<?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>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:22:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[In a Historic Blunder, Wu-Tang Clan Sold an Album as a Unique Artwork—A New Doc Tells the Story of an Architect of the Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you were on the internet in 2015, you likely followed the twisty tale of the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. The Staten Island hip-hop titans conceived of the album as a conceptual artwork, a protest against the cheapening of music in the age of widespread piracy. Rather than release the music to the general public, the work was sold at auction for a reported $2 million to a then-anonymous American buyer, seemingly proving that music could sell at the level of Picasso and Warhol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-historic-blunder-wu-tang-clan-sold-an-album-as-a-unique-artworka-new-doc-tells-the-story-of-an-architect-of-thesale/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-historic-blunder-wu-tang-clan-sold-an-album-as-a-unique-artworka-new-doc-tells-the-story-of-an-architect-of-thesale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happened to Scientific American? The political pendulum has swung back and forth, leaving a once hallowed magazine in shambles]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happened to Scientific American? The political pendulum has swung back and forth, leaving a once hallowed magazine in shambles]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-happened-to-scientific-american-the-political-pendulum-has-swung-back-and-forth-leaving-a-once-hallowed-magazine-in-shambles/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:59:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-happened-to-scientific-american-the-political-pendulum-has-swung-back-and-forth-leaving-a-once-hallowed-magazine-in-shambles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.”]]></title><description><![CDATA[“What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.”]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-it-feel-like-to-commune-with-ai-spirits-it-is-a-shot-of-caffeine-it-is-a-dizzy-spell-it-is-a-download-from-the-universe/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:59:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-it-feel-like-to-commune-with-ai-spirits-it-is-a-shot-of-caffeine-it-is-a-dizzy-spell-it-is-a-download-from-the-universe/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-interesting-way-to-look-at-edward-said-is-to-see-the-political-and-the-literary-as-having-always-been-conjoined/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:59:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-interesting-way-to-look-at-edward-said-is-to-see-the-political-and-the-literary-as-having-always-been-conjoined/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prized Monet Paintings at the Center of Milwaukee Art Museum and MFA St. Petersburg’s World Series Wager]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Milwaukee Brewers face the Tampa Bay Rays in game one of the 122nd World Series tonight, they will be playing for more than just the right to hoist the sterling silver Commissioner’s Trophy after four wins. A rival museum’s Monet is also on the line.The teams’ local art museums—the Milwaukee Art Museum, four miles east of where the Brewers play at American Family Field, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, just over a mile west of the Rays’ Tropicana Field—have enter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prized-monet-paintings-at-the-center-of-milwaukee-art-museum-and-mfa-st-petersburgs-world-serieswager/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prized-monet-paintings-at-the-center-of-milwaukee-art-museum-and-mfa-st-petersburgs-world-serieswager/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monument to Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Near Quantico Vandalized]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Virginia man allegedly beheaded one of six statues at the Iwo Jima monument near the Quantico Marine base, causing what police estimated was hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.According to the incident report, Prince William County police arrived at the site Wednesday night to find 27-year-old Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano “actively damaging the statue with a sledgehammer.” The attack cost one of the monument’s Marines his head and left a second figure’s helmet and face “ch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monument-to-iwo-jima-flag-raising-near-quanticovandalized/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monument-to-iwo-jima-flag-raising-near-quanticovandalized/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Duo Brognon Rollin Awarded 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s Top Art Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Prix Marcel Duchamp jury announced Thursday that it has awarded the 2026 prize to artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, known for their multidisciplinary practice that spans installation, sculpture, video, performance, and photography.The Prix Marcel Duchamp is considered France’s most prestigious art prize, with winners recieving €35,000, or just over $40,000. For the award, a jury typically selects four nominees, who show together at the Centre Pompidou in October. This year,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-duo-brognon-rollin-awarded-2026-prix-marcel-duchamp-frances-top-artprize/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-duo-brognon-rollin-awarded-2026-prix-marcel-duchamp-frances-top-artprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Korean Culture Ministry to Audit Former Director of the National Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor’s Note: This story was updated on October 23 2026, with additional information.The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism will audit You Hong-june, the former director of theNational Museum of Korea. You tendered his resignation on Wednesday after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by multiple South Korean news outlets, including the English language newspaper Korea Herald.The work in question was prese]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/korean-culture-ministry-to-audit-former-director-of-the-nationalmuseum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/korean-culture-ministry-to-audit-former-director-of-the-nationalmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Stankard, Renowned Glass Paperweight Artist, Dead at 83]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Stankard, a visionary glass blower who memorialized flora and fauna in hardened and translucent form, died at the age of 83, according to a New York Times obituary that celebrates how his “decades-long obsession with replicating the natural world in glass transformed the American paperweight from tchotchke to fine art.” The cause of his death was cancer, according to his daughter.As the Times described Stankard’s fateful turn to the the mode of working he made his own, “In 1972, wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-stankard-renowned-glass-paperweight-artist-dead-at83/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-stankard-renowned-glass-paperweight-artist-dead-at83/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre, Picasso Museum, Musée d’Orsay Will Close Saturday In Anticipation of Hard-Left Groups Targeting Public Buildings, Says Interior Minister]]></title><description><![CDATA[Museum closures are expected to take place across Paris on Saturday, in anticipation of planned protests, reports Le Figaro.The Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée de l’Orangerie, Picasso Museum, and the Grand Palais’s exhibition spaces will all close their doors on Saturday. The news follows the cancelation of Art Basel Paris over the weekend, which is held at the Grand Palais. In a statement on Friday, the French Ministry of Culture said that all establishments must ensure “the safety of vi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-picasso-museum-muse-dorsay-will-close-saturday-in-anticipation-of-hard-left-groups-targeting-public-buildings-says-interiorminister/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-picasso-museum-muse-dorsay-will-close-saturday-in-anticipation-of-hard-left-groups-targeting-public-buildings-says-interiorminister/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Wildwood' Is the Longest Stop-Motion Animated Film Ever. Each Frame of the Movie Is a Marvel of Handcrafted World Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deborah Cook, costumer designer at stop-motion animation studio Laika, discusses creating tiny costumes for puppets in a fantastical world set in the forests of Portland, Oregon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wildwood-is-the-longest-stop-motion-animated-film-ever-each-frame-of-the-movie-is-a-marvel-of-handcrafted-world-building/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wildwood-is-the-longest-stop-motion-animated-film-ever-each-frame-of-the-movie-is-a-marvel-of-handcrafted-world-building/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comcast Cofounder Gives $20 M. to Philadelphia Museum of Art, One of its Largest Gifts, To Greatly Expand Education Spaces]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced Friday that it has received one of the largest gifts in its history: $20 million from Comcast cofounder Julian A. Brodsky and his wife, Lois G. Brodsky. The gift will support the creation of a new education center named for the donors, vastly expanding on the museum’s existing education spaces.The current education space clocks in at under 6,000 square feet; the new Brodsky Center will more than triple that area. The museum currently has just 16 educati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/comcast-cofounder-gives-20-m-to-philadelphia-museum-of-art-one-of-its-largest-gifts-to-greatly-expand-educationspaces/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/comcast-cofounder-gives-20-m-to-philadelphia-museum-of-art-one-of-its-largest-gifts-to-greatly-expand-educationspaces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Paris Museums Announce Closures Ahead of Saturday Protests, Winner of Marcel Duchamp Prize Announced, and More: Morning Links for October 23, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
The Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Picasso Museum and the Grand Palais’ exhibition spaces will all close on Saturday in anticipation of planned protests in the French capital.Artist duo Brognon Rollin (David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin) just won the Marcel Duchamp Prize.Nearly 1,000 objects from the family of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco have seen their value explode a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-paris-museums-announce-closures-ahead-of-saturday-protests-winner-of-marcel-duchamp-prize-announced-and-more-morning-links-for-october-232026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-paris-museums-announce-closures-ahead-of-saturday-protests-winner-of-marcel-duchamp-prize-announced-and-more-morning-links-for-october-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Did ‘American Gothic’ Become So Iconic? This Art Historian Spent Five Decades Investigating.]]></title><description><![CDATA[In need of a couple’s costume this Halloween? Try a calico apron over a dark dress, a low bun with one loose strand, a cameo broach at your throat; dress a partner in overalls and wire-rimmed glasses, holding a three-pronged pitchfork. It won’t take much to be immediately recognizable as the duo from American Gothic, Grant Wood’s 1930 painting and subject of Wanda Corn’s new book, The Couple with the Pitchfork: American Gothic from Easel to Icon. Why, Corn wants to know, did this paintin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-did-american-gothic-become-so-iconic-this-art-historian-spent-five-decadesinvestigating/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-did-american-gothic-become-so-iconic-this-art-historian-spent-five-decadesinvestigating/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw it coming – and foresaw its consequences]]></title><description><![CDATA[We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw it coming – and foresaw its consequences]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/were-in-the-midst-of-an-attention-crisis-all-is-disruption-and-distraction-john-berger-saw-it-coming-and-foresaw-its-consequences/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:24:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/were-in-the-midst-of-an-attention-crisis-all-is-disruption-and-distraction-john-berger-saw-it-coming-and-foresaw-its-consequences/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Art Basel Paris Shutters for Weekend Protests, Satellite Fairs Keep Their Doors Open]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you planned to visit Art Basel Paris but just learned that it’s closing for the weekend ahead of Saturday’s planned protests, there’s some good news: for now, at least, several satellite fairs plan to welcome visitors for part or all of the weekend—while keeping an eye on the surrounding social and political context as it evolves in real time.As of Thursday night, Asia NOW and Paris Internationale told ARTnews they are staying open as planned, through October 24, while exhibitors at O]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-art-basel-paris-shutters-for-weekend-protests-satellite-fairs-keep-their-doorsopen/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 01:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-art-basel-paris-shutters-for-weekend-protests-satellite-fairs-keep-their-doorsopen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre Heist Suspect Denied Release As Investigators Unravel Tangled Testimonies]]></title><description><![CDATA[An alleged member of the four-person team that broke into the Louvre last October, stealing crown jewels worth roughly $100 million, has been denied release, Le Figaro reports. The suspect, Rachid H., 40, has been detained since November 2025, and will remain in pre-trial detention, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday.On the morning of Sunday, October 19, 2025, the gang used a truck-mounted motorized ladder to break into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery through a second-floor window. Once ins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-heist-suspect-denied-release-as-investigators-unravel-tangledtestimonies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-heist-suspect-denied-release-as-investigators-unravel-tangledtestimonies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monet Painting Sells for $56.2 M., Setting French Auction Record at Sotheby’s Paris]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Claude Monet painting sold for €50 million ($56.2 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris on Thursday, setting a record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction in France.The painting, Iris, sparked a 45-minute bidding battle between six collectors before selling to a private buyer in Asia, represented on the phone by Sotheby’s deputy chairman Jen Hua. It had been expected to fetch between €22 million and €30 million.The sale was part of an auction of works from the collection of J]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monet-painting-sells-for-562-m-setting-french-auction-record-at-sothebysparis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monet-painting-sells-for-562-m-setting-french-auction-record-at-sothebysparis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness]]></title><description><![CDATA[What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-made-cormac-mccarthy-a-great-writer-the-sound-of-his-prose-in-its-full-excess-and-strangeness/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:10:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-made-cormac-mccarthy-a-great-writer-the-sound-of-his-prose-in-its-full-excess-and-strangeness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw this crisis coming – and foresaw its consequences]]></title><description><![CDATA[We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw this crisis coming – and foresaw its consequences]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/were-in-the-midst-of-an-attention-crisis-all-is-disruption-and-distraction-john-berger-saw-this-crisis-coming-and-foresaw-its-consequences/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:10:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/were-in-the-midst-of-an-attention-crisis-all-is-disruption-and-distraction-john-berger-saw-this-crisis-coming-and-foresaw-its-consequences/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians have often created heroes, but few have themselves become one. Marc Bloch is the rare exception ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Historians have often created heroes, but few have themselves become one. Marc Bloch is the rare exception ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historians-have-often-created-heroes-but-few-have-themselves-become-one-marc-bloch-is-the-rare-exception/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:10:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historians-have-often-created-heroes-but-few-have-themselves-become-one-marc-bloch-is-the-rare-exception/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Sells for $8.3 M., Leading Christie’s London Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Barbara Hepworth had quite a night at Christie’s in London on Wednesday. Three of her sculptures were the top-selling lots in the auction house’s modern British and Irish art evening sale, including one that set a new record for a unique work by the British artist.The star of the evening was Sculpture with Colour (Eos), from 1946, which sold for £6.19 million ($8.3 million), within its £5 million–£8 million estimate. The sculpture, carved from a single block of pale Hopton Wood stone, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/barbara-hepworth-sculpture-sells-for-83-m-leading-christies-londonauction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/barbara-hepworth-sculpture-sells-for-83-m-leading-christies-londonauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkish Authorities Seize 2000-Year-Old Marble Head of Zeus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turkish authorities have seized a marble head depicting the ancient Greek god Zeus in Izmir’s Konak district in western Turkey. The sculpture, which is believed to date to the Roman period around 2,000 years ago, was recovered during an operation conducted by the İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office with officers from the Anti-Smuggling and Intelligence branches of the provincial police department.Three unnamed suspects were detained in the course of the operation and charged with violati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/turkish-authorities-seize-2000-year-old-marble-head-ofzeus/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/turkish-authorities-seize-2000-year-old-marble-head-ofzeus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An $80 M. Kandinsky, Once Owned by the Guggenheim, Is Guaranteed to Beat a Record at Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian-born abstraction pioneer Wassily Kandinsky’s painting Betonte Ecken (1922–23) will come to the auction block at Christie’s New York on November 17, carrying a $60 million to $80 million estimate. The anonymous seller acquired the work at Sotheby’s New York in 1986. The painting is guaranteed to sell at a record-setting level, the house told ARTnews.Kandinsky’s auction record currently stands at $44.8 million, paid for the artist’s 1910 painting Murnau mit Kirche II (Murnau wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-80-m-kandinsky-once-owned-by-the-guggenheim-is-guaranteed-to-beat-a-record-atchristies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-80-m-kandinsky-once-owned-by-the-guggenheim-is-guaranteed-to-beat-a-record-atchristies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery Skeleton in Roman Sarcophagus Beneath Westminster Abbey May Be a Medieval Abbot, Study Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[For two centuries, Westminster Abbey has harbored a mystery: Whose skeleton was discovered within a Roman sarcophagus unearthed beneath its foundations? Two Anglo-Saxon abbots are in the running, according to a new archaeology study.The limestone sarcophagus was discovered in 1820 and officially excavated in 1869 from what is now a grassy strip along the north side of the abbey’s nave. In the Middle Ages, it was the yard of the Great Sacristy, built during the reign of Henry III. How, then, di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mystery-skeleton-in-roman-sarcophagus-beneath-westminster-abbey-may-be-a-medieval-abbot-studysays/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mystery-skeleton-in-roman-sarcophagus-beneath-westminster-abbey-may-be-a-medieval-abbot-studysays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealers Scramble to Get Works Out of Paris After Surprise Art Basel Announcement]]></title><description><![CDATA[With Art Basel Paris closing two days early, ahead of planned protests this weekend, dealers have yet to figure out how to get their artworks out of the Grand Palais.The fair will shut its doors at 7 p.m. Friday, rather than Sunday as originally planned, leaving exhibitors to rearrange tight shipping schedules and decide whether to pack up early or wait until the unrest has passed.Multiple dealers told ARTnews they’d received an email announcing the decision at around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. By]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-scramble-to-get-works-out-of-paris-after-surprise-art-baselannouncement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-scramble-to-get-works-out-of-paris-after-surprise-art-baselannouncement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions Raised Over Maintenance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home After Death]]></title><description><![CDATA[Questions have been raised over the maintenance of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s former home and studio, after a visitor was reportedly struck and killed on October 16 by an acrylic fragment that had been dislodged from the property by high winds.The Scottsdale Police Department has identified the deceased as Brazilian national Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, who had traveled to the US for an event at Arizona State University. According]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/questions-raised-over-maintenance-of-frank-lloyd-wrights-taliesin-west-home-afterdeath/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/questions-raised-over-maintenance-of-frank-lloyd-wrights-taliesin-west-home-afterdeath/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Her Miu Miu Commission in Paris, Filmmaker Alice Diop Offers a Much-Needed Space for Healing]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a few days this week, filmmaker Alice Diop has created a space for healing. For this year’s Miu Miu commission during Art Basel Paris, she has transformed the Place d’Iéna into a large-scale installation title Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation).The journey begins with Zanele Muholi’s Bona, Charlottesville, Virginia (2015), from the “Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness)” series. In the black-and-white photograph, we see the artist looking at themself in a mirror, bu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-her-miu-miu-commission-in-paris-filmmaker-alice-diop-offers-a-much-needed-space-forhealing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-her-miu-miu-commission-in-paris-filmmaker-alice-diop-offers-a-much-needed-space-forhealing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Paul Cézanne Paintings Pulled From Sotheby’s Schlumberger Evening Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three works by Paul Cézanne have been removed from the “Le Temps Retrouvé: The Schlumberger Collection” evening sale at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday coinciding with Art Basel Paris.The three works: La Ferme, Arbres au Bord de la Rivière and Ciel Entre les Arbres, carried a combined estimate of $1.57 million to $2.24 million (€1.4 million to €2 million) and were painted between 1862 and 1864. The paintings are being returned to the artist’s hometown in Aix-en-Provenance to be displa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-paul-czanne-paintings-pulled-from-sothebys-schlumberger-eveningsale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-paul-czanne-paintings-pulled-from-sothebys-schlumberger-eveningsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic Globe Used by Dwight D. Eisenhower Broken by Pete Hegseth’s Staff]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a scene that could have been ripped out of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a historic floor globe used by General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II was broken when Pentagon staff tried to move it, according to The Washington Post.As reported by the paper, the globe caught the eye of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who ordered for it to be moved into his office to ogle on his own.	“Ordinarily, moving historical items within the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historic-globe-used-by-dwight-d-eisenhower-broken-by-pete-hegsethsstaff/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historic-globe-used-by-dwight-d-eisenhower-broken-by-pete-hegsethsstaff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revised Tidal Basin Plans Scrutinized as Potential Backdoor for Trump’s Controversial Garden of American Heroes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Park Service has revised its plans to redevelop the Tidal Basin region of the National Mall in Washington, DC. The plan zeroes in on West Potomac Park, which Trump picked in May as his preferred site for the planned National Garden of American Heroes. One leading historic preservationist interpreted the plan as a way to create space for the project, reports the Washington Post.“The plan that we saw is really about making the space for the Garden of Heroes,” Charles A. Birnbaum,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/revised-tidal-basin-plans-scrutinized-as-potential-backdoor-for-trumps-controversial-garden-of-americanheroes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/revised-tidal-basin-plans-scrutinized-as-potential-backdoor-for-trumps-controversial-garden-of-americanheroes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glasgow Museum Removes Mummified Head ‘as a Mark of Respect,’ Prompting Conservative Backlash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum removed an ancient Egyptian mummified head from view because there was no “informed consent from the deceased individual,” the museum said. The move has upset some conservative politicians in Scotland, with one alleging that it is a sign of “woke madness.”According to the Times of London, the museum had previously displayed the mummified male head in its galleries. But it has now been moved to storage, and in its place is a notice reading: â]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/glasgow-museum-removes-mummified-head-as-a-mark-of-respect-prompting-conservativebacklash/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/glasgow-museum-removes-mummified-head-as-a-mark-of-respect-prompting-conservativebacklash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kid Cudi to Play Basquiat in ‘JEAN,’ Biopic He’ll Also Write and Direct]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scott Mescudi, the rapper known as Kid Cudi, announced on Instagram that he is working on a biopic about the oft-mythologized New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film, titled JEAN, will be written and directed by Cudi, who will also star as the titular artist. Cudi shared an image of the first page of a draft of his script, dated August 25, 2026, and said that filming is set to begin in 2027.In his post, Cudi writes that people have been encouraging him to play Basquiat for years but that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kid-cudi-to-play-basquiat-in-jean-biopic-hell-also-write-anddirect/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kid-cudi-to-play-basquiat-in-jean-biopic-hell-also-write-anddirect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Torso Statue Sells for $34.3 M. at Sotheby’s, a Record for a Roman Antiquity]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient fragment of a statue of a Roman emperor sold last night at Sotheby’s for $34.3 million, a sum that the house has deemed an auction record for a Roman antiquity.The three-and-a-half-foot-tall marble fragment depicts only the emperor’s torso, adorned in an elegant bronze cuirass. According to Sotheby’s, it once belonged to a larger statue of an emperor from the Julio-Claudinian dynasty and dates to the 1st century CE. Like many Roman statues, it is a copy of a Greek one.The statue]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-torso-statue-sells-for-343-m-at-sothebys-a-record-for-a-romanantiquity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-torso-statue-sells-for-343-m-at-sothebys-a-record-for-a-romanantiquity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Paris and Fondation Louis Vuitton to Close on Saturday Ahead of Protests]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ahead of planned protests, Art Basel Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and other museums and art events in the French capital are planning to close for part or all of Saturday. In the case of Art Basel, the fair is also shuttering on Sunday, meaning that the event will end midway through its expected run.	The news came during the final weekend of a packed calendar of events around the Paris fair. In an email to exhibitors, Vincenzo de Bellis and Karim Crippa, respectively Art Basel’s chief a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-paris-and-fondation-louis-vuitton-to-close-on-saturday-ahead-ofprotests/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-paris-and-fondation-louis-vuitton-to-close-on-saturday-ahead-ofprotests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weekend Protests in Paris Raise Question of Early Art Basel Closure, $34.3 M. Marble Roman Torso Breaks Auction Records, and More: Morning Links for October 22, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
Ahead of planned protests in Paris and calls to demonstrate at the Grand Palais, where Art Basel is held through Sunday, the fair would not confirm at this stage whether it will have to close over the weekend.An early Roman-era marble torso just broke an auction record for classical sculpture, selling for $34.3 million at Sotheby’s.The New York Public Library was gifted some 25]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/weekend-protests-in-paris-raise-question-of-early-art-basel-closure-343-m-marble-roman-torso-breaks-auction-records-and-more-morning-links-for-october-222026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/weekend-protests-in-paris-raise-question-of-early-art-basel-closure-343-m-marble-roman-torso-breaks-auction-records-and-more-morning-links-for-october-222026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Public Library Gets Over 250 Kiki Smith Prints, a Gift from the Artist’s Sister Seton Smith]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thanks to the generosity of a sibling, the New York Public Library (NYPL) is now the owner of some 250 prints by Kiki Smith. They come as the gift of her sister, fellow artist Seton Smith, who has pledged to give all future prints she receives by Kiki to the institution.The library’s Prints and Spencer Collections already have 30 other Smith prints and 12 of her artist’s books, and with the new gift, including works from as far back as the 1990s and into the present, the library will have on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-public-library-gets-over-250-kiki-smith-prints-a-gift-from-the-artists-sister-setonsmith/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-public-library-gets-over-250-kiki-smith-prints-a-gift-from-the-artists-sister-setonsmith/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elisa Nuyten’s Vega Foundation Is Quietly Reshaping the World of Moving-Image Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[To describe the plight of artists who make films and videos, Martine Syms compared the situation to a viral meme starring a giant, vacant head waiting to be filled in with words below a familiar prompt: “Why you so quiet? What’s on your mind?” For her part, Syms said she would fill in that empty noggin with some stark words: “I’m trying to fund my no-budget experimental film.”There has never been an especially easy time to make moving-image art, which is notoriously hard to monetize.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elisa-nuytens-vega-foundation-is-quietly-reshaping-the-world-of-moving-imageart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elisa-nuytens-vega-foundation-is-quietly-reshaping-the-world-of-moving-imageart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Art Basel Paris, From Tar Paintings to a Falling Knife]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across some 200 booths at Art Basel Paris this year, there is a lot to take in. As the Swiss company’s French fair matures, galleries have begun to bring more and more top-tier, high-priced works, which in turn has made it less a place to discover something new than a place for six-, seven-, and even eight-figure works to be sold. And during the Avant-Première VVIP preview on Tuesday afternoon, exhibiting galleries reported quite a few sales, which they would add to by the close of business W]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-art-basel-paris-from-tar-paintings-to-a-fallingknife/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-art-basel-paris-from-tar-paintings-to-a-fallingknife/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil”]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liberalisms-deepest-grounding-judith-shklar-writes-is-the-belief-that-cruelty-is-an-absolute-evil/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:19:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liberalisms-deepest-grounding-judith-shklar-writes-is-the-belief-that-cruelty-is-an-absolute-evil/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song”]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/howl-at-70-the-last-poem-to-hit-the-world-with-the-impact-of-news-and-grip-it-with-the-tenacity-of-a-pop-song/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:19:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/howl-at-70-the-last-poem-to-hit-the-world-with-the-impact-of-news-and-grip-it-with-the-tenacity-of-a-pop-song/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists can be intellectuals, but no real artist is pure intellect. That was Marcel Duchamp’s problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists can be intellectuals, but no real artist is pure intellect. That was Marcel Duchamp’s problem]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-can-be-intellectuals-but-no-real-artist-is-pure-intellect-that-was-marcel-duchamps-problem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:19:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-can-be-intellectuals-but-no-real-artist-is-pure-intellect-that-was-marcel-duchamps-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere in the 1980s, education became “learning,” and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the 1980s, education became “learning,” and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/somewhere-in-the-1980s-education-became-learning-and-reading-became-a-skill-for-completing-tasks-were-living-with-the-consequence/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:08:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/somewhere-in-the-1980s-education-became-learning-and-reading-became-a-skill-for-completing-tasks-were-living-with-the-consequence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Florentina Holzinger Is Closing Out ‘Seaworld Venice’ With a ‘Final Dinner’ Made From Bodily Waste]]></title><description><![CDATA[In piano parlance, an &eacute;tude is a technically tricky piece of music typically practiced to push a musician beyond their limits. Following that logic, the name of Florentina Holzinger&rsquo;s final Venice Biennale performance, CLOSING &Eacute;TUDE, suggests that after seven months of her propriety-imploding, waste-wonderland SEAWORLD VENICE, there are feats of endurance still ahead.Part performance, part installation, SEAWORLD VENICE opened at the Austrian Pavilion in May with the piercing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/florentina-holzinger-is-closing-out-seaworld-venice-with-a-final-dinner-made-from-bodilywaste/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/florentina-holzinger-is-closing-out-seaworld-venice-with-a-final-dinner-made-from-bodilywaste/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemning Violent Protestors, Alicja Kwade to Remove Art Basel Paris Public Sculpture Early]]></title><description><![CDATA[A monumental sculpture by artist Alicja Kwade will be removed early from public display in Paris, where it was installed part of the public program of the Art Basel Paris fair. The piece is situated on the Avenue Winston Churchill, on the doorstep of the Grand Palais, where the fair is taking place; it went on view today and will be removed on Friday, rather than Sunday, her Paris gallery, Mennour, told ARTnews in an email.&ldquo;Unfortunately, only on view today and tomorrow, as it has to be di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/condemning-violent-protestors-alicja-kwade-to-remove-art-basel-paris-public-sculptureearly/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/condemning-violent-protestors-alicja-kwade-to-remove-art-basel-paris-public-sculptureearly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s Selling at Art Basel Paris? Reported Sales Top Out at $10 M. for a Richter and a Baselitz]]></title><description><![CDATA[Top galleries are placing plenty of works for prices above $1 million at Art Basel Paris 2026. Dealer Emmanuel Di Donna told ARTnews at the Avant-Premi&egrave;re preview on Tuesday afternoon (aka the VVIP opening) that the experience is like &ldquo;drinking from a fire hose.&rdquo; That was followed by the VIP preview on Wednesday.This all came off without a hitch amid heightened security as protests roiled Paris after demonstrations by high school students against crumbling educational infrastr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-selling-at-art-basel-paris-reported-sales-top-out-at-10-m-for-a-richter-and-abaselitz/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-selling-at-art-basel-paris-reported-sales-top-out-at-10-m-for-a-richter-and-abaselitz/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay,&nbsp;Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of &ldquo;Amazon-style&rdquo; working conditions at the newly opened V&amp;A East Storehouse.The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&amp;A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union&rsquo;s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&amp;A pree]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-paynbspconditions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-paynbspconditions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Workers to Strike at All Four Sites Over Pay, Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions at the newly opened V&amp;A East Storehouse.The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&amp;A museums by workers represented by Prospect Union’s heritage division and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The V&amp;A preemptively clo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-payconditions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-to-strike-at-all-four-sites-over-payconditions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melting Ron DeSantis Statue Makes a Point About Climate Change in Florida]]></title><description><![CDATA[Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis&rsquo;s favorite activities since he took office is pooh-poohing climate change initiatives while, almost surreptitiously, working to conserve swathes of the state he represents. Now, a group of environmental activists has found a way to make him sweat.A life-size statue of the Republican governor was unveiled in Tallahassee last week, only to begin melting in the Florida sunshine. As DeSantis&rsquo;s silver-colored face slowly slipped away, a dastardly-lookin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/melting-ron-desantis-statue-makes-a-point-about-climate-change-inflorida/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/melting-ron-desantis-statue-makes-a-point-about-climate-change-inflorida/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists John Akomfrah, Ben Rivers, and Dozens Others Defend Sally Rooney in Open Letter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the publisher Faber &amp; Faber announced that it was pulling the books of Sally Rooney from UK shops due to the Irish novelist&rsquo;s support for Palestine Action, a pro-Palestinian group designated as a terrorist organization by the UK government. Now, dozens of artists and writers have signed an open letter that appeared in the New Statesman on Wednesday in protest of the UK government&rsquo;s policy.Among the signatories are artists John Akomfrah and Ben Rivers, art hist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-john-akomfrah-ben-rivers-and-dozens-others-defend-sally-rooney-in-openletter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-john-akomfrah-ben-rivers-and-dozens-others-defend-sally-rooney-in-openletter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Korea Director Offers to Resign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story was updated on October 21, 2026, with additional information.The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has tendered his resignation after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by the South Korean English language newspaper Korea Herald.The work in question was presented in the show &ldquo;The Korean Table: Food, Nature, and Life&rdquo; (on view through October 25) as a piec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-offers-toresign/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-offers-toresign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel Becomes Lead Sponsor of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum in Expanded Three-Year Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chanel is deepening its relationship with Hong Kong&rsquo;s M+ museum, signing on as its lead partner for the next three years and expanding its support beyond film to exhibitions, artist programs, and other projects.The French luxury house has backed M+, the contemporary visual culture museum in Hong Kong&rsquo;s West Kowloon Cultural District, since 2023. The partnership has until now mostly focused on experimental cinema, film restoration, and building the museum&rsquo;s moving-image collecti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-becomes-lead-sponsor-of-hong-kongs-m-museum-in-expanded-three-yeardeal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-becomes-lead-sponsor-of-hong-kongs-m-museum-in-expanded-three-yeardeal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Works at Art Basel Paris’s Public Program, From a Crowd of TV Screens to a Flock of Plush Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, visitors to the fifth edition of Art Basel Paris had the chance to preview its &ldquo;Hors les murs&rdquo; program, which spreads monumental artworks across nine exceptional cultural and heritage sites in the French capital. Among the highlights are works by Niki de Saint Phalle and Alicja Kwade, displayed along Avenue Winston Churchill, between the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais.Yet these encounters also serve as reminders of what the program has lost. Kwade and Saint Phalle were]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-works-at-art-basel-pariss-public-program-from-a-crowd-of-tv-screens-to-a-flock-of-plushanimals/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-works-at-art-basel-pariss-public-program-from-a-crowd-of-tv-screens-to-a-flock-of-plushanimals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center to Launch Native Artist Residency with Walker Youngbird Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Walker Youngbird Foundation will jointly launch a new residency program for Native artists beginning next spring.Called the Walker Youngbird Native Artist Residency, the initiative will bring a Native artist to FAWC for four weeks (May 23&ndash;June 19). The Walker Youngbird Foundation will provide $10,000 for the inaugural year, $2,500 of which will go to the artist as a stipend. The chosen artist will also receive a priva]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/provincetowns-fine-arts-work-center-to-launch-native-artist-residency-with-walker-youngbirdfoundation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/provincetowns-fine-arts-work-center-to-launch-native-artist-residency-with-walker-youngbirdfoundation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NFL COLOR FIELD Program to Debut With Jammie Holmes Artwork Before First Football Game in France]]></title><description><![CDATA[In advance of its first-ever regular season game in Paris on Sunday, the National Football League announced NFL Color Field&mdash;&ldquo;a new platform that brings football and visual arts together through large-scale installations, original programming and immersive cultural experiences,&rdquo; as a press release describes it.Over the coming weekend, a painting by Jammie Holmes will figure in hand-painted end zones created for a flag-football field that will be set up beneath the Eiffel Tower a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nfl-color-field-program-to-debut-with-jammie-holmes-artwork-before-first-football-game-infrance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nfl-color-field-program-to-debut-with-jammie-holmes-artwork-before-first-football-game-infrance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eli in Paris: The Fondation Louis Vuitton Will Mount a Giant Show of the Broad Collection Next Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major Paris art institution will host a significant Los Angeles collection next year. &ldquo;The Broad in Paris&rdquo; (April 21&ndash;August 30, 2027), at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, will be the largest display of works from the Broad collection ever mounted outside its home city, with some 164 works making the transatlantic voyage. The show will happen while the Broad is closed for renovation; it will reopen in 2028 with 70 percent more gallery space.&ldquo;The Broad in Paris&rdquo; will fe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eli-in-paris-the-fondation-louis-vuitton-will-mount-a-giant-show-of-the-broad-collection-nextyear/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eli-in-paris-the-fondation-louis-vuitton-will-mount-a-giant-show-of-the-broad-collection-nextyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Koons Talks AI, a $100 M. Modigliani in Paris, and More: Industry Moves for October 21, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Vielmetter Los Angeles Takes On Painter Patrick Eug&egrave;ne: The Brooklyn-born, Atlanta-based artist, whose figurative work draws on his Haitian heritage, will debut with the gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach in December ahead of a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-talks-ai-a-100-m-modigliani-in-paris-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-212026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-talks-ai-a-100-m-modigliani-in-paris-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-212026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s National Gallery to Exhibit 40 Works, From Rembrandt to René Magritte]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Ren&eacute; Magritte, Lucian Freud, and John Constable are coming together next year at the National Gallery in London, as part of an exhibition titled &ldquo;Collected.&rdquo;The works have been acquired through two programs: the Acceptance in Lieu and Cultural Gifts schemes, organized by the Arts Council England on behalf of the UK government. The first is an initiative that allows an inheritance tax bill to be replaced by transferring important or pre-eminent cultur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-national-gallery-to-exhibit-40-works-from-rembrandt-to-renmagritte/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-national-gallery-to-exhibit-40-works-from-rembrandt-to-renmagritte/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youthful Edward Hopper Oil Paintings Revealed to Be Copies of Other Artists’ Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[An excerpt from Louis Shadwick&rsquo;s new Edward Hopper biography, published in the Art Newspaper Tuesday, reveals that all six of the artist&rsquo;s early oil paintings are in fact copies of other artists&rsquo; works, rather than Hopper&rsquo;s own original compositions. Hopper made the paintings in a studio in his family&rsquo;s home in Nyack, New York, when he was a teenager, before attending art school in New York City.The works were discovered in the attic of Hopper&rsquo;s childhood home]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/youthful-edward-hopper-oil-paintings-revealed-to-be-copies-of-other-artistswork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/youthful-edward-hopper-oil-paintings-revealed-to-be-copies-of-other-artistswork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basquiat’s Long-Unseen Riff on Leonardo da Vinci To Lead Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale With $30 M. Estimate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The re-emergence of a long-unseen Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece is a miracle the art market occasionally performs. Christie&rsquo;s announced Tuesday that one will appear at its 21st Century Evening Sale this fall.Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads) will make its first public appearance in more than two decades when it leads Christie&rsquo;s 21st Century Evening Sale in New York on November 19, having surfaced from a &ldquo;distinguished&rdquo; private European collection. The es]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/basquiats-long-unseen-riff-on-leonardo-da-vinci-to-lead-christies-21st-century-evening-sale-with-30-mestimate/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/basquiats-long-unseen-riff-on-leonardo-da-vinci-to-lead-christies-21st-century-evening-sale-with-30-mestimate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Düsseldorf Galleries Sign Open Letter Against Far-Right Political Party’s Attempts to ‘Co-Opt’ Joseph Beuys]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 30 galleries based in D&uuml;sseldorf, Germany, signed an open letter last week that called out the far-right Alternativ f&uuml;r Deutschland (AfD) party for its attempts to &ldquo;instrumentalize D&uuml;sseldorf&rsquo;s art and cultural history to serve a political narrative that promotes social exclusion.&rdquo;Published on October 15 and initiated by Daniela Horn, the founder of Van Horn gallery, the letter centers around an event that was initially set to be staged at the city&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dsseldorf-galleries-sign-open-letter-against-far-right-political-partys-attempts-to-co-opt-josephbeuys/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dsseldorf-galleries-sign-open-letter-against-far-right-political-partys-attempts-to-co-opt-josephbeuys/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theaster Gates Returned a David Drake Jar to His Descendants—It’s Now on View at a Virginia HBCU]]></title><description><![CDATA[In May, Theaster Gates set a precedent for restitution by transferring ownership of a stoneware vessel by David Drake, an enslaved ceramist widely known as &ldquo;Dave the Potter,&rdquo; to his descendants. The family estimates that some 200 of Drake&rsquo;s surviving works remain in the possession of museums and collectors, though a growing number of institutions are agreeing to its request: return Drake&rsquo;s work to his family, and we&rsquo;ll keep it on view and accessible to the public.Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/theaster-gates-returned-a-david-drake-jar-to-his-descendantsits-now-on-view-at-a-virginiahbcu/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/theaster-gates-returned-a-david-drake-jar-to-his-descendantsits-now-on-view-at-a-virginiahbcu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environmental Group Unveils Melting Statue of Florida Gov., New Beatles Museum Announced for Liverpool, V&amp;A Unionized Staff to Strike Again, and More: Morning Links for October 21,&nbsp;2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
An environmental group has unveiled a life-size melting statue of Florida governor Ron DeSantis.Liverpool announces Beatles projects for the city, including a 100,000-square-foot museum.The Victoria &amp; Albert Museum&rsquo;s unionized staff plans to strike across all four London sites.The Headlines	MELTING AWAY. A statue of Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been unveiled in Tal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/environmental-group-unveils-melting-statue-of-florida-gov-new-beatles-museum-announced-for-liverpool-vampa-unionized-staff-to-strike-again-and-more-morning-links-for-october-21nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/environmental-group-unveils-melting-statue-of-florida-gov-new-beatles-museum-announced-for-liverpool-vampa-unionized-staff-to-strike-again-and-more-morning-links-for-october-21nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can AI Help Identify the Sitters in Historical Portraits?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can AI help identify the sitters in historical portraits? This is the question pondered by an interdisciplinary project as well as an exhibition that opened this month at Geneva&rsquo;s Mus&eacute;e d&rsquo;art et d&rsquo;histoire (MAH), showcasing a dozen 1762 chalk drawings of the family of Austria&rsquo;s Empress Maria Theresa by the 18th-century artist Jean-&Eacute;tienne Liotard.Twenty years ago, when Catriona Seth was preparing to publish a book about Marie-Antoinette, she chose a beloved]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/can-ai-help-identify-the-sitters-in-historicalportraits/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/can-ai-help-identify-the-sitters-in-historicalportraits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rosana Paulino’s Pantheon of Black Plant Goddesses Arrives in Paris]]></title><description><![CDATA[The growing visibility of Rosana Paulino&rsquo;s work reaches a new chapter with the opening this week of her first solo exhibition in Paris, at Mendes Wood DM&rsquo;s outpost in the French capital.Titled &ldquo;Bloom in the Sunlight, Dream in the Moonlight,&rdquo; the exhibition introduces new plant goddesses into the Afro-botanical pantheon Paulino has been building since 2019 as part of her ongoing series &ldquo;Senhora das Plantas&rdquo; (Lady of the Plants), which elevates Black women to th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rosana-paulinos-pantheon-of-black-plant-goddesses-arrives-inparis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rosana-paulinos-pantheon-of-black-plant-goddesses-arrives-inparis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Lobster and duck at the Johnson White House.” The success of Ralph Ellison’s individualist crusade resulted in an extreme version of public life]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Lobster and duck at the Johnson White House.&rdquo; The success of Ralph Ellison&rsquo;s individualist crusade resulted in an extreme version of public life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lobster-and-duck-at-the-johnson-white-house-the-success-of-ralph-ellisons-individualist-crusade-resulted-in-an-extreme-version-of-public-life/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:02:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lobster-and-duck-at-the-johnson-white-house-the-success-of-ralph-ellisons-individualist-crusade-resulted-in-an-extreme-version-of-public-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“God knows most novels are shit, but nobody is out here suggesting we all just stop writing them”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;God knows most novels are shit, but nobody is out here suggesting we all just stop writing them&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/god-knows-most-novels-are-shit-but-nobody-is-out-here-suggesting-we-all-just-stop-writing-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:02:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/god-knows-most-novels-are-shit-but-nobody-is-out-here-suggesting-we-all-just-stop-writing-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wild sprite haunting the West Yorkshire moors? Not quite. Emily Brontë’s legend distracts from what we know about her life]]></title><description><![CDATA[A wild sprite haunting the West Yorkshire moors? Not quite. Emily Bront&euml;&rsquo;s legend distracts from what we know about her life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-wild-sprite-haunting-the-west-yorkshire-moors-not-quite-emily-bronts-legend-distracts-from-what-we-know-about-her-life/</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:02:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-wild-sprite-haunting-the-west-yorkshire-moors-not-quite-emily-bronts-legend-distracts-from-what-we-know-about-her-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Paris Opens Avant Première with ‘Good Energy,’ a Smattering of Sales, and One $100 M. Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[What&rsquo;s the vibe in Paris, you may be asking? While the detritus of the weekend&rsquo;s protests marks many of the city&rsquo;s arrondissements, the art world is proceeding with business as usual, with events and openings going on as planned Monday night and Tuesday, culminating in the opening of Art Basel Paris&rsquo;s Avant Premi&egrave;re preview at 3 p.m.Around 10 minutes before opening, only a short line had formed to enter the Grand Palais, the architectural marvel that is home to Art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-paris-opens-avant-premire-with-good-energy-a-smattering-of-sales-and-one-100-mwork/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-paris-opens-avant-premire-with-good-energy-a-smattering-of-sales-and-one-100-mwork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Korea Director Apologizes for Misattribution of a Work on Display]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story was updated on October 20, 2026, with additional information.The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has issued a formal apology after a misidentified calligraphic artwork belonging to him was put on display at his museum. The news was announced by the South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily, which reported on the incident last week.The work at the center of the controversy was presented in the show &ldquo;The Korean Table]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-apologizes-for-misattribution-of-a-work-ondisplay/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-apologizes-for-misattribution-of-a-work-ondisplay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Gibson’s Cultural and Spiritual Legacy Lives on in His Sculptures]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a career spanning 60 years, James Gibson was a revered Tennessee teacher and sculptor. Today, over 240 sculptures from his estate are available to collectors for purchase.Related ArticlesJenny Holzer on Paris Protests: 'It's Gruesome That Kids Have to Fight for a Better Education'	Donors Are Secretly Trying to Save the Kennedy Center's Artworks from 'Destruction' or Disposal Amid Trump Takeover	It&rsquo;s hard to miss a sculpture by James Gibson, whose numerous and often massive works can b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-gibsons-cultural-and-spiritual-legacy-lives-on-in-hissculptures/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-gibsons-cultural-and-spiritual-legacy-lives-on-in-hissculptures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jenny Holzer on Paris Protests: ‘It’s Gruesome That Kids Have to Fight for a Better Education’]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an interview conducted earlier this month, after the first large-scale demonstrations in Paris, Jenny Holzer addressed the protests that have continued to roil the city in the weeks since. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s gruesome that kids have to fight for a better education or for teachers to be paid properly, for their schools to be clean,&rdquo; the artist told T: The New York Times Style Magazine. &ldquo;I worry about the kids&rsquo; safety.&rdquo;The occasion for the interview was Holzer&rsquo;s solo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jenny-holzer-on-paris-protests-its-gruesome-that-kids-have-to-fight-for-a-bettereducation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jenny-holzer-on-paris-protests-its-gruesome-that-kids-have-to-fight-for-a-bettereducation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donors Are Secretly Trying to Save the Kennedy Center’s Artworks from ‘Destruction’ or Disposal Amid Trump Takeover]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been widely reported that the Kennedy Center is at the center of a power struggle between the Trump administration and preservationists, as the president wants to rename it in his own honor and insists that the decaying building must close for renovations. He has threatened that it will be razed if he does not get his way.Now, CNN reports that donors who have given artwork to the institution are trying to reclaim their gifts, fearing for their safety amid a renovation and in the wake of l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/donors-are-secretly-trying-to-save-the-kennedy-centers-artworks-from-destruction-or-disposal-amid-trumptakeover/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/donors-are-secretly-trying-to-save-the-kennedy-centers-artworks-from-destruction-or-disposal-amid-trumptakeover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Essential Books About Pop Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pop Art arrived in the middle of the 20th century, as artists experimented with pictures and processes borrowed from mass media. Their high-low mashups, nostalgic references, and high-octane colors remain alluring, relevant, and surprisingly misunderstood. In time for the Whitney Museum of American Art&rsquo;s retrospective on Roy Lichtenstein, read these five books to revisit the significant cultural movement and track its continual reinvention.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/five-essential-books-about-popart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/five-essential-books-about-popart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s Up with Elizabeth Holmes’s Weird Norman Rockwell–Inspired Background on X?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article includes spoilers for You Can See Everything, a new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes now playing theatrically in the US.Did it seem strange to you that Elizabeth Holmes&rsquo;s X account remained so active after she reported to prison in 2023? You are not alone, and You Can See Everything, a new documentary about the businesswoman that was directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, may offer some reasons for the weirdness of her social media in the past few years.As stated in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-up-with-elizabeth-holmess-weird-norman-rockwellinspired-background-onx/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-up-with-elizabeth-holmess-weird-norman-rockwellinspired-background-onx/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s Canada Gallery Faced Threat of Dissolution After Backer’s Lawsuits, Court Documents Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canada, an esteemed New York gallery, faced the threat of closure last year after a backer filed two lawsuits against the space&rsquo;s founders.A New York court ruled that the gallery could remain open, and neither lawsuit appears to be active, with the most recent filings for both posted at the start of this year.	However, in the year and a half since the lawsuits were filed, three of Canada&rsquo;s partners&mdash;including one of the gallery&rsquo;s founders&mdash;left the operation. Five art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-canada-gallery-faced-threat-of-dissolution-after-backers-lawsuits-court-documentsshow/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-canada-gallery-faced-threat-of-dissolution-after-backers-lawsuits-court-documentsshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts Call for Indigenous Artifacts in Canadian Tycoon’s Collection to Be Repatriated]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Canadian seafood tycoon&rsquo;s financial troubles have turned into a debate over who gets to decide what happens to his art collection, which includes dozens of Indigenous artifacts that some experts say should be returned to their communities of origin.John Risley, the billionaire businessman who cofounded Clearwater Seafoods, is caught up in a dispute over hundreds of artworks and antiques following the collapse of his investment company, CFFI Ventures, which entered creditor protection in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/experts-call-for-indigenous-artifacts-in-canadian-tycoons-collection-to-berepatriated/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/experts-call-for-indigenous-artifacts-in-canadian-tycoons-collection-to-berepatriated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewish Museum in Rural Argentina Stays Open Amid Clash With Local Government, Rare Hilma af Klint Abstract Painting Hits Auction, and More: Morning Links for October 20, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
The Villa Dom&iacute;nguez Jewish Museum in Argentina is keeping its doors open amid clashes with the local government.An abstract Hilma af Klint painting, coming to auction for the first time in more than three decades, could potentially break a record for the Swedish artist.A final review of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s proposed Triumphal Arch by the National Capital Planning]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jewish-museum-in-rural-argentina-stays-open-amid-clash-with-local-government-rare-hilma-af-klint-abstract-painting-hits-auction-and-more-morning-links-for-october-202026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jewish-museum-in-rural-argentina-stays-open-amid-clash-with-local-government-rare-hilma-af-klint-abstract-painting-hits-auction-and-more-morning-links-for-october-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Rare Market Moment, Hilma af Klint Painting Comes to Auction in Sweden]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Swedish auction house will sell an abstract painting by Hilma af Klint, an artist whose work almost never comes to market.The painting, titled Ser III No. 5 (1920), will be sold by the Stockholm-based Bukowskis house during a November 19 sale of modern art and design objects. It has been given an estimate of $600,000&ndash;$800,000, and if it reaches even its low estimate, the work will shatter af Klint&rsquo;s prior auction record.Once a relatively obscure figure within 20th-century art histo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-rare-market-moment-hilma-af-klint-painting-comes-to-auction-insweden/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-rare-market-moment-hilma-af-klint-painting-comes-to-auction-insweden/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Libbie Mugrabi Faces New Legal Battle Over 1982 Basquiat to Satisfy $2.3 M. Judgment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the real estate company 320 E 82nd Owner, LLC filed a petition seeking to compel socialite art collector Libbie Mugrabi and the auction house Phillips to turn over an untitled 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting in the latter&rsquo;s possession in order to satisfy a $2.3 million judgment.New York County Supreme Court judge Linda M. Capitti pushed the petition forward last week, approving an order on October 14 preventing the sale or transfer of the Basquiat and compelling Mugr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-libbie-mugrabi-faces-new-legal-battle-over-1982-basquiat-to-satisfy-23-mjudgment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-libbie-mugrabi-faces-new-legal-battle-over-1982-basquiat-to-satisfy-23-mjudgment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Pro Tips For Conserving Your Art Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the world of contemporary art, the maintenance and conservation of paintings usually takes place in strict confidence. But the discretion that damaged art requires does come at an unintended cost, leaving many collectors in the dark about how to navigate the surprising and complex journeys paintings take through time. When defects can be so readily photoshopped out, it&rsquo;s even easy to fall prey to the illusion that paint doesn&rsquo;t age at all.In truth, paintings have always been needi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-pro-tips-for-conserving-your-artcollection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-pro-tips-for-conserving-your-artcollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fondation Louis Vuitton Reunites Hundreds of Masterpieces Once Owned by One France’s Most Important, Though Now Forgotten, Collectors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, January 1889 emerges like a vaguely familiar, climactic apparition about a third of the way through the new blockbuster exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (FLV) in Paris. Here, we find &ldquo;poor Vincent,&rdquo; as he is occasionally referred to in the exhibition catalog, smoking a pipe, an activity he associated with calm contemplation. Behind him, swaths of orange and red form a bold contrast to his green jacket and mat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fondation-louis-vuitton-reunites-hundreds-of-masterpieces-once-owned-by-one-frances-most-important-though-now-forgottencollectors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fondation-louis-vuitton-reunites-hundreds-of-masterpieces-once-owned-by-one-frances-most-important-though-now-forgottencollectors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“There was a generation of liberal arts majors for whom Foucault’s The Order of Things was more exhilarating than any contemporary novel, and I was one of them”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;There was a generation of liberal arts majors for whom Foucault&rsquo;s The Order of Things was more exhilarating than any contemporary novel, and I was one of them&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-was-a-generation-of-liberal-arts-majors-for-whom-foucaults-the-order-of-things-was-more-exhilarating-than-any-contemporary-novel-and-i-was-one-of-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:21:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-was-a-generation-of-liberal-arts-majors-for-whom-foucaults-the-order-of-things-was-more-exhilarating-than-any-contemporary-novel-and-i-was-one-of-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere in the 1980s, education became &ldquo;learning,&rdquo; and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the 1980s, education became &ldquo;learning,&rdquo; and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/somewhere-in-the-1980s-education-became-ldquolearningrdquo-and-reading-became-a-skill-for-completing-tasks-were-living-with-the-consequence/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:21:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/somewhere-in-the-1980s-education-became-ldquolearningrdquo-and-reading-became-a-skill-for-completing-tasks-were-living-with-the-consequence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panpsychism holds that everything is conscious to some degree. To make sense of this elusive theory, consider the principle of sufficient reason]]></title><description><![CDATA[Panpsychism holds that everything is conscious to some degree. To make sense of this elusive theory, consider the principle of sufficient reason]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/panpsychism-holds-that-everything-is-conscious-to-some-degree-to-make-sense-of-this-elusive-theory-consider-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason/</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:21:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/panpsychism-holds-that-everything-is-conscious-to-some-degree-to-make-sense-of-this-elusive-theory-consider-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prairie, Chicago Gallery That Put Conceptualism Ahead of Commercialism, Closes After Nearly a Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prairie, a Chicago gallery that helped put a range of cutting-edge artists on the path to success, will close after nine years.The gallery announced its closure on Friday by revealing that its forthcoming exhibition, a group show called &ldquo;Retrospective,&rdquo; would be its final one. &ldquo;This will be our last show,&rdquo; the gallery wrote on Instagram.Founded in 2017 by Tim Mann and Jack Schneider as an artist-run space, the gallery had a name that referred to &ldquo;the ecosystem that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prairie-chicago-gallery-that-put-conceptualism-ahead-of-commercialism-closes-after-nearly-adecade/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prairie-chicago-gallery-that-put-conceptualism-ahead-of-commercialism-closes-after-nearly-adecade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bayeux Tapestry Display to Change Upon Return to Normandy Next Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Bayeux Tapestry returns to Normandy next summer after its 10-month sojourn to London, the 11th-century textile will be re-presented in a new way that more closely resembles how it currently looks at the British Museum in London.Previously, reports Le Monde, the 770-pound, 220-foot-long embroidered cloth had been displayed vertically at the Bayeux Museum, which is closed for renovations and scheduled to reopen in October 2027. At the British Museum, however, it has been displayed flat, i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bayeux-tapestry-display-to-change-upon-return-to-normandy-nextyear/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bayeux-tapestry-display-to-change-upon-return-to-normandy-nextyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protests Erupt Over Removal of LGBTQ and Feminist Objects at National Museum of Colombia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Protesters assembled around Bogota&rsquo;s National Museum of Colombia over the weekend after the removal of more than 30 objects &ldquo;related to the struggles of the LGBTQ+ movement, feminism, and the political left,&rdquo; according to the digital news source Colombia One.As reported, &ldquo;The decision by Abelardo De La Espriella&rsquo;s government, announced last Friday, turned the area around the museum into a site of public demonstrations against what protesters describe as &lsquo;an at]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/protests-erupt-over-removal-of-lgbtq-and-feminist-objects-at-national-museum-ofcolombia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/protests-erupt-over-removal-of-lgbtq-and-feminist-objects-at-national-museum-ofcolombia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s Massey Klein Gallery Closes Its Doors and Goes Nomadic After Nine Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&rsquo;s Massey Klein Gallery will close its doors after nine years, saying that after initial success, the numbers no longer add up to pay for its showroom on the Lower East Side and support the dealers&rsquo; family and the gallery&rsquo;s artists.	Husband-and-wife team Garrett Klein and Ryan Massey felt called by their Christian faith to open the gallery, and say they&rsquo;ll continue on with nomadic projects. They announced the closure in a Saturday Instagram post. The gallery&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-massey-klein-gallery-closes-its-doors-and-goes-nomadic-after-nineyears/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-massey-klein-gallery-closes-its-doors-and-goes-nomadic-after-nineyears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani Spends a Birthday to Remember at the Studio Museum in Harlem]]></title><description><![CDATA[What&rsquo;s on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani&rsquo;s mind? Policy, policing, potholes, surely. But this week, the Studio Museum in Harlem also made the list.The freshly 35-year-old mayor shared on Instagram that he spent his birthday at the museum yesterday. According to him, one painting on view left a lingering impression: The Hypnotist (2026) by Atlanta native Taylor Simmons. The work, he wrote, was &ldquo;just incredible.&rdquo;Simmons is a 2026 artist-in-residence, along with Simonett]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zohran-mamdani-spends-a-birthday-to-remember-at-the-studio-museum-inharlem/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zohran-mamdani-spends-a-birthday-to-remember-at-the-studio-museum-inharlem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrick Graham, Cathy Wilkes Win Inaugural Bacon Awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[Irish artist Patrick Graham and Northern Irish artist Cathy Wilkes are the recipients of the inaugural Francis Bacon Awards for Irish Visual Arts program.Graham is being awarded the Francis Bacon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Irish painting and influence on contemporary visual art over more than six decades, while Wilkes is receiving the Francis Bacon Mid-Career Artist Award, nodding to her multihyphenated practice of sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. The &euro;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/patrick-graham-cathy-wilkes-win-inaugural-baconawards/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/patrick-graham-cathy-wilkes-win-inaugural-baconawards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid a Historic Downturn, Art Basel Miami Beach Threatened to Move to Las Vegas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Miami Beach, once an outback on the map of the international art world, is now able to make an argument for itself as a cultural hub. A major player in that trajectory, if not the sole cause, is the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, which held its first edition in the Florida city in 2002.But a New York Times report goes inside a sharp-elbowed fight over the future location of the fair, whose executives demanded that the city cut in half the rent it pays on the Miami Beach Convention Center, where the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-a-historic-downturn-art-basel-miami-beach-threatened-to-move-to-lasvegas/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-a-historic-downturn-art-basel-miami-beach-threatened-to-move-to-lasvegas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Eva Gonzalès Retrospective Puts the Non-Impressionist Artist Back on the Map]]></title><description><![CDATA[A retrospective for Eva Gonzal&egrave;s, who is today best known as &Eacute;douard Manet&rsquo;s only formal pupil, has been long overdue. That correction was planned for 2020, when the Ch&acirc;teau-Mus&eacute;e de Dieppe was to organize a show as part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, but it was put on hold by the pandemic until the Petit Palais took up the mantle, where &ldquo;Eva Gonzal&egrave;s (1847&ndash;1883): A Free-Spirited Artist&rsquo;s Journey&rdquo; is on view until Januar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-eva-gonzals-retrospective-puts-the-non-impressionist-artist-back-on-themap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-eva-gonzals-retrospective-puts-the-non-impressionist-artist-back-on-themap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre Blocked as Fallout from a Weekend of Unrest Continues to Shake France]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Louvre temporarily closed Monday due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance, Le Figaro reports. Their action comes on the one-year anniversary of the brazen jewelry heist at the same museum, and follows a massive, nationwide protest on Saturday against social inequality, particularly visible in public schools, which spiraled into clashes with police and riots. These continued to a lesser degree Sunday evening.The unrest has come on the eve of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-blocked-as-fallout-from-a-weekend-of-unrest-continues-to-shakefrance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-blocked-as-fallout-from-a-weekend-of-unrest-continues-to-shakefrance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protesters Block Louvre Following Weekend of Unrest, Art Basel Will Stay in Miami Following City Rent Discount, and More: Morning Links for October 19, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
The Louvre has closed due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students blocking its glass pyramid entrance, in the latest sign of what appears to be abating civil unrest that peaked on Saturday and devolved into rioting.Amid a &ldquo;cyclical downturn&rdquo; for Art Basel fairs, the company will hold onto its spot in Miami through 2031, thanks to a new deal that reduces annua]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/protesters-block-louvre-following-weekend-of-unrest-art-basel-will-stay-in-miami-following-city-rent-discount-and-more-morning-links-for-october-192026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/protesters-block-louvre-following-weekend-of-unrest-art-basel-will-stay-in-miami-following-city-rent-discount-and-more-morning-links-for-october-192026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West Home in Arizona Temporarily Closes After a Man Dies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright&rsquo;s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is temporarily closing after a man died on the property on Friday during a walking tour, reported local news channel AZ Family.The individual was identified to be Rog&eacute;rio Renato Mateucci, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paran&aacute;. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the incident took place at 2 p.m. local time, where Mateucci was struck by roofing material dislodged by strong winds while he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frank-lloyd-wrights-taliesin-west-home-in-arizona-temporarily-closes-after-a-mandies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frank-lloyd-wrights-taliesin-west-home-in-arizona-temporarily-closes-after-a-mandies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arundhati Roy: "Vitiating the fundamental relationship between humans and language will undermine all semblance of social coherence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arundhati Roy: "Vitiating the fundamental relationship between humans and language will undermine all semblance of social coherence"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arundhati-roy-vitiating-the-fundamental-relationship-between-humans-and-language-will-undermine-all-semblance-of-social-coherence/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:28:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arundhati-roy-vitiating-the-fundamental-relationship-between-humans-and-language-will-undermine-all-semblance-of-social-coherence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Once-in-a-Lifetime Look Into America’s Most-Storied Art Couple]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,&rdquo; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of more 120 works by America&rsquo;s most storied art couple: Lee Krasner (1908&ndash;84) and Jackson Pollock (1912&ndash;56). Much has been said about them, with almost all the focus being on Pollock. A May auction made him the newest member of the $100 million club, and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Biography went to Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Grego]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-once-in-a-lifetime-look-into-americas-most-storied-artcouple/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-once-in-a-lifetime-look-into-americas-most-storied-artcouple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at 1-54 London, From 3D-Printed Chairs to Futuristic Visions of Lagos’s Waterfront]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair has returned to London for its 14th edition, which has introduced a new section this year focused on African modernism, curated by art historian Nancy Dantas. Titled &ldquo;West Wind&rdquo; and inspired by Miriam Makeba&rsquo;s 1966 anthem for unity, this presentation addresses the gap left by Sotheby&rsquo;s when it closed its dedicated African modernism department in 2025. The showcase features mid-20th-century masters, like Ibrahim El-Salahi, Bertina Lop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-1-54-london-from-3d-printed-chairs-to-futuristic-visions-of-lagosswaterfront/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-1-54-london-from-3d-printed-chairs-to-futuristic-visions-of-lagosswaterfront/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ibrahim Mahama’s Most Ambitious Show Yet Is Headed to Paris—But Its Core Is in Ghana]]></title><description><![CDATA[Listen to Ibrahim Mahama speak, and he&rsquo;s likely to credit his success to his community, which includes market women, weavers, craftsmen, studio assistants, railway workers, curators, professors, and fellow artists.The Ghanaian artist is quick to recognize their contributions when he receives one of the many awards he&rsquo;s picked up recently. Ranked at the top of the influential ArtReview Power 100 list in 2025, he also won an Art Basel Gold Award that year and received the 2026 Arnold B]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ibrahim-mahamas-most-ambitious-show-yet-is-headed-to-parisbut-its-core-is-inghana/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ibrahim-mahamas-most-ambitious-show-yet-is-headed-to-parisbut-its-core-is-inghana/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Cringe Took Over Culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[In art, as in life, the messy materiality of flesh fazes me not one whit.The climax of Lukas Moodysson&rsquo;s A Hole in My Heart (2004), where Geko vomits into Tess&rsquo;s open mouth? Wrote about it. Judy Chicago&rsquo;s menstrual defiance, Ina Poppe&rsquo;s mother&rsquo;s milk cheese, Martin von Ostrowski&rsquo;s spunk-strewn canvases, Marc Quinn&rsquo;s sculpture cast with 10 pints of his own blood? Up my alley. Florentina Holzinger&rsquo;s waste-processing, piss-wallowing Seaworld Venice at]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-cringe-took-overculture/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-cringe-took-overculture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight Galleries in India You Should Know]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Indian contemporary art market has been on an upswing in recent years. The growth has been catalyzed by the country&rsquo;s economic boom and explosion in private wealth. This has been amplified by a surge in prices for the work of India&rsquo;s modern masters, now nearly inaccessible for emerging collectors. Galleries have been in rapid expansion mode, participating in more art fairs internationally, and opening new spaces.Below is a primer looking at eight of India&rsquo;s top galleries, w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eight-galleries-in-india-you-shouldknow/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eight-galleries-in-india-you-shouldknow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Federation Over Cranach Diptych, Met Names Danh Võ for Genesis Façade Commission, and More: Morning Links for October 16, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
The Norton Simon Museum countersued the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, following the latter&rsquo;s suit claiming it owned a Nazi-looted Lucas Cranach diptych in the museum collection.The Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected artist Danh V&otilde; for its 2027 Genesis Fa&ccedil;ade Commission.The Biennale Jogja Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, has announced it is closing it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/norton-simon-museum-countersues-jewish-federation-over-cranach-diptych-met-names-danh-v-for-genesis-faade-commission-and-more-morning-links-for-october-162026/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/norton-simon-museum-countersues-jewish-federation-over-cranach-diptych-met-names-danh-v-for-genesis-faade-commission-and-more-morning-links-for-october-162026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elites of Victorian Britain woke up late, drank and feasted excessively, and were obsessed with rugby. How to explain their vast accomplishments?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The elites of Victorian Britain woke up late, drank and feasted excessively, and were obsessed with rugby. How to explain their vast accomplishments?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-elites-of-victorian-britain-woke-up-late-drank-and-feasted-excessively-and-were-obsessed-with-rugby-how-to-explain-their-vast-accomplishments/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:22:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-elites-of-victorian-britain-woke-up-late-drank-and-feasted-excessively-and-were-obsessed-with-rugby-how-to-explain-their-vast-accomplishments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arundathi Roy: "Vitiating the fundamental relationship between humans and language will undermine all semblance of social coherence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arundathi Roy: "Vitiating the fundamental relationship between humans and language will undermine all semblance of social coherence"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arundathi-roy-vitiating-the-fundamental-relationship-between-humans-and-language-will-undermine-all-semblance-of-social-coherence/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:22:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arundathi-roy-vitiating-the-fundamental-relationship-between-humans-and-language-will-undermine-all-semblance-of-social-coherence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A profusion of Plath. Never has so much of her work – journals, letters, prose, poems – been available. Is it too much?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A profusion of Plath. Never has so much of her work &ndash; journals, letters, prose, poems &ndash; been available. Is it too much?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-profusion-of-plath-never-has-so-much-of-her-work-journals-letters-prose-poems-been-available-is-it-too-much/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:22:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-profusion-of-plath-never-has-so-much-of-her-work-journals-letters-prose-poems-been-available-is-it-too-much/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rubaiya Qatar Quadrennial Names More Than 120 Artists for Inaugural Edition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rubaiaya Qatar, a new quadrennial that will open its inaugural edition at various venues across Doha beginning November 21, has announced more than 120 artists that will participate in the new initiative, presented by Qatar Museums in collaboration with ALRIWAQ Arts + Architecture.Unlike most other recurring art exhibitions, Rubaiaya Qatar will be made up of three separate shows at three different institutions and will also include a public art component.&ldquo;The inauguration of Rubaiya Qatar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rubaiya-qatar-quadrennial-names-more-than-120-artists-for-inauguraledition/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rubaiya-qatar-quadrennial-names-more-than-120-artists-for-inauguraledition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ARTnews Celebrates 2026 Edition of Annual Top 200 Collectors Issue]]></title><description><![CDATA[On September 29, ARTnews celebrated the launch of the 37th edition of our annual Top 200 Collectors list at Summit New York 1 Vanderbilt, which featured impressive views of the New York skyline from the Chrysler Building to the JPMorgan Chase Tower to the Empire State Building.The evening&rsquo;s cohosts were Estrellita Brodsky, chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and cofounder of Another Space in Chelsea, and Becky Gochman, cofounder of the Gochman Family Collection, which will o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnews-celebrates-2026-edition-of-annual-top-200-collectorsissue/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnews-celebrates-2026-edition-of-annual-top-200-collectorsissue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norton Simon Museum Countersues Jewish Dealer’s Heirs Over Looted Cranach Painting, Extending a Decades-Long Fight]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena, California, is arguing that it is the proper owner of 16th-century diptych that was looted by the Nazis and later sold to its founder. The heirs have been fighting for the artwork for decades, though the family chose after World War II not to sue for its return.The museum opposes an attempt by the Jewish Federation-Council of Greater Los Angeles and its board chair Daniel Gryczman, who sued in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/norton-simon-museum-countersues-jewish-dealers-heirs-over-looted-cranach-painting-extending-a-decades-longfight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/norton-simon-museum-countersues-jewish-dealers-heirs-over-looted-cranach-painting-extending-a-decades-longfight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Osborne Personally Helped Secure Controversial $6.6 M. British Museum Sponsorship, Emails Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[George Osborne, the former British chancellor who now chairs the British Museum, played a personal role in securing a reported &pound;5 million ($6.6 million) sponsorship from billionaire hedge fund manager Igor Tulchinsky, according to internal emails obtained by the campaign group Culture Unstained.The correspondence, first reported by in the Art Journal, shows that Osborne introduced Tulchinsky to the museum and gave the go-ahead for sponsorship negotiations less than 90 minutes after receivi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-osborne-personally-helped-secure-controversial-66-m-british-museum-sponsorship-emailsshow/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-osborne-personally-helped-secure-controversial-66-m-british-museum-sponsorship-emailsshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight Group Shows to See in New York, From Incendiary Art History to a Lesson in Telenovelas]]></title><description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;d be forgiven for thinking New York&rsquo;s fall art calendar begins and ends with the museum spotlight. From the Whitney Museum&rsquo;s Roy Lichtenstein retrospective to a Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock blockbuster at the Met, &rsquo;tis the season of mid-century heavyweights. But for those who&rsquo;ve made the rounds&mdash;or simply like their art with a party&mdash;compelling encounters abound in group shows across the city.Some delve into lesser-known chapters of New York art his]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eight-group-shows-to-see-in-new-york-from-incendiary-art-history-to-a-lesson-intelenovelas/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eight-group-shows-to-see-in-new-york-from-incendiary-art-history-to-a-lesson-intelenovelas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazilian Outpost of Centre Pompidou Pushed Back to 2029]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Brazilian outpost of Paris&rsquo;s hallowed Centre Pompidou initially planned to open next year has been pushed back 2029, according to a report in the Art Newspaper.Construction on Centre Pompidou Paran&aacute;, in the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Igua&ccedil;u, has not begun, and a planned call for bids has reportedly been pushed back from its expected date next month. A Pompidou spokesperson told TAN, &ldquo;The project is currently working toward an opening in 2029 and is in the techn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brazilian-outpost-of-centre-pompidou-pushed-back-to2029/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brazilian-outpost-of-centre-pompidou-pushed-back-to2029/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miami Art Dealer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison for Selling Fake Warhols]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Miami art dealer received a 46-month federal prison sentence on Thursday in a long-running case centered around his efforts to sell fake Andy Warhol works.Leslie Roberts is now facing his second prison sentence since he opened his Miami Fine Art Gallery in 1997. In 2015, he received a 22-month sentence for a case involving faked Romero Britto and Peter Max paintings. He was given three years of supervised release, but the agreement was voided in 2018, after he was accused of trying to negotiat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/miami-art-dealer-sentenced-to-nearly-four-years-in-prison-for-selling-fakewarhols/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/miami-art-dealer-sentenced-to-nearly-four-years-in-prison-for-selling-fakewarhols/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strife at Tom of Finland Foundation as Cofounder Levels Accusations and the Board Claims Harassment]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been a long road to recognition for the artist known as Tom of Finland, who started out in the queer erotica underground, submitting his drawings of gay men with eye-popping physiques, often dressed in leather fetish gear and engaged in equally eye-popping sex acts, to magazines like Physique Pictorial in the 1950s, sometimes seeing them branded as pornographic.Despite those origins, he has arrived at international renown. When Finland&rsquo;s postal service released stamps devoted to the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/strife-at-tom-of-finland-foundation-as-cofounder-levels-accusations-and-the-board-claimsharassment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/strife-at-tom-of-finland-foundation-as-cofounder-levels-accusations-and-the-board-claimsharassment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Recover Three Religious Artworks Stolen From Spanish Churches]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanish police have recovered three religious artworks stolen from churches in Valladolid over the summer, bringing the case one step closer to a miraculously happy ending. A suspect is in custody, though investigators are still looking for a fourth missing sculpture.The recovered objects include a Baroque wooden angel from the Church of Vera Cruz, a copy of Ecce Homo by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales, and a panel depicting the Seventh Station of the Cross. The latter two belonged t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/police-recover-three-religious-artworks-stolen-from-spanishchurches/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/police-recover-three-religious-artworks-stolen-from-spanishchurches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Huntington’s Newest Acquisitions Include Works by Raqib Shaw, Robert Indiana, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[Los Angeles&ndash;area cultural institution the Huntington, which encompasses an art museum, library, and botanical garden, has announced this year&rsquo;s gifts to its art collection funded by the Huntington&rsquo;s Art Collectors&rsquo; Council. Each year, the council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum&rsquo;s curators.The five Art Collectors&rsquo; Council acquisitions span the 16th to the 21st centuries and encompass a range of media. The gifts build on the mus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-huntingtons-newest-acquisitions-include-works-by-raqib-shaw-robert-indiana-andmore/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-huntingtons-newest-acquisitions-include-works-by-raqib-shaw-robert-indiana-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have Fashion Folk Ruined the Frieze London Experience?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frieze Week has become a pilgrimage site for fashion folk. Since 2022, the fashion population has been aggressively migrating to the art fair; that same year McQueen and Roksanda staged their runways shows to coincide with Frieze London and Frieze Masters. In the lead-up to Frieze Week, there has been some chatter among art journalists, publicists and gallerists about the increasing number of fashion attendees making a pitstop just for an Instagram photo.So, has fashion ruined Frieze?&ldquo;Ruin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/have-fashion-folk-ruined-the-frieze-londonexperience/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/have-fashion-folk-ruined-the-frieze-londonexperience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Francesco Bonami Named Artistic Director of Russian Billionaire’s Moscow Art Complex]]></title><description><![CDATA[Francesco Bonami, a widely regarded curator whose achievements include curating the 2003 edition of the Venice Biennale, has been named artistic director of the GES-2 House of Culture, the Moscow art space sited across a river from the Kremlin.Opened in 2021, not long before Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine, the 440,000-square-foot GES-2 House of Culture is run by the V-A-C Foundation, which was established by the Russian-Israeli billionaire collector Leonid Mikhelson. The owner of one of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francesco-bonami-named-artistic-director-of-russian-billionaires-moscow-artcomplex/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francesco-bonami-named-artistic-director-of-russian-billionaires-moscow-artcomplex/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Week NYC Announces 32 Participating Institutions, New Museum Programming for Inaugural Fall Event]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Friday, Art Week NYC, a four-day event taking place throughout the city from November 11 through 14, announced a list of 32 participating institutions. They include museums like the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Queens Museum; nonprofits like ArtTable, the Madison Square Park Conservancy, and the Brooklyn Experimental Art Foundation; and many other citywide arts organizations.ARTnews, along with sister publication Art in America and Artforum, three of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-week-nyc-announces-32-participating-institutions-new-museum-programming-for-inaugural-fallevent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-week-nyc-announces-32-participating-institutions-new-museum-programming-for-inaugural-fallevent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Frieze London, From Scenes of Eroding UK Coastlines to an Installation Picturing AI Through the Human Digestive System]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across the more than 170 exhibitors, the 2026 edition of Frieze London features a diverse array of works from mixed-media installations to textiles drawing on Indigenous weaving traditions to found objects to interactive digital works to works on paper. Throughout the aisles, visitors will find work by artists engaging a range of themes in their work, including climate change, the human life cycle, the destructive nature of AI, and more.Below, a look at the 10 best booths at Frieze London, which]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-frieze-london-from-scenes-of-eroding-uk-coastlines-to-an-installation-picturing-ai-through-the-human-digestivesystem/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-frieze-london-from-scenes-of-eroding-uk-coastlines-to-an-installation-picturing-ai-through-the-human-digestivesystem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Invitational Targets the City’s Diverse Collectors Amid ‘Bullish’ and ‘Struggling’ Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Sotheby&rsquo;s reported first-half consolidated sales of $4.4 billion in July, some suggested that the business was now stretching beyond the auction room and into hospitality and real estate. If this Frieze Week is anything to go by, it seems smaller art fairs like Minor Attractions and London Invitational (an extension of the Dallas Invitational) have also taken note.Minor Attractions changed locations for its fourth edition and picked The Newman as its new home, a recently opened hotel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-invitational-targets-the-citys-diverse-collectors-amid-bullish-and-struggling-market/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-invitational-targets-the-citys-diverse-collectors-amid-bullish-and-struggling-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White paint — initially made from lead soaked in vinegar and then mixed with a binder — has a rich history. And unhinged critics ]]></title><description><![CDATA[White paint&nbsp;&mdash; initially made from lead soaked in vinegar and then mixed with a binder&nbsp;&mdash; has a rich history. And unhinged critics&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-paint-initially-made-from-lead-soaked-in-vinegar-and-then-mixed-with-a-binder-has-a-rich-history-and-unhinged-critics/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:07:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-paint-initially-made-from-lead-soaked-in-vinegar-and-then-mixed-with-a-binder-has-a-rich-history-and-unhinged-critics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The canonization of Peter Hujar. Known for his photographs of the oversexed New York art scene, his work is finally receiving its due]]></title><description><![CDATA[The canonization of Peter Hujar. Known for his photographs of the oversexed New York art scene, his work is finally receiving its due]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-canonization-of-peter-hujar-known-for-his-photographs-of-the-oversexed-new-york-art-scene-his-work-is-finally-receiving-its-due/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:07:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-canonization-of-peter-hujar-known-for-his-photographs-of-the-oversexed-new-york-art-scene-his-work-is-finally-receiving-its-due/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most authors have little cash. Scammers target them anyway. Why? Their egos make them good marks ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most authors have little cash. Scammers target them anyway. Why? Their egos make them good marks&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/most-authors-have-little-cash-scammers-target-them-anyway-why-their-egos-make-them-good-marks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:07:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/most-authors-have-little-cash-scammers-target-them-anyway-why-their-egos-make-them-good-marks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Sale Tallies $61.1 M., Led by a $12.9 M. De Kooning]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a tense saleroom with a lot of silent moments and anxious pauses&mdash;at times it felt like a courtroom, with all eyes on auctioneer Tom Eddison&mdash;Sotheby&rsquo;s London conducted a slow but steady &pound;46.1 million ($61.1 million) contemporary art sale on Thursday in a full sale room, with a &pound;9.8 million ($12.9 million) Willem de Kooning abstraction earning the top price. The sale carried an overall estimate of &pound;41.7&ndash;58.6 million ($55.3&ndash;77.8 million); the hamme]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-london-contemporary-art-sale-tallies-611-m-led-by-a-129-m-dekooning/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-london-contemporary-art-sale-tallies-611-m-led-by-a-129-m-dekooning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Korea Director Scrutinized After Loaning Museum Misattributed Work from Private Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled an object from his private collection from its current exhibition, according to South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily. Initially attributed to an independence activist, the piece was later identified as a work by a pro-Japanese collaborator.You has exhibited and donated other items in his collection since he took office in 2025, and the incident has sparked que]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-scrutinized-after-loaning-museum-misattributed-work-from-privatecollection/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-scrutinized-after-loaning-museum-misattributed-work-from-privatecollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Korea Director Scrutinized After Loaning Misattributed Work from His Private Collection to the Musuem]]></title><description><![CDATA[The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled an object from his private collection from its current exhibition, according to South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily. Initially attributed to an independence activist, the piece was later identified as a work by a pro-Japanese collaborator.You has exhibited and donated other items in his collection since he took office in 2025, and the incident has sparked que]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-scrutinized-after-loaning-misattributed-work-from-his-private-collection-to-themusuem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-korea-director-scrutinized-after-loaning-misattributed-work-from-his-private-collection-to-themusuem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dino Bones Held in UK Museum for 100 Years Identified as New Species]]></title><description><![CDATA[London&rsquo;s Natural History Museum has millions of specimens in its collection, and until recently at least one dinosaur nobody knew it had.A fragment of skull that spent roughly a century in the museum&rsquo;s holdings has turned out to belong to an entirely new species of carnivorous dinosaur, according to Discover. Better still, the creature appears to be Europe&rsquo;s first known megaraptoran, a group of formidable prehistoric predators that have prevously identified elsewhere in the wor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dino-bones-held-in-uk-museum-for-100-years-identified-as-newspecies/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dino-bones-held-in-uk-museum-for-100-years-identified-as-newspecies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minor Attractions, a New London Fair In a Hotel, Finds Space for Emerging Galleries and Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frieze Week in London has stopped being just about Frieze London and Frieze Masters as smaller fairs are seizing the opportunity for more intimate fair models. On Tuesday, Minor Attractions hosted its fourth edition&mdash;this time with a new location at The Newman, a newly opened hotel in central London.This year&rsquo;s fair runs until Saturday, with 38 galleries from 15 countries set up in 16 bedrooms at the hotel. Some galleries are sharing, while others have an entire suite.	&ldquo;We wante]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/minor-attractions-a-new-london-fair-in-a-hotel-finds-space-for-emerging-galleries-andartists/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/minor-attractions-a-new-london-fair-in-a-hotel-finds-space-for-emerging-galleries-andartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Met Show Promises Rembrandt, as Never Seen Before]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reframing Rembrandt, one of the Dutch Golden Age&rsquo;s greats, is no small feat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art seems poised to pull it off, with an exhibition next year that will bring several of the artist&rsquo;s works to the United States for the first time.&ldquo;Rembrandt and the Ancients,&rdquo; organized with the Louvre Museum and opening in New York in November 2027, is billed as the first in-depth museum examination of the artist&rsquo;s fascination with the art and mythology of Medi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-met-show-promises-rembrandt-as-never-seenbefore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-met-show-promises-rembrandt-as-never-seenbefore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Landmark Survey of Native Graphic Arts Defies Expectations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Through next February, New York&rsquo;s Poster House is home to &ldquo;Designed to Be Red,&rdquo; a milestone survey of Native graphic arts. By institutional convention, such a show would unfold chronologically; but as its curator, the Native designer Brian Johnson, notes, time is a snake swallowing its own tail.The show spans two centuries and more than 60 tribes and nations, organized around five themes: Indigenous Joy, Creative Sovereignty, Protest, It&rsquo;s Complicated, and Extractive Mark]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-landmark-survey-of-native-graphic-arts-defiesexpectations/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-landmark-survey-of-native-graphic-arts-defiesexpectations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Previously Unknown Canaletto Drawing Heads to Auction After Centuries in Private Hands]]></title><description><![CDATA[A previously unknown drawing by18th century Italian painter and printmaker Canaletto is heading to auction in England next week with an estimate of $53,000 to $79,000, after two centuries apparently spent in a single family&rsquo;s collection.The drawing, a fanciful architectural scene called a capriccio, will be on sale at Mallams auction house in Oxford on October 21. The work has been authenticated by Canaletto specialist Charles Beddington and dates to between 1746 and 1755, when the Venetia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/previously-unknown-canaletto-drawing-heads-to-auction-after-centuries-in-privatehands/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/previously-unknown-canaletto-drawing-heads-to-auction-after-centuries-in-privatehands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Botched Beyond Previously Reported]]></title><description><![CDATA[The long list of grievous failures related to the ill-fated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has grown longer after a Washington Post expos&eacute; based on an inspection report obtained by the paper.The report, issued internally on August 6 after having been commissioned by the contractor in charge of repairs, documents far more problems than were previously known, and does not mention any vandalism of the kind that the Trump administration cited as a source of the troubles during the summer-lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/memorial-reflecting-pool-renovation-botched-beyond-previouslyreported/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/memorial-reflecting-pool-renovation-botched-beyond-previouslyreported/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Collector François Pinault Plans Permanent Hang in Venice Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[At age 90, collector Fran&ccedil;ois Pinault, founder of the Kering luxury conglomerate and the investment holding company Art&eacute;mis, isn&rsquo;t getting any younger. So it&rsquo;s hard not to wonder how that may have factored into his latest announcement in a rare interview with Le Monde, stating he plans to mount a first permanent exhibition from his collection of over 10,000 artworks, opening in March, 2027 at one of his two Venice museums, the ornate Palazzo Grassi.	The display will fea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-collector-franois-pinault-plans-permanent-hang-in-venicemuseum/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-collector-franois-pinault-plans-permanent-hang-in-venicemuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tate Scoops Up Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze London]]></title><description><![CDATA[Each year at Frieze London, Tate gets to buy works on view at the fair through a dedicated fund, and this time around, the museum purchased just two pieces: an abstraction by Michaela Yearwood-Dan and a sculptural work by Luis Fernando Zapata.Prices were not supplied by Tate, but the Yearwood-Dan painting, titled Peace Unknown (2026), was likely the more expensive work of the two. Sold by the mega-gallery Hauser &amp; Wirth at Frieze London, the painting features bursts of yellow, blue, and gree]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tate-scoops-up-works-by-michaela-yearwood-dan-luis-fernando-zapata-at-friezelondon/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tate-scoops-up-works-by-michaela-yearwood-dan-luis-fernando-zapata-at-friezelondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FOG Design+Art Fair Names 76 Exhibitors for 2027 Edition, With Revised Layout]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FOG Design+Art fair in San Francisco has named 76 exhibitors for its upcoming 2027 edition, running January 21&ndash;24 at the Fort Mason Center for the Arts.Returning blue-chip exhibitors include David Zwirner, Lisson, Marian Goodman Gallery, Mendes Wood DM, and Hauser &amp; Wirth, the only mega-gallery that currently has a location in the Bay Area. Galleries returning for 2027 after skipping out for 2026, include Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Commonwealth and Council, and Chris Sharp Gallery,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fog-designart-fair-names-76-exhibitors-for-2027-edition-with-revisedlayout/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fog-designart-fair-names-76-exhibitors-for-2027-edition-with-revisedlayout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[François Pinault Takes 106 Works to Palazzo Grassi, Louvre Accelerating Safety and Security, Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Liner Failed, and More: Morning Links for October 15, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
Fran&ccedil;ois Pinault will install a permanent exhibition of 106 works from his collection at Palazzo Grassi, one of his two museums in Venice.The Louvre&rsquo;s security coordinator said the museum is accelerating a &ldquo;culture of safety and security.&rdquo;An inspection has uncovered that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool liner failed in at least 85 places, far more tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/franois-pinault-takes-106-works-to-palazzo-grassi-louvre-accelerating-safety-and-security-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-liner-failed-and-more-morning-links-for-october-152026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/franois-pinault-takes-106-works-to-palazzo-grassi-louvre-accelerating-safety-and-security-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-liner-failed-and-more-morning-links-for-october-152026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector’s Diary: Chang Osathanugrah Reflects on What It Means to See Art with Fresh Eyes After Years of Looking]]></title><description><![CDATA[I hadn&rsquo;t expected a talking frog to remind me of why I fell in love with contemporary art, and I certainly hadn&rsquo;t expected to lose it before I ever had the chance to buy it.In March, during a stretch of cool weather that reminds me why I still love Hong Kong, even when it no longer feels quite like the place I remember, I came across Ryan Gander&rsquo;s 2025 sculpture You Complete Me, or I see things you can&rsquo;t see (A Frog&rsquo;s Tale) at Esther Schipper&rsquo;s booth at Art Ba]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collectors-diary-chang-osathanugrah-reflects-on-what-it-means-to-see-art-with-fresh-eyes-after-years-oflooking/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collectors-diary-chang-osathanugrah-reflects-on-what-it-means-to-see-art-with-fresh-eyes-after-years-oflooking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s London Sales Bring in $289 M., With Records for Bridget Riley and Liubov Popova]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s London brought in &pound;218.6 million ($289.4 million) across two evening sales Wednesday, more than doubling last year&rsquo;s total and offering an encouraging sign for the art market ahead of the New York auctions next month.	Seven auction records were set, including five during the sale of British businessman Peter Simon&rsquo;s collection, while a Wassily Kandinsky painting fetched &pound;31.6 million ($41.8 million) in the evening&rsquo;s second auction. (All prices repor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-london-sales-bring-in-289-m-with-records-for-bridget-riley-and-liubovpopova/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-london-sales-bring-in-289-m-with-records-for-bridget-riley-and-liubovpopova/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years before Darwin, an evolutionary treatise rattled Tennyson&rsquo;s faith, but didn't break it. "Science was still a delight and a visionary promise&rdquo;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Years before Darwin, an evolutionary treatise rattled Tennyson&rsquo;s faith, but didn't break it. "Science was still a delight and a visionary promise&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/years-before-darwin-an-evolutionary-treatise-rattled-tennysonrsquos-faith-but-didnt-break-it-science-was-still-a-delight-and-a-visionary-promiserdquo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:11:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/years-before-darwin-an-evolutionary-treatise-rattled-tennysonrsquos-faith-but-didnt-break-it-science-was-still-a-delight-and-a-visionary-promiserdquo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After his mother died mysteriously, a German doctor began to suspect a respected forensic scientist. Things got stranger from there]]></title><description><![CDATA[After his mother died mysteriously, a German doctor began to suspect a respected forensic scientist. Things got stranger from there]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-mother-died-mysteriously-a-german-doctor-began-to-suspect-a-respected-forensic-scientist-things-got-stranger-from-there/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:11:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-mother-died-mysteriously-a-german-doctor-began-to-suspect-a-respected-forensic-scientist-things-got-stranger-from-there/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Ph.D. certifies expertise in a discipline. But ignorance is a precondition for thinking something new. James Miller explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Ph.D. certifies expertise in a discipline. But ignorance is a precondition for thinking something new. James Miller explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-phd-certifies-expertise-in-a-discipline-but-ignorance-is-a-precondition-for-thinking-something-new-james-miller-explains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:11:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-phd-certifies-expertise-in-a-discipline-but-ignorance-is-a-precondition-for-thinking-something-new-james-miller-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Diplomatic Tensions Persist, British Museum Chairman ‘Optimistic’ on Parthenon Marbles Deal]]></title><description><![CDATA[George Osborne, chairman of the British Museum, has expressed hope that a deal can be struck to share the Parthenon Marbles between Athens and London, despite the two-centuries-long diplomatic feud.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m still optimistic that we can reach an agreement,&rdquo; Osborne told reporters in Athens on Tuesday. &ldquo;If everyone enters into it with the spirit of we&rsquo;re not going to get everything we want, as is always the case with a successful agreement, then there&rsquo;s a deal to be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-diplomatic-tensions-persist-british-museum-chairman-optimistic-on-parthenon-marblesdeal/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-diplomatic-tensions-persist-british-museum-chairman-optimistic-on-parthenon-marblesdeal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bortolami Now Represents Emily Sundblad, Shigeo Otake Joins White Cube, and More: Industry Moves for October 14, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves	Bortolami Now Represents Emily Sundblad: The New York&ndash;based painter and cofounder of Reena Spaulings Fine Art will have a work in the gallery&rsquo;s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach in December. She will debut a theatrical production, made with Ken Okiishi, at the New Theater Hollywood in February.Shigeo Otake Jo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bortolami-now-represents-emily-sundblad-shigeo-otake-joins-white-cube-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-142026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bortolami-now-represents-emily-sundblad-shigeo-otake-joins-white-cube-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Returns 22 Looted Antiquities to Greece]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) returned 22 antiquities to Greece. The cache includes decorated pottery from the 8th through the 4th centuries BCE that had been seized during an illegal antiquities trafficking investigation in and around Tel Aviv in 2020.The ceremony took place at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and was attended by Lina Mendoni, the Greek Minister of Culture; Pninat Yanai, the Israeli Ambassador to Greece; and Amir Ganor, director of the IAA&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-returns-22-looted-antiquities-togreece/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-returns-22-looted-antiquities-togreece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monumental Statues of Ramses II Discovered in Egypt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of two colossal statues believed to depict Ramses II after a local landowner reported finding an inscribed stone block in the village of Behbeit El-Hagar.The discoveries were made by an archaeological mission from Egypt&rsquo;s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). According to Dr. Hisham El-Leithy, Secretary-General of the SCA, the first find was a stone head more than five-feet-high from a massive statue. It depicts a man wearing a double crow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monumental-statues-of-ramses-ii-discovered-inegypt/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monumental-statues-of-ramses-ii-discovered-inegypt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze London Brings 400-Year-Old Paintings and Collectors in Their 20s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.It&rsquo;s fun to celebrity watch the entrance to Frieze London in Regent&rsquo;s Park before the fair begins. As the floodgates opened for the VIP preview on Wednesday, Oscar-nominated actor Andrew Garfield and his girlfriend, actress Monica Barbaro, strolled in. Also present were Tilda Swinton, Bianca Jagger, London-based designer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-london-brings-400-year-old-paintings-and-collectors-in-their20s/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-london-brings-400-year-old-paintings-and-collectors-in-their20s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Frieze, an Artist Project in the Fair’s Public Toilets Confronts the UK’s Ongoing Bathroom Wars]]></title><description><![CDATA[At Frieze London this week, even the bathroom will be a place to see art. Gray Wielebinski&rsquo;s new site-specific Production (2026) will transform the fair&rsquo;s public toilets into an intimate olfactory environment, where scent, bodily function, privacy, desire, and surveillance will converge.Rather than disappearing into the functional infrastructure of the bathroom, Production announces itself as an artwork: Custom urinal cakes and toilet-rim blocks infused with two scents are housed in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-frieze-an-artist-project-in-the-fairs-public-toilets-confronts-the-uks-ongoing-bathroomwars/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-frieze-an-artist-project-in-the-fairs-public-toilets-confronts-the-uks-ongoing-bathroomwars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salon 94 to Open Permanent Space in Paris During Art Basel]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&ndash;based gallery Salon 94 will expand its footprint to Paris, where it will open a permanent space facing the Jardin du Palais Royal on October 18. Located at 30 Galerie de Montpensier, the 323-square-foot space will be inaugurated by a solo exhibition for Deborah Roberts, running through November 28.&ldquo;Artists really led us to think about a space here,&rdquo; Fabienne Stephan, Salon 94&rsquo;s European director who will be leading the space, told ARTnews. &ldquo;Artists love pre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/salon-94-to-open-permanent-space-in-paris-during-artbasel/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/salon-94-to-open-permanent-space-in-paris-during-artbasel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congressional Commission to Consider Adding Jewish Museum to Smithsonian Network]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is being considered as a potential new member of the Smithsonian museum network, with members of a new congressional commission sworn in on Tuesday set to study the matter.As reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Philip Darivoff, a former longtime chair of the Weitzman and current chair of the new commission, and Dara Horn, a writer serving as vice chair, &ldquo;said that the Weitzman joining the Smithsonian would send]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/congressional-commission-to-consider-adding-jewish-museum-to-smithsoniannetwork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/congressional-commission-to-consider-adding-jewish-museum-to-smithsoniannetwork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre Director Warns of ‘Disaster’ If Museum Does Not Receive Renovations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christophe Leribault, who recently took the reins at the Louvre in Paris, said that the museum could close altogether if it does not receive renovations that would improve the institution&rsquo;s security and aging infrastructure.&ldquo;Whoever forms the next government must keep in mind that if the Louvre is not repaired, updated and transformed, it will very quickly fall behind and will eventually have to close its doors to the public,&rdquo; Leribault told Le Figaro on Wednesday. &ldquo;That]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-director-warns-of-disaster-if-museum-does-not-receiverenovations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-director-warns-of-disaster-if-museum-does-not-receiverenovations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karachi Biennale Cancelled, Shattered British Museum Porcelain Sparks Debate in China, and More: Morning Links for October 14, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Pakistan&rsquo;s Karachi Biennale has cancelled its fifth edition due to &ldquo;war conditions prevailing in the region.&rdquo;A 300-year-old Jingdezhen porcelain bowl and box mysteriously shattered inside a British Museum display case, sparking a debate on Chinese social media.German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned of nationalist threats to &ldquo;freedom of art.&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/karachi-biennale-cancelled-shattered-british-museum-porcelain-sparks-debate-in-china-and-more-morning-links-for-october-142026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/karachi-biennale-cancelled-shattered-british-museum-porcelain-sparks-debate-in-china-and-more-morning-links-for-october-142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Long-Awaited Art Museum in a Former Renault Factory Finally Arrives on Paris’s Idyllic Île Seguin]]></title><description><![CDATA[To get to France&rsquo;s newest contemporary art center, the journey is part of the experience. To reach &Icirc;le Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the western suburbs of Paris, you must first go to Pont de S&egrave;vres, the final stop of M&eacute;tro Line 9, and then either take a 15-minute walk or a five-minute bus ride. It is worth the trek: Crossing onto the island means leaving the dense urban fabric behind for a site surrounded by water, with views toward the banks of the Seine and the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-long-awaited-art-museum-in-a-former-renault-factory-finally-arrives-on-pariss-idyllic-leseguin/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-long-awaited-art-museum-in-a-former-renault-factory-finally-arrives-on-pariss-idyllic-leseguin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealer Adam Shopkorn’s Alternative Route to Frieze London With Haitian Artist Myrlande Constant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dealer Adam Shopkorn of New York&ndash;based gallery Fort Gansevoort has always taken an unorthodox route when it comes to the business he cofounded in 2015 with his wife, Carolyn Tate Angel. After participating at Frieze Los Angeles this past February, he will show at the fair&rsquo;s London edition this week with a solo booth dedicated to the textile flags of Haitian artist Myrlande Constant, who is living in a state of emergency in her home country.Frieze London will mark his third fair this]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealer-adam-shopkorns-alternative-route-to-frieze-london-with-haitian-artist-myrlandeconstant/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealer-adam-shopkorns-alternative-route-to-frieze-london-with-haitian-artist-myrlandeconstant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was Unmuzzled OX? Andy Warhol posed with it. So, improbably, did Rodney Dangerfield — in a robe, with a lapdog]]></title><description><![CDATA[What was Unmuzzled OX? Andy Warhol posed with it. So, improbably, did Rodney Dangerfield &mdash; in a robe, with a lapdog]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-was-unmuzzled-ox-andy-warhol-posed-with-it-so-improbably-did-rodney-dangerfield-in-a-robe-with-a-lapdog/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:35:17 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-was-unmuzzled-ox-andy-warhol-posed-with-it-so-improbably-did-rodney-dangerfield-in-a-robe-with-a-lapdog/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“What is our contemporary digital-infused life if nothing else but a sustained experiment in self-deception?”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;What is our contemporary digital-infused life if nothing else but a sustained experiment in self-deception?&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-our-contemporary-digital-infused-life-if-nothing-else-but-a-sustained-experiment-in-self-deception/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:35:17 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-our-contemporary-digital-infused-life-if-nothing-else-but-a-sustained-experiment-in-self-deception/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Janet Malcolm's sentences were cold, clear, and clean. Rarely did she turn those sentences on herself]]></title><description><![CDATA[Janet Malcolm's sentences were cold, clear, and clean. Rarely did she turn those sentences on herself]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/janet-malcolms-sentences-were-cold-clear-and-clean-rarely-did-she-turn-those-sentences-on-herself/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:35:17 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/janet-malcolms-sentences-were-cold-clear-and-clean-rarely-did-she-turn-those-sentences-on-herself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackpink Superstar Rosé Tapped for LACMA’s Art+Film Gala]]></title><description><![CDATA[K-pop star Ros&eacute; will perform at LACMA&rsquo;s upcoming Art+Film Gala on November 7.The Blackpink vocalist joins the museum&rsquo;s 15th annual fundraiser, which will honor Latvian American artist Vija Celmins, long celebrated for her meticulous renderings of the natural world, and Denis Villeneuve, the director behind cerebral sci-fi hits Dune and Arrival. The event is presented again by Gucci, with actor Leonardo DiCaprio and LACMA trustee Eva Chow returning as co-chairs.&ldquo;The LACMA]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/blackpink-superstar-ros-tapped-for-lacmas-artfilmgala/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/blackpink-superstar-ros-tapped-for-lacmas-artfilmgala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Algae Crisis and Vandalism Claims, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is Refilling]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday, before the eyes of Washington, D.C., water once again filled the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.A sign, posted by National Park Service on the premises, reads: &ldquo;The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is being refilled as the National Park Service and contractors put the final touches on a historic effort to clean, repair, and beautify this iconic national landmark. As part of the normal refilling process, the water may temporarily appear cloudy before clearing.&rdquo;Earlier thi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-algae-crisis-and-vandalism-claims-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-isrefilling/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-algae-crisis-and-vandalism-claims-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-isrefilling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leo Addresses Global Museum Directors, Who ‘Safeguard a Heritage That Belongs to All Humanity’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV addressed a group of directors of globally renowned museums on Saturday at the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, underlining the Catholic Church&rsquo;s &ldquo;special affinity with the arts.&rdquo;	The pontiff spoke to members of the Bizot group, also known as the International Group of Organizers of Major Exhibitions, whose member institutions include the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Singapore, the Hermitage Museum in St. Pete]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pope-leo-addresses-global-museum-directors-who-safeguard-a-heritage-that-belongs-to-allhumanity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pope-leo-addresses-global-museum-directors-who-safeguard-a-heritage-that-belongs-to-allhumanity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $25 M. Tribeca Apartment Is Being Sold with a Keith Haring Mural]]></title><description><![CDATA[In New York real estate, a good amenity can add serious dollars to the asking price: a private gym is nice, a rooftop pool even better. An original Keith Haring mural? That&rsquo;ll tick the price up to $25 million.A seven-bedroom loft containing a work the artist painted in 1979 has hit the market for $25 million, according to the New York Times. The catch? The mural is painted directly onto the building&rsquo;s walls, ceiling, and structural supports, so the art literally comes with the listin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-25-m-tribeca-apartment-is-being-sold-with-a-keith-haringmural/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-25-m-tribeca-apartment-is-being-sold-with-a-keith-haringmural/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Nagy, Adventurous Artist Turned Sharp-Sighted Dealer, Dies at 67]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Nagy, an artist who became a star of the East Village in 1980s New York before ascending as one of India&rsquo;s leading art dealers in the 1990s, has died at 67. Nature Morte, the New Delhi&ndash;based gallery that he ran, said that he had battled a long illness in a statement posted to social media.&ldquo;He lived exactly as he chose: fearlessly, irreverently and wildly free,&rdquo; the gallery wrote. &ldquo;He had no patience for convention for its own sake, and endless patience for ide]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-nagy-adventurous-artist-turned-sharp-sighted-dealer-dies-at67/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-nagy-adventurous-artist-turned-sharp-sighted-dealer-dies-at67/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getty Images Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Following Failed Merger with Shutterstock]]></title><description><![CDATA[Getty Images, a massive image licensing company with hundreds of millions of assets in its library, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the company plans to undergo a restructuring process and emerge as a private company, with support from billionaire Charles Koch&rsquo;s investment firm, by the end of the year. (ARTnews and THR are both owned by Penske Media Corporation, which has had an exclusive global media partnership with Getty Images since the fall of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-images-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-following-failed-merger-withshutterstock/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-images-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy-following-failed-merger-withshutterstock/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel Culture Fund and Cindy Sherman Collaborate on Arts &amp; Culture Magazine Ahead of Hauser &amp; Wirth&nbsp;Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chanel Culture Fund is back with the second volume of its Arts &amp; Culture Magazine, the inaugural edition of which launched in the summer of 2025. Its new edition, which hits shelves on October 23, coinciding with Art Basel Paris, artist Cindy Sherman graces the cover in full Chanel tweed.The 300-page magazine will be available free of charge at 33 select independent bookstores and magazine shops in 22 countries, from ACO Books in Hong Kong and Casa Bosques in Mexico City to Rococo News &amp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-culture-fund-and-cindy-sherman-collaborate-on-arts-amp-culture-magazine-ahead-of-hauser-amp-wirthnbspexhibition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-culture-fund-and-cindy-sherman-collaborate-on-arts-amp-culture-magazine-ahead-of-hauser-amp-wirthnbspexhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wynwood Walls Mural Museum Launches Free Admission for Miami Residents with Funding from Rockstar Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[In advance of the release of Grand Theft Auto VI next month&mdash;a momentous occasion for anyone interested in the art and history of video games&mdash;the Wynwood Walls mural museum in Miami has partnered with Rockstar Games to grant free admission to local residents through 2028. The museum also unveiled 10 new murals commissioned and created for the fictional world of the game, to remain on view through January 1.The artworks were conceived for Stockyard, a Wynwood Walls&ndash;like locale in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wynwood-walls-mural-museum-launches-free-admission-for-miami-residents-with-funding-from-rockstargames/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wynwood-walls-mural-museum-launches-free-admission-for-miami-residents-with-funding-from-rockstargames/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[7 Exhibitions to See in London During Frieze Week, From Shocking ’90s Artworks to Renoir Masterpieces]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frieze Week is a long week, with some 309 exhibitors at Frieze London and Frieze Masters in Regent&rsquo;s Park alone. But if you want an atmosphere reset and are still craving art without the sound of champagne popping or air kisses, London has much to offer this season with shows such as &ldquo;Renoir and Love&rdquo; at the National Gallery, Tate Britain&rsquo;s divisive show &ldquo;The 90s: Art and Fashion,&rdquo; &ldquo;Salman Toor: Someone Like You&rdquo; at the Courtauld Gallery, and &ldqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/7-exhibitions-to-see-in-london-during-frieze-week-from-shocking-90s-artworks-to-renoirmasterpieces/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/7-exhibitions-to-see-in-london-during-frieze-week-from-shocking-90s-artworks-to-renoirmasterpieces/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Police Foil Suspected Plot to Rob Fondation Maeght After Recovering Stolen Renoirs]]></title><description><![CDATA[French police investigating the theft of two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from a museum on the French Riviera believe the suspects were preparing to rob another institution, the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, prosecutors said Monday.The investigation led to the recovery of the two paintings, valued together at around $4.6 million, and the arrest of six people last week. Four men have since been charged, including two who remain in pretrial detention, according to Le Figaro, citin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-police-foil-suspected-plot-to-rob-fondation-maeght-after-recovering-stolenrenoirs/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-police-foil-suspected-plot-to-rob-fondation-maeght-after-recovering-stolenrenoirs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s Lubov Gallery to Remain Open Under New Ownership After Founder’s Death]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lubov, a closely watched gallery in New York&rsquo;s Chinatown neighborhood, will remain open after the death of its founder Francisco Correa Cordero earlier this year.Cordero, who died at 37 in August, founded Lubov in 2016 and exhibited artists such as Eunnam Hong, My Barbarian, Andres Serrano, Mimi Park, Shannon Cartier Lucy, and Covey Gong. The gallery was named after Luba Drozd, to whom Cordero was married when he first opened the space.On Tuesday, the gallery announced that it would contin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-lubov-gallery-to-remain-open-under-new-ownership-after-foundersdeath/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-lubov-gallery-to-remain-open-under-new-ownership-after-foundersdeath/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Fayum Mummy Portrait Gets Fresh Restoration, With Rare Plans to Leave Egypt for Italy]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient mummy portrait has received a new restoration in Egypt ahead of a rare voyage abroad.The work, known as the Tondo of the Two Brothers, dates back to the 2nd century and belongs to a group of paintings known as the Fayum portraits. Discovered in the titular city, they were attached to mummies of elite individuals who lived in Egypt during the Roman Period. They were painted on wooden board using the encaustic technique, in which hot wax is mixed with pigment.The Egyptian Museum in Cair]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-fayum-mummy-portrait-gets-fresh-restoration-with-rare-plans-to-leave-egypt-foritaly/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-fayum-mummy-portrait-gets-fresh-restoration-with-rare-plans-to-leave-egypt-foritaly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNA Cracked Renoir Theft Case, Johnny Depp’s Art Representation and Exhibition, and More: Morning Links for October 13, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
DNA of thief left on a protective painting cover helped investigators identify a prime suspect in the theft of two Auguste Renoir paintings.Johnny Depp&rsquo;s London exhibition opens at the Halcyon Gallery, who now also represents him.Morocco has opened the first publicly funded museum dedicated to over 2,500 years of local Jewish history in the town of Fes.The Headlines	CRACKED]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dna-cracked-renoir-theft-case-johnny-depps-art-representation-and-exhibition-and-more-morning-links-for-october-132026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dna-cracked-renoir-theft-case-johnny-depps-art-representation-and-exhibition-and-more-morning-links-for-october-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips to Sell Rare Amedeo Modigliani Sculpture for $35 M. During New York Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the hope of catching Modigliani momentum evident at auctions in Europe over the past couple years, Phillips is bringing a rare sculpture by the Italian-born modernist to the marquee New York sales in November with a hefty price tag.Modigliani&rsquo;s T&ecirc;te (1911&ndash;12) will hit the block with a $28 million&ndash;$35 million estimate. If it sells, the sculpture will be one of the most expensive three-dimensional works ever sold at auction by the artist, who is best known as a painter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-to-sell-rare-amedeo-modigliani-sculpture-for-35-m-during-new-yorksales/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-to-sell-rare-amedeo-modigliani-sculpture-for-35-m-during-new-yorksales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Are the Most Faked Artists in History?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What makes an artwork real? This seemingly straightforward question can actually be quite loaded.A faked artwork is generally considered to be a copy of an existing work. This seems clear enough, but what about when an artist copies his or her own work? A forgery, on the other hand, imitates an artist&rsquo;s style to create a new work. But what if the forged artist was someone who challenged concepts of artistic originality and appropriated images from others?Art trickery can get tricky. And ye]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-are-the-most-faked-artists-inhistory/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-are-the-most-faked-artists-inhistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Daniel Weiss Fix the Philadelphia Museum of Art?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Weiss had a part-time job as a stock clerk in the gift shop at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., while in school at George Washington University studying psychology and art history. When his boss was fired for substantial revenue losses, Weiss told the people in charge at the Kennedy Center: &ldquo;I think I can fix this.&rdquo; He was offered a six-month tryout the week he graduated in 1979, and over the next four years continued to run the retail business and supervise a staff of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/can-daniel-weiss-fix-the-philadelphia-museum-ofart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/can-daniel-weiss-fix-the-philadelphia-museum-ofart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marina Perez Simão Wants You to Meditate in Front of Her Paintings at Frieze London]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid the hustle and bustle of Frieze London, where champagne bottles pop and deals are orchestrated, Brazilian abstract artist Marina Perez Sim&atilde;o wants to invite guests to contemplate inside a spaceship in Pace Gallery&rsquo;s booth. She&rsquo;s painted 11 canvases in three main colors: three in blue, three in gray, and five in magenta.The booth is arranged in the shape of the letter X, with two blue paintings on either side, a gray painting in the middle, and two others on the other side]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marina-perez-simo-wants-you-to-meditate-in-front-of-her-paintings-at-friezelondon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marina-perez-simo-wants-you-to-meditate-in-front-of-her-paintings-at-friezelondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the future is hard to see, Lea Ypi’s grandmother told her, learn from the past. She knew what she was talking about]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the future is hard to see, Lea Ypi&rsquo;s grandmother told her, learn from the past. She knew what she was talking about]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-the-future-is-hard-to-see-lea-ypis-grandmother-told-her-learn-from-the-past-she-knew-what-she-was-talking-about/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:28:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-the-future-is-hard-to-see-lea-ypis-grandmother-told-her-learn-from-the-past-she-knew-what-she-was-talking-about/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The literary world’s revulsion toward AI nurtures a self-defeating refusal to understand it, and thus how to resist it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The literary world&rsquo;s revulsion toward AI nurtures a self-defeating refusal to understand it, and thus how to resist it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-literary-worlds-revulsion-toward-ai-nurtures-a-self-defeating-refusal-to-understand-it-and-thus-how-to-resist-it/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:28:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-literary-worlds-revulsion-toward-ai-nurtures-a-self-defeating-refusal-to-understand-it-and-thus-how-to-resist-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For decades, Fredric Jameson refused to train specialists. His students were meant to become intellectuals]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, Fredric Jameson refused to train specialists. His students were meant to become intellectuals]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-decades-fredric-jameson-refused-to-train-specialists-his-students-were-meant-to-become-intellectuals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:28:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-decades-fredric-jameson-refused-to-train-specialists-his-students-were-meant-to-become-intellectuals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s to Sell Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Featured in Vogue Portrait by Lee Miller]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s modern British and Irish art evening sale, taking place in London on October 21, will feature a mid-career sculpture by Barbara Hepworth with an estimate of &pound;5 million&ndash;&pound;8 million ($6.6 million&ndash;$10.5 million).	Hepworth, one of the most well-known British modernist sculptors, carved Sculpture with Colour (Eos) in 1946 from a single piece of Hopton Wood stone, a type of limestone. The approximately two-foot-tall egg-shaped sculpture sits on a short platform]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-sell-barbara-hepworth-sculpture-featured-in-vogue-portrait-by-leemiller/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-sell-barbara-hepworth-sculpture-featured-in-vogue-portrait-by-leemiller/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze’s Kristell Chadé Discusses Why the Fair Has ‘Never Been About Adding Points on a Map’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world.In the last decade, the UK has been hit with Brexit and its aftermath, a global pandemic, and seven new prime ministers, but the country has retained its number two ranking in terms of global trade by value behind the US, according to the 2026 Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. When Frieze London and Frieze Masters take over the gro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/friezes-kristell-chad-discusses-why-the-fair-has-never-been-about-adding-points-on-amap/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/friezes-kristell-chad-discusses-why-the-fair-has-never-been-about-adding-points-on-amap/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris to Collaborate on Two-Part Exhibition Pairing Leonora Carrington and Cecilia Vicuña]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lehmann Maupin and Gallery Wendi Norris will collaborate on a two-part exhibition pairing the work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and artist and poet Cecilia Vicu&ntilde;a for the first time.The first part of the exhibition, titled &ldquo;Leonora Carrington &amp; Cecilia Vicu&ntilde;a,&rdquo; will open at Lehmann Maupin in New York on November 19, while the second part will open at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco in January. The two parts have distinct checklists, to accommodate f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lehmann-maupin-and-gallery-wendi-norris-to-collaborate-on-two-part-exhibition-pairing-leonora-carrington-and-ceciliavicua/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lehmann-maupin-and-gallery-wendi-norris-to-collaborate-on-two-part-exhibition-pairing-leonora-carrington-and-ceciliavicua/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Search of the Future, Artists Give New Life to Dead AI Models]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. The column will appear every other Monday.The development of generative AI text-to-video models has been charted over the past few years through a simple prompt: &ldquo;Will Smith eating pasta.&rdquo;The first videos, posted in 2023 using newly released Stable Diffusion models, feature a ravenous, monstrous rendering of the actor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-search-of-the-future-artists-give-new-life-to-dead-aimodels/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-search-of-the-future-artists-give-new-life-to-dead-aimodels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cindy Sherman Collaborates with Chanel on Arts &amp; Culture Magazine, Austrian Presidential Candidate Promises Return of Aztec Headdress to Mexico, and More: Morning Links for October 12,&nbsp;2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
Cindy Sherman is the cover star of the second volume of Chanel&rsquo;s Arts &amp; Culture magazine.Austrian presidential candidate Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn says that if elected, he&rsquo;ll return a 16th-century Aztec headdress to Mexico, currently located in Vienna&rsquo;s Weltmuseum.A descendant of the 19th-century artist Jules-Eug&egrave;ne Lenepveu is taking legal action to dem]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cindy-sherman-collaborates-with-chanel-on-arts-amp-culture-magazine-austrian-presidential-candidate-promises-return-of-aztec-headdress-to-mexico-and-more-morning-links-for-october-12nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cindy-sherman-collaborates-with-chanel-on-arts-amp-culture-magazine-austrian-presidential-candidate-promises-return-of-aztec-headdress-to-mexico-and-more-morning-links-for-october-12nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Expensive Works by Gustav Klimt Sold at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[In recent decades, Gustav Klimt has become one of the most sought-after artists on the international art market, with his paintings achieving record-breaking prices at auction. From the gilded elegance of his celebrated portraits to the richly patterned views of Lake Attersee completed during his summer retreats, Klimt&rsquo;s oeuvre embodies the decorative brilliance and artistic innovation that defined Viennese Modernism. The rarity and enduring appeal of these works among collectors have made]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-expensive-works-by-gustav-klimt-sold-atauction/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-expensive-works-by-gustav-klimt-sold-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Choices: Is Our Advice Helpful?]]></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 hard choices for Art in America readers from far and wide.Fall is traditionally a time to reflect, so we hereby offer up this Hard Choices quiz as a chance for you to evaluate the advice we&rsquo;ve been offering Art in America readers since 2019. Have we helped? How have we hurt? Are things better today than they were before you considered our counsel? Answer the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-choices-is-our-advicehelpful/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-choices-is-our-advicehelpful/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alex Margo Arden Gets Up Close and Personal With Amy Winehouse’s Items for an Exhibition in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[This summer marked 15 years since the death of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, but her spirit lives on. Now, her life and influence are the subject of &ldquo;Nothing Personal,&rdquo; a just-opened exhibition by artist Alex Margo Arden spread across three rooms of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in London.For the exhibition, Arden has created hundreds of simulacra of Winehouse&rsquo;s personal items, recreating a pair of ballet slippers signed by fans left outside the singer&rsquo;s ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alex-margo-arden-gets-up-close-and-personal-with-amy-winehouses-items-for-an-exhibition-inlondon/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alex-margo-arden-gets-up-close-and-personal-with-amy-winehouses-items-for-an-exhibition-inlondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smuggling literature behind the Iron Curtain took ingenuity. Think microscopic copies of Solzhenitsyn nestled in a baby’s diaper]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smuggling literature behind the Iron Curtain took ingenuity. Think microscopic copies of Solzhenitsyn nestled in a baby&rsquo;s diaper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smuggling-literature-behind-the-iron-curtain-took-ingenuity-think-microscopic-copies-of-solzhenitsyn-nestled-in-a-babys-diaper/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smuggling-literature-behind-the-iron-curtain-took-ingenuity-think-microscopic-copies-of-solzhenitsyn-nestled-in-a-babys-diaper/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mencken is still relevant, but which Mencken? There were many — some confounding, some repellent, others bracing and hilarious ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mencken is still relevant, but which Mencken? There were many &mdash; some confounding, some repellent, others bracing and hilarious&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mencken-is-still-relevant-but-which-mencken-there-were-many-some-confounding-some-repellent-others-bracing-and-hilarious/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mencken-is-still-relevant-but-which-mencken-there-were-many-some-confounding-some-repellent-others-bracing-and-hilarious/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary culture has changed, often for the worse. But that doesn't mean the world is also getting worse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Literary culture has changed, often for the worse. But that doesn't mean the world is also getting worse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/literary-culture-has-changed-often-for-the-worse-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-world-is-also-getting-worse/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/literary-culture-has-changed-often-for-the-worse-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-world-is-also-getting-worse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arlington County Board Files Lawsuit to Stop Construction of Trump’s Triumphal Arch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest attempt to halt the impending construction of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s 250-foot-tall triumphal arch involves a local government body. The five-member Arlington County Board filed a lawsuit Thursday in the Eastern District of Virginia, related to the project&rsquo;s questionable review process.Democracy Forward, the advocacy group representing the Board, along with the Arlington County attorney&rsquo;s office, referred to the proposal as a &ldquo;vanity project&rdquo; that would]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arlington-county-board-files-lawsuit-to-stop-construction-of-trumps-triumphalarch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arlington-county-board-files-lawsuit-to-stop-construction-of-trumps-triumphalarch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quip about Hitler made enemies of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life]]></title><description><![CDATA[A quip about Hitler made enemies of&nbsp;Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-quip-about-hitler-made-enemies-ofhannah-arendt-and-mary-mccarthy-a-subway-platform-truce-made-them-friends-for-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:48:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-quip-about-hitler-made-enemies-ofhannah-arendt-and-mary-mccarthy-a-subway-platform-truce-made-them-friends-for-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Renoir Paintings Worth $10.5 M. Recovered After Theft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Renoir Museum is getting back two of its paintings that were taken during a pre-dawn raid. The paintings were recovered by the local authorities in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, where the museum is located.Mayor Bryan Masson, a member of France&rsquo;s far-right National Rally, said in a statement that these &ldquo;two paintings are far more than works of art. They are part of our city&rsquo;s history, our cultural heritage and the legacy Auguste Renoir left to Cagnes-sur-Mer. Their re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-renoir-paintings-worth-105-m-recovered-aftertheft/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-renoir-paintings-worth-105-m-recovered-aftertheft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Winston Churchill Painting Gifted to His Daughter Lands at Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[A painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be auctioned at Christie&rsquo;s as part of its Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on October 21. Amaryllis Lily (1948) carries an estimate of &pound;300,000&ndash;&pound;500,000 ($396,000&ndash;$661,000).	The painting depicts a red amaryllis belladonna, otherwise known as a March lily, blooming in a plant pot situated on a table against a dark backdrop. Churchill gave the painting to his daughter, Lady Mary Soam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-winston-churchill-painting-gifted-to-his-daughter-lands-atchristies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-winston-churchill-painting-gifted-to-his-daughter-lands-atchristies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guadalupe Maravilla to Stage Major Installation at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine This December]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creative Time has commissioned artist Guadalupe Maravilla to make a major installation in the Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York&rsquo;s Morningside Heights neighborhood. Presented in collaboration with the Clemente Soto V&eacute;lez Cultural and Educational Center, Maravilla&rsquo;s Consejos de las Estrellas will be on view from December 16, 2026, to February 7, 2027.As with past works by the artist, Consejos de las Estrellas will take the form a sculptural installat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guadalupe-maravilla-to-stage-major-installation-at-new-yorks-cathedral-of-st-john-the-divine-thisdecember/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guadalupe-maravilla-to-stage-major-installation-at-new-yorks-cathedral-of-st-john-the-divine-thisdecember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brussels Gallery Super Dakota to Close After 15 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Brussels-based gallery Super Dakota announced that it will close at the end of October. The gallery&rsquo;s last show will be Adrian Geller&rsquo;s current solo, which closes on October 16.In an email to its listserv, founder Dam&icirc;en Dakota (Dam&icirc;en Bertelle-Rogier) wrote, &ldquo;This has been a great journey, but after 15 years the model of a commercial art gallery doesn&rsquo;t match my ambitions anymore. I want to continue supporting artists through other platforms and models.&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brussels-gallery-super-dakota-to-close-after-15years/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brussels-gallery-super-dakota-to-close-after-15years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With an $18 M. Price Tag, 24-Karat ‘Fancy Intense Pink’ Diamond Ring Heads to Auction at Christie’s Geneva]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s &ldquo;Magnificent Jewels&rdquo; sale during Autumn Luxury Week in Geneva will include a storied &ldquo;Fancy Intense Pink&rdquo; diamond ring made by Bulgari in the 1950s. The estimate for the lot, to be auctioned off on November 10, is $12 million&ndash;$18 million.According to a press release, the 24-karat diamond was acquired in India by the current owner&rsquo;s great-grandfather and given to Bulgari to be set into a piece of jewelry around the time that Rome, the house&rsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-an-18-m-price-tag-24-karat-fancy-intense-pink-diamond-ring-heads-to-auction-at-christiesgeneva/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-an-18-m-price-tag-24-karat-fancy-intense-pink-diamond-ring-heads-to-auction-at-christiesgeneva/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julianne Moore’s West Village Home Features Work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, and David Armstrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tucked away in the West Village, actor Julianne Moore doesn&rsquo;t seem to live like her Hollywood counterparts. She resides in a two-bedroom duplex with her husband, film director Bart Freundlich, that is also home to work by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, and Robin Rice.&ldquo;My taste is consistent, though it has evolved. I love modernism. But this apartment is prewar, and you have to address that. It&rsquo;s not tiny, but it&rsquo;s not massive, either, so materials and choi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/julianne-moores-west-village-home-features-work-by-louise-bourgeois-nan-goldin-and-davidarmstrong/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/julianne-moores-west-village-home-features-work-by-louise-bourgeois-nan-goldin-and-davidarmstrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day With These 15 Dramatic Images of the Rich, Enduring Traditions of Native Americans]]></title><description><![CDATA[These photographs from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest showcase Native Americans taking part in their respective tribal customs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/celebrate-indigenous-peoples-day-with-these-15-dramatic-images-of-the-rich-enduring-traditions-of-native-americans/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/celebrate-indigenous-peoples-day-with-these-15-dramatic-images-of-the-rich-enduring-traditions-of-native-americans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belinda Tate Departs Indianapolis Museum of Art, Glasgow’s Arts Community Fights to Save CCA and Others, and More: Morning Links for October 9, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
Belinda Tate is leaving her post as executive director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.Glasgow&rsquo;s arts community is &ldquo;in uproar&rdquo; since a series of crises.The elected board in Arlington County, Virginia, filed a lawsuit against President Trump&rsquo;s planned triumphal arch.The Headlines	MUSICAL CHAIRS. After three years, Belinda Tate is leaving her post as execu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/belinda-tate-departs-indianapolis-museum-of-art-glasgows-arts-community-fights-to-save-cca-and-others-and-more-morning-links-for-october-92026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/belinda-tate-departs-indianapolis-museum-of-art-glasgows-arts-community-fights-to-save-cca-and-others-and-more-morning-links-for-october-92026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s Yours Now: What Top Collectors Have Donated to Museums]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it comes to expanding their collections, museums cannot always do it alone&mdash;they often need deep-pocketed patrons to step in and help them obtain particularly expensive art. Below is a look at seven collectors who gave notable artworks to museums over the past 12 months.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/its-yours-now-what-top-collectors-have-donated-tomuseums/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/its-yours-now-what-top-collectors-have-donated-tomuseums/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Spiritualist Women Artists to Know]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Spiritualism began as a movement in the mid-19th century, it attracted a host of believers&mdash;particularly women, because it granted them powers they couldn&rsquo;t obtain elsewhere. &ldquo;I time traveled to the worlds of remarkable women,&rdquo; writes Jennifer Higgie in the prologue to her 2024 book about women artists of the past two centuries with a spiritualist bent, The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World. &ldquo;Women who found solace in the spiritual realm,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ten-spiritualist-women-artists-toknow/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ten-spiritualist-women-artists-toknow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Museum Spotlights New York City’s First Working-Class Entertainment Zone]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;A walk down 14th Street is more amazing than any work of art,&rdquo; Allan Kaprow wrote in 1959, the same year he staged 18 Happenings in 6 Parts in a loft a block off the Bowery. What might he have said of that mile-long boulevard, &ldquo;one of the great highways of humanity&rdquo; per Theodor Roosevelt (the only New York police commissioner ever elected US president)?The greatest architectural hodgepodge of its borough, the Bowery (from the Dutch bouwerie, meaning &ldquo;homestead&rdqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-museum-spotlights-new-york-citys-first-working-class-entertainmentzone/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-museum-spotlights-new-york-citys-first-working-class-entertainmentzone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley’s self-styled futurists build marvelous machines. Their politics, though, recycle discredited ideas. Jill Lepore explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Silicon Valley&rsquo;s self-styled futurists build marvelous machines. Their politics, though, recycle discredited ideas. Jill Lepore explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/silicon-valleys-self-styled-futurists-build-marvelous-machines-their-politics-though-recycle-discredited-ideas-jill-lepore-explains/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:04:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/silicon-valleys-self-styled-futurists-build-marvelous-machines-their-politics-though-recycle-discredited-ideas-jill-lepore-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Frost was both a skeptical believer and a believing skeptic. Yet his letters reveal a soul closer to despair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert Frost was both a skeptical believer and a believing skeptic. Yet his letters reveal a soul closer to despair]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-frost-was-both-a-skeptical-believer-and-a-believing-skeptic-yet-his-letters-reveal-a-soul-closer-to-despair/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:04:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-frost-was-both-a-skeptical-believer-and-a-believing-skeptic-yet-his-letters-reveal-a-soul-closer-to-despair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quip about Hitler made Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy enemies. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life]]></title><description><![CDATA[A quip about Hitler made Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy enemies. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-quip-about-hitler-made-hannah-arendt-and-mary-mccarthy-enemies-a-subway-platform-truce-made-them-friends-for-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:04:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-quip-about-hitler-made-hannah-arendt-and-mary-mccarthy-enemies-a-subway-platform-truce-made-them-friends-for-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Memoriam: Remembering Art Collectors Lost, From Agnes Gund to Dorothy Vogel]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the past 12 months, the art world lost some of its most dedicated collectors, who were known for the outsize holdings as well as their patronage of institutions, many of which benefited from their largess. Agnes Gund and Barbara Jakobsen were longtime trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dorothy Vogel was a librarian whose holdings of postwar art transformed the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Susan Marx helped make the Aspen Art Museum what it is today. The Museu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-memoriam-remembering-art-collectors-lost-from-agnes-gund-to-dorothyvogel/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-memoriam-remembering-art-collectors-lost-from-agnes-gund-to-dorothyvogel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Van Gogh Museum Reaches Agreement with Dutch Government on Contentious Renovation Budget]]></title><description><![CDATA[Funding trouble has been brewing at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam since at least 2023, when the museum began negotiating with the Dutch Ministry of Culture over the budget for a much-needed building renovation. In the summer of 2025, two years into the negotiations, museum director Emilie Gordenker told the New York Times that the current situation was &ldquo;dangerous for the art and dangerous for our visitors.&rdquo; The necessary repairs were so urgent that Gordenker worried the museum&mda]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/van-gogh-museum-reaches-agreement-with-dutch-government-on-contentious-renovationbudget/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/van-gogh-museum-reaches-agreement-with-dutch-government-on-contentious-renovationbudget/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Fall’s First Major Auctions, Buyers Spent Carefully but Competed for the Right Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first sales of the fall auction season offered some encouraging signs for an art market that has spent the last few years searching for them. Buyers were willing to spend, sometimes well beyond expectations. But they were picky on which works they spent their money.Across recent sales at Christie&rsquo;s, Phillips, and Sotheby&rsquo;s in New York, bidders chased down established artists, recognizable bodies of work, and lots carrying estimates that left some room to run, with records and bid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-falls-first-major-auctions-buyers-spent-carefully-but-competed-for-the-rightworks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-falls-first-major-auctions-buyers-spent-carefully-but-competed-for-the-rightworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New AI Tool Wants to Fix the Gender Imbalance of Gallery Rosters]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new AI tool is aimed at revealing the gender imbalance in gallery rosters. Hall W Rockefeller, who designed the program, is using it advance the mission of her art organization, Less Than Half, which aims to raise the profile of women artists.The AI tool analyzes a gallery&rsquo;s artist roster to determine the percentage of male, female, and non-binary artists represented. Though the tool is not perfect, it purports to be capable of identifying artists who identify as non-binary, as well as d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-ai-tool-wants-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-of-galleryrosters/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-ai-tool-wants-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-of-galleryrosters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cooper Union Strikes New Land-Lease Deal for New York’s Chrysler Building, With Plans to Restore Full-Tuition Scholarships]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&rsquo;s iconic Chrysler Building, standing on land owned and leased by the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, is transferring ownership to the commercial real-estate company Tishman Speyer and other investors, who are planning an extensive overhaul of the Art Deco landmark after years of neglect. The $235-million deal includes a 150-year ground lease with future rent to be paid to Cooper Union, which plans to use the funds to restore full-tuition scholarships to all un]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cooper-union-strikes-new-land-lease-deal-for-new-yorks-chrysler-building-with-plans-to-restore-full-tuitionscholarships/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cooper-union-strikes-new-land-lease-deal-for-new-yorks-chrysler-building-with-plans-to-restore-full-tuitionscholarships/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tang Contemporary Art Shutters a Hong Kong Location as Creditors File Complaints and Artists Claim Overdue Payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Hong Kong branch of the gallery Tang Contemporary Art closed in June amid accusations of overdue payments to its artists as well as its landlords and service providers. Vivian Har, director of the Hong Kong location, confirmed to the Art Newspaper (TAN) that the gallery is facing &ldquo;major operational challenges across the region.&rdquo;Founded in Bangkok in 1997 by Zhjeng Lin, Tang continues to operate showrooms there and in Beijing, Seoul, and, as of 2024, Singapore; the gallery also expa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tang-contemporary-art-shutters-a-hong-kong-location-as-creditors-file-complaints-and-artists-claim-overduepayments/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tang-contemporary-art-shutters-a-hong-kong-location-as-creditors-file-complaints-and-artists-claim-overduepayments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Bard President Resigns College Affiliations Amid Inquiry Into Jeffrey Epstein Ties]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leon Botstein, the former Bard College president of five decades, who retired this spring amid scrutiny over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, resigned this week from all of his roles affiliated with the arts school. Botstein announced his retirement in May after a trove of documents collected by the Justice Department, known as the Epstein Files, revealed that the two shared a closer relationship than previously disclosed. He nevertheless remained involved in the school&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-bard-president-resigns-college-affiliations-amid-inquiry-into-jeffrey-epsteinties/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-bard-president-resigns-college-affiliations-amid-inquiry-into-jeffrey-epsteinties/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gochman Family Collection’s Hudson Valley Space to Be Called Branchline, Opening in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Gochman Family Collection, founded by ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Becky and David Gochman, has announced more details for its forthcoming space in the Hudson Valley.Branchline, as it will be called, will open on November 6 in Katonah, New York, about an hour north of Manhattan. The new exhibition space, which will be open to the public four days a week and be free to visit, takes its name from the &ldquo;branch lines&rdquo; of the various rail systems that connect Katonah to New York City, pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gochman-family-collections-hudson-valley-space-to-be-called-branchline-opening-innovember/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gochman-family-collections-hudson-valley-space-to-be-called-branchline-opening-innovember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s To Offer $100 M. Collection of Ted and Ruth Baum, Led by $15 M. Paintings by Rothko and Ruscha]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s will offer the collection of cable television magnate Ted Baum and his wife, interior designer Ruth Baum, with the whole estimated to total in excess of $100 million. The collection includes works by leading American artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Ed Ruscha, Mark Rothko, and Tom Wesselmann, and major European figures including Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and Piero Manzoni. The group is led by a $10&ndash;15 million Rothko painting on paper and a Ru]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-offer-100-m-collection-of-ted-and-ruth-baum-led-by-15-m-paintings-by-rothko-andruscha/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-offer-100-m-collection-of-ted-and-ruth-baum-led-by-15-m-paintings-by-rothko-andruscha/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel/UBS Report’s Surprising Findings, Artists Say Tang Contemporary Owes Them Money and Artwork, and More: Morning Links for October 8, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
The fifth edition of the annual Art Basel &amp; UBS Survey of Global Collecting revealed several unexpected findings.Several artists are accusing Tang Contemporary gallery of not paying them and withholding artworks, joining similar claims by their landlord and other providers.A nearly 8-foot-tall naked gold statue depicting a bloated President Donald Trump sitting on the shoulde]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-baselubs-reports-surprising-findings-artists-say-tang-contemporary-owes-them-money-and-artwork-and-more-morning-links-for-october-82026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-baselubs-reports-surprising-findings-artists-say-tang-contemporary-owes-them-money-and-artwork-and-more-morning-links-for-october-82026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hammer Museum Board Gets New Chair, Denzil Forrester Joins Thaddaeus Ropac, and More: Industry Moves for October 8, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves	Hammer Museum Board Elects New Leadership: The trustees of the Los Angeles museum have selected Eric Esrailian to be chair and Karen Hillenburg vice chair. Three new members have joined the now 24-person-strong board: Leslie McMorrow, Alicia Mi&ntilde;ana de Lovelace, and Joan Weinstein. Additionally, the board of adv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hammer-museum-board-gets-new-chair-denzil-forrester-joins-thaddaeus-ropac-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-82026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hammer-museum-board-gets-new-chair-denzil-forrester-joins-thaddaeus-ropac-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-82026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After his 10-year-old daughter died, Darwin sought solace in barnacles. For the naturalist, grief was best relieved by work]]></title><description><![CDATA[After his 10-year-old daughter died, Darwin sought solace in barnacles. For the naturalist, grief was best relieved by work]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-10-year-old-daughter-died-darwin-sought-solace-in-barnacles-for-the-naturalist-grief-was-best-relieved-by-work/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:13:04 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-10-year-old-daughter-died-darwin-sought-solace-in-barnacles-for-the-naturalist-grief-was-best-relieved-by-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wealthiest Collectors Are Increasingly Relying on AI, Says Art Basel/UBS Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fifth edition of the annual Art Basel &amp; UBS Survey of Global Collecting, authored by arts economist Clare McAndrew and out today, delved into some new areas. For the first time this year, the author asked high-net-worth collectors how they got started on the road to collecting and how they think about granting access (whether physical or digital) to their holdings versus keeping them private. It also found that these well-to-do collectors are increasingly relying on artificial intelligen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-wealthiest-collectors-are-increasingly-relying-on-ai-says-art-baselubsreport/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-wealthiest-collectors-are-increasingly-relying-on-ai-says-art-baselubsreport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the Tate’s ’90s Art and Fashion Show a Buzzing Delight or a Wardrobe Malfunction? Depends on Who You Ask]]></title><description><![CDATA[Louis Vuitton had barely closed out Paris fashion week when the fashion world had one of the biggest nights of the year&mdash;in London. Donatella Versace, Givenchy&rsquo;s Sarah Burton, Burberry&rsquo;s Daniel Lee, photographer Ellen von Unwerth, British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan were among the glittering crowd that turned out for the opening of &ldquo;The 90s: Art and Fashion,&rdquo; on Tuesday night. This is perhaps not surprising, given that one of the curators is Edward Enninful, th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-the-tates-90s-art-and-fashion-show-a-buzzing-delight-or-a-wardrobe-malfunction-depends-on-who-youask/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-the-tates-90s-art-and-fashion-show-a-buzzing-delight-or-a-wardrobe-malfunction-depends-on-who-youask/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is a 600-page history of the British novel a monument to a dying form? If so, it's a joyous one]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is a 600-page history of the British novel a monument to a dying form? If so, it's a joyous one]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-a-600-page-history-of-the-british-novel-a-monument-to-a-dying-form-if-so-its-a-joyous-one/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:03:36 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-a-600-page-history-of-the-british-novel-a-monument-to-a-dying-form-if-so-its-a-joyous-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generational analysis is almost always nonsense," says Leon Wieseltier. No one told Yale's Kent Professor of Law and History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Generational analysis is almost always nonsense," says Leon Wieseltier. No one told Yale's Kent Professor of Law and History]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/generational-analysis-is-almost-always-nonsense-says-leon-wieseltier-no-one-told-yales-kent-professor-of-law-and-history/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:03:36 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/generational-analysis-is-almost-always-nonsense-says-leon-wieseltier-no-one-told-yales-kent-professor-of-law-and-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After his 10-year-old daughter died, Darwin sought solace in his barnacles. For the naturalist, grief was best relieved by work]]></title><description><![CDATA[After his 10-year-old daughter died, Darwin sought solace in his barnacles. For the naturalist, grief was best relieved by work]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-10-year-old-daughter-died-darwin-sought-solace-in-his-barnacles-for-the-naturalist-grief-was-best-relieved-by-work/</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:03:36 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-10-year-old-daughter-died-darwin-sought-solace-in-his-barnacles-for-the-naturalist-grief-was-best-relieved-by-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Europe Enters Art Fair Season, London is Looking Fresh and Paris Continues to Shine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three years ago, dealer Thaddaeus Ropac started to question the health of the art market in London. The mixed auction results of 2022 and 2023 reflected what he saw as a stagnant period. And Paris, with the recent premiere of Art Basel, seemed to be emerging as the dominant location. &ldquo;London lost part of the market because Paris became very attractive,&rdquo; he told ARTnews in a recent interview. Still, Ropac is bullish on London: his gallery has just renewed its lease there for another 1]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-europe-enters-art-fair-season-london-is-looking-fresh-and-paris-continues-toshine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-europe-enters-art-fair-season-london-is-looking-fresh-and-paris-continues-toshine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek Prime Minister to “Ramp Up” Efforts Related to Parthenon Marbles Return]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has continued to speak out regarding the Parthenon Marbles, vowing to &ldquo;ramp up&rdquo; his country&rsquo;s efforts to retrieve the marble sculptures from the British Museum, The Guardian reported.Mitsotakis has claimed that United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham was supportive of restitution efforts before assuming his current role, adding that he would raise the issue upon meeting Burnham.&ldquo;Unfortunately [talks] have not progressed,&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-prime-minister-to-ramp-up-efforts-related-to-parthenon-marblesreturn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-prime-minister-to-ramp-up-efforts-related-to-parthenon-marblesreturn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roy Lichtenstein Saw Our Pictures-Obsessed Moment Coming—and Deliberately Fed Into It]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you, like me, cannot resist hate-reading a horribly misguided takedown of a great artist, check out the September 1963 issue of Artforum, which featured one of two screeds against Roy Lichtenstein by artist Erle Loran published that very month. (The other appeared in this magazine.) Loran was ticked off by Lichtenstein&rsquo;s Portrait of Madame C&eacute;zanne (1963), a painting that borrowed Loran&rsquo;s own diagram analyzing the Paul C&eacute;zanne work of the same name. As with the Loran]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/roy-lichtenstein-saw-our-pictures-obsessed-moment-comingand-deliberately-fed-intoit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/roy-lichtenstein-saw-our-pictures-obsessed-moment-comingand-deliberately-fed-intoit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, Sets $1.3 M. Auction Record]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plucked from an estate sale in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for $30, Gertrude Abercombie&rsquo;s Alderman Merriam&rsquo;s Shells (1951) sold for $1.35 million at Freeman&rsquo;s auction house on October 1.The final bid far surpassed the lot&rsquo;s $250,000 estimate, setting a new auction benchmark for the late Surrealist painter. For Freeman&rsquo;s New York, success was almost guaranteed. Alderman Merriam&rsquo;s Shells arrived on the block buoyed by its sensational rediscovery: the enigmatic still li]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gertrude-abercrombie-painting-bought-for-30-at-an-estate-sale-sets-13-m-auctionrecord/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gertrude-abercrombie-painting-bought-for-30-at-an-estate-sale-sets-13-m-auctionrecord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rep. Jamie Raskin Wants the Smithsonian to Collect and Display Trump’s Propaganda, To Teach About Tyranny]]></title><description><![CDATA[Democratic Maryland representative Jamie Raskin, a dogged antagonist to President Donald Trump who attempted to have him removed from office, has introduced legislation directing the Smithsonian Institution to preserve &ldquo;artifacts reflecting the rise of government propaganda, corruption, and authoritarianism&rdquo; during Trump&rsquo;s two terms and place them in a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), a museum in the nation&rsquo;s capital that is part of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rep-jamie-raskin-wants-the-smithsonian-to-collect-and-display-trumps-propaganda-to-teach-abouttyranny/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rep-jamie-raskin-wants-the-smithsonian-to-collect-and-display-trumps-propaganda-to-teach-abouttyranny/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whitney Museum and Gap Unveil New Roy Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can&rsquo;t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there is a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose highly anticipated exhibition &ldquo;Roy Lichtenstein: Like New&rdquo; opens for previews tomorrow, and the artist&rsquo;s estate, Gap is launching an exclusive retail collection based on the Pop artist&rsquo;s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-museum-and-gap-unveil-new-roy-lichtenstein-clothingcollaboration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-museum-and-gap-unveil-new-roy-lichtenstein-clothingcollaboration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whitney Museum and Gap Unveil New Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can&rsquo;t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there is a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, whose highly anticipated exhibition &ldquo;Roy Lichtenstein: Like New&rdquo; opens for previews tomorrow, and the artist&rsquo;s estate, Gap is launching an exclusive retail collection based on the Pop artist&rsquo;s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-museum-and-gap-unveil-new-lichtenstein-clothingcollaboration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-museum-and-gap-unveil-new-lichtenstein-clothingcollaboration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gap and the Whitney Museum Unveil New Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can&rsquo;t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there will now be a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, for its highly anticipated exhibition &ldquo;Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,&rdquo; and the artist&rsquo;s estate, the Gap is launching an exclusive 18-piece retail collection based on the Pop artist&rsquo;s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitting h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-gap-and-the-whitney-museum-unveil-new-lichtenstein-clothingcollaboration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-gap-and-the-whitney-museum-unveil-new-lichtenstein-clothingcollaboration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gap and the Whitney Museum Unveil A New Lichtenstein Clothing Collaboration]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can&rsquo;t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there will now be a more affordable and wearable option hitting the market today. In collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, for its highly anticipated exhibition &ldquo;Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,&rdquo; and the artist&rsquo;s estate, Gap is launching an exclusive 18-piece retail collection based on the Pop artist&rsquo;s iconic works.As Roy Lichtenstein was hitting his s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gap-and-the-whitney-museum-unveil-a-new-lichtenstein-clothingcollaboration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gap-and-the-whitney-museum-unveil-a-new-lichtenstein-clothingcollaboration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victoria &amp; Albert Museum Reveals Strategy After Launching Voluntary Exit&nbsp;Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a summer of back and forth with its staff over strikes, pay and working conditions, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is launching a voluntary exit scheme as part of its strategy for 2026 through 2030.A spokesperson for the museum told ARTnews that &ldquo;Like many organizations, the V&amp;A is facing rising operating costs, driven by inflation, economic uncertainty, and reduced visitor spending. While we continue to receive government support, below-inflation settlements mean a rea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/victoria-amp-albert-museum-reveals-strategy-after-launching-voluntary-exitnbspscheme/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/victoria-amp-albert-museum-reveals-strategy-after-launching-voluntary-exitnbspscheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration]]></title><description><![CDATA[America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs.What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era is a heavily researched academic art history book, peer-reviewed and professionally produced by the staff of Yale University Press. Its conception thus necessarily predates the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-defunding-the-arts-wrought-civicdisintegration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-defunding-the-arts-wrought-civicdisintegration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paula Cooper Gallery and Sprüth Magers to Stage Two-Venue Frank Stella Exhibition Next Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paula Cooper Gallery and Spr&uuml;th Magers will each stage an exhibition of the work of Frank Stella next spring in New York. Additionally, they will each feature a work by the late artist in their booths at Art Basel Paris later this month.The duo of exhibitions, which are being organized with the Frank Stella Estate, will be the first gallery shows dedicated to the Stella, who died in May 2024, since the now-closed Mnuchin Gallery mounted &ldquo;Homage To Frank Stella&rdquo; in September of t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paula-cooper-gallery-and-sprth-magers-to-stage-two-venue-frank-stella-exhibition-nextspring/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paula-cooper-gallery-and-sprth-magers-to-stage-two-venue-frank-stella-exhibition-nextspring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek PM to “Ramp Up” Efforts for Parthenon Marbles Return, Quiet Listing of Robert Rauschenberg’s New York Home Sparks Concern, and More: Morning Links for October 7, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised to &ldquo;ramp up&rdquo; efforts to get the Parthenon marbles back from the British Museum.Many in the arts community are saddened and concerned about losing Robert Rauschenberg&rsquo;s former New York home and studio, which has served as an exhibition and research site.The Trump administration is using a little-known budget mecha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-pm-to-ramp-up-efforts-for-parthenon-marbles-return-quiet-listing-of-robert-rauschenbergs-new-york-home-sparks-concern-and-more-morning-links-for-october-72026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-pm-to-ramp-up-efforts-for-parthenon-marbles-return-quiet-listing-of-robert-rauschenbergs-new-york-home-sparks-concern-and-more-morning-links-for-october-72026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Printmaking Changed the Way Jean-Michel Basquiat Painted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jean-Michel Basquiat once offered a wonderfully concise explanation of his practice: &ldquo;I collage my own hand.&rdquo;That line could serve as the motto for &ldquo;Basquiat, the Blue Ribbon Paintings, and the Art of Reproduction,&rdquo; a new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum centered on 11 paintings Basquiat made 1984, shown alongside other works by the artist.The &ldquo;Blue Ribbon&rdquo; paintings, reunited here for the first time in more than three decades, are full of rep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-printmaking-changed-the-way-jean-michel-basquiatpainted/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-printmaking-changed-the-way-jean-michel-basquiatpainted/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten Out of Ten: Top 200 Collector Joop van Caldenborgh Reflects on His Museum Voorlinden’s First Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[A decade ago, Dutch industrialist Joop van Caldenborgh opened the Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Netherlands. To mark the institution&rsquo;s anniversary, he spoke to ARTnews about his journey as a collector, the museum&rsquo;s history and anniversary plans, and his latest acquisitions.ARTnews: How did you start collecting?Joop van Caldenborgh: When I was a young boy, I collected stamps, sugar packs, cigar tins&mdash;all kinds of little things that could be collected. When it became art, it wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ten-out-of-ten-top-200-collector-joop-van-caldenborgh-reflects-on-his-museum-voorlindens-firstdecade/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ten-out-of-ten-top-200-collector-joop-van-caldenborgh-reflects-on-his-museum-voorlindens-firstdecade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woodworking, building computers, photography — why is so much of Francis Fukuyama’s memoir concerned with his hobbies?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Woodworking, building computers, photography &mdash; why is so much of Francis Fukuyama&rsquo;s memoir concerned with his hobbies?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/woodworking-building-computers-photography-why-is-so-much-of-francis-fukuyamas-memoir-concerned-with-his-hobbies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:22:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/woodworking-building-computers-photography-why-is-so-much-of-francis-fukuyamas-memoir-concerned-with-his-hobbies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[William T. Vollmann's publisher insisted he shorten his novel. &ldquo;I said, &lsquo;I cut it, but I&rsquo;m really sorry but unfortunately, it&rsquo;s like 400 pages longer now&rdquo;]]></title><description><![CDATA[William T. Vollmann's publisher insisted he shorten his novel. &ldquo;I said, &lsquo;I cut it, but I&rsquo;m really sorry but unfortunately, it&rsquo;s like 400 pages longer now&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/william-t-vollmanns-publisher-insisted-he-shorten-his-novel-ldquoi-said-lsquoi-cut-it-but-irsquom-really-sorry-but-unfortunately-itrsquos-like-400-pages-longer-nowrdquo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:22:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/william-t-vollmanns-publisher-insisted-he-shorten-his-novel-ldquoi-said-lsquoi-cut-it-but-irsquom-really-sorry-but-unfortunately-itrsquos-like-400-pages-longer-nowrdquo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don’t little magazines like n+1, The Point, and The Drift produce more book reviews? Ross Barkan details an emerging problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why don&rsquo;t little magazines like n+1, The Point, and The Drift produce more book reviews? Ross Barkan details an emerging problem]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-dont-little-magazines-like-n1-the-point-and-the-drift-produce-more-book-reviews-ross-barkan-details-an-emerging-problem/</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:22:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-dont-little-magazines-like-n1-the-point-and-the-drift-produce-more-book-reviews-ross-barkan-details-an-emerging-problem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Zaha Hadid Foundation Is Reopening the Late Architect’s Former HQ as a Public Arts Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[To mark the 10-year anniversary of Zaha Hadid&rsquo;s death, the Zaha Hadid Foundation is reopening the architect&rsquo;s former headquarters on October 29. The former Victorian schoolhouse, located at 10 Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell, will be repurposed as a public cultural space for architecture, design and the related arts.The newly-refurbished space will include galleries, a learning space, lecture hall and collection display. The spaces will be used to host exhibitions, talks, workshops]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-zaha-hadid-foundation-is-reopening-the-late-architects-former-hq-as-a-public-artsspace/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-zaha-hadid-foundation-is-reopening-the-late-architects-former-hq-as-a-public-artsspace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zurich-Based Dealer Eva Presenhuber to Close ‘Sentimental’ Vienna Gallery Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dealer Eva Presenhuber told ARTnews she is closing her space in Vienna in early December, in a decision that the influential gallerist said had more to do with local conditions in Vienna than the overall financial stability of her Zurich-based business. The gallery in Austria is currently showing an exhibition of works by Angela Bulloch until October 23, which will be followed by a final exhibition of works by Austrian designer Nina Hollein, from November 11 to December 4. Shortly afterward, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurich-based-dealer-eva-presenhuber-to-close-sentimental-vienna-galleryspace/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurich-based-dealer-eva-presenhuber-to-close-sentimental-vienna-galleryspace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Jodi,’ Sotheby’s Newly-Minted Nanotyrannus, Hits the Auction Block With $9 M. Estimate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s may have been hoping that the dinosaur skeleton known as &ldquo;Jodi&rdquo; was, in fact, a youthful T. rex, given the name recognition and resulting price tags that have accompanied this species of sought-after dinosaur.Instead, the auction house&rsquo;s latest high-profile specimen is a Nanotyrannus, a mid-size tyrannosaurid genus that, according to Artnet, had previously been for sale for $20 million at Frieze Masters in 2023. At the time, the skeleton was called &ldquo;Chompe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jodi-sothebys-newly-minted-nanotyrannus-hits-the-auction-block-with-9-mestimate/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jodi-sothebys-newly-minted-nanotyrannus-hits-the-auction-block-with-9-mestimate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha Jungwirth’s Abstractions Animate AKRIS’s Spring 2026 Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Painting, for me, is about tension,&rdquo; Martha Jungwirth once said, describing its interaction with her preferred surface, paper. A &ldquo;sensual&rdquo; material, she said, &ldquo;smooth or rough, its tactile quality often resembles skin.&rdquo;For more than 60 years, Jungwirth has refined this painterly interplay. Spontaneous smears and streams of color form her famous abstractions, evoking a body in motion. It&rsquo;s no wonder fashion found its way to her studio.The Swiss fashion A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/martha-jungwirths-abstractions-animate-akriss-spring-2026collection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/martha-jungwirths-abstractions-animate-akriss-spring-2026collection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phoenix Art Museum Receives $5 M. Donation to Expand Sri Lankan and South Asian Art Galleries]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran has donated $5 million to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the museum announced this week. The gift will support the expansion of the institution&rsquo;s Asian art galleries, as well as acquisitions, scholarly research, and public programs on Sri Lankan art.The museum&rsquo;s Art of Asia galleries will expand from approximately 6,000 square feet to 9,500 square feet, and it includes a new 2,000-square-foot Nagendran Gallery for the Art of Sri Lanka and South As]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phoenix-art-museum-receives-5-m-donation-to-expand-sri-lankan-and-south-asian-artgalleries/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phoenix-art-museum-receives-5-m-donation-to-expand-sri-lankan-and-south-asian-artgalleries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State Russian Museum Has Restored Ivan Aivazovsky Seascape Painting Ahead of Major Retrospective]]></title><description><![CDATA[The State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg has restored Ivan Aivazovsky&rsquo;s The Ninth Wave (1850) ahead of a retrospective on the Russian artist opening on October 16, according to Russian state media LenTV24.The restoration of the painting started in June and will be exhibited in the Benois Wing of the museum. In the 120 years that the State Russian Museum has owned the painting, only minor conservation has been carried out.&ldquo;The Russian Museum has no canvases in unsatisfactory condi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-state-russian-museum-has-restored-ivan-aivazovsky-seascape-painting-ahead-of-majorretrospective/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-state-russian-museum-has-restored-ivan-aivazovsky-seascape-painting-ahead-of-majorretrospective/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Museum Announces 36 Artists and Collectives for Upcoming Triennial, Including Virginia Chihota, Mandy El-Sayegh, Josi, Jota Mombaça, and Agnes Questionmark]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Museum in New York has announced the 36 artists and collectives that will participate in the 2027 New Museum Triennial, running February 4&ndash;May 16, 2027.Under the title &ldquo;The Outside Expands,&rdquo; the sixth edition of the Triennial will also be the first to take place at the museum since its expansion opened earlier this year. Among the closely watched artists included are Virginia Chihota, Mandy El-Sayegh, Jes&uacute;s Hilario-Reyes, Josi, Jota Momba&ccedil;a, Agnes Question]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-museum-announces-36-artists-and-collectives-for-upcoming-triennial-including-virginia-chihota-mandy-el-sayegh-josi-jota-mombaa-and-agnesquestionmark/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-museum-announces-36-artists-and-collectives-for-upcoming-triennial-including-virginia-chihota-mandy-el-sayegh-josi-jota-mombaa-and-agnesquestionmark/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Lists Upper East Side Co-Op for $12 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Top collector Beth Rudin DeWoody has listed her Upper East Side co-op for $12 million, for the second time since 2018. She previously took the apartment off the market in 2020.At 5,000-square-feet, the 10 Gracie Square fourth-floor apartment boasts incredible East River views and a massive amount of space, including a 32-foot-long entrance gallery, an expansive living room, a formal dining room, a terrace, four bedrooms, two staff rooms, a laundry room, and an eat-in kitchen, complete with paned]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-collector-beth-rudin-dewoody-lists-upper-east-side-co-op-for-12m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-collector-beth-rudin-dewoody-lists-upper-east-side-co-op-for-12m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dalí-Designed Bronze ‘Livre de l’Apocalypse’ Book Cover Stolen from French Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yet another French museum has fallen victim to a brazen theft. A colossal, 330-pound book cover designed by Salvador Dal&iacute;, made of bronze and encrusted with precious stones, seashells and&mdash;this being Dal&iacute;&mdash;cutlery, was stolen overnight on Sunday from a small, private contemporary art museum in the town of Issoire, in central France, reports Le Monde.The book is known as the Livre de l&rsquo;Apocalypse, or in English, the Book of Revelation, or the Apocalypse of St John. I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dal-designed-bronze-livre-de-lapocalypse-book-cover-stolen-from-frenchmuseum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dal-designed-bronze-livre-de-lapocalypse-book-cover-stolen-from-frenchmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dali-Designed Bronze Book of Revelations Cover Stolen from French Museum, Sotheby’s to Auction Nanotyrannus Fossil, and More: Morning Links for October 6, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
A 330 pound book cover designed by Salvador Dali, made of bronze and encrusted with precious stones, seashells, and cutlery, was stolen overnight on Sunday from a museum in France.Sotheby&rsquo;s will auction a fossilized Nanotyrannus, comparable to a smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, estimated to fetch between $6 million and $9 million.The UK-based, Grenada-born painter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dali-designed-bronze-book-of-revelations-cover-stolen-from-french-museum-sothebys-to-auction-nanotyrannus-fossil-and-more-morning-links-for-october-62026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dali-designed-bronze-book-of-revelations-cover-stolen-from-french-museum-sothebys-to-auction-nanotyrannus-fossil-and-more-morning-links-for-october-62026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What’s One Museum Work the Top 200 Collectors Would Own If They Could?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ARTnews Top 200 Collectors are among the world&rsquo;s most voracious art buyers, many of them obsessed with adding works to their collections long after the walls of their homes can accommodate their purchases.There are, however, limits to what they can buy&mdash;not everything is available. As part of our annual questionnaire to the Top 200, we asked the collectors if there was one artwork held by a museum that they would own if they could, what would it be. (For the record, we did ask the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-one-museum-work-the-top-200-collectors-would-own-if-theycould/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-one-museum-work-the-top-200-collectors-would-own-if-theycould/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the World’s Top Collectors Bought in 2026, From a 15th-Century Pietà Painting to an Oar from Lubaina Himid’s British Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Each year, we ask the Top 200 Collectors for an update on what they&rsquo;ve purchased in the past 12 months. The answers always surprise us. Among the highlights that they shared are a 15th-century Piet&agrave; by a Follower of Rogier van der Weyden, a complete set of Robert Frank&rsquo;s The Americans, a wearable work of art by Alexander Calder, and a poignant Hale Woodruff painting. There&rsquo;s also a lot of purchases of contemporary artists, including Robert Gober, Carol Bove, Jeremy Frey,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-the-worlds-top-collectors-bought-in-2026-from-a-15th-century-piet-painting-to-an-oar-from-lubaina-himids-britishpavilion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-the-worlds-top-collectors-bought-in-2026-from-a-15th-century-piet-painting-to-an-oar-from-lubaina-himids-britishpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Year of the Trophy: An Introduction to the 2026 Edition of the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors List]]></title><description><![CDATA[The past two auction seasons in New York have seemed to buoy hope in an art market that has been variably described as shaky or going through a correction. At the top end of the market is the competition for &ldquo;trophy works,&rdquo; pieces by canonical, blue-chip names that typically have sterling provenance&mdash;and that count, if nothing else, as smart investments. Look no further than Constantin Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i&rsquo;s Dana&iuml;de (ca. 1913) and Jackson Pollock&rsquo;s Number 7A, 194]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-year-of-the-trophy-an-introduction-to-the-2026-edition-of-the-artnews-top-200-collectorslist/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-year-of-the-trophy-an-introduction-to-the-2026-edition-of-the-artnews-top-200-collectorslist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ARTnews’s “Top 200 Collectors” Issue Features 37th Annual List, Conservation Tips for Caring for Your Collection, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is never a dull moment when we are putting together ARTnews&rsquo;s annual Top 200 Collectors issue. We get to find out who acquired some of the incredible art we&rsquo;ve seen over the past year. One thing that caught my eye is that Emily Wei and Mitchell Rales, who built the Glenstone museum in Potomac, Maryland, own Kerry James Marshall&rsquo;s triptych made up of the three connected paintings Haul, Outbound, and Cove (2023&ndash;25). It&rsquo;s an enormous piece made specifically for M]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnewss-top-200-collectors-issue-features-37th-annual-list-conservation-tips-for-caring-for-your-collection-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnewss-top-200-collectors-issue-features-37th-annual-list-conservation-tips-for-caring-for-your-collection-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“The real secret to beating envy is to realize that envy, in addition to being a great vice and an internal poison, is a drag”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The real secret to beating envy is to realize that envy, in addition to being a great vice and an internal poison, is a drag&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-real-secret-to-beating-envy-is-to-realize-that-envy-in-addition-to-being-a-great-vice-and-an-internal-poison-is-a-drag/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:02:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-real-secret-to-beating-envy-is-to-realize-that-envy-in-addition-to-being-a-great-vice-and-an-internal-poison-is-a-drag/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The almost-forgotten Akhenaten. The pharaoh revolutionized Egyptian theology and art, then was erased from the material record]]></title><description><![CDATA[The almost-forgotten Akhenaten. The pharaoh revolutionized Egyptian theology and art, then was erased from the material record]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-almost-forgotten-akhenaten-the-pharaoh-revolutionized-egyptian-theology-and-art-then-was-erased-from-the-material-record/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:02:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-almost-forgotten-akhenaten-the-pharaoh-revolutionized-egyptian-theology-and-art-then-was-erased-from-the-material-record/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are single-mindedness and arrogance what’s required to write great fiction? Consider the case of Cormac McCarthy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are single-mindedness and arrogance what&rsquo;s required to write great fiction? Consider the case of Cormac McCarthy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-single-mindedness-and-arrogance-whats-required-to-write-great-fiction-consider-the-case-of-cormac-mccarthy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:02:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-single-mindedness-and-arrogance-whats-required-to-write-great-fiction-consider-the-case-of-cormac-mccarthy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The British Museum Will Extend Its Hours Amid ‘Extraordinary’ Demand for Bayeux Tapestry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crowds of visitors have swarmed the British Museum since the Bayeux Tapestry arrived in London from its home in Normandy, France, earlier this fall. Along with unprecedented attendance figures and fervent international interest in the 230-foot-long textile have come some visitor experience snafus, including closing early due to an unrelated gala dinner and being sued by a blind man for not providing audio tours.In response to some of these issues, which have resulted in visitors not being able t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-british-museum-will-extend-its-hours-amid-extraordinary-demand-for-bayeuxtapestry/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-british-museum-will-extend-its-hours-amid-extraordinary-demand-for-bayeuxtapestry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Vatican Address, Pope Leo Denounces AI-Generated Art: ‘The Church Needs Artists’]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a Friday address at the Vatican, Pope Leo told artists and curators that the Church needs them, especially in the age of AI. The pontiff weighed in at the very moment when some experts are predicting that artificial intelligence could wipe out humankind within a decade, and just three days after US president Donald Trump rallied some of the world&rsquo;s top architects of frontier AI models at the White House to sign an agreement to regulate themselves.The pope spoke to the artists and curato]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-vatican-address-pope-leo-denounces-ai-generated-art-the-church-needsartists/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-vatican-address-pope-leo-denounces-ai-generated-art-the-church-needsartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Will Host “The Art of Divorce” Panel Discussion in Geneva]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s divorce season. Princess Diana&rsquo;s Christina Stambolian dress, otherwise dubbed &ldquo;the revenge dress&rdquo; is coming to auction at Sotheby&rsquo;s London on December 9 for an estimate of $150,000 to $300,000; Sienna Miller and Dominic West&rsquo;s divorce drama &ldquo;War&rdquo; premiered this week, and on Tuesday in Geneva, Sotheby&rsquo;s is hosting a panel discussion titled &ldquo;The Art of Divorce.&rdquo;Julian Washington, head of tax, heritage and U.K. museums and fiduc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-will-host-the-art-of-divorce-panel-discussion-ingeneva/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-will-host-the-art-of-divorce-panel-discussion-ingeneva/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with pandemic novels: Their authors were scared, unmoored, and used their fiction as a staging ground for psychological parables]]></title><description><![CDATA[The problem with pandemic novels: Their authors were scared, unmoored, and used their fiction as a staging ground for psychological parables]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-problem-with-pandemic-novels-their-authors-were-scared-unmoored-and-used-their-fiction-as-a-staging-ground-for-psychological-parables-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:24:27 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-problem-with-pandemic-novels-their-authors-were-scared-unmoored-and-used-their-fiction-as-a-staging-ground-for-psychological-parables-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habermas believed that the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Habermas believed that the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/habermas-believed-that-the-gap-between-expert-and-layperson-could-always-in-principle-be-closed-by-the-right-chain-of-translation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:24:27 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/habermas-believed-that-the-gap-between-expert-and-layperson-could-always-in-principle-be-closed-by-the-right-chain-of-translation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worrisomely thin and uninformed]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worrisomely thin and uninformed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-the-perspective-of-a-career-academic-the-discourse-in-large-parts-of-literary-substack-appears-worrisomely-thin-and-uninformed/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:24:27 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-the-perspective-of-a-career-academic-the-discourse-in-large-parts-of-literary-substack-appears-worrisomely-thin-and-uninformed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bluhm Family Gives $5 M. to MCA Chicago for Gender Equity Fund, Named After Outgoing Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has received a $5 million endowment from trustee and board vice chair Leslie Bluhm, on behalf of the Chicago philanthropic Bluhm family, that will benefit the institution&rsquo;s Women Artists Initiative (WAI), which is geared toward ensuring gender equity in the museum&rsquo;s exhibition programming and permanent collection.To mark the upcoming departure of longtime MCA Chicago director Madeleine Grynsztejn, who established the initiative, the WAI will be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bluhm-family-gives-5-m-to-mca-chicago-for-gender-equity-fund-named-after-outgoingdirector/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bluhm-family-gives-5-m-to-mca-chicago-for-gender-equity-fund-named-after-outgoingdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philip Tinari Appointed Director of Tai Kwun Arts in Hong Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philip Tinari was named director of Tai Kwun Arts, after less than one year since he began working there, according to a press release from the Hong Kong arts and heritage center. His appointment is among two others, with Chin Chin Teoh named managing director and Timothy Calnin as director of special projects.Tai Kwun is an integrated institution, comprised of The Jockey Club CPS Limited and Tai Kwun Culture &amp; Arts Company Limited, in partnership with the Hong Kong SAR Government, located i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/philip-tinari-appointed-director-of-tai-kwun-arts-in-hongkong/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/philip-tinari-appointed-director-of-tai-kwun-arts-in-hongkong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jackson Pollock’s Former West Village Loft Hits the Market for $1.99 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just as a major exhibition of Jackson Pollock and his wife and fellow painter Lee Krasner opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Pollock&rsquo;s former Lower Manhattan loft has hit the market for $1.99 million.The one-bedroom 1827 West Village apartment, listed with Shane Boyle of Compass, boasts nearly two centuries of New York history. Constructed on land once owned by the third US vice president Aaron Burr, the building was also home to a milliner who sold hats and bonnets in th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jackson-pollocks-former-west-village-loft-hits-the-market-for-199m/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jackson-pollocks-former-west-village-loft-hits-the-market-for-199m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Koons Appears to Be the ‘Distinguished Collector’ Offering $100 M. in Old and Modern Masters at Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of nine artworks totaling in the area of $100 million will come to auction at Christie&rsquo;s New York, reportedly from the holdings of famed American artist Jeff Koons.	The auction house did not confirm the seller&rsquo;s identity, but two unnamed industry sources tell the New York Times that Koons is the seller. (The house also declined to comment to ARTnews.) The newspaper reports that Koons plans to invest the proceeds into his own notoriously resource-intensive art practice an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-appears-to-be-the-distinguished-collector-offering-100-m-in-old-and-modern-masters-atchristies/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-appears-to-be-the-distinguished-collector-offering-100-m-in-old-and-modern-masters-atchristies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whitney Museum Workers Reach Contract Deal Hours Before Strike Deadline]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum in New York ratified its second contract Sunday night, hours ahead a strike deadline, narrowly heading off a disruption to the opening of a forthcoming Roy Lichtenstein retrospective.Under the new contract, every Whitney employee will receive a wage increase of at least 14.75 percent over four years. Workers with the lowest salaries will receive larger raises, ranging from 5 to 23 percent in the first year. The agreement also introduces longevity bonuses for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-museum-workers-reach-contract-deal-hours-before-strikedeadline/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-museum-workers-reach-contract-deal-hours-before-strikedeadline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attempted Robbery Foiled at the Nissim de Camondo Museum in Paris]]></title><description><![CDATA[An attempted robbery at the Mus&eacute;e Nissim de Camondo in Paris was foiled on Saturday night.Le Parisien first reported that the suspect fled when the museum&rsquo;s alarm system was triggered, prompting Paris police to launch an investigation. Investigators are analyzing CCTV footage of the break-in. The thief reportedly smashed a window near the rear of the museum to gain entry. However, startled by the activation of the security system, the suspect fled the scene without stealing any loot]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/attempted-robbery-foiled-at-the-nissim-de-camondo-museum-inparis/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/attempted-robbery-foiled-at-the-nissim-de-camondo-museum-inparis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[JW Anderson, Artist Cerith Wyn Evans Team Up for Frieze Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clearly, fashion designer Jonathan Anderson loves art. During his tenure as creative director at Loewe, the Spanish brand was one of the main sponsors of Frieze London. Now, Anderson is changing things up, inviting Frieze Week visitors to come meet him at his JW Anderson store on Pimlico Road for a special exhibition, &ldquo;A Composition&rdquo; running between October 15-21.The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Platinum Card from American Express, the financial services company th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jw-anderson-artist-cerith-wyn-evans-team-up-for-friezeweek/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jw-anderson-artist-cerith-wyn-evans-team-up-for-friezeweek/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Koons Cashes in $100 M. Art Collection to Christie’s, Damien Hirst Makes Case for Wearable Art Ahead of New Barrie Cashmere Collection, and More: Morning Links for October 5, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
Jeff Koons is quietly selling about $100 million of his art collection at Christie&rsquo;s.Damien Hirst makes his case for art as &ldquo;anything done well,&rdquo; ahead of a new capsule collection collaboration with cashmere brand Barrie.A suspect attempted and failed to rob the Mus&eacute;e Nissim de Camondo in Paris Saturday night.The Headlines	KOONS RAISES CASH. Jeff Koons is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-cashes-in-100-m-art-collection-to-christies-damien-hirst-makes-case-for-wearable-art-ahead-of-new-barrie-cashmere-collection-and-more-morning-links-for-october-52026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-cashes-in-100-m-art-collection-to-christies-damien-hirst-makes-case-for-wearable-art-ahead-of-new-barrie-cashmere-collection-and-more-morning-links-for-october-52026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Changing Views of the Young British Artists Say About the Art World Today]]></title><description><![CDATA[In his latest bestseller, London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe refers to art in his prologue to illustrate the way the city of London changed near the end of the 20th century: In 1988, a group of young artists used a derelict warehouse in the docklands of southeast London as the venue for their first group exhibition, &ldquo;Freeze.&rdquo; He doesn&rsquo;t say anything else, assuming the reader will know who those artists became: the Young British Artists, or YBAs.Arguably Britain&rsquo;s most f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-changing-views-of-the-young-british-artists-say-about-the-art-worldtoday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-changing-views-of-the-young-british-artists-say-about-the-art-worldtoday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Exhibition Devoted to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock Argues for Krasner’s Equal Significance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lee Krasner&rsquo;s art has always been tough to is tough to define, because she was constantly changing and reinventing her work. Unlike her fellow Abstract Expressionists, whose paintings could be easily recognized by certain characteristics, Krasner worked in cycles.&ldquo;Krasner refused to become a serial painter with a repeated trademark format,&rdquo; wrote art historian Barbara Rose in the catalog for Krasner&rsquo;s 1983 traveling retrospective, which opened at the Museum of Fine Arts,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-exhibition-devoted-to-lee-krasner-and-jackson-pollock-argues-for-krasners-equalsignificance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-exhibition-devoted-to-lee-krasner-and-jackson-pollock-argues-for-krasners-equalsignificance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent Acquired by Global Conglomerate Informa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Independent, which organizes two art fairs in New York each year&mdash;one devoted to contemporary art in the spring and the other 20th-century art in the fall&mdash;has been acquired by London-based conglomerate Informa. The sale was completed last year, meaning that both 2026 fairs were completed under Informa&rsquo;s ownership.&ldquo;Independent&rsquo;s future is bright. With Informa as our partner, Independent is redefining what an art fair can be with the spirit of a museum exhibition and t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/independent-acquired-by-global-conglomerateinforma/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/independent-acquired-by-global-conglomerateinforma/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with pandemic novels? Their authors were scared, unmoored, and used their fiction as a staging ground for psychological parables]]></title><description><![CDATA[The problem with pandemic novels? Their authors were scared, unmoored, and used their fiction as a staging ground for psychological parables]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-problem-with-pandemic-novels-their-authors-were-scared-unmoored-and-used-their-fiction-as-a-staging-ground-for-psychological-parables/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:17:51 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-problem-with-pandemic-novels-their-authors-were-scared-unmoored-and-used-their-fiction-as-a-staging-ground-for-psychological-parables/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/habermas-believed-the-gap-between-expert-and-layperson-could-always-in-principle-be-closed-by-the-right-chain-of-translation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:17:51 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/habermas-believed-the-gap-between-expert-and-layperson-could-always-in-principle-be-closed-by-the-right-chain-of-translation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worryingly thin and poorly informed]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worryingly thin and poorly informed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-the-perspective-of-a-career-academic-the-discourse-in-large-parts-of-literary-substack-appears-worryingly-thin-and-poorly-informed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:17:51 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-the-perspective-of-a-career-academic-the-discourse-in-large-parts-of-literary-substack-appears-worryingly-thin-and-poorly-informed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guggenheim and Brooklyn Museum Unions Ratify New Contracts, Averting Strikes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff at four of New York&rsquo;s prominent cultural institutions&mdash;the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum, and (AFAM)&mdash;have ratified new contracts, UAW Local 2110 announced today. The Brooklyn Museum and AFAM finalized four-year contracts this week, while the Guggenheim and Jewish Museum unions ratified their agreements in September.ARTnews has contacted the museums for comment.The Brooklyn Museum&rsquo;s second contract gu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-and-brooklyn-museum-unions-ratify-new-contracts-avertingstrikes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-and-brooklyn-museum-unions-ratify-new-contracts-avertingstrikes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swiss Government to Fund Research into Holdings of Cultural Artifacts]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Swiss government will provide $2.4 million in funding for research into the provenance of objects in its museums and collections, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture announced earlier this week. Funding for 26 projects from 2027&ndash;2028 was awarded following a public call for proposals.A core focus will be on items acquired by Swiss institutions in colonial, archaeological, and Nazi-era contexts. The winning projects range from initiatives involving several museums to collaborations with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/swiss-government-to-fund-research-into-holdings-of-culturalartifacts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/swiss-government-to-fund-research-into-holdings-of-culturalartifacts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Museum Refunds Bayeux Tapestry Visitors After Closing Early for Reception Attended by Princess Anne]]></title><description><![CDATA[September has been a busy month for the British Museum with the opening of the sold out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, which has attracted swarms of crowds, as well as complaints from visitors and lawsuits, too. Now, the museum now trying to rectify those missteps.On Wednesday, the museum turned away visitors halfway through the day to get ready for a gala dinner it was hosting with its long-term corporate sponsor Samsung to celebrate the &ldquo;Korea&rdquo; exhibition that opened on Thursday. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-museum-refunds-bayeux-tapestry-visitors-after-closing-early-for-reception-attended-by-princessanne/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-museum-refunds-bayeux-tapestry-visitors-after-closing-early-for-reception-attended-by-princessanne/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingrid Wiener, Viennese Actionist Artist and Collaborator of Valie Export and Dieter Roth, Dies at 83]]></title><description><![CDATA[Viennese Actionist artist Ingrid Wiener died at the age of 83, just shy of her 84th birthday, Charim Gallery announced in an Instagram post. The gallery did not state a cause of death.	For decades, Wiener shaped the Austrian art scene with her combined textile, photography, painting, and collage works, as well as through notable collaborations with the likes of Valie Export and Dieter Roth.Wiener&rsquo;s tapestries integrate objects and fragments of her everyday life, among them, cutting boards,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ingrid-wiener-viennese-actionist-artist-and-collaborator-of-valie-export-and-dieter-roth-dies-at83/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ingrid-wiener-viennese-actionist-artist-and-collaborator-of-valie-export-and-dieter-roth-dies-at83/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucas Museum Will Erect Permanent Fences Around its Plaza, Undercutting its Rhetoric of Accessibility]]></title><description><![CDATA[An expansive public plaza surrounding Los Angeles&rsquo;s recently opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be permanently fenced off, reports the Los Angeles Times. The plaza around the museum, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, &ldquo;was always meant to be a generous civic space,&rdquo; the Times notes, adding that architect Ma Yansong called it &ldquo;gateway&rdquo; between the museum and the city.This past weekend, the first days the museum was open to the publi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-will-erect-permanent-fences-around-its-plaza-undercutting-its-rhetoric-ofaccessibility/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-will-erect-permanent-fences-around-its-plaza-undercutting-its-rhetoric-ofaccessibility/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insufficient Public Funding Identified as Biggest Threat to Global Heritage Sites, New World Monuments Fund Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a new study released by the World Monuments Fund (WMF) this week, the nonprofit found that insufficient public funding is the primary threat to heritage sites around the world. It continues to surpass climate hazards and expertise gaps.The research was conducted as part of the organization&rsquo;s larger nomination process for its forthcoming 2027 World Monuments Watch list, slated to be announced in February. Since 1996, WMF has published the list every two years in an effort to address fund]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/insufficient-public-funding-identified-as-biggest-threat-to-global-heritage-sites-new-world-monuments-fund-studyfinds/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/insufficient-public-funding-identified-as-biggest-threat-to-global-heritage-sites-new-world-monuments-fund-studyfinds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As New York City Doubles Grants for Individual Artists to $10,000, Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij Discusses Vision for City Agency]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York will increase its direct support to artists, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Cultural Affairs commissioner Diya Vij announced today. Rising from $5,000 to up to $10,000, the increase doubles the funds given to artists and represents the first change in this funding stream in some 20 years.The funding comes from the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and is distributed to each borough&rsquo;s arts councils, which act as regrant partners and dole out grants to individual artists annuall]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-new-york-city-doubles-grants-for-individual-artists-to-10000-cultural-affairs-commissioner-diya-vij-discusses-vision-for-cityagency/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-new-york-city-doubles-grants-for-individual-artists-to-10000-cultural-affairs-commissioner-diya-vij-discusses-vision-for-cityagency/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddhas and Dinosaur Bones Among Dozens of Smuggled Artifacts Repatriated to China]]></title><description><![CDATA[In advance of Chinese President Xi Jinping&rsquo;s three-day visit to the White House last month, the United States quietly repatriated 58 cultural objects and artifacts to China in a ceremony that took place at the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. Homeland Security Investigations (HIS), a unit that is part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced the news on Wednesday. The following day, six additional bronze objects were also returned to China by the Manhattan District At]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/buddhas-and-dinosaur-bones-among-dozens-of-smuggled-artifacts-repatriated-tochina/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/buddhas-and-dinosaur-bones-among-dozens-of-smuggled-artifacts-repatriated-tochina/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Feral Dogs Marshaled a Defense Against Nuclear Weapons, and Other Animal Stories Erin Johnson’s Films Tell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who was the first person to domesticate dogs, to dare to bring a wolf into their cave and tame it? &ldquo;They could grow up to eat your children,&rdquo; reminds a mustachioed man posing these and other canine questions in Erin Johnson&rsquo;s two-channel film Heavy Water (2018).Then, the film cuts to show our protagonist&rsquo;s hand hovering in front of a slide projector displaying a plot of cheap land in South Carolina where nuclear weapons were developed during the Cold War. You might start]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-feral-dogs-marshaled-a-defense-against-nuclear-weapons-and-other-animal-stories-erin-johnsons-filmstell/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-feral-dogs-marshaled-a-defense-against-nuclear-weapons-and-other-animal-stories-erin-johnsons-filmstell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Selling Napoleon Memorabilia, Sotheby’s Turns to His Enemy, Horatio Nelson, for $8 M. Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[After selling Napoleon Bonaparte&rsquo;s worn stockings and other &ldquo;deeply personal relics that reflected the inner world&rdquo; of the French emperor last year, Sotheby&rsquo;s is now laying bare the personal life of his great adversary, Admiral Horatio Nelson, on the auction block.The house will offer 415 letters, documents, and manuscripts connected to Nelson in a single-lot, sealed-bid sale with a high estimate of &pound;6 million ($8 million). They include personal letters to his mistr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-selling-napoleon-memorabilia-sothebys-turns-to-his-enemy-horatio-nelson-for-8-mauction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-selling-napoleon-memorabilia-sothebys-turns-to-his-enemy-horatio-nelson-for-8-mauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mural of ‘Afrocentric’ Nefertiti Painted Over in Cairo Following Backlash, UK Collectors ‘Poised to Move’ if Assets Taxed, and More: Morning Links for October 2, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
Cairo removed a mural of Pharaoh Tutankhamun and Queen Neferti following criticism that their skin looked too dark.UK dealers say local art collectors have &ldquo;got their fingers poised to move on October 29&rdquo; if the government announces a rise in capital gains tax rates.Nine Swiss museums are teaming up to research the provenance of over 6,300 objects from Cameroon.The He]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mural-of-afrocentric-nefertiti-painted-over-in-cairo-following-backlash-uk-collectors-poised-to-move-if-assets-taxed-and-more-morning-links-for-october-22026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mural-of-afrocentric-nefertiti-painted-over-in-cairo-following-backlash-uk-collectors-poised-to-move-if-assets-taxed-and-more-morning-links-for-october-22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 30 Years, Fondation Beyeler Enters Its Next Chapter With a $144.9 M. Peter Zumthor–Designed Expansion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland is marking its transition from youth to adulthood after nearly three decades&mdash;or in astrological speak, it&rsquo;s in Saturn return&mdash;with a $144.9 million expansion and a cosmologically minded exhibition to inaugurate the space.To mark the occasion, the museum tapped Basel-born architect Peter Zumthor, who recently completed a new building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to design three new structures: a 16,000-square-foot gallery building]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-30-years-fondation-beyeler-enters-its-next-chapter-with-a-1449-m-peter-zumthordesigned-expansion/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-30-years-fondation-beyeler-enters-its-next-chapter-with-a-1449-m-peter-zumthordesigned-expansion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-help and life hacks treat existence as a puzzle to be solved. The ancients had a name for that: heresy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Self-help and life hacks treat existence as a puzzle to be solved. The ancients had a name for that: heresy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/self-help-and-life-hacks-treat-existence-as-a-puzzle-to-be-solved-the-ancients-had-a-name-for-that-heresy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:47:07 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/self-help-and-life-hacks-treat-existence-as-a-puzzle-to-be-solved-the-ancients-had-a-name-for-that-heresy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Lust in Chekhov&rsquo;s story is a humble sin, worthy of pity. It causes no wars and burns no buildings"]]></title><description><![CDATA["Lust in Chekhov&rsquo;s story is a humble sin, worthy of pity. It causes no wars and burns no buildings"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lust-in-chekhovrsquos-story-is-a-humble-sin-worthy-of-pity-it-causes-no-wars-and-burns-no-buildings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:47:07 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lust-in-chekhovrsquos-story-is-a-humble-sin-worthy-of-pity-it-causes-no-wars-and-burns-no-buildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem you can put your beer on. The mimeo revolution of the 1960s generated a deluge of experimental printing]]></title><description><![CDATA[A poem you can put your beer on. The mimeo revolution&nbsp;of the 1960s generated a deluge of experimental printing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-poem-you-can-put-your-beer-on-the-mimeo-revolutionof-the-1960s-generated-a-deluge-of-experimental-printing/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:47:07 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-poem-you-can-put-your-beer-on-the-mimeo-revolutionof-the-1960s-generated-a-deluge-of-experimental-printing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Resignation of Advisory Council, American Institute of Architects Weigh in on Trump’s Arch]]></title><description><![CDATA[On September 29, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sent a letter to Jaime Loichinger, director of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), a federal agency responsible for preserving historic properties and sites in the United States, denouncing the council&rsquo;s effective resignation from the controversial project.	The letter is critical of ACHP&rsquo;s September 24 decision to bypass Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act ending the Council&rsquo;s involv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-resignation-of-advisory-council-american-institute-of-architects-weigh-in-on-trumpsarch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-resignation-of-advisory-council-american-institute-of-architects-weigh-in-on-trumpsarch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free Entry to UK National Museums Will Continue, Government Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday, the UK government poured cold water on speculation that overseas visitors could soon be forced to pay entry fees to the country&rsquo;s national museums.	Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), confirmed that institutions including the British Museum, Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, and National Museums Liverpool will continue to offer free admission. Nandy made the announcement at an event at Tate Liverpool organized by Art Fund and the C]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/free-entry-to-uk-national-museums-will-continue-governmentsays/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/free-entry-to-uk-national-museums-will-continue-governmentsays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Late Baroque Master’s Lost Marble Turns Up in a UK Salvage Yard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotted at a Wiltshire reclamation yard and purchased for &pound;300 ($395), a marble sculpture by Late Baroque master Pietro Bracci (1700&ndash;1773) is expected to bring between &pound; 5,000 and &pound;10,000 ($6,600&ndash;$13,200) at auction. Research undertaken by a specialist at U.K. auction house Woolley &amp; Wallis has identified the roughly two-foot-tall marble as the only surviving maquette for Bracci&rsquo;s 1736 bronze statue of Pope Clement XII.The life-sized bronze once stood in t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-late-baroque-masters-lost-marble-turns-up-in-a-uk-salvageyard-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-late-baroque-masters-lost-marble-turns-up-in-a-uk-salvageyard-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Late Baroque Master’s Lost Marble Turns Up in a U.K. Salvage Yard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spotted at a Wiltshire reclamation yard and purchased for &pound;300 ($395), a marble sculpture by Late Baroque master Pietro Bracci (1700&ndash;1773) is expected to bring between &pound; 5,000 and &pound;10,000 ($6,600&ndash;$13,200) at auction. Research undertaken by a specialist at U.K. auction house Woolley &amp; Wallis has identified the roughly two-foot-tall marble as the only surviving maquette for Bracci&rsquo;s 1736 bronze statue of Pope Clement XII.The life-sized bronze once stood in t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-late-baroque-masters-lost-marble-turns-up-in-a-uk-salvageyard/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-late-baroque-masters-lost-marble-turns-up-in-a-uk-salvageyard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kavi Gupta Gallery Hit With Restraining Order Amid $2 M. Art Dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[A New York judge has temporarily barred Chicago dealer Kavi Gupta and his gallery from selling or marketing a collection of artworks at the center of an increasingly messy dispute with a company that gave the struggling gallery more than $2 million in cash last year.The deal at the heart of the case is an unusual one, but its purpose was fairly straightforward.In May 2025, a company called Longcraft LLC paid Kavi Gupta Gallery $2.05 million for roughly 150 artworks. Rather than take possession o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kavi-gupta-gallery-hit-with-restraining-order-amid-2-m-artdispute/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kavi-gupta-gallery-hit-with-restraining-order-amid-2-m-artdispute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s To Sell Artworks from Collection of Bankrupt Hedge Funder George Allen Weiss]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s will offer a dozen works from the holdings of Miami hedge funder and art collector George Allen Weiss in the wake of his firm, Weiss, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year.	The proceeds will go to satisfy a $123 million debt to Bank of America that was secured by his artwork, reports Bloomberg. The auctioneer will sell 16 of Weiss&rsquo;s works in the house&rsquo;s marquee November sales, said Weiss&rsquo;s lawyer, Paul Battista, in a court hearing on Wednesday, per Bloomber]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-sell-artworks-from-collection-of-bankrupt-hedge-funder-george-allenweiss/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-sell-artworks-from-collection-of-bankrupt-hedge-funder-george-allenweiss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BTS Star RM Will Share His Art Collection In New SFMOMA Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;ve ever wondered what an art collection assembled by a Korean pop star looks like, look no further than the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)&rsquo;s latest exhibition, &ldquo;RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me.&rdquo; The show will feature works from the personal collection of RM, the BTS superstar announced Tuesday on KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco. The news was first reported by Billboard.The 32-year-old singer said he began assembling his collection about eight years ago, often]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bts-star-rm-will-share-his-art-collection-in-new-sfmomaexhibition/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bts-star-rm-will-share-his-art-collection-in-new-sfmomaexhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury Accessories Brand Eittem Launches Collaborative Line with Frick Collection in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York&ndash;based luxury accessories brand Eittem created a new set of offerings inspired by the Frick Collection in New York, with a special focus on the newly accessible second-floor private rooms that opened to the public last year after the mansion&rsquo;s four-year renovation.The line includes new editions of Eittem&rsquo;s distinctive woodgrain handbags, priced from $5,500 to $7,900, as well as brooches ($750&ndash;$950) and a editioned sculpture ($10,000). The handbags bear the Fri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/luxury-accessories-brand-eittem-launches-collaborative-line-with-frick-collection-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/luxury-accessories-brand-eittem-launches-collaborative-line-with-frick-collection-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare Cache of Ancient Roman Sculptures Discovered at Chartres]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new archeological excavation at the Saint-Martin-au Val sanctuary in Chartres, France, has unearthed a collection of fragments of Roman stone statues and sculpted reliefs, reports Heritage Daily. Archaeologists also found evidence of a water system that may have played a role in ancient rituals.A monumental Gallo-Roman religious complex, the walled sanctuary occupied over 25 acres and enclosed a massive temple with walkways, a portico, and several other structures. Begun around 70&ndash;80 CE,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-cache-of-ancient-roman-sculptures-discovered-atchartres/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-cache-of-ancient-roman-sculptures-discovered-atchartres/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists for Climate Action Returns for Frieze Week With Christie’s Evening Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s is going green, again. The auction house is teaming up with climate charities Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) and ClientEarth during its 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on October 14 and 15 during Frieze Week for the sophomore edition of Artists for Climate Action, which started in 2021.Artists Igshaan Adams will be donating his artwork, The certainty of being a rose (ii) (2026), a sculpture made of beads, thread and textile, to the auction with an estimate of &pound;60]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-for-climate-action-returns-for-frieze-week-with-christies-eveningauction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-for-climate-action-returns-for-frieze-week-with-christies-eveningauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraqi Archaeologists Arrested Amid Growing Concerns Over State Corruption]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two prominent Iraqi archaeologists were arrested this month, the Art Newspaper (TAN) reported. Many involved fear their arrests are retaliatory, spurred by public comments they made about corruption at the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), which oversees the country&rsquo;s archaeological sector.Archaeologist Ali Tabar was arrested on charges of extortion on September 17. He is one of the country&rsquo;s leading drone surveyors who aerially documents sites before and after excavati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iraqi-archaeologists-arrested-amid-growing-concerns-over-statecorruption/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iraqi-archaeologists-arrested-amid-growing-concerns-over-statecorruption/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre President Discusses New ‘Culture of Security,’ Spain’s Royal Paintings Museum at El Escorial Reopens After Decade, and More: Morning Links for October 1, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
The Royal Paintings Museum at El Escorial, housed in what is thought to be the largest Renaissance building in the world, reopens today after over a decade.Louvre president Christophe Leribault is building a &ldquo;culture of security&rdquo; at the museum as he tries to raise funds for a major renovation.A marble sculpture bought at a salvage yard was authenticated as a rare 18th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-president-discusses-new-culture-of-security-spains-royal-paintings-museum-at-el-escorial-reopens-after-decade-and-more-morning-links-for-october-12026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-president-discusses-new-culture-of-security-spains-royal-paintings-museum-at-el-escorial-reopens-after-decade-and-more-morning-links-for-october-12026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fitzcarraldo Editions is one of the few publishers willing to take risks. Its reward: publishing Joshua Cohen, Jon Fosse, and Annie Ernaux]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fitzcarraldo Editions is one of the few publishers willing to take risks. Its reward: publishing Joshua Cohen, Jon Fosse, and Annie Ernaux]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fitzcarraldo-editions-is-one-of-the-few-publishers-willing-to-take-risks-its-reward-publishing-joshua-cohen-jon-fosse-and-annie-ernaux/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:22:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fitzcarraldo-editions-is-one-of-the-few-publishers-willing-to-take-risks-its-reward-publishing-joshua-cohen-jon-fosse-and-annie-ernaux/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrarianism and controversy raised John Berger’s reputation as writer — while degrading his mental health]]></title><description><![CDATA[Contrarianism and controversy raised&nbsp;John Berger&rsquo;s reputation as writer &mdash; while degrading his mental health]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contrarianism-and-controversy-raisedjohn-bergers-reputation-as-writer-while-degrading-his-mental-health/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 11:22:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contrarianism-and-controversy-raisedjohn-bergers-reputation-as-writer-while-degrading-his-mental-health/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lisson Gallery and Gomide &amp; Co. Now Represent Mira Schendel Estate, DMA Board Elects New Chair, and More: Industry Moves for October 1,&nbsp;2026.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves	Lisson Gallery and Gomide &amp; Co. Now Represent Mira Schendel Estate: After being represented by mega-gallery Hauser &amp; Wirth since 2013, the estate of the Swiss-born Brazilian modernist will now join the roster of New York&ndash;based, blue-chip Lisson and S&atilde;o Paulo&ndash;based Gomide &amp; Co. In 2027, L]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lisson-gallery-and-gomide-amp-co-now-represent-mira-schendel-estate-dma-board-elects-new-chair-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-1nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lisson-gallery-and-gomide-amp-co-now-represent-mira-schendel-estate-dma-board-elects-new-chair-and-more-industry-moves-for-october-1nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as long as there have been writers, they have analyzed, lamented, navel-gazed, and mythologized the writing life]]></title><description><![CDATA[For as long as there have been writers, they have analyzed, lamented, navel-gazed, and mythologized the writing life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-as-long-as-there-have-been-writers-they-have-analyzed-lamented-navel-gazed-and-mythologized-the-writing-life/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:16:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-as-long-as-there-have-been-writers-they-have-analyzed-lamented-navel-gazed-and-mythologized-the-writing-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fitzcarraldo Editions is one of few publishers willing to take risks. Its reward: publishing Joshua Cohen, Jon Fosse, and Annie Ernaux]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fitzcarraldo Editions is one of few publishers willing to take risks. Its reward: publishing Joshua Cohen, Jon Fosse, and Annie Ernaux]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fitzcarraldo-editions-is-one-of-few-publishers-willing-to-take-risks-its-reward-publishing-joshua-cohen-jon-fosse-and-annie-ernaux/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:16:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fitzcarraldo-editions-is-one-of-few-publishers-willing-to-take-risks-its-reward-publishing-joshua-cohen-jon-fosse-and-annie-ernaux/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrarianism and controversy boosted John Berger’s reputation as writer — while degrading his mental health]]></title><description><![CDATA[Contrarianism and controversy boosted John Berger&rsquo;s reputation as writer &mdash; while degrading his mental health]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contrarianism-and-controversy-boosted-john-bergers-reputation-as-writer-while-degrading-his-mental-health/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:16:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/contrarianism-and-controversy-boosted-john-bergers-reputation-as-writer-while-degrading-his-mental-health/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong Hong Kong Evening Sales, Totaling a Combined $223.6 M., Mask Key Hurdles in Asia’s Art Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.The Hong Kong art market&rsquo;s recovery remains uneven, with a mixed macroeconomic backdrop in Asia weighing on collector budgets, as evidenced by this week&rsquo;s round of auctions in the special administrative region.Mainland Chinese equities dropped to a 13-month low this month, while the Japanese yen dipped to a multi-decade]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/strong-hong-kong-evening-sales-totaling-a-combined-2236-m-mask-key-hurdles-in-asias-artmarket/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/strong-hong-kong-evening-sales-totaling-a-combined-2236-m-mask-key-hurdles-in-asias-artmarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong Hong Kong Evening Sales, Totaling a Combined $184.6 M., Mask Key Hurdles in Asia’s Art Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.The Hong Kong art market&rsquo;s recovery remains uneven, with a mixed macroeconomic backdrop in Asia weighing on collector budgets, as evidenced by this week&rsquo;s round of auctions in the special administrative region.Mainland Chinese equities dropped to a 13-month low this month, while the Japanese yen dipped to a multi-decade]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/strong-hong-kong-evening-sales-totaling-a-combined-1846-m-mask-key-hurdles-in-asias-artmarket/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/strong-hong-kong-evening-sales-totaling-a-combined-1846-m-mask-key-hurdles-in-asias-artmarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazil’s Inhotim Marks 20 Years and Looks to a Future Beyond Its Founder]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty years after it opened to the public, Inhotim is going through one of the most decisive transitions in its history. The contemporary art museum and botanical garden, which collector Bernardo Paz imagined on an unprecedented scale in the Brazilian mining town of Brumadinho, with individual pavilions for specific artists, monumental works, and paths stretching across 346 acres, recorded its highest annual attendance in 2025, welcoming 365,000 visitors. But Paz, who donated the land, gallerie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brazils-inhotim-marks-20-years-and-looks-to-a-future-beyond-itsfounder/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brazils-inhotim-marks-20-years-and-looks-to-a-future-beyond-itsfounder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK’s Ashmolean Museum Joins Forces with Samdani Art Foundation to Build Bangladeshi Art Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in the UK and the Samdani Art Foundation (SAF) based in Dhaka have joined forces on a new program focused on contemporary art from Bangladesh. The partnership will bring a Bangladeshi artist to Oxford each year and will also see the museum build a dedicated collection of contemporary Bangladeshi art.The first artist selected for the Ashmolean Samdani Visiting Artist program is Munem Wasif, a Dhaka-based artist and curator. Wasif is spending two we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uks-ashmolean-museum-joins-forces-with-samdani-art-foundation-to-build-bangladeshi-artcollection/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uks-ashmolean-museum-joins-forces-with-samdani-art-foundation-to-build-bangladeshi-artcollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Collector Ken Griffin Gives $3 B., the Largest Donation in the History of Higher Education, to Carnegie Mellon For a Miami Campus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billionaire hedge funder and ARTnews Top 200 collector Kenneth C. Griffin has made the largest-ever donation in the history of higher education, giving $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh. The school will launch a purpose-built Miami outpost with $2 billion of the gift, which also supports the main campus to the tune of $1 billion. It&rsquo;s additionally the largest gift Griffin has ever given.The Miami campus, located in the city&rsquo;s Wynwood district, will support]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-collector-ken-griffin-gives-3-b-the-largest-donation-in-the-history-of-higher-education-to-carnegie-mellon-for-a-miamicampus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-collector-ken-griffin-gives-3-b-the-largest-donation-in-the-history-of-higher-education-to-carnegie-mellon-for-a-miamicampus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louis Vuitton Collaborates with Keith Haring Foundation for its Latest Artycapucines Handbag Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the eighth iteration of its &ldquo;Artycapucines&rdquo; collection, Louis Vuitton collaborated with the Keith Haring Foundation to create 13 new bag designs dedicated to the work of late American artist Keith Haring, WWD reported.The bags will feature Haring&rsquo;s bold graphic imagery, including his signature Running Heart and Radiant Baby dancing figures among the compositions. The designs will further incorporate such craft techniques as traditional leather marquetry and laser printing t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louis-vuitton-collaborates-with-keith-haring-foundation-for-its-latest-artycapucines-handbagcollection/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louis-vuitton-collaborates-with-keith-haring-foundation-for-its-latest-artycapucines-handbagcollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists Rights Society Launches Partnership with Samsung to License Artworks on Digital Displays]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York&ndash;based Artists Rights Society (ARS), which represents more than 120,000 artists for licensing images of their works in the United States, has announced a partnership with Samsung Art Store to display the work of ARS-represented artists on Samsung TVs.The collaboration launches with the work of LeRoy Neiman, who is known for his expressionist depictions of sports, leisure, and other facets of Americana. A collection of 33 of Neiman&rsquo;s work is now available to license via th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-rights-society-launches-partnership-with-samsung-to-license-artworks-on-digitaldisplays/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-rights-society-launches-partnership-with-samsung-to-license-artworks-on-digitaldisplays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind Man Sues the British Museum Over Lack of Bayeux Tapestry Audio Tours]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum is nothing short of controversy. In its latest, the museum is being sued by a blind man over a lack of audio guides at the exhibition, according to The Telegraph.The lawsuit was filed by Yusuf Ali Osman, a registered blind man who has no sight in both eyes, with the law firm Leigh Day. A letter was sent to the museum by the law firm outlining that the British Museum failed to comply with the Equality Act.&ldquo;The Museum is committed to making the Bayeu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/blind-man-sues-the-british-museum-over-lack-of-bayeux-tapestry-audiotours/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/blind-man-sues-the-british-museum-over-lack-of-bayeux-tapestry-audiotours/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bon Iver to Release 10th-Anniversary Edition of Album with Elaborate Artwork Elucidated]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bon Iver, whose music has evolved over time from sparse acoustic folk to a synthesized sound suggestive of intricate worldbuilding, will release a deluxe 10th-annivesary edition an album that counted as a Gesamtkunstwerk when it helped reposition the band in 2016.For 22, A Million, the group&rsquo;s third album, artist and designer Eric Timothy Carlson effectively joined the band and became an integral part of its creative process, such that its distinctive symbolist visual language and iconogra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bon-iver-to-release-10th-anniversary-edition-of-album-with-elaborate-artworkelucidated/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bon-iver-to-release-10th-anniversary-edition-of-album-with-elaborate-artworkelucidated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opening, Stephanie Rosenthal Will Join Rotterdam Museum as Artistic Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephanie Rosenthal, the current director of Gropius Bau, has been named artistic director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. She will take up the post in September 2027.In May, Rosenthal was appointed project director of the Guggenheim&rsquo;s Abu Dhabi satellite, overseeing the museum&rsquo;s final preparations after two decades in development. The museum is scheduled to open to the public in December, when Valerie Hillings will assume her role as its inaugural director.&ldquo;Inst]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-guggenheim-abu-dhabi-opening-stephanie-rosenthal-will-join-rotterdam-museum-as-artisticdirector/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-guggenheim-abu-dhabi-opening-stephanie-rosenthal-will-join-rotterdam-museum-as-artisticdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rafael Ferrer, Puerto Rican Musician-Turned-Artist, Has Died at 93]]></title><description><![CDATA[Puerto Rican musician-turned-artist Rafael Ferrer has died at age 93, El Museo del Barrio announced last night. Ferrer was &ldquo;a groundbreaking artist whose singular and influential practice challenged boundaries&rdquo; across a vast range of mediums and disciplines, stated the New York museum.In fact, Ferrer first worked as a jazz drummer before moving into visual arts after discovering Surrealist artists and writers during a 1954 trip to Paris. He eventually studied painting with the exiled]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rafael-ferrer-puerto-rican-musician-turned-artist-has-died-at93/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rafael-ferrer-puerto-rican-musician-turned-artist-has-died-at93/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puerto Rican Musician-turned-Artist Rafael Ferrer Has Died, Preliminary Trial Opens Against Museum and City Officials for Alleged Negligence Leading to Villena Treasure Theft, and More: Morning Links for September 30, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!<br />
Puerto Rican musician-turned-artist Rafael Ferrer has died at age 93.Preliminary court proceedings have begun against the mayor of the Spanish town of Villena and the director of the local MUVI museum, both accused of neglect leading to the theft of the Villena Treasure.The German town of Heidenau has voted to stop installing new &ldquo;Stolpersteine&rdquo; (or &ldquo;stumbling s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/puerto-rican-musician-turned-artist-rafael-ferrer-has-died-preliminary-trial-opens-against-museum-and-city-officials-for-alleged-negligence-leading-to-villena-treasure-theft-and-more-morning-links-for-september-302026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/puerto-rican-musician-turned-artist-rafael-ferrer-has-died-preliminary-trial-opens-against-museum-and-city-officials-for-alleged-negligence-leading-to-villena-treasure-theft-and-more-morning-links-for-september-302026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$180 M. Van Gogh Landscape Leads Blaquier-Arrieta Collection of Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces at Upcoming Sotheby’s Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, Carlos Pedro Blaquier and Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier quietly lived with the sort of paintings that have, for the most part, disappeared from private collections: major works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul C&eacute;zanne, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, and others, many of which have not been seen publicly in more than half a century.Now the whole group is coming out at once. Sotheby&rsquo;s will offer the 12 works in New York on November 18, with a combined]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/180-m-van-gogh-landscape-leads-blaquier-arrieta-collection-of-impressionist-and-modern-masterpieces-at-upcoming-sothebysauction/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/180-m-van-gogh-landscape-leads-blaquier-arrieta-collection-of-impressionist-and-modern-masterpieces-at-upcoming-sothebysauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Storied Collection of Blotter Acid Art Will Help Launch Northern California’s Inaugural ‘Further’ Triennial]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new triennial focusing on Northern California will include a show closely linked to the psychedelic counterculture often identified with the Bay Area: it will display the art that is printed on the sheets of card stock on which LSD is usually distributed. The artifacts come from the collection of San Francisco artist and psychedelics enthusiast Mark McCloud.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been at it since the mid-&rsquo;60s, collecting it in the inside of my body first and then in my freezer, and then I sta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-storied-collection-of-blotter-acid-art-will-help-launch-northern-californias-inaugural-furthertriennial/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-storied-collection-of-blotter-acid-art-will-help-launch-northern-californias-inaugural-furthertriennial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Exhibition Explores How Telenovela Tropes Reveal a Deeper Meaning in Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[What can a telenovela tell us about society? Or about art even? Those questions are central ones to the recently opened exhibition &ldquo;Telenovela&rdquo; at the Americas Society in New York. Running through March 27, the show explores a range of cultural, social, and economic messaging inserted in the genre through 52 artworks ranging from the 1970s to present day.&ldquo;Telenovelas are a historical phenomenon,&rdquo; Americas Society chief curator Aim&eacute; Iglesias Lukin told ARTnews of he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-exhibition-explores-how-telenovela-tropes-reveal-a-deeper-meaning-inart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-exhibition-explores-how-telenovela-tropes-reveal-a-deeper-meaning-inart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Documentary Looks at Etel Adnan’s Radical Mind and What She Left Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fog rises from Mount Tamalpais like a spirit, slowly billowing over spears of feathery redwoods and fluffs of fragrant bay laurels. A carpeted green California landscape meets sky and a lick of silvery Pacific Ocean. The mountain seems to breathe like a living being, and it acts as a central character in a new documentary about the late artist Etel Adnan, who similarly turned her attention to the mountain in numerous paintings and poems for over five decades.Filmed during the last five years]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-documentary-looks-at-etel-adnans-radical-mind-and-what-she-leftus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-documentary-looks-at-etel-adnans-radical-mind-and-what-she-leftus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s London Racks Up Highest-Ever Sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art at $26.2 M., Setting Nine Artist Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Sotheby&rsquo;s London&rsquo;s sale of modern and contemporary South Asian art rang up at &pound;19.8 million ($26.2 million), the highest total realized for the category in the house&rsquo;s history. The 73-lot sale achieved a 99% sell-through rate, with some 89% of works exceeding their high estimate. The house&rsquo;s previous high in the category was &pound;18.9 million ($25.5 million), also achieved in London, one year ago.Along the way, new auction records were set for Antonio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-london-racks-up-highest-ever-sale-of-modern-and-contemporary-south-asian-art-at-262-m-setting-nine-artistrecords/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-london-racks-up-highest-ever-sale-of-modern-and-contemporary-south-asian-art-at-262-m-setting-nine-artistrecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon publication of The Last Samurai, a suicidal Helen DeWitt disappeared. She was, she says, “alienated by intellectual mediocrity”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Upon publication of The Last Samurai, a suicidal Helen DeWitt disappeared. She was, she says, &ldquo;alienated by intellectual mediocrity&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/upon-publication-of-the-last-samurai-a-suicidal-helen-dewitt-disappeared-she-was-she-says-alienated-by-intellectual-mediocrity/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:20:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/upon-publication-of-the-last-samurai-a-suicidal-helen-dewitt-disappeared-she-was-she-says-alienated-by-intellectual-mediocrity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“The word ‘audiophile’? has a wine-sipping pretension that I hate,” says Colin Vanderburg. “But sometimes an ugly shoe fits”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The word &lsquo;audiophile&rsquo;? has a wine-sipping pretension that I hate,&rdquo; says Colin Vanderburg. &ldquo;But sometimes an ugly shoe fits&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-word-audiophile-has-a-wine-sipping-pretension-that-i-hate-says-colin-vanderburg-but-sometimes-an-ugly-shoe-fits/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:20:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-word-audiophile-has-a-wine-sipping-pretension-that-i-hate-says-colin-vanderburg-but-sometimes-an-ugly-shoe-fits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Johannes Brahms has long been misunderstood as uncivilized. He wasn't rude. He was witty &mdash; quick, cutting, and funny]]></title><description><![CDATA[Johannes Brahms has long been misunderstood as uncivilized. He wasn't rude. He was witty &mdash; quick, cutting, and funny]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/johannes-brahms-has-long-been-misunderstood-as-uncivilized-he-wasnt-rude-he-was-witty-mdash-quick-cutting-and-funny/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:20:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/johannes-brahms-has-long-been-misunderstood-as-uncivilized-he-wasnt-rude-he-was-witty-mdash-quick-cutting-and-funny/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauren Halsey to Transform the Hollywood Bowl with Immersive World for a Concert Headlined by Erykah Badu]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles&ndash;based artist Lauren Halsey will transform the Hollywood Bowl tonight for a one-night only event with a star-studded line-up, headlined by Erykah Badu.With some tickets still available, doors to the Bowl open tonight at 6 p.m. where visitors will see a large-scale installation-cum-environment that Halsey has created to set the stage for Badu&mdash;she&rsquo;s also done the stage design. Also performing are The Alchemist, DJ Pee .Wee (Anderson .Paak), Flea, and artist Charles]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lauren-halsey-to-transform-the-hollywood-bowl-with-immersive-world-for-a-concert-headlined-by-erykahbadu/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lauren-halsey-to-transform-the-hollywood-bowl-with-immersive-world-for-a-concert-headlined-by-erykahbadu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicole Eisenman Opens Up About Supporting Gaza: ‘Artists Are Hesitant to Grapple With the Destruction’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired The Auction (2024&ndash;25), a painting by artist Nicole Eisenman. Like much of Eisenman&rsquo;s oeuvre, it&rsquo;s a fanciful work of figuration, featuring a feverish bidding war overseen by a fruit-headed, black-robed judge. While Eisenman&rsquo;s works are funny at first glance, a nuanced narrative, interweaving the personal and political, can usually be teased out of them. That was not the case with The Auction, which didn&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nicole-eisenman-opens-up-about-supporting-gaza-artists-are-hesitant-to-grapple-with-the-destruction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nicole-eisenman-opens-up-about-supporting-gaza-artists-are-hesitant-to-grapple-with-the-destruction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicole Eisenman Open Up About Supporting Gaza: ‘Artists Are Hesitant to Grapple With the Destruction’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired The Auction (2024&ndash;25), a painting by artist Nicole Eisenman. Like much of Eisenman&rsquo;s oeuvre, it&rsquo;s a fanciful work of figuration, featuring a feverish bidding war overseen by a fruit-headed, black-robed judge. While Eisenman&rsquo;s works are funny at first glance, a nuanced narrative, interweaving the personal and political, can usually be teased out of them. That was not the case with The Auction, which didn&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nicole-eisenman-open-up-about-supporting-gaza-artists-are-hesitant-to-grapple-with-the-destruction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nicole-eisenman-open-up-about-supporting-gaza-artists-are-hesitant-to-grapple-with-the-destruction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Roman Settlement Discovered in Austria May Be Lost City of Claudivium]]></title><description><![CDATA[An interdisciplinary team, including archaeologists from the University of Innsbruck, has mapped the remains of a previously unknown Roman town in Lower Austria. Researchers think the settlement could be the lost city of Claudivium, abandoned over 1800 years ago. The news was reported by several sites, including Arkeonews, following a September 25 announcement by the University of Innsbruck.The site, located at the hamlet of Stein/St. Pantaleon-Erla, is just a few miles east of the ancient Roman]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-roman-settlement-discovered-in-austria-may-be-lost-city-ofclaudivium/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-roman-settlement-discovered-in-austria-may-be-lost-city-ofclaudivium/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senators Blumenthal and Cornyn File Amicus Brief in Case of Heirs Suing for Nazi-Looted Egon Schiele Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and his Republican counterpart John Cornyn of Texas have filed an amicus (or &ldquo;friend of the court&rdquo;) brief defending their own Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which was signed into law in 2016, against claims of unconstitutionality by Austrian defendants seeking to hold on to Nazi-looted works by Egon Schiele.The senators filed the brief on September 18 in the Southern District of New York in the case Reif v. Republi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/senators-blumenthal-and-cornyn-file-amicus-brief-in-case-of-heirs-suing-for-nazi-looted-egon-schieleworks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/senators-blumenthal-and-cornyn-file-amicus-brief-in-case-of-heirs-suing-for-nazi-looted-egon-schieleworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament to Screen in Eight-Hour Event at New York Masonic Hall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twelve years after premiering in New York, back then at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler&rsquo;s epic film River of Fundament will return to the big screen in an eight-hour event at the Masonic Hall of New York, on West 23rd Street in Chelsea.On November 14, the film&rsquo;s three acts, which run for nearly five and a half hours in total, will be separated by intermissions to allow the audience &ldquo;to move throughout the adjoining spaces of the Masonic Hall&rs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/matthew-barneys-river-of-fundament-to-screen-in-eight-hour-event-at-new-york-masonichall/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/matthew-barneys-river-of-fundament-to-screen-in-eight-hour-event-at-new-york-masonichall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-Lost Drawing May Be a Previously Unknown Manet]]></title><description><![CDATA[A drawing that has spent decades in an Italian collection is now believed to be a previously unknown work by &Eacute;douard Manet.The small red-chalk study shows a child crouching on the ground, according to The Guardian, which first reported the discovery. Francesco Baccanelli, an Italian art historian who encountered the work in a private collection in northern Italy, told the outlet he became interested after noticing that its mount carried an old attribution to Manet. He subsequently brought]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/long-lost-drawing-may-be-a-previously-unknownmanet/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/long-lost-drawing-may-be-a-previously-unknownmanet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, and Vincent Valdez Win MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants]]></title><description><![CDATA[The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 20 recipients of its annual MacArthur Fellowships, colloquially called &ldquo;Genius Grants,&rdquo; which comes with $800,000 in unrestricted funds.This year&rsquo;s cohort includes four artists: Christine Sun Kim (based in Berlin), Rodney McMillian (Los Angeles), Vincent Valdez (Houston and San Antonio), and Chip Thomas (Flagstaff, Arizona).The subject of a recent Whitney Museum survey, Kim is known for her works that challenge]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-christine-sun-kim-rodney-mcmillian-and-vincent-valdez-win-macarthur-geniusgrants/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-christine-sun-kim-rodney-mcmillian-and-vincent-valdez-win-macarthur-geniusgrants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Gallery of Victoria Executive Accused of Stealing $5.6 M. in Smartphone Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former senior executive at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, has been accused of stealing some AUD 8 million ($5.6 million) from the museum over a six-year period.According to ArtAsiaPacific, the unnamed former employee allegedly used a work account to purchase smartphones, which he then resold for a profit. Authorities allege that he used his senior position at the museum to conceal the scheme.The alleged theft began in September 2019 and continued until it was discove]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-gallery-of-victoria-executive-accused-of-stealing-56-m-in-smartphonescheme/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-gallery-of-victoria-executive-accused-of-stealing-56-m-in-smartphonescheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anna Weyant’s Upper East Side Apartment Hits the Market for $3.5 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Canadian painter Anna Weyant&rsquo;s Upper East Side co-op hit the market this week for $3.49 million, Curbed reports. She purchased the apartment in 2024, shortly after breaking up with then-boyfriend and gallerist Larry Gagosian, who was some 50 years her senior.Weyant had a quick trajectory to art world fame, from selling $450 drawings and paintings in 2019 to having her work hit the auction block for $1.6 million in 2022. At 27, she became the youngest artist on Gagosian&rsquo;s roster, whic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-weyants-upper-east-side-apartment-hits-the-market-for-35m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-weyants-upper-east-side-apartment-hits-the-market-for-35m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MoMA to Stage Eva Hesse’s First Major US Museum Exhibition in Two Decades]]></title><description><![CDATA[The late German-American artist Eva Hesse, best-known for her works that challenged the conventions of Minimalism, will have a career-spanning exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York next year that foregrounds her drawing practice and how it informed her canonical sculptures and paintings. The show &ldquo;Eva Hesse: Wild Space, 1957-1970,&rdquo; on view from May 30&ndash;September 25, 2027, will bring together more than 150 works that reframe Hesse&rsquo;s experimental practice.The ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-to-stage-eva-hesses-first-major-us-museum-exhibition-in-twodecades/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-to-stage-eva-hesses-first-major-us-museum-exhibition-in-twodecades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MoMA to Stage Eva Hesse’s First Major Museum Exhibition in Two Decades]]></title><description><![CDATA[The late German-American artist Eva Hesse, best-known for her works that challenged the conventions of Minimalism, will have a career-spanning exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York next year that foregrounds her drawing practice and how it informed her canonical sculptures and paintings. The show &ldquo;Eva Hesse: Wild Space, 1957-1970,&rdquo; on view from May 30&ndash;September 25, 2027, will bring together more than 150 works that reframe Hesse&rsquo;s experimental practice.The ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-to-stage-eva-hesses-first-major-museum-exhibition-in-twodecades/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-to-stage-eva-hesses-first-major-museum-exhibition-in-twodecades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Scientific Analysis on Claude Monet’s The Luncheon Possibly Reveals a Self-Portrait in an Earlier Composition]]></title><description><![CDATA[To mark the 100th anniversary of Claude Monet&rsquo;s death in 1926, the Mus&eacute;e de l&rsquo;Orangerie and the Mus&eacute;e d&rsquo;Orsay are celebrating his work with an exhibition apiece, &ldquo;Claude Monet, Painting Time&rdquo; and &ldquo;I Spend My Life Painting,&rdquo; respectively. The Orsay&rsquo;s display includes five works that have recently undergone technical examination with several new revelations about the father of Impressionism&rsquo;s practice.The most important of these n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-scientific-analysis-on-claude-monets-the-luncheon-possibly-reveals-a-self-portrait-in-an-earliercomposition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-scientific-analysis-on-claude-monets-the-luncheon-possibly-reveals-a-self-portrait-in-an-earliercomposition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kehinde Wiley Wants to Buy Back Denigrated US Embassy Painting, UK National Museums Stay Free, and More: Morning Links for September 29, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Kehinde Wiley has offered to buy back his painting that was denigrated by the current administration and removed from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic.UK national museums will remain free to enter, announced a government official.ARTnews has revealed the nominees for the 2026 ARTnews Awards.The Headlines	BUY BACK. Kehinde Wiley has offered to buy back his painting that wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehinde-wiley-wants-to-buy-back-denigrated-us-embassy-painting-uk-national-museums-stay-free-and-more-morning-links-for-september-292026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehinde-wiley-wants-to-buy-back-denigrated-us-embassy-painting-uk-national-museums-stay-free-and-more-morning-links-for-september-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare Turner Roman Landscape Painting Heads to Sotheby’s With $66.2 M. Price Tag]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rare J.M.W. Turner painting is coming to Sotheby&rsquo;s with an estimate of &pound;50 million ($66.2 million). Rome, from Mount Aventine (1836) will be auctioned in London on December 9 during the house&rsquo;s Old Master Evening Sale, but before it does, it will be exhibited at Palazzo Rondinini, an 18th-century Baroque palace in Rome, through to October 1.The painting is one of the few Turners that&rsquo;s still in private hands. According to Sotheby&rsquo;s, the painting is believed to hav]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-turner-roman-landscape-painting-heads-to-sothebys-with-662-m-pricetag/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-turner-roman-landscape-painting-heads-to-sothebys-with-662-m-pricetag/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Miami Beach Names 272 Exhibitors, With a Major Overhaul to the Fair’s Floor Plan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art Basel Miami Beach has named the 272 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming 2026 fair, scheduled to run December 4&ndash;6, with VIP preview days on December 2&ndash;3.For its 24th edition, Art Basel Miami Beach has announced a number of changes, including a completely revamped floor plan, fewer exhibitors, and the elimination of the Meridians section, for large-scale works.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s important for the show, now in its 24th year, to stay evolving, to stay dynamic, and to keep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-miami-beach-names-272-exhibitors-with-a-major-overhaul-to-the-fairs-floorplan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-miami-beach-names-272-exhibitors-with-a-major-overhaul-to-the-fairs-floorplan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a Letter to President Trump, Artist Kehinde Wiley Asks to Repurchase His Painting Removed from US Embassy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Kehinde Wiley is asking to purchase his painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) back from the US State Department, after it was removed from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic in August.On Monday, the artist&rsquo;s gallery Sean Kelly Gallery shared a letter that Wiley had sent to President Donald Trump on September 24. &ldquo;I am writing regarding Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, the painting I created for the United States Embassy in Santo Domingo through the State De]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-letter-to-president-trump-artist-kehinde-wiley-asks-to-repurchase-his-painting-removed-from-usembassy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-letter-to-president-trump-artist-kehinde-wiley-asks-to-repurchase-his-painting-removed-from-usembassy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Truths: Can Senior Citizens Be Sage Social-Media Ambassadors?]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen &amp; Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers from far and wide.The viral popularity of septuagenarian curator Alison Luchs&rsquo;s posts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is amazing. Gen Z loves her, and the director of our small museum wants us to join in on the trend. I am basically the communications team and was tasked with identifyin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-truths-can-senior-citizens-be-sage-social-mediaambassadors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-truths-can-senior-citizens-be-sage-social-mediaambassadors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ARTnews Announces Nominees for Third Annual ARTnews Awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARTnews has revealed the nominees for the 2026 ARTnews Awards, which honor excellence in art at US institutions and galleries.Launched in 2024, the ARTnews Awards will reprise its awards in six categories: Emerging Artist of the Year, Established Artist of the Year, Lifetime Achievement, Historical Artist of the Year, Best Thematic Museum Exhibition, and Best Gallery Group Show. The nominees represent a range of exhibitions, artists, and curatorial approaches, surveying the best in the art world]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnews-announces-nominees-for-third-annual-artnewsawards/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnews-announces-nominees-for-third-annual-artnewsawards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gwangju Biennale Doesn’t Remove Politics from Art—It Expands Our Understanding of What Politics Is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ahead of the opening of the 2026 Gwangju Biennale, the recurring exhibition attracted more media attention than it likely bargained for. When Taiwan accused the organizers of &ldquo;political censorship&rdquo; after the self-governed island&rsquo;s identity was scrubbed from its exhibition title, a diplomatic dispute quickly erupted as Taiwan&rsquo;s cultural and foreign affairs ministries intervened. Although the Biennale eventually restored the name, the decision angered China, which claims s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-gwangju-biennale-doesnt-remove-politics-from-artit-expands-our-understanding-of-what-politicsis/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-gwangju-biennale-doesnt-remove-politics-from-artit-expands-our-understanding-of-what-politicsis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Egyptians, the Hittites, the Assyrians — what caused the collapse of a slew of regional powers around 1200 BC? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Egyptians, the Hittites, the Assyrians &mdash; what caused the collapse of a slew of regional powers around 1200 BC?&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-egyptians-the-hittites-the-assyrians-what-caused-the-collapse-of-a-slew-of-regional-powers-around-1200-bc/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:36:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-egyptians-the-hittites-the-assyrians-what-caused-the-collapse-of-a-slew-of-regional-powers-around-1200-bc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perverseness drove Edgar Allan Poe to ruin, or the brink of it, again and again. It was also the source of his inspiration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Perverseness drove Edgar Allan Poe to ruin, or the brink of it, again and again. It was also the source of his inspiration]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/perverseness-drove-edgar-allan-poe-to-ruin-or-the-brink-of-it-again-and-again-it-was-also-the-source-of-his-inspiration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:36:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/perverseness-drove-edgar-allan-poe-to-ruin-or-the-brink-of-it-again-and-again-it-was-also-the-source-of-his-inspiration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI doomers and apocalyptic futurists are weird. Also, their prophecies risk pernicious downsides. That doesn't mean they're wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI doomers and apocalyptic futurists are weird. Also, their prophecies risk pernicious downsides. That doesn't mean they're wrong]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-doomers-and-apocalyptic-futurists-are-weird-also-their-prophecies-risk-pernicious-downsides-that-doesnt-mean-theyre-wrong/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:36:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-doomers-and-apocalyptic-futurists-are-weird-also-their-prophecies-risk-pernicious-downsides-that-doesnt-mean-theyre-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Gallery of Singapore Announces Chng Hak-Peng Will Replace Eugene Tan as CEO]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eugene Tan&rsquo;s dual role as CEO and director of both the National Gallery of Singapore (NGS) and the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) will come to an end on January 1, 2027. Starting in the new year, Tan will focus on his role at SAM, where he started as director in 2018, while Chng Hak-Peng will take over as CEO of NGS. In a statement about the leadership changes, both institutions confirm that they will continue to collaborate and share resources as they have in the past.While Chng&rsquo;s role]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-gallery-of-singapore-announces-chng-hak-peng-will-replace-eugene-tan-asceo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-gallery-of-singapore-announces-chng-hak-peng-will-replace-eugene-tan-asceo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whitney Union Sets Strike Date Days Before Major Roy Lichtenstein Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of Art will begin striking on Monday, October 5, if they cannot reach a contract agreement with the museum, Local 2110 UAW announced today.Workers at the Whitney Museum approved strike action earlier this month in a milestone vote held in conjunction with unions at the Brooklyn Museum and American Folk Art Museum. The Whitney union, however, is the first to put a deadline on the calendar&mdash;October 5, only three days before member and press previews open]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-union-sets-strike-date-days-before-major-roy-lichtensteinshow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-union-sets-strike-date-days-before-major-roy-lichtensteinshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pots By Enslaved Artist David Drake Returned to Family from Milwaukee Art Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two stoneware pots were returned to descendants of the enslaved artist David Drakeearlier this month, when the Milwaukee Art Museum brokered a deal with the Dave the Potter Legacy Trust. After the repatriation, one of the pots was bought back by the museum, and the other will soon be on display by way of a long-term loan.As reported by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, &ldquo;Drake&rsquo;s work first entered the museum in 2010, when the Chipstone Foundation mounted an exhibition that featured Drak]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pots-by-enslaved-artist-david-drake-returned-to-family-from-milwaukee-artmuseum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pots-by-enslaved-artist-david-drake-returned-to-family-from-milwaukee-artmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arthur Jafa’s Vital New Museum Survey Is a Horror Show for the Ages]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a self-portrait from 1988, Arthur Jafa holds his camera to a mirror and stares upward, meeting both his own reflected face and the gaze of his viewer simultaneously. When it was first published in Artforum, the photograph was called Self-Portrait. But at some point, Jafa changed it to Monster, the title it holds today.The renaming of Monster is, I think, a telling gesture, especially because Jafa&rsquo;s films and videos are filled with terrifying creatures. Some are human, some are not, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arthur-jafas-vital-new-museum-survey-is-a-horror-show-for-theages/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arthur-jafas-vital-new-museum-survey-is-a-horror-show-for-theages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remains of a Roman Temple Discovered in Germany’s Taunus Forest]]></title><description><![CDATA[The remains of a Roman temple have been unearthed by archaeologists in Germany&rsquo;s Taunus region. According to experts, the discovery is especially notable given it still contains well-preserved foundations and fragmentary statues of ancient deities.Storm damage revealed an unusual arrangement of stones that comprised part of a previously unknown settlement near the Roman fort of Kapersburg in Hesse.A rectangular structure was identified upon further excavations. It is 16-and-a-half feet lon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/remains-of-a-roman-temple-discovered-in-germanys-taunusforest/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/remains-of-a-roman-temple-discovered-in-germanys-taunusforest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare Working Apple-1 Signed by Steve Wozniak Could Fetch $800,000 at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rare, working Apple-1 computer signed by Steve Wozniak is heading to auction at Bonhams in New York, where it is expected to fetch between $500,000 and $800,000.Known as the &ldquo;Hatfield&rdquo; Apple-1 after its original owner, Fred Hatfield, the computer will headline Bonhams&rsquo; History of Science, Technology &amp; Computing sale, which runs online from October 4 through October 14. The machine also comes with a 1978 letter signed by Steve Jobs offering Hatfield a trade-in for an Apple]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-working-apple-1-signed-by-steve-wozniak-could-fetch-800000-atauction/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-working-apple-1-signed-by-steve-wozniak-could-fetch-800000-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Amant, ‘Sentient Earth’ Redirects the Corporate Gaze to Climate Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s note: This story is the first edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. The column will appear every other Monday.Recently, the news has been full of diagrams of the Earth, appearing with a wide, red gash across its side, and accompanied by graphs detailing the extreme situation: This year&rsquo;s El Ni&ntilde;o, the regular, climactic pattern in which Pacific Ocean winds shift and water temper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-amant-sentient-earth-redirects-the-corporate-gaze-to-climatechange/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-amant-sentient-earth-redirects-the-corporate-gaze-to-climatechange/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Kaplan’s 18th Rembrandt is St John on Patmos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Kaplan, the world&rsquo;s largest Rembrandt collector, has by long made a habit of collecting and selling the Dutch artist&rsquo;s work. Now, it has been revealed that the American businessman and owner of the Leiden Collection was in fact the buyer of Rembrandt&rsquo;s St John on Patmos (ca. 1660), which sold for $9 million in December last year, according to The Art Newspaper.Kaplan said he acquired St John on Patmos, making it his 18th piece of work by Rembrandt, to preserve the artwor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-kaplans-18th-rembrandt-is-st-john-onpatmos/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-kaplans-18th-rembrandt-is-st-john-onpatmos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘We Can Literally Be in Two Places at Once’: Vancouver Art Gallery Elevates Eva Respini and Sirish Rao to Co-CEOs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eva Respini and Sirish Rao will serve as co-CEOs at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG), effective immediately, the museum announced today. Respini will also serve as chief curator, overseeing the institution&rsquo;s artistic vision, exhibition strategy, collection development, and the ongoing project to erect a new building. Rao, meanwhile, will also be executive director, leading operations, earned revenue, and finance along with overseeing community outreach, institutional partnerships, and inter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-can-literally-be-in-two-places-at-once-vancouver-art-gallery-elevates-eva-respini-and-sirish-rao-toco-ceos/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-can-literally-be-in-two-places-at-once-vancouver-art-gallery-elevates-eva-respini-and-sirish-rao-toco-ceos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pace Gallery Is Seeking a Tenant for Part of Its New York Headquarters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pace Gallery is looking for a tenant to take over one or more parts of its sprawling Chelsea headquarters, the latest step in what appears to be an effort to trim costs following a major restructuring earlier this year.Julie Davich first reported the news over the weekend in her newsletter The Appraisal, writing that Pace was seeking to lease space inside its eight-story headquarters at 540 West 25th Street.Pace spokesperson confirmed to ARTnews that the gallery is exploring bringing another ten]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-gallery-is-seeking-a-tenant-for-part-of-its-new-yorkheadquarters/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-gallery-is-seeking-a-tenant-for-part-of-its-new-yorkheadquarters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ann Temkin to Step Down as MoMA’s Chief Painting and Sculpture Curator After 18 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ann Temkin, the Museum of Modern Art&rsquo;s chief curator of painting and sculpture for 18 years, will retire from the role in January 2027, the museum announced Monday. She will, however, continue to shape the New York institution&rsquo;s programming, taking on a newly created position as an adviser to the director, Christophe Cherix, ahead of the museum&rsquo;s centennial in 2029.Temkin joined MoMA in 2003 as a curator of painting and sculpture and was promoted to head of the department in 20]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ann-temkin-to-step-down-as-momas-chief-painting-and-sculpture-curator-after-18years/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ann-temkin-to-step-down-as-momas-chief-painting-and-sculpture-curator-after-18years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistleblowers Say Kennedy Center Leaders Put Off Fixing the Same Problems They Now Blame for Closing the Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former employees claim that officials at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, opted not to undertake repairs of leaks in the building&rsquo;s roof overhangs months ago. Now, officials are saying the center must close temporarily due to risks associated with those same leaks.	The anonymous former employees shared internal documents with Congress on Thursday, reports the New York Times. In a letter to Congress, the former employees say this betrays that the infrastructure]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whistleblowers-say-kennedy-center-leaders-put-off-fixing-the-same-problems-they-now-blame-for-closing-thebuilding/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whistleblowers-say-kennedy-center-leaders-put-off-fixing-the-same-problems-they-now-blame-for-closing-thebuilding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Janine Antoni’s Taste of Vision Graces the Cover of our Icons Issue]]></title><description><![CDATA[For this image, I wanted to reverse the anatomical expectation when it comes to penetration. I&rsquo;m the licker, and my tongue is touching the eye of my ex-husband, artist Paul Ramirez Jonas. A lot of the works I make stem from a desire. In this case, I wanted to know the taste of his vision. Of course, it&rsquo;s an unrealizable desire, as are some of the most interesting desires we have.To me, there&rsquo;s something very sweet about this photograph, because I thought it was an act of trust]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/janine-antonis-taste-of-vision-graces-the-cover-of-our-iconsissue/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/janine-antonis-taste-of-vision-graces-the-cover-of-our-iconsissue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze Abu Dhabi Unveils Exhibitors and Inaugural Curatorial Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[The inaugural Frieze Abu Dhabi will open its doors on November 19 at Manarat Al Saadiyat, a roughly 15,400-square-meter gallery space in the Saadiyat Cultural District, and run through November 22.The art fair will feature more than 80 galleries from 36 countries including Carbon 12, Lawrie Shabibi and The Third Line from the United Arab Emirates; Athr and Hafez Gallery from Saudi Arabia; Experimenter, Galerie Isa, Jhaveri Contemporary, Nature Morte and Project 88 from India; Dastan from Tehran]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-abu-dhabi-unveils-exhibitors-and-inaugural-curatorialprogram/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-abu-dhabi-unveils-exhibitors-and-inaugural-curatorialprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard Manoogian, Industrialist and Collector of American Art, Has Died at 90]]></title><description><![CDATA[Richard Manoogian, a Detroit industrialist and avid art collector, died at 90 on Friday. His death was confirmed by Masco Corporation, the company where he was chairman emeritus, that was founded by his Armenian immigrant parents Alex and Marie Manoogian in 1929, famed for selling the single-handle Delta faucet.Richard Manoogian, who appeared on ARTnews&rsquo;s Top 200 Collectors list six times, including the first edition in 1990, was always engaged in cultural, charitable, and educational init]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/richard-manoogian-industrialist-and-collector-of-american-art-has-died-at90/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/richard-manoogian-industrialist-and-collector-of-american-art-has-died-at90/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Pop Artist Antony Donaldson Has Died, Rare David Hockney Dog Painting Heads to Christie’s, and More: Morning Links for September 28, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
The British pop painter and sculptor Antony Donaldson has died at age 86.A rare painting from David Hockney&rsquo;s dog series is headed to Christie&rsquo;s.Richard Manoogian, a top art collector, philanthropist, and businessman, has died at age 90.The Headlines	IN MEMORIAM. The British pop painter and sculptor Antony Donaldson has died at age 86, reports the Times of London. Don]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-pop-artist-antony-donaldson-has-died-rare-david-hockney-dog-painting-heads-to-christies-and-more-morning-links-for-september-282026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-pop-artist-antony-donaldson-has-died-rare-david-hockney-dog-painting-heads-to-christies-and-more-morning-links-for-september-282026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“From Monet and Manet to Money”: A Berlin Museum Spotlights the Dealer Who Made Impressionism an International Sensation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three women greet viewers to &ldquo;Cassirer: Breakthrough of Impressionism&rdquo; at Berlin&rsquo;s Alte Nationalgalerie: Edgar Degas&rsquo;s Miss La La (1879), Pierre-Auguste Renoir&rsquo;s Lise with a Parasol (1867), and Max Slevogt&rsquo;s 1901 portrait of Cassirer&rsquo;s own daughter, Suzanne Aim&eacute;e Cassirer. Two French, one German, all three paintings are connected to Paul Cassirer, the Berlin dealer who is credited with bringing Impressionism to Germany, including many works now in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-monet-and-manet-to-money-a-berlin-museum-spotlights-the-dealer-who-made-impressionism-an-internationalsensation/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-monet-and-manet-to-money-a-berlin-museum-spotlights-the-dealer-who-made-impressionism-an-internationalsensation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are to be “no jesters, no dogs, no weapons, or any such silliness.” Or so the Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese was told by an Inquisitor]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are to be &ldquo;no jesters, no dogs, no weapons, or any such silliness.&rdquo; Or so the Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese was told by an Inquisitor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-are-to-be-no-jesters-no-dogs-no-weapons-or-any-such-silliness-or-so-the-renaissance-painter-paolo-veronese-was-told-by-an-inquisitor/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:32:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-are-to-be-no-jesters-no-dogs-no-weapons-or-any-such-silliness-or-so-the-renaissance-painter-paolo-veronese-was-told-by-an-inquisitor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase "fiercely private" is often applied to artists who secretly love the attention. Anita Brookner wasn&rsquo;t one of them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The phrase "fiercely private" is often applied to artists who secretly love the attention. Anita Brookner wasn&rsquo;t one of them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-phrase-fiercely-private-is-often-applied-to-artists-who-secretly-love-the-attention-anita-brookner-wasnrsquot-one-of-them/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:32:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-phrase-fiercely-private-is-often-applied-to-artists-who-secretly-love-the-attention-anita-brookner-wasnrsquot-one-of-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egomaniacs, psychos, and informants. Why is it we look past all sorts of ugliness and insist on mythologizing revolutionaries?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Egomaniacs, psychos, and informants. Why is it we look past all sorts of ugliness and insist on mythologizing revolutionaries?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egomaniacs-psychos-and-informants-why-is-it-we-look-past-all-sorts-of-ugliness-and-insist-on-mythologizing-revolutionaries/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:32:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egomaniacs-psychos-and-informants-why-is-it-we-look-past-all-sorts-of-ugliness-and-insist-on-mythologizing-revolutionaries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an AI-generated sameness permeates “creative” work and the knowledge economy, we’re entering an era of bleh]]></title><description><![CDATA[As an AI-generated sameness permeates &ldquo;creative&rdquo; work and the knowledge economy, we&rsquo;re entering an era of bleh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-an-ai-generated-sameness-permeates-creative-work-and-the-knowledge-economy-were-entering-an-era-of-bleh/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:32:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-an-ai-generated-sameness-permeates-creative-work-and-the-knowledge-economy-were-entering-an-era-of-bleh/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei Exhibits 500 Cast-Iron Combat Helmets at Australia Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei on Friday unveiled his commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney: 500 cast-iron combat helmets arranged in ten orderly lines on the city&rsquo;s busiest green space, Tallawoladah Lawn.The 131-foot-long installation, titled Mushrooms, recalls various 20th-century combat helmets, complete with inner padding. The installation is arranged on an elevated platform split by a pedestrian walkway, making the work difficult for visitors to the famous harbor to miss. Accor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-weiwei-exhibits-500-cast-iron-combat-helmets-at-australiamuseum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-weiwei-exhibits-500-cast-iron-combat-helmets-at-australiamuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Independent 20th Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s a big year for the Independent, the art world&rsquo;s favorite contemporary art fair, and its more art-historically minded sister, Independent 20th Century. On the heels of Independent&rsquo;s move earlier this year from Spring Studios in Tribeca to the much larger Pier 36 on the Lower East Side, its 20th Century edition, which opens to the public today, has also relocated, shifting from its Lower Manhattan location to Marcel Breuer&rsquo;s 1960s brutalist building&mdash;formerly home]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-independent-20thcentury/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-independent-20thcentury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 77, Artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya is the First Woman to Receive Top Philippine Honor]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 77 years of age, Filipina artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya received the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts. This marks the first time a woman has ever received the honor.The Order of National Artists, established in 1972, is the country&rsquo;s highest national recognition for Filipinos who have made distinct and significant contributions to art in the Philippines. The distinction was conferred on September 1 on the recommendation of the Cultural Center of the Philippines]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-77-artist-imelda-cajipe-endaya-is-the-first-woman-to-receive-top-philippinehonor/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-77-artist-imelda-cajipe-endaya-is-the-first-woman-to-receive-top-philippinehonor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Wall Found in Paris May Solve Mystery of City’s Origins]]></title><description><![CDATA[The discovery of an ancient wall beneath a Paris hospital may have answered a question archaeologists have been arguing about for decades: Where, exactly, did Paris begin?The 72-foot stone-and-wood wall turned up this summer during construction at the H&ocirc;tel Dieu hospital on the &Icirc;le de la Cit&eacute;, the island in the Seine that sits at the center of modern Paris, according to the New York Times. Archaeologists also found a Gallic spearhead nearby. Carbon dating puts the wall somewhe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-wall-found-in-paris-may-solve-mystery-of-citysorigins/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-wall-found-in-paris-may-solve-mystery-of-citysorigins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melania Trump, Peng Liyuan Tour Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Any good host knows that when visitors are in town, a visit to the museum is top of the list. And so, on Thursday, the First Lady of the US took China&rsquo;s First Lady to the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C.Melania Trump toured around the museum for 45 minutes with Peng Liyuan, visiting rooms such as the Peacock Room, where Chinese porcelain takes center stage, as well as other rooms that feature Chinese artworks and Asian design. &ldquo;What better place to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/melania-trump-peng-liyuan-tour-smithsonians-national-museum-of-asianart/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/melania-trump-peng-liyuan-tour-smithsonians-national-museum-of-asianart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steven Shearer Wins Canada’s $71,000 Audain Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steven Shearer, a Vancouver-based artist best known for paintings that lace historically inclined portraiture with haunting contemporary sensibilities, was awarded Canada&rsquo;s prestigious Audain Prize, which comes with $100,000 (around $71,000 in US currency).The annual prize, dedicated to British Columbia&ndash;based artists and last year awarded to Brian Jungen, is reserved for &ldquo;a senior artist in recognition of their outstanding contributions to Canadian art.&rdquo; It is given out b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/steven-shearer-wins-canadas-71000-audainprize/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/steven-shearer-wins-canadas-71000-audainprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Good Are Today’s Art Market Darlings, Really? Six New York Gallery Shows Put Them to the Test]]></title><description><![CDATA[It may seem obvious, but it bears repeating: When it comes to what&rsquo;s shown in galleries, market value and artistic merit do not always correspond. Just because an artwork is worth a lot of money doesn&rsquo;t mean it&rsquo;s good, and just because an artwork is good doesn&rsquo;t mean it&rsquo;s worth a lot of money.Such are the cruelties of the market. Not that anyone who cares about art ever forgets them, of course, but the paradox has become increasingly hard to ignore over the past hal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-good-are-todays-art-market-darlings-really-six-new-york-gallery-shows-put-them-to-thetest/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-good-are-todays-art-market-darlings-really-six-new-york-gallery-shows-put-them-to-thetest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heirs of a Jewish Collector Contest Sotheby’s Sale of a Pissarro Painting Possibly Looted by Nazis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Several heirs to Jewish banker Salomon Flavian have taken Sotheby&rsquo;s to court in Paris over the auctioneer&rsquo;s sale of a painting by Camille Pissarro. They maintain that the painting was looted by the Nazis and say they were left out of an agreement struck with two of their family members, reports the Art Newspaper (TAN).	The case concerns the French Impressionist&rsquo;s canvas Darse de p&ecirc;che et bassin Duquesne, Dieppe, apr&egrave;s-midi ensoleill&eacute;e (Fishing dock and Duque]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heirs-of-a-jewish-collector-contest-sothebys-sale-of-a-pissarro-painting-possibly-looted-bynazis/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heirs-of-a-jewish-collector-contest-sothebys-sale-of-a-pissarro-painting-possibly-looted-bynazis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at the Armory Show, From Ghostly Afterimages to ‘Gentle Destruction’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 32nd edition of the Armory Show opened to VIPs Thursday at the Javits Center with a seemingly slower pace than in years past. That might have something to do with its earlier start time (10 a.m., instead of the typical 11 a.m.) and a change from the week after Labor Day to the end of September. For much of the morning, the fair was relatively uncrowded, though groups of people could be seen congregating on the benches facing the Platform section. When I walked by the smallest of the fair&rsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-the-armory-show-from-ghostly-afterimages-to-gentle-destruction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-the-armory-show-from-ghostly-afterimages-to-gentle-destruction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Descendants of Nazi-Persecuted Jewish Collector Demand Cancellation of Sotheby’s Pissarro Painting Sale, Artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya is First Woman to Receive Top Philippine Honor, and More: Morning Links for September 25, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Descendants of Jewish collector Salomon Flavian are demanding that a Paris court annul the sale of a Pissarro painting at Sotheby&rsquo;s in London, which they claim was looted by Nazis.At 77, Filipina artist Imelda Cajipe Endaya just became the first woman to receive the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts.Germany&rsquo;s culture minister said that plans]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/descendants-of-nazi-persecuted-jewish-collector-demand-cancellation-of-sothebys-pissarro-painting-sale-artist-imelda-cajipe-endaya-is-first-woman-to-receive-top-philippine-honor-and-more-morning-links-for-september-252026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/descendants-of-nazi-persecuted-jewish-collector-demand-cancellation-of-sothebys-pissarro-painting-sale-artist-imelda-cajipe-endaya-is-first-woman-to-receive-top-philippine-honor-and-more-morning-links-for-september-252026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The phrase ‘fiercely private’ is often applied to artists who secretly love the attention. Anita Brookner wasn’t one of them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The phrase &lsquo;fiercely private&rsquo; is often applied to artists who secretly love the attention. Anita Brookner wasn&rsquo;t one of them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-phrase-fiercely-private-is-often-applied-to-artists-who-secretly-love-the-attention-anita-brookner-wasnt-one-of-them/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:47:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-phrase-fiercely-private-is-often-applied-to-artists-who-secretly-love-the-attention-anita-brookner-wasnt-one-of-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harold Cruse was as pure an autodidact as any 20th-century university scholar. Tuskegee wouldn't hire him. Michigan gave him tenure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harold Cruse was as pure an autodidact as any 20th-century university scholar. Tuskegee wouldn't hire him. Michigan gave him tenure]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-cruse-was-as-pure-an-autodidact-as-any-20th-century-university-scholar-tuskegee-wouldnt-hire-him-michigan-gave-him-tenure/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:47:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-cruse-was-as-pure-an-autodidact-as-any-20th-century-university-scholar-tuskegee-wouldnt-hire-him-michigan-gave-him-tenure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For four years, a fellow saxophonist taped John Coltrane's gigs: 26-plus hours of music. His subterfuge is our gift]]></title><description><![CDATA[For four years, a fellow saxophonist taped John Coltrane's gigs: 26-plus hours of music. His subterfuge is our gift]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-four-years-a-fellow-saxophonist-taped-john-coltranes-gigs-26-plus-hours-of-music-his-subterfuge-is-our-gift/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:47:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-four-years-a-fellow-saxophonist-taped-john-coltranes-gigs-26-plus-hours-of-music-his-subterfuge-is-our-gift/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When It Comes to Armory Show Sales, Can Slow and Steady Win the Race?]]></title><description><![CDATA[One could argue that New York&rsquo;s Armory Show has spent much of the last decade trying to figure out exactly what kind of fair it wants to be. It moved from the charmingly gritty piers on the Hudson River to the sterile but safe Javits Center on Manhattan&rsquo;s West Side and changed dates. Then, in 2023, it was acquired by Frieze, which already operates one of New York&rsquo;s other major fairs, down the road at the Shed, without question the worst venue of any art fair across the globe. N]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-it-comes-to-armory-show-sales-can-slow-and-steady-win-therace/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-it-comes-to-armory-show-sales-can-slow-and-steady-win-therace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Investigators Return 36 Artifacts to Syria, Including Relief Looted from Palmyra]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thirty-six antiquities, collectively valued at more than $5 million, including a stone relief looted from the ancient site of Palmyra, have been retuned to Syria, New York investigators announced on Wednesday.Among the group are 14 &ldquo;extraordinary&rdquo; mosaics stolen from a Roman-era villa in Syria linked to antiquities dealer Georges Lotfi, a former source for the Manhattan district attorney&rsquo;s Antiquities Trafficking Unit who was, in a dramatic turn of events, charged in 2022 with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-investigators-return-36-artifacts-to-syria-including-relief-looted-frompalmyra/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-investigators-return-36-artifacts-to-syria-including-relief-looted-frompalmyra/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newly Speculated Goya Painting to Feature in 2028 Museo del Prado Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[A painting that well-placed observers surmise was painted by Francisco de Goya will be on view in a forthcoming exhibition timed to commence 200 years after the celebrated Spanish artist&rsquo;s death.After posing a question related to whether or not the work is truly by Goya, The Art Newspaper reported, &ldquo;A full technical investigation of the work has yet to be completed but everyone involved, including Spain&rsquo;s culture ministry and Madrid&rsquo;s Museo del Prado, is operating under t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-speculated-goya-painting-to-feature-in-2028-museo-del-pradoshow/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-speculated-goya-painting-to-feature-in-2028-museo-del-pradoshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Collector and Publisher Benedikt Taschen Lists Mid-Century Modern Beverly Hills Home for $25 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARTnews Top 200 collectors Benedikt and Lauren Taschen have spent the past eight years restoring the Adelman Residence, a 5,000-square-foot mid-century modern home designed by architects Thornton Abell and O&rsquo;Neil Ford in 1956. The Taschens bought the home in 2018 (it was listed for $12,750,000), and, over the years, have refurbished the tennis court, original to the property from when it was part of Charlie Chaplin&rsquo;s estate; the pool, the gardens, and the guest house; as well as all]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-collector-and-publisher-benedikt-taschen-lists-mid-century-modern-beverly-hills-home-for-25m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-collector-and-publisher-benedikt-taschen-lists-mid-century-modern-beverly-hills-home-for-25m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MOCA LA Names Former Public Media Executive as New Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[For its next director, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles has gone with a figure whose expertise lies outside the art world.Jonathan Abbott, the former head of the public media organization GBH, was announced as the institution&rsquo;s new director on Thursday, formally filling a post that was held in an interim capacity by curator Ann Goldstein. She had taken the leadership role after Johanna Burton left in 2025 to lead the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia.It is an unconventio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moca-la-names-former-public-media-executive-as-newdirector/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moca-la-names-former-public-media-executive-as-newdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek PM Rejects British Museum Comparison of Parthenon Marbles and Bayeux Tapestry]]></title><description><![CDATA[In August, British Museum Director Nicholas Cullinan told the Financial Times that the Bayeux Tapestry loan from France was &ldquo;a very compelling example of international partnership,&rdquo; and a successful, &ldquo;reciprocal exchange.&rdquo; That deal, which took years to form, might even pave the way for a Parthenon Marbles loan, he suggested.But in a provocative opinion piece in today&rsquo;s The Guardian, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded, seizing on Cullinan&rsquo;s not]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-pm-rejects-british-museum-comparison-of-parthenon-marbles-and-bayeuxtapestry/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-pm-rejects-british-museum-comparison-of-parthenon-marbles-and-bayeuxtapestry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Spring/Break’s First Edition in the Old CBS Newsroom, (Almost) Everything Is Political]]></title><description><![CDATA[This weekend, for likely the last time, cameras are rolling at 555 West 57th Street.The longtime headquarters of CBS News&rsquo;s most hallowed properties&mdash;60 Minutes and Inside Edition&mdash;was recently hollowed out in a Paramount acquisition that saw personalities and producers shuffled to a center across the street. So, perhaps fittingly, Spring/Break, New York&rsquo;s most irreverent art fair, has taken residence. Its inaugural edition at 555 West 57th Street, titled &ldquo;Hide and Se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-springbreaks-first-edition-in-the-old-cbs-newsroom-almost-everything-ispolitical/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-springbreaks-first-edition-in-the-old-cbs-newsroom-almost-everything-ispolitical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Members Club Maison Estelle Under Police Investigation, Canceling Frieze Week Events]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maison Estelle, a private members club in London, temporarily shuttered today following a Metropolitan Police investigation outside the premises. The club was set to host parties and dinners to mark Frieze Week, all of which have been canceled.Lisson Gallery, which was set to host an event at Maison Estelle, confirmed in an email to ARTnews that its team is now looking for a new venue. This is the second consecutive year that the gallery was forced to pivot venues under unusual circumstances: In]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/private-members-club-maison-estelle-under-police-investigation-canceling-frieze-weekevents/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/private-members-club-maison-estelle-under-police-investigation-canceling-frieze-weekevents/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI-Generated Mural Sparks Backlash in Banksy’s Hometown of Bristol]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new AI-designed vinyl mural, mounted in Banksy&rsquo;s hometown of Bristol, is facing heavy criticism for its mistakes, including a depiction of the wrong Banksy work.The mural in question is pasted along the side of the Jolly Colliers Pub building in Bedminster, Bristol. It depicts not only an incorrect iteration of Cabot Tower and a dwarfed SS Great Britain, but it also contains a flawed interpretation of Banksy&rsquo;s Mild Mild West (1999), with a one-legged figure pointing instead of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-generated-mural-sparks-backlash-in-banksys-hometown-ofbristol/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-generated-mural-sparks-backlash-in-banksys-hometown-ofbristol/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s is Selling One of the World’s Most Coveted Whisky Bottles]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;This story is also part of a new series on the convergence of art and luxury. See all of our reporting on the topic here.&rdquo;On October 9, Sotheby&rsquo;s will take one of the world&rsquo;s most famous bottles of whisky back to its origins for the house&rsquo;s first-ever sale at The Macallan Estate in Speyside, Scotland. The bottle &mdash; &ldquo;The Macallan Fine &amp; Rare 60 Years Old 1926&rdquo; &mdash; has a high estimate of &pound;2.2 million ($3 million), and is the auction&rsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-is-selling-one-of-the-worlds-most-coveted-whiskybottles/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-is-selling-one-of-the-worlds-most-coveted-whiskybottles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why It Took This Artist 5 Years to Ship American Soldiers’ Trash Back from Afghanistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[America&rsquo;s longest war ended abruptly. After 20 years of fighting, in August of 2021, US troops withdrew from Afghanistan in a manner described as &ldquo;disastrous&rdquo; even by a congressional investigation. The Taliban&rsquo;s return to power was swift, though preventing it had ostensibly been the entire point of the decades-long occupation, the bombs, the hundreds of thousands of lives lost. Soon, millions faced famine as foreign aid was cut off, sanctions locked in, and Afghan assets]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-it-took-this-artist-5-years-to-ship-american-soldiers-trash-back-fromafghanistan/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-it-took-this-artist-5-years-to-ship-american-soldiers-trash-back-fromafghanistan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek Prime Minister Compares Cutting the Bayeux Tapestry to the Parthenon Marbles Division, Six Bronze Sculptures Stolen from Museum Garden Near Munich, and More: Morning Links for September 24, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
In a provocative essay, the Greek prime minister argues that just as it would be unacceptable to cut up the Bayeux Tapestry, so too should the Parthenon marbles be reunited in Athens.Thieves stole six bronze sculptures by Peter Gehring valued at over &euro;100,000 ($114,000) from the garden of a museum near Munich.Israel is using its ancient heritage to justify the seizure of Pal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-prime-minister-compares-cutting-the-bayeux-tapestry-to-the-parthenon-marbles-division-six-bronze-sculptures-stolen-from-museum-garden-near-munich-and-more-morning-links-for-september-242026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/greek-prime-minister-compares-cutting-the-bayeux-tapestry-to-the-parthenon-marbles-division-six-bronze-sculptures-stolen-from-museum-garden-near-munich-and-more-morning-links-for-september-242026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Look Around London Design Festival and London Fashion Week Where Art and Design Collide]]></title><description><![CDATA[The city of London is back in action, its famous gray clouds have returned to the city&rsquo;s skyline for fall coinciding with the London Design Festival and London Fashion Week this month and Frieze Week in October. In a unique crossover, the artists and designers all strived for softness and calm to counteract the hustle and bustle of London.To kickstart the London Design Festival, French artist Vincent Dubourg opened his exhibition &ldquo;Blue Weather&rdquo; at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-look-around-london-design-festival-and-london-fashion-week-where-art-and-designcollide/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-look-around-london-design-festival-and-london-fashion-week-where-art-and-designcollide/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Leonor Fini Retrospective Provokes Surrealism’s Fascination with Youthful Femininity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leonor Fini said she loved the &ldquo;sensation of changing dimension, species, space.&rdquo; Her life and work were infused with metamorphic energy. The draw of liminality, ambiguity, and flux was fuel for her creative fire: The tension between eternity and mortality that animates all of us on some level was at the surface for her. Often associated with the Surrealists, Fini made art that grappled with many of the group&rsquo;s questions about dreams, the unconscious, and the erotic, but she fi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-leonor-fini-retrospective-provokes-surrealisms-fascination-with-youthfulfemininity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-leonor-fini-retrospective-provokes-surrealisms-fascination-with-youthfulfemininity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear AI as Frankenstein's monster &ndash; and forget that Mary Shelley's warning was about the scientist, not the creature]]></title><description><![CDATA[We fear AI as Frankenstein's monster &ndash; and forget that Mary Shelley's warning was about the scientist, not the creature]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-fear-ai-as-frankensteins-monster-ndash-and-forget-that-mary-shelleys-warning-was-about-the-scientist-not-the-creature/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:31:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-fear-ai-as-frankensteins-monster-ndash-and-forget-that-mary-shelleys-warning-was-about-the-scientist-not-the-creature/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In place of Middlemarch and Montaigne, we have Mr. Beast. The post-literacy thesis sounds compelling, until you begin to unpack it]]></title><description><![CDATA[In place of Middlemarch and Montaigne, we have Mr. Beast. The post-literacy thesis sounds compelling, until you begin to unpack it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-place-of-middlemarch-and-montaigne-we-have-mr-beast-the-post-literacy-thesis-sounds-compelling-until-you-begin-to-unpack-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:31:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-place-of-middlemarch-and-montaigne-we-have-mr-beast-the-post-literacy-thesis-sounds-compelling-until-you-begin-to-unpack-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: “I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.” Then he set to arranging his death]]></title><description><![CDATA[In his diary, the Italian litterateur Cesare Pavese boasted: &ldquo;I am king. In the course of ten years, I have done it all.&rdquo; Then he set to arranging his death]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-his-diary-the-italian-litterateur-cesare-pavese-boasted-i-am-king-in-the-course-of-ten-years-i-have-done-it-all-then-he-set-to-arranging-his-death/</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:31:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-his-diary-the-italian-litterateur-cesare-pavese-boasted-i-am-king-in-the-course-of-ten-years-i-have-done-it-all-then-he-set-to-arranging-his-death/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a $105 M. Memorabilia Blockbuster, Christie’s Launches a Pop Culture Division]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years of testing the waters, Christie&rsquo;s has decided that pop culture is ready for the big leagues.	The auction house confirmed Wednesday that it is launching a dedicated pop culture division, a new global operation that will hold multiple auctions each year spanning film and television, music and musical instruments, sports memorabilia, science and technology, natural history, fashion, and popular design. Josh Benesh, a former Heritage Auctions executive who joined Christie&rsquo;s a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-105-m-memorabilia-blockbuster-christies-launches-a-pop-culturedivision/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-105-m-memorabilia-blockbuster-christies-launches-a-pop-culturedivision/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich Returns Painting to Great-Grandson of Jewish Collector Who Fled Germany in 1938]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Laporte, a great-grandson of the well-to-do Sofie Heilbronner, who fled Munich for the United States in 1938, spent the past eight years working to reclaim a painting that belonged to his great-grandmother and had been lost as a result of Nazi persecution. The artwork, Music (Arcadian Scene), 1892, by German painter Albert Lang was returned to Heilbronner&rsquo;s heirs in a ceremony on September 22 at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Before Tuesday, it had been held by the Bavarian Sta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bavarian-state-painting-collections-in-munich-returns-painting-to-great-grandson-of-jewish-collector-who-fled-germany-in1938/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bavarian-state-painting-collections-in-munich-returns-painting-to-great-grandson-of-jewish-collector-who-fled-germany-in1938/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s to Sell a $37 M. Cache of Works Once Owned by Armand Hammer, National Gallery of Art Names New Head of Art of Americas Department, and More: Industry Moves for September 23, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Big Number: $37 M.	That&rsquo;s the high estimate for a cache of a dozen works once owned by late oil tycoon Armand Hammer. Sotheby&rsquo;s will offer them as part of its modern art evening sale in November, held as part of the New York marquee auctions. The top lot of the Hammer sale is expected to be Edgar Degas&rsquo;s ca. 1899 p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-sell-a-37-m-cache-of-works-once-owned-by-armand-hammer-national-gallery-of-art-names-new-head-of-art-of-americas-department-and-more-industry-moves-for-september-232026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-sell-a-37-m-cache-of-works-once-owned-by-armand-hammer-national-gallery-of-art-names-new-head-of-art-of-americas-department-and-more-industry-moves-for-september-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Collectors Jon and Kim Shirley Stepped In to Restore the Senate Building’s Famed Calder]]></title><description><![CDATA[In March 2016, former president and chief executive of Microsoft Jon Shirley and his wife, Kim, flew from Seattle, where they are based, to Washington, D.C., for a meeting of the National Gallery of Art&rsquo;s Collectors Committee. While in town, they visited Alexander Calder&rsquo;s monumental sculpture Mountains and Clouds (1976/1986), in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building. Longtime collectors of Calder&rsquo;s work&mdash;three years ago they donated 48 works, valued at $200 millio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-collectors-jon-and-kim-shirley-stepped-in-to-restore-the-senate-buildings-famedcalder/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-collectors-jon-and-kim-shirley-stepped-in-to-restore-the-senate-buildings-famedcalder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Museo del Barrio Apologizes for Renting Space to Event that Aired 9/11 Conspiracy Theories]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&rsquo;s El Museo del Barrio said this week that it regretted renting space to a group that organized an event at which 9/11 conspiracy theories were freely aired.Titled &ldquo;Turning the Tide: 9/11 25 Years Later&rdquo; and staged between September 10 and 13, the four-day event was held at the museum earlier this month to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center. It was organized by the International Center for 9/11 Justice, whose stated goal is to create &ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/el-museo-del-barrio-apologizes-for-renting-space-to-event-that-aired-911-conspiracytheories/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/el-museo-del-barrio-apologizes-for-renting-space-to-event-that-aired-911-conspiracytheories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art in America Celebrates Fall “Icons” Issue with Talk Featuring William T. Williams and Nari Ward]]></title><description><![CDATA[To mark the publication of Art in America&rsquo;s fall &ldquo;Icons&rdquo; issue, the editors convened a panel discussion pairing William T. Williams, the subject of a profile in the magazine, with fellow artist Nari Ward, who studied with him at Brooklyn College. The conversation was moderated by ARTnews senior editor Maximil&iacute;ano Dur&oacute;n, who wrote the piece about Williams, and is viewable in full below.Before the talk, A.i.A. editor-in-chief Sarah Douglas and publisher Erica Lubow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-america-celebrates-fall-icons-issue-with-talk-featuring-william-t-williams-and-nariward/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-america-celebrates-fall-icons-issue-with-talk-featuring-william-t-williams-and-nariward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amateur Archaeologist With a Metal Detector Finds 934 Roman Silver Coins in a Field in Western Germany]]></title><description><![CDATA[A trove of 934 Roman silver denarii was discovered by an amateur archaeologist with a metal detector in a field in Wesseling, Germany. The coins date to the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian.When his metal detector wouldn&rsquo;t stop beeping last year, Oliver Riedl called authorities and a group of experts began digging immediately to discover the biggest collection of coins from this time period in the country, per the local archaeology office.The 6.8 pounds of silver was likely buried deliber]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amateur-archaeologist-with-a-metal-detector-finds-934-roman-silver-coins-in-a-field-in-westerngermany/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amateur-archaeologist-with-a-metal-detector-finds-934-roman-silver-coins-in-a-field-in-westerngermany/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Only Shocking Thing About Jordan Wolfson’s Gagosian Show Is How Boring It Is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jordan Wolfson&rsquo;s first New York gallery show in a decade arrived at Gagosian last Friday, exactly a week after the 25th anniversary of 9/11, bringing with it three new sculptures related to that fateful day. One features an architectural model of the World Trade Center, shown in solemn black and white; another has a picture of the Twin Towers at dusk, pixelated as though pulled from the depths of the internet; and yet another features the Freedom Tower, the building&rsquo;s metallic surfac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-only-shocking-thing-about-jordan-wolfsons-gagosian-show-is-how-boring-itis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-only-shocking-thing-about-jordan-wolfsons-gagosian-show-is-how-boring-itis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Institute of Chicago Returns a Metzinger to Family of Jewish Collector Following Further Provenance Research]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Art Institute of Chicago will return Jean Metzinger&rsquo;s painting Woman with a Fan (1913) to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein, the museum has announced.	The museum bought the painting from New York&rsquo;s Sidney Janis Gallery in 1959, but despite research into its provenance, gaps remained, including its location before and during World War II. Working with the Mondex Corporation, which specializes in the recovery of art and other assets looted during World War II, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-institute-of-chicago-returns-a-metzinger-to-family-of-jewish-collector-following-further-provenanceresearch/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-institute-of-chicago-returns-a-metzinger-to-family-of-jewish-collector-following-further-provenanceresearch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LA’s Getty Museum Acquires Recently Rediscovered Velázquez Painting, a First for a West Coast Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares, a painting that was recently attributed to Diego Vel&aacute;zquez. The acquisition means a Vel&aacute;zquez painting will for the first time be represented in the collection of a West Coast museum.Earlier this year, Detroit Institute of Arts director Salvador Salort-Pons, a scholar on Vel&aacute;zquez who is curating an exhibition on portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares, published his findings in the Museo Pr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-getty-museum-acquires-recently-rediscovered-velzquez-painting-a-first-for-a-west-coastmuseum/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-getty-museum-acquires-recently-rediscovered-velzquez-painting-a-first-for-a-west-coastmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucia Laguna, Brazilian Artist Who Got Late But Fruitful Start on Painting Career, Has Died]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucia Laguna, a Brazilian painter inspired by her lush surroundings in the hills above Rio de Janeiro, where she lived, died there at the age of 85, according to her gallery, Fortes D&rsquo;Aloia &amp; Gabriel. The S&atilde;o Paulo gallery said it was closing for the day yesterday to honor the memories of Laguna and Rodrigo Cass, another artist on the roster, who recently died in a beach accident.&ldquo;Throughout her career, Lucia developed a body of work defined by her engagement with landscap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucia-laguna-brazilian-artist-who-got-late-but-fruitful-start-on-painting-career-hasdied/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucia-laguna-brazilian-artist-who-got-late-but-fruitful-start-on-painting-career-hasdied/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mauritshuis Returns Nazi-Looted Painting to Heirs of Jewish Dealer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Mauritshuis in The Hauge, the home of famed Dutch Old Master works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, is returning Jan van Goyen&rsquo;s painting Fishermen by the Lakeshore (1651) after new research has revealed that the piece was looted by Nazis.The painting belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer who was fleeing the Netherlands for England on a ship in 1940 during World War II. His dealership in The Hague was taken over by Nazis and 1,113 pieces of artwork were transported to Germany a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mauritshuis-returns-nazi-looted-painting-to-heirs-of-jewishdealer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mauritshuis-returns-nazi-looted-painting-to-heirs-of-jewishdealer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazilian Artist Lucia Laguna Dies, Artworks by Bolivian Artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes Resurrected from the Dumpster, Uzbekistan’s Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent Opens, and More: Morning Links for September 23, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Brazilian painter Lucia Laguna has died this week in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 85.The legacy of Bolivian artist Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913&ndash;ca. 1960), a prot&eacute;g&eacute; of Diego Rivera, is rising from the abyss&mdash;or more literally, the dumpster.US Senator Martin Heinrich, with a group of senators, has sent a letter demanding that the Trump administration halt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brazilian-artist-lucia-laguna-dies-artworks-by-bolivian-artist-alejandro-mario-yllanes-resurrected-from-the-dumpster-uzbekistans-centre-for-contemporary-arts-tashkent-opens-and-more-morning-links-for-september-232026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brazilian-artist-lucia-laguna-dies-artworks-by-bolivian-artist-alejandro-mario-yllanes-resurrected-from-the-dumpster-uzbekistans-centre-for-contemporary-arts-tashkent-opens-and-more-morning-links-for-september-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Franzen used to consider TV the "enemy." Now it looks like an ally: He's working on a script to adapt The Corrections]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Franzen used to consider TV the "enemy." Now it looks like an ally: He's working on a script to adapt The Corrections]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-franzen-used-to-consider-tv-the-enemy-now-it-looks-like-an-ally-hes-working-on-a-script-to-adapt-the-corrections/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:49:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-franzen-used-to-consider-tv-the-enemy-now-it-looks-like-an-ally-hes-working-on-a-script-to-adapt-the-corrections/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glenn Gould was fabulously neurotic, opinionated, and flamboyant. Seventy years on, his Bach still sets the standard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Glenn Gould was fabulously neurotic, opinionated, and flamboyant. Seventy years on, his Bach still sets the standard]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/glenn-gould-was-fabulously-neurotic-opinionated-and-flamboyant-seventy-years-on-his-bach-still-sets-the-standard/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:49:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/glenn-gould-was-fabulously-neurotic-opinionated-and-flamboyant-seventy-years-on-his-bach-still-sets-the-standard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Chekhov, doomsaying was an ingeniously disguised form of sloth — and modern disenchantment an epidemic worth curing]]></title><description><![CDATA[For Chekhov, doomsaying was an ingeniously disguised form of sloth &mdash; and modern disenchantment an epidemic worth curing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-chekhov-doomsaying-was-an-ingeniously-disguised-form-of-sloth-and-modern-disenchantment-an-epidemic-worth-curing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:49:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-chekhov-doomsaying-was-an-ingeniously-disguised-form-of-sloth-and-modern-disenchantment-an-epidemic-worth-curing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Heads to Abu Dhabi to Mark 20 Years in United Arab Emirates, as Country’s Market Grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty years after Christie&rsquo;s became the first international auction house to hold a sale in the United Arab Emirates, the house is marking the anniversary by moving its gavel down the road.On November 1, Christie&rsquo;s will hold its first fine art auction in Abu Dhabi, offering more than 70 works of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern and North African art at the Abu Dhabi Edition hotel. Titled &ldquo;MAWASIM: 20 Years of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art,&rdquo; the sale in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-heads-to-abu-dhabi-to-mark-20-years-in-united-arab-emirates-as-countrys-marketgrows/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-heads-to-abu-dhabi-to-mark-20-years-in-united-arab-emirates-as-countrys-marketgrows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solange Knowles Will Show Large-Scale Sculpture on New York’s High Line]]></title><description><![CDATA[Solange Knowles, sister of Beyonc&eacute; and a distinguished musician and artist in her own right, will unveil a large-scale sculpture on New York&rsquo;s High Line as part of an event staged later this week by Google.&ldquo;Unfinished Projects,&rdquo; as the program is called, will take over the High Line&rsquo;s Chelsea Market Passage September 24&ndash;27 and is being realized with the assistance of Google Chrome. The showing will also include ballet flats designed by musician PinkPantheress]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/solange-knowles-will-show-large-scale-sculpture-on-new-yorks-highline/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/solange-knowles-will-show-large-scale-sculpture-on-new-yorks-highline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weis Family Files Counterclaim in Suit Over $4 M. Pierre Soulages Painting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The three children of Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis filed on Tuesday an answer and counterclaim in a New York court as part of an ongoing suit that aims to establish an ownership claim to a Pierre Soulages painting.The original lawsuit was first filed in July by members of the Zeckendorf family who allege that the Soulages&rsquo;s 1958 abstraction Peinture 161 x 200 cm, 14 novembre 1958 was stolen at some point between 1977 and 1980, during which time a trust controlled by the real es]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/weis-family-files-counterclaim-in-suit-over-4-m-pierre-soulagespainting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/weis-family-files-counterclaim-in-suit-over-4-m-pierre-soulagespainting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyler Mitchell Wins $250,000 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photographer Tyler Mitchell is the sixth winner of the Don Tyson Prize and will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds.The award was launched in 2016 as part of the Tyson Scholars of America program, a fellowshipendowed by the Arkansas-based food processing giant Tyson Foods and housed at Crystal Bridges in nearby Bentonville. For the first decade, the Don Tyson Prize, named for the company&rsquo;s former chairman and chief executive who died in 2011, came with a $200,000 award given biannually;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tyler-mitchell-wins-250000-don-tyson-prize-from-crystal-bridgesmuseum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tyler-mitchell-wins-250000-don-tyson-prize-from-crystal-bridgesmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Temporarily Bans Export of a ‘Small But Mighty’ Italian Renaissance Bronze Valued at $6.1 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK has temporarily banned the export of a rare and highly valuable Renaissance bronze by the artist known as Antico. Seated Nymph, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (ca. 1455&ndash;1528), is valued at &pound;4.6 million ($6.1 million). UK museums and galleries have until December 17 to make an offer following the decision, taken on the advice of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA).Antico&rsquo;s signature works are very rare to come to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-temporarily-bans-export-of-a-small-but-mighty-italian-renaissance-bronze-valued-at-61m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-temporarily-bans-export-of-a-small-but-mighty-italian-renaissance-bronze-valued-at-61m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Codex Azcatitlan Goes on View in Mexico City, as Culture Ministry Continues Centuries-Long Quest for Repatriation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Azcatitlan Codex, a rare manuscript about Aztec history and civilization, recently went on view at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, as the Mexican Culture Ministry continues its nearly two-century-long quest to have it repatriated.The illustrated document, created between the late 16th and early 17th centuries, is on loan from the National Library of France (BnF) as part of the celebrations for the bicentennial of diplomatic relationships between France and Mexico, Le Figa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/codex-azcatitlan-goes-on-view-in-mexico-city-as-culture-ministry-continues-centuries-long-quest-forrepatriation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/codex-azcatitlan-goes-on-view-in-mexico-city-as-culture-ministry-continues-centuries-long-quest-forrepatriation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art Strikes a Deal with Nigeria for Long-Term Loan of Three Major Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three major artworks from Nigeria will be on long-term display at New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art in a partnership with the African nation. The artworks, which the museum describes as masterworks, will be on loan to the museum for a 25-year term with the possibility of extension. They will be placed this month in the museum&rsquo;s recently remodeled Michael C. Rockefeller wing, which ARTnews&rsquo;s Alex Greenberger deemed a &ldquo;masterpiece.&rdquo;The pieces were formerly in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-strikes-a-deal-with-nigeria-for-long-term-loan-of-three-majorartworks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-strikes-a-deal-with-nigeria-for-long-term-loan-of-three-majorartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fragment of a Peace Treaty Between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires Discovered in Hattusa, Turkey]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fragment of a cuneiform tablet was discovered by archaeologists excavating Hattsua, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in present-day Turkey, Heritage Daily reported. The artifact&rsquo;s text was part of the larger Kadesh Peace Treaty.The fragment was originally found near Building E in Hattusa&rsquo;s B&uuml;y&uuml;kkale district of &Ccedil;orum Province. It has been undergoing scientific analysis for about a year, according to Turkey&rsquo;s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Researche]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-fragment-of-a-peace-treaty-between-the-hittite-and-egyptian-empires-discovered-in-hattusaturkey/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-fragment-of-a-peace-treaty-between-the-hittite-and-egyptian-empires-discovered-in-hattusaturkey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Fashion’s Me Too Reckoning, Fashion Photography’s Good Men Are Having Their Moment]]></title><description><![CDATA[2018 was the fashion industry&rsquo;s reckoning with its own image. Fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier, Bruce Weber, Mario Testino and Terry Richardson were dropped by the industry at large after numerous lawsuits claimed that the photographers had abused their power by exploiting their subjects. Their names were banished from the pages of glossy magazines owned by Cond&eacute; Nast and Hearst.In their absence, the industry made way for new talent with women photographers shooting magazi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-fashions-me-too-reckoning-fashion-photographys-good-men-are-having-theirmoment/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-fashions-me-too-reckoning-fashion-photographys-good-men-are-having-theirmoment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Warning Heads Underground With Keith Haring Subway Drawing Estimated at Just Under $1 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the heels of a couture sale that saw the guerrilla auctioneers at Fair Warning tackle the runway, the house is going somewhere a little more underground&mdash;literally.Its next major auction will offer a monumental Keith Haring subway drawing from 1984, one of the chalk-on-black-paper works the artist famously made on blank advertising panels throughout the New York City subway system in the early 1980s.The untitled drawing, which measures 80 by 40 inches, shows a towering skeleton whose eye]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fair-warning-heads-underground-with-keith-haring-subway-drawing-estimated-at-just-under-1m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fair-warning-heads-underground-with-keith-haring-subway-drawing-estimated-at-just-under-1m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met Museum Repatriates Five Pieces of Looted Cretan Armor to Greece]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York repatriated five pieces of ancient Cretan armor to Greece. The pieces were connected to a large-scale illegal excavation that occurred more than 60 years ago.The artifacts include two bronze helmets and three bronze mitrai, or protective guards worn around the lower abdomen, dating to the late seventh century BCE. Of the three mitrai, one is decorated with horses, another with winged horses, and the third with sphinxes, while two of the three contain an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-repatriates-five-pieces-of-looted-cretan-armor-togreece/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-repatriates-five-pieces-of-looted-cretan-armor-togreece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Wins Battle for Herbert Lust Collection, Expected to Fetch More Than $50 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s has won the battle for the collection of the late Herbert Lust, the eccentric banker, scholar, and prolific collector whose holdings were being pursued by both of the major auction houses earlier this summer.In August, ARTnews reported that Christie&rsquo;s and Sotheby&rsquo;s were duking it out for what remained of Lust&rsquo;s sprawling collection following his death in May at the age of 99. At the time, sources familiar with the negotiations said the estate was shopping rough]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-wins-battle-for-herbert-lust-collection-expected-to-fetch-more-than-50m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-wins-battle-for-herbert-lust-collection-expected-to-fetch-more-than-50m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI has solved the longtime Navier–Stokes problem, said the triumphant announcement. Well, sort of. A mathematician explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI has solved the longtime Navier&ndash;Stokes problem, said the triumphant announcement. Well, sort of. A mathematician explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-has-solved-the-longtime-navierstokes-problem-said-the-triumphant-announcement-well-sort-of-a-mathematician-explains/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:31:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-has-solved-the-longtime-navierstokes-problem-said-the-triumphant-announcement-well-sort-of-a-mathematician-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealer Emanuel Layr Scales Back Vienna Gallery in Response to ‘Increasingly Congested’ Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[After 15 years, Emanuel Layr, one of Vienna&rsquo;s most important art dealers, will scale back his gallery in the Austrian capital, citing what he called an &ldquo;increasingly congested&rdquo; art industry.Layr, who has operated his eponymous gallery solo since 2011, told the German art magazine Monopol that &ldquo;financial reasons played no part&rdquo; in the decision to change his model. Instead, he framed it as a means of remaining current.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not in a bad position financial]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealer-emanuel-layr-scales-back-vienna-gallery-in-response-to-increasingly-congested-market/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealer-emanuel-layr-scales-back-vienna-gallery-in-response-to-increasingly-congested-market/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louis Vuitton Unveils Keith Haring Artycapucines Handbag Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[FADE AWAY AND RADIATE: When Keith Haring scrawled his &ldquo;Radiant Baby&rdquo; on a battered Louis Vuitton suitcase in the &lsquo;80s, little did he imagine that he was planting the seeds of an official collaboration with the luxury brand.Nicolas Ghesqui&egrave;re, artistic director of womenswear at Vuitton, opened his cruise 2027 show in New York City in May with a model carrying the priceless artifact, kicking off a broader partnership with the Keith Haring Foundation that will culminate in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louis-vuitton-unveils-keith-haring-artycapucines-handbagcollection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louis-vuitton-unveils-keith-haring-artycapucines-handbagcollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Finds Mismanagement is Driving Away American Museums Workers, Investigation Claims Eiffel Tower is Victim of Dysfunctional Oversight, and More: Morning Links for September 22, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
The Eiffel Tower, its employees, and visitors are all at risk as a result of the monument&rsquo;s gross mismanagement, according to a new investigation.A new study finds workers are being driven away from American art museums because of mismanagement, low pay, and burnout.The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned five pieces of late seventh century BCE armor to Greece.T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/study-finds-mismanagement-is-driving-away-american-museums-workers-investigation-claims-eiffel-tower-is-victim-of-dysfunctional-oversight-and-more-morning-links-for-september-222026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/study-finds-mismanagement-is-driving-away-american-museums-workers-investigation-claims-eiffel-tower-is-victim-of-dysfunctional-oversight-and-more-morning-links-for-september-222026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Finds Mismanagement is Driving Away American Museum Workers, Investigation Claims Eiffel Tower is Victim of Dysfunctional Oversight, and More: Morning Links for September 22, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
The Eiffel Tower, its employees, and visitors are all at risk as a result of the monument&rsquo;s gross mismanagement, according to a new investigation.A new study finds workers are being driven away from American art museums because of mismanagement, low pay, and burnout.The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned five pieces of late seventh century BCE armor to Greece.T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/study-finds-mismanagement-is-driving-away-american-museum-workers-investigation-claims-eiffel-tower-is-victim-of-dysfunctional-oversight-and-more-morning-links-for-september-222026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/study-finds-mismanagement-is-driving-away-american-museum-workers-investigation-claims-eiffel-tower-is-victim-of-dysfunctional-oversight-and-more-morning-links-for-september-222026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See 11 Treasures at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[After years of exposition, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens at long last in Los Angeles. The institution founded by Top 200 Collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson showcases work from their holdings, as well as materials related to Lucas&rsquo;s Star Wars enterprise. The breadth of objects on view all relate to the collectors&rsquo; concept of &ldquo;narrative art,&rdquo; or any creative discipline that engages in visual storytelling. To mark the occasion, ARTnews spoke with Ryan Linko]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-11-treasures-at-the-lucas-museum-of-narrativeart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-11-treasures-at-the-lucas-museum-of-narrativeart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Reading is like exercise. You have to go a little bit beyond what you’re comfortable with, a little bit more than you can really do”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Reading is like exercise. You have to go a little bit beyond what you&rsquo;re comfortable with, a little bit more than you can really do&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/reading-is-like-exercise-you-have-to-go-a-little-bit-beyond-what-youre-comfortable-with-a-little-bit-more-than-you-can-really-do/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:38:07 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/reading-is-like-exercise-you-have-to-go-a-little-bit-beyond-what-youre-comfortable-with-a-little-bit-more-than-you-can-really-do/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was announced to much fanfare that AI had solved the Navier–Stokes problem. As a mathematician explains, that’s only sort of the case]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was announced to much fanfare that AI had solved the Navier&ndash;Stokes problem. As a mathematician explains, that&rsquo;s only sort of the case]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/it-was-announced-to-much-fanfare-that-ai-had-solved-the-navierstokes-problem-as-a-mathematician-explains-thats-only-sort-of-the-case/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:38:07 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/it-was-announced-to-much-fanfare-that-ai-had-solved-the-navierstokes-problem-as-a-mathematician-explains-thats-only-sort-of-the-case/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annie Dillard “was a sort of drill sergeant of human consciousness: determined, always, to force herself, and others, to see”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Annie Dillard &ldquo;was a sort of drill sergeant of human consciousness: determined, always, to force herself, and others, to see&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/annie-dillard-was-a-sort-of-drill-sergeant-of-human-consciousness-determined-always-to-force-herself-and-others-to-see/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:38:07 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/annie-dillard-was-a-sort-of-drill-sergeant-of-human-consciousness-determined-always-to-force-herself-and-others-to-see/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See 10 Paintings from the Met’s Landmark Chang Dai-Chien Acquisition]]></title><description><![CDATA[In what will surely make for a survey to remember, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired 38 works by the revered Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien. The trove includes studies from Dai-chien&rsquo;s time at Dunhuang, an ancient Buddhist temple complex on the edge of the Gobi Desert, in the 1940s, as well as works from the 1960s and beyond, when his delicate landscapes and still-life unraveled into radiant abstractions.&ldquo;Chang Dai-chien stands as one of the most important painters of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-10-paintings-from-the-mets-landmark-chang-dai-chienacquisition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-10-paintings-from-the-mets-landmark-chang-dai-chienacquisition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Paris Unveils Highlights, With ‘Emily in Paris’ Star Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu to Organize Oh La La! Initiative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art Basel Paris unveiled today a few juicy highlights for its forthcoming edition, which will gather 211 galleries under the glass-ceilinged Grand Palais, open to the public from October 23 to 25.	For starters, Emily in Paris fans will be happy to learn that Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, the actress who plays Emily&rsquo;s effortlessly chic boss, Sylvie Grateau, is trying her hand at another kind of leading role&mdash;this time in the visual arts. She is the guest art director of Art Basel Paris&rs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-paris-unveils-highlights-with-emily-in-paris-star-philippine-leroy-beaulieu-to-organize-oh-la-lainitiative/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-paris-unveils-highlights-with-emily-in-paris-star-philippine-leroy-beaulieu-to-organize-oh-la-lainitiative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asked Benjamin Moser to Name One Artwork He Considers a “Revelation”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Glowing harmlessly on the walls of the Century Association on Manhattan&rsquo;s West 43rd Street is a work by John Frederick Kensett. It shows Mount Chocorua, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Today, in an age of easy travel to more exotic climes, this peak looms a bit less spectacularly than it did in the 19th century, when it was a kind of American Matterhorn: sung by our poets; painted by our artists; haunted, thrillingly, by a spooky legend&mdash;of an Indian chief named Chocorua who,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-benjamin-moser-to-name-one-artwork-he-considers-a-revelation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-benjamin-moser-to-name-one-artwork-he-considers-a-revelation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“The body could have been that of a hobo.” The life — and death — of Victor Serge is evidence that years spent on the barricades take a toll]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The body could have been that of a hobo.&rdquo; The life &mdash; and death &mdash; of Victor Serge is evidence that years spent on the barricades take a toll]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-body-could-have-been-that-of-a-hobo-the-life-and-death-of-victor-serge-is-evidence-that-years-spent-on-the-barricades-take-a-toll/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:45:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-body-could-have-been-that-of-a-hobo-the-life-and-death-of-victor-serge-is-evidence-that-years-spent-on-the-barricades-take-a-toll/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Reportedly Plans to Deaccession Kennedy Center Art Collection, Court Faults Investigators for Seizing Egon Schiele Artwork, and More: Morning Links for September 21, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!A New York appellate court has faulted investigators for seizing an Egon Schiele drawing.President Trump announced plans to deaccession the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s art collection.Two visitors to the Louvre were arrested after they installed paintings near the Mona Lisa.The Headlines	D.A. TO BACK DOWN? A New York appellate court has faulted investigators from the Manhattan district]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-reportedly-plans-to-deaccession-kennedy-center-art-collection-court-faults-investigators-for-seizing-egon-schiele-artwork-and-more-morning-links-for-september-212026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-reportedly-plans-to-deaccession-kennedy-center-art-collection-court-faults-investigators-for-seizing-egon-schiele-artwork-and-more-morning-links-for-september-212026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Appointees Reportedly Planned to Deaccession Kennedy Center Art Collection, Court Faults Investigators for Seizing Egon Schiele Artwork, and More: Morning Links for September 21, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!A New York appellate court has faulted investigators for seizing an Egon Schiele drawing.New documents show President Trump-appointed officials planned to deaccession the Kennedy Center&rsquo;s art collection.Two visitors to the Louvre were arrested after they installed paintings near the Mona Lisa.The Headlines	D.A. TO BACK DOWN? A New York appellate court has faulted investigato]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-appointees-reportedly-planned-to-deaccession-kennedy-center-art-collection-court-faults-investigators-for-seizing-egon-schiele-artwork-and-more-morning-links-for-september-212026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-appointees-reportedly-planned-to-deaccession-kennedy-center-art-collection-court-faults-investigators-for-seizing-egon-schiele-artwork-and-more-morning-links-for-september-212026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dallas Invitational to Expand to London for Frieze Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dallas-based dealer James Cope launched the Dallas Invitational four years ago with the aim of bringing together a small group of galleries in a convivial way, separate from the bigger art fairs staged in convention centers or massive tents, that he had participated as a gallerist.&ldquo;What I&rsquo;m trying to build with the Invitational is a group of like-minded people coming together to spend a few days together,&rdquo; he told ARTnews by phone over the summer. Instead of an application proc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dallas-invitational-to-expand-to-london-for-friezeweek/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dallas-invitational-to-expand-to-london-for-friezeweek/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liu Wei’s Cut-Up and Reassembled Sculptures Take Over the Met Museum’s Facade]]></title><description><![CDATA[A series of hybrid sculptures now gesture from the facade of New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Speculation / &Lambda; (2026), a black sphere acts as the support for a hand that extends upward, as if trapped in a ruin of bone tissue, while in Speculation / G (2026), an outstretched hand lies at the base of a tower of protruding nails, rawhide, and layered geometric metal cutouts. Conceived of by Liu Wei and unveiled Thursday, the works range from nearly 9 feet tall to over 16 feet t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liu-weis-cut-up-and-reassembled-sculptures-take-over-the-met-museumsfacade/</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liu-weis-cut-up-and-reassembled-sculptures-take-over-the-met-museumsfacade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visitors Arrested at Louvre After Posting Their Artworks Near Mona Lisa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two visitors to the Louvre in Paris were arrested Saturday after they installed two paintings in the Salle des &Eacute;tats, which houses the Mona Lisa, according to a report by Agence France-Presse that cited police sources.According to police, they stuck two paintings (each measuring about 11.8 by 15.7 inches) onto the walls of the Salle des &Eacute;tats with sticky tape. One painting showed one of the suspects wearing a suit of armor, while the other showed the two with a woman. The Mona Lisa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/visitors-arrested-at-louvre-after-posting-their-artworks-near-monalisa/</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/visitors-arrested-at-louvre-after-posting-their-artworks-near-monalisa/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“The body could have been that of a hobo.” The life — and death — of Victor Serge is evidence that years spent on the barricades takes a toll]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The body could have been that of a hobo.&rdquo; The life &mdash; and death &mdash; of Victor Serge is evidence that years spent on the barricades takes a toll]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-body-could-have-been-that-of-a-hobo-the-life-and-death-of-victor-serge-is-evidence-that-years-spent-on-the-barricades-takes-a-toll/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:58:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-body-could-have-been-that-of-a-hobo-the-life-and-death-of-victor-serge-is-evidence-that-years-spent-on-the-barricades-takes-a-toll/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saffron for joy, ostrich liver for melancholy: medieval mental health was absurd. Yet some aspects seem strangely modern]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saffron for joy, ostrich liver for melancholy: medieval mental health was absurd. Yet some aspects seem strangely modern]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saffron-for-joy-ostrich-liver-for-melancholy-medieval-mental-health-was-absurd-yet-some-aspects-seem-strangely-modern/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:58:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saffron-for-joy-ostrich-liver-for-melancholy-medieval-mental-health-was-absurd-yet-some-aspects-seem-strangely-modern/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critical theory can be used to convey sophistication — but when it goes wrong, the whiff of pretension and arrogance is unmistakable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Critical theory can be used to convey sophistication &mdash; but when it goes wrong, the whiff of pretension and arrogance is unmistakable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/critical-theory-can-be-used-to-convey-sophistication-but-when-it-goes-wrong-the-whiff-of-pretension-and-arrogance-is-unmistakable/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:58:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/critical-theory-can-be-used-to-convey-sophistication-but-when-it-goes-wrong-the-whiff-of-pretension-and-arrogance-is-unmistakable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Documenta 16 Curator Naomi Beckwith Says Some Artists Declined to Participate Due to Germany’s Stance on Gaza]]></title><description><![CDATA[Naomi Beckwith, the curator of the forthcoming edition of Documenta, said some artists had already declined to participate in the exhibition because of Germany&rsquo;s stance on Israel&rsquo;s war in Gaza.Documenta, which is staged every five years in Kassel, Germany, is one of the most prestigious recurring art exhibitions in the world. But ever since the controversy that faced the last edition, in 2022, the show has faced bitter criticism, with many alleging that politicians&rsquo; accusations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/documenta-16-curator-naomi-beckwith-says-some-artists-declined-to-participate-due-to-germanys-stance-ongaza/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/documenta-16-curator-naomi-beckwith-says-some-artists-declined-to-participate-due-to-germanys-stance-ongaza/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rep. Joyce Beatty Asks Judge to Make ‘Crystal Clear’ Trump Cannot Demolish Kennedy Center in Wake of Viral Photo]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Getty photographer Brendan Smialowski captured a photo on Wednesday night of Air Force One after landing at Joint Base Andrews, outside Washington, D.C., it showed president Donald Trump in a red baseball cap reading a placard that seems to read &ldquo;Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.&rdquo; This led to an emergency Thursday filing by Joyce Beatty, Democratic US Representative for Ohio&rsquo;s Third Congressional District and an ex officio trustee of the Center, asking the federal judge in the on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rep-joyce-beatty-asks-judge-to-make-crystal-clear-trump-cannot-demolish-kennedy-center-in-wake-of-viralphoto/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rep-joyce-beatty-asks-judge-to-make-crystal-clear-trump-cannot-demolish-kennedy-center-in-wake-of-viralphoto/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Discoveries at Ancient Egyptian Fort Include Ceremonial Burial of a Horse]]></title><description><![CDATA[New archaeological discoveries at Tell Al-Abqain in Beheira are revealing details about life within the ancient Egyptian fortress, the country&rsquo;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Wednesday. According to the ministry, they also underscore Tell Al-Abqain&rsquo;s importance as a military stronghold during the New Kingdom period (1570&ndash;1069 BCE), when it was established to protect Egypt against incursions by Libyan tribes.The finds, made by an Egyptian archaeological missio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-discoveries-at-ancient-egyptian-fort-include-ceremonial-burial-of-ahorse/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-discoveries-at-ancient-egyptian-fort-include-ceremonial-burial-of-ahorse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomokazu Matsuyama and Tom Wesselmann Estate Team Up on a Show at the Pop Artist’s New York Studio]]></title><description><![CDATA[The estate of Pop giant Tom Wesselmann has teamed up with Japanese American artist Tomokazu Matsuyama on a first: an exhibition at the East Village studio that Wesselmann occupied in the last decade of his life. Open to the public by appointment through September 27, the show arrives just in time for Armory Week, when thousands of dealers and collectors will converge on the city.Showing in another artist&rsquo;s workspace, Matsuyama told me during a visit this week, is a unique experience: &ldqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tomokazu-matsuyama-and-tom-wesselmann-estate-team-up-on-a-show-at-the-pop-artists-new-yorkstudio/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tomokazu-matsuyama-and-tom-wesselmann-estate-team-up-on-a-show-at-the-pop-artists-new-yorkstudio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stockholm’s Moderna Museet Appoints Cédric Fauq as Curator of Contemporary International Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Moderna Museet in Stockholm named C&eacute;dric Fauq as its next curator of contemporary international art, to start in the role on December 1. He is currently the chief curator and head of programs and collections at Capc Mus&eacute;e d&rsquo;art contemporain de Bordeaux, and he worked previously as a curator at Paris&rsquo;s Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary in England.Credits of Fauq&rsquo;s in Bordeaux include the group exhibition &ldquo;Blackground: murmures des mornes,&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/stockholms-moderna-museet-appoints-cdric-fauq-as-curator-of-contemporary-internationalart/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/stockholms-moderna-museet-appoints-cdric-fauq-as-curator-of-contemporary-internationalart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Guggenheim, Taryn Simon Mounts a Rare America 250th Anniversary Show Worth Celebrating]]></title><description><![CDATA[When people remember what art museums did this year to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, they will not recall the plethora of anodyne collection shows staged across the nation, many of which have centered on vague notions of democracy and discontent. Instead, I hope they remember Taryn Simon&rsquo;s paranoid freak-out of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, whose rotunda she has filled with photographs about surveillance, lies, violence, and&mdash;that most American]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-guggenheim-taryn-simon-mounts-a-rare-america-250th-anniversary-show-worthcelebrating/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-guggenheim-taryn-simon-mounts-a-rare-america-250th-anniversary-show-worthcelebrating/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Head of Brussels Government Seeks to Oust Kanal-Centre Pompidou Director Ahead of November Opening]]></title><description><![CDATA[The plot thickens just a few months away from the grand opening of Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels. Amid criticism that the European capital&rsquo;s forthcoming and only major modern and contemporary art museum is too large and costly for taxpayers, La Libre reports that the head of Brussels&rsquo; local government wants Kanal-Centre Pompidou&rsquo;s founding general director Yves Goldstein out.On Thursday, Minister-President Boris Dilli&egrave;s of the center-right francophone Movement R&eacu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/head-of-brussels-government-seeks-to-oust-kanal-centre-pompidou-director-ahead-of-novemberopening/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/head-of-brussels-government-seeks-to-oust-kanal-centre-pompidou-director-ahead-of-novemberopening/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite ‘Significant Impact’ of Middle East Wars, Art Basel Parent Group’s First Half 2026 Revenue Climbed 12 Percent]]></title><description><![CDATA[MCH Group, parent company to the Art Basel fair franchise, saw its operating revenue increase by 12 percent in the first half of 2026, to CHF 248.8 million ($301.6 million). It was the fourth consecutive positive half-year result, according to a statement. The company also saw EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) rise to CHF 34.3 million ($41.6 million). The Art Basel fairs are among the flagship events for the company, which also organizes fairs catering to i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-significant-impact-of-middle-east-wars-art-basel-parent-groups-first-half-2026-revenue-climbed-12percent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-significant-impact-of-middle-east-wars-art-basel-parent-groups-first-half-2026-revenue-climbed-12percent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Record Rainfall Causes Damage at the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti in Florence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following heavy rainfall, a deluge flooded the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti, both in Florence, Italy, on Thursday, reported Euro News. Both were impacted by a torrential downpour in which nearly two inches of rain fell in an hour in Florence.At the Uffizi Gallery, there was a leak that appeared beneath a skylight in a room housing seven 17th-century paintings, including Caravaggio&rsquo;s Bacchus.&ldquo;The leak splashed the outer glass of the protective case containing Caravaggio&rsquo;s Ba]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/record-rainfall-causes-damage-at-the-uffizi-gallery-and-palazzo-pitti-inflorence/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/record-rainfall-causes-damage-at-the-uffizi-gallery-and-palazzo-pitti-inflorence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Johnny Depp’s Far-Out Art Makes Its China Debut. Will the Show Aid the Controversial Actor’s Comeback?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether you are an ex&ndash;head of state (George W. Bush), an Academy Award&ndash;winning thespian (Adrien Brody), or a Grammy Award&ndash;winning musician (Jack White), it seems that what famous people really want to be, deep down, is artists.Academy Award&ndash;nominated actor Johnny Depp is yet another example. The exhibition, &ldquo;Johnny Depp: A Bunch of Stuff Presents Figures of the Fringe,&rdquo; now open at Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai, marks his first exhibition in China. When it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/johnny-depps-far-out-art-makes-its-china-debut-will-the-show-aid-the-controversial-actorscomeback/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/johnny-depps-far-out-art-makes-its-china-debut-will-the-show-aid-the-controversial-actorscomeback/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Owns Art Made By Prisoners Under Nazi Orders?, Brazilian Artist Rodrigo Cass Died in Fatal Copacabana Beach Accident, and More: Morning Links for September 18, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Rodrigo Cass, a Brazilian artist and a former Carmelite monk, died at 43 in a fatal accident yesterday on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland argues that artworks made by prisoners forced to do so in Nazi concentration camps are not their legal property.Art Basel&rsquo;s parent company, MCH Group, reported rising revenue, driven by strong]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-owns-art-made-by-prisoners-under-nazi-orders-brazilian-artist-rodrigo-cass-died-in-fatal-copacabana-beach-accident-and-more-morning-links-for-september-182026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-owns-art-made-by-prisoners-under-nazi-orders-brazilian-artist-rodrigo-cass-died-in-fatal-copacabana-beach-accident-and-more-morning-links-for-september-182026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IFPDA Continues to Expand with 2027 Edition, Lining Up 76 Exhibitors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seventy-six exhibitors will take part in the International Fine Prints &amp; Drawings Association 2027 fair, up more than 20 percent from its 2024 edition. Among the 14 exhibitors new to the fair and/or association are White Cube, Gladstone, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and Jill Newhouse Gallery. Drawings will account for roughly a quarter of the fair, which runs April 8&ndash;11, with at least 19 exhibitors showing them.The additions are notable for a fair that, not long ago,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ifpda-continues-to-expand-with-2027-edition-lining-up-76exhibitors/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ifpda-continues-to-expand-with-2027-edition-lining-up-76exhibitors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rodrigo Cass, Brazilian Artist Who Strove for ‘Sensitive Geometry,’ Has Died at 43]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rodrigo Cass, a Brazilian artist whose work found spirituality in minimal forms, died at 43 in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.His death was confirmed by Fortes D&rsquo;Aloia &amp; Gabriel, the art gallery that represents him on Instagram. The gallery said that Cass died in an accident on Copacabana Beach and described the artist as someone with a &ldquo;gentle presence&rdquo; and &ldquo;generosity&rdquo; to the artistic community.Cass&rsquo;s work frequently featured bright hues, in particular sunsh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rodrigo-cass-brazilian-artist-who-strove-for-sensitive-geometry-has-died-at43/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rodrigo-cass-brazilian-artist-who-strove-for-sensitive-geometry-has-died-at43/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Juanita McNeely Painted Abortion’s Messy Truth]]></title><description><![CDATA[To enter Juanita McNeely&rsquo;s exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is to experience literal tunnel vision: A long corridor, the European painting wing, lines your periphery with prismatic paintings and, at the end, just one canvas&mdash;hers&mdash;confronts you head on. McNeely&rsquo;s portrait of a laboring mother, swathed in glowing fields of chartreuse, outshines (again, literally) art history&rsquo;s greats. Walk toward it, gaze fixed, and canonical canvases that rhyme with hers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/juanita-mcneely-painted-abortions-messytruth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/juanita-mcneely-painted-abortions-messytruth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The split between Harold Bloom and Northrop Frye led to no shortage of bad blood. But were their theories of literary inheritance that far apart?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The split between Harold Bloom and Northrop Frye led to no shortage of bad blood. But were their theories of literary inheritance that far apart?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-split-between-harold-bloom-and-northrop-frye-led-to-no-shortage-of-bad-blood-but-were-their-theories-of-literary-inheritance-that-far-apart/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:48:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-split-between-harold-bloom-and-northrop-frye-led-to-no-shortage-of-bad-blood-but-were-their-theories-of-literary-inheritance-that-far-apart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 2011, a reddish hair was found in Thomas Jefferson's bible. That discovery prompted a decade of DNA testing &ndash; and a lot of ill will]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2011, a reddish hair was found in Thomas Jefferson's bible. That discovery prompted a decade of DNA testing &ndash; and a lot of ill will]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-2011-a-reddish-hair-was-found-in-thomas-jeffersons-bible-that-discovery-prompted-a-decade-of-dna-testing-ndash-and-a-lot-of-ill-will/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:48:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-2011-a-reddish-hair-was-found-in-thomas-jeffersons-bible-that-discovery-prompted-a-decade-of-dna-testing-ndash-and-a-lot-of-ill-will/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a young Roger Scruton, an apolitical and unusually charming Cambridge undergraduate, became Britain's most reviled intellectual]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a young Roger Scruton, an apolitical and unusually charming Cambridge undergraduate, became Britain's most reviled intellectual]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-a-young-roger-scruton-an-apolitical-and-unusually-charming-cambridge-undergraduate-became-britains-most-reviled-intellectual/</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:48:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-a-young-roger-scruton-an-apolitical-and-unusually-charming-cambridge-undergraduate-became-britains-most-reviled-intellectual/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hirshhorn Museum to Install &lsquo;Eternally Unswimmable&rsquo; Pool by Elmgreen &amp; Dragset in Sculpture Garden in Washington,&nbsp;D.C.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When it reopens in a redesigned state at the end of October, the Hirshhorn Museum&rsquo;s Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., will be home to a curious new work by the Berlin-based Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen &amp; Dragset&mdash;in the form of a vacant swimming pool.&ldquo;Upended, empty, and eternally unswimmable, the 28-foot-tall sculpture emblematizes the artists&rsquo; mastery of displacement&mdash;excerpting familiar objects from people&rsquo;s surroundings and presenting them as new]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-to-install-lsquoeternally-unswimmablersquo-pool-by-elmgreen-amp-dragset-in-sculpture-garden-in-washingtonnbspdc/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-to-install-lsquoeternally-unswimmablersquo-pool-by-elmgreen-amp-dragset-in-sculpture-garden-in-washingtonnbspdc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharif Bey Wins Inaugural Spector Craft Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[The newly launched Spector Craft Prize has announced its inaugural winner: Sharif Bey, an artist and educator based in Syracuse, New York.The Spector Craft Prize was established last year by the Spector Family Foundation to &ldquo;reinforce American craft as a vital and enduring art form while creating new pathways for artists at every stage of their careers,&rdquo; according to a release. It is being awarded in collaboration with Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. Curator and craft schol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharif-bey-wins-inaugural-spector-craftprize/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharif-bey-wins-inaugural-spector-craftprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The US Air Force Nearly Nuked the Moon. Amid a New Space Race, Artist Jitish Kallat Revisits the Secret Cold War Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a secret 1958 project, the Air Force considered detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon.	Scientists believed then they would learn a lot from the exercise, code named Project A119, and the US might gain ground in the Cold War space race with the Soviets. What&rsquo;s more, the blast would perhaps be visible on Earth, boosting morale at home and cowing our enemies abroad. The risks (including the blast affecting humankind&rsquo;s home) were deemed to outweigh the benefits, though, and the US gov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-us-air-force-nearly-nuked-the-moon-amid-a-new-space-race-artist-jitish-kallat-revisits-the-secret-cold-warscheme/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-us-air-force-nearly-nuked-the-moon-amid-a-new-space-race-artist-jitish-kallat-revisits-the-secret-cold-warscheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plaintiffs in Ongoing Kennedy Center Lawsuit Call for Leadership to Step Aside or for Judge to Appoint Receivership]]></title><description><![CDATA[The group of eight preservation groups that currently have a lawsuit pending to prevent changes at the Kennedy Center without congressional approval have called for the institution&rsquo;s leadership to step aside or for the court to take the drastic step of putting the cultural organization into receivership, citing the leadership&rsquo;s fiduciary duty to steward the Center.The eight plaintiffs are the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/plaintiffs-in-ongoing-kennedy-center-lawsuit-call-for-leadership-to-step-aside-or-for-judge-to-appointreceivership/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/plaintiffs-in-ongoing-kennedy-center-lawsuit-call-for-leadership-to-step-aside-or-for-judge-to-appointreceivership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PR Firm Cultural Counsel to Restructure with Founder Adam Abdalla Transitioning to New Role]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cultural Counsel, an art publicity powerhouse since 2015 with a national reach that has counted top-flight museums, galleries, and foundations in its client list, is restructuring its operations, sources tell ARTnews&mdash;starting with leadership. Adam Abdalla, the firm&rsquo;s founder and most visible figure, will transition to a new role, with senior vice president Marcella Zimmerman assuming public-facing affairs.In a statement to ARTnews on Wednesday, Abdalla, who will retain ownership of t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pr-firm-cultural-counsel-to-restructure-with-founder-adam-abdalla-transitioning-to-newrole/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pr-firm-cultural-counsel-to-restructure-with-founder-adam-abdalla-transitioning-to-newrole/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pace Prints Acquires Brand X Editions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pace Prints has acquired Brand X Editions, the nearly 50-year-old New York printmaking studio and publisher known for its work with artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, and Mickalene Thomas.The acquisition brings Brand X under the leadership of Pace Prints president and CEO Jacob Lewis, who took ownership of Pace Prints from its founder, Richard Solomon, and his partners last year. Both companies will continue to ope]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-prints-acquires-brand-xeditions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-prints-acquires-brand-xeditions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United States Repatriates 58 Cultural Artifacts to China]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States has repatriated a total of 58 cultural relics, artworks, and fossils to China. A handover ceremony was held by the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, according to the embassy&rsquo;s official WeChat account, reported the Global Times.The Cultural Property, Art, and Antiquities Program of the US Homeland Security Investigations returned such artifacts as a Bodhisattva statue from the Tianlongshan Grottoes in North China&rsquo;s Shanxi Province, which was looted mor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/united-states-repatriates-58-cultural-artifacts-tochina/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/united-states-repatriates-58-cultural-artifacts-tochina/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Moves Forward With Warning Signs Outside Smithsonian]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has advanced plans to install signs outside the Smithsonian Institution&rsquo;s museums, prioritizing the National Museum of American History (NMAH), warning visitors that they will encounter what the administration described as ideologically driven displays that cast the US in an unfavorable light.Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told US senators Lisa Murkowski and Jeff Merkley in a September 3 letter that a &ldquo;commitment to transparency&rdquo; and &ldquo;academic hon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-moves-forward-with-warning-signs-outsidesmithsonian/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-moves-forward-with-warning-signs-outsidesmithsonian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Companies Are Destroying Books by the Millions. What Will It Mean for Art?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many artworks are inconceivable without artists being able to source old books. Just think of the collages of the beloved Bay Area artist Jess, or the early assemblages of Carol Bove, with books displayed on thrift-store shelves, or, on a massively larger scale, Argentinian artist Marta Minuj&iacute;n&rsquo;s 1983 installation The Parthenon of Books, built from publications banned by her country&rsquo;s longstanding military dictatorship (and readapted for the 2017 Documenta exhibition).	All tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-companies-are-destroying-books-by-the-millions-what-will-it-mean-forart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-companies-are-destroying-books-by-the-millions-what-will-it-mean-forart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy, apparent desert nihilist, was actually gregarious and fond of cream-colored suits and dancing on ocean liners]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy, apparent desert nihilist, was actually gregarious and fond of cream-colored suits and dancing on ocean liners]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cormac-mccarthy-apparent-desert-nihilist-was-actually-gregarious-and-fond-of-cream-colored-suits-and-dancing-on-ocean-liners-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:23:04 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cormac-mccarthy-apparent-desert-nihilist-was-actually-gregarious-and-fond-of-cream-colored-suits-and-dancing-on-ocean-liners-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monet ‘Iris’ Painting—Last of its Kind in Private Hands—Could Break French Record at Sotheby’s Paris]]></title><description><![CDATA[In October, Sotheby&rsquo;s Paris is auctioning a never-before publicly shown, stunning Claude Monet painting from the artist&rsquo;s &ldquo;Iris&rdquo; series (1914&ndash;17 and 1924&ndash;25), kept for decades in the Jeanne Schlumberger collection, carrying an estimate of &euro;22 to &euro;30 million ($25 to $34 million). Painted just one year before he died in 1926, the eponymous abstracted painting of purple and yellow irises reflecting on water is set to break the country&rsquo;s auction re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monet-iris-paintinglast-of-its-kind-in-private-handscould-break-french-record-at-sothebysparis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monet-iris-paintinglast-of-its-kind-in-private-handscould-break-french-record-at-sothebysparis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1960s Counterculture Artist Peter Max Has Died, Sotheby’s Paris to Auction Possible Record-Breaking ‘Iris’ Monet Painting, and More: Morning Links for September 17, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Peter Max, whose cheerful graphic images helped define 1960s hippie culture, has died at age 88.Sotheby&rsquo;s Paris is auctioning a rare Monet painting of irises from the Jeanne Schlumberger collection, expected to break the country&rsquo;s auction record.The Interior Department has detailed plans for 12 signs to be installed outside the National Museum of American History, whi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-1960s-counterculture-artist-peter-max-has-died-sothebys-paris-to-auction-possible-record-breaking-iris-monet-painting-and-more-morning-links-for-september-172026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-1960s-counterculture-artist-peter-max-has-died-sothebys-paris-to-auction-possible-record-breaking-iris-monet-painting-and-more-morning-links-for-september-172026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Max, the Psychedelic Artist Who Was Friends with The Beatles, Has Died at 88]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Max, the psychedelic pop art artist who came up in the 1960s with the likes of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Keith Haring, died at 88 years old on Monday.The artist&rsquo;s death was confirmed by his son Adam Max. In a statement, he said that his father will be remembered for his &ldquo;extraordinary creativity, his warmth, his curiosity, and the way he saw beauty and possibility everywhere. His art became part of American culture, but the man behind that art&mdash;the father we knew]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-max-the-psychedelic-artist-who-was-friends-with-the-beatles-has-died-at88/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-max-the-psychedelic-artist-who-was-friends-with-the-beatles-has-died-at88/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Magazine Publishes its First Art 100 List, Featuring Artists, Museum Leaders, Dealers and More—See Who Made the Cut]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been half a century since Time magazine has splashed a living painter on its cover, and Amy Sherald&rsquo;s face, photographed by Tyler Mitchell, graces that coveted spot on the issue that hits newsstands Thursday and includes the inaugural Time 100 Art list, including artists, museum directors and curators, art lawyers, dealers, and more art world professionals.&ldquo;We have been seeking out the leaders who shape art, with an eye to find those who are writing the field&rsquo;s most]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/time-magazine-publishes-its-first-art-100-list-featuring-artists-museum-leaders-dealers-and-moresee-who-made-thecut/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/time-magazine-publishes-its-first-art-100-list-featuring-artists-museum-leaders-dealers-and-moresee-who-made-thecut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Santiago Sierra to Stage Days-Long Reading of Names of Palestinians Killed by Israel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Provocateur performance artist Santiago Sierra&rsquo;s latest project is a work called Israeli State Crimes in Palestine Since 14 May 1948, a piece that will involve the recitation of the names of &ldquo;Palestinians killed in historic Palestine by the Israeli state, its forces and settlers since the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948,&rdquo; to quote the piece&rsquo;s announcement.Staged beginning on September 22 and organized by the London-based nonprofit A/POLITICAL, the piec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-santiago-sierra-to-stage-days-long-reading-of-names-of-palestinians-killed-byisrael/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-santiago-sierra-to-stage-days-long-reading-of-names-of-palestinians-killed-byisrael/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector and MALBA Founder Eduardo F. Costantini on How His Museum Tells the Full Story of Latin American Art History]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Argentine real estate developer and collector Eduardo F. Costantini founded the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) in 2001, he did so with a mission. &ldquo;The global perception of Latin American art [at the time] was still far behind, and I felt it deserved greater recognition and visibility,&rdquo; he recently told ARTnews.He wasn&rsquo;t sure he could make it happen&mdash;but he had the desire to do so. &ldquo;It was a long journey, step by step, over many years,&rdqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-and-malba-founder-eduardo-f-costantini-on-how-his-museum-tells-the-full-story-of-latin-american-arthistory/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-and-malba-founder-eduardo-f-costantini-on-how-his-museum-tells-the-full-story-of-latin-american-arthistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danielle Forest Brandi Joins Beaumont Nathan, Kenta Murakami Named Partner at Ortuzar, and More: Industry Moves for September 17, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Industry Moves	Danielle Forest Brandi Joins Beaumont Nathan: After eight years as a senior sales director at Pace Gallery in New York, Forest Brandi will be a New York&ndash;based senior director at the global advisory firm. &ldquo;She will play an important role in our ambitions to expand in New York and across the wider US, workin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/danielle-forest-brandi-joins-beaumont-nathan-kenta-murakami-named-partner-at-ortuzar-and-more-industry-moves-for-september-172026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/danielle-forest-brandi-joins-beaumont-nathan-kenta-murakami-named-partner-at-ortuzar-and-more-industry-moves-for-september-172026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Collectors Feel ‘Energized,’ Some ‘Burned’: As the Curtain Rises on the New York Fall Season, Mixed Signals from Market Insiders]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.The energy on the streets in Tribeca and Chelsea was high last week, with crowds of hundreds streaming in and out of galleries large and small as they opened their big fall shows. Dealers are offering their best, timed to be on view when the art world converges on New York for the Armory Show fair, opening later this month. The ques]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/some-collectors-feel-energized-some-burned-as-the-curtain-rises-on-the-new-york-fall-season-mixed-signals-from-marketinsiders/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/some-collectors-feel-energized-some-burned-as-the-curtain-rises-on-the-new-york-fall-season-mixed-signals-from-marketinsiders/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Representatives Holds Billionaire Collector Leon Black in Contempt Regarding Epstein Subpoenas]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US House of Representatives has unanimously moved to hold Leon Black, the billionaire financier and one of the world&rsquo;s top collectors, in criminal contempt of Congress, the New York Times reports.The contempt charge is related to Black&rsquo;s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whom Black had paid $158 million for financial advice between 2012 and 2017. The House Oversight Committee, which had also unanimously recommended the contempt charge to the full House, subpoe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/house-of-representatives-holds-billionaire-collector-leon-black-in-contempt-regarding-epsteinsubpoenas/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/house-of-representatives-holds-billionaire-collector-leon-black-in-contempt-regarding-epsteinsubpoenas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bolstered by New Laws, Lawsuits in Los Angeles Renew Bids for Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Monday, two new lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles in the hopes of recovering long-disputed, but so far unsuccessful, claims for the return of Nazi-looted art from renowned museums, reports the Los Angeles Times. Their timing is no coincidence. The heirs or representatives of Jews who lost artworks during the Holocaust are hoping that the passage of a new law in California and a second one at the federal level will turn the tables in their favor.Those laws include one that was passed in Calif]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bolstered-by-new-laws-lawsuits-in-los-angeles-renew-bids-for-restitution-of-nazi-lootedart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bolstered-by-new-laws-lawsuits-in-los-angeles-renew-bids-for-restitution-of-nazi-lootedart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why collect stamps? Explanations include nostalgia, anal-retentiveness, erotic frustration, and the desire to escape into a remote, private world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why collect stamps? Explanations include nostalgia, anal-retentiveness, erotic frustration, and the desire to escape into a remote, private world]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-collect-stamps-explanations-include-nostalgia-anal-retentiveness-erotic-frustration-and-the-desire-to-escape-into-a-remote-private-world/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:41:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-collect-stamps-explanations-include-nostalgia-anal-retentiveness-erotic-frustration-and-the-desire-to-escape-into-a-remote-private-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“The precarity of art in the 21st century has led Gen Z to forsake subcultural credibility for an instrumentalized careerism”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The precarity of art in the 21st century has led Gen Z to forsake subcultural credibility for an instrumentalized careerism&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-precarity-of-art-in-the-21st-century-has-led-gen-z-to-forsake-subcultural-credibility-for-an-instrumentalized-careerism/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:41:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-precarity-of-art-in-the-21st-century-has-led-gen-z-to-forsake-subcultural-credibility-for-an-instrumentalized-careerism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy, apparent desert nihilist, was actually gregarious and fond of cream colored suits and dancing on ocean liners]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy, apparent desert nihilist, was actually gregarious and fond of cream colored suits and dancing on ocean liners]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cormac-mccarthy-apparent-desert-nihilist-was-actually-gregarious-and-fond-of-cream-colored-suits-and-dancing-on-ocean-liners/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:41:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cormac-mccarthy-apparent-desert-nihilist-was-actually-gregarious-and-fond-of-cream-colored-suits-and-dancing-on-ocean-liners/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art Breaks Ground on $670 M. Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York broke ground on its new modern and contemporary art wing, named for emeritus trustee Oscar L. Tang and his wife H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang.	The project had been in the works since 2014, but plans accelerated in 2021 when Tang and Hsu-Tang, two of the world&lsquo;s top collectors, gifted the museum $125 million toward renovating the its modern art wing. At the time, it was the largest capital gift the museum had ever received.In 2022, the Met annou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-breaks-ground-on-670-m-tang-wing-for-modern-and-contemporaryart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-breaks-ground-on-670-m-tang-wing-for-modern-and-contemporaryart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Digital Platform, Documenting the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi and Its Masterpieces by Giotto and Cimabue, Has Launched]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, in honor of the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis of Assisi&rsquo;s death, a new digital platform dedicated to the eponymous basilica was launched by Haltadefinizione, part of the Gruppo Panini Cultura, in collaboration with the General Custody of the Sacred Convent of Saint Francis.The platform, called Preserving Assisi, is free to access and digitally preserves the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi&rsquo;s architecture, as well as its masterpieces by Giotto, Cimabue, Simone Martini,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-digital-platform-documenting-the-basilica-of-saint-francis-of-assisi-and-its-masterpieces-by-giotto-and-cimabue-haslaunched/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-digital-platform-documenting-the-basilica-of-saint-francis-of-assisi-and-its-masterpieces-by-giotto-and-cimabue-haslaunched/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liang Shaoji, Chinese Artist Who ‘Collaborated’ with Silkworms, Has Died at 81]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chinese artist Liang Shaoji, known for his multidisciplinary silkworm installations, died at age 81 in Shanghai following an illness, announced ShanghART Gallery, his longtime dealer.&ldquo;It is with profound sadness that ShanghART Gallery announces the passing of Liang Shaoji,&rdquo; reads the gallery&rsquo;s social media post. In 1989, Liang began his lifelong project known as the &ldquo;Nature Series,&rdquo; defined by his research and art practice involving silkworms and silk farming as a &]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liang-shaoji-chinese-artist-who-collaborated-with-silkworms-has-died-at81/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liang-shaoji-chinese-artist-who-collaborated-with-silkworms-has-died-at81/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum to Expand to a Second Location in Madrid]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid is expanding to a second location just a few blocks from its current site due to overcrowding in its galleries, El Pais reported. The project is slated to be complete in 2032. The museum, known as the Thyssen, was founded in 1992 by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza to house his private collection.The 107,639-square-foot building is known as the Ice and Automobile Palace and is located in Madrid&rsquo;s Literary Quarter. The city-owned space has been]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thyssen-bornemisza-museum-to-expand-to-a-second-location-inmadrid/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thyssen-bornemisza-museum-to-expand-to-a-second-location-inmadrid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV Celebrates His 71st Birthday with JR Installation at the Vatican Apostolic Library]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV had quite the birthday celebration on Monday at the Vatican Apostolic Library in Vatican City, as he opened the exhibition &ldquo;AQVA: Catastrophe and Wonder.&rdquo; The show&rsquo;s inner section was taken over by French artist JR&rsquo;s massive black-and-white installation Diluvium.Diluvium stretches nearly 230 feet and depicts an illustration of a biblical flood from 1886 by Gustave Dor&eacute;. &ldquo;Creating things for real, you actually connect with people and that&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-his-71st-birthday-with-jr-installation-at-the-vatican-apostoliclibrary/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-his-71st-birthday-with-jr-installation-at-the-vatican-apostoliclibrary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nilo Cruz Shares Five Recent Obsessions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright behind El &Uacute;ltimo Sue&ntilde;o de Frida y Diego at the Metropolitan Opera in New York highlights empowering and meditative works of art.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nilo-cruz-shares-five-recentobsessions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nilo-cruz-shares-five-recentobsessions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Budapest’s House of Terror Museum Temporarily Shuttered, Pending Review of Controversial Political Exhibitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The House of Terror Museum in Budapest has been closed temporarily by Hungary&rsquo;s culture minister, Zolt&aacute;n Tarr, who has also fired the museum&rsquo;s director, M&aacute;ria Schmidt. In a Facebook post, Tarr said that the museum would reopen later this year &ldquo;pending a review of the exhibition&rsquo;s content.&rdquo;The museum closure is part of new Hungarian Prime Minister P&eacute;ter Magyar&rsquo;s attempts to rectify his predecessor, Viktor Orb&aacute;n&rsquo;s, control of st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/budapests-house-of-terror-museum-temporarily-shuttered-pending-review-of-controversial-politicalexhibitions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/budapests-house-of-terror-museum-temporarily-shuttered-pending-review-of-controversial-politicalexhibitions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father of Late Artist Lucien Smith Asks Public to Share Memories of Estranged Son, Chinese Artist Liang Shaoji Dies, and More: Morning Links for September 16, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Father of the late artist Lucien Smith discusses estrangement from his son and appeals to the public to send their memories.Chinese artist Liang Shaoji died following an illness on September 13 at age 81.President Trump threatened to block a $257 million renovation of the Kennedy Center, and then the center abruptly closed.The Headlines	A FATHER&rsquo;S REGRETS. Terrence Sanders-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/father-of-late-artist-lucien-smith-asks-public-to-share-memories-of-estranged-son-chinese-artist-liang-shaoji-dies-and-more-morning-links-for-september-162026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/father-of-late-artist-lucien-smith-asks-public-to-share-memories-of-estranged-son-chinese-artist-liang-shaoji-dies-and-more-morning-links-for-september-162026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach students how to think, shut down the Wi-Fi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods]]></title><description><![CDATA[To teach students how to think, shut down the Wi-Fi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-teach-students-how-to-think-shut-down-the-wi-fi-scramble-the-cell-signal-and-send-them-to-weeklong-retreats-in-the-deep-dark-woods/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:28:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-teach-students-how-to-think-shut-down-the-wi-fi-scramble-the-cell-signal-and-send-them-to-weeklong-retreats-in-the-deep-dark-woods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift envisioned a large wooden contraption that would allow anyone to write brilliantly, sans “genius or study.” Sound familiar?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift envisioned a large wooden contraption that would allow anyone to write brilliantly, sans &ldquo;genius or study.&rdquo; Sound familiar?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-swift-envisioned-a-large-wooden-contraption-that-would-allow-anyone-to-write-brilliantly-sans-genius-or-study-sound-familiar/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:28:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-swift-envisioned-a-large-wooden-contraption-that-would-allow-anyone-to-write-brilliantly-sans-genius-or-study-sound-familiar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach students how to think, shut down the WiFi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods ]]></title><description><![CDATA[To teach students how to think, shut down the WiFi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-teach-students-how-to-think-shut-down-the-wifi-scramble-the-cell-signal-and-send-them-to-weeklong-retreats-in-the-deep-dark-woods/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:54:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-teach-students-how-to-think-shut-down-the-wifi-scramble-the-cell-signal-and-send-them-to-weeklong-retreats-in-the-deep-dark-woods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking, brilliant and extraordinary, was spoken of with reverence and affection. Those who knew him have a dimmer view]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking,&nbsp;brilliant and extraordinary, was spoken of with reverence and affection. Those who knew him have a dimmer view]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/stephen-hawkingbrilliant-and-extraordinary-was-spoken-of-with-reverence-and-affection-those-who-knew-him-have-a-dimmer-view/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:54:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/stephen-hawkingbrilliant-and-extraordinary-was-spoken-of-with-reverence-and-affection-those-who-knew-him-have-a-dimmer-view/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift envisioned a large wooden contraption that would allow anyone to write brilliantly sans “genius or study.” Sounds like AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift envisioned a large wooden contraption that would allow anyone to write brilliantly sans &ldquo;genius or study.&rdquo; Sounds like AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-swift-envisioned-a-large-wooden-contraption-that-would-allow-anyone-to-write-brilliantly-sans-genius-or-study-sounds-like-ai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:54:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-swift-envisioned-a-large-wooden-contraption-that-would-allow-anyone-to-write-brilliantly-sans-genius-or-study-sounds-like-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painter William T. Williams Has Stayed Curious on the Canvas for Six Decades]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;There&rsquo;s something to learn every time I go in the studio,&rdquo; William T. Williams told me this past spring. &ldquo;Anything that I did yesterday I have to forget, and I have to enter the studio and enter the paintings as if it&rsquo;s the first time that I&rsquo;ve had engagement.&rdquo; He likes to keep the process &ldquo;as open as possible,&rdquo; but still, he is always &ldquo;thinking about two or three steps ahead.&rdquo; He keeps at it until he has followed &ldquo;where th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/painter-william-t-williams-has-stayed-curious-on-the-canvas-for-sixdecades/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/painter-william-t-williams-has-stayed-curious-on-the-canvas-for-sixdecades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooklyn Museum, American Folk Art Museum, and Whitney Museum Unions Vote in Favor of Strikes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff at three New York City cultural institutions&mdash;the Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art&mdash;voted in favor of strike action if they do not receive satisfactory offers on their contracts, Local 2110 UAW announced today.Local 2110 UAW, which represents workers at a broad network of museums and cultural institutions across the country, said its members voted overwhelmingly to authorize the union&rsquo;s elected bargaining commit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooklyn-museum-american-folk-art-museum-and-whitney-museum-unions-vote-in-favor-ofstrikes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brooklyn-museum-american-folk-art-museum-and-whitney-museum-unions-vote-in-favor-ofstrikes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Works of Sacred Art Stolen From Spanish Churches as Authorities Warn of Rise in Art Theft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three works of religious art were stolen from two churches in the Spanish city of Valladolid, the latest in a string of thefts from museums and churches across Spain and Europe.Two works disappeared from the Church of San Pablo: a small Station of the Cross depicting Jesus falling for the second time, decorated with a silver relief, and a 17th-century copy of an Ecce Homo by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales. A nearby church, Vera Cruz, meanwhile lost a roughly two-foot-tall polychrome]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-works-of-sacred-art-stolen-from-spanish-churches-as-authorities-warn-of-rise-in-arttheft/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-works-of-sacred-art-stolen-from-spanish-churches-as-authorities-warn-of-rise-in-arttheft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artadia Names Allison Derusha as New Executive Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artadia, the nonprofit known for giving unrestricted grants to artists across the United States, has named Allison Derusha its new executive director.Derusha, an arts fundraiser and strategist who has worked at the Guggenheim Museum, the American Ballet Theatre, the National Academy of Design, and SculptureCenter, takes over from Bora Kim, who has served as interim executive director since January. Kim stepped into the role following the departure of Patton Hindle, who left Artadia to become dir]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artadia-names-allison-derusha-as-new-executivedirector/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artadia-names-allison-derusha-as-new-executivedirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joan Mitchell Foundation Publishes Extensive Report on Artist Legacy Stewardship]]></title><description><![CDATA[What does it take to preserve an artist&rsquo;s legacy? &ldquo;You can only learn how to do this by doing it,&rdquo; Solana Chehtman, director of artist programs at the Joan Mitchell Foundation, offered. That question animates an ambitious new report titled Creating Future Memory: Building the Field of Artist Legacy Stewardship, published by the Mitchell Foundation. &ldquo;There are so many ways in which people can have a hand in this work, and we want to a raise awareness and give visibility to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joan-mitchell-foundation-publishes-extensive-report-on-artist-legacystewardship/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joan-mitchell-foundation-publishes-extensive-report-on-artist-legacystewardship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Judge Again Rules Trump Cannot Add Name to Kennedy Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could not inscribe &ldquo;renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump&rdquo; on the venue&rsquo;s facade, dealing another setback to the Trump-appointed Kennedy Center&rsquo;s months-long campaign to memorialize the president somewhere on the institution&rsquo;s premises.US District Judge Christopher R. Cooper, who has presided over several legal challenges brought by Trump over the issue, wrote that any suc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-judge-again-rules-trump-cannot-add-name-to-kennedycenter/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-judge-again-rules-trump-cannot-add-name-to-kennedycenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painter Lucy Bull Joins Hauser &amp; Wirth as Her Market Continues Its&nbsp;Ascent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucy Bull, one of the most sought-after young painters, has joined Hauser &amp; Wirth, a mega-gallery with 16 spaces spread across three continents. She will continue to be represented by the Los Angeles&ndash; and New York&ndash;based David Kordansky Gallery, which has shown her since 2021.Bull produces vibrantly colored abstractions that can at times resemble fantastical beings moving through voids. These paintings often involve frottage and automatic techniques&mdash;both of which are associa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/painter-lucy-bull-joins-hauser-amp-wirth-as-her-market-continues-itsnbspascent/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/painter-lucy-bull-joins-hauser-amp-wirth-as-her-market-continues-itsnbspascent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh off Knicks Championship, NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns to Curate a Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale with Lifestyle Mogul Jordyn Woods]]></title><description><![CDATA[The stars of the basketball court and the lifestyle industry meet the stars of the art market at Sotheby&rsquo;s on October 7.Six-time NBA all-star Karl-Anthony Towns, center for the 2026 champions the New York Knickerbockers, and lifestyle entrepreneur and model Jordyn Woods will organize a &ldquo;Contemporary Curated&rdquo; art auction at the house. The 10-lot sale will itself feature high scorers (on the market): John Chamberlain, George Condo, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Rashid Johnson]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fresh-off-knicks-championship-nba-all-star-karl-anthony-towns-to-curate-a-sothebys-contemporary-art-sale-with-lifestyle-mogul-jordynwoods/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fresh-off-knicks-championship-nba-all-star-karl-anthony-towns-to-curate-a-sothebys-contemporary-art-sale-with-lifestyle-mogul-jordynwoods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chelsea Building Housing Two Art Galleries Will Go to Auction, But the Dealers Plan to Stay Put]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Spears Building, at 525 West 22nd Street, in the heart of the Chelsea gallery district on Manhattan&rsquo;s West Side, will head to the auction block next week, reports Crain&rsquo;s New York Business.U.S. Bank Trust Company foreclosed on the six-story building last year after Chelsea Warehouse Associates, which owns the building, allegedly defaulted on a $14.2 million loan, leading to a $14.9 million judgment, notes Crain&rsquo;s. Law firm Cole Schotz, which represents the defendants, did n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chelsea-building-housing-two-art-galleries-will-go-to-auction-but-the-dealers-plan-to-stayput/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chelsea-building-housing-two-art-galleries-will-go-to-auction-but-the-dealers-plan-to-stayput/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newsmakers: Studio Ma’s Christiana Moss on Building Museums for a Hotter, More Expensive World]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Western Spirit Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, was a strange proposition for architect Christiana Moss when she first began designing it. There was a site, provided by the city, but not much money. There wasn&rsquo;t even a permanent collection. The building would have to come together, as Moss puts it, like &ldquo;stone soup.&rdquo;&nbsp;It worked. Designed by Moss&rsquo;s Phoenix-based firm Studio Ma, the museum, also known as Western Spirit: Scottsdale&rsquo;s Museum of the West, opened in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newsmakers-studio-mas-christiana-moss-on-building-museums-for-a-hotter-more-expensiveworld/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newsmakers-studio-mas-christiana-moss-on-building-museums-for-a-hotter-more-expensiveworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Documentary Maker Art21 Launches Searchable Archive of Unseen Footage]]></title><description><![CDATA[When curator and filmmaker Susan Sollins founded the nonprofit Art21 in the late 1990s, her goal was to introduce contemporary artists to a wider audience by bringing documentaries about them to television and, later, to the internet. Reviewing Art21&rsquo;s first series, Art21: Art in the 21st Century, which aired on PBS in 2001, Kay Larson, writing in the New York Times, praised the show for &ldquo;getting rid of narrators and allowing artists to tell us in their own words how they work and wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-documentary-maker-art21-launches-searchable-archive-of-unseenfootage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-documentary-maker-art21-launches-searchable-archive-of-unseenfootage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare Marble Bust by America’s First-Known Female Sculptor Discovered in English Garden]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rare marble sculpture, made by a pioneering 19th-century artist and feminist, was discovered by auctioneers in the garden of a home in the Cotswolds in England. It is expected to fetch up to &pound;18,000 ($24,300) at auction.The 1854 bust by American neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer depicts Daphne, Apollo&rsquo;s first love in Greek mythology, with her chest exposed as she glances solemnly downward. On the back, the marble is inscribed with the artist&rsquo;s name, along with the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-marble-bust-by-americas-first-known-female-sculptor-discovered-in-englishgarden/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-marble-bust-by-americas-first-known-female-sculptor-discovered-in-englishgarden/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Is Opening a Parisian Restaurant Filled With $150 M. of Art During Art Basel Paris]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s Paris is getting into the restaurant business, at least for a week.During Art Basel Paris next month, the auction house will take over an apartment on Rue de Rivoli overlooking the Jardin des Tuileries, filling it with nearly $150 million worth of art by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon, and others.	And, because simply hanging all that art on the walls apparently wasn&rsquo;t enough, Sotheby&rsquo;s is leaning all the way into the fantasy,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-is-opening-a-parisian-restaurant-filled-with-150-m-of-art-during-art-baselparis/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-is-opening-a-parisian-restaurant-filled-with-150-m-of-art-during-art-baselparis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan Wolfson’s Mysterious Gagosian Show Apparently Includes AI Imagery, 9/11 References]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jordan Wolfson, one of the most widely acclaimed provocateurs of today&rsquo;s art scene, has been loath to speak about his latest exhibition, opening at Gagosian gallery in New York on Friday. Queried by Artnet News editor Andrew Russeth about his first New York show of new work since 2018, Wolfson simply said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care what people know or don&rsquo;t know.&rdquo; The exhibition, which Wolfson said in that interview was &ldquo;a very traditional sculpture show,&rdquo; comes wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jordan-wolfsons-mysterious-gagosian-show-apparently-includes-ai-imagery-911references/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jordan-wolfsons-mysterious-gagosian-show-apparently-includes-ai-imagery-911references/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid $22 M. deficit, New York’s School of Visual Arts Shutters Photography MFA program]]></title><description><![CDATA[The School of Visual Arts in New York is ending its MFA program in photography, video, and related media at the end of the 2027&ndash;28 academic school year, the school&rsquo;s provost and vice president of academic affairs Jason Koth announced in an August email. The news was first reported by Hyperallergic, which reviewed the email.In the email, Koth wrote that the choice to shutter the program was a result of &ldquo;SVA&rsquo;s ongoing economic challenges, the nationwide decline in enrollmen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-22-m-deficit-new-yorks-school-of-visual-arts-shutters-photography-mfaprogram/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-22-m-deficit-new-yorks-school-of-visual-arts-shutters-photography-mfaprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis Jointly Acquire Hendrick Avercamp Winter Landscape]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Mauritshuis in The Hague have jointly acquired a winter landscape by 17th-century Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp. Colf Players on the Ice (ca. 1625) marks the first time the two museums have collaborated on a joint purchase.The acquisition also represents the painting&rsquo;s return to the Netherlands after decades abroad. In the 20th century, it was acquired by English art dealer Edward Speelman, who died in 1994, and his wife, Sally, who had put it on long]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rijksmuseum-and-mauritshuis-jointly-acquire-hendrick-avercamp-winterlandscape/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rijksmuseum-and-mauritshuis-jointly-acquire-hendrick-avercamp-winterlandscape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gagosian Director Antwaun Sargent Curated the Walter De Maria Sculptures at Calvin Klein’s Spring 2027 Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Calvin Klein&rsquo;s creative director Veronica Leoni is injecting art back into the American brand. At the brand&rsquo;s spring 2027 runway show last Friday during New York Fashion Week, Walter De Maria&rsquo;s sculptures were scattered around Terminal Warehouse in Manhattan&rsquo;s Chelsea neighborhood.Leoni, who joined Calvin Klein in 2024, said her collection was a continuation of exploring the art movement that De Maria is most closely associated with in an expanded form. &ldquo;American Mi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-director-antwaun-sargent-curated-the-walter-de-maria-sculptures-at-calvin-kleins-spring-2027show/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-director-antwaun-sargent-curated-the-walter-de-maria-sculptures-at-calvin-kleins-spring-2027show/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Black Schoolhouse in New Orleans Looks to Offer a New Model of Arts Education and Community Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[In New Orleans&rsquo;s historic Seventh Ward, a series of repurposed shipping containers will soon host what its founders hope will be a new model of arts education and community building.Artists Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters founded the Black School a decade ago, slowly setting up the groundwork for a physical space. Now, after more than five years of fundraising and community outreach, they will open the Black Schoolhouse next month as the physical manifestation of the Black School.Located]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-black-schoolhouse-in-new-orleans-looks-to-offer-a-new-model-of-arts-education-and-communitybuilding/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-black-schoolhouse-in-new-orleans-looks-to-offer-a-new-model-of-arts-education-and-communitybuilding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ARTnews Accord: Collectors J. Tomilson Hill and Lonti Ebers On What It Means to Support Art Today]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime hedge-fund manager J. Tomlinson Hill has been collecting art since the 1980s alongside his wife, Janine. They collect in four different areas: Renaissance bronzes, Old Master paintings, about a dozen postwar artists (including Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Brice Marden), and emerging artists, the latter mostly women. In 2019, Hill opened the Hill Art Foundation, an exhibition space designed by Peter Marino on the third and fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-artnews-accord-collectors-j-tomilson-hill-and-lonti-ebers-on-what-it-means-to-support-arttoday/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-artnews-accord-collectors-j-tomilson-hill-and-lonti-ebers-on-what-it-means-to-support-arttoday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen 16th-century Flemish Panel Given to Spain’s Fine Arts Museum of La Coruña, Brazilian Artist Marlies Ritter Has Died, and More: Morning Links for September 15, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Spain&rsquo;s Fine Arts Museum of La Coru&ntilde;a has received a recovered, stolen 16th-century Flemish panel painting of a biblical scene from the government.Brazilian artist Marlies Ritter has died at 84.Ching-Ling Wang will become the first Nancy Chang Lee Curator of Chinese Art at the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Museum of Asian Art.The Headlines	RETURN TO SENDER. Spain&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/stolen-16th-century-flemish-panel-given-to-spains-fine-arts-museum-of-la-corua-brazilian-artist-marlies-ritter-has-died-and-more-morning-links-for-september-152026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/stolen-16th-century-flemish-panel-given-to-spains-fine-arts-museum-of-la-corua-brazilian-artist-marlies-ritter-has-died-and-more-morning-links-for-september-152026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Museum U-turns on Photography of Bayeux Tapestry, While Conservators Discover Two New Small Breaks After Arrival in UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bayeux Tapestry has taken the British Museum and London by storm with tickets selling out, merchandise being flaunted all over social media, and bookshops placing volumes on the history of the Bayeux Tapestry at every till. But it seems visitors are already disappointed by their experience at the museum as the British Museum has made a U-turn on allowing photography, according to the Substack Maxwell Museum.It&rsquo;s unclear as to why the British Museum has banned photography without a reas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-museum-u-turns-on-photography-of-bayeux-tapestry-while-conservators-discover-two-new-small-breaks-after-arrival-inuk/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-museum-u-turns-on-photography-of-bayeux-tapestry-while-conservators-discover-two-new-small-breaks-after-arrival-inuk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese “micro-drama” — under two minutes — may be the defining art form of our era]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese &ldquo;micro-drama&rdquo; &mdash; under two minutes &mdash; may be the defining art form of our era]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/watched-vertically-on-a-phone-the-chinese-micro-drama-under-two-minutes-may-be-the-defining-art-form-of-our-era/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:56:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/watched-vertically-on-a-phone-the-chinese-micro-drama-under-two-minutes-may-be-the-defining-art-form-of-our-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His criticism now reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His criticism now reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-macdonald-was-famous-for-writing-with-a-sneer-his-criticism-now-reads-less-like-erudition-than-compulsive-gleeful-bullying/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:56:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-macdonald-was-famous-for-writing-with-a-sneer-his-criticism-now-reads-less-like-erudition-than-compulsive-gleeful-bullying/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese “micro-drama” — lasting under two minutes — may be the defining art form of our era]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watched vertically on a phone, the Chinese &ldquo;micro-drama&rdquo; &mdash; lasting under two minutes &mdash; may be the defining art form of our era]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/watched-vertically-on-a-phone-the-chinese-micro-drama-lasting-under-two-minutes-may-be-the-defining-art-form-of-our-era/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:03:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/watched-vertically-on-a-phone-the-chinese-micro-drama-lasting-under-two-minutes-may-be-the-defining-art-form-of-our-era/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prophets of literary doom keep writing books about the death of reading. The genre refutes the thesis&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prophets-of-literary-doom-keep-writing-books-about-the-death-of-reading-the-genre-refutes-the-thesis/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:03:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prophets-of-literary-doom-keep-writing-books-about-the-death-of-reading-the-genre-refutes-the-thesis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His savagery reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dwight Macdonald was famous for writing with a sneer. His savagery reads less like erudition than compulsive, gleeful bullying]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-macdonald-was-famous-for-writing-with-a-sneer-his-savagery-reads-less-like-erudition-than-compulsive-gleeful-bullying/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:03:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-macdonald-was-famous-for-writing-with-a-sneer-his-savagery-reads-less-like-erudition-than-compulsive-gleeful-bullying/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro-Palestine Activists Protest at British Museum During Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition’s Opening Weekend]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Saturday, a few days after the highly anticipated Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opened at the British Museum, the group Energy Embargo for Palestine staged a protest in the museum&rsquo;s Great Hall. The protest was related to the museum&rsquo;s long-running relationship with British Petroleum and its collaboration with Igor Tulchinsky.Last week, Middle East Eye revealed that the Belarusian billionaire spent $6.8 million to support the artwork&rsquo;s journey from France to London. Tulchinsky al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pro-palestine-activists-protest-at-british-museum-during-bayeux-tapestry-exhibitions-openingweekend/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pro-palestine-activists-protest-at-british-museum-during-bayeux-tapestry-exhibitions-openingweekend/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[300-Pound Faun Sculpture Stolen from French Zoo in the ’90s Heads Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three decades after it was stolen from a zoo under the cover of night, a 19th-century bronze sculpture was recovered from the United States and returned to its rightful home in the north of France, where it is now on display at the Mus&eacute;e de Picardie in Amiens.According to a press release issued by the London-based Art Loss Register (ALR), Alfred Lep&egrave;re&rsquo;s Faune Chasseur was identified as part of due diligence preceding a proposed sale by one of ALR&rsquo;s auction-house client]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/300-pound-faun-sculpture-stolen-from-french-zoo-in-the-90s-headshome/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/300-pound-faun-sculpture-stolen-from-french-zoo-in-the-90s-headshome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prized Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Priced at $30 at an Estate Sale, Heads to Auction for $250,000]]></title><description><![CDATA[Missing for decades, a Gertrude Abercrombie painting will find itself some collector&rsquo;s prize this October at Freeman&rsquo;s.Of the lots scheduled for Freeman&rsquo;s postwar and contemporary art auction, Alderman Merriam&rsquo;s Shells (1951), by the celebrated Chicagoan artist, surely has the best story. According to the house, the enigmatic still life of seashells scattered in a deep void was spotted this summer at a &ldquo;picked-over&rdquo; estate sale in Michigan. Hung in a corner of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prized-gertrude-abercrombie-painting-priced-at-30-at-an-estate-sale-heads-to-auction-for250000/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prized-gertrude-abercrombie-painting-priced-at-30-at-an-estate-sale-heads-to-auction-for250000/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using AI, Scientists Recreate the Sights and Sounds of 2,500-Year-Old Tombs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Etruscan painted tombs of Tarquinia, Italy, dating from around the 7th to the 1st century BCE, have long been celebrated for their vivid iconography and remarkable state of preservation. Now, archaeologists have used AI to examine how sight and sound may have affected Etruscan mourners of the time.Focusing on two 5th-century BCE painted tombs at Tarquinia, the Tomba del Gallo and the Tomba dei Demoni Azzurri (&ldquo;Tomb of the Blue Demon&rdquo;), as case studies, researchers used acoustic s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/using-ai-scientists-recreate-the-sights-and-sounds-of-2500-year-oldtombs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/using-ai-scientists-recreate-the-sights-and-sounds-of-2500-year-oldtombs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawsuit Alleges Warhol Forgery Scheme Spanning Florida, Peru, and Philadelphia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Duped into buying more than $6.7 million worth of fake Andy Warhol paintings and prints, real estate investor Richard Perlman and his family have launched a multinational lawsuit against the players they say are complicit in the alleged scam.Filed on September 9 in a Miami state court and first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the lawsuit accuses roughly half a dozen individuals and companies across Florida, Philadelphia, and Peru of acting as &ldquo;suppliers, fake authenticators and distri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lawsuit-alleges-warhol-forgery-scheme-spanning-florida-peru-andphiladelphia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lawsuit-alleges-warhol-forgery-scheme-spanning-florida-peru-andphiladelphia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk’s Widow Denounces Vandalism of Statue in Arizona: ‘His Instinct Was Always to Build, Not Destroy’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not long after it went on view, a sculpture of Charlie Kirk outside his Arizona nonprofit was vandalized, leading to condemnation from the right-wing activist&rsquo;s widow.The eight-foot-tall statue appeared last week at the Phoenix headquarters of Turning Point USA, the conservative organization that Kirk cofounded in 2012. It was installed last Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the day that Kirk was killed after being fatally shot in the neck before a crowd. That same day, another statu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/charlie-kirks-widow-denounces-vandalism-of-statue-in-arizona-his-instinct-was-always-to-build-notdestroy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/charlie-kirks-widow-denounces-vandalism-of-statue-in-arizona-his-instinct-was-always-to-build-notdestroy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s to Offer $90 M. in Art from Richard Hedreen’s Collection, Ahead of Major University Gift]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s will offer some 50 works from the collection of Seattle real estate developer Richard &ldquo;Dick&rdquo; Hedreen this fall and winter, in a series of sales expected to bring at least $90 million.The sale comes two years after Hedreen pledged his and his late wife Betty&rsquo;s collection to Seattle University, along with $25 million in seed money to establish a new art museum there. Rather than a reversal of that gift, the family says the sale is intended to help make it happen.A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-offer-90-m-in-art-from-richard-hedreens-collection-ahead-of-major-universitygift/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-offer-90-m-in-art-from-richard-hedreens-collection-ahead-of-major-universitygift/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center’s Future Hangs in the Balance as Report Warns of Imminent Closure]]></title><description><![CDATA[The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is reportedly on the brink of bankruptcy. Leaders at the center, who were largely appointed by President Donald Trump, have argued that the only way to avoid &ldquo;certain fiscal collapse&rdquo; is by putting the President&rsquo;s name on the building&rsquo;s facade to ensure his fundraising efforts, according to a report by the Washington Post.A 57-page packet reviewed by the Post offered a bleak assessment of the center&rsquo;s future to the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-centers-future-hangs-in-the-balance-as-report-warns-of-imminentclosure/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-centers-future-hangs-in-the-balance-as-report-warns-of-imminentclosure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s to Auction 31 Pablo Picasso Prints, Including Three Rare Portraits of Wife Jacqueline Roque]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 30 prints by Pablo Picasso have gone on display at Christie&rsquo;s in London through September 23, as part of the auction house&rsquo;s &ldquo;Prints &amp; Multiples&rdquo; sale and exhibition. The total 31-piece lot is estimated to fetch between &pound;2.8 million and &pound;4.1 million ($3.8 million and $5.53 million).Include in the print collection are three portraits of Jacqueline Roque, who was Picasso&rsquo;s second wife and last lover, until his death in 1973. This October mark]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-auction-31-pablo-picasso-prints-including-three-rare-portraits-of-wife-jacquelineroque/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-auction-31-pablo-picasso-prints-including-three-rare-portraits-of-wife-jacquelineroque/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s to Auction Antonio Homem Sonnabend’s $50 M. Art Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Antonio Homem Sonnabend Collection that&rsquo;s estimated to achieve more than $50 million at auction is coming to Christie&rsquo;s this fall, with works by Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol. He is the late adopted son of art dealers Ileana and Michael Sonnabend.During his lifetime, Antonio oversaw Ilena and Michael&rsquo;s vast collection of works, which included post-war and contemporary art, photographs, prints and multiples, and design, which wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-auction-antonio-homem-sonnabends-50-m-artcollection/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-auction-antonio-homem-sonnabends-50-m-artcollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Net.Art Pioneer Olia Lialina on the Practice of Preservation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.Olia Lialina has been distributing herself online since 1994, counting her among the first artists in the net.art scene. 30 years worth of her fascination with the poetics of servers, browsers, and GIFs is now on view in &ldquo;Network Portraits&rdquo; through October 3, at Berlin&rsquo;s Panke Gallery. (Elsewhere, at the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/netart-pioneer-olia-lialina-on-the-practice-ofpreservation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/netart-pioneer-olia-lialina-on-the-practice-ofpreservation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of Art Nonprofits Command Billions in Assets. A New York Conference Sheds Light on an Under-Studied Sector]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spanning the globe, there are uncounted thousands of nonprofit arts organizations, with varying missions, budgets, and staff sizes. While there are many regular reports that cover the art market and the museum world, it may be that private arts foundations are less studied, perhaps partly because they are so varied.&nbsp;Clare Hindle and Meagan Ryan, cofounders (with creative director Hilary Wolfe) of the Stoa Foundation, released an inaugural report this winter and have organized conferences to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thousands-of-art-nonprofits-command-billions-in-assets-a-new-york-conference-sheds-light-on-an-under-studiedsector/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thousands-of-art-nonprofits-command-billions-in-assets-a-new-york-conference-sheds-light-on-an-under-studiedsector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arthur Jafa Addresses His Work for Kanye West: ‘I’m Not Into Discarding Black Folk Simply for Things They Say’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arthur Jafa, the artist and filmmaker whose work will soon be the subject of an expansive exhibition at New York&rsquo;s New Museum this month, addressed his decision to make a music video for Kanye West, the rapper whose comments about Jews and the enslavement of Black people have drawn widespread scrutiny.In 2020, Jafa directed a music video for West called &ldquo;Wash Us in the Blood.&rdquo; Like other works by Jafa, most notably his famed 2016 video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arthur-jafa-addresses-his-work-for-kanye-west-im-not-into-discarding-black-folk-simply-for-things-theysay/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arthur-jafa-addresses-his-work-for-kanye-west-im-not-into-discarding-black-folk-simply-for-things-theysay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alice Diop to Take on Miu Miu’s 2026 Art Basel Paris Commission]]></title><description><![CDATA[Miu Miu has announced that the recipient of its 2026 commission for the Art Basel Paris Public Program will be filmmaker Alice Diop.Diop will stage Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation) at both the Palais d&rsquo;I&eacute;na headquarters of France&rsquo;s Economic, Social, and Environmental Council and the Miu Miu runway show. Diop&rsquo;s takeover will mark the third commission by Miu Miu during Art Basel Paris, with Goshka Macuga&rsquo;s Tales and Tellers (2024) and Helen Marten&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alice-diop-to-take-on-miu-mius-2026-art-basel-pariscommission/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alice-diop-to-take-on-miu-mius-2026-art-basel-pariscommission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$90 M. Hedreen Collection Heads to Sotheby’s to Underwrite Seattle U. Building, Florida Family Claims International Scheme Sold Them Fake Andy Warhols, and More: Morning Links for September 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.Good Morning!<br />
&nbsp;Sotheby&rsquo;s is auctioning $90 million worth of art from the collection of Richard Hedreen, which will help underwrite a Seattle University building to house 400 donated works from his collection.A family in Florida claims it was defrauded by an international racketeering scheme that sold them over 200 fake Andy Warhols.&nbsp;President]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/90-m-hedreen-collection-heads-to-sothebys-to-underwrite-seattle-u-building-florida-family-claims-international-scheme-sold-them-fake-andy-warhols-and-more-morning-links-for-september142026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/90-m-hedreen-collection-heads-to-sothebys-to-underwrite-seattle-u-building-florida-family-claims-international-scheme-sold-them-fake-andy-warhols-and-more-morning-links-for-september142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Demands ‘Strange Modernist’ Sculpture Be Replaced by George Washington Statue]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has released his latest list of demands for the Smithsonian Institution, beginning with the installation of a monumental statue of George Washington outside the National Museum of American History.In a flurry of Truth Social posts late Friday, Trump also called for an exhibition honoring the nation&rsquo;s first president to open imminently and run through February 22, 2032, the 300th anniversary of Washington&rsquo;s birth. The statue, Trump said, should be erected on Sep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-demands-strange-modernist-sculpture-be-replaced-by-george-washingtonstatue/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-demands-strange-modernist-sculpture-be-replaced-by-george-washingtonstatue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Janine Antoni Simultaneously Disturbs and Delights]]></title><description><![CDATA[Janine Antoni&rsquo;s hands descend over the eyes of a creamy-colored bust to the sound of water pouring from a faucet. Bubbles froth at the sculpture&rsquo;s chin and twinkle from grooves between sculpted strands of hair. She caresses the immobile features, then turns the statue to face her. In this 2003 video, little of the artist herself can be seen: A sliver of bare leg presses against the white enamel of a bathtub; her quick hands studiously encircle the simulated cartilage of the bust&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-janine-antoni-simultaneously-disturbs-anddelights/</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-janine-antoni-simultaneously-disturbs-anddelights/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Books on Dena Yago’s Shelf]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across writing, painting, and her &ldquo;trend forecasting&rdquo; collective K-HOLE, Dena Yago is an armchair theorist of those aesthetic sensibilities so banal and pernicious&mdash;so normal and boring&mdash;that they could easily go unnoticed. Thrillingly, this makes them all the more fascinating. Yago has turned her attention to such phenomena as the Amazon bags that have become urban tumbleweeds, and to the subtly evolving meanings of ordinary words like &ldquo;capacity.&rdquo; Often, when o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-books-on-dena-yagosshelf/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-books-on-dena-yagosshelf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would an influential jeremiad against American literature’s devotion to emotional immaturity change writerly habits? Alas, no]]></title><description><![CDATA[Would an influential jeremiad against American literature&rsquo;s devotion to emotional immaturity change writerly habits? Alas, no]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/would-an-influential-jeremiad-against-american-literatures-devotion-to-emotional-immaturity-change-writerly-habits-alas-no/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:21:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/would-an-influential-jeremiad-against-american-literatures-devotion-to-emotional-immaturity-change-writerly-habits-alas-no/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Atomphilosoph. In technologically driven catastrophes, Günther Anders saw cosmic arrogance — and also the need for a new moral code]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Atomphilosoph. In technologically driven catastrophes, G&uuml;nther Anders saw cosmic arrogance &mdash; and also the need for a new moral code]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-atomphilosoph-in-technologically-driven-catastrophes-gnther-anders-saw-cosmic-arrogance-and-also-the-need-for-a-new-moral-code/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:21:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-atomphilosoph-in-technologically-driven-catastrophes-gnther-anders-saw-cosmic-arrogance-and-also-the-need-for-a-new-moral-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature rightly insists that we must learn from the tragedy of Jason Arday. Unfortunately the journal has learned the wrong lessons]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nature&nbsp;rightly&nbsp;insists that we must learn from the tragedy of Jason Arday. Unfortunately the journal has learned the wrong lessons]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/naturerightlyinsists-that-we-must-learn-from-the-tragedy-of-jason-arday-unfortunately-the-journal-has-learned-the-wrong-lessons/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:21:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/naturerightlyinsists-that-we-must-learn-from-the-tragedy-of-jason-arday-unfortunately-the-journal-has-learned-the-wrong-lessons/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is all the hate for Rachel Cusk’s latest novel merely a misunderstanding of its genre, and the terms the book sets out for itself?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is all the hate for Rachel Cusk&rsquo;s latest novel merely a misunderstanding of its genre, and the terms the book sets out for itself?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-all-the-hate-for-rachel-cusks-latest-novel-merely-a-misunderstanding-of-its-genre-and-the-terms-the-book-sets-out-for-itself/</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:21:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-all-the-hate-for-rachel-cusks-latest-novel-merely-a-misunderstanding-of-its-genre-and-the-terms-the-book-sets-out-for-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘I Live for My Art. That’s Really All There Is to It’: Read One of Yayoi Kusama’s Final Unpublished Interviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yayoi Kusama, who died last month, was among the world&rsquo;s most famous artists, her reach extending far beyond the realm of museums and galleries, both because of the work she made and the way she saw the universe all around her.She was most beloved for her &ldquo;Infinity Mirror Rooms,&rdquo; jewel-box installations that dazzle the eye, extending one&rsquo;s perception and immersing the viewer in an unending abyss of pure beauty and total wonderment. She made the first one, Infinity Mirror]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/i-live-for-my-art-thats-really-all-there-is-to-it-read-one-of-yayoi-kusamas-final-unpublishedinterviews/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/i-live-for-my-art-thats-really-all-there-is-to-it-read-one-of-yayoi-kusamas-final-unpublishedinterviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Artist Claude Lévêque Ordered to Stand Trial for Rape and Sexual Assault of Minors]]></title><description><![CDATA[The famed French artist Claude L&eacute;v&ecirc;que, who represented the nation at the 2009 Venice Biennale, has been ordered to stand trial in a French criminal court for rape and sexual assault of three minors, Lib&eacute;ration has revealed.His lawyers have filed an appeal, which is expected to further delay a trial in the northern Paris department of Seine-Saint-Denis; it has already taken years for the proceedings to reach this stage. According to court documents leaked to Lib&eacute;ration]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-artist-claude-lvque-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-rape-and-sexual-assault-ofminors/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-artist-claude-lvque-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-rape-and-sexual-assault-ofminors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth Sculpture in London Receives Mixed Reviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[London&rsquo;s Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square has a new art star, and it&rsquo;s New York&ndash;based artist Tschabalala Self, whose sculpture Lady in Blue is the 16th artwork to feature there since 1998.The bronze sculpture shows a Black woman walking. Donning a baby blue dress with a slit and matching heels, she is &ldquo;not a remote historic figurehead&mdash;but a tribute to everyday women. Monumental in scale&mdash;but at the same time relatable. London has already fallen in love with he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tschabalala-selfs-fourth-plinth-sculpture-in-london-receives-mixedreviews/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tschabalala-selfs-fourth-plinth-sculpture-in-london-receives-mixedreviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tensions Ran High as Charlie Kirk Memorial Sculpture Was Unveiled in Times Square]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shouting and a shoving match erupted as Italian-American artist Sergio Furnari unveiled his unpermitted life-size bronze memorial to slain right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Times Square on Thursday, according to video footage posted by Al Jazeera and other media reports.	The sculpture was uncovered at 2:23 p.m., the same moment the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated one year ago at a speaking event at Utah Valley University in front of some 3,000 people. According to Getty, the sculptu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tensions-ran-high-as-charlie-kirk-memorial-sculpture-was-unveiled-in-timessquare/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tensions-ran-high-as-charlie-kirk-memorial-sculpture-was-unveiled-in-timessquare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Mausoleum Discovered Along Peruvian Coast]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient mausoleum complex was found under a ruined citadel and uncovered by archaeologists in Peru&rsquo;s northern coast, officials in the nation announced this week. This is the first time experts have found an untouched tomb in the city.The Chan Chan site, once the capital of the&nbsp;Chimu&nbsp;kingdom, which ruled over much of Peru&rsquo;s coast prior to the Inca, has been undergoing excavations for decades, with much of the area plundered due to centuries of conquest by the Inca, Spanis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-mausoleum-discovered-along-peruviancoast/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-mausoleum-discovered-along-peruviancoast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rosalyn Drexler’s Art Shines at New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery and Rachel Comey’s Runway Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[The late Rosalyn Drexler set her figures against solid backgrounds that have an oddly familiar quality typical of first-generation Pop art. They appear so familiar because she pulled these figures from print media and movie posters, and then made her own via her distinct use of color. Still today, some six decades later, Drexler&rsquo;s paintings still feel fresh and new.They are currently the subject of a solo show, titled &ldquo;My Life Has a Life of Its Own&rdquo; that inaugurates one of Gart]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rosalyn-drexlers-art-shines-at-new-yorks-garth-greenan-gallery-and-rachel-comeys-runwayshow/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rosalyn-drexlers-art-shines-at-new-yorks-garth-greenan-gallery-and-rachel-comeys-runwayshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush Reveals New 9/11 Paintings: ‘When America Is in Trouble, Americans Respond’]]></title><description><![CDATA[To mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, former US President George W. Bush has officially revealed a new series of paintings about that fateful day and the fallout from it. Titled &ldquo;Remembering 9/11,&rdquo; the series is making its debut at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.The paintings feature subjects such as American flags, grieving people, and images of Bush himself, addressing a reeling nation in 2001. The works &ldquo;reflect on the courage, sacrifice, and resilie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-w-bush-reveals-new-911-paintings-when-america-is-in-trouble-americansrespond/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-w-bush-reveals-new-911-paintings-when-america-is-in-trouble-americansrespond/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before Thieves Stole A Now-Missing Renoir Painting, Family Says Nazis Had Already Done So—And It Belongs to Them.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The mystery has just deepened around who rightfully owns the two still-missing paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, stolen on Tuesday from a museum in southern France, along with two other artworks by the Impressionist, which were ultimately abandoned in the museum garden.According to Le Monde, the descendants of the Paris-based, Jewish dealer Jadwiga (also called Hedwig) Zak, who died in Auschwitz, had previously made a formal request for the restitution of one of the two missing Renoir painting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/before-thieves-stole-a-now-missing-renoir-painting-family-says-nazis-had-already-done-soand-it-belongs-tothem/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/before-thieves-stole-a-now-missing-renoir-painting-family-says-nazis-had-already-done-soand-it-belongs-tothem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bayeux Tapestry Sustained Minor Damage Following Trip to England, Artist Claude Lévêque Ordered to Stand Trial for Rape and Sexual Assault of Minors, and More: Morning Links for September 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.Good Morning!<br />
Conservators discovered two new &ldquo;small breaks&rdquo; in the Bayeux Tapestry, which appeared after its transfer to the British Museum from France.Artist Claude L&eacute;v&ecirc;que was ordered to stand trial in a French criminal court for rape and sexual assault of three minors.&nbsp;The Picasso Museum in Paris is making and selling eight e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bayeux-tapestry-sustained-minor-damage-following-trip-to-england-artist-claude-lvque-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-minors-and-more-morning-links-for-september112026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bayeux-tapestry-sustained-minor-damage-following-trip-to-england-artist-claude-lvque-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-minors-and-more-morning-links-for-september112026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bayeux Tapestry Sustained Minor Damage Discovered Following Trip to England, Artist Claude Lévêque Ordered to Stand Trial for Rape and Sexual Assault of Minors, and More: Morning Links for September 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.Good Morning!<br />
Conservators discovered two new &ldquo;small breaks&rdquo; in the Bayeux Tapestry, which appeared after its transfer to the British Museum from France.Artist Claude L&eacute;v&ecirc;que was ordered to stand trial in a French criminal court for rape and sexual assault of three minors.&nbsp;The Picasso Museum in Paris is making and selling eight e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bayeux-tapestry-sustained-minor-damage-discovered-following-trip-to-england-artist-claude-lvque-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-minors-and-more-morning-links-for-september112026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bayeux-tapestry-sustained-minor-damage-discovered-following-trip-to-england-artist-claude-lvque-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-minors-and-more-morning-links-for-september112026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ragnar Kjartansson Is the Great Romantic Artist for Our Age of Loneliness]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Reality is a clich&eacute;,&rdquo; wrote Wallace Stevens in 1951, &ldquo;from which we escape by metaphor.&rdquo;There&rsquo;s almost no better guide today through today&rsquo;s undrained swamps of clich&eacute;s, metaphors, and clich&eacute; metaphors than Ragnar Kjartansson, the up-and-downbeat pop video artist whose survey, &ldquo;Ragnar Kjartansson: Politics of the Obvious,&rdquo; just opened at the Buffalo AKG. He drives headlong into the clich&eacute; and emerges reinvigorated and r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ragnar-kjartansson-is-the-great-romantic-artist-for-our-age-ofloneliness/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ragnar-kjartansson-is-the-great-romantic-artist-for-our-age-ofloneliness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Atomphilosoph. In technologically-driven catastrophes Günther Anders saw cosmic arrogance — but also the need for a new moral code]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Atomphilosoph. In technologically-driven catastrophes G&uuml;nther Anders saw cosmic arrogance &mdash; but also the need for a new moral code]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-atomphilosoph-in-technologically-driven-catastrophes-gnther-anders-saw-cosmic-arrogance-but-also-the-need-for-a-new-moral-code/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:36:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-atomphilosoph-in-technologically-driven-catastrophes-gnther-anders-saw-cosmic-arrogance-but-also-the-need-for-a-new-moral-code/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the winter of 1988, Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay while visiting his in-laws in Las Vegas. He's been fending off critics ever since]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the winter of 1988, Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay while visiting his in-laws in Las Vegas. He's been fending off critics ever since]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-winter-of-1988-francis-fukuyama-wrote-an-essay-while-visiting-his-in-laws-in-las-vegas-hes-been-fending-off-critics-ever-since/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:36:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-winter-of-1988-francis-fukuyama-wrote-an-essay-while-visiting-his-in-laws-in-las-vegas-hes-been-fending-off-critics-ever-since/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“In Silicon Valley, science fiction is neither a slight nor an incidental entertainment,” says Jill Lepore. “Instead it’s taken as a form of technical writing, a set of assembly instructions”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;In Silicon Valley, science fiction is neither a slight nor an incidental entertainment,&rdquo; says Jill Lepore. &ldquo;Instead it&rsquo;s taken as a form of technical writing, a set of assembly instructions&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-silicon-valley-science-fiction-is-neither-a-slight-nor-an-incidental-entertainment-says-jill-lepore-instead-its-taken-as-a-form-of-technical-writing-a-set-of-assembly-instructions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:36:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-silicon-valley-science-fiction-is-neither-a-slight-nor-an-incidental-entertainment-says-jill-lepore-instead-its-taken-as-a-form-of-technical-writing-a-set-of-assembly-instructions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an 8th-century Chinese text, Buddha warns of 50 “demonic states” in which meditators can be trapped. Now science is exposing those dangers]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an 8th-century Chinese text, Buddha warns of 50 &ldquo;demonic states&rdquo; in which meditators can be trapped. Now science is exposing those dangers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-an-8th-century-chinese-text-buddha-warns-of-50-demonic-states-in-which-meditators-can-be-trapped-now-science-is-exposing-those-dangers/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:36:05 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-an-8th-century-chinese-text-buddha-warns-of-50-demonic-states-in-which-meditators-can-be-trapped-now-science-is-exposing-those-dangers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qatar Is Building a Permanent Pavilion for Gerhard Richter to Open in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new permanent pavilion devoted to the artist Gerhard Richter will open later this fall in Qatar, in MIA Park outside Doha&rsquo;s Museum of Islamic Art. The building was designed by Richter himself and is being constructed in collaboration with Selldorf Architects, the firm led by art-world design favorite Annabelle Selldorf (whose credits include the Frick Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, David Zwirner, Hauser &amp; Wirth, and many more).&nbsp;&ldquo;Doha Pavilion has been designed by Gerh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/qatar-is-building-a-permanent-pavilion-for-gerhard-richter-to-open-innovember/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/qatar-is-building-a-permanent-pavilion-for-gerhard-richter-to-open-innovember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The American Public Has No Love for a CEO’: Stanya Kahn On Her Riveting Video of Social Posts About Luigi Mangione]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was one of the wildest assassination stories of recent times, when, on December 4, 2024, surveillance cameras captured a masked man as he gunned down United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson outside the company&rsquo;s annual investor conference in New York.	The alleged shooter then fled on a Citi Bike, leaving behind in Central Park a backpack full of Monopoly money. He managed to escape to Pennsylvania, only to be turned in by a McDonald&rsquo;s employee (who earned the internet&rsquo;s wrath]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-american-public-has-no-love-for-a-ceo-stanya-kahn-on-her-riveting-video-of-social-posts-about-luigimangione/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-american-public-has-no-love-for-a-ceo-stanya-kahn-on-her-riveting-video-of-social-posts-about-luigimangione/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UAE Minister Says Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Will Tell a New Story About the Middle East, Despite the Ongoing War]]></title><description><![CDATA[All eyes are on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi as it prepares for opening on December 11 after two decades of delays.	The cost of the project has neared $1 billion and the country is getting excited for what&rsquo;s to come. Just last month, the museum named Valerie Hillings as the institution&rsquo;s inaugural director, where she will oversee the largest branch in the Guggenheim&rsquo;s four-country museum network.In a short interview with the German culture magazine Monopol, Noura bint Mohammed Al K]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uae-minister-says-guggenheim-abu-dhabi-will-tell-a-new-story-about-the-middle-east-despite-the-ongoingwar/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uae-minister-says-guggenheim-abu-dhabi-will-tell-a-new-story-about-the-middle-east-despite-the-ongoingwar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Inside Maurizio Cattelan’s Highly Anticipated Berlin Show, Featuring a Sculpture Made with Human Remains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maurizio Cattelan, the provocateur sculptor famed for duct-taping a banana to a wall and calling it art, has returned with his latest exhibition, a much-hyped show at Berlin&rsquo;s Neue Nationgalerie. It&rsquo;s billed as a survey, but in typical form for Cattelan, who once did a Guggenheim Museum retrospective in which many of his sculptures were strung together and hung in the center of the rotunda, the exhibition is something funkier than that.The genesis of the show is equally funky. Cattel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-inside-maurizio-cattelans-highly-anticipated-berlin-show-featuring-a-sculpture-made-with-humanremains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-inside-maurizio-cattelans-highly-anticipated-berlin-show-featuring-a-sculpture-made-with-humanremains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaire Igor Tulchinsky, Who Sponsored the Bayeux Tapestry’s UK Sojourn, Also Funded a Mental Health Facility in an Illegal West Bank Settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[The historic voyage of the Bayeux Tapestry to London&rsquo;s British Museum has been a popular sensation, with VIPs like the UK&rsquo;s King Charles and French president Emmanuel Macron attending a reception to welcome the famed 11th-century embroidery. Tens of thousands of people vied for tickets. The fragile artwork was allowed to travel only after the French supreme court tore up a lawsuit aiming to stop the loan and a painstaking French study said it would be safe to undertake the trip.It ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-igor-tulchinsky-who-sponsored-the-bayeux-tapestrys-uk-sojourn-also-funded-a-mental-health-facility-in-an-illegal-west-banksettlement/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-igor-tulchinsky-who-sponsored-the-bayeux-tapestrys-uk-sojourn-also-funded-a-mental-health-facility-in-an-illegal-west-banksettlement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curator Jordan Carter Shares Five Recent Obsessions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dia Art Foundation curator behind this fall&rsquo;s Counterpublic triennial in St. Louis and Haegue Yang exhibition in Beacon singles out five favorites.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/curator-jordan-carter-shares-five-recentobsessions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/curator-jordan-carter-shares-five-recentobsessions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Largest Ancient Roman Wall Mosaic Ever Found Goes on Public View]]></title><description><![CDATA[What may be the largest ancient Roman wall mosaic ever found has been open to the public for limited viewing. Roberto Gualtieri, the mayor of Rome, unveiled the 1st-century CE mosaic, along with a fresco discovered at the same time, in the city this week.The artworks were first identified during excavations in the 1990s at the Baths of Trajan, located on Oppio Hill near the Colosseum, but never fully uncovered until now. Dedicated by Roman emperor Trajan in 109 CE, the baths were an enormous lei]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-largest-ancient-roman-wall-mosaic-ever-found-goes-on-publicview/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-largest-ancient-roman-wall-mosaic-ever-found-goes-on-publicview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Urgent Action” Needed to Protect a World Heritage-Listed Temple in Cambodia]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient Cambodian temple has suffered extensive damage from &ldquo;direct hits&rdquo;&nbsp;following the 2025 border war between Thailand and Cambodia, a UNESCO-led study found.The Temple of Preah Vihear, a World Heritage-listed site, remains under serious threat due to military strikes that have left &ldquo;a profound and detrimental impact on the integrity of the property,&rdquo; according to the mission report. &ldquo;Every part of the monument, recent touristic infrastructures and equipme]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/urgent-action-needed-to-protect-a-world-heritage-listed-temple-incambodia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/urgent-action-needed-to-protect-a-world-heritage-listed-temple-incambodia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princess Diana’s Revenge Dress Returns to Sotheby’s With $300,000 Price Tag]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been 32 years since Princess Diana stepped out at the Serpentine Gallery&rsquo;s summer party wearing a black Christina&nbsp;Stambolian dress, otherwise dubbed &ldquo;the revenge dress.&rdquo; The dress has served as a reference point for fashion designers on the international runways and for costume designers on shows such as Netflix&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Crown.&rdquo; Now, the dress is coming to auction at Sotheby&rsquo;s London on December 9 for an estimate of $150,000 to $300,000.The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/princess-dianas-revenge-dress-returns-to-sothebys-with-300000-pricetag/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/princess-dianas-revenge-dress-returns-to-sothebys-with-300000-pricetag/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family of Holocaust Victim Made Restitution Request for One of Two Stolen Renoir Paintings, Wildfire Forces Getty Center to Close, and More: Morning Links for September 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.Good Morning!<br />
One of the stolen Renoir paintings from a southern French museum was the subject of a pending restitution request made by the heirs of a Jewish art dealer who died in Auschwitz.The Getty Center closed on Wednesday after a wildfire broke out along the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles.&nbsp;President Trump will have unprecedented control over the Smiths]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/family-of-holocaust-victim-made-restitution-request-for-one-of-two-stolen-renoir-paintings-wildfire-forces-getty-center-to-close-and-more-morning-links-for-september102026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/family-of-holocaust-victim-made-restitution-request-for-one-of-two-stolen-renoir-paintings-wildfire-forces-getty-center-to-close-and-more-morning-links-for-september102026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sandra Vásquez De La Horra’s Dreamlike Drawings Unite Nature and Humanity]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a young child visiting her grandparents in the Chilean countryside, Sandra V&aacute;squez de la Horra went missing. &ldquo;Nobody could find me. They searched for hours and hours, until finally they found me with a pig who had just given birth. I was sleeping with the piglets,&rdquo; the artist recently recalled, beginning to laugh. &ldquo;My relationship with nature is that I&rsquo;m part of it. I don&rsquo;t feel separation.&rdquo;For more than four decades, V&aacute;squez de la Horra has m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sandra-vsquez-de-la-horras-dreamlike-drawings-unite-nature-andhumanity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sandra-vsquez-de-la-horras-dreamlike-drawings-unite-nature-andhumanity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rabkin Foundation Names Eight Winners of Its 2026 Arts Journalism Grants ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dorothea &amp; Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine, named eight recipients of its 2026 prize for visual arts journalists. The Rabkin Prize carries an unrestricted $50,000 purse, along with creative and intellectual recognition. This year&rsquo;s recipients, the foundation said, are &ldquo;deeply interested in the forces that shape what we see&mdash;and what we don&rsquo;t.&rdquo;This year&rsquo;s grant winners are Damien Davis, a writer, educator, and artist whose work interrogates how]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rabkin-foundation-names-eight-winners-of-its-2026-arts-journalismgrants/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rabkin-foundation-names-eight-winners-of-its-2026-arts-journalismgrants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a Turbulent Decade and Multiple Delays, Brussels’s Kanal-Centre Pompidou Will Open in November. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This past spring, an eclectic mix of journalists donned hard hats and dusty boots to join Kasia Redzisz, the artistic director of the Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, on a tour through the institution&rsquo;s colossal former Citro&euml;n garage from the 1930s ahead of its long-awaited reopening. After a crisis-ridden decade of planning and renovations and more than &euro;250 million ($290 million), the 430,000-square-foot complex is set to open on November 28, when it will become the Belgian c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-turbulent-decade-and-multiple-delays-brusselss-kanal-centre-pompidou-will-open-in-november-not-everyone-is-happy-aboutit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-turbulent-decade-and-multiple-delays-brusselss-kanal-centre-pompidou-will-open-in-november-not-everyone-is-happy-aboutit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getty Center Closes After Fire Breaks Out Along Los Angeles’s 405 Freeway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Los Angeles&rsquo;s Getty Center closed early on Wednesday after a fire broke out along the 405 Freeway.Per the Los Angeles Times, the fire was reported to the city&rsquo;s Fire Department at 4:30 p.m.; it has already burned five acres. The Fire Department has issued an evacuation warning for an area that includes the Getty Center, a complex that includes museum buildings host to Renaissance and Old Master paintings, the Getty Research Institute, and a Robert Irwin&ndash;designed garden.Accordin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-center-closes-after-fire-breaks-out-along-los-angeless-405freeway/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-center-closes-after-fire-breaks-out-along-los-angeless-405freeway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nonfiction collapse. We’re nearing the point at which one fiction blockbuster could outsell the entire nonfiction bestseller list]]></title><description><![CDATA[The nonfiction collapse. We&rsquo;re nearing the point at which one fiction blockbuster could outsell the entire nonfiction bestseller list]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-nonfiction-collapse-were-nearing-the-point-at-which-one-fiction-blockbuster-could-outsell-the-entire-nonfiction-bestseller-list/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:36:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-nonfiction-collapse-were-nearing-the-point-at-which-one-fiction-blockbuster-could-outsell-the-entire-nonfiction-bestseller-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time speeds up and slows down; days blend together to the point of indistinguishability — time disorientation is real]]></title><description><![CDATA[Time speeds up and slows down; days blend together to the point of indistinguishability &mdash; time disorientation is real]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/time-speeds-up-and-slows-down-days-blend-together-to-the-point-of-indistinguishability-time-disorientation-is-real/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:20:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/time-speeds-up-and-slows-down-days-blend-together-to-the-point-of-indistinguishability-time-disorientation-is-real/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an 8th-century Chinese text, Buddha warns of 50 “demonic states” in which meditators can be trapped. New science is exposing those dangers]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an 8th-century Chinese text, Buddha warns of 50 &ldquo;demonic states&rdquo; in which meditators can be trapped. New science is exposing those dangers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-an-8th-century-chinese-text-buddha-warns-of-50-demonic-states-in-which-meditators-can-be-trapped-new-science-is-exposing-those-dangers/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:20:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-an-8th-century-chinese-text-buddha-warns-of-50-demonic-states-in-which-meditators-can-be-trapped-new-science-is-exposing-those-dangers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 83, Terry Eagleton is fixated on death, which he unnervingly describes as &ldquo;the erotic bliss of yielding to an impregnable power"]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 83, Terry Eagleton is fixated on death, which he unnervingly describes as &ldquo;the erotic bliss of yielding to an impregnable power"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-83-terry-eagleton-is-fixated-on-death-which-he-unnervingly-describes-as-ldquothe-erotic-bliss-of-yielding-to-an-impregnable-power/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:20:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-83-terry-eagleton-is-fixated-on-death-which-he-unnervingly-describes-as-ldquothe-erotic-bliss-of-yielding-to-an-impregnable-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Names New Director ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has named Kathleen V. Jameson as its next director. She officially began in the role on Tuesday.&nbsp;She replaces Raphaela Platow, who stepped down last year at the end of a four-year contract. &nbsp;A scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century American art, with an emphasis on photography and works on paper, Jameson was most recently the executive director of Pennsylvania&rsquo;s James A. Michener Art Museum, a role she held from 2018 to 2019.Pre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louisvilles-speed-art-museum-names-newdirector/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louisvilles-speed-art-museum-names-newdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Faces Lawsuit over Whether It Truly Is a Private Museum at All]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the newly inaugurated institution spearheaded by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, may finally have opened to the press and founding members after $1 billion in costs and more than a decade of bureaucratic wrangling, but a new lawsuit alleges that the museum should&rsquo;ve faced yet more hurdles during its construction.The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday that the museum is currently the subject of four lawsuits by contractors, one of whom is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-faces-lawsuit-over-whether-it-truly-is-a-private-museum-atall/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-faces-lawsuit-over-whether-it-truly-is-a-private-museum-atall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection Donates 51 Artworks to Four Museums in Greece and Scotland]]></title><description><![CDATA[The D. Daskalopoulos Collection announced a donation of 51 artworks to four museums across Greece and Scotland.The majority of the works will be spread across the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMUS), and the National Gallery of Greece, all in Greece, with three pieces heading to the National Galleries of Scotland.The donation continues the collection&rsquo;s &ldquo;commitment to making contemporary art accessible to wider audiences,&rdquo; the announcement]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dimitris-daskalopoulos-collection-donates-51-artworks-to-four-museums-in-greece-andscotland/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dimitris-daskalopoulos-collection-donates-51-artworks-to-four-museums-in-greece-andscotland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amateur Metal Detectorist Finds Finland’s Largest Viking-Age Silver Hoard]]></title><description><![CDATA[A hoard of thousands of silver coins was unearthed by an amateur metal detectorist in southern Finland. Experts at Lahti Museums believe it&rsquo;s the largest Viking-era coin hoard found in the country, Heritage Daily reported.Kalle Lappinen made the find with a metal detector near Sysm&auml; church village on September 3. Archaeologists have since inspected the site and recovered a trove of almost 10 pounds of silver coins, with individual pieces still to be cleaned, separated, and counted.The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amateur-metal-detectorist-finds-finlands-largest-viking-age-silverhoard/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amateur-metal-detectorist-finds-finlands-largest-viking-age-silverhoard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modernist Trove Rich in Signac Paintings Heads to Sale at Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s will sell nearly 600 works of modernist art from the same collection under the title &ldquo;Radiant Modernism.&rdquo; The sale will occur across multiple dates, the first of which will take place this October during Frieze London.The auction house did not name the seller of the works, though it did say that the pieces all belonged to a private European collection. Christie&rsquo;s said the works could collectively bring in somewhere between $40 million and $60 million.The nearly]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/modernist-trove-rich-in-signac-paintings-heads-to-sale-atchristies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/modernist-trove-rich-in-signac-paintings-heads-to-sale-atchristies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modernist Collection Rich in Signac Paintings Heads to Sale at Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s will sell nearly 600 works of modernist art from the same collection under the title &ldquo;Radiant Modernism.&rdquo; The sale will occur across multiple dates, the first of which will take place this October during Frieze London.The auction house did not name the seller of the works, though it did say that the pieces all belonged to a private European collection. Christie&rsquo;s said the works could collectively bring in somewhere between $40 million and $60 million.The nearly]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/modernist-collection-rich-in-signac-paintings-heads-to-sale-atchristies/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/modernist-collection-rich-in-signac-paintings-heads-to-sale-atchristies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basel Social Club Launches Japanese Counterpart for Art Week Tokyo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Basel Social Club, an adventurous initiative that has provided counterpoint programming to the spectacle of Art Basel week in Switzerland since 2022, will launch a Japanese edition for Art Week Tokyo in November.Dubbed the Tokyo Jazz Club, the project will transpire in an eight-story former capsule hotel in the bookshop-intensive Jimbocho district of the city, with dates listed as November 1-8.As reported by the Italian publication Artribune, &ldquo;Inspired by the cross-pollination of fields an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/basel-social-club-launches-japanese-counterpart-for-art-weektokyo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/basel-social-club-launches-japanese-counterpart-for-art-weektokyo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leilah Babirye Joins Salon 94, George Rouy&rsquo;s Solo at Hauser &amp; Wirth in New York, and More: Industry Moves for September 9,&nbsp;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 Moves	Leilah Babirye Joins Salon&nbsp;94:&nbsp;Known for her&nbsp;ceramic and wood sculptures about queer identity, Babirye will have a show next spring at the gallery, which will represent her in partnership with Gordon&nbsp;Robichaux and Galerie Max Hetzler. Babirye featured in the 2024 Venic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leilah-babirye-joins-salon-94-george-rouyrsquos-solo-at-hauser-amp-wirth-in-new-york-and-more-industry-moves-for-september-9nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leilah-babirye-joins-salon-94-george-rouyrsquos-solo-at-hauser-amp-wirth-in-new-york-and-more-industry-moves-for-september-9nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diotima Unveils Fall Ad Campaign Inspired by Artist Wilfredo Lam’s Afro-Cuban Symbolism and History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rachel Scott,&nbsp;founder and creative director of&nbsp;Diotima, has released the company&rsquo;s fall ad campaign, which is a collaboration with the estate of Wilfredo Lam, whose art was shaped by Afro-Cuban symbolism, Caribbean spirituality, and European modernism and carries a political and cultural consciousness.On Friday, Scott told WWD how meaningful Lam&rsquo;s artwork was to her and her fall &rsquo;26 collection. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s one of the most influential of my work and my life. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/diotima-unveils-fall-ad-campaign-inspired-by-artist-wilfredo-lams-afro-cuban-symbolismandhistory/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/diotima-unveils-fall-ad-campaign-inspired-by-artist-wilfredo-lams-afro-cuban-symbolismandhistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Stolen Renoir Paintings May Have Been Nazi Looted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three of the Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings stolen yesterday morning from a museum in southern France may have been stolen before.	France&rsquo;s Ministry of Culture announced in a press release that three of the four paintings initially snatched from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer had been returned to France from Germany after World War II. They became informally known as &ldquo;orphans&rdquo; because their rightful owners were unknown. It&rsquo;s still unclear which paintings have the of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-stolen-renoir-paintings-may-have-been-nazilooted/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-stolen-renoir-paintings-may-have-been-nazilooted/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Koons Teams Up with Hublot for a New Watch Collaboration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Swiss luxury watchmaker Hublot has collaborated with the likes of Shepard Fairey, Richard Orlinski, Daniel Arsham, and Takashi Murakami. Now, it&rsquo;s tapping Jeff Koons as a collaborator and ambassador.Koons will unveil his reimagination of what a Hublot watch should look like in mid-September in New York. This is the artist&rsquo;s first collaboration with a watch brand. &ldquo;Hublot and I have always shared [a] fascination for the material sciences,&rdquo; said the artist in a statement. H]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-teams-up-with-hublot-for-a-new-watchcollaboration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-teams-up-with-hublot-for-a-new-watchcollaboration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valie Export Was Ahead of Her Time and as Subtle as She Was Provocative]]></title><description><![CDATA[One chilly but sparkling afternoon this past January, I made a pilgrimage. The destination was a somewhat unlikely site for work by one of the most iconoclastic (in every sense of that term) feminist artists of the last century: a Roman Catholic church. The P&ouml;stlingberg basilica gleams atop the steep hill of the same name, looking out upon a wide vista of the Danube flowing through Linz&mdash;where VALIE EXPORT, born Waltraud Lehner in Nazi-era Austria, spent her formative years.&nbsp;I was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valie-export-was-ahead-of-her-time-and-as-subtle-as-she-wasprovocative/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valie-export-was-ahead-of-her-time-and-as-subtle-as-she-wasprovocative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hungary Axes SANAA-Designed National Gallery, Basel Social Club to Launch Tokyo Event, and More: Morning Links for September 9, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Hungary&rsquo;s new government has nixed plans to build a SANAA-designed National Gallery in Budapest.&nbsp;Basel Social Club is launching Tokyo Jazz Club in November.&nbsp;Greece rejected a request from Frankfurt&rsquo;s Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection to borrow Parthenon marbles&nbsp;because of the British Museum&rsquo;s participation.The Hea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hungary-axes-sanaa-designed-national-gallery-basel-social-club-to-launch-tokyo-event-and-more-morning-links-for-september92026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hungary-axes-sanaa-designed-national-gallery-basel-social-club-to-launch-tokyo-event-and-more-morning-links-for-september92026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eric Firestone to Open Fifth Gallery in West Palm Beach]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eric Firestone is expanding south. The dealer will open his fifth gallery space, this time in West Palm Beach in mid-November, adding a permanent South Florida location to his two spaces in New York and two in East Hampton. The new gallery, at 2412 Florida Avenue, will occupy a warehouse space near the Norton Museum of Art.&nbsp;For Firestone, who grew up in Miami and left South Florida in 1989, the move is both a homecoming and a bet on a region he&rsquo;s familiar with as an art dealer. &ldquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eric-firestone-to-open-fifth-gallery-in-west-palmbeach/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eric-firestone-to-open-fifth-gallery-in-west-palmbeach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kasseem Dean and Alicia Keys Team Up with Bonhams for Initiative That Gives Artists a Cut of Secondary-Market Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Kasseem Dean (better known as Swizz Beatz) and Alicia Keys saw Kerry James Marshall&rsquo;s painting Past Times (1997) sell at Sotheby&rsquo;s in 2018 for $21 million, making what the house quickly labeled &ldquo;a record for a living African American artist,&rdquo; they despaired that Marshall himself didn&rsquo;t see any of the upside from the sale. &ldquo;We thought being a part of a milestone like that would be so advantageous to the artist who created the work,&rdquo; they wrote to ART]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kasseem-dean-and-alicia-keys-team-up-with-bonhams-for-initiative-that-gives-artists-a-cut-of-secondary-market-sales/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kasseem-dean-and-alicia-keys-team-up-with-bonhams-for-initiative-that-gives-artists-a-cut-of-secondary-market-sales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s to Auction Peter Simon’s $172 M. Art Collection, Led by Bacon, Mondrian, Warhol Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[An art collection, estimated to be worth &pound;87 million to &pound;127 million ($118 million to $172 million), featuring works by Francis Bacon, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, and more, is coming to Christie&rsquo;s on October 14 and 15 during Frieze Week. The collection belongs to British businessman and art collector Peter Simon, who has appeared on each edition of ARTnews&rsquo; Top 200 Collectors list since 2005.The sale of &ldquo;Monsoon: The Pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-auction-peter-simons-172-m-art-collection-led-by-bacon-mondrian-warholworks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-auction-peter-simons-172-m-art-collection-led-by-bacon-mondrian-warholworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s to Auction Bacon, Mondrian, Warhol in a £127 M. Art Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[An art collection, estimated to be worth &pound;87 million to &pound;127 million ($118 million to $172 million), featuring works by Francis Bacon, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Koons, and more, is coming to Christie&rsquo;s on October 14 and 15 during Frieze Week. The collection belongs to British businessman and art collector Peter Simon, who has appeared on each edition of ARTnews&rsquo; Top 200 Collectors list since 2005.The sale of &ldquo;Monsoon: The Pe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-auction-bacon-mondrian-warhol-in-a-127-m-artcollection/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-auction-bacon-mondrian-warhol-in-a-127-m-artcollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planned SANAA Architect Project in Hungary to Be Turned Into Public Parkland]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Tokyo-based architectural firm SANAA&rsquo;s plans to build a New National Gallery in Hungary have been axed. The decision was made by the country&rsquo;s new government, which came into power in May with the newly appointed prime minister P&eacute;ter Magyar. A decree published on June 18 put all construction work to a stop.The new gallery was part of the Liget Budapest Project to restore Hungary&rsquo;s historic V&aacute;rosliget, otherwise known as City Park. SANAA won the competition to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/planned-sanaa-architect-project-in-hungary-to-be-turned-into-publicparkland/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/planned-sanaa-architect-project-in-hungary-to-be-turned-into-publicparkland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight Must-See Islands for Art Lovers]]></title><description><![CDATA[No work, no chores, no stress.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. A far-flung island may be the perfect place to hide from day-to-day responsibilities. If you&rsquo;re an art lover looking to get away, but lazing in the sun with an exotic drink isn&rsquo;t quite your style, you will be happy to know that there are some destinations&mdash;from the Seto Inland Sea to the Mediterranean, designed to quench your thirst for culture and contemplation. Below, a look at eight islands around the world that are certain to plea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eight-must-see-islands-for-artlovers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eight-must-see-islands-for-artlovers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philippe Parreno’s ‘Iceman’ Sculpture Will Melt Away at Independent 20th Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[The iceman cometh&mdash;to the Breuer building.Later this month, Philippe Parreno&rsquo;s iconic Iceman in Reality Park (1995&ndash;2023) will make its New York debut, courtesy his gallery, Esther Schipper, which will show it at Independent 20th Century.&ldquo;The beautiful idea with the &lsquo;Iceman&rsquo; series is that it can be reproduced as many or as few times as desired,&rdquo; Leah Turner, the gallery&rsquo;s New York&ndash;based senior director, told ARTnews.The booth also marks Esther]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/philippe-parrenos-iceman-sculpture-will-melt-away-at-independent-20thcentury/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/philippe-parrenos-iceman-sculpture-will-melt-away-at-independent-20thcentury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nonfiction collapse. We’re nearing the point where one fiction blockbuster could outsell the entirety of the nonfiction bestseller list]]></title><description><![CDATA[The nonfiction collapse. We&rsquo;re nearing the point where one fiction blockbuster could outsell the entirety of the nonfiction bestseller list]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-nonfiction-collapse-were-nearing-the-point-where-one-fiction-blockbuster-could-outsell-the-entirety-of-the-nonfiction-bestseller-list/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:03:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-nonfiction-collapse-were-nearing-the-point-where-one-fiction-blockbuster-could-outsell-the-entirety-of-the-nonfiction-bestseller-list/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extraordinary achievement of Moby-Dick is to unroll the blank sheet on which modernity will write itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[The extraordinary achievement of Moby-Dick is to unroll the blank sheet on which modernity will write itself]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-extraordinary-achievement-of-moby-dick-is-to-unroll-the-blank-sheet-on-which-modernity-will-write-itself/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:03:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-extraordinary-achievement-of-moby-dick-is-to-unroll-the-blank-sheet-on-which-modernity-will-write-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she'd taught for a decade. This time,&nbsp;she lost her job]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once again this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she'd taught for a decade. This time,&nbsp;she lost her job]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/once-again-this-year-vinita-prabhakar-assigned-her-college-students-a-short-story-shed-taught-for-a-decade-this-timenbspshe-lost-her-job/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:03:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/once-again-this-year-vinita-prabhakar-assigned-her-college-students-a-short-story-shed-taught-for-a-decade-this-timenbspshe-lost-her-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon comprised adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare]]></title><description><![CDATA[Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon comprised adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/literature-without-lust-for-leslie-fiedler-the-american-canon-comprised-adventure-books-sea-tales-and-other-prepubescent-diet-fare/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:03:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/literature-without-lust-for-leslie-fiedler-the-american-canon-comprised-adventure-books-sea-tales-and-other-prepubescent-diet-fare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helen Vendler spent a lifetime writing about lyric poetry, yet her criticism always started from frustration, not certainty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Helen Vendler spent a lifetime writing about lyric poetry, yet her criticism always started from frustration, not certainty]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/helen-vendler-spent-a-lifetime-writing-about-lyric-poetry-yet-her-criticism-always-started-from-frustration-not-certainty/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:03:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/helen-vendler-spent-a-lifetime-writing-about-lyric-poetry-yet-her-criticism-always-started-from-frustration-not-certainty/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He burned with no causes, claimed Tom Stoppard. That detachment let him dramatize ideas his committed peers couldn't touch]]></title><description><![CDATA[He burned with no causes, claimed Tom Stoppard. That detachment let him dramatize ideas his committed peers couldn't touch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-burned-with-no-causes-claimed-tom-stoppard-that-detachment-let-him-dramatize-ideas-his-committed-peers-couldnt-touch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:03:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-burned-with-no-causes-claimed-tom-stoppard-that-detachment-let-him-dramatize-ideas-his-committed-peers-couldnt-touch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-Preserved Tomb of Ancient Egyptian Official Found Near Saqqara]]></title><description><![CDATA[A joint Spanish-Egyptian archaeological mission has found a well-preserved tomb dating to the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt&rsquo;s Old Kingdom (2494&ndash;2345 BCE), reports the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The find was made during the mission&rsquo;s 2026 excavation season in the area known as the Mariette Necropolis, north of Egypt&rsquo;s Saqqara archaeological site.The tomb consists of a mastaba containing two funerary chapels. One chapel belongs to a man named Yunmen, a high-rank]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/well-preserved-tomb-of-ancient-egyptian-official-found-nearsaqqara/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/well-preserved-tomb-of-ancient-egyptian-official-found-nearsaqqara/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Production Mold for Ancient Female Figurine Discovered in Jerusalem]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mold used to create a clay figurine during the First Temple Period was discovered earlier this summer on the grounds of the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum. The excavation, at Kishle, a former prison and military base that is now part of the museum, was overseen by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).&ldquo;Although many figurines from this period have been uncovered in Jerusalem, this is the first time that a mold used to manufacture them has ever been found in the city,&rdquo; said IAA re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/production-mold-for-ancient-female-figurine-discovered-injerusalem/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/production-mold-for-ancient-female-figurine-discovered-injerusalem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clive Davis’s Warhol, Hockney Paintings Head to Christie’s During Marquee New York Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eight paintings from the collection of Clive Davis, the famed record producer who died this past June, will head to Christie&rsquo;s during the November sales in New York. They are some of the first major consignments to those sales, and they are worth a total of more than $35 million. (Christie&rsquo;s has not yet released individual estimates for each work.)Those eight works include a ca. 1986 painting of Andy Warhol painting of Aretha Franklin, the singer whom Davis befriended and supported p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/clive-daviss-warhol-hockney-paintings-head-to-christies-during-marquee-new-yorksales/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/clive-daviss-warhol-hockney-paintings-head-to-christies-during-marquee-new-yorksales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Standouts at Portland’s Converge 45 Triennial, From a Gourd Frieze to a Performance That Played with Fire]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US art world has in recent years worked hard to bring a focus to cities outside the market capitals, mounting recurring exhibitions like Counterpublic in St. Louis, the Medina Triennial in upstate New York, and the lamentably discontinued Front Triennial in Cleveland (adding to long-running shows like the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh). One that has remained a little under the radar is Converge 45, established in 2016 by Portland dealer Elizabeth Leach in hopes of getting the art worl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/five-standouts-at-portlands-converge-45-triennial-from-a-gourd-frieze-to-a-performance-that-played-withfire/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/five-standouts-at-portlands-converge-45-triennial-from-a-gourd-frieze-to-a-performance-that-played-withfire/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch to Retire as Trump Targets Museum Consortium]]></title><description><![CDATA[Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III will retire at the end of this year, according to the Washington Post, amid a historic confrontation with the Trump administration over how the museum consortium historicize the United States.&nbsp;Bunch, who assumed leadership in 2019, has faced extraordinary pressure from the White House over the past 18 months to comply with President Trump&rsquo;s ideological intervention in the Smithsonian, which has had its exhibitions targeted for including refere]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-to-retire-as-trump-targets-museumconsortium/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-to-retire-as-trump-targets-museumconsortium/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucien Smith, Onetime Market Darling Who Turned His Focus To Helping Emerging Artists, Has Died at 37]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37, according to multiple people who knew him over the years. No information has been released about the cause or place of his death.&ldquo;I loved him and I&rsquo;m hapy knowing he found some serenity later in life,&rdquo; artist Joel Mesler told ARTnews via text, adding a heart emoji.&ldquo;Lucien Smith was our friend and his death is tragic,&rdquo; artist Andrew Kuo wrote on X. &ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucien-smith-onetime-market-darling-who-turned-his-focus-to-helping-emerging-artists-has-died-at37/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucien-smith-onetime-market-darling-who-turned-his-focus-to-helping-emerging-artists-has-died-at37/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oxford University Museum to Repatriate 39 Colonial-Era Human Remains]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford agreed to return a colonial-era collection of human remains to the Indigenous Naga people in India, following years of negotiations, Naga representatives told the New York Times on Saturday. Formal repatriation efforts began six years ago in 2020.The 39 partial remains that will return to Nagaland by the end of this year include a warrior&rsquo;s cranium, a woman&rsquo;s skull, and a young person&rsquo;s jaw, among others. While there were 40 re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oxford-university-museum-to-repatriate-39-colonial-era-humanremains/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oxford-university-museum-to-repatriate-39-colonial-era-humanremains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Who Bought The Scream: Collector Leon Black’s Reckoning Is Far from Over]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leon Black&rsquo;s main passion is art, a love that can easily be traced back to his mother, the artist, and to his aunt, the art dealer, and to her husband, his uncle, who was also an artist. His collection, housed in both his Park Avenue town house and his weekend home in Bedford, New York, is considered by many to be one of the world&rsquo;s finest in private hands. It&rsquo;s easily worth more than $1 billion, and perhaps several multiples of that number. On the extensive grounds at his Bedf]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-man-who-bought-the-scream-collector-leon-blacks-reckoning-is-far-fromover/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-man-who-bought-the-scream-collector-leon-blacks-reckoning-is-far-fromover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Chairman of Kennedy Center Buys Disassembled Joel Shapiro Sculpture]]></title><description><![CDATA[A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture that was disassembled last week at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has found a new owner: none other than the embattled center&rsquo;s former chairman, David Rubenstein.Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist, was reported as the buyer of Blue on Monday by the New York Times, which cited unnamed sources who said that 24-foot-tall sculpture would eventually go on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-chairman-of-kennedy-center-buys-disassembled-joel-shapirosculpture/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-chairman-of-kennedy-center-buys-disassembled-joel-shapirosculpture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eiffel Tower Workers Strike in Outrage After Female Staffers Ordered to Leave Their Posts, Replaced by Men]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Eiffel Tower closed Monday due to strikes over outrage that female workers were allegedly ordered to leave and stay out of sight to comply with a special request from a traditional Hindu delegation that visited the monument over the weekend, reported Le Parisien. By Tuesday, the monument had reopened, and a representative of the Hindu religious organization BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, which has close ties to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&rsquo;s nationalist party, issued an apology.But]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eiffel-tower-workers-strike-in-outrage-after-female-staffers-ordered-to-leave-their-posts-replaced-bymen/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eiffel-tower-workers-strike-in-outrage-after-female-staffers-ordered-to-leave-their-posts-replaced-bymen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loewe’s Fall 2026 Collection Inspired by Cosima Von Bonin’s Sea Creatures Lands in Stores]]></title><description><![CDATA[German artist Cosima von Bonin&rsquo;s whimsical and kooky sea creatures have sat on school desk chairs and leaned across museum floors, but in March, her creations made it to Paris Fashion Week to sit on the front row at Loewe&rsquo;s runway show, the second by creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez.&nbsp;Now, those plush octopi, sea lions, whales, and pearl shells that shared prime seating with the likes of Sissy Spacek, Julia Garner, and Lil Yachty have landed in the Loewe st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loewes-fall-2026-collection-inspired-by-cosima-von-bonins-sea-creatures-lands-instores/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loewes-fall-2026-collection-inspired-by-cosima-von-bonins-sea-creatures-lands-instores/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thieves Snatch Renoir Paintings, Ejected Kennedy Center Chairman Buys ‘Blue’ Sculpture, Mexican Sculptor Geles Cabrera Dies, and More: Morning Links for September 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.Good Morning!<br />
This morning, thieves nabbed four Renoir paintings and abandoned two before escaping from a southern French museum.&nbsp;Geles Cabrera, Mexico&rsquo;s first professional female sculptor, has died at age 100.&nbsp;David Rubenstein, ousted chairman of the Kennedy Center, has acquired Joel Shapiro&rsquo;s&nbsp;Blue&nbsp;sculpture that was just dism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thieves-snatch-renoir-paintings-ejected-kennedy-center-chairman-buys-blue-sculpture-mexican-sculptor-geles-cabrera-dies-and-more-morning-links-for-september82026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thieves-snatch-renoir-paintings-ejected-kennedy-center-chairman-buys-blue-sculpture-mexican-sculptor-geles-cabrera-dies-and-more-morning-links-for-september82026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Paintings Stolen from Renoir Museum in Southern France]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thieves stole four paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Tuesday morning from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, according to reports Le Monde and AFP.&nbsp;In their haste, the two suspects abandoned two of four paintings, according to BFM TV, but managed to escape with two artworks, estimated to be worth &euro;9 million ($10.5 million). The museum&rsquo;s alarm system went off at 5:48 a.m. (local time), with police reportedly arriving on site in five min]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/four-paintings-stolen-from-renoir-museum-in-southernfrance/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/four-paintings-stolen-from-renoir-museum-in-southernfrance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Paintings Stolen from France’s Renoir Museum in Predawn Raid]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thieves stole four paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir Tuesday morning from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in southern France, according to a report by Le Monde and AFP.&nbsp;In their haste, the two suspects abandoned two of four paintings, according to BFM TV, but managed to escape with two artworks, estimated to be worth &euro;9 million ($10.5 million). The museum&rsquo;s alarm system went off at 5:48 a.m. (local time), with police reportedly arriving on site in five]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/four-paintings-stolen-from-frances-renoir-museum-in-predawnraid/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/four-paintings-stolen-from-frances-renoir-museum-in-predawnraid/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy Win $95,000 Praemium Imperiale Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy are among the five recipients of Japan&rsquo;s 37th Praemium Imperiale award&mdash;one of the world&rsquo;s largest art prizes, dubbed by some the &ldquo;Nobel Prize of the Arts.&rdquo; They will each win 15 million yen (about $95,000).The award celebrates lifetime contributions to painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theater/film on a global scale. Fellow laureates this year include actor Cate Blanchett, who has won Academy Awards for performan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jenny-holzer-and-andy-goldsworthy-win-95000-praemium-imperialeaward/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jenny-holzer-and-andy-goldsworthy-win-95000-praemium-imperialeaward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Jutta Koether Made A Color Her Signature Style]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you walk through a show,&rdquo; Martin Kippenberger observed to Jutta Koether when she interviewed him in 1991, &ldquo;some of the pictures are good and some of them are bad. Then there&rsquo;s possible controversy.&rdquo; It may seem like a simple observation&mdash;until he explains that that&rsquo;s what he was for. &ldquo;And not, please, where everything is equally good&hellip;. When everything is good, none of it counts. God, in the beginning, wanted that a bit differently. Both good a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-jutta-koether-made-a-color-her-signaturestyle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-jutta-koether-made-a-color-her-signaturestyle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel Culture Fund Partners with Dib Bangkok on Inaugural Chanel Gateway Commission]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chanel is deepening its artistic relationships overseas through its Chanel Culture Fund. The French luxury brand has partnered with Thailand&rsquo;s contemporary art museum Dib Bangkok for the inauguration of its annual Chanel Gateway Commission.The annual program will handpick a local artist in Southeast Asia to create a large-scale artwork that will then be displayed at Dib Bangkok, which was founded by ARTnews Top 200 collector Purat &ldquo;Chang&rdquo; Osathanugrah and opened its doors in De]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-culture-fund-partners-with-dib-bangkok-on-inaugural-chanel-gatewaycommission/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-culture-fund-partners-with-dib-bangkok-on-inaugural-chanel-gatewaycommission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel Culture Fund Partners with Dib Bangkok on Inaugural Chanel Gateway Commission]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chanel is deepening its artistic relationships overseas through its Chanel Culture Fund program. The French luxury brand has partnered with Thailand&rsquo;s contemporary art museum Dib Bangkok for the inauguration of its annual Chanel Gateway Commission.The annual program will handpick a local artist in Southeast Asia to create a large-scale artwork that will then be displayed at Dib Bangkok, which was founded by ARTnews Top 200 collector Purat &ldquo;Chang&rdquo; Osathanugrah and opened its doo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-culture-fund-partners-with-dib-bangkok-on-inaugural-chanel-gateway-commission/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-culture-fund-partners-with-dib-bangkok-on-inaugural-chanel-gateway-commission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activist Group Labels Video Documenting Falling Ceiling Debris at the Kennedy Center ‘Propaganda’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in all kinds of trouble, from stagnant ticket sales to falling debris in the grand foyer.&nbsp;The center posted images of the debris on X and Instagram on Friday. &ldquo;Another warning we can&rsquo;t ignore. A section of the Grand Foyer ceiling collapsed after this week&rsquo;s storms. Thankfully no one was hurt. Decades of deferred maintenance made this inevitable,&rdquo; said the post, adding that &ldquo;Chairman President Trump has been]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/activist-group-labels-video-documenting-falling-ceiling-debris-at-the-kennedy-center-propaganda/</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/activist-group-labels-video-documenting-falling-ceiling-debris-at-the-kennedy-center-propaganda/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geles Cabrera, Trailblazing Mexican Sculptor, Dies at 100]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mexican artist Geles Cabrera, who was celebrated as her country&rsquo;s first professional female sculptor and associated with the Generaci&oacute;n de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation), died on September 1 at age 100, as first reported by the Spanish magazine Bonart.	Over seven decades, she built a sculptural practice that explored the human figure through abstracted, voluptuous forms, often ones made of rough volcanic stone. Over the years, she effectively led the way for younger generations o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/geles-cabrera-trailblazing-mexican-sculptor-dies-at100/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/geles-cabrera-trailblazing-mexican-sculptor-dies-at100/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon was adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon was adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/literature-without-lust-for-leslie-fiedler-the-american-canon-was-adventure-books-sea-tales-and-other-prepubescent-diet-fare/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:07:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/literature-without-lust-for-leslie-fiedler-the-american-canon-was-adventure-books-sea-tales-and-other-prepubescent-diet-fare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He claimed to burn with no causes &mdash; that detachment let Tom Stoppard dramatize ideas his committed peers couldn't touch]]></title><description><![CDATA[He claimed to burn with no causes &mdash; that detachment let Tom Stoppard dramatize ideas his committed peers couldn't touch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-claimed-to-burn-with-no-causes-mdash-that-detachment-let-tom-stoppard-dramatize-ideas-his-committed-peers-couldnt-touch/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:07:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-claimed-to-burn-with-no-causes-mdash-that-detachment-let-tom-stoppard-dramatize-ideas-his-committed-peers-couldnt-touch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she's taught for a decade. This time she lost her job]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she's taught for a decade. This time she lost her job]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/earlier-this-year-vinita-prabhakar-assigned-her-college-students-a-short-story-shes-taught-for-a-decade-this-time-she-lost-her-job/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:07:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/earlier-this-year-vinita-prabhakar-assigned-her-college-students-a-short-story-shes-taught-for-a-decade-this-time-she-lost-her-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St Paul’s Cathedral Faces Backlash After Partnering with Fabric, Iconic London Nightclub]]></title><description><![CDATA[St Paul&rsquo;s Cathedral, the main cathedral in London that serves as the seat of the Bishop of London, is facing backlash after it announced that it&rsquo;s entering a four-year partnership with Fabric, the capital city&rsquo;s iconic nightclub known for its variety of contemporary music, from drum and bass to house and techno.St Paul&rsquo;s Cathedral has a rich history and has been part of many state events such as the funerals of British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/st-pauls-cathedral-faces-backlash-after-partnering-with-fabric-iconic-londonnightclub/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/st-pauls-cathedral-faces-backlash-after-partnering-with-fabric-iconic-londonnightclub/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Issy Wood Picked as National Portrait Gallery’s Inaugural Artist for Contemporary Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Portrait Gallery in London, which is home to paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Anthony Van Dyck, and Joshua Reynolds, is welcoming contemporary artists to the museum as part of a new program called Artist Focus.The gallery&rsquo;s Weston Wing will host three exhibitions annually with free admission, starting with the American-born British artist Issy Wood, whose show will be on view October 9 through to February 28, 2027. In 2025, Wood made headlines for painting pop star Charl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/issy-wood-picked-as-national-portrait-gallerys-inaugural-artist-for-contemporaryprogram/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/issy-wood-picked-as-national-portrait-gallerys-inaugural-artist-for-contemporaryprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Warning to Auction Rare Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian Dress and Several Pieces by John Galliano Despite Controversy over Met Museum Exhibition’s Cancellation]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Yves Saint Laurent Piet Mondrian dress from the 1960s that&rsquo;s been photographed by the likes of David Bailey, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon is going under the hammer at the online auction house Fair Warning, in collaboration with Kerry Taylor Auctions. Titled &ldquo;The Impossible Couture Collection,&rdquo; the sale also features pieces by Azzedine Ala&iuml;a, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paco Rabanne, and John Galliano.The sale will take place on the evening of September 17, the first day of Lo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fair-warning-to-auction-rare-yves-saint-laurent-mondrian-dress-and-several-pieces-by-john-galliano-despite-controversy-over-met-museum-exhibitionscancellation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fair-warning-to-auction-rare-yves-saint-laurent-mondrian-dress-and-several-pieces-by-john-galliano-despite-controversy-over-met-museum-exhibitionscancellation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vietnam Veterans File Restraining Order to Block Progress on Trump’s 250-Foot Triumphal Arch]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of Vietnam veterans filed for a temporary restraining order on Friday to stop progress on one of Trump&rsquo;s projects to alter the landscape of the nation&rsquo;s capital, a 250-foot triumphal arch.&nbsp;The plaintiffs are veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes, and Jon Gundersen, along with architectural historian Calder Loth, who are represented by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, of Washington, D.C. They filed their motion for a 14-day restraining order on Friday, after Interior]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vietnam-veterans-file-restraining-order-to-block-progress-on-trumps-250-foot-triumphalarch/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vietnam-veterans-file-restraining-order-to-block-progress-on-trumps-250-foot-triumphalarch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyoncé Gives the Studio Museum in Harlem a $2 M. Gift on Her Birthday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beyonc&eacute; Knowles turned 45 on September 4, and to mark the occasion, the global superstar entertainer made an unusual birthday gift, of $2 million, not to herself but to the Studio Museum in Harlem.&nbsp;&ldquo;Art tells all our stories; the past and the present, but is not always accessible to everyone,&rdquo; said Beyonc&eacute; in a press release. &ldquo;I have always been impressed with the Studio Museum in Harlem because of its intention to make the museum an integral part of the comm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beyonc-gives-the-studio-museum-in-harlem-a-2-m-gift-on-herbirthday/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beyonc-gives-the-studio-museum-in-harlem-a-2-m-gift-on-herbirthday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kehnide Wiley Responds to the Trump Administration’s Removal of His Painting With an ‘Aesthetically Terrifying’ T-shirt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kehnide Wiley&rsquo;s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) &ldquo;aesthetically terrifying&rdquo; last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times.In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehnide-wiley-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-removal-of-his-painting-with-an-aesthetically-terrifyingt-shirt/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehnide-wiley-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-removal-of-his-painting-with-an-aesthetically-terrifyingt-shirt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kehinde Wiley Responds to the Trump Administration’s Removal of His Painting With an ‘Aesthetically Terrifying’ T-shirt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kehinde Wiley&rsquo;s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir. Erin Scavino, director of Art in Embassies in a podcast interview with Sean Spicer, called the painting Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) &ldquo;aesthetically terrifying&rdquo; last week, but now in an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic, according to the New York Times.In the interview conducted in Spanish, Campos said]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehinde-wiley-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-removal-of-his-painting-with-an-aesthetically-terrifyingt-shirt/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kehinde-wiley-responds-to-the-trump-administrations-removal-of-his-painting-with-an-aesthetically-terrifyingt-shirt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexión Look at the Rise of Latinx Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[This spring, El Museo del Barrio and Aspen Conexi&oacute;n hosted &ldquo;The Rise of the U.S. Latino Art Market: Lessons from Latin America,&rdquo; a half-day symposium in El Museo&rsquo;s iconic Teatro space.The event brought together artists, curators, museum directors, market insiders, and more to discuss the most pressing issues facing Latinx art in the art world and how to continue to grow its infrastructure. (ARTnews served as the media sponsor.)The idea for the event was dreamed up by Asp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/el-museo-del-barrio-and-aspen-conexin-look-at-the-rise-of-latinxart/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/el-museo-del-barrio-and-aspen-conexin-look-at-the-rise-of-latinxart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam Lindemann Sued by Nature Preserve for Allegedly Installing Julian Schnabel Sculpture Without Permission]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission.Filed on August 20 in New York&rsquo;s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York&rsquo;s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve.Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island&rsquo;s Nassau an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adam-lindemann-sued-by-nature-preserve-for-allegedly-installing-julian-schnabel-sculpture-withoutpermission/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adam-lindemann-sued-by-nature-preserve-for-allegedly-installing-julian-schnabel-sculpture-withoutpermission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam Lindemann Sued by Nature Conservancy for Allegedly Installing Julian Schnabel Sculpture Without Permission]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, dealer Adam Lindemann is facing allegations that he sued a 25-foot-tall Julian Schnabel sculpture on a Long Island estate without permission.Filed on August 20 in New York&rsquo;s Eastern District, the lawsuit was brought by the Nature Conservancy, a preserve in Montauk. Lindemann, the founder of New York&rsquo;s now-defunct Venus Over Manhattan gallery, has a property next to the vast preserve.Newsday, a publication focused on Long Island&rsquo;s Nassau an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adam-lindemann-sued-by-nature-conservancy-for-allegedly-installing-julian-schnabel-sculpture-withoutpermission/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adam-lindemann-sued-by-nature-conservancy-for-allegedly-installing-julian-schnabel-sculpture-withoutpermission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Incisive Exhibition in Buffalo Defies Expectations of What Latinx Painting Should Look Like ]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a painting at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum that I still can&rsquo;t get out of my head, six months after I saw it. It only measures 40 by 30 inches, and I missed it on my first walk through the gallery. Made by Los Angeles&ndash;based artist Karla Diaz in thinned-out acrylic paint, it shows two Latino men, both with mustaches, one carrying the other on his shoulders. The painting&rsquo;s joyful casualness belies its subject matter, clues to which can be found in the coyote on one of the m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-incisive-exhibition-in-buffalo-defies-expectations-of-what-latinx-painting-should-looklike/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-incisive-exhibition-in-buffalo-defies-expectations-of-what-latinx-painting-should-looklike/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prolific Mexican Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina Will Organize 2027 Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cuauht&eacute;moc Medina, a Mexico City&ndash;based curator and art historian who has organized exhibitions around the world, has been appointed curator of the Bienal de Arte Paiz.	The biennial takes place in Guatemala City and Antigua, about 25 miles west of the capital. It is organized by the Fundaci&oacute;n Paiz para la Educaci&oacute;n y la Cultura, a family foundation that initially awarded education scholarships and supported soup kitchens. The foundation launched the biennial in 1978; Me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prolific-mexican-curator-cuauhtmoc-medina-will-organize-2027-bienal-de-arte-paiz-inguatemala/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prolific-mexican-curator-cuauhtmoc-medina-will-organize-2027-bienal-de-arte-paiz-inguatemala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Its 60th Anniversary, Anderson Ranch Balances Growth and Authenticity]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, a five-acre complex of studios and artist housing in Snowmass, Colorado, that offers workshops and residencies, is often called a maker&rsquo;s paradise. You understand that moniker upon arrival: Once you get over the 8,000-foot elevation, you feel energized, breathe in the crisp air, behold your bucolic surroundings&mdash;mountains dotted with the watching eyes of aspens&mdash;and want to revel in making something, even something as banal as your morning coffee.W]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-its-60th-anniversary-anderson-ranch-balances-growth-andauthenticity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-its-60th-anniversary-anderson-ranch-balances-growth-andauthenticity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Reveals Recent Acquisitions, Including Works by Adam Pendleton and Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has announced a group of recent acquisitions across all ten of its curatorial departments. In the past year, the MFA reports, it has purchased 808 works of art and received 2,506 gifts from more than 50 donors, including the donation of 1,989 photographs by the Joy of Giving Something, Inc.Comprising both contemporary and historical artworks, new additions to the museum&rsquo;s holdings range from a 2025 wall relief by Vietnamese-born artist Tuan Andrew Ng]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-reveals-recent-acquisitions-including-works-by-adam-pendleton-and-jaune-quick-to-see-smith/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-reveals-recent-acquisitions-including-works-by-adam-pendleton-and-jaune-quick-to-see-smith/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New James Turrell Work Debuts at Superblue in Miami]]></title><description><![CDATA[Superblue Miami, an immersive art hub in the city&rsquo;s Allapattah neighborhood, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an installation by Light and Space artist&nbsp;James Turrell, Artnet News reports. The piece, titled&nbsp;Blue Sea Sky&nbsp;(2026), marks the artist&rsquo;s latest installment in his renowned &ldquo;Ganzfeld&rdquo;&nbsp;series (1976&ndash;).For the last five decades, Turrell has been making works inspired by the ganzfeld effect (German for &ldquo;complete field&rdquo;)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-james-turrell-work-debuts-at-superblue-inmiami/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-james-turrell-work-debuts-at-superblue-inmiami/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Leon Black Sues House Oversight Committee over Jeffrey Epstein Investigation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leon Black, a billionaire investor who counts among the world&rsquo;s top art collectors, has sued the House Oversight Committee, alleging that its subpoenas to testify in its investigation into the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were &ldquo;invalid.&rdquo;Epstein&rsquo;s friendship with Black has been well-documented. Black, who has repeatedly appeared on the ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list, provided Epstein with financial guidance while he was still CEO of Apollo Global Management, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-leon-black-sues-house-oversight-committee-over-jeffrey-epsteininvestigation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-leon-black-sues-house-oversight-committee-over-jeffrey-epsteininvestigation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argentina Ordered to Return Nazi-Looted Painting That Showed Up in a Real Estate Listing]]></title><description><![CDATA[An 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis, which turned up eight decades later in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina owned by descendants of a financier to the SS, must be returned to the heirs of the rightful owner, reports France24.Attorneys, investigators, and heirs of collectors who had their art looted by the Nazis, or left it behind under duress, often spend decades trying to track down the artworks. So a public real estate listing might seem like the unlikeliest place to fin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/argentina-ordered-to-return-nazi-looted-painting-that-showed-up-in-a-real-estatelisting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/argentina-ordered-to-return-nazi-looted-painting-that-showed-up-in-a-real-estatelisting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Groundbreaking Work for Trump’s Proposed Triumphal Arch to Start in Two Weeks]]></title><description><![CDATA[United States President Donald Trump has big plans for his Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC, with excavation work for the proposed monument slated to start over the next two weeks, according to secretary of interior Doug Burgum.In a post on X, Burgum wrote that &ldquo;after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/groundbreaking-work-for-trumps-proposed-triumphal-arch-to-start-in-twoweeks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/groundbreaking-work-for-trumps-proposed-triumphal-arch-to-start-in-twoweeks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center’s Removal of Joel Shapiro Sculpture Raises Concern Among Artists: ‘I’m Crushed’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The removal of a monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has generated concern among artists who have shown there.Workers began to disassemble the Shapiro work, titled Blue, on Tuesday; the Kennedy Center has not stated a rationale for why the 24-foot-tall sculpture of a stick-figure-like person was taken away. But the New York Times reported that internal documents suggested that the work, which Shapiro gave to the Kennedy Cent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-centers-removal-of-joel-shapiro-sculpture-raises-concern-among-artists-im-crushed/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-centers-removal-of-joel-shapiro-sculpture-raises-concern-among-artists-im-crushed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Thrilling Barbara Hammer Documentary Puts the ‘Body’ in ‘Body of Work’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Of all the retrospectives and surveys I&rsquo;ve seen, most have stimulated my eyes and my mind; a few have even involved using my ears. (There&rsquo;s a reason what&rsquo;s presented in museums is often called &ldquo;visual art,&rdquo; after all.) But the Leslie-Lohman Museum&rsquo;s 2018 Barbara Hammer retrospective remains a standout because it demanded more of my body than a typical exhibition.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&rsquo;m thinking of Hammer&rsquo;s 1982 film Pond and Waterfall, which mostly depicts]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-thrilling-barbara-hammer-documentary-puts-the-body-in-body-ofwork/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-thrilling-barbara-hammer-documentary-puts-the-body-in-body-ofwork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxurious Bath Complex Used by Roman Emperor Found in Serbia]]></title><description><![CDATA[An archaeological dig in Serbia turned up remnants of a uniquely constructed bathing complex thought to have been used by a Roman emperor.As reported by Live Science, &ldquo;The suite of rooms&mdash;which included heated floors, three bathing pools, and a sauna&mdash;was uncovered at the bottom of a tower within an imperial palace, a design archaeologists had never seen before in the Roman Empire.&rdquo;The bathing station was discovered at the archaeological site of Vrelo-&Scaron;arkamen, a fou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/luxurious-bath-complex-used-by-roman-emperor-found-inserbia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/luxurious-bath-complex-used-by-roman-emperor-found-inserbia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eastman Johnson Paintings Stolen in NYC in 1978 Are Recovered in Connecticut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two stolen paintings by American artist Eastman Johnson (1824&ndash;1906) have been recovered in Connecticut. Milford auction house Shannon&rsquo;s Fine Art Auctioneers, which helped recover the works, announced the news on its website.The paintings, Mary and Her Lamb (1877) and The Young Mother (ca. 1872&ndash;73), were stolen from New York galleries Kenneth Lux Gallery and Hirschl &amp; Adler Galleries, respectively, in 1978. Their whereabouts remained unknown for almost 50 years, until they w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eastman-johnson-paintings-stolen-in-nyc-in-1978-are-recovered-inconnecticut/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eastman-johnson-paintings-stolen-in-nyc-in-1978-are-recovered-inconnecticut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eastman Johnson Paintings Stolen in New York in 1978 Are Recovered in Connecticut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two stolen paintings by American artist Eastman Johnson (1824&ndash;1906) have been recovered in Connecticut. Milford auction house Shannon&rsquo;s Fine Art Auctioneers, which helped recover the works, announced the news on its website.The paintings, Mary and Her Lamb (1877) and The Young Mother (ca. 1872&ndash;73), were stolen from New York galleries Kenneth Lux Gallery and Hirschl &amp; Adler Galleries, respectively, in 1978. Their whereabouts remained unknown for almost 50 years, until they w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eastman-johnson-paintings-stolen-in-new-york-in-1978-are-recovered-inconnecticut/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eastman-johnson-paintings-stolen-in-new-york-in-1978-are-recovered-inconnecticut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Hockney’s Serpentine Exhibition Broke Gallery Attendance Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[The David Hockney exhibition &ldquo;A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting,&rdquo; on view at Serpentine North in London from March 12 through August 23, broke the gallery&rsquo;s prior attendance records with around 300,000 visitors. This marks the best attended exhibition at the Serpentine in its 56-year history.The exhibition ran earlier this year with free admission and marked the artist&rsquo;s first presentation at the Serpentine; accompanying the exhibition is a large-]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-hockneys-serpentine-exhibition-broke-gallery-attendancerecords/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-hockneys-serpentine-exhibition-broke-gallery-attendancerecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphal Arch Construction to Start Without Approval, Heatwaves Come at Hefty Cost to French Museums, and More: Morning Links for September 4, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Trump is proceeding with the construction of his triumphal arch despite lacking federal approval.Record heatwaves in France cost national monuments and museums hundreds of thousands of dollars.&nbsp;Germany&rsquo;s arts sector is closely watching whether the far-right gains ground during this weekend&rsquo;s regional elections, after threats to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/triumphal-arch-construction-to-start-without-approval-heatwaves-come-at-hefty-cost-to-french-museums-and-more-morning-links-for-september42026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/triumphal-arch-construction-to-start-without-approval-heatwaves-come-at-hefty-cost-to-french-museums-and-more-morning-links-for-september42026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Was Pop Art, the 1960s Art Movement that Changed Art History?]]></title><description><![CDATA[By all appearances, Pop art is the quintessential American genre, born of Hollywood, Madison Avenue, comic books, and a mid-century cornucopia of TVs, cars, and appliances. Its marquee names&mdash;Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg (among a host of others, including female artists such as Rosalyn Drexler, Marisol Escobar, and Marjorie Strider)&mdash;were all based in New York City, the world&rsquo;s art capital at the time. But while they became synonymous with Pop]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-was-pop-art-the-1960s-art-movement-that-changed-arthistory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-was-pop-art-the-1960s-art-movement-that-changed-arthistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This New Eva Hesse–Inspired Novel Is an Experiment in Form (and Foam)]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I&rsquo;m writing a novella about Eva Hesse, I say when people ask,&rdquo; writes Kate Zambreno in their new book Foam, out from Semiotext(e) on September 15. But Hesse, the late sculptor who believed &ldquo;art and life are inseparable,&rdquo; keeps slipping away, getting subsumed or pushed out of Zambreno&rsquo;s reach. Just one quick page break later, they &ldquo;forgot where they were&rdquo; in the writing: &ldquo;I went into a period of constant work&rdquo;&mdash;likely teaching, one]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-new-eva-hesseinspired-novel-is-an-experiment-in-form-andfoam/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-new-eva-hesseinspired-novel-is-an-experiment-in-form-andfoam/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism]]></title><description><![CDATA[The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-political-right-often-acts-in-bad-faith-in-its-attacks-on-academia-in-response-academics-lapse-into-tendentious-moralism/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:43:04 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-political-right-often-acts-in-bad-faith-in-its-attacks-on-academia-in-response-academics-lapse-into-tendentious-moralism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pauline Kael was useless as a guide to movies. She was indispensable as an autobiographer of the Age of Cinema]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pauline Kael was useless as a guide to movies. She was indispensable as an autobiographer of the Age of Cinema]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pauline-kael-was-useless-as-a-guide-to-movies-she-was-indispensable-as-an-autobiographer-of-the-age-of-cinema/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:43:04 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pauline-kael-was-useless-as-a-guide-to-movies-she-was-indispensable-as-an-autobiographer-of-the-age-of-cinema/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the golden age of Oxbridge dons, intellectual elites were treated as a national treasure. Then came Margaret Thatcher]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the golden age of Oxbridge dons, intellectual elites were treated as a national treasure. Then came Margaret Thatcher]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/during-the-golden-age-of-oxbridge-dons-intellectual-elites-were-treated-as-a-national-treasure-then-came-margaret-thatcher/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:43:04 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/during-the-golden-age-of-oxbridge-dons-intellectual-elites-were-treated-as-a-national-treasure-then-came-margaret-thatcher/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lucas Museum Doesn’t Have a Narrative]]></title><description><![CDATA[If a picture is worth a thousand words, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has decided it&rsquo;s not worth writing a single one.Nearly two decades in the making and costing more than $1 billion, the long-awaited Lucas Museum is finally ready to make its debut, with founding member previews starting next week and its public opening on September 22. The two scrapped plans in different cities (first Chicago, then San Francisco) and the eight years spent building it in LA have certain]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-lucas-museum-doesnt-have-anarrative/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-lucas-museum-doesnt-have-anarrative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese Artists Officially Withdraw from Gwangju Biennale in Protest of ‘Taiwan Pavilion’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Chinese artists set to exhibit at this year&rsquo;s Gwangju Biennale officially withdrew today from the prestigious exhibition, which opens September 5. The announcement follows a directive issued last week by the Chinese embassy in Seoul ordering China&rsquo;s artistic team to halt its activities in protest of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation&rsquo;s decision to allow Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the name &ldquo;Taiwan.&rdquo;On the eve of the exhibition&rsquo;s opening, the Gwa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chinese-artists-officially-withdraw-from-gwangju-biennale-in-protest-of-taiwanpavilion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chinese-artists-officially-withdraw-from-gwangju-biennale-in-protest-of-taiwanpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s and Bonhams Quietly Hike Buyers’ Fees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s and Bonhams have both quietly raised the fees they charge buyers. The charges, which auction houses like to call &ldquo;buyer&rsquo;s premiums,&rdquo; are added on top of a lot&rsquo;s hammer price and are a key source of revenue for the houses.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;At Christie&rsquo;s, effective September 1, the house is charging 28% of the hammer price of each lot up to and including &pound;1.5 million or $2 million; 22% of the hammer price from &pound;1.5 million or $2 million up]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-and-bonhams-quietly-hike-buyersfees/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-and-bonhams-quietly-hike-buyersfees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House Accuses Smithsonian of Discrimination, Threatens To Cut Federal Grants]]></title><description><![CDATA[In its latest attempt to bring the Smithsonian Institution to heel, the Trump administration is threatening to cut off discretionary grants and is accusing the organization of violating federal antidiscrimination law. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Vince Haley, assistant to the president for domestic policy, wrote a letter to the Smithsonian&rsquo;s board of regents on August 28, warning that the Smithsonian may lose support from executive agencies. Congress provides the majority of the Smit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-house-accuses-smithsonian-of-discrimination-threatens-to-cut-federalgrants/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-house-accuses-smithsonian-of-discrimination-threatens-to-cut-federalgrants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucas Museum CEO Responds to Staff Departures: George Lucas ‘Has Always Been Chief Curator’]]></title><description><![CDATA[With Los Angeles&rsquo;s Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally open to the press, the institution&rsquo;s chief executive has responded to layoffs and high-profile departures that took place last year in the run-up to the inauguration.In a New York Times profile of the Lucas Museum, a private museum opened at a cost of $1 billion by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, Tracey Bates, the CEO who replaced Sandra Jackson-Dumont as the institution&rsquo;s leader in January, suggested that the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-ceo-responds-to-staff-departures-george-lucas-has-always-been-chiefcurator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-ceo-responds-to-staff-departures-george-lucas-has-always-been-chiefcurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloria Steinem’s Life in Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gloria Steinem, the feminist activist who furthered the modern women&rsquo;s movement, died at 92 years old, as confirmed in an Instagram post.	&ldquo;She spent her recent years doing the two things she loved most: being in community with others and writing. She has welcomed hundreds of guests into her living room for Talking Circles, a tradition she insisted will continue long after she is no longer with us,&rdquo; the post explained.&ldquo;As Gloria wrote in her forthcoming book, An Unexpected]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gloria-steinems-life-inart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gloria-steinems-life-inart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denmark’s Largest Known Viking Age Silver Treasure Discovered in Local Garden]]></title><description><![CDATA[A trove of 700 Viking Age silver objects and fragments has been discovered in a man&rsquo;s garden in Rebild, North Jutland Museums announced, marking the largest-ever find of its kind in Denmark.The anonymous homeowner was planning to build a new terrace in his garden when he found the treasure. &ldquo;It should have just been a few hours of hard gardening work removing stubborn grass, stones and gravel for a new tiled terrace, but it turned out to be the biggest surprise of my life,&rdquo; he]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denmarks-largest-known-viking-age-silver-treasure-discovered-in-localgarden/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denmarks-largest-known-viking-age-silver-treasure-discovered-in-localgarden/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloria Steinem Has Died at 92, Chinese Participants Threaten to Withdraw from Gwangju Biennale, and More: Morning Links for September 3, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem has died at 92.&nbsp;Chinese participants threaten to withdraw from Gwangju Biennale unless the Taiwan Pavilion is renamed.&nbsp;A new Trump administration letter has threatened to cut federal agency support for the Smithsonian Institution.&nbsp;The Headlines	IN MEMORIAM. Feminist icon&nbsp;Gloria Steinem&nbsp;has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gloria-steinem-has-died-at-92-chinese-participants-threaten-to-withdraw-from-gwangju-biennale-and-more-morning-links-for-september32026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gloria-steinem-has-died-at-92-chinese-participants-threaten-to-withdraw-from-gwangju-biennale-and-more-morning-links-for-september32026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Charles, Emmanuel Macron, Andy Burnham Visit the Bayeux Tapestry for a VIP Preview]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billionaires, royalty, and presidents all want a closer look at the Bayeux Tapestry. On Wednesday evening, King Charles, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had a private look at the nearly 70-meter-long embroidered cloth at the British Museum in London. The highly anticipated exhibition opens September 10 and is on view through to July 11, 2027.In a speech, King Charles said that the tapestry &ldquo;tells the story of the beginning of what I like to think of as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/king-charles-emmanuel-macron-andy-burnham-visit-the-bayeux-tapestry-for-a-vippreview/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/king-charles-emmanuel-macron-andy-burnham-visit-the-bayeux-tapestry-for-a-vippreview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Charles, Emmanuel Macron, Andy Burnham Visit the Bayeux Tapestry for a VIP Preview]]></title><description><![CDATA[Billionaires, royalty, and presidents all want a closer look at the Bayeux Tapestry. On Wednesday evening, King Charles, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham had a private look at the nearly 70-meter-long embroidered cloth at the British Museum in London. The highly anticipated exhibition opens September 10 and is on view through to July 11, 2027.In a speech, King Charles said that the tapestry &ldquo;tells the story of the beginning of what I like to think of as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/king-charles-emmanuel-macron-andy-burnham-visit-the-bayeux-tapestry-for-a-vip-preview/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/king-charles-emmanuel-macron-andy-burnham-visit-the-bayeux-tapestry-for-a-vip-preview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rachel Cusk’s new novel was billed as “literary scandal of the year.” Strip away the controversy and it’s instantly forgettable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rachel Cusk&rsquo;s new novel was billed as &ldquo;literary scandal of the year.&rdquo; Strip away the controversy and it&rsquo;s instantly forgettable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rachel-cusks-new-novel-was-billed-as-literary-scandal-of-the-year-strip-away-the-controversy-and-its-instantly-forgettable/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:08:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rachel-cusks-new-novel-was-billed-as-literary-scandal-of-the-year-strip-away-the-controversy-and-its-instantly-forgettable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are indifferent to art but obsess over art heists. "It&rsquo;s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Americans are indifferent to art but obsess over art heists. "It&rsquo;s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americans-are-indifferent-to-art-but-obsess-over-art-heists-itrsquos-as-though-a-nation-of-teetotalers-chooses-year-after-year-to-hang-out-in-bars/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:08:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americans-are-indifferent-to-art-but-obsess-over-art-heists-itrsquos-as-though-a-nation-of-teetotalers-chooses-year-after-year-to-hang-out-in-bars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nan Goldin Photographs 30th Anniversary Campaign for Acne Studios]]></title><description><![CDATA[Acclaimed photographer and activist Nan Goldin shot an ad campaign for Acne Studios to mark the Swedish fashion brand&rsquo;s 30th anniversary.&nbsp;For the campaign, Goldin photographed &ldquo;the people in [Acne&rsquo;s] creative family,&rdquo; according to the brand. The people in her pictures were &ldquo;chosen to capture Acne Studios&rsquo; founding spirit: one of free expression, creative experimentation and proud individuality,&rdquo; a nod to the company&rsquo;s former acronym which stoo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nan-goldin-photographs-30th-anniversary-campaign-for-acnestudios/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nan-goldin-photographs-30th-anniversary-campaign-for-acnestudios/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rachel Cusk’s new novel was billed as “literary scandal of the year.” But strip away the controversy and it’s instantly forgettable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rachel Cusk&rsquo;s new novel was billed as &ldquo;literary scandal of the year.&rdquo; But strip away the controversy and it&rsquo;s instantly forgettable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rachel-cusks-new-novel-was-billed-as-literary-scandal-of-the-year-but-strip-away-the-controversy-and-its-instantly-forgettable/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:34:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rachel-cusks-new-novel-was-billed-as-literary-scandal-of-the-year-but-strip-away-the-controversy-and-its-instantly-forgettable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gooey, disgusting AI slop is everywhere these days, including the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Here comes the AI police]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gooey, disgusting AI slop is everywhere these days, including the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Here comes the AI police]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gooey-disgusting-ai-slop-is-everywhere-these-days-including-the-pages-of-the-wall-street-journal-here-comes-the-ai-police/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:34:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gooey-disgusting-ai-slop-is-everywhere-these-days-including-the-pages-of-the-wall-street-journal-here-comes-the-ai-police/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are indifferent to art. But they obsess over art heists. "It&rsquo;s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Americans are indifferent to art. But they obsess over art heists. "It&rsquo;s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americans-are-indifferent-to-art-but-they-obsess-over-art-heists-itrsquos-as-though-a-nation-of-teetotalers-chooses-year-after-year-to-hang-out-in-bars/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:34:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americans-are-indifferent-to-art-but-they-obsess-over-art-heists-itrsquos-as-though-a-nation-of-teetotalers-chooses-year-after-year-to-hang-out-in-bars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics Is Personal in “Turn the Volume Up!,” a Powerful Show of Protest Art at the Nasher Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Just because an artist is not thinking directly about politics while making a work does not mean they are outside the political context,&rdquo; said Xuxa Rodr&iacute;guez, curator of &ldquo;Turn the Volume Up!,&rdquo; the newest exhibition at Duke University&rsquo;s Nasher Museum of Art. The timely&mdash;or timeless&mdash;exhibition surveys art&rsquo;s place in both the great and mundane moments of social justice. While it would not be wholly inaccurate to call it a show of protest art, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/politics-is-personal-in-turn-the-volume-up-a-powerful-show-of-protest-art-at-the-nashermuseum/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/politics-is-personal-in-turn-the-volume-up-a-powerful-show-of-protest-art-at-the-nashermuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics Is Personal in “Turn the Volume Up!,” a Powerful Show of Protest Art at Duke University’s Nasher Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Just because an artist is not thinking directly about politics while making a work does not mean they are outside the political context,&rdquo; said Xuxa Rodr&iacute;guez, curator of &ldquo;Turn the Volume Up!,&rdquo; the newest exhibition at Duke University&rsquo;s Nasher Museum of Art. The timely&mdash;or timeless&mdash;exhibition surveys art&rsquo;s place in both the great and mundane moments of social justice. While it would not be wholly inaccurate to call it a show of protest art, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/politics-is-personal-in-turn-the-volume-up-a-powerful-show-of-protest-art-at-duke-universitys-nashermuseum/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/politics-is-personal-in-turn-the-volume-up-a-powerful-show-of-protest-art-at-duke-universitys-nashermuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics Is Personal in a Powerful Show of Protest Art at the Nasher Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Just because an artist is not thinking directly about politics while making a work does not mean they are outside the political context,&rdquo; said Xuxa Rodr&iacute;guez, curator of &ldquo;Turn the Volume Up!,&rdquo; the newest exhibition at Duke University&rsquo;s Nasher Museum of Art. The timely&mdash;or timeless&mdash;exhibition surveys art&rsquo;s place in both the great and mundane moments of social justice. While it would not be wholly inaccurate to call it a show of protest art, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/politics-is-personal-in-a-powerful-show-of-protest-art-at-the-nashermuseum/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/politics-is-personal-in-a-powerful-show-of-protest-art-at-the-nashermuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerstin Brätsch Wins the $160,000 Zurich Art Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kerstin Br&auml;tsch, a German-born painter known for vivid, playful abstract paintings and maximalist installations, is the winner of the 2027 Zurich Art Prize. The annual award comes with about $37,000 in prize money and about $123,000 toward production costs of a solo exhibition at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, the prize&rsquo;s co-sponsor (along with Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.).Br&auml;tsch was born in Hamburg, Germany, and studied art in New York and Berlin. She currently teache]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kerstin-brtsch-wins-the-160000-zurich-artprize/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kerstin-brtsch-wins-the-160000-zurich-artprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Fall Guide: 17 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-fall-guide-17-art-world-highlights-not-tomiss/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-fall-guide-17-art-world-highlights-not-tomiss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mildred Howard Wins $25,000 Artist Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Names Environmental Art Grants, and More: Industry Moves for September 2, 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 Moves	Mildred Howard Wins Artists&rsquo; Legacy Foundation 2026 Artist Award: The Bay Area artist, who is currently the subject of a retrospective Oakland Museum of California, will receive $25,000 from the Oakland-based nonprofit. Created via a bequest from sculptor Viola&nbsp;Frey, the annual]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mildred-howard-wins-25000-artist-award-anonymous-was-a-woman-names-environmental-art-grants-and-more-industry-moves-for-september-22026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mildred-howard-wins-25000-artist-award-anonymous-was-a-woman-names-environmental-art-grants-and-more-industry-moves-for-september-22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealers Are Betting on the Future of South Korea Despite Measured First-Day Sales at Frieze and Kiaf]]></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.Though some parts of the art world are still on summer vacation, Asia has already dived into the fall season with an action-packed week in South Korea. Frieze Seoul today kicked off its fifth iteration in partnership with homegrown flagship fair Kiaf Seoul at the COEX convention center in Gangnam distri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-are-betting-on-the-future-of-south-korea-despite-measured-first-day-sales-at-frieze-andkiaf/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-are-betting-on-the-future-of-south-korea-despite-measured-first-day-sales-at-frieze-andkiaf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Durand-Ruel’s €43 M. Collection of Monet, Picasso, and Renoir Comes to Christie’s During Paris Art Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[During Paris Art Week, on October 22 and 23, Christie&rsquo;s will present a sale dedicated to French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who was instrumental in the careers of Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.	The sale will feature 62 pieces of work that have remained in his family trust, among them, paintings from Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Pablo Picasso, Eug&egrave;ne Boudin, and Alfred Sisley. It is estimated to bring in &euro;30 million to &euro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-durand-ruels-43-m-collection-of-monet-picasso-and-renoir-comes-to-christies-during-paris-artweek/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-durand-ruels-43-m-collection-of-monet-picasso-and-renoir-comes-to-christies-during-paris-artweek/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recent Key Departures at Phillips Point to a Pivot in Strategy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, ARTnews reported on a number of recent departures at Phillips auction house, including those of chairman of private sales Miety Heiden and chairman for Asia Jonathan Crockett, key members of the executive leadership. We can now additionally report that Joseph Prindle, chief technology officer, and Katherine Thorpe Kerr, global director of client strategy, have also left.In conversations with several people with intimate knowledge of Phillips, past and present, it appears Phillips has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/recent-key-departures-at-phillips-point-to-a-pivot-instrategy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/recent-key-departures-at-phillips-point-to-a-pivot-instrategy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Zwirner Will Exhibit Yayoi Kusama’s Final Works Next Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[Next April, New York will get one last glimpse into the elusive mind of Yayoi Kusama.David Zwirner announced today an exhibition of work from the final decade of Kusama&rsquo;s life at its Tribeca space&mdash;a period the dealer described to The New York Times as &ldquo;arguably [&hellip;] the most extraordinary and successful decade of her career.&rdquo;Kusama died on August 14 in Tokyo at age 97, leaving behind an iconic oeuvre of abstractions and an art world remade by the rise of her global]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-zwirner-will-exhibit-yayoi-kusamas-final-works-nextspring/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-zwirner-will-exhibit-yayoi-kusamas-final-works-nextspring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experimental Sound Artist Ryoji Ikeda Wins 2026 Nam June Paik Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[The winner of the ninth&nbsp;Nam June Paik&nbsp;Prize is Japanese visual artist and composer Ryoji Ikeda. The biannual award comes with a &#8361;50,000,000 ($36,807) purse and a solo exhibition at the Nam June Paik Art Centre in Yongin, South Korea.&ldquo;I am deeply honored to receive the Nam June Paik Prize. I had the privilege of meeting Nam June Paik in his later years, and his work continues to resonate with the questions behind my own,&rdquo; Ikeda said in a statement upon receiving the pr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/experimental-sound-artist-ryoji-ikeda-wins-2026-nam-junepaikprize/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/experimental-sound-artist-ryoji-ikeda-wins-2026-nam-junepaikprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Media Reacts to John Galliano’s Canceled Exhibition at the Met Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The canceled John Galliano exhibition at New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened the media floodgates, with many commentators adding their two cents.In an op-ed for the New York Times, fashion critic Robin Givhan commented that the &ldquo;exhibition should not have been canceled. Instead, the Met Gala should have been canceled.&rdquo; She argued that the work of museums is to face these difficult subjects and that the Galliano exhibition &ldquo;could help us make sense of other co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-media-reacts-to-john-gallianos-canceled-exhibition-at-the-metmuseum/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-media-reacts-to-john-gallianos-canceled-exhibition-at-the-metmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joel Shapiro Would Have Been ‘Alarmed’ by Removal of Sculpture from Kennedy Center, Family Says]]></title><description><![CDATA[A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture is being removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump moves to take control of the space.The sculpture, titled Blue, is one of many works by Shapiro to depict the human form using the spare language of Minimalism. In an Art in America profile of Shapiro published around the time of the artist&rsquo;s death last year, Max Norman wrote that the artist&rsquo;s figures appear &ldquo;gracefully frozen in a gra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joel-shapiro-would-have-been-alarmed-by-removal-of-sculpture-from-kennedy-center-familysays/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joel-shapiro-would-have-been-alarmed-by-removal-of-sculpture-from-kennedy-center-familysays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale President Stands by Decision to Host Russian Pavilion: ‘I’d Do It All Over Again’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Venice Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said this week that he had no qualms about hosting the Russian Pavilion for the first time since the onset of the country&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine.&ldquo;The Biennale is independent; I&rsquo;d do it all over again for the Russian pavilion,&rdquo; Buttafuoco told the Italian publication Corriere della Sera in a candid interview that touched on his politics and his views on how the Biennale should function with regard to geopolitics. &ldquo;With]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-president-stands-by-decision-to-host-russian-pavilion-id-do-it-all-overagain/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-president-stands-by-decision-to-host-russian-pavilion-id-do-it-all-overagain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Nolan Gallery Moves from Upper East Side to Bigger Space in Tribeca]]></title><description><![CDATA[Striking a defiant tone at a time when the future of the gallery ecosystem remains unknown, David Nolan announced a move for his namesake gallery from New York&rsquo;s Upper East Side to a bigger space in Tribeca.&ldquo;At a time when the art world is contracting, in my usual subversive fashion, I wanted to place a bet on the industry and show my confidence in my artists and long-time collectors, along with expanding our collaborations with other galleries outside the U.S.,&rdquo; Nolan said in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-nolan-gallery-moves-from-upper-east-side-to-bigger-space-intribeca/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-nolan-gallery-moves-from-upper-east-side-to-bigger-space-intribeca/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serpentine’s Inaugural Fellowship Bridges the Gap Between Art and AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Serpentine&rsquo;s artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist called 2024 the &ldquo;Year of AI&rdquo; in an interview with ARTnews. Now, the gallery is diving further into technology by launching the Future Art Ecosystems R&amp;D Fellowship.The program picked four international applicants out of nearly 1,000 for a six-month fellowship commencing this month in London along with a cash prize of &pound;10,000 ($13,480) each. The chosen applicants are artists Alice Bucknell from the United States, Al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/serpentines-inaugural-fellowship-bridges-the-gap-between-art-andai/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/serpentines-inaugural-fellowship-bridges-the-gap-between-art-andai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Untitled Art, Miami Beach Names 166 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Untitled, Art Miami Beach fair has revealed the exhibitor list for its 15th edition, bringing together 166 galleries and nonprofit organizations from 36 countries and territories. Taking place December 2&ndash;December 5, 2026, the fair will be organized into five sectors, including the main galleries sector as well as a section for nonprofits, an artist spotlight section curated by Mexico City dealer Agustina Ferreyra, one for special projects overseen by Brussels dealer Dam&icirc;en Dakota]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/untitled-art-miami-beach-names-166-exhibitors-for-2026edition/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/untitled-art-miami-beach-names-166-exhibitors-for-2026edition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center to Remove ‘Blue’ Landmark Sculpture, Bonhams Bumps Buyer’s Premium, and More: Morning Links for September 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.Good Morning!<br />
The Kennedy Center is removing its massive landmark sculpture, titled &ldquo;Blue,&rdquo; by the late artist Joel Shapiro.Bonhams is bumping its buyer&rsquo;s premium up to 30 percent from 28 percent for bids of &pound;25,000 ($33,700) or less.&nbsp;The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in San Diego is facing a financial crisis, and employees]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-to-remove-blue-landmark-sculpture-bonhams-bumps-buyers-premium-and-more-morning-links-for-september22026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-to-remove-blue-landmark-sculpture-bonhams-bumps-buyers-premium-and-more-morning-links-for-september22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks &mdash; human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sumerian-tablets-soviet-cybernetics-google-server-banks-human-history-can-be-seen-via-our-ever-more-elaborate-data-apparatuses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:14:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sumerian-tablets-soviet-cybernetics-google-server-banks-human-history-can-be-seen-via-our-ever-more-elaborate-data-apparatuses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. A fiasco ensued]]></title><description><![CDATA[Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president&rsquo;s son. A fiasco ensued]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/broke-and-in-search-of-a-sinecure-edgar-allan-poe-went-to-washington-in-1843-to-try-to-meet-the-presidents-son-a-fiasco-ensued/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:14:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/broke-and-in-search-of-a-sinecure-edgar-allan-poe-went-to-washington-in-1843-to-try-to-meet-the-presidents-son-a-fiasco-ensued/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists]]></title><description><![CDATA[Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/babitz-bubbles-renata-revivals-hardwick-hurricanes-how-nyrb-classics-built-its-name-by-resurrecting-old-and-overlooked-novelists/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:14:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/babitz-bubbles-renata-revivals-hardwick-hurricanes-how-nyrb-classics-built-its-name-by-resurrecting-old-and-overlooked-novelists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Reverses Call for British Museum to Return Parthenon Marbles]]></title><description><![CDATA[UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who took office in July, has reversed his previous calls for the British Museum in London to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, the Financial Times reports.Burnham had as early as 2002 said he supported the Parthenon marbles&rsquo; return to Greece, reupping that statement as recently as 2023. At the time, he added that their return should be &ldquo;no strings attached.&rdquo;However, when asked by the FT in an interview last month about his current stance on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-prime-minister-andy-burnham-reverses-call-for-british-museum-to-return-parthenonmarbles/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-prime-minister-andy-burnham-reverses-call-for-british-museum-to-return-parthenonmarbles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Face of European Colonization, Aboriginal Artists Created Images of Powerful Beings, Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the face of European colonization, Aboriginal artists created images of powerful ancestral beings, a new study has found. The results of the eight-year study, led by Paul Ta&ccedil;on, an archaeologist at Griffith University, were published online by the journal Australian Archaeology August 14.Awunbarna is a landmark located in the northwestern region of Arnhem Land in Australia&rsquo;s Northern Territory. The area, which is owned by the Aboriginal Amurdak people, is renowned for its Aborigi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-face-of-european-colonization-aboriginal-artists-created-images-of-powerful-beings-studyfinds/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-face-of-european-colonization-aboriginal-artists-created-images-of-powerful-beings-studyfinds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Gallery of Ontario Director Stephan Jost to Depart After a Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stephan Jost, the director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario, will leave his posts at the end of the year, the Toronto museum announced on Tuesday.Within the Canadian art scene, Jost&rsquo;s leadership has been polarizing. He has drawn praise for making a significant investment in modern and contemporary art at the AGO, which acquired a range of important artworks in that area, including 450 works by Diane Arbus, 200 works by Peter Hujar, and 227 works by Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2027, the museu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-gallery-of-ontario-director-stephan-jost-to-depart-after-adecade/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-gallery-of-ontario-director-stephan-jost-to-depart-after-adecade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICE Unit Says It Seized 22,000 Ancient Artifacts in Florida]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Investigations unit of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said it seized more than 22,000 ancient artifacts in Florida as part of a smuggling inquest that counts &ldquo;among the largest in the agency&rsquo;s history,&rdquo; according to a press release.&ldquo;The identification and authentication process for the large number of items will take time,&rdquo; the release reads, &ldquo;but preliminary evaluations indicate that some objects may have origina]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ice-unit-says-it-seized-22000-ancient-artifacts-inflorida/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ice-unit-says-it-seized-22000-ancient-artifacts-inflorida/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s London Offers a Restituted Kandinsky, Long Displayed in a German Museum, for $30 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Wassily Kandinsky painting left behind by a Dutch family fleeing the Nazi occupation and later on view for decades in a German museum will come to the auction block at Christie&rsquo;s London on October 14, during Frieze week. Estimated in excess of $30 million, Das bunte Leben (The Colorful Life, 1907) was restituted to the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann in 2023 after a six-year legal battle.&nbsp;Measuring just over four feet high and five feet wide, it was Kandinsky&rsquo;s largest ca]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-london-offers-a-restituted-kandinsky-long-displayed-in-a-german-museum-for-30m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-london-offers-a-restituted-kandinsky-long-displayed-in-a-german-museum-for-30m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camille Henrot Will Show 12 Dog Sculptures in Central Park This Fall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dog-watching, already one of Central Park&rsquo;s top attractions, is about to get a little more enticing.	This fall, the Paris-born, New York&ndash;based artist Camille Henrot will install 12 large-scale dog sculptures in Doris C. Freedman Plaza, a very visible spot at the southwest corner of the New York park. The Public Art Fund project will be on view for a full year, from September 9 through August 29, 2027.Henrot&rsquo;s &ldquo;Dogs&rdquo; will be made of bronze, stone, steel, and concrete]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/camille-henrot-will-show-12-dog-sculptures-in-central-park-thisfall/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/camille-henrot-will-show-12-dog-sculptures-in-central-park-thisfall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Court Faults Deauville City for Removing AP Photograph of Gaza from Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[An administrative court in Caen, France, faulted the Deauville city hall on Monday for removing a photograph taken in Gaza from a local festival, reported AFP and Le Monde.	The image by Associated Press photographer Jehad Alshrafi features a soccer match being played by members of the Palestinian Ahli Gaza Club on a pristine, synthetic green field, surrounded by rubble from Israeli military attacks. But in mid-August, the image was quietly taken down from an outdoor exhibition that is part of th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-court-faults-deauville-city-for-removing-ap-photograph-of-gaza-fromexhibition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-court-faults-deauville-city-for-removing-ap-photograph-of-gaza-fromexhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beeple Artwork at Wisconsin Museum Generates Controversy over Use of AI: ‘Devoid of Any Critical Engagement’]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Beeple artwork set to appear at Wisconsin&rsquo;s Madison Museum of Contemporary Art next month has rankled locals who object to the way that the piece uses AI to analyze artworks in the institution&rsquo;s collection.An open letter about the piece, titled Diffuse Control (2025), calls into question the ethics of allowing Beeple to scrape images of artworks from the museum&rsquo;s holdings, seemingly without permission from many of the artists or their representatives. Visitors to the museum w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beeple-artwork-at-wisconsin-museum-generates-controversy-over-use-of-ai-devoid-of-any-criticalengagement/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beeple-artwork-at-wisconsin-museum-generates-controversy-over-use-of-ai-devoid-of-any-criticalengagement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divided Supreme Court Rules That Trump’s White House Ballroom Can Proceed]]></title><description><![CDATA[The construction of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s luxury ballroom will proceed as planned and replace the&nbsp;East Wing of the White House, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday, the New York Times reported.The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress to guard public buildings, challenged the construction of the project. It argued that longtime member Alison K. Hoagland, a District of Columbia resident and architectural historian, was personally and profess]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/divided-supreme-court-rules-that-trumps-white-house-ballroom-canproceed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/divided-supreme-court-rules-that-trumps-white-house-ballroom-canproceed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nazi-Looted Kandinsky Heads to Christie’s, Smithsonian Picks Existing Building as Permanent Site for National Museum of the American Latino, and More: Morning Links for September 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.Good Morning!<br />
Rare Kandinsky painting returned to Jewish heirs of Nazi-persecuted former owners, heads to Christie&rsquo;s in London.The Smithsonian Institution formally selected an existing building to house the National Museum of the American Latino, avoiding congressional approval.&nbsp;A government misconduct investigation is underway into two senior exec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nazi-looted-kandinsky-heads-to-christies-smithsonian-picks-existing-building-as-permanent-site-for-national-museum-of-the-american-latino-and-more-morning-links-for-september12026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nazi-looted-kandinsky-heads-to-christies-smithsonian-picks-existing-building-as-permanent-site-for-national-museum-of-the-american-latino-and-more-morning-links-for-september12026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wine so thick you could write with it. Pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food]]></title><description><![CDATA[A wine so thick you could write with it. P&acirc;t&eacute; made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-wine-so-thick-you-could-write-with-it-pt-made-from-cat-meat-what-did-boys-obsess-over-in-the-renaissance-food/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:12:08 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-wine-so-thick-you-could-write-with-it-pt-made-from-cat-meat-what-did-boys-obsess-over-in-the-renaissance-food/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this glamorous, supremely insouciant writer was once boring]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tour through Eve Babitz&rsquo;s letters reveals that this glamorous, supremely insouciant writer was once boring]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-tour-through-eve-babitzs-letters-reveals-that-this-glamorous-supremely-insouciant-writer-was-once-boring/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:12:08 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-tour-through-eve-babitzs-letters-reveals-that-this-glamorous-supremely-insouciant-writer-was-once-boring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art in America’s Fall Issue Features Five “Icons,” Thoughts on Cringe Culture, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[Critic Bob Nickas, in a recent essay on the musician Steven Stapleton, took the temperature of contemporary art and found it tepid. &ldquo;Increasingly, since the pandemic and the rightward (wrongward) tilt in global politics,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;we have witnessed an unfortunate shift in art&mdash;from works with more seriousness of purpose to works of palliative escapism, art in which there is scant danger of disturbance.&rdquo; Those words came back to me as this issue was going to press.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-fall-issue-features-five-icons-thoughts-on-cringe-culture-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-fall-issue-features-five-icons-thoughts-on-cringe-culture-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art in America’s Fall Issue Features Five “Icons,” a Theory of Cringe, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[Critic Bob Nickas, in a recent essay on the musician Steven Stapleton, took the temperature of contemporary art and found it tepid. &ldquo;Increasingly, since the pandemic and the rightward (wrongward) tilt in global politics,&rdquo; he wrote, &ldquo;we have witnessed an unfortunate shift in art&mdash;from works with more seriousness of purpose to works of palliative escapism, art in which there is scant danger of disturbance.&rdquo; Those words came back to me as this issue was going to press.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-fall-issue-features-five-icons-a-theory-of-cringe-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-fall-issue-features-five-icons-a-theory-of-cringe-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? &ldquo;Canon" became a dirty word]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? &ldquo;Canon" became a dirty word]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1970-1-in-13-four-year-degrees-was-in-english-today-its-1-in-60-what-happened-ldquocanon-became-a-dirty-word/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:24:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1970-1-in-13-four-year-degrees-was-in-english-today-its-1-in-60-what-happened-ldquocanon-became-a-dirty-word/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wine so thick you could write with it and pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food]]></title><description><![CDATA[A wine so thick you could write with it and p&acirc;t&eacute; made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-wine-so-thick-you-could-write-with-it-and-pt-made-from-cat-meat-what-did-boys-obsess-over-in-the-renaissance-food/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:24:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-wine-so-thick-you-could-write-with-it-and-pt-made-from-cat-meat-what-did-boys-obsess-over-in-the-renaissance-food/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this supremely insouciant, glamorous writer was once boring]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tour through Eve Babitz&rsquo;s letters reveals that this supremely insouciant, glamorous writer was once boring]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-tour-through-eve-babitzs-letters-reveals-that-this-supremely-insouciant-glamorous-writer-was-once-boring/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:24:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-tour-through-eve-babitzs-letters-reveals-that-this-supremely-insouciant-glamorous-writer-was-once-boring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baltimore Museum of Art Announces New Acquisitions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Baltimore Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of approximately 118 artworks over the past six months. The new additions to its collection&mdash;purchases, gifts, and promised gifts&mdash;span periods, cultures, and mediums, strengthening the BMA&rsquo;s holdings of art from around the globe as well as work by Baltimore-area artists.The acquisitions include 64 works gifted by Baltimore resident Constance R. Caplan, a former BMA board chair who has been actively engaged with the instit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/baltimore-museum-of-art-announces-newacquisitions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/baltimore-museum-of-art-announces-newacquisitions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TENNOZ ART WEEK 2026 Returns in September with Art Fair, Open Studios and Night Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Warehouse TERRADA will hold TENNOZ ART WEEK 2026, a multi-venue art event in Tennoz, Tokyo, from September 10 to 13. Now in its fourth edition, the event will be held in collaboration with Tokyo Gendai (September 11&ndash;13 at PACIFICO Yokohama), the international art fair for which Warehouse TERRADA serves as an official partner. On September 12 and 13, free shuttle buses will run at regular intervals between PACIFICO Yokohama and Tennoz for Tokyo Gendai ticket holders. Details of the shuttle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tennoz-art-week-2026-returns-in-september-with-art-fair-open-studios-and-nightmuseum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tennoz-art-week-2026-returns-in-september-with-art-fair-open-studios-and-nightmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Discoveries at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis Show Its Use Over Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archaeological mission working at Saqqara has uncovered the tomb of Sekhentiu-Ptah, a high-ranking official of Egypt&rsquo;s Old Kingdom (ca. 2700&ndash;ca. 2200 BCE). In a separate discovery, the archaeologists also found a network of burial shafts containing human remains and funerary objects from later periods.Heritage Daily reported the news following an announcement by Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.The finds were made during the mission&rsquo;s first excavati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-discoveries-at-egypts-saqqara-necropolis-show-its-use-overtime/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-discoveries-at-egypts-saqqara-necropolis-show-its-use-overtime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Otto Muehl Retrospective at Vienna Actionism Museum Courts Controversy in Advance of September Opening]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Vienna Actionism Museum (WAM) has been controversial since it opened in March 2024, which is perhaps not an entirely surprising outcome given the postwar movement&rsquo;s penchant for violent, graphic performance art. &nbsp;A new scandal is brewing as the museum prepares for its fall exhibition, dedicated to the work of Otto Muehl, one of the co-founders of Viennese Actionism. The show &ldquo;Otto Muehl: Art on the Precipice&rdquo; will feature 150 paintings, objects, film, and prints, some]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/otto-muehl-retrospective-at-vienna-actionism-museum-courts-controversy-in-advance-of-septemberopening/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/otto-muehl-retrospective-at-vienna-actionism-museum-courts-controversy-in-advance-of-septemberopening/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auction Houses Won’t Sell a Keith Haring Drawing That Faced a Lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Keith Haring drawing deemed authentic by a Superior Court judge but lacking sufficient provenance records to sell at Christie&rsquo;s and Sotheby&rsquo;s was the subject of a trial in Connecticut. The gallery that sold it ended up proving victorious.As reported by Greenwich Time, Nevada businessman Vernon&nbsp;Hartung bought the drawing of flying saucers from Martin Lawrence Galleries for $165,000 in 2018. But when he inquired about selling it at Christie&rsquo;s and Sotheby&rsquo;s, the two a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auction-houses-wont-sell-a-keith-haring-drawing-that-faced-alawsuit/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auction-houses-wont-sell-a-keith-haring-drawing-that-faced-alawsuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Gwangju Attributes Biennale’s Taiwan Pavilion Controversy to ‘Insufficient Communication’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The South Korean city of Gwangju has issued an apology for controversy that surrounded the Gwangju Biennale&rsquo;s Taiwan Pavilion, whose name was initially altered in promotional materials for the show, only to be returned to its current name following an outcry from its participants.The Taiwan Pavilion, one of many national pavilions that appears alongside the biennial&rsquo;s main exhibition, was at one point billed as the NTMoFA Pavilion, a reference to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/city-of-gwangju-attributes-biennales-taiwan-pavilion-controversy-to-insufficient-communication/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/city-of-gwangju-attributes-biennales-taiwan-pavilion-controversy-to-insufficient-communication/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shakira to Shake Up Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza During World Tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shakira will be shaking up Egypt&rsquo;s Pyramids of Giza with a concert on November 28, promoter Rabih Mokbel told the National. It is the only stop in the region during her ongoing world tour.The &ldquo;Hips Don&rsquo;t Lie&rdquo; singer was previously slated to headline Abu Dhabi&rsquo;s&nbsp;Offlimits Music Festival on November 21. Her November 18 concert at Doha&rsquo;s Stadium 974 was also canceled.&ldquo;The only worry we have is that, production-wise, flying 200 people in Shakira&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/shakira-to-shake-up-egypts-pyramids-of-giza-during-worldtour/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/shakira-to-shake-up-egypts-pyramids-of-giza-during-worldtour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Crockett, Phillips’ Outgoing Asia Chairman, Discusses the State of Asia’s Art Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[The auction house Phillips is currently going through a major executive shake-up as several high-profile senior leaders have exited the company this summer, as ARTnews reported last week. Among them is Jonathan Crockett, Phillips&rsquo; outgoing Asia chairman who will step down on September 2 after leading the firm&rsquo;s regional expansion for over a decade.An accomplished athlete of English, Irish, and Chinese heritage, Crockett previously worked at Sotheby&rsquo;s in both London and Hong Kon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-crockett-phillips-outgoing-asia-chairman-discusses-the-state-of-asias-artmarket/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-crockett-phillips-outgoing-asia-chairman-discusses-the-state-of-asias-artmarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush Made a New Series of Paintings to Mark the 25th Anniversary of 9/11]]></title><description><![CDATA[George W. Bush, the former US President who has become an artist since leaving the White House, created a new body of work to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11 this September.Debuting in an exhibition at his Dallas-based George W. Bush Presidential Center on Tuesday are 16 new paintings grouped under the title &ldquo;Remembering 9/11.&rdquo; On view through September 30, these paintings &ldquo;reflect on the courage, sacrifice, and resilience that emerged from one of the most defining moments in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-w-bush-made-a-new-series-of-paintings-to-mark-the-25th-anniversary-of911/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-w-bush-made-a-new-series-of-paintings-to-mark-the-25th-anniversary-of911/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collectors Marc Andreessen and Ken Griffin Among Biggest Donors to Midterm Elections]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some $1.2 billion have been funneled into this year&rsquo;s midterm elections, with just over 12 percent of that being linked to two of the world&rsquo;s top collectors: Marc Andreessen and Kenneth C. Griffin.Both Andreessen and Griffin rank among the top 20 of megadonors to the midterms, a group that leans heavily Republican, according to a report published by the New York Times on Friday. As the Times put it, these megadonors are &ldquo;the ones that can turn around candidates&rsquo; fortunes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collectors-marc-andreessen-and-ken-griffin-among-biggest-donors-to-midtermelections/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collectors-marc-andreessen-and-ken-griffin-among-biggest-donors-to-midtermelections/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lavinia Fontana Altarpiece Acquired by National Museum in Stockholm]]></title><description><![CDATA[An altarpiece by Italian Mannerist painter Lavinia Fontana has been purchased by the National Museum in Stockholm, the museum announced today. The work has largely gone unseen by the public until now.Titled The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1607), the altarpiece is set in a palatial interior and shows the moment when the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child appear in a vision to Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with the child placing a ring on Catherine&rsquo;s finger. Catherine, w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lavinia-fontana-altarpiece-acquired-by-national-museum-instockholm/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lavinia-fontana-altarpiece-acquired-by-national-museum-instockholm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alexa West Toes the Line Between Dance and Labor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Choreographer Alexa West wants to see you work. &ldquo;So much of dance is supposed to hide how hard it is,&rdquo; she told me. &ldquo;All the dancers I work with are interested in pushing themselves, so we play with making material that allows them&mdash;or doesn&rsquo;t allow them&mdash;to do the dance successfully. The labor has to be shown.&rdquo;&nbsp;In the past five years in New York, West&rsquo;s uncanny, Rube Goldberg-esque dances have made her one of the stars of the city&rsquo;s exper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alexa-west-toes-the-line-between-dance-andlabor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alexa-west-toes-the-line-between-dance-andlabor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met Museum Cancels John Galliano Exhibition Amid Controversy over Designer’s Antisemitic Comments]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a surprising turnabout, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled a John Galliano exhibition that was due to open next spring, in what would&rsquo;ve been the Costume Institute&rsquo;s big May show for 2027.The show had faced controversy from the start as many fixed on antisemitic and anti-Asian comments by Galliano from more than a decade ago. He was convicted of a hate crime in France in 2011.The designer previously apologized for those comments and sought mental health counseling, and th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-cancels-john-galliano-exhibition-amid-controversy-over-designers-antisemiticcomments/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-cancels-john-galliano-exhibition-amid-controversy-over-designers-antisemiticcomments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tech Billionaire Gets VIP Viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry, London’s Science Museum Ends 25-Year Relationship with BP, The Met Faces Backlash Over Planned John Galliano Exhibition, and More: Morning Links for August 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.Good Morning!<br />
Ahead of its public opening, the British Museum privately hosted billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel for a VIP viewing of the Bayeux Tapestry.London&rsquo;s Science Museum is ending its 25-year relationship with oil giant BP.&nbsp;The Met&rsquo;s decision to honor fashion designer John Galliano with its 2027 Costume Institute exhibition ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tech-billionaire-gets-vip-viewing-of-the-bayeux-tapestry-londons-science-museum-ends-25-year-relationship-with-bp-the-met-faces-backlash-over-planned-john-galliano-exhibition-and-more-morning-links-for-august-312026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tech-billionaire-gets-vip-viewing-of-the-bayeux-tapestry-londons-science-museum-ends-25-year-relationship-with-bp-the-met-faces-backlash-over-planned-john-galliano-exhibition-and-more-morning-links-for-august-312026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Rocky’ Is the Story of an Underdog, Created by an Underdog, That Has Spawned Box-Office Champions for Half a Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sylvester Stallone was a struggling actor when he was inspired by a real boxing match to write the film that became a legend. This year, the origin story of the franchise turns 50.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rocky-is-the-story-of-an-underdog-created-by-an-underdog-that-has-spawned-box-office-champions-for-half-a-century/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rocky-is-the-story-of-an-underdog-created-by-an-underdog-that-has-spawned-box-office-champions-for-half-a-century/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[84 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Want to know which way the winds of the artistic moment are blowing? A reliable way to answer that question is to look at what museums are exhibiting. In the shows on tap for the fall, there&rsquo;s a clear interest in how best to survive the turbulence and violence in much of the world. &ldquo;The World-Chaos&rdquo; is the subtitle given this season to a Kurt Schwitters retrospective at Paris&rsquo;s Mus&eacute;e Picasso, but it could just as well be applied to shows for Inji Efflatoun, Annemir]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/84-museum-exhibitions-and-biennials-to-see-thisfall/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/84-museum-exhibitions-and-biennials-to-see-thisfall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pace Gallery Founder Arne Glimcher Criticizes Met Museum Over Planned Galliano Show: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[A range of politicians and public figures have criticized the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for its forthcoming controversial John Galliano show, including dealer Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, one of the biggest such entreprises in the world.A New York Times report published on Friday revealed that the Met has privately faced criticism over the exhibition for Galliano, a fashion designer who was convicted of a hate crime in France in 2011 for antisemitic comments. He later]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-gallery-founder-arne-glimcher-criticizes-met-museum-over-planned-galliano-showreport/</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-gallery-founder-arne-glimcher-criticizes-met-museum-over-planned-galliano-showreport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Indiana’s Maine Home Is for Sale, Despite Late Artist’s Intentions to Make It an Art Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[The foundation established by Robert Indiana to preserve his legacy is selling the artist&rsquo;s longtime home on the Maine island of Vinalhaven, despite instructions in his will that the property be transformed into an art space open to the public.The Star of Hope Foundation, as the foundation is called, listed this week Indiana&rsquo;s former home, a rambling 19th-century Odd Fellows lodge known as the Star of Hope, for $1.4 million, according to the&nbsp;New York Times. A second building Ind]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-indianas-maine-home-is-for-sale-despite-late-artists-intentions-to-make-it-an-artspace/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-indianas-maine-home-is-for-sale-despite-late-artists-intentions-to-make-it-an-artspace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded]]></title><description><![CDATA[Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/soviet-censors-mangled-vasily-grossmans-wartime-journalism-the-original-copy-reveals-a-palimpsest-of-what-propaganda-demanded/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:12:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/soviet-censors-mangled-vasily-grossmans-wartime-journalism-the-original-copy-reveals-a-palimpsest-of-what-propaganda-demanded/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today&rsquo;s cinema?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/siegfried-kracauer-believed-films-could-foretell-political-disaster-what-does-his-approach-make-of-todays-cinema/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:12:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/siegfried-kracauer-believed-films-could-foretell-political-disaster-what-does-his-approach-make-of-todays-cinema/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“As intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be”: F.R. Leavis’s torching of C.P. Snow brought passion back into cultural life]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;As intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be&rdquo;: F.R. Leavis&rsquo;s torching of C.P. Snow brought passion back into cultural life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-intellectually-undistinguished-as-it-is-possible-to-be-fr-leaviss-torching-of-cp-snow-brought-passion-back-into-cultural-life/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:12:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-intellectually-undistinguished-as-it-is-possible-to-be-fr-leaviss-torching-of-cp-snow-brought-passion-back-into-cultural-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Denied Use of Roy Cohn Portrait for New Biography Over Political Concerns]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation denied the use of a 1981 portrait by the artist of notorious New York lawyer Roy M. Cohn for the cover of a forthcoming biography, titled American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn&rsquo;s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, because of its negative affiliation with the sitting US president, according to the New York Times.The portrait in question, simply titled Roy Cohn, captures the lawyer&rsquo;s striking outward stare and scar-split nose head on, surrounded by]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-mapplethorpe-foundation-denied-use-of-roy-cohn-portrait-for-new-biography-over-politicalconcerns/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-mapplethorpe-foundation-denied-use-of-roy-cohn-portrait-for-new-biography-over-politicalconcerns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Pulls Artists from Gwangju Biennale as  ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ Moves Forward]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Chinese ambassador to South Korea has ordered China&rsquo;s artists to withdraw from the 16th Gwangju Biennale, which opens September 5, in protest of the Gwangju Biennial Foundation allowing Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the name &ldquo;Taiwan,&rdquo; South Korean media reported today.&nbsp;In a meeting with Gwangju Mayor Min Hyung-bae at Gwangju City Hall yesterday, Ambassador Dai Bing expressed his &ldquo;regret and concern&rdquo; over the decision to restore the name &ldquo;T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/china-pulls-artists-from-gwangju-biennale-as-taiwan-pavilion-movesforward/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/china-pulls-artists-from-gwangju-biennale-as-taiwan-pavilion-movesforward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Embroiled in Alleged Bribery Scandal]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two municipal employees in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have been dismissed following an investigation into alleged corruption involving construction contracts. They include work connected to asbestos removal at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, one of the country&rsquo;s most important museums.The employees were among three officials investigated after concerns emerged that municipal contracts had been approved at inflated prices. One of the three has since retired, while the other two were suspend]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rotterdams-museum-boijmans-van-beuningen-embroiled-in-alleged-briberyscandal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rotterdams-museum-boijmans-van-beuningen-embroiled-in-alleged-briberyscandal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$4.3 M. Van Cleef &amp; Arpels Necklace Stolen From Vienna&nbsp;Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two men stole a diamond necklace worth millions of dollars from Vienna&rsquo;s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on Thursday, after entering the museum as ordinary visitors and smashing open a display case.The unidentified men entered the MAK during opening hours and targeted the museum&rsquo;s current exhibition of jewelry by Van Cleef &amp; Arpels, the Austrian newspaper&nbsp;Kronen Zeitung reported.&nbsp;The men smashed a glass case, grabbed the necklace, and fled. No one was injured.&nbsp;Police]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/43-m-van-cleef-amp-arpels-necklace-stolen-from-viennanbspmuseum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/43-m-van-cleef-amp-arpels-necklace-stolen-from-viennanbspmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Government Puts Temporary Export Ban on $97.2 M. Rembrandt Painting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Kingdom&rsquo;s government announced this week that it has put a temporary export ban on a Rembrandt painting valued at &pound;71.7 million ($97.2 million).The painting in question is Rembrandt van Rijn&rsquo;s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet (1657), which has been on view in the UK since the mid-18th century, according to a release. It was most recently on view at the National Museum of Cardiff from 2016 to 2019.Rembrandt&rsquo;s portrait depicts Catrina Hooghsaet, a wealthy member of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-government-puts-temporary-export-ban-on-972-m-rembrandtpainting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-government-puts-temporary-export-ban-on-972-m-rembrandtpainting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chief Executive of Sydney’s Forthcoming $915 M. Cultural Institution Steps Down Amid Ongoing Investigations, 10 Weeks Ahead of Its Opening]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just 10 weeks prior to the opening of Sydney&rsquo;s latest cultural institution, Powerhouse Parramatta, its chief executive Lisa Havilah has stepped down amid ongoing &ldquo;investigations into governance and procurement,&rdquo; according to a statement released on Thursday from the office of Australia&rsquo;s Minister for Arts John Graham.Since her 2018 appointment, Havilah has been overseeing the $915 million build of Powerhouse Parramatta&mdash;the city&rsquo;s most significant cultural infr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chief-executive-of-sydneys-forthcoming-915-m-cultural-institution-steps-down-amid-ongoing-investigations-10-weeks-ahead-of-itsopening/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chief-executive-of-sydneys-forthcoming-915-m-cultural-institution-steps-down-amid-ongoing-investigations-10-weeks-ahead-of-itsopening/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center Board Says It Will Delay Adding Trump’s Name to the Center by One Month]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge on Thursday that it will halt efforts to add President Trump&rsquo;s name to the building until at least October 8, delaying its plans by a month.The announcement followed an emergency court hearing prompted by a Justice Department filing this week warning that the Kennedy Center could be demolished and potentially replaced with an outdoor amphitheater if the board is not allowed to close the building for two years for repairs. At the same time, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-board-says-it-will-delay-adding-trumps-name-to-the-center-by-onemonth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-board-says-it-will-delay-adding-trumps-name-to-the-center-by-onemonth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Board Says It Will Delay Adding Trump’s Name to the Center by One Month]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge on Thursday that it will halt efforts to add President Trump&rsquo;s name to the building until at least October 8, delaying its plans by a month.The announcement followed an emergency court hearing prompted by a Justice Department filing this week warning that the Kennedy Center could be demolished and potentially replaced with an outdoor amphitheater if the board is not allowed to close the building for two years for repairs. At the same time, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-board-says-it-will-delay-adding-trumps-name-to-the-center-by-onemonth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-board-says-it-will-delay-adding-trumps-name-to-the-center-by-onemonth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diet and food-fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modern diet and food-fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/modern-diet-and-food-fad-notions-obscure-a-basic-truth-for-most-of-human-existence-we-have-lived-in-the-shadow-of-starvation-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:36:51 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/modern-diet-and-food-fad-notions-obscure-a-basic-truth-for-most-of-human-existence-we-have-lived-in-the-shadow-of-starvation-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sydney’s Powerhouse Parramatta CEO Steps Down, €4 M. Diamond Necklace Stolen from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts, £71 M. Rembrandt Portrait Placed Under Export Bar in the UK, and More: Morning Links for August 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!<br />
Lisa Havilah, CEO of Sydney&rsquo;s Powerhouse Parramatta, has stepped down ten weeks before its opening.A &euro;4 million ($4.7 million) diamond necklace has been stolen from the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.&nbsp;A &pound;71 million ($96.4 million) Rembrandt portrait has been placed under an export bar in the United Kingdom.The Headlines&n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sydneys-powerhouse-parramatta-ceo-steps-down-4-m-diamond-necklace-stolen-from-viennas-museum-of-applied-arts-71-m-rembrandt-portrait-placed-under-export-bar-in-the-uk-and-more-morning-links-for-august-282026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sydneys-powerhouse-parramatta-ceo-steps-down-4-m-diamond-necklace-stolen-from-viennas-museum-of-applied-arts-71-m-rembrandt-portrait-placed-under-export-bar-in-the-uk-and-more-morning-links-for-august-282026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Right-Leaning Politicians Attack Cultural Institutions, a Basque Country Museum Director Believes in a Different ‘Vision of the Museum Worth Fighting For’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nicknamed the &ldquo;Little Louvre,&rdquo; a hidden gem of European masterpieces in France&rsquo;s Basque Country was given a new lease on life last fall.Founded in 1891, the Mus&eacute;e Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne is home to some 7,000 artworks spanning antiquity to the early 20th century, and it reopened after 14 years of renovations that doubled its exhibition space. About 10 months before the opening, the museum also got a new leader in Barth&eacute;l&eacute;my Etchegoyen Glama, a 33-year-old]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-right-leaning-politicians-attack-cultural-institutions-a-basque-country-museum-director-believes-in-a-different-vision-of-the-museum-worth-fightingfor/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-right-leaning-politicians-attack-cultural-institutions-a-basque-country-museum-director-believes-in-a-different-vision-of-the-museum-worth-fightingfor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Surrealists Turned to Animals to Plumb the Human Psyche]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starfish, scorpions, swallows, and sheep&mdash;once you look, animals are everywhere in Surrealist paintings. These and many other creatures are the focus of&nbsp;Desmond Morris&rsquo;sThe Surrealist Menagerie: Strange Beasts &amp; Fantastic Visions,&nbsp;a new book that combines Morris&rsquo;s longtime study of zoology (he had a doctorate from Oxford) with his own participation in the Surrealist movement. Morris died this April at the age of 98, and his work leaves us with a lingering question:]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-surrealists-turned-to-animals-to-plumb-thehumanpsyche/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-surrealists-turned-to-animals-to-plumb-thehumanpsyche/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector and Patron Hasnaine Yavarhoussen Is Determined to Bring Madagascar’s Art Scene to the Rest of the World]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2019, just four nations mounted their debut pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Madagascar was one of them, and Hasnaine Yavarhoussen&rsquo;s sponsorship was largely what made it possible.The year before, the Malagasy art collector and entrepreneur met with artist Jo&euml;l Andrianomearisoa to discuss the country&rsquo;s participation and his support. At the time of their meeting, Yavarhoussen had limited knowledge about Malagasy artists; his almost decade-old collection didn&rsquo;t even inclu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-and-patron-hasnaine-yavarhoussen-is-determined-to-bring-madagascars-art-scene-to-the-rest-of-theworld/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-and-patron-hasnaine-yavarhoussen-is-determined-to-bring-madagascars-art-scene-to-the-rest-of-theworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one was more baffled by his celebrity than Albert Einstein himself: "Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[No one was more baffled by his celebrity than Albert Einstein himself: "Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-one-was-more-baffled-by-his-celebrity-than-albert-einstein-himself-why-is-it-that-nobody-understands-me-and-everybody-likes-me/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:13:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-one-was-more-baffled-by-his-celebrity-than-albert-einstein-himself-why-is-it-that-nobody-understands-me-and-everybody-likes-me/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diet and food fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modern diet and food fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/modern-diet-and-food-fad-notions-obscure-a-basic-truth-for-most-of-human-existence-we-have-lived-in-the-shadow-of-starvation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:13:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/modern-diet-and-food-fad-notions-obscure-a-basic-truth-for-most-of-human-existence-we-have-lived-in-the-shadow-of-starvation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-a-spelling-quirk-and-a-typesetters-blunder-conspired-to-give-us-the-word-weird/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:13:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-a-spelling-quirk-and-a-typesetters-blunder-conspired-to-give-us-the-word-weird/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riverside Art Museum Appoints Vivian Zavataro as Next Executive Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) in California has named Vivian Zavataro as its next executive director. She will begin in the role on October 1.Zavataro succeeds Drew Oberjuerge, who served in the top job for more than 13 years and left in June 2025. &ldquo;The Riverside Art Museum has grown from a beloved community museum into a dynamic cultural institution with an international presence,&rdquo; RAM board president Patricia Reynolds said in a statement. &ldquo;I am incredibly proud of the vision]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/riverside-art-museum-appoints-vivian-zavataro-as-next-executivedirector/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/riverside-art-museum-appoints-vivian-zavataro-as-next-executivedirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 20 Years, Turkish Media Star Vuslat Made Art in Secret. Now She’s on the Biennial Circuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[For nearly two decades, Vuslat Do&#287;an Sabanc&#305; lived two lives.By day, she was one of the most powerful figures in Turkish media, serving as chief executive of&nbsp;H&uuml;rriyet, the country&rsquo;s largest newspaper. At night&mdash;after work, dinner, and putting her children to bed&mdash;she went to her studio and made art. &ldquo;Sometimes I would work until six in the morning,&rdquo; Vuslat told ARTnews on a Zoom call from Istanbul.The strange thing was that almost nobody saw what s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-20-years-turkish-media-star-vuslat-made-art-in-secret-now-shes-on-the-biennialcircuit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-20-years-turkish-media-star-vuslat-made-art-in-secret-now-shes-on-the-biennialcircuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As New York Prices Artists Out, New Haven Is Drawing Them In]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chiffon Thomas discovered pretty quickly that New York wasn&rsquo;t going to work. An artist and sculptor who moved to the city after three years in Los Angeles, Thomas needed a studio with room to weld metal and a parking spot for his van. New York real estate was prohibitively expensive and he went in search of another solution. Detroit and Philadelphia have recently become outposts for artists as New York becomes ever more expensive. The move Thomas eventually made signals that there is anoth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-new-york-prices-artists-out-new-haven-is-drawing-themin/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-new-york-prices-artists-out-new-haven-is-drawing-themin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demolition of Tbilisi Arts Complex Sparks Protests]]></title><description><![CDATA[An arts complex in Tbilisi, Georgia, is being razed despite protests from its architects and some members of the local community. Following approval by Tbilisi&rsquo;s city government in June, demolition work on the Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall&mdash;colloquially known as Rike Tubes&mdash;began at the end of July and is scheduled to be completed by December.	The news was reported by Reuters following a photo-essay documenting the destruction of the complex and that of a second lan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/demolition-of-tbilisi-arts-complex-sparksprotests/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/demolition-of-tbilisi-arts-complex-sparksprotests/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neolithic Figure Astride a Leopard Unearthed in Turkey: ‘Unlike Anything Seen Before’]]></title><description><![CDATA[An 11,000-year-old statue depicting a person on the back of a leopard was unearthed by archaeologists at a Stone Age site in southern Turkey, the country&rsquo;s Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced in a statement on August 25.	The find from the Neolithic site Karahan Tepe measures about 28 inches tall and would have sat on a platform along the wall of a larger round building roughly 10 feet in diameter. Notably, the style of the composite statue is &ldquo;unlike anything seen before,&rdquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/neolithic-figure-astride-a-leopard-unearthed-in-turkey-unlike-anything-seenbefore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/neolithic-figure-astride-a-leopard-unearthed-in-turkey-unlike-anything-seenbefore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Peter Marino’s Foundation, Centuries of Art History Devilishly Collapse into Each Other]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Peter Marino Art Foundation occupies the former Rogers Memorial Library, a charming historic building in Southampton, New York, that its namesake has transformed into something much stranger inside.&nbsp;This summer, the iconoclastic architect and collector has placed portraits by Robert Nava alongside those by Y.Z. Kami; abstractions by Betty Parsons and Carla Accardi share a wall. Nearby is a magnificent room filled with Tiffany silver, while a luscious, red-painted space is filled with Vi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-peter-marinos-foundation-centuries-of-art-history-devilishly-collapse-into-eachother/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-peter-marinos-foundation-centuries-of-art-history-devilishly-collapse-into-eachother/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips Faces Major Senior Leadership Shake-Up, Ahead of Fall Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Half of the executive leadership team at Phillips is no longer with the auction house, and several other high-ranking employees have departed the company since the May sales.The two most senior departures are Miety Heiden, chairman of private sales, and Jonathan Crockett, chairman for Asia. Both will officially leave their roles next month. (Crockett&rsquo;s departure was first reported in Art Asia Pacific and the Baer Faxt newsletter earlier today.)&nbsp;Until now, the house&rsquo;s four-person]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-faces-major-senior-leadership-shake-up-ahead-of-fallsales/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-faces-major-senior-leadership-shake-up-ahead-of-fallsales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips Face Major Senior Leadership Shake-Up, Ahead of Fall Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Half of the executive leadership team at Phillips is no longer with the auction house, and several other high-ranking employees have departed the company since the May sales.The two most senior departures are Miety Heiden, chairman of private sales, and Jonathan Crockett, chairman for Asia. Both will officially leave their roles next month. (Crockett&rsquo;s departure was first reported in Art Asia Pacific and the Baer Faxt newsletter earlier today.)&nbsp;Until now, the house&rsquo;s four-person]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-face-major-senior-leadership-shake-up-ahead-of-fallsales/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-face-major-senior-leadership-shake-up-ahead-of-fallsales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence for ‘Slandering China’s Heroes’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Gao Zhen, who was detained in China in 2024 on &ldquo;suspicion of slandering China&rsquo;s heroes and martyrs&rdquo; over a satirical sculpture of Mao Zedong, has been sentenced to a maximum of three years in prison, rights groups say.&nbsp;The BBC reported yesterday that a court in Hebei province ruled on Tuesday that Gao Zhen&rsquo;s artwork &ldquo;infringes upon the hero&rsquo;s reputation and harms the public interest.&rdquo; The 70-year-old artist is known for a dissident oeuvre tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-for-slandering-chinasheroes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-for-slandering-chinasheroes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$1.98 M. Worth of Gold Pieces Stolen From the Treasure of Villena]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thieves ransacked Spain&rsquo;s Villena Museum, taking with them one of Europe&rsquo;s most significant Bronze Age gold collections in a record four-minute heist on Thursday morning, the Guardian reported.The thieves stole items from the Treasure of Villena, one of the city&rsquo;s treasured prehistoric artifacts that includes some 66 Bronze Age objects, among them, 29 bracelets, 11 bowls, three bottles, and other miscellaneous pieces dating to 1000 BCE. It&rsquo;s unclear how many pieces were s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/198-m-worth-of-gold-pieces-stolen-from-the-treasure-ofvillena/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/198-m-worth-of-gold-pieces-stolen-from-the-treasure-ofvillena/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany’s 100-Year-Old Merz Academy Declared Insolvent]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Germany, has filed for insolvency, the academy announced on Wednesday. Classes, however, are expected to continue at the university, which offers Bachelor&rsquo;s and Master&rsquo;s degree programs at the intersection of design, art, media, and technology.	Monopol reported that the university&rsquo;s application was approved on Tuesday by the Stuttgart District Court with a provisional self-administration order. The insolvency, it believes, is a result of a failing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/germanys-100-year-old-merz-academy-declaredinsolvent/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/germanys-100-year-old-merz-academy-declaredinsolvent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claire Denis Is Miu Miu Women’s Tales Latest Iteration’s Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[French filmmaker and screenwriter Claire Denis is the director of the 32nd&nbsp;installment of the&nbsp;Miu Miu Women&rsquo;s Tales&nbsp;film&nbsp;series.The new short film, titled &ldquo;Avec Kim,&rdquo; will premiere September 5 during the upcoming edition of the&nbsp;Venice Film Festival. It will follow the screening of the previous episode &ldquo;Discipline,&rdquo; which was directed by Mona Fastvold and was first presented in New York last February,&nbsp;as reported.&ldquo;Making films for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claire-denis-is-miu-miu-womens-tales-latest-iterationsdirector/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claire-denis-is-miu-miu-womens-tales-latest-iterationsdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MoMA to Stage Major Exhibition on Mid-Century African Modernism, Centered on the Concept of ‘Emancipatory Art’  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Museum of Modern Art in New York will stage a major exhibition examining mid-century modernism in Africa next year.Running May 2&ndash;August 14, 2027, the thematic exhibition, titled &ldquo;Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956&ndash;1982,&rdquo; will bring together around 250 objects, including 40 from MoMA&rsquo;s collection. The exhibition is curated by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, a painting and sculpture curator who also leads the Africa group of the museum&rsquo;s Contem]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-to-stage-major-exhibition-on-mid-century-african-modernism-centered-on-the-concept-of-emancipatory-art/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-to-stage-major-exhibition-on-mid-century-african-modernism-centered-on-the-concept-of-emancipatory-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thieves Steal One of Europe’s Most Significant Bronze Age Gold Collections, Frieze Abu Dhabi Announces Exhibitors, Growing Pains in Britain’s Expanding Cultural Scene, and More: Morning Links for August 27, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
Thieves have stolen most of Spain&rsquo;s&nbsp;Treasure of Villena, one of Europe&rsquo;s most significant Bronze Age gold collections, in just four minutes. &nbsp;Frieze is heading to Abu Dhabi for the first time this November, unveiling a line-up of 84 galleries for its inaugural edition.Britain&rsquo;s cultural scene is showing signs of a new]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thieves-steal-one-of-europes-most-significant-bronze-age-gold-collections-frieze-abu-dhabi-announces-exhibitors-growing-pains-in-britains-expanding-cultural-scene-and-more-morning-links-for-august-272026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thieves-steal-one-of-europes-most-significant-bronze-age-gold-collections-frieze-abu-dhabi-announces-exhibitors-growing-pains-in-britains-expanding-cultural-scene-and-more-morning-links-for-august-272026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craig Jun Li’s Art of Show-and-Tell]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;What I do is like a show-and-tell,&rdquo; Craig Jun Li explained when we spoke, referring to his displays of found objects and archival material&mdash;faded photographs, old letters, buttons. Such ephemera made up his January solo exhibition at Chapter NY. &ldquo;I want to show the effect these materials have had on me,&rdquo; he added. Yet the show&rsquo;s title suggests deeper desires: &ldquo;I Want to Love with No Fear.&rdquo;&ldquo;I blocked the radiators,&rdquo; he said, explaining a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/craig-jun-lis-art-ofshow-and-tell/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/craig-jun-lis-art-ofshow-and-tell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze Abu Dhabi Lines Up 84 Galleries for Inaugural Edition in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frieze Abu Dhabi announced today the 84 exhibitors who will participate in its inaugural edition, scheduled to run November 19&ndash;22 at Manarat Al Saadiyat, in the city&rsquo;s Saadiyat Cultural District.The fair will bring together galleries from 63 cities in 36 countries, including 36 galleries (around 43 percent) with locations in the SWANA region. They include Carbon 12 (of Dubai), The Third Line (Dubai), Dastan (Tehran and Toronto), Gypsum (Cairo), Loft Art Gallery (Casablanca and Morocc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-abu-dhabi-lines-up-84-galleries-for-inaugural-edition-innovember/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-abu-dhabi-lines-up-84-galleries-for-inaugural-edition-innovember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yayoi Kusama, Avant-Garde Artist Who Pursued Infinity, Has Died at 97]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yayoi Kusama, whose obsessive repetitions of dots and nets became a means of expressing infinity, leaving an indelible mark on contemporary art worldwide, died on August 14 of multiple organ failure at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 97. Her death was reported on Thursday by Kyodo News and later confirmed by her David Zwirner Gallery, her longtime representation.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been one of the great privileges of my professional life to have been able to represent Yayoi Kusama&rsquo;s extraordina]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yayoi-kusama-avant-garde-artist-who-pursued-infinity-has-died-at97/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yayoi-kusama-avant-garde-artist-who-pursued-infinity-has-died-at97/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dartmouth’s Hood Museum Taps Whitney Museum Chief Curator Kim Contay to Be Next Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has named Kim Conaty, the chief curator of the Whitney Museum in New York as its next director. She will begin in the role on October 27.Contay has spent nearly a decade at the Whitney, joining in 2017 as curator of drawings and prints. She was promoted to chief curator in 2024. During her tenure at the museum, she organized exhibitions on Edward Hopper, Mary Corse, and Ruth Asawa.	Contay becomes the eighth director to assume the top position and succe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dartmouths-hood-museum-taps-whitney-museum-chief-curator-kim-contay-to-be-nextdirector/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dartmouths-hood-museum-taps-whitney-museum-chief-curator-kim-contay-to-be-nextdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dartmouth’s Hood Museum Taps Whitney Museum Chief Curator Kim Conaty to Be Next Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has named Kim Conaty, the chief curator of the Whitney Museum in New York as its next director. She will begin in the role on October 27.Conaty has spent nearly a decade at the Whitney, joining in 2017 as curator of drawings and prints. She was promoted to chief curator in 2024. During her tenure at the museum, she organized exhibitions on Edward Hopper, Mary Corse, and Ruth Asawa.Conaty becomes the eighth director to assume the top position and succee]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dartmouths-hood-museum-taps-whitney-museum-chief-curator-kim-conaty-to-be-nextdirector/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dartmouths-hood-museum-taps-whitney-museum-chief-curator-kim-conaty-to-be-nextdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood Stars and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Join Ukraine Photo Exhibition as Guest Curators]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sir Stephen Fry, Sharon Stone, Prince Harry, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk are among the public figures taking on guest curator roles for &ldquo;Postcode Ukraine: Diary of a Volunteer,&rdquo; a fundraising exhibition of photographs by British, Kyiv-based artist Mark Neville.	The show is slated to open on September 11 at Westwood Contemporary in Los Angeles and documents everyday life in Ukraine during Russia&rsquo;s full-scale invasion. Neville&rsquo;s photographs focus on v]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hollywood-stars-and-nobel-peace-prize-winner-join-ukraine-photo-exhibition-as-guestcurators/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hollywood-stars-and-nobel-peace-prize-winner-join-ukraine-photo-exhibition-as-guestcurators/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LACMA Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach of Employee, Visitor Information]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former employee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has filed a class action complaint against the institution over a 2025 data breach that he claims has compromised sensitive visitor and employee information, including Social Security numbers.	The complaint accuses LACMA of acting negligently by waiting nearly a year to inform its staff of the breach and seeks unspecified damages, as well as a court-ordered assurance of stronger security measures.&nbsp;The lawsuit, reviewed by ARTnews, wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lacma-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-data-breach-of-employee-visitorinformation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lacma-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-data-breach-of-employee-visitorinformation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Amazonian river dolphin is 10 million years old and has pink skin. To the indigenous people, they are thoroughly wicked creatures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Amazonian river dolphin is 10 million years old and has pink skin. To the indigenous people, they are thoroughly wicked creatures]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-amazonian-river-dolphin-is-10-million-years-old-and-has-pink-skin-to-the-indigenous-people-they-are-thoroughly-wicked-creatures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:11:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-amazonian-river-dolphin-is-10-million-years-old-and-has-pink-skin-to-the-indigenous-people-they-are-thoroughly-wicked-creatures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography&rdquo;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/even-as-a-young-man-franz-rosenzweig-was-suspicious-you-believe-you-are-philosophizing-but-you-are-only-writing-your-own-biographyrdquo/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:11:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/even-as-a-young-man-franz-rosenzweig-was-suspicious-you-believe-you-are-philosophizing-but-you-are-only-writing-your-own-biographyrdquo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before Godot, Beckett wrote a study of Proust and the redemptive force of art. He spent the next few decades abandoning that faith]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before Godot, Beckett wrote a study of Proust and the redemptive force of art. He spent the next few decades abandoning that faith]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/before-godot-beckett-wrote-a-study-of-proust-and-the-redemptive-force-of-art-he-spent-the-next-few-decades-abandoning-that-faith/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:11:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/before-godot-beckett-wrote-a-study-of-proust-and-the-redemptive-force-of-art-he-spent-the-next-few-decades-abandoning-that-faith/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Smithsonian Institution, Andy Warhol Museum Honor Dolly Parton by Sharing Image in Its Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Big blonde hair, a pink outfit, and a toothy smile. Dolly Parton&rsquo;s image appeared on cake mix boxes, film posters, magazine covers, and paintings. In the wake of the country music legend&rsquo;s death on Tuesday, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, took to Instagram to remember the &ldquo;queen of country.&rdquo;The Smithsonian Institution shared three images that belong to the collection of the National Museum of America]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-smithsonian-institution-andy-warhol-museum-honor-dolly-parton-by-sharing-image-in-itscollection/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-smithsonian-institution-andy-warhol-museum-honor-dolly-parton-by-sharing-image-in-itscollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lindsay Jarvis and Max Werner Form New Partnership, Three LA Museums Examine the Work of Architect Paul Revere Williams, and More: Industry Moves for August 26, 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 Moves	Lindsay Jarvis and Max Werner Form New Partnership: The new Jarvis &amp; Werner will open on September 2 with a solo exhibition for Martina Cox at 96 Bowery in New York. Werner is the son of Mary Boone and Michael Werner and has previously worked at both of his parents&rsquo; galleries. J]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lindsay-jarvis-and-max-werner-form-new-partnership-three-la-museums-examine-the-work-of-architect-paul-revere-williams-and-more-industry-moves-for-august-262026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lindsay-jarvis-and-max-werner-form-new-partnership-three-la-museums-examine-the-work-of-architect-paul-revere-williams-and-more-industry-moves-for-august-262026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens to Seoul’s Art Market After the Hype?]]></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 hype surrounding Seoul&rsquo;s boom years is over. As Frieze Seoul returns for its fifth edition and KIAF marks its 25th anniversary this September, the city&rsquo;s art market is entering a new phase. While collectors and dealers navigate more challenging terrain, signs point to a maturing market.S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-happens-to-seouls-art-market-after-thehype/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-happens-to-seouls-art-market-after-thehype/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Samia Halaby Remembers Sliman Mansour: ‘A Giant in the History of Art’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sliman Mansour, an artist and educator who helped create the visual language of Palestinian perseverance, died on Monday in Jerusalem at 79. An outpouring of gratitude and grief has followed in the wake of his death from artists and arts professionals within the Arab art community, and beyond, many of whom counted Mansour as both an inspiration and a friend. Below, Samia Halaby, another pioneering Palestinian painter, reflects on Mansour&rsquo;s life and legacy.Sliman Mansour affected me hugely]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/samia-halaby-remembers-sliman-mansour-a-giant-in-the-history-ofart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/samia-halaby-remembers-sliman-mansour-a-giant-in-the-history-ofart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolly Parton Was One of the Biggest Stars in the History of Country Music. She Wanted to Be Remembered as a Songwriter]]></title><description><![CDATA[After growing up in poverty, she became famous for her legendary songs, big heart and larger-than-life style. But the iconic musician insisted that "the songs lead to everything else"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dolly-parton-was-one-of-the-biggest-stars-in-the-history-of-country-music-she-wanted-to-be-remembered-as-a-songwriter/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dolly-parton-was-one-of-the-biggest-stars-in-the-history-of-country-music-she-wanted-to-be-remembered-as-a-songwriter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling Finances Follows Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ticket sales are dwindling with speed. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that in the 10 months following President Donald Trump&rsquo;s takeover of the center, ticket sales and donations have tumbled.The performing arts venue is reportedly on track to fall nearly $100 million short of its revenue target, and center officials are predicting that this fiscal year&rsquo;s revenue will miss its budget target by 70 percent, while contribut]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/falling-finances-follows-trumps-takeover-of-the-kennedy-centerreport/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/falling-finances-follows-trumps-takeover-of-the-kennedy-centerreport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic Sulfur Emissions Likely Damaged Murujuga Rock Art, New Study Finds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ancient rock art at Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia, has seen much larger damaged than previously anticipated due to industrial pollutants found in air emissions.About 932 miles north of Perth, Murujuga contains one of the world&rsquo;s most significant and dense collections of ancient petroglyphs, dating back about 50,000 years. These tens of thousands of petroglyphs depict animals, spiritual figures, and sacred stories.Since the 1950s, however, Murujuga has also become]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historic-sulfur-emissions-likely-damaged-murujuga-rock-art-new-studyfinds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historic-sulfur-emissions-likely-damaged-murujuga-rock-art-new-studyfinds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A GoFundMe Campaign Has Been Launched to Preserve Marijke De Roover’s Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Belgian artist Marijke De Roover, who turned memes into art and never shied away from topics of feminism, sex and gender, died on July 25, at 36 years old.A crowdfunding campaign has since been launched by her community to preserve her work, Ocula reported on Tuesday. So far, 48 donations totaling &euro;3,684 ($4,292) have been made, with a &euro;10,000 goal. The GoFundMe campaign was started by De Roover&rsquo;s immediate family, writing that she would describe &ldquo;herself as a part-time]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-gofundme-campaign-has-been-launched-to-preserve-marijke-de-rooverswork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-gofundme-campaign-has-been-launched-to-preserve-marijke-de-rooverswork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Judge Halts Sale of Titanic Artifacts]]></title><description><![CDATA[A &lsquo;wrecked&rsquo; sale? An Atlanta-based company that salvaged 100 artifacts from the Titanic shipwreck decades ago has been banned from auctioning them, a federal judge ruled Monday, according to The New York Times.Judge Rebecca Beach Smith of the U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, upheld a 2011 ban on the sale of artifacts recovered by the R.M.S. Titanic Inc., a company previously authorized to salvage and exhibit items from the Titanic shipwreck. Smith said she has jurisdiction o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-judge-halts-sale-of-titanicartifacts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-judge-halts-sale-of-titanicartifacts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gwangju Biennale Restores ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ Amid Diplomatic Crisis and Censorship Claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten days into a deepening diplomacy dispute between Taiwan and South Korea&rsquo;s Gwangju Biennale over allegations of censorship, the Gwangju Biennale Foundation (GBF) has agreed that a satellite exhibition at its September edition can open as the &ldquo;Taiwan Pavilion.&rdquo; The decision follows a series of conflicting accounts between the two parties over the exhibition&rsquo;s renaming under the banner of its commissioning institution, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gwangju-biennale-restores-taiwan-pavilion-amid-diplomatic-crisis-and-censorshipclaims/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gwangju-biennale-restores-taiwan-pavilion-amid-diplomatic-crisis-and-censorshipclaims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-9/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-9/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-8/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-8/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-7/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-7/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-6/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-6/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-5/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-5/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-4/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-4/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-3/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-3/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-26/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-26/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-25/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-25/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-24/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-24/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-23/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-23/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-22/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-22/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-21/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-21/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-20/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-20/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-19/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-19/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-18/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-18/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-17/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-17/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-16/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-16/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-15/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-15/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-14/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-14/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-13/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-13/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-12/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-12/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-11/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-11/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-10/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026-10/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 202]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!<br />
An employee from Ireland&rsquo;s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.&nbsp;Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for &ldquo;slandering China&rsquo;s heroes.&rdquo;The Venice Film Festival has defended the inclusion of Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy&rsquo;s&nbsp;Dau&nbsp;despit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-with-possession-of-military-grade-explosive-artist-gao-zhen-receives-three-year-prison-sentence-the-venice-film-festival-defends-inclusion-of-russian-born-filmmaker-and-more-morning-links-for-august-262026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $41 M. Mondrian Painting Leads Christie’s Frieze Week Evening Sale in October]]></title><description><![CDATA[The star of Christie&rsquo;s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on October 14 during Frieze Week is Piet Mondrian&rsquo;s Composition III (1920). The work is coming to auction for the first time and is estimated to fetch between &pound;20 million to &pound;30 million ($27 million to $41 million).Composition III (1920) arrives at auction by way of a private collector. The artwork was previously owned by American architect and collector of modernism Armand P. Bartos and his wife Celeste from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-41-m-mondrian-painting-leads-christies-frieze-week-evening-sale-inoctober/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-41-m-mondrian-painting-leads-christies-frieze-week-evening-sale-inoctober/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A £20 M. Mondrian Painting is the Highlight of Christie’s Frieze Week Evening Sale in October]]></title><description><![CDATA[The star of Christie&rsquo;s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on October 14 during Frieze Week is Piet Mondrian&rsquo;s Composition III (1920). The work is coming to auction for the first time and is estimated to fetch between &pound;20 million to &pound;30 million ($27.26 million to $40.89 million).Composition III (1920) arrives at auction by way of a private collector. The artwork was previously owned by American architect and collector of modernism Armand P. Bartos and his wife Celest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-20-m-mondrian-painting-is-the-highlight-of-christies-frieze-week-evening-sale-inoctober/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-20-m-mondrian-painting-is-the-highlight-of-christies-frieze-week-evening-sale-inoctober/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, its titans were bad writers, narcissists, failed artists, murderers, and Nazis — and yet, it’s okay to love literary theory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yes, its titans were bad writers, narcissists, failed artists, murderers, and Nazis &mdash; and yet, it&rsquo;s okay to love literary theory]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yes-its-titans-were-bad-writers-narcissists-failed-artists-murderers-and-nazis-and-yet-its-okay-to-love-literary-theory/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:12:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yes-its-titans-were-bad-writers-narcissists-failed-artists-murderers-and-nazis-and-yet-its-okay-to-love-literary-theory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank O'Hara packed 100 references into 500 lines. Even his most devoted readers miss most of them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Frank O'Hara packed 100 references into 500 lines. Even his most devoted readers miss most of them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frank-ohara-packed-100-references-into-500-lines-even-his-most-devoted-readers-miss-most-of-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:12:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frank-ohara-packed-100-references-into-500-lines-even-his-most-devoted-readers-miss-most-of-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chock-full of highly original description and impressive sentences, recent literary fiction is boring and utterly devoid of fun]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chock-full of highly original description and impressive sentences, recent literary fiction is boring and utterly devoid of fun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chock-full-of-highly-original-description-and-impressive-sentences-recent-literary-fiction-is-boring-and-utterly-devoid-of-fun/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:12:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chock-full-of-highly-original-description-and-impressive-sentences-recent-literary-fiction-is-boring-and-utterly-devoid-of-fun/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anne Imhof to Debut New Ballet-Inspired Performance at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong announced today that Anne Imhof will debut a suite of new works as part of her solo exhibition opening at the former prison turned art space next month.Related ArticlesAnne Imhof&rsquo;s Vapid &lsquo;DOOM&rsquo; Performance Has Nothing to&nbsp;Say	After 14 Years, Philip Tinari Leaves UCCA for Hong Kong's Tai Kwun	Titled &ldquo;House of Swans,&rdquo; the exhibition, which marks the artist&rsquo;s first solo in Asia, will feature &ldquo;a major&nbsp;commission of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anne-imhof-to-debut-new-ballet-inspired-performance-at-hong-kongs-tai-kwuncontemporary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anne-imhof-to-debut-new-ballet-inspired-performance-at-hong-kongs-tai-kwuncontemporary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Convicted in Hamburg Court of Selling Looted Egyptian Antiquities]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two people were convicted in a Hamburg court on Monday of money laundering in a case whose details closely match those of the two children of Serop Simonian, the German art dealer and alleged leader of an Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring that sold items to museums including New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The conviction was reported by Arab News, which did not mention the names of the convicted parties or the French museum in the United Arab Emirates.Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-convicted-in-hamburg-court-of-selling-looted-egyptianantiquities/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-convicted-in-hamburg-court-of-selling-looted-egyptianantiquities/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photographer Sues Elizabeth Peyton Over Painting Using His Photo of Oasis Band Members]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, rock music photographer Justin Thomas filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against the American painter Elizabeth Peyton, Sotheby&rsquo;s, and David Zwirner Gallery, as first reported by Copyright Lately.	In the suit, Thomas accuses Peyton of willfully copying a photograph he took at an after-party in London&rsquo;s Earls Court in 1995 of Oasis band members Liam and Noel Gallagher embracing in a rare show of affection, given the brothers&rsquo; w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photographer-sues-elizabeth-peyton-over-painting-using-his-photo-of-oasis-bandmembers/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photographer-sues-elizabeth-peyton-over-painting-using-his-photo-of-oasis-bandmembers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Threatens to Demolish Kennedy Center if He Can’t Close It for Renovations]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration is threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if it does not get its wish to close it for two years in order to renovate it.	In a Monday court filing, the administration describes the building as &ldquo;dangerously dilapidated, outdated, and decrepit&rdquo; and argues that, absent its proposed renovation, the building &ldquo;will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site,&rdquo; noting that &ldquo;so]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-threatens-to-demolish-kennedy-center-if-he-cant-close-it-forrenovations/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-threatens-to-demolish-kennedy-center-if-he-cant-close-it-forrenovations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larry Gagosian Isn’t Losing Much Sleep Over the Great Wealth Transfer]]></title><description><![CDATA[During a talk at the Parrish Art Museum in the Hamptons last week, mega-dealer Larry Gagosian was asked for his predictions on whether an enormous amount of art could hit the market in the coming years as aging boomers die and their collections pass to their heirs.&nbsp;Bloomberg&nbsp;recently put the potential haul at around $1 trillion and warned that younger generations may have little interest in keeping what their parents collected.&ldquo;I guess the worry is that it will push prices down,&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/larry-gagosian-isnt-losing-much-sleep-over-the-great-wealthtransfer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/larry-gagosian-isnt-losing-much-sleep-over-the-great-wealthtransfer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia’s FSB Agents Recruited Former Pussy Riot Member to Spy on Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former member of the protest-art collective Pussy Riot says she was recruited by Russia&rsquo;s Federal Security Service (FSB) to help spy on the Kremlin&rsquo;s critics. Rita Flores, whose real name is Margarita Konovalova, sat down in an interview with her lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov posted on the YouTube channel of Port Media, an outlet created in July 2024 by a group of exiled Russian journalists.In 2020, she was jailed for taking part in an anti-police brutality protest near the Kremlin with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russias-fsb-agents-recruited-former-pussy-riot-member-to-spy-onartists/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russias-fsb-agents-recruited-former-pussy-riot-member-to-spy-onartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sliman Mansour, Towering Painter of Palestinian Perseverance, Has Died at 79]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sliman Mansour, a pivotal painter in contemporary Arab art history, with an oeuvre synonymous with the struggle for Palestinian statehood, has died at 79. The news was announced yesterday by Mansour&rsquo;s family, who had previously shared that he was in critical condition.&nbsp;&ldquo;The final chapter has been written,&rdquo; the Mansour family said on Instagram. &ldquo;With hearts heavy beyond words, we share that our beloved father has passed away. &hellip; To the world, he leaves behind a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sliman-mansour-towering-painter-of-palestinian-perseverance-has-died-at79/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sliman-mansour-towering-painter-of-palestinian-perseverance-has-died-at79/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fabrizio Plessi, Pioneering Italian Video Artist and Experimenter, Dies at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fabrizio Plessi, a pioneer of video art, died on August 23 in Venice at 86. His death was reported by La Repubblica.	Plessi was best known for engaging history and tradition with the digital, creating installation that took on an architecture of their own. A true experimenter, he also had a flare for eschewing one medium for another, moving between water, fire, stone, memory, and most recently glass.As a teenager, Plessi moved to Venice, first to study at the city&rsquo;s Art High School and the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fabrizio-plessi-pioneering-italian-video-artist-and-experimenter-dies-at86/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fabrizio-plessi-pioneering-italian-video-artist-and-experimenter-dies-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Billionaire Wealth Driving Modern Art Prices?, Ex-Pussy Riot Member Rita Flores Speaks Out, Kehinde Wiley Painting Removed From American Embassy in the Dominican Republic: Morning Links for August 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.Good Morning!The&nbsp;Financial Times&nbsp;has argued that billionaire wealth, not artistic value, is driving modern art&rsquo;s astronomical prices.Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores said Russia&rsquo;s FSB tried to recruit her as an informant in 2023.A Kehinde Wiley painting has been removed from the American Embassy in the Dominican Republic for being &ldquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-billionaire-wealth-driving-modern-art-prices-ex-pussy-riot-member-rita-flores-speaks-out-kehinde-wiley-painting-removed-from-american-embassy-in-the-dominican-republic-morning-links-for-august-252026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-billionaire-wealth-driving-modern-art-prices-ex-pussy-riot-member-rita-flores-speaks-out-kehinde-wiley-painting-removed-from-american-embassy-in-the-dominican-republic-morning-links-for-august-252026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Weighs Sale of Kehinde Wiley Painting in Larger Shift Away from ‘Globalist and Woke Ideologies’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US Embassy in the Dominican Republic is changing its artwork to reflect &ldquo;American patriotism and the beauty of our great country,&rdquo; US ambassador Leah Campos wrote in an Instagram post on August 11, that showed Kehinde Wiley&rsquo;s Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) being swapped for an image of the American flag. The post was accompanied by the song &ldquo;We&rsquo;re Not Gonna Take It&rdquo; by Twisted Sister.&nbsp;&nbsp;On Monday, the New York Times reported that the Sta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-weighs-sale-of-kehinde-wiley-painting-in-larger-shift-away-from-globalist-and-woke-ideologies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-weighs-sale-of-kehinde-wiley-painting-in-larger-shift-away-from-globalist-and-woke-ideologies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claudia Pagès Rabal Plays in the Ruins of Settler Colonial Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[In&nbsp;Typo-Topo-Time Aljibe&nbsp;(2024), a video, shown on an undulating screen, follows Claudia Pag&egrave;s Rabal as she descends into an 11th-century Moorish water cistern in X&agrave;tiva, Spain&mdash;wetsuit on, 360-degree camera strapped to her body. She swims through murky water, plunging and surfacing as a techno score drops and swells with her. The walls around her are scribed with marks spanning centuries&mdash;penises, names, legal contracts&mdash;all cut into the same damp stone, n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claudia-pags-rabal-plays-in-the-ruins-of-settler-colonialtime/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claudia-pags-rabal-plays-in-the-ruins-of-settler-colonialtime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is intelligence? A vice president at Google aims to find out, ignoring decades of lessons from cognitive science and linguistics]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is intelligence? A vice president at Google aims to find out, ignoring decades of lessons from cognitive science and linguistics]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-intelligence-a-vice-president-at-google-aims-to-find-out-ignoring-decades-of-lessons-from-cognitive-science-and-linguistics/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:07:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-intelligence-a-vice-president-at-google-aims-to-find-out-ignoring-decades-of-lessons-from-cognitive-science-and-linguistics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/before-puritanism-and-personality-cults-made-it-boring-affect-theory-brimmed-with-real-intellectual-potential-laura-kipnis-explains/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:07:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/before-puritanism-and-personality-cults-made-it-boring-affect-theory-brimmed-with-real-intellectual-potential-laura-kipnis-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A forgotten 1992 theory predicted black holes would appear early in our universe's history. Then the Webb telescope found exactly that]]></title><description><![CDATA[A forgotten 1992 theory predicted black holes would appear early in our universe's history. Then the Webb telescope found exactly that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-forgotten-1992-theory-predicted-black-holes-would-appear-early-in-our-universes-history-then-the-webb-telescope-found-exactly-that/</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:07:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-forgotten-1992-theory-predicted-black-holes-would-appear-early-in-our-universes-history-then-the-webb-telescope-found-exactly-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estonian Artists Donate Artworks for Auction Following $800,000 Bank Scam]]></title><description><![CDATA[Estonian artists are banding together and donating 124 artworks for a charity auction to raise emergency funds following a bank scam that defrauded the Estonian Artists&rsquo; Association (EKL) of nearly &euro;700,000 (about $816,400), reports local media outlet ERR News. Artworks from the association&rsquo;s own collection, which include pieces by established Estonian artists, will also be added to the auction taking place from October 8&mdash;10 at ARS Art City, preceded by an exhibition openi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/estonian-artists-donate-artworks-for-auction-following-800000-bankscam/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/estonian-artists-donate-artworks-for-auction-following-800000-bankscam/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI Hands Over 48 Illegally Trafficked Artifacts to Egypt After Art Crimes Team Investigation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The FBI repatriated some 48 illegally trafficked cultural artifacts to the Egyptian government at a ceremony last Friday in Los Angeles. Among the artifacts were carved figures, amulets, and tomb equipment; they date variously to the Pharaonic, Roman, and Coptic periods, thus spanning from 3,100 BCE to the 9th century CE.&ldquo;These handed-over artifacts represent an integral part of the history and cultural heritage of Egypt and its people, and we are very glad and honored to bring those home,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fbi-hands-over-48-illegally-trafficked-artifacts-to-egypt-after-art-crimes-teaminvestigation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fbi-hands-over-48-illegally-trafficked-artifacts-to-egypt-after-art-crimes-teaminvestigation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight Years After Its Theft, Picasso Etching Discovered Hanging in Milwaukee Apartment]]></title><description><![CDATA[A stolen Pablo Picasso etching has been returned to a Milwaukee art dealer eight years after its theft, the Associated Press reported.The artwork is one of 30 known Torero prints by Pablo Picasso dated to 1949, and belonged to Bill DeLind of DeLind Fine Art Appraisals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the time of its theft in 2018, it was valued between $35,000 and $50,000. Today, it likely meets the high estimate, according to the report.&nbsp;Swiped from the DeLind Fine Art Appraisals under mysterio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eight-years-after-its-theft-picasso-etching-discovered-hanging-in-milwaukeeapartment/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eight-years-after-its-theft-picasso-etching-discovered-hanging-in-milwaukeeapartment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move Over Midcentury Modern: We Want the Wiener Werkstätte]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ll say that I did not expect the exhibition &ldquo;Modernity and Opulence: Wiener Werkst&auml;tte Women,&rdquo; at the Jewish Museum in New York, to open with work by two men. Nor did I anticipate the wall label lauding one Nazi, listed among the founding members described as &ldquo;progressive thinkers.&rdquo; But I&rsquo;d been eagerly awaiting my afternoon with the work of the little-known ladies of fin-de-si&egrave;cle Vienna, so this puzzling prelude was hardly a deterrent.&nbsp;Alo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/move-over-midcentury-modern-we-want-the-wienerwerksttte/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/move-over-midcentury-modern-we-want-the-wienerwerksttte/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europol Warns Museum Heists across Europe are Becoming More Violent, “Hand of God” Soccer Ball Sells, and More: Morning Links for August 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.Good morning!Diego Maradona&rsquo;s infamous &ldquo;Hand of God&rdquo; soccer ball has sold for &pound;2.5 million ($3.4 million) at auction.After scammers stole nearly &euro;700,000 ($816,600) from Estonia&rsquo;s Artists&rsquo; Association, artists donated 124 works to an emergency auction.Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous Art Center says 111 works from its federal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/europolwarns-museum-heists-across-europe-are-becoming-more-violent-hand-of-god-soccer-ball-sells-and-more-morning-links-for-august-242026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/europolwarns-museum-heists-across-europe-are-becoming-more-violent-hand-of-god-soccer-ball-sells-and-more-morning-links-for-august-242026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Strike Causes Fire at Ukraine’s Kherson Regional Art Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kherson Regional Art Museum in Ukraine is the latest casualty in Russia&rsquo;s ongoing war with the country. A Russian strike last Thursday set off a fire at the institution, Reuters reports.The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said that there were no casualties, but the museum&rsquo;s building and artwork took a big hit as firefighters tried to put out the fire. According to a report by United24, the Ukrainian government&ndash;run platform, the fire destroyed the museum&rsquo;s historic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-strike-causes-fire-at-ukraines-kherson-regional-artmuseum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-strike-causes-fire-at-ukraines-kherson-regional-artmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Ballroom to Move Forward]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump&rsquo;s ambitions of building a luxury ballroom with an underground military complex beneath it is going forward. On Friday, the US Supreme Court gave the green light for construction of the White House ballroom to continue. The stay was issued by Chief Justice John Roberts and will remain until further action from the court.&ldquo;The Military/Ballroom Complex being built on the hallowed grounds of the White House, which is so vital for National Security, will be THE GREA]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-supreme-court-allows-trumps-ballroom-to-moveforward/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-supreme-court-allows-trumps-ballroom-to-moveforward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Years After Internal Audit, 111 Artworks Remain Missing from Canada’s Indigenous Art Centre Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[A total of 111 Indigenous artworks are still missing from the Indigenous Art Centre&rsquo;s (IAC) collection&nbsp;in Canada, almost two years after an internal audit revealed 132 unaccounted artworks, the Canadian Press reports.In November 2024, IAC conducted an internal audit of its collection that tracked its operations from April 2019 to August 2024, which revealed that it could not locate 132 objects in its collection. Neither the missing works nor their value have been publicly identified.S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-years-after-internal-audit-111-artworks-remain-missing-from-canadas-indigenous-art-centrecollection/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-years-after-internal-audit-111-artworks-remain-missing-from-canadas-indigenous-art-centrecollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leszek Kolakowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leszek Kolakowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leszek-kolakowski-canonized-in-poland-remains-a-stranger-in-oxford-berkeley-and-montreal-the-places-that-sheltered-him/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:44:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leszek-kolakowski-canonized-in-poland-remains-a-stranger-in-oxford-berkeley-and-montreal-the-places-that-sheltered-him/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ Soccer Ball Sells for $3.3 M., Well Below $10 M. Estimate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The soccer ball used in the 1986 World Cup match in which Diego Maradona scored his infamous &ldquo;Hand of God&rdquo; goal sold for $3.35 million at Heritage Auctions in Texas. The price, however, came in well below the lot&rsquo;s presale estimate of $10 million.Mike Provenzale, an auctioneer at Heritage, told&nbsp;Reuters&nbsp;before the sale that the ball was &ldquo;a true one-of-a-kind item&rdquo; and &ldquo;arguably the most significant soccer item that exists.&rdquo;Maradona scored the go]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/diego-maradonas-hand-of-god-soccer-ball-sells-for-33-m-well-below-10-mestimate/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/diego-maradonas-hand-of-god-soccer-ball-sells-for-33-m-well-below-10-mestimate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should we do with “truly depraved,” morally dangerous art? Consider the “worst” of this lot and few easy answers emerge]]></title><description><![CDATA[What should we do with &ldquo;truly depraved,&rdquo; morally dangerous art? Consider the &ldquo;worst&rdquo; of this lot and few easy answers emerge]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-should-we-do-with-truly-depraved-morally-dangerous-art-consider-the-worst-of-this-lot-and-few-easy-answers-emerge/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:41:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-should-we-do-with-truly-depraved-morally-dangerous-art-consider-the-worst-of-this-lot-and-few-easy-answers-emerge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leszek Ko?akowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leszek Ko?akowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leszek-koakowski-canonized-in-poland-remains-a-stranger-in-oxford-berkeley-and-montreal-the-places-that-sheltered-him/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:41:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leszek-koakowski-canonized-in-poland-remains-a-stranger-in-oxford-berkeley-and-montreal-the-places-that-sheltered-him/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1939, a 3,000-year-old trumpet blared across BBC airwaves, briefly bridging Tutankhamun's tomb to 150 million living rooms]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1939, a 3,000-year-old trumpet blared across BBC airwaves, briefly bridging Tutankhamun's tomb to 150 million living rooms]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1939-a-3000-year-old-trumpet-blared-across-bbc-airwaves-briefly-bridging-tutankhamuns-tomb-to-150-million-living-rooms/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:41:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1939-a-3000-year-old-trumpet-blared-across-bbc-airwaves-briefly-bridging-tutankhamuns-tomb-to-150-million-living-rooms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marseille Museum President Accused of Sexual Misconduct, Putting Institution ‘At Risk’: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[A scathing report by French government investigators accuses Pierre-Olivier Costa, the recently suspended president of Marseille&rsquo;s Mus&eacute;e des civilisations de l&rsquo;Europe et de la M&eacute;diterran&eacute;e (MuCEM), of sexual and moral harassment, breaching rules for granting public contracts, and putting the southern French city&rsquo;s only national museum &ldquo;at risk,&rdquo; according to a Le Monde investigation.	A front-page scoop published Friday evening in France also rev]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marseille-museum-president-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-putting-institution-at-riskreport/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marseille-museum-president-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-putting-institution-at-riskreport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Obscure Canadian Agency Helped Convict Norval Morrisseau Forgers—and Is Finally Getting Its Due]]></title><description><![CDATA[New information has been released by a little-known Canadian federal agency about its staffers&rsquo; years-long effort to contribute to a police investigation into fraudsters selling faked paintings supposedly by Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau.	CityNews Toronto reports that the largest art fraud case in the history of Canada took at least 1,000 fakes off the market, though there may be thousands more still in private hands. The case made headlines internationally, but the contribu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-obscure-canadian-agency-helped-convict-norval-morrisseau-forgersand-is-finally-getting-itsdue/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-obscure-canadian-agency-helped-convict-norval-morrisseau-forgersand-is-finally-getting-itsdue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matthew Barney on His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Ranch in Colorado]]></title><description><![CDATA[Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum&rsquo;s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this year, with a related sculptural installation on a nearby tract of open land. The performance, an abstract sort of musical revue titled TACTICAL Parallax, drew elements from Barney&rsquo;s previous works Redoubt (a 2019 film and related sculptures engaged with pioneering and alchemical spi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/matthew-barney-on-his-latest-sculpture-remote-on-a-ranch-incolorado/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/matthew-barney-on-his-latest-sculpture-remote-on-a-ranch-incolorado/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matthew Barney on His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Colorado Ranch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum&rsquo;s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this year, with a related sculptural installation on a nearby tract of open land. The performance, an abstract sort of musical revue titled TACTICAL Parallax, drew elements from Barney&rsquo;s previous works Redoubt (a 2019 film and related sculptures engaged with pioneering and alchemical spi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/matthew-barney-on-his-latest-sculpture-remote-on-a-coloradoranch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/matthew-barney-on-his-latest-sculpture-remote-on-a-coloradoranch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emergency Appeal Asks Federal Court to Keep Trump’s Name Off Kennedy Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal court received an emergency appeal Thursday seeking to block the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from restoring President Donald Trump&rsquo;s name to the building.&nbsp;The Kennedy Center board, led by Trump and largely composed of his allies, voted earlier this month to engrave the president&rsquo;s name beneath the signage on the venue&rsquo;s facade, which would read: &ldquo;The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emergency-appeal-asks-federal-court-to-keep-trumps-name-off-kennedycenter/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emergency-appeal-asks-federal-court-to-keep-trumps-name-off-kennedycenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Smithsonian May Put its Latino Museum in a Building it Already Owns, Riling Conservatives]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian Institution&rsquo;s National Museum of the American Latino may make its home in the Arts and Industries Building, which the organization already owns, rather than in a purpose-built one, reports the New York Times, which says the decision may be made at a board meeting to take place August 31. The Smithsonian confirmed the meeting to the newspaper but declined to comment further.&nbsp;The 1881 building is on the National Mall, sited between the Smithsonian&rsquo;s Castle and the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-smithsonian-may-put-its-latino-museum-in-a-building-it-already-owns-rilingconservatives/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-smithsonian-may-put-its-latino-museum-in-a-building-it-already-owns-rilingconservatives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rediscovered Portrait by Baroque Master Bernini Will Be On View in Vienna this December]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the exhibition &ldquo;Bernini&mdash;Painter and Sculptor&rdquo; opens at Vienna&rsquo;s Kunsthistorisches Museum on Dec. 2, a painting newly attributed to the prolific Baroque master will be the star of the show. Until recently, Portrait of an Old Man, previously credited to an unknown artist, sat in a storeroom at the museum, reports The Art Newspaper. &nbsp;Gian Lorenzo Bernini is widely known as an architect and sculptor. He designed several large, ornate components of St. Peter&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rediscovered-portrait-by-baroque-master-bernini-will-be-on-view-in-vienna-thisdecember/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rediscovered-portrait-by-baroque-master-bernini-will-be-on-view-in-vienna-thisdecember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a Much-Maligned MoMA Retrospective, Björk’s Hometown Museum Gives Her a Second Chance]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;When you listen to a song for the first time, it is like swallowing a whale.&rdquo; So reads the wall text in an exhibition by Bj&ouml;rk, a pop star whose relationship to music has long been unique, to say the least. She adds, in the same handwritten scrawl, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think of myself as a visual artist &hellip; Everything I do comes from a sonic point of view. This is something I have called &lsquo;sonic symbolism,&rsquo; sound made visual, a reverse synesthesia.&rdquo;All of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-much-maligned-moma-retrospective-bjrks-hometown-museum-gives-her-a-secondchance/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-much-maligned-moma-retrospective-bjrks-hometown-museum-gives-her-a-secondchance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is the greatest short story writer of all time? According to one data cruncher, it’s not Chekhov or Barthelme, but Joyce Carol Oates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who is the greatest short story writer of all time? According to one data cruncher, it&rsquo;s not Chekhov or Barthelme, but Joyce Carol Oates]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-is-the-greatest-short-story-writer-of-all-time-according-to-one-data-cruncher-its-not-chekhov-or-barthelme-but-joyce-carol-oates/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:13:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-is-the-greatest-short-story-writer-of-all-time-according-to-one-data-cruncher-its-not-chekhov-or-barthelme-but-joyce-carol-oates/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-celans-childhood-spanned-seven-languages-and-one-vanishing-world-his-poetry-created-space-to-mourn-and-remember-and-survivenbsp/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:13:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-celans-childhood-spanned-seven-languages-and-one-vanishing-world-his-poetry-created-space-to-mourn-and-remember-and-survivenbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admired in his time by Dickens, Byron, and Mary Shelley, Washington Irving’s reputation has been in steep decline ever since]]></title><description><![CDATA[Admired in his time by Dickens, Byron, and Mary Shelley, Washington Irving&rsquo;s reputation has been in steep decline ever since]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/admired-in-his-time-by-dickens-byron-and-mary-shelley-washington-irvings-reputation-has-been-in-steep-decline-ever-since/</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:13:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/admired-in-his-time-by-dickens-byron-and-mary-shelley-washington-irvings-reputation-has-been-in-steep-decline-ever-since/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Leadership Shakeup, Telfair Museums Names Caitlín Doherty as Next Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, has announced that Caitl&iacute;n Doherty as its new executive director. She will assume the post in October.Doherty is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in Florida. She joined the institution joined the instiuttion in 2017, following a tenure as chief curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan. At the time of her appointment to MOCA Jacksonville, its board said she possessed an &ldquo;X factor, that rare quality]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-leadership-shakeup-telfair-museums-names-caitln-doherty-as-nextdirector/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-leadership-shakeup-telfair-museums-names-caitln-doherty-as-nextdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visitors to the Walker Art Center Encounter Olalekan Jeyifous’s Digital Artwork and Wrongly Brand It ‘AI Slop’ ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Minneapolis&rsquo;s Walker Art Center and the artist Olalekan Jeyifous are refuting accusations by some museum visitors that his work was made using generative AI, reports MPR News. Jeyifous, born in Nigeria and living in New York, is also an architect and designer, and uses some of the digital tools that are often employed in those fields. His first museum solo, &ldquo;Hydricosmic Litanies,&rdquo; is organized by the Walker&rsquo;s associate curator for visual arts, Taylor Jasper.The show, whic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/visitors-to-the-walker-art-center-encounter-olalekan-jeyifouss-digital-artwork-and-wrongly-brand-it-aislop/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/visitors-to-the-walker-art-center-encounter-olalekan-jeyifouss-digital-artwork-and-wrongly-brand-it-aislop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Amateur Artist’ Charged in $80K Theft From Minneapolis Painter’s Studio]]></title><description><![CDATA[Minneapolis police have identified one of two people they believe stole roughly $80,000 worth of artwork from the studio of 80-year-old artist Leon Hushcha, in a burglary that involved a UPS vest, a handcart, and, apparently, another artist.Ricardo Andres Bassat, 56, has been charged with felony burglary and is due in Hennepin County District Court on Monday, according to the&nbsp;Minnesota Star Tribune. Police are still looking for his alleged accomplice. Court records, the&nbsp;Star Tribune&nb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amateur-artist-charged-in-80k-theft-from-minneapolis-paintersstudio/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amateur-artist-charged-in-80k-theft-from-minneapolis-paintersstudio/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gagosian to Show New Jordan Wolfson Works at His First Show With the Gallery in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gagosian sent out a decidedly sparse press release about Jordan Wolfson&rsquo;s first show with the gallery in New York, set to open September 18 at its 555 West 24th Street space in Chelsea.The description of the new work to be shown, in its entirety, reads: &ldquo;A selection of new uniformly scaled sculptures incorporates emblematic color and black-and-white photographs, sourced online and from personal and academic archives, that resonate with art history, popular culture, and Wolfson&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-to-show-new-jordan-wolfson-works-at-his-first-show-with-the-gallery-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-to-show-new-jordan-wolfson-works-at-his-first-show-with-the-gallery-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan Calls Renaming of National Pavilion at Gwangju Biennale ‘Political Censorship’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The controversy surrounding the renaming of the &ldquo;Taiwan Pavilion&rdquo; at the upcoming edition of the Gwangju Biennale, opening next month, has escalated to an international diplomacy dispute. The self-governed island&rsquo;s culture ministry says it &ldquo;strongly protests&rdquo; the Korean biennial scrubbing the agreed-upon name from its presentation, vowing to take &ldquo;necessary action&rdquo; if the exhibition&rsquo;s organizers breach the agreement.&ldquo;[Taiwan] will firmly part]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taiwan-calls-renaming-of-national-pavilion-at-gwangju-biennale-politicalcensorship/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taiwan-calls-renaming-of-national-pavilion-at-gwangju-biennale-politicalcensorship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MoMA PS1’s Newest Restaurant Will Be Symone, French African Cafe by DeVonn Francis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The restaurant space at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, will soon have a new tenant: Symone, by chef DeVonn Francis, will open in early October. The space&rsquo;s menu will also be previewed during Printed Matter&rsquo;s NY Art Book Fair, running September 24&ndash;27.With daytime dining offered during the museum&rsquo;s operating hours, Symone will be Francis&rsquo;s first restaurant, serving French African&ndash;inspired cuisine that uses seasonal ingredients and draws on Francis&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-ps1s-newest-restaurant-will-be-symone-french-african-cafe-by-devonnfrancis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-ps1s-newest-restaurant-will-be-symone-french-african-cafe-by-devonnfrancis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MoMA PS1’s Newest Restaurant Will Be Symone, a French African Cafe by DeVonn Francis]]></title><description><![CDATA[The restaurant space at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, will soon have a new tenant: Symone, by chef DeVonn Francis, will open in early October. The space&rsquo;s menu will also be previewed during Printed Matter&rsquo;s NY Art Book Fair, running September 24&ndash;27.With daytime dining offered during the museum&rsquo;s operating hours, Symone will be Francis&rsquo;s first restaurant, serving French African&ndash;inspired cuisine that uses seasonal ingredients and draws on Francis&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-ps1s-newest-restaurant-will-be-symone-a-french-african-cafe-by-devonnfrancis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-ps1s-newest-restaurant-will-be-symone-a-french-african-cafe-by-devonnfrancis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hidden Gallery at London’s Natural History Museum Reopens After 80 Years, Rediscovered Bernini Painting On View in Vienna: Morning Links for August 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.Good Morning!A hidden gallery at London&rsquo;s Natural History Museum will reopen to the public for the first time since 1943.Trump&rsquo;s administration is escalating its campaign to reshape how the Smithsonian presents American history.A long-overlooked painting has been identified as a genuine Bernini and is set to go on display at the Kunsthistorisches]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-hidden-gallery-at-londons-natural-history-museum-reopens-after-80-years-rediscovered-bernini-painting-on-view-in-vienna-morning-links-for-august-202026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-hidden-gallery-at-londons-natural-history-museum-reopens-after-80-years-rediscovered-bernini-painting-on-view-in-vienna-morning-links-for-august-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hidden Gallery at London’s Natural History Museum Reopens After 80 Years, Newly Attributed Bernini Painting On View in Vienna: Morning Links for August 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.Good Morning!A hidden gallery at London&rsquo;s Natural History Museum will reopen to the public for the first time since 1943.Trump&rsquo;s administration is escalating its campaign to reshape how the Smithsonian presents American history.A long-overlooked painting has been identified as a genuine Bernini and is set to go on display at the Kunsthistorisches]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-hidden-gallery-at-londons-natural-history-museum-reopens-after-80-years-newly-attributed-bernini-painting-on-view-in-vienna-morning-links-for-august-202026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-hidden-gallery-at-londons-natural-history-museum-reopens-after-80-years-newly-attributed-bernini-painting-on-view-in-vienna-morning-links-for-august-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armory Shows Announces Two Museum Acquisition Prizes, Launching at September Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Armory Show in New York has announced two museum acquisition prizes that will launch at its upcoming edition, slated to run September 24&ndash;27.The first is the P&eacute;rez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Acquisition Prize, which will allot $20,000 at each edition of the Armory Show toward acquisitions for the museum&rsquo;s permanent collection and for the Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute. The PAMM Acquisition Prize will select work on view from the Focus section, which this]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/armory-shows-announces-two-museum-acquisition-prizes-launching-at-septemberfair/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/armory-shows-announces-two-museum-acquisition-prizes-launching-at-septemberfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armory Show Announces Two Museum Acquisition Prizes, Launching at September Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Armory Show in New York has announced two museum acquisition prizes that will launch at its upcoming edition, slated to run September 24&ndash;27.The first is the P&eacute;rez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Acquisition Prize, which will allot $20,000 at each edition of the Armory Show toward acquisitions for the museum&rsquo;s permanent collection and for the Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute. The PAMM Acquisition Prize will select work on view from the Focus section, which this]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/armory-show-announces-two-museum-acquisition-prizes-launching-at-septemberfair/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/armory-show-announces-two-museum-acquisition-prizes-launching-at-septemberfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Asad Raza Makes a Show: By Creating Public Art for New York Rats]]></title><description><![CDATA[One hot August afternoon on New York&rsquo;s Lower East Side, artist Asad Raza led this reporter through his new, unconventional public art show. Without him, you and I certainly would never have noticed it, but then it&rsquo;s not really for us.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve made a lot of works for people, trying to create experiences of different kinds that, a lot of the time, dealt with living elements of the environment around them,&rdquo; said Raza, whose projects have included exhibiting live trees in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-asad-raza-makes-a-show-by-creating-public-art-for-new-yorkrats-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-asad-raza-makes-a-show-by-creating-public-art-for-new-yorkrats-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Asad Raza Makes a Show, by Creating Public Art for New York Rats]]></title><description><![CDATA[One hot August afternoon on New York&rsquo;s Lower East Side, artist Asad Raza led this reporter through his new, unconventional public art show. Without him, you and I certainly would never have noticed it, but then it&rsquo;s not really for us.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve made a lot of works for people, trying to create experiences of different kinds that, a lot of the time, dealt with living elements of the environment around them,&rdquo; said Raza, whose projects have included exhibiting live trees in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-asad-raza-makes-a-show-by-creating-public-art-for-new-yorkrats/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-asad-raza-makes-a-show-by-creating-public-art-for-new-yorkrats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The thought that Socrates would care about how his icon is fashioned seems strange to me, but the thought that Plato would care is not strange"]]></title><description><![CDATA["The thought that Socrates would care about how his icon is fashioned seems strange to me, but the thought that Plato would care is not strange"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-thought-that-socrates-would-care-about-how-his-icon-is-fashioned-seems-strange-to-me-but-the-thought-that-plato-would-care-is-not-strange/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:18:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-thought-that-socrates-would-care-about-how-his-icon-is-fashioned-seems-strange-to-me-but-the-thought-that-plato-would-care-is-not-strange/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for Howard Zinn]]></title><description><![CDATA[History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for Howard Zinn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/history-is-the-story-of-corrupt-elites-and-the-virtuous-activists-who-oppose-them-or-so-it-was-formulaically-for-howard-zinn/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:18:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/history-is-the-story-of-corrupt-elites-and-the-virtuous-activists-who-oppose-them-or-so-it-was-formulaically-for-howard-zinn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book publishing is awash in AI scandals. As one agent puts it, AI slop has gotten so bad it makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like Tolstoy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Book publishing is awash in AI scandals. As one agent puts it, AI slop has gotten so bad it makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like Tolstoy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/book-publishing-is-awash-in-ai-scandals-as-one-agent-puts-it-ai-slop-has-gotten-so-bad-it-makes-fifty-shades-of-grey-look-like-tolstoy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:18:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/book-publishing-is-awash-in-ai-scandals-as-one-agent-puts-it-ai-slop-has-gotten-so-bad-it-makes-fifty-shades-of-grey-look-like-tolstoy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crushing Heat Waves Threaten Monet’s Gardens in Giverny]]></title><description><![CDATA[France has endured record-breaking successions of heatwaves this summer, which have led to massive wildfires and a spike in the normal death rate, according to French public health services. Gardeners are also struggling with the scorching heat, including at one of the country&rsquo;s most cherished landmarks: Claude Monet&rsquo;s gardens in Giverny, Normandy.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s incredibly sad,&rdquo; R&eacute;mi Lecoutre, deputy head gardener at the Claude Monet House and Gardens museum, told Fra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crushing-heat-waves-threaten-monets-gardens-ingiverny/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crushing-heat-waves-threaten-monets-gardens-ingiverny/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crushing Heat Waves in France Threaten Monet’s Gardens in Giverny]]></title><description><![CDATA[France has endured record-breaking successions of heatwaves this summer, which have led to massive wildfires and a spike in the normal death rate, according to French public health services. Gardeners are also struggling with the scorching heat, including at one of the country&rsquo;s most cherished landmarks: Claude Monet&rsquo;s gardens in Giverny, Normandy.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s incredibly sad,&rdquo; R&eacute;mi Lecoutre, deputy head gardener at the Claude Monet House and Gardens museum, told Fra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crushing-heat-waves-in-france-threaten-monets-gardens-ingiverny/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crushing-heat-waves-in-france-threaten-monets-gardens-ingiverny/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists, Collectors, Dealers Accuse San Francisco Dealer Jonathan Carver Moore of Nonpayment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Carver Moore says he cashed in his own retirement account to start his gallery on the edge of San Francisco&rsquo;s Tenderloin neighborhood in 2023. He has mounted strong presentations at art fairs from Chicago to Miami. But artists, collectors and dealers say he has been guilty of chronic non-payment and withholding artworks, according to an extensive report in the San Francisco Standard.&nbsp;Nine artists and gallery representatives who have done business with Moore say they have thou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-collectors-dealers-accuse-san-francisco-dealer-jonathan-carver-moore-ofnonpayment/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-collectors-dealers-accuse-san-francisco-dealer-jonathan-carver-moore-ofnonpayment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sandy Lerner Cat-Themed Art Collection is Out of the Bag]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cat&rsquo;s out of the bag. This September and October, Bonhams is selling items from one of the most extensive private collections of cat-related artworks, decorative objects, jewelry, and collectibles: the Sandy Lerner Cat Collection.	In all, Sandy Lerner, co-founder of tech company Cisco Systems and founder of cosmetics label Urban Decay, is parting with nearly 1,000 lots spanning centuries from her Ayrshire Farm estate in Virginia. Not all are feline-focused, however.The fall sale of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sandy-lerner-cat-themed-art-collection-is-out-of-thebag/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sandy-lerner-cat-themed-art-collection-is-out-of-thebag/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed Art Museum in Kentucky Is Repatriating 24 Objects to Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has surrendered 24 objects from its collection to their Native American communities of origin, the US Department of the Interior announced in May.The items in question are considered &ldquo;sacred objects&rdquo; or &ldquo;objects of cultural patrimony,&rdquo; according to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). According to the notice, the official handover of the objects, which belong to the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/speed-art-museum-in-kentucky-is-repatriating-24-objects-to-cheyenne-and-arapahotribes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/speed-art-museum-in-kentucky-is-repatriating-24-objects-to-cheyenne-and-arapahotribes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bruce Museum Names New Chief Curator, Yusaku Maezawa’s Art-Filled $350 M. Yacht, and More: Industry Moves for August 19, 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 Moves	Connecticut&rsquo;s Bruce Museum&nbsp;Names Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Experience:&nbsp;Kathy Fredrickson joined the Greenwich-based institution on August 3, after having served as a curatorial strategy consultant to the Bruce since October 2025. She previously held the role of direc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bruce-museum-names-new-chief-curator-yusaku-maezawas-art-filled-350-m-yacht-and-more-industry-moves-for-august-192026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bruce-museum-names-new-chief-curator-yusaku-maezawas-art-filled-350-m-yacht-and-more-industry-moves-for-august-192026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s and Sotheby’s Are Duking It Out to Secure Eccentric Collector Herbert Lust’s $60 M. Art Holdings]]></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.As summer turns to fall, the November auctions in New York are just over the horizon. And while much of the art world might be signing off for the next few weeks, the rainmakers at Christie&rsquo;s and Sotheby&rsquo;s are fighting over consignments, including what remains of the art collection of Herber]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-and-sothebys-are-duking-it-out-to-secure-eccentric-collector-herbert-lusts-60-m-artholdings/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-and-sothebys-are-duking-it-out-to-secure-eccentric-collector-herbert-lusts-60-m-artholdings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fakes Proliferate as South Asian Art Market Booms, Dealers Warn]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Asian modern art is having a very good run. Auction sales topped $100 million last year, records have tumbled, and Christie&rsquo;s and Sotheby&rsquo;s have both made a show of the category in London this summer.&nbsp;There is, however, a problem with all that new money: forgeries.Dealers and specialists say forgeries are proliferating as prices for artists including S.H. Raza, M.F. Husain and Sadequain have climbed, according to the&nbsp;Financial Times. Dadiba Pundole, whose Mumbai galle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fakes-proliferate-as-south-asian-art-market-booms-dealerswarn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fakes-proliferate-as-south-asian-art-market-booms-dealerswarn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Museums Reportedly Get a Pass on Fines Resulting From Fire Code Violations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some of New York&rsquo;s most prominent cultural institutions reportedly are getting off the hook on paying fines for fire code violations. Gothamist reports that the city is not collecting fines from institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of the City of New York. A reporter reviewed dozens of summonses the Fire Department (FDNY) issued to these museums between 2023 and 2025, the vast majority of which are for fire alarms sou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-museums-reportedly-get-a-pass-on-fines-resulting-from-fire-codeviolations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-museums-reportedly-get-a-pass-on-fines-resulting-from-fire-codeviolations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In weird-girl literature, detached protagonists have bad jobs, slightly happier best friends, and troubled relationships. Are the novels any good?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In weird-girl literature, detached protagonists have bad jobs, slightly happier best friends, and troubled relationships. Are the novels any good?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-weird-girl-literature-detached-protagonists-have-bad-jobs-slightly-happier-best-friends-and-troubled-relationships-are-the-novels-any-good-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:52:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-weird-girl-literature-detached-protagonists-have-bad-jobs-slightly-happier-best-friends-and-troubled-relationships-are-the-novels-any-good-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MIT Study Finds that Most AI-Generated Images Can’t Be Traced Back to Their Sources]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study from researchers at MIT&rsquo;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) suggests that the more data a generative model is trained on, the less likely an AI-generated image is to be traced back to a source image. They call this phenomenon attribution decay.&ldquo;If you take away a piece of data and the output of the model doesn&rsquo;t change, then that piece of data didn&rsquo;t affect the output,&rdquo; said Zheng Dai, a former MIT CSAIL researcher and the l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mit-study-finds-that-most-ai-generated-images-cant-be-traced-back-to-theirsources/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mit-study-finds-that-most-ai-generated-images-cant-be-traced-back-to-theirsources/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MIT Study Finds that AI-Generated Images Often Can’t Be Traced Back to Their Sources]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study from researchers at MIT&rsquo;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) suggests that the more data a generative model is trained on, the less likely an AI-generated image is to be traced back to a source image. They call this phenomenon attribution decay.&ldquo;If you take away a piece of data and the output of the model doesn&rsquo;t change, then that piece of data didn&rsquo;t affect the output,&rdquo; said Zheng Dai, a former MIT CSAIL researcher and the l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mit-study-finds-that-ai-generated-images-often-cant-be-traced-back-to-theirsources/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mit-study-finds-that-ai-generated-images-often-cant-be-traced-back-to-theirsources/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen Z and Millennials are Rejecting AI for Plein Air, Sydney City Council Stirs Censorship Debate: Morning Links for August 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!The Headlines	WARNING, WARNING!&nbsp;Sydney artist&nbsp;Osvaldo Budet&nbsp;has clashed with&nbsp;Maitland City Council&nbsp;over his artwork examining a century-old statue of an African American boy,&nbsp;ABC News&nbsp;reported. Budet&rsquo;s work argues that the statue reflects racist stereotypes and the legacy of slavery, while the council cons]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gen-z-and-millennials-are-rejecting-ai-for-plein-air-sydney-city-council-stirs-censorship-debate-morning-links-for-august-192026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gen-z-and-millennials-are-rejecting-ai-for-plein-air-sydney-city-council-stirs-censorship-debate-morning-links-for-august-192026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marfa’s Chinati Foundation Plans Major Restoration of Artillery Sheds, Home to Donald Judd’s Iconic Aluminum Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, has revealed its plans for a two-year restoration of the Artillery Sheds, which house Donald Judd&rsquo;s iconic 100 untitled works in mill aluminum (1982&ndash;86). During this period, beginning in October, the 100-piece installation will be removed from view.The restoration will address several issues affecting the Artillery Sheds, including repairing the roof and gutters, creating a passive cooling system, and replacing the glass windows that surround t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marfas-chinati-foundation-plans-major-restoration-of-artillery-sheds-home-to-donald-judds-iconic-aluminumworks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marfas-chinati-foundation-plans-major-restoration-of-artillery-sheds-home-to-donald-judds-iconic-aluminumworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mythic, Mutable Worlds of Elizabeth Glaessner]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Glaessner&rsquo;s surreal paintings are animated by a mythic sensibility. Her figures occupy a primordial threshold where bodies, animals, and environments are in the process of coming into being. One particular canvas that Glaessner keeps in her studio reflects the metamorphic nature of her work: A vaguely humanoid figure is seated on the rump of a mammalian creature, folding inward between it and another animal&rsquo;s flank. Suspended between two forms, the figure&rsquo;s draping &l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-mythic-mutable-worlds-of-elizabethglaessner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-mythic-mutable-worlds-of-elizabethglaessner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anna Weyant Captures Marc Jacobs in Painting on Cover of ‘Vanity Fair’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Star artist Anna Weyant has painted designer Marc Jacobs for the cover of Vanity Fair&lsquo;s 2026 Style issue.The magazine&rsquo;s cover story, &ldquo;Marc Jacobs Cannot Tell a Lie,&rdquo; delves into Jacobs&rsquo; four decades in fashion and the sale of his namesake, $850 million label, Marc Jacobs International.In Weyant&rsquo;s up-close portrait, Jacobs faces the viewer, meeting their gaze, with stone-faced composure against a dark background. Were it not for the artist&rsquo;s characteristi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-weyant-captures-marc-jacobs-in-painting-on-cover-of-vanityfair/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-weyant-captures-marc-jacobs-in-painting-on-cover-of-vanityfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate scholarly shortcut, the Ars Notoria was said to instantly grant the full range of Medieval learning — but at the risk of poisoning one’s soul]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ultimate scholarly shortcut, the Ars Notoria was said to instantly grant the full range of Medieval learning &mdash; but at the risk of poisoning one&rsquo;s soul]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-ultimate-scholarly-shortcut-the-ars-notoria-was-said-to-instantly-grant-the-full-range-of-medieval-learning-but-at-the-risk-of-poisoning-ones-soul/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:14:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-ultimate-scholarly-shortcut-the-ars-notoria-was-said-to-instantly-grant-the-full-range-of-medieval-learning-but-at-the-risk-of-poisoning-ones-soul/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In weird girl literature detached protagonists have bad jobs, slightly-happier best friends, and troubled relationships. Are the novels any good?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In weird girl literature detached protagonists have bad jobs, slightly-happier best friends, and troubled relationships. Are the novels any good?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-weird-girl-literature-detached-protagonists-have-bad-jobs-slightly-happier-best-friends-and-troubled-relationships-are-the-novels-any-good/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:14:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-weird-girl-literature-detached-protagonists-have-bad-jobs-slightly-happier-best-friends-and-troubled-relationships-are-the-novels-any-good/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few American writers have skewered the self-deluding barbarity that is American foreign policy with as much force as Dwight Macdonald]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few American writers have skewered the self-deluding barbarity that is American foreign policy with as much force as Dwight Macdonald]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/few-american-writers-have-skewered-the-self-deluding-barbarity-that-is-american-foreign-policy-with-as-much-force-as-dwight-macdonald/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:14:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/few-american-writers-have-skewered-the-self-deluding-barbarity-that-is-american-foreign-policy-with-as-much-force-as-dwight-macdonald/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosecutor Opens War Crimes Investigation For Illegal Archaeological Dig in Occupied Crimea, With Artifacts Turned Over to the Hermitage]]></title><description><![CDATA[The prosecutor&rsquo;s office of the republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol is investigating two unnamed researchers, one of them associated with the Hermitage, for war crimes. The prosecutors say they participated in illegal archaeological expeditions in the territory, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014. The charges could result in sentences of up to 12 years in prison. The second person of interest is a representative of &ldquo;the so-called &lsquo;Institute of Archaeology of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prosecutor-opens-war-crimes-investigation-for-illegal-archaeological-dig-in-occupied-crimea-with-artifacts-turned-over-to-thehermitage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prosecutor-opens-war-crimes-investigation-for-illegal-archaeological-dig-in-occupied-crimea-with-artifacts-turned-over-to-thehermitage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mafia Involvement Feared in Heist of Renaissance Paintings in Sicily]]></title><description><![CDATA[The theft of four paintings by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina from a Sicilian museum has prompted suspicions of mafia involvement, given the startling speed and ease of the high-stakes crime, Italian authorities said on Monday.&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very, very strange affair,&rdquo; Messina&rsquo;s top culture official, Enzo Caruso, told Reuters, detailing the troubling circumstances: The thieves broke into the Regional Museum of Messina on the night of August 15, bypassed the museum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mafia-involvement-feared-in-heist-of-renaissance-paintings-insicily/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mafia-involvement-feared-in-heist-of-renaissance-paintings-insicily/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rijksmuseum Receives Rare Book of Drawings from the 17th Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[A book of immaculate drawings that has been stewarded by the Van Eeghen family in the Netherlands for more than three centuries has been donated to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where it will go on view starting August 19.In a press release, the museum said, &ldquo;The Van Eeghen Drawing Book can be considered a new highlight of the Rijksmuseum Print Room Collection, as well as one of the most significant additions to this collection in recent years.&rdquo; The institution also noted that it is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rijksmuseum-receives-rare-book-of-drawings-from-the-17thcentury/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rijksmuseum-receives-rare-book-of-drawings-from-the-17thcentury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a 31-Year-Old New York Dealer Got His Artists into the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pat Oleszko, a 79-year-old performance artist who makes brash inflatables, began the year in obscurity and greeted the spring as a rock star. In January, she filled the entirety of SculptureCenter in New York with a retrospective that centered her blow-up sculptures&mdash;including one resembling a woman&rsquo;s spread legs. Two months later, across the East River, Oleszko&rsquo;s 1995 sculpture Blowhard, a gigantic green face with a flaming tongue, took over a sizable gallery of the Whitney Bie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-a-31-year-old-new-york-dealer-got-his-artists-into-the-whitney-biennial-and-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-a-31-year-old-new-york-dealer-got-his-artists-into-the-whitney-biennial-and-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$61 M. Joshua Reynolds Portrait Heads to LA, New Douglas Gordon Documentary Premieres, and More: Morning Links for August 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.Good Morning!The Headlines	MAI, OH MAI. Joshua Reynolds&rsquo;s monumental 18th-century portrait of&nbsp;Mai, a young Tahitian man who arrived in London with&nbsp;Captain Cook&nbsp;in 1774, will soon make its West Coast debut, the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times&nbsp;reports. After a joint acquisition, for more than $61 million, between the&nbsp;Getty Museum&nbsp;in L]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/61-m-joshua-reynolds-portrait-heads-to-la-new-douglas-gordon-documentary-premieres-and-more-morning-links-for-august-182026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/61-m-joshua-reynolds-portrait-heads-to-la-new-douglas-gordon-documentary-premieres-and-more-morning-links-for-august-182026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ‘Strange Rules,’ an Epic Show with a Bold Vision For What Counts as Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s note:&nbsp;This story is the latest edition of&nbsp;Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet.At the Palazzo Diedo, you can find a typically Venetian pleasure: seeing the sleek edge of contemporary art set against the backdrop of a fading fresco. And what an edge. &ldquo;Strange Rules&rdquo;&mdash;curated by Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, and Hans Ulrich Obrist with Adriana Rispoli&mdash;gathers works of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-strange-rules-an-epic-show-with-a-bold-vision-for-what-counts-asart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-strange-rules-an-epic-show-with-a-bold-vision-for-what-counts-asart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinai Desert Excavations Reveal New Information About Site’s Strategic Importance in Ancient Egypt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers working at Tel Abu Saify, an archaeological site in Qantara East, near the eastern bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt, have uncovered new evidence linking the site to a lost city known as &ldquo;Masen.&rdquo; Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the finds on August 15, and the news was first reported in Ahram.Mohamed Abdel Badie, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the discoveries &ldquo;provide further evidence of t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sinai-desert-excavations-reveal-new-information-about-sites-strategic-importance-in-ancientegypt/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sinai-desert-excavations-reveal-new-information-about-sites-strategic-importance-in-ancientegypt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brett Littman Named Next Director of MCA San Diego]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced that its next director and chief executive will be Brett Littman. He will begin in the role in October.The fifth director in the institution&rsquo;s 85-year history, Littman succeeds Kathryn Kanjo, who departed the MCA San Diego after 15 years in January to lead the newly merged UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art. Littman was chosen after a six-month national search.&ldquo;Brett is a visionary museum leader whose experience spans]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brett-littman-named-next-director-of-mca-sandiego/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brett-littman-named-next-director-of-mca-sandiego/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2,500-Year-Old Etruscan Bronze Relics Excavated from Ancient Well in Italy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists working in northern Italy excavated &ldquo;remarkably well-preserved&rdquo; bronze artifacts from a well dating back to the ancient Etruscan city of Kainua.As reported by Heritage Daily, &ldquo;Bronze figures buried at the bottom of an ancient well for nearly two and a half millennia are now emerging with their metallic lustre still present, as archaeologists have unearthed evidence of ritual activity at one of Italy&rsquo;s most important Etruscan sites.&rdquo;The excavation, und]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2500-year-old-etruscan-bronze-relics-excavated-from-ancient-well-initaly/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2500-year-old-etruscan-bronze-relics-excavated-from-ancient-well-initaly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[W.G. Sebald’s poetic, picturesque accounts of Austrian literature are, at crucial points, gravely distorted]]></title><description><![CDATA[W.G. Sebald&rsquo;s poetic, picturesque accounts of Austrian literature are, at crucial points, gravely distorted]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wg-sebalds-poetic-picturesque-accounts-of-austrian-literature-are-at-crucial-points-gravely-distorted/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:56:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wg-sebalds-poetic-picturesque-accounts-of-austrian-literature-are-at-crucial-points-gravely-distorted/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alison Jacques Gallery Hit with Lawsuit After Artist’s Estate Cancels Sale to First-Time Collectors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two Swedish-American buyers are suing London&rsquo;s Alison Jacques gallery, accusing breach of contract over the sale of three works by the Swedish-born artist Monica Sj&ouml;&ouml;, whose estate Jacques represents.	The estate and the gallery say that Marie St. Germain, the adviser to Yoed and Natasha Anise, misrepresented the couple ahead of the purchase; they also claim that they believe the Anises would not be promising stewards of the artist&rsquo;s works, the Art Newspaper (TAN) reports. T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alison-jacques-gallery-hit-with-lawsuit-after-artists-estate-cancels-sale-to-first-timecollectors/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alison-jacques-gallery-hit-with-lawsuit-after-artists-estate-cancels-sale-to-first-timecollectors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What caused a particularly lurid sex scandal in Prussian Königsberg? The theosophical views and alluring curls of Johann Wilhelm Ebel ]]></title><description><![CDATA[What caused a particularly lurid sex scandal in Prussian K&ouml;nigsberg? The theosophical views and alluring curls of Johann Wilhelm Ebel&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-caused-a-particularly-lurid-sex-scandal-in-prussian-knigsberg-the-theosophical-views-and-alluring-curls-of-johann-wilhelm-ebel/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:51:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-caused-a-particularly-lurid-sex-scandal-in-prussian-knigsberg-the-theosophical-views-and-alluring-curls-of-johann-wilhelm-ebel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[W.G. Sebald’s poetic, picturesque accounts of Austrian literature are, at critical points, gravely distorted]]></title><description><![CDATA[W.G. Sebald&rsquo;s poetic, picturesque accounts of Austrian literature are, at critical points, gravely distorted]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wg-sebalds-poetic-picturesque-accounts-of-austrian-literature-are-at-critical-points-gravely-distorted/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:51:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wg-sebalds-poetic-picturesque-accounts-of-austrian-literature-are-at-critical-points-gravely-distorted/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smorgasbord: What began as modest, rule-bound dining in Sweden evolved into something akin to a “pagan feast” in the United States]]></title><description><![CDATA[The smorgasbord: What began as modest, rule-bound dining in Sweden evolved into something akin to a &ldquo;pagan feast&rdquo; in the United States]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-smorgasbord-what-began-as-modest-rule-bound-dining-in-sweden-evolved-into-something-akin-to-a-pagan-feast-in-the-united-states/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:51:03 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-smorgasbord-what-began-as-modest-rule-bound-dining-in-sweden-evolved-into-something-akin-to-a-pagan-feast-in-the-united-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renaissance Masterpieces Stolen from Sicilian Museum During National Holiday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thieves have dealt a Sicilian museum a harrowing loss, stealing three of the five surviving devotional panels painted by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina.The assailants broke into the Regional Museum of Messina, also known as MuMem, on Saturday evening, as the port city celebrated the Ferragosto national holiday. Evading the museum&rsquo;s security system, they took three wood panels that once composed a six-piece altarpiece known as the Polittico di San Gregorio, a seminal work within da]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/renaissance-masterpieces-stolen-from-sicilian-museum-during-nationalholiday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/renaissance-masterpieces-stolen-from-sicilian-museum-during-nationalholiday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bryan Joseph Lee Named Deputy Commissioner of New York City Cultural Affairs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) has named two senior leadership appointments: Bryan Joseph Lee as deputy commissioner and Ryan Max as chief of staff.Their appointments, according to a release, &ldquo;will help guide the agency as it rolls out ambitious new programs to deliver on the Mamdani administration&rsquo;s affordability agenda for the cultural community, while focusing in supporting the work of agency staff to deliver excellence in public service.&rdquo;Lee is a cu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bryan-joseph-lee-named-deputy-commissioner-of-new-york-city-culturalaffairs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bryan-joseph-lee-named-deputy-commissioner-of-new-york-city-culturalaffairs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Brancusi’s Sleek, Streamlined Sculptures Still Seduce]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The legendary actress visits Christie&rsquo;s galleries at Rockefeller Center and finds herself captivated by the gilded sculpture.&rdquo;&nbsp;Thus trumpets the tagline for Nicole Kidman&rsquo;s assignation with Constantin Brancusi&rsquo;s bronze and gold leaf Dana&iuml;de (1913), circulated online this past spring in advance of the work&rsquo;s auction. &nbsp;The &ldquo;cinematic short film&rdquo; produced by Christie&rsquo;s indeed reveals the Hollywood star finding herself&hellip; dul]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-brancusis-sleek-streamlined-sculptures-stillseduce/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-brancusis-sleek-streamlined-sculptures-stillseduce/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary Heilmann, Influential Abstract Painter, Dead at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Heilmann, an influential abstract painter who received her first solo exhibition in a New York museum in her 60s, died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York. Her studio announced the news in an Instagram posting, adding that she died &ldquo;due to complications from a fall.&rdquo;Heilmann was a pioneering abstract painter who blended elements from pop culture, craft, and art history with ease and wit. In the catalog for Heilmann&rsquo;s 2008 retrospective at the New Museum&mdash;also her f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mary-heilmann-influential-abstract-painter-dead-at86/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mary-heilmann-influential-abstract-painter-dead-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazilian Police Recover Eight Stolen Matisse ‘Jazz’ Works Worth $193,000, Arrest One Suspect]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazilian authorities have recovered eight prints from Henri Matisse&rsquo;s iconic &ldquo;Jazz&rdquo; series (1947), the New York Times reports. &nbsp;Two armed men stole the works on December 7 from the M&aacute;rio de Andrade Library in S&atilde;o Paulo during public hours at the city&rsquo;s largest library. In addition to the recovered Matisse works, they also took five paintings by Brazilian modernist Candido Portinari.The English edition of Folha de S. Paulo reported the value of the eigh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brazilian-police-recover-eight-stolen-matisse-jazz-works-worth-193000-arrest-onesuspect/</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brazilian-police-recover-eight-stolen-matisse-jazz-works-worth-193000-arrest-onesuspect/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does Emily Wilson make of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey? It’s an “audiovisual spectacle” with little to no “narrative and emotional depth”]]></title><description><![CDATA[What does Emily Wilson make of Christopher Nolan&rsquo;s The Odyssey? It&rsquo;s an &ldquo;audiovisual spectacle&rdquo; with little to no &ldquo;narrative and emotional depth&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-emily-wilson-make-of-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-its-an-audiovisual-spectacle-with-little-to-no-narrative-and-emotional-depth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:57:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-emily-wilson-make-of-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-its-an-audiovisual-spectacle-with-little-to-no-narrative-and-emotional-depth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The “.” emerged 2,000 years ago. “?” in the 8th century, “!” in the 14th. Then not much changed since about 1600]]></title><description><![CDATA[The &ldquo;.&rdquo; emerged 2,000 years ago. &ldquo;?&rdquo; in the 8th century, &ldquo;!&rdquo; in the 14th. Then not much changed since about 1600]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-emerged-2000-years-ago-in-the-8th-century-in-the-14th-then-not-much-changed-since-about-1600/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:57:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-emerged-2000-years-ago-in-the-8th-century-in-the-14th-then-not-much-changed-since-about-1600/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most novels bore before they thrill. A turning point – the volta – marks the moment ennui becomes excitement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most novels bore before they thrill. A turning point &ndash; the volta &ndash; marks the moment ennui becomes excitement]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/most-novels-bore-before-they-thrill-a-turning-point-the-volta-marks-the-moment-ennui-becomes-excitement/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:57:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/most-novels-bore-before-they-thrill-a-turning-point-the-volta-marks-the-moment-ennui-becomes-excitement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Picasso Stolen 65 Years Ago Has Resurfaced. The Guggenheim Wants It Back]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Pablo Picasso painting stolen while on loan from the Guggenheim Museum more than six decades ago has resurfaced, and the museum has gone to court to get it back.The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation filed suit in New York State Supreme Court this week, according to&nbsp;Hyperallergic, against Massachusetts residents Lawrence Jay Handler and Wendy Cohen Handler, who the museum says currently possess&nbsp;Femme dans un fauteuil (Woman in an Armchair), a small 1918 painting that disappeared from t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-picasso-stolen-65-years-ago-has-resurfaced-the-guggenheim-wants-itback/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-picasso-stolen-65-years-ago-has-resurfaced-the-guggenheim-wants-itback/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met Has Put the Oldest Existing Copy of the Odyssey on Display]]></title><description><![CDATA[Likely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned the oldest preserved fragment of The Odyssey to one of its galleries, where it can be seen and appreciated after a long time out of view. The relic is now on display in Gallery 162 in the museum&rsquo;s section devoted to Greek and Roman Art.In a round-up of Odyssey-related collection treasures on its website, the Met describes the relic as the first]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-has-put-the-oldest-existing-copy-of-the-odyssey-ondisplay/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-has-put-the-oldest-existing-copy-of-the-odyssey-ondisplay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colombia’s Museo de Arte de Pereira Closes due to Extensive Earthquake Damage]]></title><description><![CDATA[As workers race against the 72-hour, so-called golden window to rescue survivors from collapsed buildings following Monday&rsquo;s devastating 7.4 earthquake in northern Colombia, the region&rsquo;s museums are also in serious jeopardy.On Monday evening, Alejandro Garces, a curator at the Museo de Arte de Pereira, posted photos on Instagram of the damage sustained to the museum that is located about 220 miles west of Bogot&aacute; and is the principal art institution for the states of Caldas, Ri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/colombias-museo-de-arte-de-pereira-closes-due-to-extensive-earthquakedamage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/colombias-museo-de-arte-de-pereira-closes-due-to-extensive-earthquakedamage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roman Artifacts on View at Syria’s Damascus Citadel Following Repatriation from France]]></title><description><![CDATA[When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Damascus in early July, he pledged to support the country&rsquo;s rebuilding efforts in the wake of former President Basher al-Assad&rsquo;s overthrow 18 months prior. While the main focus of the visit was economic&mdash;Macron discussed reviving Syria&rsquo;s banking sector and returning more than $50 million that had been confiscated from the Assad family&mdash;the diplomatic gesture also involved the return of 23 artifacts that had been held in Fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/roman-artifacts-on-view-at-syrias-damascus-citadel-following-repatriation-fromfrance/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/roman-artifacts-on-view-at-syrias-damascus-citadel-following-repatriation-fromfrance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian Police Recover $10 M. Worth of Artworks by Cezanne, Matisse, and Renoir]]></title><description><![CDATA[If 2025 was the year of the museum robbery, perhaps 2026 will be the year of the recovery. On Friday, Italian police announced that they had recovered three artworks stolen in March from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca near Parma in Northern Italy, according to Reuters.The recovered paintings are Paul Cezanne&rsquo;s Still Life with Cherries&nbsp;(1890), Pierre-Auguste Renoir&rsquo;s late-career&nbsp;Les Poissons&nbsp;(1917), and Henri Matisse&rsquo;s&nbsp;Odalisque on the Terrace&nbsp;(1922).	Thei]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-police-recover-10-m-worth-of-artworks-by-cezanne-matisse-andrenoir/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-police-recover-10-m-worth-of-artworks-by-cezanne-matisse-andrenoir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kit Fitzgerald, Pioneering Video Artist With a Painter’s Sensibility, Has Died at 73]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kit Fitzgerald, a visionary video artist with a sense for the music and motion of painting, died on August 3 at 73. The news was announced by her husband and longtime creative partner, Peter Gordon, on Instagram. He wrote that she &ldquo;fought a rare and aggressive cancer, but always maintained a sense of beauty and wonderment.&rdquo;A trained painter, Fitzgerald imbued electronic art with the unruly touch of brush and canvas&mdash;vivid color, dynamic light, stuttered gesture&mdash;resulting i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kit-fitzgerald-pioneering-video-artist-with-a-painters-sensibility-has-died-at73/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kit-fitzgerald-pioneering-video-artist-with-a-painters-sensibility-has-died-at73/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low Salaries for the UK Arts Sector, Recovered Paintings in Brazil and Italy, and More: Morning LInks for August 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.Good morning!Police in Italy and Brazil have recovered nearly a dozen paintings stolen over the last year.London&rsquo;s cultural sector is facing growing scrutiny over salaries that fall short of the expertise demanded.A new museum in Slovenia is turning Balkan humor into an unlikely cultural attraction.The Headlines	BACK IN THE FRAME.&nbsp;2025 was the year]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/low-salaries-for-the-uk-arts-sector-recovered-paintings-in-brazil-and-italy-and-more-morning-links-for-august-142026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/low-salaries-for-the-uk-arts-sector-recovered-paintings-in-brazil-and-italy-and-more-morning-links-for-august-142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Executive and Senior Sales Director Leave Pace Following Gallery’s ‘Restructuring’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The shakeup at Pace Gallery isn&rsquo;t over. Just two months after the gallery laid off roughly 50 employees in a sweeping restructuring, two of the executives who helped shape Pace during its years of rapid expansion are headed for the exit.Amelia Redgrift, the gallery&rsquo;s chief communications officer, and Dani Forest Brandi, a senior sales director, have both resigned. Where they&rsquo;re going remains under wraps. Sources told ARTnews, however, that both have already landed senior roles]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-executive-and-senior-sales-director-leave-pace-following-gallerys-restructuring/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-executive-and-senior-sales-director-leave-pace-following-gallerys-restructuring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New French Law Sparks Hope for Long-Awaited Return of Looted ‘Ségou Treasure’ to Senegal]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, the descendants of the Senegalese Muslim mystic, scholar, and military commander Omar Sa&iuml;dou Tall have been trying to retrieve his stolen belongings, known as the &ldquo;treasure of S&eacute;gou,&rdquo; from the French state.	The trove, spread across several French museums and the national library, includes nearly 500 manuscripts containing Tall&rsquo;s writings and those of contemporaries documenting the region&rsquo;s history and culture, plus jewelry, weapons, and other arti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-french-law-sparks-hope-for-long-awaited-return-of-looted-sgou-treasure-tosenegal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-french-law-sparks-hope-for-long-awaited-return-of-looted-sgou-treasure-tosenegal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael E. Smith, the Elusive Sculptor-Poet, Opens Up After a Decade of Dodging Interviews]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I learned of an opportunity to interview Michael E. Smith&mdash;an artist I&rsquo;ve long admired&mdash;my brain boomeranged: I was excited to hear from an elusive artist who seldom speaks, but also stumped as to what exactly I might ask the man. I intuited that direct questions&mdash;of the what does this mean, why did you make that variety&mdash;wouldn&rsquo;t do for an artist whose work is so withholding. His sculptures have this magical yet vernacular quality you&rsquo;d feel silly over]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michael-e-smith-the-elusive-sculptor-poet-opens-up-after-a-decade-of-dodginginterviews/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michael-e-smith-the-elusive-sculptor-poet-opens-up-after-a-decade-of-dodginginterviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyler Austin Harper found his “dream job” at Bates College. Then came the racial audits and the talk of “would-be Klansmen around every corner”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tyler Austin Harper found his &ldquo;dream job&rdquo; at Bates College. Then came the racial audits and the talk of &ldquo;would-be Klansmen around every corner&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tyler-austin-harper-found-his-dream-job-at-bates-college-then-came-the-racial-audits-and-the-talk-of-would-be-klansmen-around-every-corner/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:40:06 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tyler-austin-harper-found-his-dream-job-at-bates-college-then-came-the-racial-audits-and-the-talk-of-would-be-klansmen-around-every-corner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the praise it received from T.S. Eliot, Auden’s early poetry, while striking, was neither good nor particularly coherent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite the praise it received from T.S. Eliot, Auden&rsquo;s early poetry, while striking, was neither good nor particularly coherent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-the-praise-it-received-from-ts-eliot-audens-early-poetry-while-striking-was-neither-good-nor-particularly-coherent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:40:06 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-the-praise-it-received-from-ts-eliot-audens-early-poetry-while-striking-was-neither-good-nor-particularly-coherent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fried at Last: Why Michael Fried’s Attacks on Literalism Matter As Never Before]]></title><description><![CDATA[Finally! The real Michael Fried has stood up. A new collection of his life&rsquo;s work reveals him to be a poet with a memory bestowed from the gods&mdash;one who weathered Peter Schjeldahl&rsquo;s trumped-up charges of being a formalist, conservative fuddy-dud, one who emerges in our AI slop epoch as one of the great art seers who makes a frightening lot of sense, now more than ever. The critic who found a helpful narrative to understand the history, and future, of our images, without a drop o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fried-at-last-why-michael-frieds-attacks-on-literalism-matter-as-neverbefore/</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fried-at-last-why-michael-frieds-attacks-on-literalism-matter-as-neverbefore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover Three Ancient Tombs at Bahariya Oasis]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered three tombs from different historical periods at the Sheikh Sobi archaeological site in the Bahariya Oasis. The news was reported by several outlets, including Arab News, following an announcement by Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.The site, which lies about 225 miles southwest of Giza, contains a necropolis used to bury governors and priests of the oasis during Egypt&rsquo;s Late Period (664&ndash;332 BCE), as well as the Bawit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egyptian-archaeologists-uncover-three-ancient-tombs-at-bahariyaoasis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egyptian-archaeologists-uncover-three-ancient-tombs-at-bahariyaoasis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Video Game is Subverting the Secrecy of Michael Heizer’s ’City’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tulsa, Oklahoma-based digital artist Lily Belmira has made a new, free video game allowing anyone to virtually visit Michael Heizer&rsquo;s mysterious and radically difficult-to-enter land artwork in the Nevada desert, titled City. Only six people a day who are willing to pay the regular admission fee of $150 are permitted to explore City, one of the world&rsquo;s largest artworks, in person. Spanning over a mile and a half, its precise location has been kept secret to some degree since its open]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-video-game-is-subverting-the-secrecy-of-michael-heizerscity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-video-game-is-subverting-the-secrecy-of-michael-heizerscity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyler Austin Harper found his “dream job” at Bates College. Then came the racial audits and talk of a “would-be Klansmen around every corner”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tyler Austin Harper found his &ldquo;dream job&rdquo; at Bates College. Then came the racial audits and talk of a &ldquo;would-be Klansmen around every corner&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tyler-austin-harper-found-his-dream-job-at-bates-college-then-came-the-racial-audits-and-talk-of-a-would-be-klansmen-around-every-corner/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:22:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tyler-austin-harper-found-his-dream-job-at-bates-college-then-came-the-racial-audits-and-talk-of-a-would-be-klansmen-around-every-corner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“My wonderful horseykins,” “my little sperm whale.” If Chekhov’s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;My wonderful horseykins,&rdquo; &ldquo;my little sperm whale.&rdquo; If Chekhov&rsquo;s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/my-wonderful-horseykins-my-little-sperm-whale-if-chekhovs-love-life-was-epistolary-what-are-we-to-make-of-his-fondness-for-brothels/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:22:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/my-wonderful-horseykins-my-little-sperm-whale-if-chekhovs-love-life-was-epistolary-what-are-we-to-make-of-his-fondness-for-brothels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the praise it received from T.S. Eliot, Auden’s early poetry, while striking, was neither particularly coherent nor good]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite the praise it received from T.S. Eliot, Auden&rsquo;s early poetry, while striking, was neither particularly coherent nor good]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-the-praise-it-received-from-ts-eliot-audens-early-poetry-while-striking-was-neither-particularly-coherent-nor-good/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:22:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-the-praise-it-received-from-ts-eliot-audens-early-poetry-while-striking-was-neither-particularly-coherent-nor-good/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Adds AI to Provenance Search Tool]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project (JDCRP), an organization founded in Berlin in 2016, announced today that it has added AI capabilities to its provenance research tool, Legacy Explorer, which launched last year.	Legacy Explorer is currently able to search five archives, including the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg archive at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, as well as several others that organize property cards and photographs. A sixth archive will be added later this month, according t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jewish-digital-cultural-recovery-project-adds-ai-to-provenance-searchtool/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jewish-digital-cultural-recovery-project-adds-ai-to-provenance-searchtool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before France Approved Bayeux Tapestry Loan, a British Official Had To ‘Get On His Knees and Propose’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bayeux Tapestry is set for its big moment at the British Museum this fall, but the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;is dishing on how the loan came to be.In a feature published Tuesday, reporter Alex Marshall reveals the many behind-the-scenes negotiations that brought the famed Romanesque-style textile artwork depicting the 1066 Norman invasion back home to the UK.The most recent loan request was far from the first: the UK had previously asked for the work in 1953, 1966, and 1980. So what changed?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/before-france-approved-bayeux-tapestry-loan-a-british-official-had-to-get-on-his-knees-andpropose/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/before-france-approved-bayeux-tapestry-loan-a-british-official-had-to-get-on-his-knees-andpropose/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defying Federal Judge, Kennedy Center Board Votes to Close, Inscribe Trump’s Name on Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Thursday to close the center for renovations for a second time, while keeping a smaller, separate theater open.	This week&rsquo;s vote marked a dramatic escalation in the legal battle over the historic center: the Trump-allied board also moved to inscribe the president&rsquo;s name beneath the signage&mdash;a direct rebuke of a May federal court order that had blocked both the closure and a name change. According to the New Yo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/defying-federal-judge-kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-inscribe-trumps-name-onbuilding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/defying-federal-judge-kennedy-center-board-votes-to-close-inscribe-trumps-name-onbuilding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alison Nguyen to Screen New Film Exploring the Hidden History of Westbeth on the High Line Next Month]]></title><description><![CDATA[The High Line and the Chanel Culture Fund have commissioned artist Alison Nguyen to create a new film examining the overlooked history of one of New York&rsquo;s best-known cultural landmarks.Prior Occupants, as Nguyen&rsquo;s work is titled, is the fifth installment in the High Line Originals series and the second produced in partnership with the luxury brand&rsquo;s arts initiative. The film will premiere on September 8 and screen daily through early November on the High Line Channel, the park]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alison-nguyen-to-screen-new-film-exploring-the-hidden-history-of-westbeth-on-the-high-line-nextmonth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alison-nguyen-to-screen-new-film-exploring-the-hidden-history-of-westbeth-on-the-high-line-nextmonth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Luxury Industry is Contracting—So Why Are Auction Houses’ Luxury Sales Booming?]]></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.If you&rsquo;ve been following&nbsp;ARTnews&lsquo; reporting on the luxury market over the last year, you&rsquo;ll know that luxury sales at the major auction houses&nbsp;are booming. At Christie&rsquo;s, such sales jumped 30 percent year on year in the first half of 2025, to $468 million, before climbi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-luxury-industry-is-contractingso-why-are-auction-houses-luxury-salesbooming/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-luxury-industry-is-contractingso-why-are-auction-houses-luxury-salesbooming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[R&amp;B Superstar Usher Reveals the Blue-Chip Art That Fills His Atlanta&nbsp;Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did you know that multiplatinum and Grammy award-winning R&amp;B superstar Usher is a devoted art collector? Now you do.For Architectural Digest, the singer opened the doors to his Atlanta home to show off his surprisingly deep collection of contemporary art. Among the works hanging on the walls or installed on the grounds are pieces by Rashid Johnson, Gordon Parks, Sterling Ruby, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Anthony James, Daniel Arsham, Jammie Holmes, Yoshitomo Nara, Michael Stipe, Damien Hirst, Richar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rampb-superstar-usher-reveals-the-blue-chip-art-that-fills-his-atlantanbsphome/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rampb-superstar-usher-reveals-the-blue-chip-art-that-fills-his-atlantanbsphome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unions Call V&amp;A Director&rsquo;s Absence from Contract Negotiation Talks &lsquo;Shocking&rsquo; and &lsquo;Disrespectful&rsquo;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tristram Hunt, director of London&rsquo;s Victoria &amp; Albert Museum (V&amp;A), is on the receiving end of criticism from the two unions, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and Prospect, which have issued a joint statement calling him to the bargaining table. The union is striking over pay, working conditions, and &ldquo;dignity at work,&rdquo; and says his absence from the negotiations is shocking and disrespectful.Union members at the V&amp;A East Storehouse voted to strike in July o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unions-call-vampa-directorrsquos-absence-from-contract-negotiation-talks-lsquoshockingrsquo-and-lsquodisrespectfulrsquo/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unions-call-vampa-directorrsquos-absence-from-contract-negotiation-talks-lsquoshockingrsquo-and-lsquodisrespectfulrsquo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian Luxury Brand Partners with Met Museum for New Jewelry Line Premiering During NY Fashion Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[The distinguished Indian fashion brand Sabyasachi has partnered with New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art for a new line of jewelry inspired by the institution&rsquo;s vast collection.Sabyasachi, which was founded by designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, will unveil the jewelry line on September 15 as part of New York Fashion Week, WWD reports. The line marks the first part of a multiyear collaboration with the Met, &ldquo;beginning with designs informed by the art and material culture of the By]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/indian-luxury-brand-partners-with-met-museum-for-new-jewelry-line-premiering-during-ny-fashionweek/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/indian-luxury-brand-partners-with-met-museum-for-new-jewelry-line-premiering-during-ny-fashionweek/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s Jewish Museum to Present US Premiere of Ruth Patir’s Installation from Israeli Pavilion at 2024 Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[A video installation at the center of high-profile controversy at the 2024 Venice Biennale will go on view this winter in New York, marking its US premiere.	New York&ndash;born, Tel Aviv&ndash;based artist Ruth Patir&rsquo;s video installation (M)otherland was purchased by the Jewish Museum just months after the artist closed the Israeli Pavilion in protest over her country&rsquo;s war in Gaza. At the time, Patir said the pavilion would open once the war was over, which did not occur during the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-jewish-museum-to-present-us-premiere-of-ruth-patirs-installation-from-israeli-pavilion-at-2024-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-jewish-museum-to-present-us-premiere-of-ruth-patirs-installation-from-israeli-pavilion-at-2024-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SFMOMA’s New Senior Curator, Blaqiuer Estate Sale, and More: Industry Moves for August 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 Thursday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Atlanta Art Fair Returns to Pullman Yards:&nbsp;The annual fair, running October 1&ndash;4, 2026,&nbsp;will feature nearly 70 galleries&nbsp;from across the American South and beyond, alongside an expand]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sfmomas-new-senior-curator-blaqiuer-estate-sale-and-more-industry-moves-for-august-132026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sfmomas-new-senior-curator-blaqiuer-estate-sale-and-more-industry-moves-for-august-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mamdani Administration Might Save Elizabeth Street Garden, Bruce Springsteen Museum in New Jersey Is ‘Badass,’ And More: Morning Links for August 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.Good Morning!The Mamdani administration is expected to abandon city plans to replace Manhattan&rsquo;s Elizabeth Street Garden with housing.&nbsp;NYC Culture Club has moved into New York&rsquo;s Port Authority Bus Terminal.The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music in New Jersey is worth a visit.&nbsp;The Headlines	GREEN THUMB.&nbsp;After nearly a decade]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mamdani-administration-might-save-elizabeth-street-garden-bruce-springsteen-museum-in-new-jersey-is-badass-and-more-morning-links-for-august-132026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mamdani-administration-might-save-elizabeth-street-garden-bruce-springsteen-museum-in-new-jersey-is-badass-and-more-morning-links-for-august-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a name for demanding a group publicly recite a political position as the price of belonging: illiberalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a name for demanding a group publicly recite a political position as the price of belonging: illiberalism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/theres-a-name-for-demanding-a-group-publicly-recite-a-political-position-as-the-price-of-belonging-illiberalism/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:35:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/theres-a-name-for-demanding-a-group-publicly-recite-a-political-position-as-the-price-of-belonging-illiberalism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terry Eagleton: “Few acts of self-sacrifice can compare with sitting through Oxford High Table stone-cold sober for more than three decades”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Terry Eagleton: &ldquo;Few acts of self-sacrifice can compare with sitting through Oxford High Table stone-cold sober for more than three decades&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/terry-eagleton-few-acts-of-self-sacrifice-can-compare-with-sitting-through-oxford-high-table-stone-cold-sober-for-more-than-three-decades/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:35:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/terry-eagleton-few-acts-of-self-sacrifice-can-compare-with-sitting-through-oxford-high-table-stone-cold-sober-for-more-than-three-decades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a minor renaissance in the late 20th century, narrative poetry is being eclipsed by lyric poetry. That’s a shame]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a minor renaissance in the late 20th century, narrative poetry is being eclipsed by lyric poetry. That&rsquo;s a shame]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-minor-renaissance-in-the-late-20th-century-narrative-poetry-is-being-eclipsed-by-lyric-poetry-thats-a-shame/</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:35:48 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-a-minor-renaissance-in-the-late-20th-century-narrative-poetry-is-being-eclipsed-by-lyric-poetry-thats-a-shame/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leading Industry Group ICOM Releases Statement in Support of Smithsonian Institution]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums released a statement Tuesday pledging its &ldquo;unwavering support&rdquo; for the Smithsonian Institution, as it faces repeated assaults on its integrity and independence by the Trump administration.In the statement, ICOM-US said that it was speaking out in response to the recent congressional hearings, in which Anthea Hartig, the director of the institution&rsquo;s National Museum of American History, was grilled over]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leading-industry-group-icom-releases-statement-in-support-of-smithsonianinstitution/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leading-industry-group-icom-releases-statement-in-support-of-smithsonianinstitution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mitchell Charbonneau’s Hyperrealist Sculptures Hide in Plain Sight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mitchell Charbonneau&rsquo;s studio is one of many among a warren of fabrication shops and ateliers at Permanent Maintenance, an artist-run space in the New York neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens. Upon entering, I moved to place my coat on a worn, half-open folding chair. Looking more closely, I reconsidered, recognizing it as a work of art.&nbsp;Charbonneau&rsquo;s exhibitions cohere in spare arrangements of banal detritus, with a tight visual vocabulary of things like Little Trees air freshene]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mitchell-charbonneaus-hyperrealist-sculptures-hide-in-plainsight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mitchell-charbonneaus-hyperrealist-sculptures-hide-in-plainsight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sale of a “Stunning” UK Fossil Collection to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi Sparks Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[A &ldquo;stunning&rdquo; British collection of 318 Jurassic-era fossils has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, the Guardian reports, in what some have described as a loss to the nation. The trove was collected by UK fossil hunter Chris Moore along the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO world heritage site in southwest England that is rich in fossils dating from 200 million to 245 million years ago. They include ichthyosaurs, fish, and crustaceans, among other creatures, some of which could]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sale-of-a-stunning-uk-fossil-collection-to-the-natural-history-museum-abu-dhabi-sparkscontroversy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sale-of-a-stunning-uk-fossil-collection-to-the-natural-history-museum-abu-dhabi-sparkscontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Diego Museum of Art Lays Off 11 Employees, Citing ‘The Current Landscape’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The San Diego Museum of Art laid off 11 employees on Wednesday, August 5, citing &ldquo;rising operational costs,&rdquo; the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.The layoffs affected departments across the museum, including programs, development, and exhibitions, and leave the total staff count at 118. The news comes six months after the Balboa Park museum marked its 100th anniversary and amid a major renovation of its West Wing.Kari Kovach, the museum&rsquo;s chief operating officer, told the newspa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/san-diego-museum-of-art-lays-off-11-employees-citing-the-current-landscape/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/san-diego-museum-of-art-lays-off-11-employees-citing-the-current-landscape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Lands Another Blockbuster Collection as Blaquier Family Parts With $450 M. of Impressionist Treasures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just when it looked like the major auction houses had exhausted the supply of trophy consignments, another heavyweight collection has surfaced.Sotheby&rsquo;s has secured the collection of the late Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, a group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces said to be worth around $450 million, according&nbsp;Artnet News.The consignment is expected to anchor the upcoming auction season and includes paintings by Vincent va]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-lands-another-blockbuster-collection-as-blaquier-family-parts-with-450-m-of-impressionisttreasures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-lands-another-blockbuster-collection-as-blaquier-family-parts-with-450-m-of-impressionisttreasures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York Gallery That Brought You Adrien Brody Is Suing a Collector for More than $800,000 in Unpaid Invoices]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&rsquo;s Eden Fine Art filed a legal complaint in New Jersey district court last month, saying that collector Jacob Shochat hasn&rsquo;t paid for some $822,390 worth of artworks he bought from the gallery. The gallery is accusing the collector, who has a background in medical technologies, of breach of contract.Eden says it began taking orders from Shochat in 2018 for $900,000 worth of &ldquo;artworks and sculptures.&rdquo; Based on past experience in which he had paid for his purchases,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-york-gallery-that-brought-you-adrien-brody-is-suing-a-collector-for-more-than-800000-in-unpaidinvoices/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-york-gallery-that-brought-you-adrien-brody-is-suing-a-collector-for-more-than-800000-in-unpaidinvoices/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The Last Museum’ Search Engine Serves Up Millions of Artwork Images from More Than 3,000 Institutions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Last Museum, an online search engine without any names or credits attached to it, now offers up images of some 6.3 million artworks held in museum collections around the world, searchable by &ldquo;theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine.&rdquo;As reported by Colossal, many of the works are in the public domain, and &ldquo;if there&rsquo;s copyright attached to the images, they&rsquo;re available in accordance with fair use, which means they&rsquo;re available at a l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-last-museum-search-engine-serves-up-millions-of-artwork-images-from-more-than-3000institutions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-last-museum-search-engine-serves-up-millions-of-artwork-images-from-more-than-3000institutions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharjah is Set for the Region’s First Contemporary Craft Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Arab Emirates landscape is expanding once again, with Sharjah set for the region&rsquo;s first contemporary crafts museum.The Irthi Museum will open in Sharjah&rsquo;s Creative Quarter sometime in 2029 and house a permanent collection of contemporary crafts from across the Gulf, the Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council announced. More specifically, the museum will preserve and document tradition skills&mdash;weaving, woodworking, glassmaking, and more&mdash; while offering opportunities]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharjah-is-set-for-the-regions-first-contemporary-craftmuseum/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharjah-is-set-for-the-regions-first-contemporary-craftmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former National Gallery Executive Accuses Institution of ‘Soft Censorship’ After DOGE Visit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former senior executive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has accused the institution of &ldquo;soft censorship&rdquo; for relocating, without explanation, a symposium inspired by its exhibition on race in American and Mexican art last year.The symposium, titled &ldquo;Color Lines Across the United States and Mexico,&rdquo; was originally scheduled for May 2025 at the museum&rsquo;s renowned Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Scholars, however, later found]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-national-gallery-executive-accuses-institution-of-soft-censorship-after-dogevisit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-national-gallery-executive-accuses-institution-of-soft-censorship-after-dogevisit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlanta Art Fair’s Third Edition Will Host 67 Galleries, Hailing From as Far as Korea, Spain, and Uganda]]></title><description><![CDATA[The third edition of the Atlanta Art Fair (October 1&ndash;4) will feature upwards of 67 galleries, convening at Pullman Yards, a 27-acre former rail works in the Kirkwood district. The fair is organized by AMP (Art Market Productions), which also organizes the Seattle Art Fair, Art on Paper, and San Francisco Art Market, and is under the leadership of director Kelly Freeman and artistic director Nato Thompson. The exhibitor list is, say the organizers, still in development.	&ldquo;We&rsquo;re t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/atlanta-art-fairs-third-edition-will-host-67-galleries-hailing-from-as-far-as-korea-spain-anduganda/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/atlanta-art-fairs-third-edition-will-host-67-galleries-hailing-from-as-far-as-korea-spain-anduganda/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeitz MOCAA Enters Post-Koyo Kouoh Era, Sotheby’s Lands $450 Blaquier Collection, And More: Morning Links for August 12, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town has appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director.Sotheby&rsquo;s has landed a $450 million tranche of works from the collection of Argentine industrialists Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier.An anonymous group has launched a search engine called The Last Museum, with the goal of eventually &ldquo;index[ing] all museum art in the world.&rdquo;The HeadlinesNEW ZEIT-GEIST.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zeitz-mocaa-enters-post-koyo-kouoh-era-sothebys-lands-450-blaquier-collection-and-more-morning-links-for-august-122026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zeitz-mocaa-enters-post-koyo-kouoh-era-sothebys-lands-450-blaquier-collection-and-more-morning-links-for-august-122026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if feelings aren’t peripheral to rational thought and are, instead, part of the machinery that makes rational thought possible?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if feelings aren&rsquo;t peripheral to rational thought and are, instead, part of the machinery that makes rational thought possible?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-if-feelings-arent-peripheral-to-rational-thought-and-are-instead-part-of-the-machinery-that-makes-rational-thought-possible-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:44:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-if-feelings-arent-peripheral-to-rational-thought-and-are-instead-part-of-the-machinery-that-makes-rational-thought-possible-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if feelings aren’t peripheral to rational thought and are, instead, part of the machinery that makes rational thought possible]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if feelings aren&rsquo;t peripheral to rational thought and are, instead, part of the machinery that makes rational thought possible]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-if-feelings-arent-peripheral-to-rational-thought-and-are-instead-part-of-the-machinery-that-makes-rational-thought-possible/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:14:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-if-feelings-arent-peripheral-to-rational-thought-and-are-instead-part-of-the-machinery-that-makes-rational-thought-possible/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For John Berger, the dead and the living were interdependent — and the stronger the link, the happier and healthier the society]]></title><description><![CDATA[For John Berger, the dead and the living were interdependent &mdash; and the stronger the link, the happier and healthier the society]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-john-berger-the-dead-and-the-living-were-interdependent-and-the-stronger-the-link-the-happier-and-healthier-the-society/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:14:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-john-berger-the-dead-and-the-living-were-interdependent-and-the-stronger-the-link-the-happier-and-healthier-the-society/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editing was largely absent from British publishing until midcentury, emerging only as firms grew too big to take risks on new writers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editing was largely absent from British publishing until midcentury, emerging only as firms grew too big to take risks on new writers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/editing-was-largely-absent-from-british-publishing-until-midcentury-emerging-only-as-firms-grew-too-big-to-take-risks-on-new-writers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:14:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/editing-was-largely-absent-from-british-publishing-until-midcentury-emerging-only-as-firms-grew-too-big-to-take-risks-on-new-writers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeitz MOCAA Names Elvira Dyangani Ose as Next Artistic Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, announced Wednesday Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. She will begin in the post on October 1.In leading the museum&rsquo;s curatorial program, Dyangani Ose succeeds Koyo Kouoh, who served as executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA from 2019 until her death, at 57, in May 2025. (At the time of her death, Kouoh was also organizing the 2026 Venice Biennale, which opened posthumously in May; Dyangan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zeitz-mocaa-names-elvira-dyangani-ose-as-next-artisticdirector/</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zeitz-mocaa-names-elvira-dyangani-ose-as-next-artisticdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BBC Host Wants New Reality TV Show Featuring Aspiring Art Dealers To Be ‘The Apprentice for the Art World’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The art market is a tough place to survive these days, with even megagalleries like Gagosian and Pace shuttering locations and cutting loose artists, and every day seeming to bring news of another art gallery calling it quits.&nbsp;So maybe, counterintuitively, this is the perfect moment for the BBC to launch a new reality show that aims to incubate the next great art-dealing duo. The Big Deal with Steph McGovern, which debuts this week, sees &ldquo;seven pairs of aspiring art dealers battle it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bbc-host-wants-new-reality-tv-show-featuring-aspiring-art-dealers-to-be-the-apprentice-for-the-artworld/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bbc-host-wants-new-reality-tv-show-featuring-aspiring-art-dealers-to-be-the-apprentice-for-the-artworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laser Technology Reveals Hidden Pre-Hispanic Roads at Machu Picchu]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists working near the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu have identified more than 1.5 miles of pre-Hispanic roads, as well as what researchers think could be agricultural terraces and platforms, hidden in the Andean cloud forest. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily, following an August 10 announcement by Peru&rsquo;s Ministry of Culture.The structures were discovered using LiDAR&mdash;an advanced remote sensing technology that can detect man-made features concealed by vegetation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/laser-technology-reveals-hidden-pre-hispanic-roads-at-machupicchu/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/laser-technology-reveals-hidden-pre-hispanic-roads-at-machupicchu/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s Sid Motion Gallery to Close After a Decade: ‘Not in a Financial Position to Fully Honor My Artists’]]></title><description><![CDATA[London dealer Sid Motion will close her eponymous gallery in London&rsquo;s South Bermondsey district when its fall exhibition closes. She opened the gallery a decade ago.&ldquo;As I look ahead to the future, I can see that the gallery is not in the financial position to fully honor the extraordinary potential of each of my artists, and I will not compromise when it comes to supporting them in the way that they deserve,&rdquo; said Motion in a statement on her website. &ldquo;Closing the gallery]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-sid-motion-gallery-to-close-after-a-decade-not-in-a-financial-position-to-fully-honor-myartists/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-sid-motion-gallery-to-close-after-a-decade-not-in-a-financial-position-to-fully-honor-myartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both London’s Sid Motion and Beers Galleries Are Closing, Citing Economic Pressures]]></title><description><![CDATA[London dealer Sid Motion will close her eponymous gallery in London&rsquo;s South Bermondsey district when its fall exhibition closes. She opened the gallery a decade ago.&ldquo;As I look ahead to the future, I can see that the gallery is not in the financial position to fully honor the extraordinary potential of each of my artists, and I will not compromise when it comes to supporting them in the way that they deserve,&rdquo; said Motion in a statement on her website. &ldquo;Closing the gallery]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/both-londons-sid-motion-and-beers-galleries-are-closing-citing-economicpressures/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/both-londons-sid-motion-and-beers-galleries-are-closing-citing-economicpressures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the Greatest Private Hiroshige Collections Ever Assembled Is Heading to Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, if you wanted to talk about Japanese prints, the conversation usually began and ended with Hokusai&rsquo;s&nbsp;Great Wave. That may be starting to change.This September, Christie&rsquo;s will begin selling more than 600 prints from the collection of Alan Medaugh, an American businessman who spent half a century chasing the finest impressions he could find by Utagawa Hiroshige, Hokusai&rsquo;s great rival and one of the towering figures of Japanese printmaking. Specialists say the c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/one-of-the-greatest-private-hiroshige-collections-ever-assembled-is-heading-to-christies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/one-of-the-greatest-private-hiroshige-collections-ever-assembled-is-heading-to-christies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s School of Visual Arts Reports One-Third Drop in Enrollment Since 2019, Faces Largest Budget Deficit Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid a broad crisis in higher education in the US resulting from demographic trends and a combative Trump administration, enrollment at New York&rsquo;s School of Visual Arts (SVA) is down some 34 percent since 2019, and the school faces a $22 million structural budget deficit, &ldquo;the largest in its nearly 80-year history,&rdquo; according to a previously unreported July 1 email to faculty and staff from interim president Christopher J. Cyphers.	The school&rsquo;s annual operating budget is]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-school-of-visual-arts-reports-one-third-drop-in-enrollment-since-2019-faces-largest-budget-deficitever/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-school-of-visual-arts-reports-one-third-drop-in-enrollment-since-2019-faces-largest-budget-deficitever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could DNA on Ancient Cave Walls Help Solve Art History’s Oldest Provenance Mystery?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Provenance is everything in the art world. Auction houses spend years tracing the ownership history of a painting from one collector to the next. But for some of humanity&rsquo;s oldest works of art, the provenance goes cold tens of thousands of years ago.Who painted the bison on the walls of Altamira? Who pressed a hand against damp limestone before blowing red pigment around their fingers? Archaeologists have spent generations trying to answer questions like those. A new study suggests genetic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/could-dna-on-ancient-cave-walls-help-solve-art-historys-oldest-provenancemystery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/could-dna-on-ancient-cave-walls-help-solve-art-historys-oldest-provenancemystery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Changes Paid Break Policy as East Storehouse Strike&nbsp;Looms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just weeks after workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum&rsquo;s East Storehouse voted to strike over working conditions, the institution announced that it was changing its break policy, according to Museums Assocation, a nonprofit representing museum, gallery, and heritage professionals and organizations in the UK.The trade union Prospect, which represents collections access officers at the Storehouse, argued that its members were not given enough time to use the bathroom or drink water durin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-changes-paid-break-policy-as-east-storehouse-strikenbsplooms/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-changes-paid-break-policy-as-east-storehouse-strikenbsplooms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultural Center of the Philippines Appoints New Chief Curator, Ahead of Reopening Next Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[In advance of its scheduled reopening early next year after renovation work commenced in 2021, the Cultural Center of the Philippines appointed Carlos Quijon Jr. as the next chief curator of its museum for contemporary art.As reported by ArtReview, &ldquo;Quijon is an art historian, curator and critic based between Manila and New York. For the past two years, he has been the inaugural C-MAP (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives) research fellow for Southeast and East Asia at MoMA, New York.&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cultural-center-of-the-philippines-appoints-new-chief-curator-ahead-of-reopening-nextyear/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cultural-center-of-the-philippines-appoints-new-chief-curator-ahead-of-reopening-nextyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ARTS Southeast Revives Residency Program on Georgia’s Remote Ossabaw Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARTS Southeast, an artist residency nonprofit based in Savannah, Georgia, will launch a new residency program on Ossabaw Island, the state&rsquo;s third-largest barrier island.The Ossabaw Island Residency will host two week-long sessions, one in fall 2026 and one in spring 2027, with six artists for each session. The fellows will receive a stipend for their participation, as well as have their travel and accommodations to Savannah and to Ossabaw covered. Because of the length of the residency, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arts-southeast-revives-residency-program-on-georgias-remote-ossabawisland/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/arts-southeast-revives-residency-program-on-georgias-remote-ossabawisland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SF Camerawork To Close After Five Decades, Citing ‘Changing Philanthropic Landscape’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bay Area photography exhibition venue SF Camerawork is calling it quits after 52 years, the institution announced on its website yesterday.&ldquo;This decision follows years of rising operating costs, declining public funding, and a changing philanthropic landscape,&rdquo; said the institution. &ldquo;SF Camerawork is not alone in facing these pressures; arts organizations across the country are confronting similar challenges. Despite the determined efforts of our staff, Board, artists, dono]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sf-camerawork-to-close-after-five-decades-citing-changing-philanthropiclandscape/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sf-camerawork-to-close-after-five-decades-citing-changing-philanthropiclandscape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography Exhibit on Wildfires Nearly Engulfed by Real Wildfire in Sicily]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life not only imitated art at an exhibition in Sicily this summer &mdash; it almost destroyed it. Stefano Cerio&rsquo;s outdoor photography installation about the devastation wrecked by wildfires was nearly engulfed in a real wildfire on Saturday, reported Artribune.&ldquo;A sad, surreal, involuntary performance,&rdquo; wrote the artist in an Instagram post.Firemen were able to extinguish the flames as they came only a few feet away from Cerio&rsquo;s seven large panels installed along a road in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photography-exhibit-on-wildfires-nearly-engulfed-by-real-wildfire-insicily/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photography-exhibit-on-wildfires-nearly-engulfed-by-real-wildfire-insicily/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prado Museum Debuts AI, London Gallery to Close, a DNA Breakthrough in Cave Art, and More: Morning Links for August 11, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership founded in 2016, will shutter this fall.Scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls, offering new clues about the people behind prehistoric art.Could the Bayeux Tapestry loan offer a model for using the Parthenon Marbles to boost British soft power while paving the way for their eventual return?The Headlines	ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST. Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership founded in 2016 to support emerging a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prado-museum-debuts-ai-london-gallery-to-close-a-dna-breakthrough-in-cave-art-and-more-morning-links-for-august-112026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prado-museum-debuts-ai-london-gallery-to-close-a-dna-breakthrough-in-cave-art-and-more-morning-links-for-august-112026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry have quietly borrowed each other's language for decades, each remaking itself in the image of the other]]></title><description><![CDATA[Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry have quietly borrowed each other's language for decades, each remaking itself in the image of the other]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/psychiatry-and-anti-psychiatry-have-quietly-borrowed-each-others-language-for-decades-each-remaking-itself-in-the-image-of-the-other/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:33:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/psychiatry-and-anti-psychiatry-have-quietly-borrowed-each-others-language-for-decades-each-remaking-itself-in-the-image-of-the-other/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Heidegger, married and 35, explain his affair with 18-year old Hannah Arendt? “The demonic has seized me”]]></title><description><![CDATA[How did Heidegger, married and 35, explain his affair with 18-year old Hannah Arendt? &ldquo;The demonic has seized me&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-did-heidegger-married-and-35-explain-his-affair-with-18-year-old-hannah-arendt-the-demonic-has-seized-me/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:33:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-did-heidegger-married-and-35-explain-his-affair-with-18-year-old-hannah-arendt-the-demonic-has-seized-me/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For decades, Anglophilia steadily fed the imaginations of “respectable” American conservatives. No longer]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, Anglophilia steadily fed the imaginations of &ldquo;respectable&rdquo; American conservatives. No longer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-decades-anglophilia-steadily-fed-the-imaginations-of-respectable-american-conservatives-no-longer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:33:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-decades-anglophilia-steadily-fed-the-imaginations-of-respectable-american-conservatives-no-longer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divers Discover Hundreds of Ancient Ceramic Vessels Amid Shipwreck Off the Coast of Sicily]]></title><description><![CDATA[Divers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy&rsquo;s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy&rsquo;s culture minister, said that this is &ldquo;one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent years.&rdquo;According to the BBC, local fishermen alerted the Carabinieri to the shipwreck, which was full of hundreds of ancient Roman vess]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/divers-discover-hundreds-of-ancient-ceramic-vessels-amid-shipwreck-off-the-coast-ofsicily/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/divers-discover-hundreds-of-ancient-ceramic-vessels-amid-shipwreck-off-the-coast-ofsicily/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ireland’s Museum Staffers Struggle with Precarious Contracts and Toxic Environments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Museum staffers in Ireland are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain a career in the field over unstable contracts, low pay and toxic working environments, according to Dr. Emma McAlister, who wrote a blog post on the issue for the International Council of Museums on Monday.As McAlister recounted, she has only been able to work in the Irish museum industry over the last two and a half years through a temporary rolling contract that, at times, would be renewed just one day before its expir]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/irelands-museum-staffers-struggle-with-precarious-contracts-and-toxicenvironments/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/irelands-museum-staffers-struggle-with-precarious-contracts-and-toxicenvironments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storm King Art Center Appoints Anne Reeve as Senior Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Storm King Art Center in New York&rsquo;s Hudson Valley has filled its senior curatorial vacancy after over a year and half. First reported by Artnet, Anne Reeve will lead the sculpture park&rsquo;s curatorial program as senior curator from November 1.&nbsp;Reeve is no stranger to sculpture. She heads to Storm King from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where she has worked since 2018 as associate curator and now curator, overseeing the modern and contemporary sculpt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/storm-king-art-center-appoints-anne-reeve-as-seniorcurator/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/storm-king-art-center-appoints-anne-reeve-as-seniorcurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looted Ivorian “Talking Drum” Arrives at Its Home Village After More Than a Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sacred &ldquo;talking drum&rdquo; known as the Djidji Ay&ocirc;kw&eacute;, looted from C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire by French colonial troops over a century ago, returned this month to the place where it was made. According to the Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA), the drum arrived on August 7 at its home village of Adjame, where the local community was able to see it for the first time.The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out from the sl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/looted-ivorian-talking-drum-arrives-at-its-home-village-after-more-than-acentury/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/looted-ivorian-talking-drum-arrives-at-its-home-village-after-more-than-acentury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Public Artworks by Banksy Have Cost UK Taxpayers Almost $200,000]]></title><description><![CDATA[Banksy&rsquo;s guerrilla artworks have&nbsp;generated millions of dollars&nbsp;in&nbsp;auction sales&nbsp;and drawn crowds wherever they appear. They&rsquo;ve also left British taxpayers footing a growing cleanup bill.Public authorities across London have spent nearly $203,000 removing, protecting, and managing three of the anonymous street artist&rsquo;s works since 2024, according to figures obtained by the&nbsp;BBC&nbsp;through Freedom of Information requests. The total will keep going up as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-public-artworks-by-banksy-have-cost-uk-taxpayers-almost200000/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-public-artworks-by-banksy-have-cost-uk-taxpayers-almost200000/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fossils and Other Exhibits Stolen From German University in Latest Museum Robbery]]></title><description><![CDATA[The University of Bonn in Germany announced last week that numerous fossils and other exhibits have been stolen from its&nbsp;Goldfu&szlig; Museum. The university is now appealing to the public for information on items put up for sale or found on display, in order to secure their recovery.The university said it is not clear when the items were stolen, but that it occured during renovation work, which began in December 2023 and is ongoing. In a blog post published August 7, the university shared]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fossils-and-other-exhibits-stolen-from-german-university-in-latest-museumrobbery/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fossils-and-other-exhibits-stolen-from-german-university-in-latest-museumrobbery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inhotim Founder Bernardo Paz to Open a Namesake Museum, Right Next Door]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brazil&rsquo;s Minas Gerais will soon see another museum thanks to mining magnate Bernardo Paz, the megacollector behind the Inhotim museum and nature complex. The Museu Bernardo Paz will turn 311 acres of countryside into a new landscape for &ldquo;art, nature and community.&rdquo; The first phase will open in September 2027.&nbsp;&ldquo;Museu Bernardo Paz is taking root and flourishing from a belief in the creative potential of unexpected encounters,&rdquo; said Paz in press materials. &ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/inhotim-founder-bernardo-paz-to-open-a-namesake-museum-right-nextdoor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/inhotim-founder-bernardo-paz-to-open-a-namesake-museum-right-nextdoor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admission Fees at the Lucas Museum, David Hockney’s Reluctant Museum, and More: Morning Links for August 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.Good Morning!Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art&rsquo;s entrance fee.Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost &pound;150,000 in cleaning and security fees.David Hockney&rsquo;s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer wants to be remembered as the late painter&rsquo;s muse.The Head]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/admission-fees-at-the-lucas-museum-david-hockneys-reluctant-museum-and-more-morning-links-for-august-102026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/admission-fees-at-the-lucas-museum-david-hockneys-reluctant-museum-and-more-morning-links-for-august-102026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admission Fees at the Lucas Museum, David Hockney’s Reluctant Muse, and More: Morning Links for August 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.Good Morning!Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art&rsquo;s entrance fee.Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost &pound;150,000 in cleaning and security fees.David Hockney&rsquo;s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer wants to be remembered as the late painter&rsquo;s muse.The Head]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/admission-fees-at-the-lucas-museum-david-hockneys-reluctant-muse-and-more-morning-links-for-august-102026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/admission-fees-at-the-lucas-museum-david-hockneys-reluctant-muse-and-more-morning-links-for-august-102026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joeun Kim Aatchim’s Layered Lines Summon Translucent Worlds]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Joeun Kim Aatchim&rsquo;s paintings&mdash;but she calls them drawings&mdash;everything is so vivid, yet so elusive. Her line feels definitive, yet the images they convey seem to fade away into sheer luminosity.&nbsp;Her works are typically painted using mineral pigment in shellac&mdash;sometimes with watercolor, pastel, or other materials&mdash;on layers of silk that, stretched across frames, show through to the wall behind. They&rsquo;re all about one image being seen through another&mdash;n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joeun-kim-aatchims-layered-lines-summon-translucentworlds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joeun-kim-aatchims-layered-lines-summon-translucentworlds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“We have inherited the surfaces of decadence — luxury, excess, artifice, bodily display — but have surrendered the fin de siècle’s commitment to pleasure”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We have inherited the surfaces of decadence &mdash; luxury, excess, artifice, bodily display &mdash; but have surrendered the fin de si&egrave;cle&rsquo;s commitment to pleasure&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-have-inherited-the-surfaces-of-decadence-luxury-excess-artifice-bodily-display-but-have-surrendered-the-fin-de-sicles-commitment-to-pleasure/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:40:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-have-inherited-the-surfaces-of-decadence-luxury-excess-artifice-bodily-display-but-have-surrendered-the-fin-de-sicles-commitment-to-pleasure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1914, scholars classified every known instrument by sound. One missing category has now been filled: instruments that don't exist]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1914, scholars classified every known instrument by sound. One missing category has now been filled: instruments that don't exist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1914-scholars-classified-every-known-instrument-by-sound-one-missing-category-has-now-been-filled-instruments-that-dont-exist/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:40:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1914-scholars-classified-every-known-instrument-by-sound-one-missing-category-has-now-been-filled-instruments-that-dont-exist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI poses a moral hazard, but it may also render unintelligible cultural concepts like merit, authenticity, expertise, and deliberation]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI poses a moral hazard, but it may also render unintelligible cultural concepts like merit, authenticity, expertise, and deliberation]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-poses-a-moral-hazard-but-it-may-also-render-unintelligible-cultural-concepts-like-merit-authenticity-expertise-and-deliberation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:40:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-poses-a-moral-hazard-but-it-may-also-render-unintelligible-cultural-concepts-like-merit-authenticity-expertise-and-deliberation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Socialite Tracey Amon Asks Court to Compel Advisor Sandy Heller to Turn Over Papers Connected to Late Ex-Husband’s Art Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&rsquo;s Tracey Amon filed a request on July 25 in the US District Court for the District of Southern New York to subpoena art advisor Sanford &ldquo;Sandy&rdquo; Heller. She wants him to turn over documents for use in her lawsuits in Switzerland over the disposition of the assets of her late husband, Maurice Alain Amon, who retained Heller as an advisor starting in 2013.Heller has been described as &ldquo;possibly the biggest art advisor in the world,&rdquo; and reputedly works with Rom]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-socialite-tracey-amon-asks-court-to-compel-advisor-sandy-heller-to-turn-over-papers-connected-to-late-ex-husbands-artcollection/</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-socialite-tracey-amon-asks-court-to-compel-advisor-sandy-heller-to-turn-over-papers-connected-to-late-ex-husbands-artcollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All-Night Art Heist in Italy Suspected to Be ‘Some Sort of Revenge’]]></title><description><![CDATA[On July 28, a group of 10 people ransacked the headquarters of the Italian fuel distribution company, Lilli Petroli, in L&rsquo;Aquila, located in Italy&rsquo;s Abruzzo region, spending as long as eight hours on the premises before making off with over &pound;4 million ($4.63 million) of art, first reported local outlet Il Centro.About 30 artworks belonging to Lilli Petroli owner Mauro Lilli were stolen in the unusual heist, including bas-reliefs attributed to Pablo Picasso, a bronze ballerina s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/all-night-art-heist-in-italy-suspected-to-be-some-sort-ofrevenge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/all-night-art-heist-in-italy-suspected-to-be-some-sort-ofrevenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appeals Court Says Trump Lacks Authority to Build White House Ballroom]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to build a $400 million ballroom at the White House without congressional approval.The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with historic preservationists who sued to halt construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the site where the White House&rsquo;s East Wing stood before its demolition last fall. &nbsp;In response to the ruling, President Trumpwrote in a Truth Social post t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/appeals-court-says-trump-lacks-authority-to-build-white-houseballroom/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/appeals-court-says-trump-lacks-authority-to-build-white-houseballroom/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[20 Years After eBay, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Costumes Are Back at Auction, This Time at Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s is taking Miranda Priestly&rsquo;s closet to the auction block. Again.Twenty years after costumes from the original&nbsp;The Devil Wears Prada&nbsp;were sold on eBay, clothes and accessories from the sequel are getting a somewhat grander treatment. Christie&rsquo;s will offer pieces worn by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simone Ashley and Lady Gaga in an online charity auction running Sept. 1 through 15.The sale, titled &ldquo;A Million Girls Would Kill]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/20-years-after-ebay-the-devil-wears-prada-costumes-are-back-at-auction-this-time-at-christies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/20-years-after-ebay-the-devil-wears-prada-costumes-are-back-at-auction-this-time-at-christies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Picasso Etching Stolen 8 Years Ago Was Returned to Milwuakee Police]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Pablo Picasso etching stolen from Milwuakee&rsquo;s DeLind Art Appraisals in 2018 was handed over to the city&rsquo;s plice department on Thursday, according to a press release.The etching and aquatint printed in ink on paper, titled Torero, is the ninth in an edition of 30. When it was stolen in 2018, Bill DeLind told news organizations that it was worth between $35,000 and $50,000.&ldquo;It was like, &lsquo;Oh my God,&rdquo; DeLind told local news station 12 News on Thursday. &ldquo;I never]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-picasso-etching-stolen-8-years-ago-was-returned-to-milwuakeepolice/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-picasso-etching-stolen-8-years-ago-was-returned-to-milwuakeepolice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oslo Museum Curator Attributes Forgotten Still Life to Flemish Old Master Clara Peeters]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Why have there been no great women artists?&rdquo; Maybe because too many of their masterpieces were dismissively shoved into storage for not having been painted by a more famous man.That, at least, seems to be what befell a still life by the 17th-century Flemish painter Clara Peeters. Still Life with Small Game and Grapes on a Gilded Tazza, ca. 1620, was at one point thought to be by Ambrosius Brueghel (son of Jan, grandson of Pieter). But, according to the Guardian, that attribution was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oslo-museum-curator-attributes-forgotten-still-life-to-flemish-old-master-clarapeeters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oslo-museum-curator-attributes-forgotten-still-life-to-flemish-old-master-clarapeeters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprawling Nuclear Bunker in Italy Will Soon Be a Cold War Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a study to map its sprawling network of rooms commenced in 2022, a nuclear bunker in northern Italy will transform into a Cold War museum scheduled to open in part next year.As reported in The Art Newspaper, the bunker&mdash;built between 1960 and 1966 in the town of Affi near Verona&mdash;was &ldquo;engineered to withstand nuclear, chemical and biological attacks and was equipped with filtration systems, protected shower areas, kitchens, water tanks and dormitories. It was designed to sus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sprawling-nuclear-bunker-in-italy-will-soon-be-a-cold-warmuseum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sprawling-nuclear-bunker-in-italy-will-soon-be-a-cold-warmuseum/</guid></item></channel></rss>