor will close its New York outpost next month at the conclusion of its current show for James Prapaithong, after nearly a decade of operation in Manhattan.The decision was made &ldquo;to ensure the long-term stability of the gallery and the community around it,&rdquo; the gallery told ARTnews. The gallery, however, will maintain an office and viewing room in New York.&ldquo;In light of current market conditions, the gallery has made the decision to close its]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-timothy-taylor-to-close-new-york-outpost-after-adecade/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-timothy-taylor-to-close-new-york-outpost-after-adecade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outgoing Tate Director Argues for Bigger Tax Breaks for Donors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maria Balshaw, who in December announced her plan to step down from her role as director of Tate since 2017, said that UK chancellor Rachel Reeves should incentivize donations to museums&rsquo; endowment funds by offering bigger tax breaks to would-be philanthropists.In an interview with the Financial Times, Balshaw said, &ldquo;The government could do a lot more to incentivise giving by very rich people, because British museums are competing on a very uneven playing field compared with US insti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/outgoing-tate-director-argues-for-bigger-tax-breaks-fordonors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:47:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/outgoing-tate-director-argues-for-bigger-tax-breaks-fordonors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Shields Placed at 34 Archaeological Sites Across Lebanon, Signaling Enhanced Protections]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blue shields now guard 34 archaeological sites across Lebanon, as the country moves to protect its cultural heritage amid escalating air and ground assaults from Israel, the Lebanese Culture Ministry announced Sunday. The shields signal that the sites are protected under international agreements regarding cultural property during wartime.Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh told Lebanon&rsquo;s National News Agency that the move aims to comply with the 1954 Hague Convention, which requires safeguard]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/blue-shields-placed-at-34-archaeological-sites-across-lebanon-signaling-enhancedprotections/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/blue-shields-placed-at-34-archaeological-sites-across-lebanon-signaling-enhancedprotections/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monet, Munch, and Hockney Headline Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Calendar]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Tate&rsquo;s four national museums&mdash;Tate Modern and Tate Britain, in London, plus branches in Liverpool and St Ives&mdash;have announced their exhibition programming for 2027.	One of the more high-profile shows is &ldquo;Monet: Painting Time,&rdquo; Tate Modern&rsquo;s first solo show dedicated to the French Impressionist. &ldquo;Painting Time&rdquo; is co-organized with Paris&rsquo;s Mus&eacute;e de l&rsquo;Orangerie (where it opens on September 30, 2026) and will include several of Mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monet-munch-and-hockney-headline-tates-2027-exhibitioncalendar/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monet-munch-and-hockney-headline-tates-2027-exhibitioncalendar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newly Unearthed Letter Reveals Edvard Munch’s Influence on Paula Rego]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1951, a 16-year-old Paula Rego wrote to her mother after visiting an Edvard Munch exhibition, the Guardian reported Sunday, in a newly uncovered letter.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s so impressive that you can&rsquo;t imagine,&rdquo; Rego wrote, years before she would emerge as the Iberian Peninsula&rsquo;s preeminent figurative painter, known for her searing visions of womanhood.Rego died in 2022 at 87, apparently never recounting to anyone besides her mother, Maria, the formative visit to the Tate Galle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-unearthed-letter-reveals-edvard-munchs-influence-on-paularego/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:56:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-unearthed-letter-reveals-edvard-munchs-influence-on-paularego/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Founder of Art School That Received $2 M. NEH Grant: Artists Would Be ‘Wise’ to Be ‘Unpolitical’]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the National Endowment of the Humanities announced in January its first round of grants since the start of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s second term, one recipient stood out from the rest: Grand Central Atelier.Based in Queens, the New York art school was awarded $2 million, one of only a handful that exceeded $1 million to a single recipient. The school says that it promotes &ldquo;art untouched by modernism&rdquo; and teaches methods &ldquo;rooted in traditions pre-dating the 19th centur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/founder-of-art-school-that-received-2-m-neh-grant-artists-would-be-wise-to-be-unpolitical/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/founder-of-art-school-that-received-2-m-neh-grant-artists-would-be-wise-to-be-unpolitical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank of England to Replace J.M.W. Turner with UK Wildlife on Banknotes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bank of England (BOE) announced last week that the next generation of banknotes it will issue will feature depictions of wildlife native to the UK, rather than historical figures, including painter J.M.W. Turner.The decision comes after the BOE held a consultation in July 2025 asking the public to vote on six categories that could appear on the forthcoming notes, according to various criteria, which include that it &ldquo;symbolises the UK,&rdquo; &ldquo;resonates with the public,&rdquo; &ld]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bank-of-england-to-replace-jmw-turner-with-uk-wildlife-onbanknotes/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bank-of-england-to-replace-jmw-turner-with-uk-wildlife-onbanknotes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists and Art Professionals Denounce Mexico’s Handling of Resurfaced Art Collection: ‘An Institutional Blunder’]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 200 artists and art professionals in Mexico signed an open letter last week accusing the government of committing an &ldquo;institutional blunder&rdquo; after it allowed a newly resurfaced art collection to travel to Spain.That collection comprises around 300 works that formerly belonged to Jacques and Natasha Gelman. Among those works are a range of treasures: some 18 pieces by Frida Kahlo, in addition to paintings by Diego Rivera, Jos&eacute; Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-and-art-professionals-denounce-mexicos-handling-of-resurfaced-art-collection-an-institutionalblunder/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-and-art-professionals-denounce-mexicos-handling-of-resurfaced-art-collection-an-institutionalblunder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pop Singer Rosalía Apologizes for Saying She Can ‘Differentiate’ Picasso’s Art from His Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rosal&iacute;a, one of the world&rsquo;s most popular singers, apologized after wading into an age-old debate surrounding Pablo Picasso, whose work she initially praised before admitting she didn&rsquo;t know enough about his biography.The controversy kicked off after the Spanish singer appeared on a Spotify podcast with the Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez, who is best known for her novel Our Share of Night. &ldquo;I really like Picasso and I&rsquo;ve never bothered to differentiate the artist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pop-singer-rosala-apologizes-for-saying-she-can-differentiate-picassos-art-from-hislife/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pop-singer-rosala-apologizes-for-saying-she-can-differentiate-picassos-art-from-hislife/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Film by Artist Alexandre Signh and Art Historian Natalie Musteata Wins Oscar]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists and filmmakers Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata won the Oscar for best live action short film on Sunday for their dystopian short Two People Exchanging Saliva. In a rare twist, however, they didn&rsquo;t take the prize alone. The award ended in a tie with the musical comedy short The Singers.Two People Exchanging Saliva runs 36 minutes and is in French, while The Singers, an 18-minute musical comedy directed by Sam Davis, follows a group of strangers who connect through music during]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/film-by-artist-alexandre-signh-and-art-historian-natalie-musteata-winsoscar/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/film-by-artist-alexandre-signh-and-art-historian-natalie-musteata-winsoscar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banksy Unmasked? Judge Granted Democratic Congresswoman Access to Kennedy Center’s Plans Ahead of Today’s Vote on Renovations: Morning Links for March 16, 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.The HeadlinesI AM BANKSY.&nbsp;Part of Banksy&rsquo;s appeal is his anonymous mystique, according to a&nbsp;Reuters&nbsp;long-read,which nevertheless does the detective work of trying to remove it by identifying the artist. The team of reporters justifies their big scoop as serving a &ldquo;deep public interest,&rdquo; while insisting on how Banksy has &ldquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/banksy-unmasked-judge-granted-democratic-congresswoman-access-to-kennedy-centers-plans-ahead-of-todays-vote-on-renovations-morning-links-for-march-162026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/banksy-unmasked-judge-granted-democratic-congresswoman-access-to-kennedy-centers-plans-ahead-of-todays-vote-on-renovations-morning-links-for-march-162026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senga Nengudi and David Thomson Among Winners of Rauschenberg Centennial Awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the winners of its Rauschenberg Centennial Awards, which come with unrestricted grants of $100,000 each.Related ArticlesGroundbreaking Artist Senga Nengudi Wins $100,000 Nasher&nbsp;Prize	Robert Rauschenberg Dance Performances Make a Cozy Home at the&nbsp;Guggenheim	The Rauschenberg Centennial Awards are given in four disciplines, and their winners are as follows: Senga Nengudi for art; David Thomson for performance; Chandra McCormick and Keith Ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/senga-nengudi-and-david-thomson-among-winners-of-rauschenberg-centennialawards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/senga-nengudi-and-david-thomson-among-winners-of-rauschenberg-centennialawards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can Schr&ouml;dinger's cat, Bayesian inference, and the neuroscience of time reveal about how we experience the present?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What can Schr&ouml;dinger's cat, Bayesian inference, and the neuroscience of time reveal about how we experience the present?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-can-schroumldingers-cat-bayesian-inference-and-the-neuroscience-of-time-reveal-about-how-we-experience-the-present/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:10:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-can-schroumldingers-cat-bayesian-inference-and-the-neuroscience-of-time-reveal-about-how-we-experience-the-present/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The erasure of Black Studies. Facing political pressure, universities are turning their backs on Black intellectual life ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The erasure of Black Studies. Facing political pressure, universities are turning their backs on Black intellectual life&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-erasure-of-black-studies-facing-political-pressure-universities-are-turning-their-backs-on-black-intellectual-life/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:10:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-erasure-of-black-studies-facing-political-pressure-universities-are-turning-their-backs-on-black-intellectual-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite his gloomy, austere prose, Colm Tóibín is jolly, garrulous, and likes to gossip]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite his gloomy, austere prose, Colm T&oacute;ib&iacute;n is jolly, garrulous, and likes to gossip]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-gloomy-austere-prose-colm-tibn-is-jolly-garrulous-and-likes-to-gossip/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:10:43 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-gloomy-austere-prose-colm-tibn-is-jolly-garrulous-and-likes-to-gossip/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Distinctly Nordic Sensibility Ignites a Quiet Craze]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been living &hellip; a great deal in my memories lately,&rdquo; the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck wrote in 1937.&nbsp;Hers was a nostalgia perhaps born from relief. That year, the success of Schjerfbeck&rsquo;s second solo exhibition had won her a loyal gallerist and, at last, a steady income. At the age of 75, she was still busy painting, and her work was on view, not for the first time, in a major Parisian exhibition&mdash;this one bearing the ignominious title &ldquo;Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-distinctly-nordic-sensibility-ignites-a-quietcraze/</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-distinctly-nordic-sensibility-ignites-a-quietcraze/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy’s Culture Minister Calls For Resignation Over Russian Pavilion’s Return to Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italy&rsquo;s culture minister has called for the resignation of the government&rsquo;s representative on the board of the Venice Biennale, as a growing political dispute continues to eruope over Russia&rsquo;s plans to reopen its pavilion at the 2026 exhibition in May.In a statement this week, culture minister&nbsp;Alessandro Giuli&nbsp;said he had lost confidence in&nbsp;Tamara Gregoretti, who has served on the Biennale&rsquo;s board since March 2024, accusing her of failing to alert the minis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italys-culture-minister-calls-for-resignation-over-russian-pavilions-return-to-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italys-culture-minister-calls-for-resignation-over-russian-pavilions-return-to-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Ways Artists Have Made Their Livings, from the Renaissance to Today]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most sure-fire way to fund a creative career is family money. So says Mason Currey in his new book Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life&mdash;and only a whiny nepo baby could possibly disagree.And yet, the history of art is no mere &ldquo;history of rich kids.&rdquo; Only egomaniacs get into art expecting sure-fire success. But more than that, I find it is often the people who most need the world to be different than it is who wind up the most creative, who n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-wild-ways-artists-have-made-their-livings-from-the-renaissance-totoday/</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-wild-ways-artists-have-made-their-livings-from-the-renaissance-totoday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Academy of Art to Give Away Money Donated by Jeffrey Epstein]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Academy of Art said Friday that it will give away money donated by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after newly released Justice Department files shed new light on his ties to the institution.According to the&nbsp;New York Times,&nbsp;the school said it plans to donate $65,900 linked to Epstein to a nonprofit that supports victims of human trafficking. It had previously redirected another $30,000 he had given to the academy.In an email sent to students and alumni, the academy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-academy-of-art-to-give-away-money-donated-by-jeffreyepstein/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-academy-of-art-to-give-away-money-donated-by-jeffreyepstein/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporary Art Market Declines For Fourth Straight Year, as Old Masters and Impressionist Works Rebound: Art Basel UBS Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[For much of the past decade, the art market behaved as though history had stopped. Collectors and speculators chased the wet paint with missionary zeal, convinced that the next studio visit might yield a future masterpiece (or a tidy return when flipped onto the secondary market). Auction houses obliged, turning evening sales into pageants for artists who barely had time to form a reputation.That fever appears to have broken, according to the latest Art Basel &amp; UBS Art Market Report, written]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contemporary-art-market-declines-for-fourth-straight-year-as-old-masters-and-impressionist-works-rebound-art-basel-ubsreport/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:09:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contemporary-art-market-declines-for-fourth-straight-year-as-old-masters-and-impressionist-works-rebound-art-basel-ubsreport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike is gone. Prestige fiction is dead — and that isn’t entirely a bad thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike is gone. Prestige fiction is dead &mdash; and that isn&rsquo;t entirely a bad thing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-elite-cultural-esteem-once-lauded-on-bellow-and-updike-is-gone-prestige-fiction-is-dead-and-that-isnt-entirely-a-bad-thing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:04:16 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-elite-cultural-esteem-once-lauded-on-bellow-and-updike-is-gone-prestige-fiction-is-dead-and-that-isnt-entirely-a-bad-thing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawsuit Alleges DOGE Cancelled $349,000 HVAC Grant to Museum after ChatGPT Flagged It As DEI]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal lawsuit alleges that a government initiative created by the Trump administration relied on the generative AI software ChatGPT to help identify grants tied to&nbsp;diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The lawsuit alleges thata grant awarded to the High Point Museum in North Carolina to replace its HVAC system was flagged as related to DEI and subsequently canceled.According to a report by&nbsp;Fox 8 News, High Point received s $349,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Hum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lawsuit-alleges-doge-cancelled-349000-hvac-grant-to-museum-after-chatgpt-flagged-it-asdei/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lawsuit-alleges-doge-cancelled-349000-hvac-grant-to-museum-after-chatgpt-flagged-it-asdei/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Carolina’s International African American Museum Officially Acquires Earliest Known Daguerreotypes of Enslaved Americans]]></title><description><![CDATA[The International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina, has officially acquired a set of 15 daguerreotypes, dating to 1850, that scholars believe to be the earliest known photographs taken of enslaved Americans.The seven enslaved people photographed for the series are identified as Alfred, Delia, Drana, Fassena, Jack, Jem, and Renty; Renty and Delia were father and daughter, respectively, as were Jack and Drana. &ldquo;The 1850 Daguerreotypes,&rdquo; as the IAAM is now ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-carolinas-international-african-american-museum-officially-acquires-earliest-known-daguerreotypes-of-enslavedamericans/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-carolinas-international-african-american-museum-officially-acquires-earliest-known-daguerreotypes-of-enslavedamericans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a Play Capture an Artist as Enigmatic as Henry Darger?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henry Darger left behind one of the strangest imaginative monuments of the twentieth century: a vast private cosmos teeming with angelic child armies, sadistic empires, blizzards, tornadoes, serpentine sky-beasts, and wars fought over the fate of enslaved children. After his death, the whole sprawling kingdom surfaced at once, like an inheritance no one knew to claim. Critics, encountering the hoard, have naturally reached for labels. &ldquo;Outsider artist&rdquo; is the one that tends to get sl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/can-a-play-capture-an-artist-as-enigmatic-as-henrydarger/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/can-a-play-capture-an-artist-as-enigmatic-as-henrydarger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas J Price, Artist Behind Viral Times Square Sculpture, Unveils New Bronze in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Victoria and Albert Museum&rsquo;s newest branch, known as the V&amp;A East, opens in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London next month, visitors will be greeted by a monumental sculpture by the London-based artist Thomas J Price. A Place Beyond, an 18-foot-tall bronze figure, stands to the left of the museum entrance and is Price&rsquo;s tallest sculpture to date.Like many of Price&rsquo;s most well-known pieces, A Place Beyond depicts a young Black person in casual, contemporary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-j-price-artist-behind-viral-times-square-sculpture-unveils-new-bronze-inlondon/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-j-price-artist-behind-viral-times-square-sculpture-unveils-new-bronze-inlondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senators Whitehouse and Schumer Call for ‘Proactive Measures’ to Protect Philip Guston and Ben Shahn Murals]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization&rsquo;s management of its Fine Arts Program and the Fine Arts Collection.	The GSA cares for over 26,000 artworks and artifacts owned by the US government, including murals, paintings, sculptures, and environmental artworks by artists from Mark Rothko and Louise Nevelson to Jacob Lawrence and Ph]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/senators-whitehouse-and-schumer-call-for-proactive-measures-to-protect-philip-guston-and-ben-shahnmurals/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/senators-whitehouse-and-schumer-call-for-proactive-measures-to-protect-philip-guston-and-ben-shahnmurals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealers at TEFAF Maastricht Report Robust Sales, Offering Works Ranging from Two Inches to Room-Size]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite global unrest and a continually worsening conflict in the Middle East, dealers surveyed by ARTnews in their stands at the TEFAF art fair in Maastricht, when willing to discuss sales, were more than pleased. Even if, as one dealer observed, collectors from the Middle East may have been unable to travel. (Another quipped, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s email. There&rsquo;s WhatsApp.&rdquo;) The show must go on.&ldquo;The caliber of collectors is extraordinary,&rdquo; said first-time exhibitor Alison]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-at-tefaf-maastricht-report-robust-sales-offering-works-ranging-from-two-inches-toroom-size/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-at-tefaf-maastricht-report-robust-sales-offering-works-ranging-from-two-inches-toroom-size/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mei Lanfang Was Famous for His Masterful Performances as Female Leads. In the 1930s, He Introduced American Audiences to the World of Chinese Opera]]></title><description><![CDATA[He is considered one of China&rsquo;s greatest 20th-century opera performers, and his influence on the art form is still felt today]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mei-lanfang-was-famous-for-his-masterful-performances-as-female-leads-in-the-1930s-he-introduced-american-audiences-to-the-world-of-chinese-opera/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mei-lanfang-was-famous-for-his-masterful-performances-as-female-leads-in-the-1930s-he-introduced-american-audiences-to-the-world-of-chinese-opera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by a Female Artist at TEFAF]]></title><description><![CDATA[At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton&rsquo;s L&rsquo;homme est en mer, a painting from 1887&ndash;88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution&rsquo;s collection, according to Artnet News.	As reported by senior editor Kate Brown, the painting of a woman looking longingly while holding an infant&mdash;presumably pining for the titular man at sea&mdash;was purchased by the Amsterdam museum with public funds dedicated to acquisition]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/van-gogh-museum-acquires-only-third-painting-by-a-female-artist-attefaf/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:58:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/van-gogh-museum-acquires-only-third-painting-by-a-female-artist-attefaf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Charles Visited Tate Britain’s ‘Turner and Constable’ Show and Loved What He Saw]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Turner and Constable,&rdquo; a show at London&rsquo;s Tate Britain museum that pairs works by J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, has become a smash hit, with some 185,000 people attending since its opening in November. Now, it turns out one of those visitors was none other than King Charles himself.He visited the show on Tuesday, the Tate announced Friday, confirming reports in the British media that he&rsquo;d been toured around &ldquo;Turner and Constable&rdquo; by Amy Concannon, a sen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/king-charles-visited-tate-britains-turner-and-constable-show-and-loved-what-hesaw/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:28:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/king-charles-visited-tate-britains-turner-and-constable-show-and-loved-what-hesaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiljan Radic Wins the Pritzker Prize, ‘Men Retire But Women Get Fired From Museum Leadership’ Says Anne Pasternak: Morning Links for March 13, 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.The HeadlinesHOUSE OF CARDS. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has won the famed Pritzker Prize, the industry&rsquo;s top accolade, which was delayed&nbsp;because of&nbsp;Tom Pritzker&rsquo;s ties to&nbsp;Jeffrey Epstein, according to&nbsp;the New York Times. In an email, Radic said his designs &ldquo;all try to reach a certain austerity.&rdquo; By that he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smiljan-radic-wins-the-pritzker-prize-men-retire-but-women-get-fired-from-museum-leadership-says-anne-pasternak-morning-links-for-march-132026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:21:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smiljan-radic-wins-the-pritzker-prize-men-retire-but-women-get-fired-from-museum-leadership-says-anne-pasternak-morning-links-for-march-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massive, 44-Foot-Long David Hockney Print to Headline Christie’s Spring Prints Season in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[A massive print by David Hockney is slated to headline Christie&rsquo;s London spring prints season. Titled Autour de la maison, &eacute;t&eacute; (2019) and measuring almost 40 feet, it carries a high estimate of &pound;300,000 ($400,000).The work is printed on a single sheet of paper. Not only is it among Hockney&rsquo;s largest prints but also one of the most ambitious works in his printmaking career. It depicts the British artist&rsquo;s home and garden in Normandy at the height of summer. T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/massive-44-foot-long-david-hockney-print-to-headline-christies-spring-prints-season-inlondon/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:44:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/massive-44-foot-long-david-hockney-print-to-headline-christies-spring-prints-season-inlondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooklyn Museum’s Chief Claims That Male Museum Directors Retire, While Their Female Counterparts Get Fired]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a forum in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak voiced concern about what she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women more frequently get fired, the Financial Times reported.Pasternak was speaking at the Making Their Mark Forum alongside guests including Jodie Foster, Christophe Cherix of Museum of Modern Art, Chelsea Clinton, and artists]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooklyn-museums-chief-claims-that-male-museum-directors-retire-while-their-female-counterparts-getfired/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooklyn-museums-chief-claims-that-male-museum-directors-retire-while-their-female-counterparts-getfired/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Making Their Mark Forum, Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak Notes Troubling Pattern in Museum Leadership]]></title><description><![CDATA[During a talk in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak said she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women more frequently get fired, Charlotte Burns reported in the Financial Times Thursday.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m petrified about what&rsquo;s happening to leadership in our country, and particularly in our field,&rdquo; said Paternak. &ldquo;Take a loo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-making-their-mark-forum-brooklyn-museum-director-anne-pasternak-notes-troubling-pattern-in-museumleadership/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-making-their-mark-forum-brooklyn-museum-director-anne-pasternak-notes-troubling-pattern-in-museumleadership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meg Webster, Comme des Garçons, and DIA Art Foundation Have Partnered on a New Perfume]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like lingering petrichor or damp earth, Meg Webster&rsquo;s&nbsp;sculptures&nbsp;envelop&nbsp;the senses&mdash;hardly surprising,&nbsp;as&nbsp;they&nbsp;emerge&nbsp;from&nbsp;&ldquo;soil, sand, and salt,&rdquo; in the words of the DIA Art Foundation, a longtime guardian of her&nbsp;work.&nbsp;For years, visitors have been&nbsp;invited to&nbsp;step&nbsp;around and&nbsp;into&nbsp;the shadow of her earthworks,&nbsp;installed&nbsp;as&nbsp;mounds and pillars along the gallery floor.&nbsp;&nbsp;Starti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/meg-webster-commedes-garons-and-dia-art-foundation-have-partnered-on-a-newperfume/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/meg-webster-commedes-garons-and-dia-art-foundation-have-partnered-on-a-newperfume/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cindy Sherman’s 1997 Horror Movie Flop Is Coming to Blu-Ray. Is the World Finally Ready for It?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photographer&nbsp;Cindy Sherman&nbsp;has made just one feature film to date&mdash;Office Killer,&nbsp;a 1997 box-office flop that was unloved by critics, such as the&nbsp;New York Times&rsquo;s&nbsp;Stephen Holden, who called the movie &ldquo;sadly inept&rdquo; and &ldquo;crude.&rdquo; I agree, at least, on the &ldquo;crude&rdquo; part: in one scene, the film&rsquo;s star&nbsp;Carol Kane&nbsp;plays with a violated corpse&rsquo;s guts. Once she&rsquo;s smeared them around the corpse&rsquo;s opene]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cindy-shermans-1997-horror-movie-flop-is-coming-to-blu-ray-is-the-world-finally-ready-forit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cindy-shermans-1997-horror-movie-flop-is-coming-to-blu-ray-is-the-world-finally-ready-forit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The levels of elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike are gone forever. Prestige fiction is dead — and that isn’t entirely a bad thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The levels of elite cultural esteem once lauded on Bellow and Updike are gone forever. Prestige fiction is dead &mdash; and that isn&rsquo;t entirely a bad thing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-levels-of-elite-cultural-esteem-once-lauded-on-bellow-and-updike-are-gone-forever-prestige-fiction-is-dead-and-that-isnt-entirely-a-bad-thing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:04:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-levels-of-elite-cultural-esteem-once-lauded-on-bellow-and-updike-are-gone-forever-prestige-fiction-is-dead-and-that-isnt-entirely-a-bad-thing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the greatest repository of moral beauty in English literature the voice of the narrator in Middlemarch?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is the greatest repository of moral beauty in English literature the voice of the narrator in Middlemarch?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-the-greatest-repository-of-moral-beauty-in-english-literature-the-voice-of-the-narrator-in-middlemarch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:04:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-the-greatest-repository-of-moral-beauty-in-english-literature-the-voice-of-the-narrator-in-middlemarch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is "great replacement" the grand unifying political theory of our time? Ibram X. Kendi is back]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is "great replacement" the grand unifying political theory of our time? Ibram X. Kendi is back]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-great-replacement-the-grand-unifying-political-theory-of-our-time-ibram-x-kendi-is-back/</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:04:19 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-great-replacement-the-grand-unifying-political-theory-of-our-time-ibram-x-kendi-is-back/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix Is Developing a Series About Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix&nbsp;is working up a scripted series about Mexican artist and cultural icon&nbsp;Frida Kahlo&nbsp;and her husband and fellow artist&nbsp;Diego Rivera. The streamer said the drama will show how the couple&rsquo;s love, betrayals and artistic work were shaped by the political and social atmosphere of the time.Patricia Riggen&nbsp;and&nbsp;Gabriel Ripstein&nbsp;will share directing duties. M&oacute;nica Lozano of Alebrije Producciones is producing.The series will be an adaptation of French]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/netflix-is-developing-a-series-about-frida-kahlo-and-diegorivera/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/netflix-is-developing-a-series-about-frida-kahlo-and-diegorivera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Bob Rennie Donates 24 Works to National Gallery of Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa has received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from Bob Rennie, one of the country&rsquo;s leading art collectors, and his family.The donated works include 17 works by Christopher Williams, two works by Kerry James Marshall, four by Brian Jungen, and one by Jin-me Yoon. With this gift, the Rennie family has now given the museum 284 works since 2012.&ldquo;This gift follows one of the core missions of the collection,&rdquo; Bob&nbsp;Rennie, who has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-bob-rennie-donates-24-works-to-national-gallery-ofcanada/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:02:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-bob-rennie-donates-24-works-to-national-gallery-ofcanada/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denver Art Museum Reveals 2025 Acquisitions, Including Works by Tishan Hsu, Berthe Morisot, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Denver Art Museum in Colorado announced this week that it acquired more than 750 works across all 11 of its curatorial departments in roughly the last year, with an emphasis on further diversifying its collection.	Made between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, the acquisitions included Tishan Hsu&rsquo;s mammal-screen-green-1 (2024) and Jackie Am&eacute;zquita&rsquo;s el SUDOR de mi GENTE (2023), as well as works artists who had solo exhibitions at the museum in 2025 such as Dawoud Be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denver-art-museum-reveals-2025-acquisitions-including-works-by-tishan-hsu-berthe-morisot-andmore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denver-art-museum-reveals-2025-acquisitions-including-works-by-tishan-hsu-berthe-morisot-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Says Leon Black Is a ‘Solid Trustee’ Amid Epstein Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[While collector Leon Black continues to face controversy over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he has found a defender in Glenn Lowry, a former director of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York institution where Black is currently a board member.Black was previously chair of MoMA&rsquo;s board, but he left that position in 2021 following the publication of reports on his friendship and business relationship with Epstein. Prior to his departure from that position, activists an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-moma-director-glenn-lowry-says-leon-black-is-a-solid-trustee-amid-epsteincontroversy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:49:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-moma-director-glenn-lowry-says-leon-black-is-a-solid-trustee-amid-epsteincontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing Page of Archimedes Manuscript Found in France, Shedding Light on Century-Long Mystery]]></title><description><![CDATA[A page missing from The Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest extant copy of writings by the ancient Greek mathematician, was rediscovered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Blois, France. One side of the page, which had been missing for 120 years, contains part of Archimedes&rsquo;s treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder, while the other was covered over with an illumination sometime in the 20th century.The Palimpsest dates back to the 10th century in Greece and features several written works by Archim]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/missing-page-of-archimedes-manuscript-found-in-france-shedding-light-on-century-longmystery/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:35:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/missing-page-of-archimedes-manuscript-found-in-france-shedding-light-on-century-longmystery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Superior Salvator Mundi, and 5 Other Strange and Wonderful Masterpieces at TEFAF Maastricht]]></title><description><![CDATA[The little Dutch city of Maastricht (population about 125,000), boasts an incredible masterpiece-to-resident ratio each March, when the TEFAF fair comes to town. This year, 276 dealers from 24 countries have brought many thousands of objects, arranged in sections devoted to paintings, antiques, jewelry, modern and contemporary art, design, ancient art, arts of Africa and Oceania, and more.&nbsp;Speaking to ARTnews ahead of the fair, which opened Thursday and runs a full six days, New York Old M]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-superior-salvator-mundi-and-5-other-strange-and-wonderful-masterpieces-at-tefafmaastricht/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:32:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-superior-salvator-mundi-and-5-other-strange-and-wonderful-masterpieces-at-tefafmaastricht/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale Claims It’s Neutral—But No Art Exhibition Ever Is]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 1974 Venice Biennale has gone down in history less for what went on view than what didn&rsquo;t: the show itself. The explanations for why the exhibition didn&rsquo;t happen are diverse. Some accounts attribute the show&rsquo;s cancelation to an embarrassing disagreement among warring Italian factions. Others follow the narrative laid out by then-Biennale president Carlo Ripa di Meana, a socialist who said he shuttered the show as a means of political engagement.Certainly, the project that h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-venice-biennale-claims-its-neutralbut-no-art-exhibition-everis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:51:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-venice-biennale-claims-its-neutralbut-no-art-exhibition-everis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaked Texts Show UNT Leaders Feared ‘Barking from Austin’ Before Anti-ICE Show Cancelation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Newly published text messages between leaders at the University of North Texas (UNT) reveal that administrators feared &ldquo;any barking from Austin&rdquo; over plans to cancel an exhibition featuring artwork critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Urgent Matter reports that the communications show school president Harrison Keller and provost Michael McPherson discussing &ldquo;Ni De Aqu&iacute;, Ni De All&aacute;,&rdquo; an exhibition of work by Brooklyn artist Victor Qui&ntilde;o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leaked-texts-show-unt-leaders-feared-barking-from-austin-before-anti-ice-showcancelation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:33:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leaked-texts-show-unt-leaders-feared-barking-from-austin-before-anti-ice-showcancelation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some members of Australia&rsquo;s Jewish community repeatedly claimed that curator Hoor Al Qasimi had selected for participants with anti-Zionist politics.One prominent Jewish group, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, had initially been invited to preview the Biennale ahead of its public opening this weekend. &ldquo;If there are works with a pro-Palestinian bias, fine,&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/biennale-of-sydney-denies-discrimination-as-jewish-group-denounces-pro-palestineartists/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:17:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/biennale-of-sydney-denies-discrimination-as-jewish-group-denounces-pro-palestineartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View]]></title><description><![CDATA[A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Museum of African American History and Culture since its opening will soon leave Washington, DC.According to the&nbsp;Associated Press,&nbsp;the museum plans to remove a timber fragment from the&nbsp;S&atilde;o Jos&eacute;-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship that sank off the coast of Cape Town in 1794 while carrying more than 400 captive Africans. The 33-pound piece of wood, dis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/slave-ship-relic-to-depart-smithsonians-african-american-history-museum-after-decade-onview/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:12:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/slave-ship-relic-to-depart-smithsonians-african-american-history-museum-after-decade-onview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keisha Scarville Wins Brooklyn Museum’s $25,000 Uovo Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Keisha Scarville, a photographer known for her work about people in diaspora and identities in flux, is the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum&rsquo;s Uovo Prize, the institution announced on Thursday.	Through the award, Scarville will take home $25,000 and receive a Brooklyn Museum commission. Her work will also be featured on the facade of the art storage space operated by Uovo in Bushwick.&ldquo;Receiving the 2026 UOVO prize deeply affirms my creative journey,&rdquo; Scarville told ARTnews in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/keisha-scarville-wins-brooklyn-museums-25000-uovoprize/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:08:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/keisha-scarville-wins-brooklyn-museums-25000-uovoprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Messages Reveal Lead Up to Canceled Anti-ICE Show at North Texas Uni, Art Market Edges Back to Growth: Morning Links for March 12, 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.The HeadlinesSORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor &ldquo;Marka27&rdquo; Qui&ntilde;onez. Adam Schrader reports for Urgent Matter that the communications, obtained through a public records request, show school]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/private-messages-reveal-lead-up-to-canceled-anti-ice-show-at-north-texas-uni-art-market-edges-back-to-growth-morning-links-for-march-122026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:13:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/private-messages-reveal-lead-up-to-canceled-anti-ice-show-at-north-texas-uni-art-market-edges-back-to-growth-morning-links-for-march-122026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fab 5 Freddy Shares His Top Five Recent Obsessions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The formative graffiti artist and hip-hop pioneer, whose memoir Everybody&rsquo;s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture was published on March 10, discusses Black piracy and news of the day.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fab-5-freddy-shares-his-top-five-recentobsessions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fab-5-freddy-shares-his-top-five-recentobsessions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scholars and MPs Call UK Museums ‘Unethical’ and ‘Sacrilegious’ for Holding Vast Collections of Human Remains]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than a quarter of a million human remains from around the world are currently held in UK museums, in what MPs and archaeologists are calling an uncomfortable legacy of the country&rsquo;s colonial past. Not only this, but many of the items are reportedly being stored in ways that are disrespectful or even sacrilegious.An investigation by the Guardian found that British museums collectively hold more than 263,000 items of human remains, ranging from complete skeletons and preserved bodies li]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/scholars-and-mps-call-uk-museums-unethical-and-sacrilegious-for-holding-vast-collections-of-humanremains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/scholars-and-mps-call-uk-museums-unethical-and-sacrilegious-for-holding-vast-collections-of-humanremains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 50, Orwell said that “everyone has the face he deserves.” Can the same be said about our hands?]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 50, Orwell said that &ldquo;everyone has the face he deserves.&rdquo; Can the same be said about our hands?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-50-orwell-said-that-everyone-has-the-face-he-deserves-can-the-same-be-said-about-our-hands/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:04:12 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-50-orwell-said-that-everyone-has-the-face-he-deserves-can-the-same-be-said-about-our-hands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Two Years of Decline, the Art Market Edges Back to Growth, Says 2026 Art Basel UBS Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated&nbsp;$59.6 billion in sales, according to the latest&nbsp;Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total represents a&nbsp;4 percent increase from the previous year, breaking a two-year slide in sales&mdash;though the market still sits below its 2022 peak.The recovery, however, came with an asterisk. While auctions bounced back strongly, galleries barely budged]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-two-years-of-decline-the-art-market-edges-back-to-growth-says-2026-art-basel-ubsreport/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-two-years-of-decline-the-art-market-edges-back-to-growth-says-2026-art-basel-ubsreport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When does an individually-felt emotion become part of a collective emotion? The question fascinated both Freud and Franz Boas]]></title><description><![CDATA[When does an individually-felt emotion become part of a collective emotion? The question fascinated both Freud and Franz Boas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-does-an-individually-felt-emotion-become-part-of-a-collective-emotion-the-question-fascinated-both-freud-and-franz-boas/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:02:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-does-an-individually-felt-emotion-become-part-of-a-collective-emotion-the-question-fascinated-both-freud-and-franz-boas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Depending on who you ask, there are fewer than 10 full-time book review critics working today”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Depending on who you ask, there are fewer than 10 full-time book review critics working today&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/depending-on-who-you-ask-there-are-fewer-than-10-full-time-book-review-critics-working-today/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:02:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/depending-on-who-you-ask-there-are-fewer-than-10-full-time-book-review-critics-working-today/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 50, Orwell said, “everyone has the face he deserves.” Can the same be said about our hands?]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 50, Orwell said, &ldquo;everyone has the face he deserves.&rdquo; Can the same be said about our hands?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-50-orwell-said-everyone-has-the-face-he-deserves-can-the-same-be-said-about-our-hands/</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:02:46 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-50-orwell-said-everyone-has-the-face-he-deserves-can-the-same-be-said-about-our-hands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion Nonprofit Claims Artwork in Malta Biennale Was Censored]]></title><description><![CDATA[The second edition of the Malta Biennale opened in previews this week, and it was not without controversy. Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides information on safe abortion in restrictive settings, accused the Biennale&rsquo;s organizers of &ldquo;censoring&rdquo; an artwork by the organization just before the opening on Tuesday.The work originally featured a banner reading Need Abortion Pills? in English and Maltese. According to a press release from Women on Waves, the banner was altered,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/abortion-nonprofit-claims-artwork-in-malta-biennale-wascensored/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:36:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/abortion-nonprofit-claims-artwork-in-malta-biennale-wascensored/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy Purchases Rare Caravaggio Portrait for $34.7 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italy has purchased a rare Caravaggio portrait for &euro;30 million ($34.7 million), one of the largest sums ever paid by the state for a work of art, according to the country&rsquo;s culture ministry.The painting, depicting the cleric Monsignor Maffeo Barberini&mdash;who would later ascend as Pope Urban VIII&mdash;was described as being of &ldquo;exceptional importance,&rdquo; Alessandro Giuli, Italy&rsquo;s culture minister, said in a statement.The portrait had been kept in a private collectio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italy-purchases-rare-caravaggio-portrait-for-347m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:25:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italy-purchases-rare-caravaggio-portrait-for-347m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Austin’s Friends Fair Returns for Second Edition in May With 17 Exhibitors]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Friends Fair in Austin will host its second edition, with an opening preview on May 7, with public days on May 8&ndash;9. Returning to the Loren Hotel Austin, the fair has also increased the number of exhibitors from 10 to 17, and it will take over an entire floor within the Loren.The first edition launched last year as a collaboration between five Austin&ndash;based galleries, four of which will return for this edition, including Martha&rsquo;s and McLennon Pen Co. That iteration saw over 2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/austins-friends-fair-returns-for-second-edition-in-may-with-17exhibitors/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/austins-friends-fair-returns-for-second-edition-in-may-with-17exhibitors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Copy of Our Spring Issue Comes with a Print by Kara Walker]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a monument to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was decommissioned in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2021, curator Hamza Walker managed to get ahold of it and transported it to a warehouse in New Jersey. The hefty monument&rsquo;s move was no small feat, legally or logistically. But once it arrived, he offered it to the artist Kara Walker (no relation), inviting her to do with it as she pleased at a foundry in upstate New York.&nbsp;Walker has been deftly probing the dark sides of Americ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/every-copy-of-our-spring-issue-comes-with-a-print-by-karawalker/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:08:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/every-copy-of-our-spring-issue-comes-with-a-print-by-karawalker/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Longtime Chelsea Gallery Garth Greenan to Relocate Downtown This Fall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Initially, Garth Greenan didn&rsquo;t realize that the lease for his current space on West 20th Street in Chelsea would expire on the eve of his eponymous gallery&rsquo;s 15th anniversary. But once he did, he took it as a sign to start a new chapter for the business.In September, Garth Greenan Gallery will relocate to SoHo and open in two spaces across the street from each other, at 10 Greene Street and 25 Greene Street. The gallery&rsquo;s solo exhibition for Esteban Cabeza de Baca, which close]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/longtime-chelsea-gallery-garth-greenan-to-relocate-downtown-thisfall/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/longtime-chelsea-gallery-garth-greenan-to-relocate-downtown-thisfall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Robert Frank and June Leaf’s East Village Loft, Currently Listed for $6.5 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The extremely bohemian East Village loft that photographer Robert Frank and artist June Leaf called home for more than 40 years is on the market, with an asking price of $6.5 million.That hefty sum will gain you access to no small amount of Lower Manhattan lore, as the two artists made their home/studio at 7 Bleecker Street, near the Bowery, a sort of meeting place for New York&rsquo;s finest creatives of all kinds. As noted by Curbed, &ldquo;Unlike other artists who showed at MoMA and sold at a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-robert-frank-and-june-leafs-east-village-loft-currently-listed-for-65m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:43:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-robert-frank-and-june-leafs-east-village-loft-currently-listed-for-65m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beeple’s Pooping Robot “Dogs” Are Heading to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beeple&rsquo;s robotic beasties&mdash;first unveiled as a&nbsp;questionably crowd-drawing spectacle&nbsp;at Art Basel Miami Beach last December&mdash;are heading&nbsp;to a museum.The installation,&nbsp;Regular Animals&nbsp;(2025), will be presented at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin from April 29 to May 10, coinciding with Gallery Weekend Berlin. The work features a pack of&nbsp;porcine-robotic quadrupeds fitted with grotesquely lifelike heads modeled after figures including Elon Musk, Mark Z]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beeples-pooping-robot-dogs-are-heading-to-berlins-neuenationalgalerie/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beeples-pooping-robot-dogs-are-heading-to-berlins-neuenationalgalerie/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Public Art Biennial Will Launch Along the Katy Trail in Dallas]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Katy Trail, a 3.5-mile urban greenway in Dallas, will be the venue for a new public art biennial launching in Spring 2027.The KTX Biennial will unfold across the length of the Katy Trail, and the works will be on view for up to 18 months, the approved length for a temporary public work in Dallas. New York&ndash;based curator Jovanna Venegas will organize the inaugural edition of the KTX Biennial.The Katy Trail runs through three Dallas neighborhoods, Uptown, Knox, and Highland Park, and is f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-public-art-biennial-will-launch-along-the-katy-trail-indallas/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-public-art-biennial-will-launch-along-the-katy-trail-indallas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undaunted by Global Unrest, TEFAF Revs Up for Maastricht Edition With a ‘Museum For Sale,’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.New York Old Master prints and drawings dealer David Tunick recently tallied up exactly how much time he has spent attending the TEFAF art fair at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre in the Netherlands, about two hours from Amsterdam. With a vaunted selection and vetting process, TEFAF is know]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/undaunted-by-global-unrest-tefaf-revs-up-for-maastricht-edition-with-a-museum-forsale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:29:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/undaunted-by-global-unrest-tefaf-revs-up-for-maastricht-edition-with-a-museum-forsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent Names 76 Exhibitors for Its Upcoming May Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Independent has announced the 76 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming 17th edition, which will run May 14&ndash;17 at a new venue, Pier 36 in the Lower East Side.Related ArticlesIndependent&rsquo;s May Fair in New York to Relocate and Expand for 2026&nbsp;Edition	NADA New York Names Over 110 Galleries for 2026 Edition	The fair will feature the work of over 100 artists, with more than 70 percent of the booths being single-artist presentations. Among these are Jason Fox at David Kordan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/independent-names-76-exhibitors-for-its-upcoming-mayfair/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:10:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/independent-names-76-exhibitors-for-its-upcoming-mayfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More UNESCO Sites Damaged in Isfahan and Lebanon, Democrats Probe Whereabouts of Millions Given to Fund Trump Library: Morning Links for March 11, 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.The Headlines<br />
IRANIAN LANDMARKS HIT. More news of damage to historical sites in Iran is coming through as the war drags on in the region, reports The Art Newspaper. Following the UNESCO-listed Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan and the Golestan Palace in Tehran, other landmarks have been hit by American-Israeli airstrikes. They include sites in Isfahan&rsquo;s historic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-unesco-sites-damaged-in-isfahan-and-lebanon-democrats-probe-whereabouts-of-millions-given-to-fund-trump-library-morning-links-for-march-112026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:34:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-unesco-sites-damaged-in-isfahan-and-lebanon-democrats-probe-whereabouts-of-millions-given-to-fund-trump-library-morning-links-for-march-112026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxembourg’s Culture Minister Defends Country’s Venice Biennale Budget After Critics Say It’s Too High]]></title><description><![CDATA[Luxembourg&rsquo;s pavilion for the upcoming Venice Biennale has sparked a political spat at home, after lawmakers questioned both the cost of the project and the nature of the work set to represent the country.At the center of the debate is La Merde, a project by Luxembourg-born artist Aline Bouvy representing the country at the biennale&rsquo;s 61st edition. The work, described as a feminist and societal commentary centered on a personification of excrement, has drawn criticism from members of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/luxembourgs-culture-minister-defends-countrys-venice-biennale-budget-after-critics-say-its-toohigh/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:04:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/luxembourgs-culture-minister-defends-countrys-venice-biennale-budget-after-critics-say-its-toohigh/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works by Auerbach, Chadwick, and Hepworth to Spearhead Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[After taking an impressive &pound;197.5 million ($265 million) from its marathon, three-pronged modern and contemporary evening sale last week, Christie&rsquo;s London is now preparing for its modern British and Irish art sale on March 18. Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick, and Barbara Hepworth spearhead the tightly curated auction of 26works.Among the top lots is Auerbach&rsquo;s Christmas Tree at Mornington Crescent (2004-05), which has a high estimate of &pound;2 million ($2.6 million). Rendered]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/works-by-auerbach-chadwick-and-hepworth-to-spearhead-christies-modern-british-and-irish-art-sale-inlondon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:52:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/works-by-auerbach-chadwick-and-hepworth-to-spearhead-christies-modern-british-and-irish-art-sale-inlondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monotheism has been called "the single most significant innovation in history." And yet no one can quite define it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monotheism has been called "the single most significant innovation in history." And yet no one can quite define it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monotheism-has-been-called-the-single-most-significant-innovation-in-history-and-yet-no-one-can-quite-define-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:15:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monotheism-has-been-called-the-single-most-significant-innovation-in-history-and-yet-no-one-can-quite-define-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elaine Scarry says pain unmakes language. Jan Steyn, begs to differ — or at least keeps translating and typing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elaine Scarry says pain unmakes language. Jan Steyn, begs to differ &mdash; or at least keeps translating and typing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elaine-scarry-says-pain-unmakes-language-jan-steyn-begs-to-differ-or-at-least-keeps-translating-and-typing/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:15:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elaine-scarry-says-pain-unmakes-language-jan-steyn-begs-to-differ-or-at-least-keeps-translating-and-typing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood cancer has not abated the verbose, sardonic, and unpredictable Will Self’s rage with the literary world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blood cancer has not abated the verbose, sardonic, and unpredictable Will Self&rsquo;s rage with the literary world]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/blood-cancer-has-not-abated-the-verbose-sardonic-and-unpredictable-will-selfs-rage-with-the-literary-world/</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:15:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/blood-cancer-has-not-abated-the-verbose-sardonic-and-unpredictable-will-selfs-rage-with-the-literary-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists Behind Removed Trump-Epstein Statue Have Placed A New One in Washington, D.C.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The anonymous artists behind The Secret Handshake, the guerrilla public art statue of President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;and convicted sex offender&nbsp;Jeffrey Epstein, are at it again. On Tuesday, the group emailed ARTnews with photos of a new statue placed in Washington, D.C., again depicting Trump and Epstein.Titled KING OF THE WORLD, the 12-foot tall statue depicts the US president embracing Epstein in the now iconic pose of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in the 1997 film Titanic. A plaqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-behind-removed-trump-epstein-statue-have-placed-a-new-one-in-washingtondc/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-behind-removed-trump-epstein-statue-have-placed-a-new-one-in-washingtondc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Making Their Mark Forum,  Art Figures Debate Gender Inequities in the Market and the Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four years ago, when Komal Shah conceived a forum to celebrate female artists and address enduring gender inequities in the art world, she thought she&rsquo;d be convening attendees in Washington, D.C., in the glow of Kamala Harris&rsquo;s White House. Instead, the forum took place against a political backdrop openly hostile toward diversity in the arts. The long shadow of Congress&rsquo;s recent questioning of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about her husband&rsquo;s association with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-making-their-mark-forum-art-figures-debate-gender-inequities-in-the-market-and-themuseum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:19:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-making-their-mark-forum-art-figures-debate-gender-inequities-in-the-market-and-themuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Newly Excavated Maya Settlement in Belize Shows Adaptation to Climate Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Postclassic period of Maya civilization (800&ndash;1500 CE) was marked by significant environmental and societal stressors, including prolonged droughts and a shift from centralized authority to smaller, competitive polities. A new excavation at an archaeological site shows how despite these challenges, Postclassic Maya communities not only survived, but thrived.The excavation was conducted by a team of archaeologists and geologists at the Birds of Paradise (BOP) field complex located on the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-newly-excavated-maya-settlement-in-belize-shows-adaptation-to-climatechange/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:18:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-newly-excavated-maya-settlement-in-belize-shows-adaptation-to-climatechange/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Says It Could Pull Funding to Venice Biennale Over Russian Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Union said it could pull funding to the Venice Biennale if the show goes through with hosting Russia, adding to mounting furor over plans by the country to show at the world&rsquo;s most important art exhibition for the first time since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.Henna Virkkunen and Glenn Micallef, respectively the EU&rsquo;s commissioners for technology and culture, said in a joint statement that staging the Russian Pavilion ran aground of the EU&rsquo;s stance on the country, wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-says-it-could-pull-funding-to-venice-biennale-over-russianpavilion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:16:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-says-it-could-pull-funding-to-venice-biennale-over-russianpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retired FBI Agents Geoffrey Kelly Details His 22-Year Investigation into the Gardner Museum Heist in New Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story is part of&nbsp;Newsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now.Next week, the world&rsquo;s greatest art heist turns 36. To mark the anniversary of the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is a new book titled Thirteen Perfect Fugitives: The True Story of the Mob, Murder, and the World&rsquo;s Largest Art Heist, out March 10. The author of the book]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/retired-fbi-agents-geoffrey-kelly-details-his-22-year-investigation-into-the-gardner-museum-heist-in-newbook/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/retired-fbi-agents-geoffrey-kelly-details-his-22-year-investigation-into-the-gardner-museum-heist-in-newbook/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago, Meet Your New ‘Neighbors’: Expo Gets a New Satellite Fair, In a Luxe Gold Coast Apartment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collector Mirka Serrato was walking her dog through Chicago&rsquo;s affluent Gold Coast neighborhood when she came across Ramiro Verdugo, the groundsman tending to the garden at an imposing neoclassical residence. Both Latin American, they hit it off. She was looking for a place to live, and an apartment was available. She ended up living there very happily for about three years before she moved to Dallas, where she&rsquo;s closer to her family, in her native Mexico. But she wasn&rsquo;t ready t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chicago-meet-your-new-neighbors-expo-gets-a-new-satellite-fair-in-a-luxe-gold-coastapartment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:45:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chicago-meet-your-new-neighbors-expo-gets-a-new-satellite-fair-in-a-luxe-gold-coastapartment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collective Climate Action Implemented by Los Angeles Arts Institutions]]></title><description><![CDATA[In part a reaction to the wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles just over one year ago, a number of the city&rsquo;s most significant arts institutions issued a collective pledge to follow climate-minded guidelines known as the Bizot Green Protocol.Initiated in 2015 by the Bizot Group, a network of art museum directors from institutions around the world, the protocol has been amended and revised in the decade since, as catastrophes attributable to climate change have intensified. Institutions behin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collective-climate-action-implemented-by-los-angeles-artsinstitutions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:48:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collective-climate-action-implemented-by-los-angeles-artsinstitutions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designer Dries Van Noten to Launch Foundation in Venice Ahead of the Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fashion designer Dries Van Noten and his partner Patrick Vangheluwe will launch next month a new foundation in Venice dedicated to craftsmanship.The new Fondazione Dries Van Noten will be located in the historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal in the San Polo neighborhood. Over the course of each year, the foundation will stage a number of presentations, collaborative projects, residencies, special events, and activations for artists, designers, and craftsmen at all levels of their car]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/designer-dries-van-noten-to-launch-foundation-in-venice-ahead-of-thebiennale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/designer-dries-van-noten-to-launch-foundation-in-venice-ahead-of-thebiennale/</guid></item></channel></rss>