<?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>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:24:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><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><item><title><![CDATA[Aspen’s Ambitious AIR Festival Turns the Rocky Mountains into a Stage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aspen, Colorado, stands at an elevation of just under 8,000 feet, enough to wonder what the atmosphere there might do differently to the eye, the ear, and all the rest of the bodily apparatus that we marshal throughout the day. Certainly the question was high in mind when the Aspen Art Museum reconvened AIR, an ambitious festival of art, performance, and talks whose second edition took over the mountain town last week.Last year&rsquo;s inaugural edition of AIR added considerable intelligence and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspens-ambitious-air-festival-turns-the-rocky-mountains-into-astage/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspens-ambitious-air-festival-turns-the-rocky-mountains-into-astage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rauschenberg Foundation Has Listed its New York HQ For Sale, Making Way for Possible ‘Luxury Rentals or Boutique Condos’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Robert Rauschenberg hosted lively parties in the late 1960s at his New York townhouse. Artists and engineers bunked in, the artist&rsquo;s turtle Rocky charmed visitors, and Rauschenberg created some key works in his studio there. That property may soon give way to luxury rentals and boutique condominiums.&nbsp;The five-story, 92,000-square-foot NoHo town house, which dates to the early 19th century, has been in the hands of the artist and his foundation since 1965. But development at an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-rauschenberg-foundation-has-listed-its-new-york-hq-for-sale-making-way-for-possible-luxury-rentals-or-boutiquecondos/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-rauschenberg-foundation-has-listed-its-new-york-hq-for-sale-making-way-for-possible-luxury-rentals-or-boutiquecondos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Gallery’s £250 K. Citizens’ Assembly Sparks Art World Criticism and Conservative Backslash]]></title><description><![CDATA[An initiative by London&rsquo;s National Gallery to convene a panel of randomly selected UK citizens to advise on its future has drawn criticism from art-world figures and conservative MPs.For the assembly, called NG Citizens, the National Gallery brought together a demographically representative group of the UK population, including some who may not have a professional art background or have never visited the National Gallery before, to help shape its strategic direction. The project has conven]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-gallerys-250-k-citizens-assembly-sparks-art-world-criticism-and-conservativebackslash/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-gallerys-250-k-citizens-assembly-sparks-art-world-criticism-and-conservativebackslash/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jacques Chirac Presidential Museum in France Was Robbed Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[French museums can&rsquo;t seem to catch a break.	Between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the Mus&eacute;e du Pr&eacute;sident Jacques Chirac in the central French town of Sarran was robbed for the third time in less than a year, a French public prosecutor told local media outlet Ici Limousin. Thieves reportedly broke a window, allowing them to enter the museum via the front door, and authorities were alerted by an alarm system around 4 a.m. Though no details were given about what wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jacques-chirac-presidential-museum-in-france-was-robbedagain/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jacques-chirac-presidential-museum-in-france-was-robbedagain/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Promises to Help Local Museums, The Masterminds Behind the Bayeux Tapestry Move, and More: Morning Links for August 7, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!The UK government has promised to help the country&rsquo;s struggling local museums.A forgotten still life in Norway&rsquo;s National Museum has been reattributed to Flemish master Clara Peeters.Meet the masterminds behind the painstaking transport of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum.The Headlines	MUSEUMS IN CRISIS.&nbsp;The temporary cl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-promises-to-help-local-museums-the-masterminds-behind-the-bayeux-tapestry-move-and-more-morning-links-for-august-72026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-promises-to-help-local-museums-the-masterminds-behind-the-bayeux-tapestry-move-and-more-morning-links-for-august-72026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What characterized the late-80s culture wars&nbsp;wasn't ideology alone, but a landscape where art itself still mattered. Paul Elie explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[What characterized the late-80s culture wars&nbsp;wasn't ideology alone, but a landscape where art itself still mattered. Paul Elie explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-characterized-the-late-80s-culture-warsnbspwasnt-ideology-alone-but-a-landscape-where-art-itself-still-mattered-paul-elie-explains/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:37:16 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-characterized-the-late-80s-culture-warsnbspwasnt-ideology-alone-but-a-landscape-where-art-itself-still-mattered-paul-elie-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“New Humans” Takes a Disappointingly Old Approach to Disability]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I picture cyborgs, I can&rsquo;t help but picture the ones I know&mdash;all of them are disabled. Insulin pumps, cochlear implants, and pacemakers make human-machine hybrids out of people every day. So when I saw that New York&rsquo;s New Museum was reopening with a cyborg-centric show, &ldquo;New Humans: Memories of the Future,&rdquo; I assumed it would account for the disability arts movement blossoming right there in the museum&rsquo;s backyard.I winced, then, when I read the artist list]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-humans-takes-a-disappointingly-old-approach-todisability/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-humans-takes-a-disappointingly-old-approach-todisability/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What made the late-80s culture wars distinct wasn't ideology alone, but a landscape where art itself still mattered. Paul Elie explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[What made the late-80s culture wars distinct wasn't ideology alone, but a landscape where art itself still mattered. Paul Elie explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-made-the-late-80s-culture-wars-distinct-wasnt-ideology-alone-but-a-landscape-where-art-itself-still-mattered-paul-elie-explains/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:29:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-made-the-late-80s-culture-wars-distinct-wasnt-ideology-alone-but-a-landscape-where-art-itself-still-mattered-paul-elie-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As AI eats the internet, we’re witnessing the end of the messy, effortful, contestable business of finding things out]]></title><description><![CDATA[As AI eats the internet, we&rsquo;re witnessing the end of the messy, effortful, contestable business of finding things out]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-ai-eats-the-internet-were-witnessing-the-end-of-the-messy-effortful-contestable-business-of-finding-things-out/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:29:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-ai-eats-the-internet-were-witnessing-the-end-of-the-messy-effortful-contestable-business-of-finding-things-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An enfeebled grip, a depressingly slow gait, and the pitying kindness of others — Theodore Dalrymple searches for the consolations of age]]></title><description><![CDATA[An enfeebled grip, a depressingly slow gait, and the pitying kindness of others &mdash; Theodore Dalrymple searches for the consolations of age]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-enfeebled-grip-a-depressingly-slow-gait-and-the-pitying-kindness-of-others-theodore-dalrymple-searches-for-the-consolations-of-age/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:29:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-enfeebled-grip-a-depressingly-slow-gait-and-the-pitying-kindness-of-others-theodore-dalrymple-searches-for-the-consolations-of-age/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[7 Smithsonian Museums Abruptly Closed Over Mechanical Issue]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian Institution on Thursday closed seven buildings on the National Mall, citing a failure of the temperature-control system.Visitors were turned away today from a swath of Smithsonian museums and facilities on the south side of the National Mall between Jefferson Drive and Independence Avenue SW, including the Smithsonian Castle, the Arts and Industries Building, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Asian Art, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/7-smithsonian-museums-abruptly-closed-over-mechanicalissue/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/7-smithsonian-museums-abruptly-closed-over-mechanicalissue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uffizi Announces Plans for $57 M. Renovations Over Two Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, revealed the extent of ongoing &euro;50 million renovation plans spread across the museum. The revamp includes dozens of projects in the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, the nearby Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, some of which have already begun, while others are scheduled to start in the coming months, allowing the museum to remain open.&ldquo;An operation of unprecedented scale and depth is underway,&rdquo; said Uffizi director Simone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uffizi-announces-plans-for-57-m-renovations-over-twoyears/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uffizi-announces-plans-for-57-m-renovations-over-twoyears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monumental Bronze Age Tomb Discovered Amid Dense Vegetation in Sardinia]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new megalithic funerary monument, one of the many so-called &ldquo;Giants&rsquo; Tombs&rdquo; scattered around Sardinia, has been uncovered in the central part of the Italian island. The Bronze Age tomb was discovered at Carrarzu Iddia, an archaeological site near the town of Macomer, as reported in Finestra Sull&rsquo;Arte.The excavation was overseen by two local archaeology and fine art organizations, who were already working in the area.This tomb, and others in Sardinia, was built as a coll]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monumental-bronze-age-tomb-discovered-amid-dense-vegetation-insardinia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/monumental-bronze-age-tomb-discovered-amid-dense-vegetation-insardinia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Latest Brand Collaboration is A Makeup Line With MAC Cosmetics]]></title><description><![CDATA[MAC Cosmetics&nbsp;has joined forces with Jean-Michel Basquiat&rsquo;s family and estate for its latest limited-edition collaboration, inspired by the late artist&rsquo;s creative signatures.Debuting direct-to-consumer and in select MAC stores on Thursday, the six-piece collection ranges in price from $29 for loose powder pigments in three shimmering gold, taupe and white shades to $120 for a four-piece set of Basquiat Artist Brushes, which come in different shapes and sizes and are inspired by]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jean-michel-basquiats-latest-brand-collaboration-is-a-makeup-line-with-maccosmetics/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jean-michel-basquiats-latest-brand-collaboration-is-a-makeup-line-with-maccosmetics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isaiah Davis Makes Metal—and Masculinity—Seem Soft]]></title><description><![CDATA[Isaiah Davis&rsquo;s Midtown Manhattan studio was once Christian Louboutin&rsquo;s atelier, and it still has red carpeting that evokes the lacquered undersides of the designer&rsquo;s signature stilettos. When I visited Davis&rsquo;s studio this past winter, that red peeked out from under heaps of black and brown leather the artist was working with.Leather appeared in Davis&rsquo;s 2021 show at New York&rsquo;s Participant Inc: White American Flag (2021) is a wall work with stars and stripes but]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/isaiah-davis-makes-metaland-masculinityseem-soft/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/isaiah-davis-makes-metaland-masculinityseem-soft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Zwirner Recruits Longtime Andrew Kreps Partner Liz Mulholland for LA Outpost]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York&rsquo;s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner&rsquo;s Los Angeles outpost.&nbsp;&ldquo;I genuinely wish Liz the best,&rdquo; Kreps told ARTnews. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a big life decision, and I&rsquo;m supportive. She made a huge contribution to the gallery and I&rsquo;m forever grateful.&rdquo;Founded in 1993, Zwirner&rsquo;s gallery]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-zwirner-recruits-longtime-andrew-kreps-partner-liz-mulholland-for-laoutpost/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-zwirner-recruits-longtime-andrew-kreps-partner-liz-mulholland-for-laoutpost/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An America250 IndyCar Race Will Pass By DC’s Museums. Could the Vibrations Damage Artworks?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since Donald Trump assumed office again, Washington, D.C., has seen new gold-plated statues and UFC fights on the White House lawn. Up next: an IndyCar race involving high-performance machines whizzing around the capital at speeds up to 185 miles per hour from August 22-23.One part of a series of celebrations of the semiquincentennial, the IndyCar race will send those vehicles racing by cultural and historical institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, the National Archives, and three]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-america250-indycar-race-will-pass-by-dcs-museums-could-the-vibrations-damageartworks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-america250-indycar-race-will-pass-by-dcs-museums-could-the-vibrations-damageartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English Heritage Appoints V&amp;A Deputy Director as New Chief&nbsp;Executive]]></title><description><![CDATA[English Heritage has appointed Tim Reeve as its new chief executive. He rejoins the organization after 13 years as deputy director of the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London, the organization announced Tuesday.Reeve will replace interim Geoff Parkin who took over after the abrupt resignation of Nick Merriman due to family health issues in 2025.English Heritage acts as caretaker for the National Heritage Collection, a group of over 400 historic sites and monuments across England, including bel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/english-heritage-appoints-vampa-deputy-director-as-new-chiefnbspexecutive/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/english-heritage-appoints-vampa-deputy-director-as-new-chiefnbspexecutive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Historical Replaces Artworks With Reproductions Weeks After Opening $175 M. Expansion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Less than two months after opening its $175 million Tang Wing for American Democracy, the New York Historical has replaced 17 objects in its inaugural exhibition with reproductions. Another three objects have been removed entirely.The problem is natural light, reportedly. The new wing&rsquo;s main exhibition gallery has large windows that flood the space with sunlight, but some of the objects selected for &ldquo;Democracy Matters,&rdquo; which opened June 18, are light-sensitive and could be dam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-historical-replaces-artworks-with-reproductions-weeks-after-opening-175-mexpansion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-historical-replaces-artworks-with-reproductions-weeks-after-opening-175-mexpansion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Than 2,000 People Have Signed a Petition to Free Two Indian Artists After Protesting for Workers Rights]]></title><description><![CDATA[In April, two Indian artists Srishti Gupta and Akriti Choudhary were arrested for protesting with factory workers in Greater Noida, an industrial and manufacturing city close to New Delhi, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday.Now, a Change.org petition is calling for their freedom along with six workers, who were also arrested on April 11. The petition which was started by a user called Shaleen Wadhwana four weeks ago has been signed by 2,345 people so far. (Wadhwana did not immediately answer an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-than-2000-people-have-signed-a-petition-to-free-two-indian-artists-after-protesting-for-workersrights/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-than-2000-people-have-signed-a-petition-to-free-two-indian-artists-after-protesting-for-workersrights/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Drone Incinerated 18th-century Ukrainian Church]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Russian drone has reduced to ashes a 1726-built church in Ukraine, which officials say was a rare surviving example of wooden Cossack architecture from that era.	Over the weekend, a Russian drone struck the Holy Vvedenska [Presentation] Church in southern Ukraine&rsquo;s Beryslav historic settlement, setting it on fire, reported local news site Most. Photos after the attack show nothing was left standing of the brightly painted, blue and green Cossack church, as it is commonly called, which wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-drone-incinerated-18th-century-ukrainianchurch/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-drone-incinerated-18th-century-ukrainianchurch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sao Paulo’s MASP Names Flavia Almeida as New President]]></title><description><![CDATA[Museu de Arte de S&atilde;o Paulo (MASP), one of the world&rsquo;s most closely observed museums in the art-rich biggest city in Brazil, promoted Fl&aacute;via Almeida from vice-president to president, to direct the institution after 12 years of leadership by Heitor Martins.As reported by ArtReview, Almeida &ldquo;comes from a business and management background,&rdquo; with a business administration degree from Funda&ccedil;&atilde;o Get&uacute;lio Vargas and an MBA from Harvard University. She]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sao-paulos-masp-names-flavia-almeida-as-newpresident/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sao-paulos-masp-names-flavia-almeida-as-newpresident/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Galliano at the Met Raises Questions, UK Show of Sarah Cunningham Paintings Planned, and More: Morning Links for August 6, 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 National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is taking precautionary measures to protect its collection from vibrations caused by the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.A Cold War bunker beneath Italy&rsquo;s Lake Garda is being transformed into a museum.British painter Sarah Cunningham, who died in 2024 at the age of 31, will receive her first instituti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-galliano-at-the-met-raises-questions-uk-show-of-sarah-cunningham-paintings-planned-and-more-morning-links-for-august-62026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-galliano-at-the-met-raises-questions-uk-show-of-sarah-cunningham-paintings-planned-and-more-morning-links-for-august-62026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Jonathan González Became the Performance Artist of the Moment]]></title><description><![CDATA[This past May, on one of the first warm days of an unusually frigid spring in New York, two friends seized on the good weather and decided to have cocktails on the Whitney Museum&rsquo;s eighth floor terrace. They chatted and laughed&mdash;and then were quickly interrupted by a woman in a white leotard that looked as though it had been splashed with paint. The woman got up on their table and gleefully pretended to tap dance, drawing an amused crowd of onlookers. &ldquo;A typical Friday night in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-jonathan-gonzlez-became-the-performance-artist-of-themoment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-jonathan-gonzlez-became-the-performance-artist-of-themoment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White Cube Now Represents Tesfaye Urgessa, First Artist to Represent Ethiopia at the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[White Cube, which has six gallery locations around the world, announced today that it will now represent artist Tesfaye Urgessa, who splits his time between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and N&uuml;rtingen, Germany.The gallery will open its first solo show for the artist at its Hong Kong location on September 9, featuring new paintings and works on paper. The gallery will also include Urgessa&rsquo;s 2025 painting Fiber of grace (Schutz) 2 in its booth at Frieze Seoul next month.Urgessa is known for hi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-cube-now-represents-tesfaye-urgessa-first-artist-to-represent-ethiopia-at-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-cube-now-represents-tesfaye-urgessa-first-artist-to-represent-ethiopia-at-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to Combat U, the campy, inspiring, dismaying, downright confusing place where higher education meets organized fighting.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Combat U, the campy, inspiring, dismaying, downright confusing place where higher education meets organized fighting.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/welcome-to-combat-u-the-campy-inspiring-dismaying-downright-confusing-place-where-higher-education-meets-organized-fighting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:01:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/welcome-to-combat-u-the-campy-inspiring-dismaying-downright-confusing-place-where-higher-education-meets-organized-fighting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret history of silence stretches from Pythagoras, who required years of quiet from his pupils, to the Anti-Noise League’s nearly silent lavatories]]></title><description><![CDATA[The secret history of silence stretches from Pythagoras, who required years of quiet from his pupils, to the Anti-Noise League&rsquo;s nearly silent lavatories]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-secret-history-of-silence-stretches-from-pythagoras-who-required-years-of-quiet-from-his-pupils-to-the-anti-noise-leagues-nearly-silent-lavatories-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:01:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-secret-history-of-silence-stretches-from-pythagoras-who-required-years-of-quiet-from-his-pupils-to-the-anti-noise-leagues-nearly-silent-lavatories-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wyoming Association of Archaeologists Sues Federal Government Over NAGPRA Regulations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Late last month, the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists (WAPA) filed a complaint against Douglas J. Burgum, the US Secretary of the Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming.In the case, filed July 24, WAPA, a Wyoming-based nonprofit representing field archaeologists, academic researchers, and museum professionals, calls for the court to &ldquo;halt ongoing unlawful transfers of, and denial of research access to, archaeologic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wyoming-association-of-archaeologists-sues-federal-government-over-nagpraregulations/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wyoming-association-of-archaeologists-sues-federal-government-over-nagpraregulations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian Museum Returns 18 Ancestral Remains to Rapa Nui]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Australian Museum has returned 18 ancestral remains to the people of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island). The news was reported by the Art Newspaper following a July 27 announcement by Chile&rsquo;s National Cultural Heritage Service.The repatriated human remains (known locally as Ivi Tupuna) include 17 skulls and one sample of hair, which have been in the museum&rsquo;s collection since the late 19th century. They were among a number of objects and remains removed from Rapa Nui by an 188]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/australian-museum-returns-18-ancestral-remains-to-rapanui/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/australian-museum-returns-18-ancestral-remains-to-rapanui/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fra Angelico’s Restored Fiesole Altarpiece Returns to Its Original Church Home After Blockbuster Museum Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[A major work by a lauded Renaissance artist, newly restored, has again taken up residence in the very church for which it was originally painted. Fra Angelico&rsquo;s Fiesole Altarpiece (ca. 1420&ndash;1423) has been restored to the Church of San Domenico, just north of Florence, where the artist once was a Dominican friar.Born Guido di Pietro in Tuscany around 1395, Fra Angelico was dubbed Fra Giovanni di Fiesole when he entered an order of Dominican friars in that hillside town around 1420. Af]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fra-angelicos-restored-fiesole-altarpiece-returns-to-its-original-church-home-after-blockbuster-museumshow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fra-angelicos-restored-fiesole-altarpiece-returns-to-its-original-church-home-after-blockbuster-museumshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whatever potential hazards and unintended consequences flow from AI&rsquo;s mass adoption, my own experience using it contradicted much of what I was being told"]]></title><description><![CDATA["Whatever potential hazards and unintended consequences flow from AI&rsquo;s mass adoption, my own experience using it contradicted much of what I was being told"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whatever-potential-hazards-and-unintended-consequences-flow-from-airsquos-mass-adoption-my-own-experience-using-it-contradicted-much-of-what-i-was-being-told/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:34:17 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whatever-potential-hazards-and-unintended-consequences-flow-from-airsquos-mass-adoption-my-own-experience-using-it-contradicted-much-of-what-i-was-being-told/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to Combat U, the campy, violent, inspiring, dismaying, downright confusing place where organized fighting and higher education meet ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Combat U, the campy, violent, inspiring, dismaying, downright confusing place where organized fighting and higher education meet&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/welcome-to-combat-u-the-campy-violent-inspiring-dismaying-downright-confusing-place-where-organized-fighting-and-higher-education-meet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:34:17 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/welcome-to-combat-u-the-campy-violent-inspiring-dismaying-downright-confusing-place-where-organized-fighting-and-higher-education-meet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret history of silence stretches from Pythagoras, who required years of quiet from his pupils, to the Anti-Noise League’s nearly-silent lavatories]]></title><description><![CDATA[The secret history of silence stretches from Pythagoras, who required years of quiet from his pupils, to the Anti-Noise League&rsquo;s nearly-silent lavatories]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-secret-history-of-silence-stretches-from-pythagoras-who-required-years-of-quiet-from-his-pupils-to-the-anti-noise-leagues-nearly-silent-lavatories/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:34:17 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-secret-history-of-silence-stretches-from-pythagoras-who-required-years-of-quiet-from-his-pupils-to-the-anti-noise-leagues-nearly-silent-lavatories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Louvre Lends Islamic ‘Masterpieces’ to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Museum of Asian Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will play home to 26 works on loan from Paris during the run of &ldquo;From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,&rdquo; an exhibition opening September 26 and continuing into January 2027.As reported by The Art Newspaper, &ldquo;The exhibition will feature a number of stunning objects that have never been shown in the United States, among them a bronze statue from Islamic Spain known as the Lion of Mon]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-louvre-lends-islamic-masterpieces-to-the-smithsonian-in-washingtondc/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-louvre-lends-islamic-masterpieces-to-the-smithsonian-in-washingtondc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 10 Most Expensive Alberto Giacometti Works Ever Sold at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coarse skin, matchstick-thin, and oozing existential dread&mdash;the signature of Alberto Giacometti is unmistakable. Born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, in 1901, Giacometti captivated the interest and imagination of his artistic peers and patrons with a career of remarkable transformation: from his early Surrealist experiments to his explorations of ancient Egyptian-inspired forms, to the postwar period when isolation, anxiety, and human fragility came to define his spindly cast of figures.&ldquo;T]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-10most-expensive-alberto-giacometti-works-ever-sold-atauction/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-10most-expensive-alberto-giacometti-works-ever-sold-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Estate Rush That Is Reshaping the Art Market]]></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.PPaul Allen, S.I. Newhouse, Robert Mnuchin, Marian Goodman, Leonard Lauder, Barbara Gladstone: the list of collectors whose art has arrived at auction over the past two years reads like the society pages of decades past. Some died; others have merely reached an age when keeping several hundred million d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-great-estate-rush-that-is-reshaping-the-artmarket/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-great-estate-rush-that-is-reshaping-the-artmarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s New Comms Chief, Freeman’s New Old Masters Head, and More: Industry Moves for August 5, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Sotheby&rsquo;s Taps Christie&rsquo;s Veteran as Communications Chief: Natasha Le Bel, formerly global head of communications at Christie&rsquo;s, has been named Sotheby&rsquo;s chief communications off]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-new-comms-chief-freemans-new-old-masters-head-and-more-industry-moves-for-august-52026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-new-comms-chief-freemans-new-old-masters-head-and-more-industry-moves-for-august-52026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museums Team Up to Buy Artworks, a New AI Startup Tackles Art Forgery, and More: Morning Links for August 5, 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!As budgets tighten, museums are joining forces to buy expensive artworks they could not afford on their own.A UK tech firm is using AI and knowledge graphs to strengthen art authentication.&nbsp;Collectors are increasingly using freeports to defer taxes, protect valuable artworks, and manage sales more strategically.The Headlines	TEAMWORK, DREAMW]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museums-team-up-to-buy-artworks-a-new-ai-startup-tackles-art-forgery-and-more-morning-links-for-august-52026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museums-team-up-to-buy-artworks-a-new-ai-startup-tackles-art-forgery-and-more-morning-links-for-august-52026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[M.F.A. programs teach pacing, structure, rhythm. They cannot teach a writer to have something worth saying]]></title><description><![CDATA[M.F.A. programs teach pacing, structure, rhythm. They cannot teach a writer to have something worth saying]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mfa-programs-teach-pacing-structure-rhythm-they-cannot-teach-a-writer-to-have-something-worth-saying/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:52:17 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mfa-programs-teach-pacing-structure-rhythm-they-cannot-teach-a-writer-to-have-something-worth-saying/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freudianism died in 1963, killed by Karl Popper. Yet in every generation there arises an attempt at rehabilitation. Meet Mark Solms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Freudianism died in 1963, killed by Karl Popper. Yet in every generation there arises an attempt at rehabilitation. Meet Mark Solms]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/freudianism-died-in-1963-killed-by-karl-popper-yet-in-every-generation-there-arises-an-attempt-at-rehabilitation-meet-mark-solms/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:52:17 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/freudianism-died-in-1963-killed-by-karl-popper-yet-in-every-generation-there-arises-an-attempt-at-rehabilitation-meet-mark-solms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sexual Personae was a scandal, and a ticket to infamy for its author, Camille Paglia. Its 700 pages remain incendiary — and exhausting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sexual Personae was a scandal, and a ticket to infamy for its author, Camille Paglia. Its 700 pages remain incendiary&nbsp;&mdash; and exhausting]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sexual-personae-was-a-scandal-and-a-ticket-to-infamy-for-its-author-camille-paglia-its-700-pages-remain-incendiary-and-exhausting/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:38:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sexual-personae-was-a-scandal-and-a-ticket-to-infamy-for-its-author-camille-paglia-its-700-pages-remain-incendiary-and-exhausting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MFA programs teach pacing, structure, rhythm. It can not teach a writer to have something worth saying]]></title><description><![CDATA[MFA programs teach pacing, structure, rhythm. It can not teach a writer to have something worth saying]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mfa-programs-teach-pacing-structure-rhythm-it-can-not-teach-a-writer-to-have-something-worth-saying/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:21:08 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mfa-programs-teach-pacing-structure-rhythm-it-can-not-teach-a-writer-to-have-something-worth-saying/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freudianism died in 1963, killed by Karl Popper. Yet in every generation there is an attempt at rehabilitation. Meet Mark Solms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Freudianism died in 1963, killed by Karl Popper. Yet in every generation there is an attempt at rehabilitation. Meet Mark Solms]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/freudianism-died-in-1963-killed-by-karl-popper-yet-in-every-generation-there-is-an-attempt-at-rehabilitation-meet-mark-solms/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:21:08 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/freudianism-died-in-1963-killed-by-karl-popper-yet-in-every-generation-there-is-an-attempt-at-rehabilitation-meet-mark-solms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish Police Recover a 16th-Century Virgin Relief Stolen 16 Years Ago From Monastery]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Spanish National Police and Mossos d&rsquo;Esquadra, the regional police of Catalonia, announced that they had recovered a 16th century carved wooden relief that had been stolen from the Monastery of Santa Clara de Fitero in nearby Navarre 16 years prior.Per a post by the National Police on social media, the relief had passed through multiple buyers before it was located at an auction house in Barcelona. Police recovered the piece before it could be sold again.The relief, according t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spanish-police-recover-a-16th-century-virgin-relief-stolen-16-years-ago-frommonastery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spanish-police-recover-a-16th-century-virgin-relief-stolen-16-years-ago-frommonastery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guggenheim Veteran Valerie Hillings Tapped as Inaugural Director of Abu Dhabi Branch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi took another significant step toward its December 11 opening, naming Valerie Hillings as the institution&rsquo;s inaugural director.In choosing Hillings, the Guggenheim tapped a trusted name for the high-profile appointment. She spent five years on the Guggenheim&rsquo;s staff in New York before joining the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project in 2008 as curator and associate director of curatorial affairs. She worked alongside the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi thr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-veteran-valerie-hillings-tapped-as-inaugural-director-of-abu-dhabibranch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-veteran-valerie-hillings-tapped-as-inaugural-director-of-abu-dhabibranch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Colossal Ancient Marble Statue Emerges at a UNESCO Site in Turkey]]></title><description><![CDATA[A seven-foot-tall marble statue from the 5th century BCE has emerged from under what used to be a Roman roadway in the ancient city of Sardis, in western Turkey, reports Heritage Daily. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Salihli district of Manisa Province, the city served at the time as the capital of the western satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian empire and of the kingdom of Lydia.According to Turkey&rsquo;s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, who posted about the discovery on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-colossal-ancient-marble-statue-emerges-at-a-unesco-site-inturkey/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-colossal-ancient-marble-statue-emerges-at-a-unesco-site-inturkey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sale of Insolvent Glasgow Art Center’s Archive Would Be an ‘Irreversible Loss,’ Critics Warn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Campaigners, politicians, and arts figures are calling on the Scottish government to intervene over the possible sale of the archive of Glasgow&rsquo;s Centre for Contemporary Arts, according to&nbsp;The Art Newspaper.&nbsp;The collection was listed among the assets of the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), which was recently deemed insolvent.The collapse came despite a significant injection of public money. The&nbsp;BBC&nbsp;reported in January that the CCA had secured more than $4.5 million i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sale-of-insolvent-glasgow-art-centers-archive-would-be-an-irreversible-loss-criticswarn/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sale-of-insolvent-glasgow-art-centers-archive-would-be-an-irreversible-loss-criticswarn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terran Last Gun’s Antique Accounting Ledgers Tell New Stories]]></title><description><![CDATA[Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, my first border crossing on foot was from the US into Canada. I remember getting the jitters as I offered up my passport&mdash;and then it was over in the flick of a turnstile. Terran Last Gun (Piikani) grew up on Montana&rsquo;s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, less than an hour&rsquo;s drive away, but rarely made the same crossing in his youth.&nbsp;During Western expansion, the border line grew in phases along the 49th parallel and eventually divided the rang]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/terran-last-guns-antique-accounting-ledgers-tell-newstories/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/terran-last-guns-antique-accounting-ledgers-tell-newstories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Week NYC Names 76 Participating Galleries for Inaugural Event in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, Art Week NYC, the soon-to-launch annual citywide celebration of contemporary art presented by ARTnews, Art in America, and Artforum, announced the galleries participating in its gallery program.Seventy-six galleries are set to participate in the inaugural edition of the event, set to take place November 11&ndash;14. Among those participating are blue-chip enterprises like Hauser &amp; Wirth, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, White Cube, Perrotin, Lisson, and Paula Cooper. Other]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-week-nyc-names-76-participating-galleries-for-inaugural-event-innovember/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-week-nyc-names-76-participating-galleries-for-inaugural-event-innovember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Mayor Defends Free Entry to Museums, UK’s National Gallery Criticized, and More: Morning Links for August 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!The National Gallery has been criticized after spending &pound;250,000 on its NG Citizens program.Royal Museums Greenwich staff have voted for industrial action over pay, conditions, and workplace reforms.London&rsquo;s mayor has defended free entry to the capital&rsquo;s national museums, arguing that culture should remain accessible regardless]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-mayor-defends-free-entry-to-museums-uks-national-gallery-criticized-and-more-morning-links-for-august-42026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-mayor-defends-free-entry-to-museums-uks-national-gallery-criticized-and-more-morning-links-for-august-42026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What connects the writer Ottessa Moshfegh, a fired professor in Florida, and a prudish college president? A creeping puritanism]]></title><description><![CDATA[What connects the writer Ottessa Moshfegh, a fired professor in Florida, and a prudish college president? A creeping puritanism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-connects-the-writer-ottessa-moshfegh-a-fired-professor-in-florida-and-a-prudish-college-president-a-creeping-puritanism/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:56:24 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-connects-the-writer-ottessa-moshfegh-a-fired-professor-in-florida-and-a-prudish-college-president-a-creeping-puritanism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink-addled private existence]]></title><description><![CDATA[With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink-addled private existence]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-age-audens-brilliance-on-the-page-grew-ever-more-estranged-from-his-unwashed-drug-and-drink-addled-private-existence-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:31:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-age-audens-brilliance-on-the-page-grew-ever-more-estranged-from-his-unwashed-drug-and-drink-addled-private-existence-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we lost when we lost the video-store clerk: The quirky sensibility of the movie geek has been replaced by the algorithm]]></title><description><![CDATA[What we lost when we lost the video-store clerk: The quirky sensibility of the movie geek has been replaced by the algorithm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-we-lost-when-we-lost-the-video-store-clerk-the-quirky-sensibility-of-the-movie-geek-has-been-replaced-by-the-algorithm-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:31:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-we-lost-when-we-lost-the-video-store-clerk-the-quirky-sensibility-of-the-movie-geek-has-been-replaced-by-the-algorithm-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What connects Ottessa Moshfegh, a fired professor in Florida, and a prudish college president? A creeping puritanism]]></title><description><![CDATA[What connects Ottessa Moshfegh, a fired professor in Florida, and a prudish college president? A creeping puritanism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-connects-ottessa-moshfegh-a-fired-professor-in-florida-and-a-prudish-college-president-a-creeping-puritanism/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:31:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-connects-ottessa-moshfegh-a-fired-professor-in-florida-and-a-prudish-college-president-a-creeping-puritanism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Celan met Martin Heidegger three times, an improbable pairing of Holocaust survivor and Nazi sympathizer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Celan met Martin Heidegger three times, an improbable pairing of Holocaust survivor and Nazi sympathizer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-celan-met-martin-heidegger-three-times-an-improbable-pairing-of-holocaust-survivor-and-nazi-sympathizer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:31:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-celan-met-martin-heidegger-three-times-an-improbable-pairing-of-holocaust-survivor-and-nazi-sympathizer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medieval parents&nbsp;&mdash; they're just like us! Forget the cold and indifferent caricature that has persisted for decades]]></title><description><![CDATA[Medieval parents&nbsp;&mdash; they're just like us! Forget the cold and indifferent caricature that has persisted for decades]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/medieval-parentsnbspmdash-theyre-just-like-us-forget-the-cold-and-indifferent-caricature-that-has-persisted-for-decades/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:31:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/medieval-parentsnbspmdash-theyre-just-like-us-forget-the-cold-and-indifferent-caricature-that-has-persisted-for-decades/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Francisco Correa Cordero, Founder of Closely Watched New York Gallery Lubov, Dies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Francisco Correa Cordero, the founder of New York gallery Lubov, died on August 2. The news was announced in a post on the gallery&rsquo;s Instagram account, which did not provide a cause or age.&ldquo;He accomplished and lived for his dream through the gallery of a safe and meaningful community for artists &ndash; what he built through Lubov will be felt through the art community forever,&rdquo; the gallery&rsquo;s post reads, which notes that Correa Cordero &ldquo;passed away peacefully surrou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francisco-correa-cordero-founder-of-closely-watched-new-york-gallery-lubovdies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francisco-correa-cordero-founder-of-closely-watched-new-york-gallery-lubovdies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 200 Collectors Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai to Divorce After Nearly 30 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai, the billionaire art collectors and owners of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage, the&nbsp;New York Post&nbsp;reported Friday.The couple, who married in New York in 1996, were named jointly to&nbsp;ARTnews&rsquo;s Top 200 Collectors list in 2018 and 2025, with&nbsp;a focus on contemporary art.A representative for the Tsais told the&nbsp;Post&nbsp;that the split was mutual and amicable and that the two plan to keep]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collectors-clara-wu-tsai-and-joseph-tsai-to-divorce-after-nearly-30years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collectors-clara-wu-tsai-and-joseph-tsai-to-divorce-after-nearly-30years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met Museum Quietly Hangs a Leonardo da Vinci Painting, On Loan from Ken Griffin: ‘A Little Picture, Of Large-Scale Importance’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Get ready for Leonardo da Vinci fever at New York&rsquo;s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the curators, without so much as a press release, hung a painting this spring by the Renaissance master. On a Monday visit, the work wasn&rsquo;t gaining any particularly high level of attention as it hung in gallery 609, on the second floor in the European paintings department. The small painting hangs between giant ones by Francesco Francia and Andrea Solario.Madonna of the Yarnwinder (ca. 1505 per a wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-quietly-hangs-a-leonardo-da-vinci-painting-on-loan-from-ken-griffin-a-little-picture-of-large-scale-importance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-quietly-hangs-a-leonardo-da-vinci-painting-on-loan-from-ken-griffin-a-little-picture-of-large-scale-importance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gagosian Gives Up London and Basel Spaces as Mega-Galleries Rethink Their Footprints]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gagosian has closed its small space in London&rsquo;s Burlington Arcade and will soon close up its space in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Newspaper reports.Both spaces started as pop-ups, and as long as the rents were good, it made sense for founder Larry Gagosian to keep up those spaces, a source familiar with the gallery&rsquo;s thinking told ARTnews. &ldquo;Larry&rsquo;s thinking is, &lsquo;If there&rsquo;s opportunity there, great. If not, that&rsquo;s okay too,&rsquo;&rdquo; the source said.A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-gives-up-london-and-basel-spaces-as-mega-galleries-rethink-theirfootprints/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-gives-up-london-and-basel-spaces-as-mega-galleries-rethink-theirfootprints/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Met Museum Consulted With Jewish Leaders Over Exhibition for Controversial Fashion Designer John Galliano]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before announcing John Galliano as the subject of its starry Costume Institute exhibition opening next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art met with influential rabbis and Jewish leaders to discuss the selection of a figure &ldquo;as famous for his antisemitic rant in 2011 as he is for his fashion,&rdquo; according to the New York Times.As reported by the Times&rsquo;s chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman, the Met convened several meetings between Jewish leaders and Anna Wintour, Vogue&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-consulted-with-jewish-leaders-over-exhibition-for-controversial-fashion-designer-johngalliano/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/met-museum-consulted-with-jewish-leaders-over-exhibition-for-controversial-fashion-designer-johngalliano/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World’s Largest Painting Sold for $62 M. in 2021 to Benefit Children’s Charities, But They Have Yet to Receive Any Funds]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2021, British artist Sacha Jafri auctioned what was then the world&rsquo;s largest canvas painting, The Journey of Humanity, for a total of &pound;45 million ($62 million at the time) in support of children&rsquo;s charities. The proceeds from the sale made in Dubai were supposed to be split between UNICEF, UNESCO, and the Global Gift Foundation. But the London Times reports that over five years later, the money has still yet to be disbursed to the selected charities.In 2022, the UAE-based or]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-worlds-largest-painting-sold-for-62-m-in-2021-to-benefit-childrens-charities-but-they-have-yet-to-receive-anyfunds/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-worlds-largest-painting-sold-for-62-m-in-2021-to-benefit-childrens-charities-but-they-have-yet-to-receive-anyfunds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Her Cloud Paintings Installed Outdoors, Artist Na Kim Wants You to Look Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Old Stone Mill in Newport, Rhode Island, is an odd little building. Eight thick stone legs support a circular tower pierced by arched openings. There aren&rsquo;t exactly windows, nor is there a roof. Stand in the middle and look up and all you see is sky.The structure, which sits in Touro Park in the city&rsquo;s center, is often called a 17th-century windmill, though its exact origins have inspired theories and debate for generations, which have cycled between calling it the Newport Tower,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-her-cloud-paintings-installed-outdoors-artist-na-kim-wants-you-to-lookup/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-her-cloud-paintings-installed-outdoors-artist-na-kim-wants-you-to-lookup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Na Kim Wants You to Look Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Old Stone Mill in Newport, Rhode Island, is an odd little building. Eight thick stone legs support a circular tower pierced by arched openings. There aren&rsquo;t exactly windows, nor is there a roof. Stand in the middle and look up and all you see is sky.The structure, which sits in Touro Park in the city&rsquo;s center, is often called a 17th-century windmill, though its exact origins have inspired theories and debate for generations, which have cycled between calling it the Newport Tower,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/na-kim-wants-you-to-lookup/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/na-kim-wants-you-to-lookup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malo Chapuy’s Neo-Medieval Paintings Conjure Apocalyptic Visions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Medieval art continues to resurface as a foil for the art of subsequent generations. In the quattrocento, Vasari coined the term &ldquo;gothic&rdquo; to decry the &ldquo;barbarousness&rdquo; of such pre-Renaissance styles. By the mid-19th century, however, revivalists looked to it for inspiration, an egress from the calcified obsequiousness of neoclassicism and the depredations of industrialization. The latter had torn up the old social fabric, killed hundreds of thousands during the Napoleonic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malo-chapuys-neo-medieval-paintings-conjure-apocalypticvisions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malo-chapuys-neo-medieval-paintings-conjure-apocalypticvisions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim Show Will Fill Rotunda with New Body of Work for First Time in Museum’s History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taryn Simon&rsquo;s upcoming solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York will mark a number of firsts for the institution.Opening September 18, the show will mark &ldquo;the first time the Guggenheim has dedicated the entire rotunda to a new body of work and to a single artist working in photography and video,&rdquo; according to a release.The exhibition, which will be accompanied by an artist book published by the Guggenheim and Hatje Cantz, has been in the works for nearly a decade an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taryn-simons-guggenheim-show-will-fill-rotunda-with-new-body-of-work-for-first-time-in-museumshistory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taryn-simons-guggenheim-show-will-fill-rotunda-with-new-body-of-work-for-first-time-in-museumshistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taryn Simon’s Guggenheim Show Will Fill Rotunda with Entirely New Body of Work for First Time in Museum’s History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Taryn Simon&rsquo;s upcoming solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York will mark a number of firsts for the institution.Opening September 18, the show will mark &ldquo;the first time the Guggenheim has dedicated the entire rotunda to a new body of work and to a single artist working in photography and video,&rdquo; according to a release.The exhibition, which will be accompanied by an artist book published by the Guggenheim and Hatje Cantz, has been in the works for nearly a decade an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taryn-simons-guggenheim-show-will-fill-rotunda-with-entirely-new-body-of-work-for-first-time-in-museumshistory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taryn-simons-guggenheim-show-will-fill-rotunda-with-entirely-new-body-of-work-for-first-time-in-museumshistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House Proposes Smallest Smithsonian Budget in Years and Cutting Full-Time Staff by 6 Percent]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has proposed the Smithsonian Institution&rsquo;s leanest budget in nearly a decade, along with staff reductions, as its campaign against the museum over its ideological direction takes an expected turn.&nbsp;For fiscal year 2027, the White House has proposed giving the Smithsonian $961.3 million in federal funding, roughly an 11 precent cut from the $1.08 billion Congress provided to it fiscal year 2026 and the institution&rsquo;s lowest proposed funding level since at l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-house-proposes-smallest-smithsonian-budget-in-years-and-cutting-full-time-staff-by-6percent/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-house-proposes-smallest-smithsonian-budget-in-years-and-cutting-full-time-staff-by-6percent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michelle Grabner Donates More Than 2,000 Artworks to Wisconsin’s Kohler Arts Center, Now the Most Comprehensive Repository of Her Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Michelle Grabner will donate more than 2,000 artworks to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, making the institution the most comprehensive repository of her work.Comprising 700 paintings, 200 sculptures, and 1,200 prints, Grabner&rsquo;s gift spans the arc of her career, so far, with pieces made in the early 1990s to ones made in the past few years. Her gift also includes 300 works from her personal art collection, amassed via a combination of trades, gift]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michelle-grabner-donates-more-than-2000-artworks-to-wisconsins-kohler-arts-center-now-the-most-comprehensive-repository-of-herwork/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michelle-grabner-donates-more-than-2000-artworks-to-wisconsins-kohler-arts-center-now-the-most-comprehensive-repository-of-herwork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NADA Miami Names 135 Exhibitors for Upcoming Edition in December]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Art Dealers Alliance has named the 135 galleries that will take part in the upcoming 2026 edition of NADA Miami, scheduled to run December 1&ndash;5 at its longtime home, the Ice Palace Studios.The fair&rsquo;s 24th edition will bring together exhibitors from 63 cities in 27 countries, with 45 of them participating for the first time. Galleries making their debut at NADA Miami including Pietro Alexander (of New York), Clauda (Prague), Forgotten Lands (Christiansted, St. Croix), Real Tins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nada-miami-names-135-exhibitors-for-upcoming-edition-indecember/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nada-miami-names-135-exhibitors-for-upcoming-edition-indecember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Venice’s Palazzo Cavanis, VCUarts Qatar Rethinks How Art and Tech Is Taught]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Dr. Michael Rao, president of Virginia Commonwealth University, made a bold statement: it&rsquo;s time to move &ldquo;beyond&rdquo; the educational model developed by Oxford University in the High Middle Ages. Rao was speaking at the opening of &ldquo;&#1571;&#1594;&#1585;&#1576; &#1573;&#1583;&#1585;&#1575;&#1603;: Aghrab Idr&#257;k: Thresholds of Perception,&rdquo; a an official Venice Biennale collateral exhibition presented by VCUarts at Palazzo Cavanis in Venice.Indeed,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-venices-palazzo-cavanis-vcuarts-qatar-rethinks-how-art-and-tech-istaught/</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-venices-palazzo-cavanis-vcuarts-qatar-rethinks-how-art-and-tech-istaught/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[6 Books We’re Looking Forward to in August]]></title><description><![CDATA[Summer reading enters its final stretch as 6 exciting new books hit the shelves in August (if you don&rsquo;t count my own!).	This month&rsquo;s offerings span the centuries, moving from Renaissance theories of vision to contemporary debates over morality, inequality, and the future of art.A new biography explores the secret lives of John Singer Sargent, the queer Gilded Age society painter whose dazzling surfaces concealed a more guarded inner world. A manifesto by the artist collective Metahav]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/6-books-were-looking-forward-to-inaugust/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/6-books-were-looking-forward-to-inaugust/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink addled private existence]]></title><description><![CDATA[With age, Auden's brilliance on the page grew ever more estranged from his unwashed, drug-and-drink addled private existence]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-age-audens-brilliance-on-the-page-grew-ever-more-estranged-from-his-unwashed-drug-and-drink-addled-private-existence/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:56:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-age-audens-brilliance-on-the-page-grew-ever-more-estranged-from-his-unwashed-drug-and-drink-addled-private-existence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we lost when we lost the video store clerk: The quirky sensibility of the movie geek has been replaced by the algorithm]]></title><description><![CDATA[What we lost when we lost the video store clerk: The quirky sensibility of the movie geek has been replaced by the algorithm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-we-lost-when-we-lost-the-video-store-clerk-the-quirky-sensibility-of-the-movie-geek-has-been-replaced-by-the-algorithm/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:56:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-we-lost-when-we-lost-the-video-store-clerk-the-quirky-sensibility-of-the-movie-geek-has-been-replaced-by-the-algorithm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Sonny Rollins was the last feral master of an art that has become at least partly domesticated"]]></title><description><![CDATA["Sonny Rollins was the last feral master of an art that has become at least partly domesticated"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sonny-rollins-was-the-last-feral-master-of-an-art-that-has-become-at-least-partly-domesticated/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:56:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sonny-rollins-was-the-last-feral-master-of-an-art-that-has-become-at-least-partly-domesticated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citing Censorship, Artist Emma Shapiro Launches Legal Challenge to Restore Instagram Account]]></title><description><![CDATA[On December 8, 2025, Instagram permanently terminated the account @nipeople, a project by artist, journalist, and activist Emma Shapiro, instantly erasing years of work and sparking a legal debate over digital freedom.The Instagram account was part of Exposure Therapy, a project begun in 2017 that aims to challenge gender-based discrimination by highlighting the ways society&rsquo;s sexualization of female-presenting bodies is reflected in various laws. Image after image of female nipples filled]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/citing-censorship-artist-emma-shapiro-launches-legal-challenge-to-restore-instagramaccount/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/citing-censorship-artist-emma-shapiro-launches-legal-challenge-to-restore-instagramaccount/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Egyptian Grave Markers Carved with Human Figures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 20 funerary stelae depicting human figures at Tell El-Deir, an archaeological site in the Nile Delta. The news was reported by multiple news outlets, including Ahram and La Br&uacute;jula Verde, following an announcement by Egypt&rsquo;s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).The carved limestone grave markers are not only notable for their workmanship but for the religious symbols and deities engraved on their lateral sides and backs, including th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-uncover-ancient-egyptian-grave-markers-carved-with-humanfigures/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-uncover-ancient-egyptian-grave-markers-carved-with-humanfigures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York Court, Dealer Yves Bouvier Seeks Sotheby’s Records as Part of New French Criminal Case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yves Bouvier is back in federal court in New York.The Swiss art dealer has asked a judge in the Southern District of New York to compel Sotheby&rsquo;s to turn over records relating to the private sale of a Pablo Picasso painting, saying the documents are needed for a criminal case he recently launched in France against French art dealer Antoine Peretti.According to court filings, Bouvier purchased Picasso&rsquo;s&nbsp;Intimit&eacute; (Femmes et Enfants)&nbsp;from Peretti in April 2024 for $7.25]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-new-york-court-dealer-yves-bouvier-seeks-sothebys-records-as-part-of-new-french-criminalcase/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-new-york-court-dealer-yves-bouvier-seeks-sothebys-records-as-part-of-new-french-criminalcase/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the Trailer for the New Thomas Crown Affair Movie, Starring Michael B. Jordan as a Notorious Art Thief]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon MGM Studios dropped this week the trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake of the acclaimed 1968 film that will open in theaters on March 5, 2027. Directed by and starring Academy Award&ndash;winning actor Michael B. Jordan, the trailer already hints at the art-related plot points for the film.	About 12 seconds into the trailer, Jordan&rsquo;s Thomas Crown faces some built-in bookshelves that slide apart to reveal a hidden room where he stores his stolen paintings. On a metal rack, r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-the-trailer-for-the-new-thomas-crown-affair-movie-starring-michael-b-jordan-as-a-notorious-artthief/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-the-trailer-for-the-new-thomas-crown-affair-movie-starring-michael-b-jordan-as-a-notorious-artthief/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business School Professors Launch AI Tool to Help Identify Unclaimed Nazi-Era Looted Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Santa Clara University in California launched an AI chatbot called AI Provenance Research. The tool is intended to enable anyone to ask questions about Nazi-looted artworks and receive answers based on information culled from a searchable, illustrated online database with over 40,000 entries. The news was recently reported by the Jewish News of Northern California.The group is made up of three business school colleagues: management professor Michael S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/business-school-professors-launch-ai-tool-to-help-identify-unclaimed-nazi-era-lootedartworks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/business-school-professors-launch-ai-tool-to-help-identify-unclaimed-nazi-era-lootedartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet Defends Smithsonian Colleague After Heated Congressional Hearing]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I was incredulous. Really?&rdquo; That was Kim Sajet&rsquo;s take when her former Smithsonian colleague, Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, was subjected to hostile questioning during a congressional hearing last week, according to a new interview with The New York Times.&ldquo;I could see that it was going to become a real witch hunt,&rdquo; she continued. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t wish that on my colleagues and I didn&rsquo;t wish that on the Smithsonian.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ex-national-portrait-gallery-director-kim-sajet-defends-smithsonian-colleague-after-heated-congressionalhearing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ex-national-portrait-gallery-director-kim-sajet-defends-smithsonian-colleague-after-heated-congressionalhearing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Investigation Finds New York Museum Misused $600,000 in Grants With Inflated Time Sheets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York State Museum in Albany has been accused of misusing $597, 624 in federal grant funds between 2020 and 2022, the Times-Union reported Wednesday.The finding resulted from a recent investigation by the US Department of the Interior&rsquo;s Office of Inspector General. The accompanying report, released in late May, found that the museum misused grants provided by the US Geological Survey, given for STATEMAP, its state geological mapping program. The grants were meant to be matched one t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-investigation-finds-new-york-museum-misused-600000-in-grants-with-inflated-timesheets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-investigation-finds-new-york-museum-misused-600000-in-grants-with-inflated-timesheets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Investigation Finds New York Museum Misused $600 K. in Grants With Inflated Time Sheets]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York State Museum in Albany has been accused of misusing $597, 624 in federal grant funds between 2020 and 2022, the Times-Union reported Wednesday.The finding resulted from a recent investigation by the US Department of the Interior&rsquo;s Office of Inspector General. The accompanying report, released in late May, found that the museum misused grants provided by the US Geological Survey, given for STATEMAP, its state geological mapping program. The grants were meant to be matched one t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-investigation-finds-new-york-museum-misused-600-k-in-grants-with-inflated-timesheets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-investigation-finds-new-york-museum-misused-600-k-in-grants-with-inflated-timesheets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kim Sajet Talks to the Times About the Smithsonian, and More: Morning Links for July 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!A new AI chatbot helps speed up provenance research for Nazi-looted artworks.The new Africa Cultural Initiative wants to build a collaborative arts infrastructure across the continent.&nbsp;San Francisco&rsquo;s Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week Returns September 30.The Headlines&nbsp;	END OF THE LINE. Gail Asper, whose family helped fund Winnipe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kim-sajet-talks-to-the-times-about-the-smithsonian-and-more-morning-links-for-july-312026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kim-sajet-talks-to-the-times-about-the-smithsonian-and-more-morning-links-for-july-312026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asked Claudia Rankine to Name One Artwork She Considers a “Revelation”]]></title><description><![CDATA[In March of this year, I flew to Los Angeles to see the literally groundbreaking exhibition &ldquo;Monuments,&rdquo; curated by Hamza Walker, Bennett Simpson, and Kara Walker and co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Brick. Because that show engaged many dialogues around the presence and removal of monuments, it had a generative impact on how I consider the role of monuments in our national lives. Once I returned to New York, I wondered what form alternative public sculpt]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-claudia-rankine-to-name-one-artwork-she-considers-a-revelation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-claudia-rankine-to-name-one-artwork-she-considers-a-revelation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Rare Winslow Homer Show Lets You Delight in the Puzzle of His Process]]></title><description><![CDATA[A taut line of rope stretches across the upper register of Winslow Homer&rsquo;s Saved (1889), an etching made during a period of experiments in printmaking he undertook in the second half of the 1880s. On view in an exhibition at Maine&rsquo;s Portland Museum of Art (PMA) dedicated to this brief but significant period, Saved is a reworking of his hit oil painting The Life Line (1884) that pares down the earlier canvas to enhance the drama of a rescue at sea. The painting included a billowing sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-rare-winslow-homer-show-lets-you-delight-in-the-puzzle-of-hisprocess/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-rare-winslow-homer-show-lets-you-delight-in-the-puzzle-of-hisprocess/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Africa Cultural Initiative Hopes to Build a Collaborative Arts Infrastructure in Africa—and for Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[For nearly a decade, Manju Journal has been establishing a vital digital archive and storytelling platform celebrating contemporary African art, fashion, photography, and the creatives shaping its future. Founded in Ghana in 2017, it has since grown into a global community. However, for founder Richmond Orlando Mensah, documenting the continent&rsquo;s thriving creative scene wasn&rsquo;t the only end goal. It has now officially transitioned into institutional work with the launch of its nonprof]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-africa-cultural-initiative-hopes-to-build-a-collaborative-arts-infrastructure-in-africaand-forafrica/</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-africa-cultural-initiative-hopes-to-build-a-collaborative-arts-infrastructure-in-africaand-forafrica/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gilberto Cárdenas, Top Collector of Latinx Art and Leading Scholar of Latino Studies, Has Died at 79]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gilberto C&aacute;rdenas, one of the country&rsquo;s top collectors of Latinx art and a leading scholar of Latino studies, died on July 26 at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 79 years old.With his wife Dolores Carrillo Garc&iacute;a, C&aacute;rdenas, a sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, built up a collection of some 20,000 of works of Chicanx and Latinx art, with an emphasis on elevating photography and prints to the same level of the other objects they amassed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gilberto-crdenas-top-collector-of-latinx-art-and-leading-scholar-of-latino-studies-has-died-at79/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gilberto-crdenas-top-collector-of-latinx-art-and-leading-scholar-of-latino-studies-has-died-at79/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Says David Nahmad May Owe Millions in Nazi-Looted Modigliani Case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just weeks after ordering billionaire art dealer David Nahmad to return a Nazi-looted Amedeo Modigliani painting, a New York judge has ruled that the painting&rsquo;s rightful heirs are also entitled to prejudgment interest, a decision that could add millions in compensation to the case.In a decision issued Tuesday, Justice Joel M. Cohen said New York law requires prejudgment interest in cases like this, meaning the heirs are entitled to compensation for the years they were deprived of&nbsp;Seat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-says-david-nahmad-may-owe-millions-in-nazi-looted-modiglianicase/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-says-david-nahmad-may-owe-millions-in-nazi-looted-modiglianicase/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two kinds of truth, two kinds of beauty, two kinds of art. One reproduces the world; the other creates it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two kinds of truth, two kinds of beauty, two kinds of art. One reproduces the world; the other creates it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-kinds-of-truth-two-kinds-of-beauty-two-kinds-of-art-one-reproduces-the-world-the-other-creates-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:52:50 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-kinds-of-truth-two-kinds-of-beauty-two-kinds-of-art-one-reproduces-the-world-the-other-creates-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/patrick-obrian-invented-his-irish-childhood-his-years-at-sea-his-very-name-his-readers-forgave-himnbsp/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:52:50 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/patrick-obrian-invented-his-irish-childhood-his-years-at-sea-his-very-name-his-readers-forgave-himnbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa spent decades exposing the seductions of ideology. Then he proved susceptible to a new one]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa spent decades exposing the seductions of ideology. Then he proved susceptible to a new one]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mario-vargas-llosa-spent-decades-exposing-the-seductions-of-ideology-then-he-proved-susceptible-to-a-new-one/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:52:50 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mario-vargas-llosa-spent-decades-exposing-the-seductions-of-ideology-then-he-proved-susceptible-to-a-new-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial Surveys of Brazil Find New Evidence of Pre-Colombian Civilization]]></title><description><![CDATA[Surveys of the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas turned up evidence of pre-Colombian civilization that thrived in southwestern Amazonia.As reported by Heritage Daily, the new findings&mdash;published in the journal Nature&mdash;include signs of hundreds of earthworks that had not previously been identified. &ldquo;The team conducted more than 4,400 kilometers of airborne LiDAR surveys over the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas. The laser-based technology, which can penetrate dense forest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aerial-surveys-of-brazil-find-new-evidence-of-pre-colombiancivilization/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aerial-surveys-of-brazil-find-new-evidence-of-pre-colombiancivilization/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A East Storehouse Workers Vote to Strike Over Working&nbsp;Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum&rsquo;s new V&amp;A East Storehouse&nbsp;have voted&nbsp;unanimously to strike in a dispute over working conditions, just weeks after the East London facility became one of the museum world&rsquo;s most closely watched new cultural attractions.&nbsp;The ballot, organized by the&nbsp;trade union Prospect, covers collections access officers who staff the museum&rsquo;s much-publicized &ldquo;Order an Object&rdquo; program, which allows visitors to book app]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-east-storehouse-workers-vote-to-strike-over-workingnbspconditions/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-east-storehouse-workers-vote-to-strike-over-workingnbspconditions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Unveils Re-gilded ‘Arts of War’ Horse Statues Near Lincoln Memorial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The four massive bronze statues that make up the &ldquo;Arts of War&rdquo; and &ldquo;Arts of Peace&rdquo; statues on roads leading to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., were looking a little long in the tooth, according to President Trump.	In April, the Department of the Interior engaged a studio in Maryland to conserve and regild the equestrian bronzes, originally unveiled in 1951, at a cost of $5.1 million. Earlier this week, President Trump posted photos on Truth Social of the project]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-unveils-re-gilded-arts-of-war-horse-statues-near-lincolnmemorial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-unveils-re-gilded-arts-of-war-horse-statues-near-lincolnmemorial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Nasher Jury, Zachary Fine Joins New Yorker, and More: Industry Moves for July 30, 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 who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art world this week:Art Critic Zachary Fine Joins the New Yorker as Contributing Writer: Fine, a postdoctoral fellow at Wesleyan University and the interim director of the school&rsquo;s Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-nasher-jury-zachary-fine-joins-new-yorker-and-more-industry-moves-for-july-302026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-nasher-jury-zachary-fine-joins-new-yorker-and-more-industry-moves-for-july-302026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cyberattack on Dresden State Art Collections Lasted Days, Authorities Reveal]]></title><description><![CDATA[German authorities have revealed new details about the January cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections, suggesting the incident was more severe than previously understood. Monopol reports that the Saxon Ministry of Justice confirmed the perpetrators remain unidentified and that investigators found the attack itself lasted several days, from January 17 to 21, when the breach was detected.&nbsp;The Dresden State Art Collections, a network of some 15 museums in eastern Germany, announced s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cyberattack-on-dresden-state-art-collections-lasted-days-authoritiesreveal/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cyberattack-on-dresden-state-art-collections-lasted-days-authoritiesreveal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix Acquires Richard Avedon Documentary for 2026 Release After Cannes Debut]]></title><description><![CDATA[Avedon, Oscar winner&nbsp;Ron Howard&rsquo;s&nbsp;documentary&nbsp;feature about the life and work of legendary photographer&nbsp;Richard Avedon, has been acquired by&nbsp;Netflix,&nbsp;The Hollywood Reporter&nbsp;has exclusively learned. The film, which had its world premiere at May&rsquo;s&nbsp;Cannes Film Festival&nbsp;and was met with raves, will be released worldwide on the streaming platform later this year, and will receive an awards push.A production of Imagine&nbsp;Documentaries&nbsp;an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/netflix-acquires-richard-avedon-documentary-for-2026-release-after-cannesdebut/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/netflix-acquires-richard-avedon-documentary-for-2026-release-after-cannesdebut/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI Executes Search on Blue-Chip Gallery That May Be Owned by Notorious Philadelphia Collector]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search at Dane Fine Art, a gallery based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. While the FBI did not say what the search was for, a spokesperson told CBS Philadelphia that it was conducting a &ldquo;court-authorized law enforcement activity.&rdquo;Victor Fiorillo, a senior reporter at Philadelphia magazine, was on the scene of the search Wednesday, reporting that he &ldquo;witnessed several FBI agents going in and out of the two-story building.&rdquo; When Fiorillo approache]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fbi-executes-search-on-blue-chip-gallery-that-may-be-owned-by-notorious-philadelphiacollector/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fbi-executes-search-on-blue-chip-gallery-that-may-be-owned-by-notorious-philadelphiacollector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Documentary About the Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, “Keeper of Trees Anywhere,” Now in Production]]></title><description><![CDATA[The late sculptor Thaddeus Mosley came to art world fame in 2018, following his inclusion in that year&rsquo;s Carnegie International. At the time, the self-taught artist was in his early 90s, having spent the past seven decades working diligently, and mostly alone, on monumental freestanding totems in his Pittsburgh studio. He died in March at 99.Filmmakers Sarah Cooper and Conny Fridh began filming Mosley in 2018, a turning point in his long, circuitous career. Their forthcoming documentary, n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/documentary-about-the-sculptor-thaddeus-mosley-keeper-of-trees-anywhere-now-inproduction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/documentary-about-the-sculptor-thaddeus-mosley-keeper-of-trees-anywhere-now-inproduction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 8,000 Feet Above Sea Level, the Aspen Art Fair Aims to Offer an Elevated Experience, With Brisk Sales, Cold Plunges, and Mountain Hikes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Ask around at the tony Hotel Jerome, in Aspen, Colorado, and you&rsquo;ll soon hear about the stories of ghosts&mdash;or, as some prefer to call them, friendly spirits. Local dealer Sam Harvey, of Harvey Preston Gallery, doesn&rsquo;t believe in such things, but even he told me on Wednesday that he enco]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-8000-feet-above-sea-level-the-aspen-art-fair-aims-to-offer-an-elevated-experience-with-brisk-sales-cold-plunges-and-mountainhikes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-8000-feet-above-sea-level-the-aspen-art-fair-aims-to-offer-an-elevated-experience-with-brisk-sales-cold-plunges-and-mountainhikes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bayeux Tapestry Has Returned to the UK for the First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years—Here’s What to Know]]></title><description><![CDATA[For almost a millennium, a spectacular visual chronicle of British history has remained on the far side of the English Channel, in Normandy. The Bayeux Tapestry&mdash;a Romanesque-style textile artwork that is 230 feet long and populated with 58 scenes, 626 characters, and 202 horses&mdash;is a masterwork long studied by scholars and even British schoolchildren, but it hasn&rsquo;t been in England since it was made.	That changed earlier this month, when it traveled to the British Museum on July]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-bayeux-tapestry-has-returned-to-the-uk-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-1000-yearsheres-what-toknow/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-bayeux-tapestry-has-returned-to-the-uk-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-1000-yearsheres-what-toknow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a Massive Oyster Installation, Artist Alan Michelson Wants to Connect New York Harbor to Its Indigenous Ancestry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before New York became a sprawling metropolis, its rolling hills, deep valleys, and tidal salt marshes were part of a larger estuarine ecosystem that was home to countless flora and fauna. This included fresh bodies of water like Collect Pond in Lower Manhattan and massive oyster beds along the harbor&rsquo;s more than 500 miles of shoreline, both cared for and relied on by the Indigenous Lenape peoples. This rich, yet often underknown history&mdash;quite literally buried beneath New York&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-a-massive-oyster-installation-artist-alan-michelson-wants-to-connect-new-york-harbor-to-its-indigenousancestry/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-a-massive-oyster-installation-artist-alan-michelson-wants-to-connect-new-york-harbor-to-its-indigenousancestry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simone Forti, Leading Figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater Scene, Has Died at 91]]></title><description><![CDATA[Simone Forti, artist, choreographer, dancer, poet, and leading figure of New York&rsquo;s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s, as well as an influential contributor to Minimalism and the Fluxus movement, has passed away in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery, Raffaella Cortese, confirmed via social media today.&ldquo;She was a beloved friend and mentor, whose immeasurable influence on contemporary art, performance, and dance spanned over sixty years,&rdquo; stated the Milan-based gallery. &ld]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/simone-forti-leading-figure-of-new-yorks-judson-dance-theater-scene-has-died-at91/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/simone-forti-leading-figure-of-new-yorks-judson-dance-theater-scene-has-died-at91/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's with the boom in biographies of people who never existed? The strange rise of a new literary genre]]></title><description><![CDATA[What's with the boom in biographies of people who never existed? The strange rise of a new literary genre]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-with-the-boom-in-biographies-of-people-who-never-existed-the-strange-rise-of-a-new-literary-genre/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:22:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whats-with-the-boom-in-biographies-of-people-who-never-existed-the-strange-rise-of-a-new-literary-genre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Chekhov the ingenious hack and Chekhov the latter-day master are connected by way of Chekhov the neighborhood observer"]]></title><description><![CDATA["Chekhov the ingenious hack and Chekhov the latter-day master are connected by way of Chekhov the neighborhood observer"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chekhov-the-ingenious-hack-and-chekhov-the-latter-day-master-are-connected-by-way-of-chekhov-the-neighborhood-observer/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:22:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chekhov-the-ingenious-hack-and-chekhov-the-latter-day-master-are-connected-by-way-of-chekhov-the-neighborhood-observer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cabbage brought nightmares, turnips brought lust, beans brought confusion. Medieval vegetables were less food than affliction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cabbage brought nightmares, turnips brought lust, beans brought confusion. Medieval vegetables were less food than affliction]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cabbage-brought-nightmares-turnips-brought-lust-beans-brought-confusion-medieval-vegetables-were-less-food-than-affliction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:22:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cabbage-brought-nightmares-turnips-brought-lust-beans-brought-confusion-medieval-vegetables-were-less-food-than-affliction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvard Art Museums Tested Out Using Generative AI to Animate 18th-Century Painting as Part of Marketing Campaign]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Harvard Art Museums, a consortium of three institutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tested out a marketing campaign aimed at increasing visitor engagement and membership that makes use of generative AI in order to animate a 18th-century painting in its collection.John Connolly, the director of marketing for the Harvard Art Museums, and Julian De Freitas, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, recently spoke about the initiative on Open Call, a podcast produced by the Harvard Bus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harvard-art-museums-tested-out-using-generative-ai-to-animate-18th-century-painting-as-part-of-marketingcampaign/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harvard-art-museums-tested-out-using-generative-ai-to-animate-18th-century-painting-as-part-of-marketingcampaign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Scientists Precisely Date Paleolithic Cave Paintings for the First Time to 13,000 Years Old]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France&rsquo;s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)Dordogne&rsquo;s V&eacute;z&egrave;re Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, is famous for its prehistoric art, which includes the paintings at Font-de-Gaume as well as those at nearby Lascaux. Accura]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-scientists-precisely-date-paleolithic-cave-paintings-for-the-first-time-to-13000-yearsold/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-scientists-precisely-date-paleolithic-cave-paintings-for-the-first-time-to-13000-yearsold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Scientists Precisely Date a Paleolithic Cave Painting for the First Time as About 13,000 Years Old]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France&rsquo;s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)Dordogne&rsquo;s V&eacute;z&egrave;re Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, is famous for its prehistoric art, which includes the paintings at Font-de-Gaume as well as those at nearby Lascaux. Accura]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-scientists-precisely-date-a-paleolithic-cave-painting-for-the-first-time-as-about-13000-yearsold/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-scientists-precisely-date-a-paleolithic-cave-painting-for-the-first-time-as-about-13000-yearsold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yoshitomo Nara’s First Show with David Zwirner Slated for October in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[After adding Yoshitomo Nara to its roster last fall, David Zwirner will present the Japanese artist&rsquo;s first show with the gallery at both of its spaces on 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan&rsquo;s Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibition, touted as Nara&rsquo;s first major solo show in New York in nearly a decade, is slated to open October 29 and will run through December 12.Nara joined Zwirner after being represented previously by Pace and Blum galleries, and said at the time, &ldquo;Now, I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yoshitomo-naras-first-show-with-david-zwirner-slated-for-october-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yoshitomo-naras-first-show-with-david-zwirner-slated-for-october-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s to Sell Monet Masterpiece From Durand-Ruel Collection in Paris]]></title><description><![CDATA[Claude Monet&rsquo;s&nbsp;Bord des falaises &agrave; Pourville (ca. 1882)&nbsp;is coming to the auction block at Christie&rsquo;s Paris this October with an estimate of &euro;11 million&ndash;&euro;15 million ($12.5 million&ndash;$17.1 million). The brightly hued landscape is leading a sale of works from the family collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, the dealer considered most responsible helped establish Impressionism as a commercial and critical success.The October 22 sale, titled&nbsp;&ldquo;Dura]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-sell-monet-masterpiece-from-durand-ruel-collection-inparis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-sell-monet-masterpiece-from-durand-ruel-collection-inparis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mayor Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Puts Art World Heavyweights in the Spotlight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will New York City&rsquo;s new pied-&agrave;-terre tax drive major art collectors from the Big Apple into the tax-friendly arms of competing cultural hubs?&nbsp;That is the question at the heart of an ongoing debate, prompted by a database published last week by the New York City Department of Finance (DOF). The list identifies numerous prominent art-world figures as potentially subject to a surcharge on multimillion-dollar second homes, know as as pied-&agrave;-terres.According to the DOF datab]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mayor-mamdanis-pied-terre-tax-puts-art-world-heavyweights-in-thespotlight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mayor-mamdanis-pied-terre-tax-puts-art-world-heavyweights-in-thespotlight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Alliance of Museums Slams Trump Administration’s Report on the Smithsonian]]></title><description><![CDATA[The White House has continued to escalate its assault on the Smithsonian Institution this week, ordering signage outside the National Museum of American History to flag what an executive order calls &ldquo;inaccurate information&rdquo; presented in its exhibits. A prominent industry group, the American Alliance of Museums, is finally hitting back.Earlier this month, the AAM released a statement condemning the Trump administration&rsquo;s attacks on the Smithsonian. In a scathing rebuke, the grou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/american-alliance-of-museums-slams-trump-administrations-report-on-thesmithsonian/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/american-alliance-of-museums-slams-trump-administrations-report-on-thesmithsonian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hankering to See Salvator Mundi? An Artist Opened a Museum of the World’s Priciest Painting in His Brooklyn Lobby]]></title><description><![CDATA[When auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen brought down the hammer on Leonardo da Vinci&rsquo;s Salvator Mundi (ca. 1500) at Christie&rsquo;s in 2017, it fetched $450.3 million, making history as the priciest work of art ever sold at a public auction. Sold as the last Leonardo in private hands, it went to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; ever since, it&rsquo;s been visible in numerous headlines and even in a documentary, but hasn&rsquo;t gone on public view.&nbsp;Well, New York&rsquo;s Salvator Mund]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hankering-to-see-salvator-mundi-an-artist-opened-a-museum-of-the-worlds-priciest-painting-in-his-brooklynlobby/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hankering-to-see-salvator-mundi-an-artist-opened-a-museum-of-the-worlds-priciest-painting-in-his-brooklynlobby/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Announces Exhibitors for Upcoming London Edition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which was founded in London in 2013 and has since expanded with satellite editions in Marrakech and New York, announced 35 exhibitors for its next edition in the British capital this fall.Scheduled for October 15&ndash;18 at Somerset House, alongside Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the fair will feature a focus on African modernists through curated booths and a 1-54 Presents&rsquo; spotlight exhibition titled &ldquo;West Wind,&rdquo; curated by the South]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-announces-exhibitors-for-upcoming-londonedition/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-announces-exhibitors-for-upcoming-londonedition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Museum Dares to Reveal What It Really Costs to Make an Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[You know it&rsquo;s going to be a different kind of group show right away: A wall decal detailing the exhibition budget greets visitors to &ldquo;Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form&rdquo; at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Shaped like a receipt but organized like a spreadsheet, it lists artists&rsquo; honoraria&mdash;a nice $25,000 for 27 artists&mdash;alongside framing ($1,100, a steal), vinyl ($1,925), and more.But the exhibition quickly expands to consider costs bey]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-museum-dares-to-reveal-what-it-really-costs-to-make-anexhibition/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-museum-dares-to-reveal-what-it-really-costs-to-make-anexhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metis Co-Founder Rebecca Fine on Why Art Lending Is Becoming a Bigger Part of Wealth Management]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the past five years, as auction sales faltered and interest rates climbed, collectors became reluctant to sell prized works into an uncertain market. The result? Loans secured by art became one of the fastest-growing corners of the art market.Banks have expanded their offerings, auction houses have&nbsp;grown their lending divisions, and a wave of independent firms has entered the market, all betting that collectors these days see their collections not just as cultural assets but as financi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metis-co-founder-rebecca-fine-on-why-art-lending-is-becoming-a-bigger-part-of-wealthmanagement/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metis-co-founder-rebecca-fine-on-why-art-lending-is-becoming-a-bigger-part-of-wealthmanagement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Accused of Whitewashing, and More: Morning Links for July 29, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!The American Alliance of Museums has slammed the Trump administration&rsquo;s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian Institution.Japan&rsquo;s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum has been accused of whitewashing the country&rsquo;s wartime past.The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will finally open its doors on December 11.The Headlines	PUSHBACK.&nbsp;The American Alliance of Museums (AAM)&nbsp;has slammed&nbsp;the Trump administration&rsquo;s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian Institution, warning t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/japans-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-museum-accused-of-whitewashing-and-more-morning-links-for-july-292026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/japans-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-museum-accused-of-whitewashing-and-more-morning-links-for-july-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 30 Best Art Museums in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by major collectors&mdash;among them Emily Wei Rales and Mitchell Rales&rsquo;s Glenstone&mdash;and the landscape becomes even more crowded.With all that in mind, the editors of ARTnews felt it was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-30-best-art-museums-in-theus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-30-best-art-museums-in-theus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seneca called it existential nausea. Medieval monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seneca called it existential nausea. Medieval monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seneca-called-it-existential-nausea-medieval-monks-called-it-the-noonday-demon-boredom-changes-names-but-always-returns/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:04:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seneca-called-it-existential-nausea-medieval-monks-called-it-the-noonday-demon-boredom-changes-names-but-always-returns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you unable to earn a living as an artist but want to make art seriously and are willing to live modestly? Get a chickenshit job]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are you unable to earn a living as an artist but want to make art seriously and are willing to live modestly? Get a chickenshit job]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-you-unable-to-earn-a-living-as-an-artist-but-want-to-make-art-seriously-and-are-willing-to-live-modestly-get-a-chickenshit-job/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:04:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-you-unable-to-earn-a-living-as-an-artist-but-want-to-make-art-seriously-and-are-willing-to-live-modestly-get-a-chickenshit-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acupuncture meridians, Ayurvedic nadis, Egyptian metu. Every tradition imagined hidden channels. Has modern science finally found them?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Acupuncture meridians, Ayurvedic nadis, Egyptian metu.&nbsp;Every tradition imagined hidden channels. Has modern science finally found them?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/acupuncture-meridians-ayurvedic-nadis-egyptian-metuevery-tradition-imagined-hidden-channels-has-modern-science-finally-found-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:04:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/acupuncture-meridians-ayurvedic-nadis-egyptian-metuevery-tradition-imagined-hidden-channels-has-modern-science-finally-found-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seneca called it existential nausea. Monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seneca called it existential nausea. Monks called it the noonday demon. Boredom changes names but always returns]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seneca-called-it-existential-nausea-monks-called-it-the-noonday-demon-boredom-changes-names-but-always-returns/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:34:18 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seneca-called-it-existential-nausea-monks-called-it-the-noonday-demon-boredom-changes-names-but-always-returns/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you unable to earn a living making art but want to do it seriously and are willing to live modestly? Get a chickenshit job]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are you unable to earn a living making art but want to do it seriously and are willing to live modestly? Get a chickenshit job]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-you-unable-to-earn-a-living-making-art-but-want-to-do-it-seriously-and-are-willing-to-live-modestly-get-a-chickenshit-job/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:34:18 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-you-unable-to-earn-a-living-making-art-but-want-to-do-it-seriously-and-are-willing-to-live-modestly-get-a-chickenshit-job/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acupuncture meridians, Ayurvedic nadis, Egyptian metu: every tradition imagined hidden channels. Has modern science finally found them?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Acupuncture meridians, Ayurvedic nadis, Egyptian metu: every tradition imagined hidden channels. Has modern science finally found them?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/acupuncture-meridians-ayurvedic-nadis-egyptian-metu-every-tradition-imagined-hidden-channels-has-modern-science-finally-found-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:34:18 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/acupuncture-meridians-ayurvedic-nadis-egyptian-metu-every-tradition-imagined-hidden-channels-has-modern-science-finally-found-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Dustin Yellin Has a Hot Take for Viral ‘Subway Takes’ Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dustin Yellin has a hot take: &ldquo;Religion should be a product of art, not art a product of religion!&rdquo;Um, sure!The multidisciplinary artist and Pioneer Works founder made the comment in a recent appearance on&nbsp;SubwayTakes, the internet talk show hosted by Kareem Rahma. In the episode, posted to Instagram Tuesday, a befuddled Rahma responds, &ldquo;100 percent disagree. Don&rsquo;t even know what the f&mdash;k you&rsquo;re talking about.&rdquo;As is perhaps to be expected from an out]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-dustin-yellin-has-a-hot-take-for-viral-subway-takesshow/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-dustin-yellin-has-a-hot-take-for-viral-subway-takesshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived — only the diminution of the magic and excitement of human writing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived &mdash; only the diminution of the magic and excitement of human writing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-wave-of-riveting-ai-writing-has-arrived-only-the-diminution-of-the-magic-and-excitement-of-human-writing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:55:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-wave-of-riveting-ai-writing-has-arrived-only-the-diminution-of-the-magic-and-excitement-of-human-writing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and George Condo Among Those Caught in Major Vancouver Real Estate Fraud Lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a new development in an ongoing fraud lawsuit against the leader of the collapsed Vancouver-based developer Coromandel Properties, whose chief executive allegedly misappropriated funds to acquire an art collection, reports The Vancouver Sun.In 2023, Junchao Mo, a Chinese seed investor and part-owner of Coromandel Properties, and his two sons, Zhao Ming &ldquo;Robert&rdquo; Mo and Zi Hao &ldquo;Calvin&rdquo; Mo, filed a lawsuit now headed to the Supreme Court of British Columbia against]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/works-by-jean-michel-basquiat-and-george-condo-among-those-caught-in-major-vancouver-real-estate-fraudlawsuit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/works-by-jean-michel-basquiat-and-george-condo-among-those-caught-in-major-vancouver-real-estate-fraudlawsuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Jury Convicts Activists Who Covered a Picasso With Image of Gazan Mother and Child at the National Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two activists affiliated with Youth Demand, a group calling for the British government to end economic trade with Israel as well as the cessation of new licenses for fossil fuels, were found guilty of criminal damage after covering a Picasso painting with an image of a mother and child in Gaza. Jai Halai, age 25, and Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, 23, were convicted by a jury over the incident at the National Gallery in London in October 2024. &nbsp;As reported by Jewish News, &ldquo;During the prote]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-jury-convicts-activists-who-covered-a-picasso-with-image-of-gazan-mother-and-child-at-the-nationalgallery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-jury-convicts-activists-who-covered-a-picasso-with-image-of-gazan-mother-and-child-at-the-nationalgallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museums, Curators, and Artists Say Goodbye to Betye Saar: ‘Thank You for the Dance’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Betye Saar died on July 26, four days before her 100th birthday, to the shock and sadness of an art world preparing to celebrate the centennial of the singular assemblage artist.	Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar spent six decades excavating the American sediments of race and politics through found objects, from the innocuous&mdash;furniture, feathers, birdcages&mdash;to the insidious. Saar&rsquo;s groundbreaking 1972 piece The Liberation of Aunt Jemima depicted the eponymous &ldquo;Mammy&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museums-curators-and-artists-say-goodbye-to-betye-saar-thank-you-for-thedance/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museums-curators-and-artists-say-goodbye-to-betye-saar-thank-you-for-thedance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Robert Lazzarini Will Unveil Works Intended for the US Pavilion This Fall in Boston]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Boston exhibition this fall will reveal works by New York&ndash;based artist Robert Lazzarini that were intended to represent the country at the hotly contested US Pavilion at the current Venice Biennale. The show, &ldquo;The New World,&rdquo; opens on September 30 at Boston&rsquo;s MassArt Museum (MAAM), at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and will allow the public to see works that employ the artist&rsquo;s trademark distortions to comment on American symbolism.&nbsp;The current]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-robert-lazzarini-will-unveil-works-intended-for-the-us-pavilion-this-fall-inboston/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-robert-lazzarini-will-unveil-works-intended-for-the-us-pavilion-this-fall-inboston/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biennale of Sydney Appoints Low Kee Hong Artistic Director of 2028 Edition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Biennale of Sydney has appointed Low Kee Hong&nbsp;artistic director of its 26th edition, which will be on view in and around the city in 2028. This year&rsquo;s Biennale, directed by Hoor Al Qasimi and titled &ldquo;Rememory,&rdquo; closed last month.&ldquo;The 2028 Biennale will&nbsp;embrace participation and discovery,&nbsp;inviting&nbsp;people from all walks of life to share in the experience. I look forward to spending time with artists, communities and cultural leaders across Australia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/biennale-of-sydney-appoints-low-kee-hongartistic-director-of-2028edition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/biennale-of-sydney-appoints-low-kee-hongartistic-director-of-2028edition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Phildelphia Museum of Art Ran a $10 M. Deficit This Past Fiscal Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The hits keep coming for the Philadelphia Museum of Art: On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the museum is suffering a growing deficit, according to preliminary documentation reviewed by the paper.For the fiscal year 2025-2026, which ended on June 30, the museum had a deficit of $10 million on a $76.5 million budget. That deficit is nearly double the $5.4 million it experienced in the previous fiscal year. And, according to the Inquirer, museum leaders expect the deficit to eithe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-phildelphia-museum-of-art-ran-a-10-m-deficit-this-past-fiscalyear/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-phildelphia-museum-of-art-ran-a-10-m-deficit-this-past-fiscalyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Sets December Opening Date]]></title><description><![CDATA[The keenly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open its doors on Saadiyat Island on December 11, the Department of Culture and Tourism-Abu Dhabi announced today. Plans for the addition to the Guggenheim network were unveiled in 2006 at an undisclosed cost, designed by the late Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry.At its opening, it will become the largest star in the Guggenheim&rsquo;s four-country museum constellation, joining the flagship in New York and outposts in Venice and Bilbao. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-abu-dhabi-sets-december-openingdate/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-abu-dhabi-sets-december-openingdate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged in Alleged Car Bomb Plot]]></title><description><![CDATA[An employee at the National Museum of Ireland has been charged with explosives offenses, according to the&nbsp;Irish Mirror,&nbsp;after Irish authorities said they intercepted a suspected car bomb near the border with Northern Ireland.Simon O&rsquo;Donovan, 44, who prosecutors identified as an employee at the National Museum&rsquo;s Collins Barracks site in Dublin, appeared before Ireland&rsquo;s Special Criminal Court on Saturday after being&nbsp;charged with possession of explosives. Authoriti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-in-alleged-car-bombplot/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-of-ireland-employee-charged-in-alleged-car-bombplot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard Arnault Hits Back at Le Monde Report Accusing Him of Being ‘In Love With the Arts and Tax Exemptions’]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a social media post, Bernard Arnault, France&rsquo;s richest man and one of Europe&rsquo;s most influential art patrons and collectors, shot back at a scathing, six-part investigation by Le Monde delving into the scope of his power, wealth, and alleged rivalries within the Arnault clan, described as &ldquo;the last royal family of France.&rdquo; The report also devotes a chapter to Arnault&rsquo;s engagement with the arts, titled: &ldquo;Bernard Arnault, the generous patron, in love with the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bernard-arnault-hits-back-at-le-monde-report-accusing-him-of-being-in-love-with-the-arts-and-tax-exemptions/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bernard-arnault-hits-back-at-le-monde-report-accusing-him-of-being-in-love-with-the-arts-and-tax-exemptions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SFMoMA Announces Recent Gifts and Purchases of Modern and Contemporary Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the purchases of more than 90 modern and contemporary artworks between January and June 2026. The purchases include videos and video installations by Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, Ana Mendieta, and Agniezka Polska; works on paper by Arakawa + Gins and Orlando Smith; sculpture and mixed-medium pieces by Betye Saar, Kishio Suga, Rose B. Simpson and Elaine Cameron-Weir; basketry by Jeremy Frey; and objects by architects Frida Escobedo, Bi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sfmoma-announces-recent-gifts-and-purchases-of-modern-and-contemporaryartworks/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sfmoma-announces-recent-gifts-and-purchases-of-modern-and-contemporaryartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betye Saar Dies at 99, Irish Museum Worker Charged in Bomb Plot, and More: Morning Links for July 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!Betye Saar has died at 99, just four days before her 100th birthday.A worker of the National Museum of Ireland has been charged in connection with a bomb plot.&nbsp;Lisbon&rsquo;s Gulbenkian Museum has reopened after a meticulous restoration.The Headlines	AN ICON GONE.&nbsp;Yesterday evening,&nbsp;news broke&nbsp;that Betye Saar, the Los Angeles&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-dies-at-99-irish-museum-worker-charged-in-bomb-plot-and-more-morning-links-for-july-282026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-dies-at-99-irish-museum-worker-charged-in-bomb-plot-and-more-morning-links-for-july-282026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is Matthew Taylor, the Artist Helping Trump Reshape Washington, D. C.?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who is Matthew Taylor, a senior adviser to the National Endowment for the Humanities and a key figure in the Trump Administration&rsquo;s efforts to reshape the nation&rsquo;s capital in the president&rsquo;s image?	Well, the New York Times&lsquo;s Zachary Small dug into the little-known, but important figure, and found that Taylor has become a kind of de facto culture czar in the White House. Taylor consulted on the July 4 report that accused the National Museum of American History of &ldquo;id]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-is-matthew-taylor-the-artist-helping-trump-reshape-washington-dc/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-is-matthew-taylor-the-artist-helping-trump-reshape-washington-dc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Czech Artist and Museum Director Milan Knížák, Once Imprisoned as an ‘Enemy of the State,’ Has Died at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Milan Kn&iacute;&#382;&aacute;k, the Czech artist and performer and a former director of the country&rsquo;s National Gallery director, died on July 26 at the age of 86. Czech culture minister Oto Klemp&iacute;&#345; announced his death on X.&nbsp;In his post, Klemp&iacute;&#345; called Kn&iacute;&#382;&aacute;k an &ldquo;author who was part of the history of modern Czech art and shaped it for decades&rdquo; and &ldquo;a personality who made a significant impact not only on the art world, but al]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/czech-artist-and-museum-director-milan-knk-once-imprisoned-as-an-enemy-of-the-state-has-died-at86/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/czech-artist-and-museum-director-milan-knk-once-imprisoned-as-an-enemy-of-the-state-has-died-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rusudan Petviashvili Channels the Divine Through the Elegance of an Unbroken Brushstroke]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrated throughout Europe for decades, the enigmatic artist and ambassador of Georgian culture is finding new acolytes worldwide.Related ArticlesBetye Saar, Pioneering Assemblage Artist Who Powerfully Tackled Racism, Dies at 99&nbsp;	Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Celtic Princess' 2,500-year-old Gold Torque From French Museum, as National Security Plan Is Launched	Many words have been used to describe the phenomenon that is Georgian artist Rusudan Petviashvili. Peers and critics have calle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rusudan-petviashvili-channels-the-divine-through-the-elegance-of-an-unbrokenbrushstroke/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rusudan-petviashvili-channels-the-divine-through-the-elegance-of-an-unbrokenbrushstroke/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/xanadu-the-home-of-tomorrow-that-promised-automation-as-liberation-was-run-on-a-house-brain-another-word-for-mother-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/xanadu-the-home-of-tomorrow-that-promised-automation-as-liberation-was-run-on-a-house-brain-another-word-for-mother-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trenchant-but-sententious-john-berger-could-sound-like-platonov-one-moment-the-next-like-alain-de-botton-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trenchant-but-sententious-john-berger-could-sound-like-platonov-one-moment-the-next-like-alain-de-botton-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nose hairs tweezed just so, and set with Krazy Glue. Gently dappled liver spots. Their art is increasingly rare, but a few morticians are hanging on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nose hairs tweezed just so, and set with Krazy Glue. Gently dappled liver spots. Their art is increasingly rare, but a few morticians are hanging on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nose-hairs-tweezed-just-so-and-set-with-krazy-glue-gently-dappled-liver-spots-their-art-is-increasingly-rare-but-a-few-morticians-are-hanging-on-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nose-hairs-tweezed-just-so-and-set-with-krazy-glue-gently-dappled-liver-spots-their-art-is-increasingly-rare-but-a-few-morticians-are-hanging-on-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-we-are-not-post-literate-the-reading-panic-is-merely-the-result-of-histrionic-op-eds-that-misdiagnose-the-erosion-of-literary-culture-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-we-are-not-post-literate-the-reading-panic-is-merely-the-result-of-histrionic-op-eds-that-misdiagnose-the-erosion-of-literary-culture-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived — only the diminishment of the magic and excitement of human writing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived &mdash; only the diminishment of the magic and excitement of human writing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-wave-of-riveting-ai-writing-has-arrived-only-the-diminishment-of-the-magic-and-excitement-of-human-writing-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-wave-of-riveting-ai-writing-has-arrived-only-the-diminishment-of-the-magic-and-excitement-of-human-writing-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Increasingly “ancient history” is not just Greco-Roman, but leads through such locales as Kerala, Tillya Tepe, and Guangzhou]]></title><description><![CDATA[Increasingly &ldquo;ancient history&rdquo; is not just Greco-Roman, but leads through such locales as Kerala, Tillya Tepe, and Guangzhou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/increasingly-ancient-history-is-not-just-greco-roman-but-leads-through-such-locales-as-kerala-tillya-tepe-and-guangzhou-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/increasingly-ancient-history-is-not-just-greco-roman-but-leads-through-such-locales-as-kerala-tillya-tepe-and-guangzhou-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who decided to grab hold of a third rail: youth gender medicine]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a provocateur,&rdquo; insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who decided to grab hold of a third rail: youth gender medicine]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/im-not-a-provocateur-insists-alex-byrne-the-mit-philosopher-who-decided-to-grab-hold-of-a-third-rail-youth-gender-medicine-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/im-not-a-provocateur-insists-alex-byrne-the-mit-philosopher-who-decided-to-grab-hold-of-a-third-rail-youth-gender-medicine-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative ]]></title><description><![CDATA[For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-some-conservatives-the-great-books-are-simply-an-anti-woke-bulwark-but-the-case-for-them-is-much-grander-and-more-provocative-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-some-conservatives-the-great-books-are-simply-an-anti-woke-bulwark-but-the-case-for-them-is-much-grander-and-more-provocative-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Durkheim called it "collective effervescence." The rest of us call it getting gussied up to drink, dance, and have fun]]></title><description><![CDATA[Durkheim called it "collective effervescence." The rest of us call it getting gussied up to drink, dance, and have fun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/durkheim-called-it-collective-effervescence-the-rest-of-us-call-it-getting-gussied-up-to-drink-dance-and-have-fun-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/durkheim-called-it-collective-effervescence-the-rest-of-us-call-it-getting-gussied-up-to-drink-dance-and-have-fun-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christopher-marlowe-alienated-skeptic-government-spy-counterfeiter-dead-at-29-shakespeares-debt-to-the-man-was-simply-inestimable-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:14:22 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christopher-marlowe-alienated-skeptic-government-spy-counterfeiter-dead-at-29-shakespeares-debt-to-the-man-was-simply-inestimable-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother]]></title><description><![CDATA[Xanadu, the "Home of Tomorrow" that promised automation as liberation, was run on a "house brain," another word for mother]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/xanadu-the-home-of-tomorrow-that-promised-automation-as-liberation-was-run-on-a-house-brain-another-word-for-mother/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:19:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/xanadu-the-home-of-tomorrow-that-promised-automation-as-liberation-was-run-on-a-house-brain-another-word-for-mother/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived — only the diminishment of the magic and excitement of human writing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[No wave of riveting AI writing has arrived &mdash; only the diminishment of the magic and excitement of human writing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-wave-of-riveting-ai-writing-has-arrived-only-the-diminishment-of-the-magic-and-excitement-of-human-writing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:19:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-wave-of-riveting-ai-writing-has-arrived-only-the-diminishment-of-the-magic-and-excitement-of-human-writing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christopher Marlowe: alienated skeptic, government spy, counterfeiter, dead at 29. Shakespeare's debt to the man was simply inestimable.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christopher-marlowe-alienated-skeptic-government-spy-counterfeiter-dead-at-29-shakespeares-debt-to-the-man-was-simply-inestimable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:19:31 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christopher-marlowe-alienated-skeptic-government-spy-counterfeiter-dead-at-29-shakespeares-debt-to-the-man-was-simply-inestimable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betye Saar, Pioneering Assemblage Artist Who Powerfully Tackled Racism, Dies at 99 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Betye Saar, the Los Angeles&ndash;based artist whose assemblages powerfully tackled the brutality of racism and anti-Blackness and the stereotypes they engender, died in her sleep in the early hours of Sunday, July 26, her gallery Robert Projects announced. She was 99 years old, and just four days shy of turning 100 on July 30.&nbsp;Across seven decades, Saar created a body of work that used a wide variety of materials&mdash;often found objects like furniture, statuettes, feathers, and more&mdas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-pioneering-assemblage-artist-who-powerfully-tackled-racism-dies-at99-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-pioneering-assemblage-artist-who-powerfully-tackled-racism-dies-at99-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betye Saar, Pioneering Assemblage Artist Who Powerfully Tackled Racism, Dies at 99 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Betye Saar, the Los Angeles&ndash;based artist whose assemblages powerfully tackled the brutality of racism and anti-Blackness and the stereotypes they engender, died in her sleep in the early hours of Sunday, July 26, her gallery Robert Projects announced. She was 99 years old, and just four days shy of turning 100 on July 30.&nbsp;Across seven decades, Saar created a body of work that used a wide variety of materials&mdash;often found objects like furniture, statuettes, feathers, and more&mdas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-pioneering-assemblage-artist-who-powerfully-tackled-racism-dies-at99/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-pioneering-assemblage-artist-who-powerfully-tackled-racism-dies-at99/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betye Saar Dead at 99—Here are 5 Places to See the Legendary Artist’s Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Sunday, legendary artist Betye Saar died at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 99,according to a publicist for Roberts Projects, the gallery that has represented Saar for years.A central figure in the Black Arts and feminist art movements of the 1960s, Saar was best known for her assemblage boxes reframing the history and legacy of racism in America, which she has sought to transform objects of hate into symbols of liberation. One of Saar&rsquo;s most famous works is her 1972 sculpture The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-dead-at-99here-are-5-places-to-see-the-legendary-artistswork-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-dead-at-99here-are-5-places-to-see-the-legendary-artistswork-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betye Saar Dead at 99—Here are 5 Places to See the Legendary Artist’s Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Sunday, legendary artist Betye Saar died at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 99,according to a publicist for Roberts Projects, the gallery that has represented Saar for years.A central figure in the Black Arts and feminist art movements of the 1960s, Saar was best known for her assemblage boxes reframing the history and legacy of racism in America, which she has sought to transform objects of hate into symbols of liberation. One of Saar&rsquo;s most famous works is her 1972 sculpture The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-dead-at-99here-are-5-places-to-see-the-legendary-artistswork/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/betye-saar-dead-at-99here-are-5-places-to-see-the-legendary-artistswork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Celtic Princess’ 2,500-year-old Gold Torque From French Museum, as National Security Plan Is Launched]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French government has announced the implementation of a national museum and monument security plan, after investigators arrested and detained a suspect in connection with Friday&rsquo;s theft of a Celtic princess&rsquo;s golden necklace from a museum in Burgundy, reported Le Figaro.The 10:30 am robbery on July 24 has shocked France&rsquo;s museum world, because the stolen 2,500-year-old, 24-karat golden torque from the Vix Treasure archaeological site was a unique example of Celtic life in t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/police-arrest-suspect-in-theft-of-celtic-princess-2500-year-old-gold-torque-from-french-museum-as-national-security-plan-islaunched-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/police-arrest-suspect-in-theft-of-celtic-princess-2500-year-old-gold-torque-from-french-museum-as-national-security-plan-islaunched-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Celtic Princess’ 2,500-year-old Gold Torque From French Museum, as National Security Plan Is Launched]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French government has announced the implementation of a national museum and monument security plan, after investigators arrested and detained a suspect in connection with Friday&rsquo;s theft of a Celtic princess&rsquo;s golden necklace from a museum in Burgundy, reported Le Figaro.The 10:30 am robbery on July 24 has shocked France&rsquo;s museum world, because the stolen 2,500-year-old, 24-karat golden torque from the Vix Treasure archaeological site was a unique example of Celtic life in t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/police-arrest-suspect-in-theft-of-celtic-princess-2500-year-old-gold-torque-from-french-museum-as-national-security-plan-islaunched/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/police-arrest-suspect-in-theft-of-celtic-princess-2500-year-old-gold-torque-from-french-museum-as-national-security-plan-islaunched/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spencer Tunick’s Latest Nude Action Celebrates Pride in the Canary Islands]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Sunday July 26, the photographer Spencer Tunick organized one of the large-scale nude happenings for which he has become known over the past several decades. Tunick&rsquo;s latest eye-catching gathering took place in Las Palmas, the capital city of Gran Canaria, one of Spain&rsquo;s Canary Islands.The one-day &ldquo;collective art action&rdquo; was called Gran Spectrum, and according to El Pais, it involved around 400&ndash;500 participants. Unlike most of Tunick&rsquo;s previous actions, in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spencer-tunicks-latest-nude-action-celebrates-pride-in-the-canaryislands-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spencer-tunicks-latest-nude-action-celebrates-pride-in-the-canaryislands-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spencer Tunick’s Latest Nude Action Celebrates Pride in the Canary Islands]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Sunday July 26, the photographer Spencer Tunick organized one of the large-scale nude happenings for which he has become known over the past several decades. Tunick&rsquo;s latest eye-catching gathering took place in Las Palmas, the capital city of Gran Canaria, one of Spain&rsquo;s Canary Islands.The one-day &ldquo;collective art action&rdquo; was called Gran Spectrum, and according to El Pais, it involved around 400&ndash;500 participants. Unlike most of Tunick&rsquo;s previous actions, in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spencer-tunicks-latest-nude-action-celebrates-pride-in-the-canaryislands/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spencer-tunicks-latest-nude-action-celebrates-pride-in-the-canaryislands/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNESCO Adds Contested West Bank Archaeological Site, Lebanese Castles to World Heritage List]]></title><description><![CDATA[A UNESCO committee voted on Friday to add an archaeological site in the occupied West Bank and a complex of castles in southern Lebanon to its World Heritage List and List of World Heritage in Danger, despite objections from Israel.The vote took place at a meeting of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Busan, South Korea, as Israel&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry urged the committee to reject calls to inscribe the West Bank town of Sebastia and five castles in Lebanon&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unesco-adds-contested-west-bank-archaeological-site-lebanese-castles-to-world-heritagelist-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unesco-adds-contested-west-bank-archaeological-site-lebanese-castles-to-world-heritagelist-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNESCO Adds Contested West Bank Archaeological Site, Lebanese Castles to World Heritage List]]></title><description><![CDATA[A UNESCO committee voted on Friday to add an archaeological site in the occupied West Bank and a complex of castles in southern Lebanon to its World Heritage List and List of World Heritage in Danger, despite objections from Israel.The vote took place at a meeting of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Busan, South Korea, as Israel&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry urged the committee to reject calls to inscribe the West Bank town of Sebastia and five castles in Lebanon&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unesco-adds-contested-west-bank-archaeological-site-lebanese-castles-to-world-heritagelist/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unesco-adds-contested-west-bank-archaeological-site-lebanese-castles-to-world-heritagelist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ADAA Fair Names 63 Exhibitors for Inaugural Rebranded Edition in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has named the 63 galleries that will participate in its upcoming New York fair, recently rebranded the ADAA Fair.The fair returns to its longtime home of the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side, though will a few key changes. It will run a couple weeks later than usual, from November 13&ndash;16, to coincide with Art Week NYC, a new four-day week program initiated by ARTnews and Art in America. Its preview gala on November 12 will now benefit t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adaa-fair-names-63-exhibitors-for-inaugural-rebranded-edition-innovember-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adaa-fair-names-63-exhibitors-for-inaugural-rebranded-edition-innovember-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ADAA Fair Names 63 Exhibitors for Inaugural Rebranded Edition in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has named the 63 galleries that will participate in its upcoming New York fair, recently rebranded the ADAA Fair.The fair returns to its longtime home of the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side, though will a few key changes. It will run a couple weeks later than usual, from November 13&ndash;16, to coincide with Art Week NYC, a new four-day week program initiated by ARTnews and Art in America. Its preview gala on November 12 will now benefit t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adaa-fair-names-63-exhibitors-for-inaugural-rebranded-edition-innovember/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adaa-fair-names-63-exhibitors-for-inaugural-rebranded-edition-innovember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Map Buried Sacred Precinct of Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan Under Mexico City]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Mexico&rsquo;s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)&nbsp;finished a holistic survey of an area beneath Mexico City&rsquo;s Centro Historico that long ago served as the home of the sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.As reported by Heritage Daily, the project undertaken as part of INAH&rsquo;s Urban Archaeology Program to identify buried pre-Hispanic structures beneath the city&rsquo;s streets is &ldquo;expected to improve the protection of archaeol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-map-buried-sacred-precinct-of-aztec-capital-tenochtitlan-under-mexicocity-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-map-buried-sacred-precinct-of-aztec-capital-tenochtitlan-under-mexicocity-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Map Buried Sacred Precinct of Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan Under Mexico City]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Mexico&rsquo;s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH)&nbsp;finished a holistic survey of an area beneath Mexico City&rsquo;s Centro Historico that long ago served as the home of the sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.As reported by Heritage Daily, the project undertaken as part of INAH&rsquo;s Urban Archaeology Program to identify buried pre-Hispanic structures beneath the city&rsquo;s streets is &ldquo;expected to improve the protection of archaeol]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-map-buried-sacred-precinct-of-aztec-capital-tenochtitlan-under-mexicocity/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-map-buried-sacred-precinct-of-aztec-capital-tenochtitlan-under-mexicocity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Workers Ballot for Strike Over Pay, Heatwave&nbsp;Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 300 workers across London&rsquo;s Victoria and Albert Museum are voting on whether to strike over salary, working conditions, and what unions describe as unsafe heatwave policies.According to the&nbsp;Guardian,&nbsp;the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union launched the ballot on July 23, covering employees at the V&amp;A&rsquo;s flagship South Kensington museum, Young V&amp;A in Bethnal Green, and the V&amp;A East Museum and Storehouse in Stratford. The union said soaring tempera]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-ballot-for-strike-over-pay-heatwavenbspconditions-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-ballot-for-strike-over-pay-heatwavenbspconditions-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Workers Ballot for Strike Over Pay, Heatwave&nbsp;Conditions]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 300 workers across London&rsquo;s Victoria and Albert Museum are voting on whether to strike over salary, working conditions, and what unions describe as unsafe heatwave policies.According to the&nbsp;Guardian,&nbsp;the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union launched the ballot on July 23, covering employees at the V&amp;A&rsquo;s flagship South Kensington museum, Young V&amp;A in Bethnal Green, and the V&amp;A East Museum and Storehouse in Stratford. The union said soaring tempera]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-ballot-for-strike-over-pay-heatwavenbspconditions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-workers-ballot-for-strike-over-pay-heatwavenbspconditions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detroit Institute of Arts Receives Gift of More Than 2,000 Modern and Contemporary Artworks from Silverman Estate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Detroit Institute of Arts has received one of the largest gifts in its history: more than 2,000 modern and contemporary artworks from the estate of Detroit collectors Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman. The donation, which includes nearly 500 artists, will begin going on public view in November when the museum reopens its newly renovated Modern and Contemporary Art galleries.&nbsp;The gift expands the museum&rsquo;s holdings across six curatorial departments, including modern and contemporary art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/detroit-institute-of-arts-receives-gift-of-more-than-2000-modern-and-contemporary-artworks-from-silvermanestate-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/detroit-institute-of-arts-receives-gift-of-more-than-2000-modern-and-contemporary-artworks-from-silvermanestate-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detroit Institute of Arts Receives Gift of More Than 2,000 Modern and Contemporary Artworks from Silverman Estate]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Detroit Institute of Arts has received one of the largest gifts in its history: more than 2,000 modern and contemporary artworks from the estate of Detroit collectors Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman. The donation, which includes nearly 500 artists, will begin going on public view in November when the museum reopens its newly renovated Modern and Contemporary Art galleries.&nbsp;The gift expands the museum&rsquo;s holdings across six curatorial departments, including modern and contemporary art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/detroit-institute-of-arts-receives-gift-of-more-than-2000-modern-and-contemporary-artworks-from-silvermanestate/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/detroit-institute-of-arts-receives-gift-of-more-than-2000-modern-and-contemporary-artworks-from-silvermanestate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possible Strike at the V&amp;A Museum, a New American Pride-Focused Art Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for July 27,&nbsp;2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!Staffers at London&rsquo;s V&amp;A Museum are voting on possible &ldquo;heatwave&rdquo; strike action.A Vancouver real-estate collapse has exposed an alleged art-fraud dispute involving artworks worth almost $5 million.A new Art in Embassies exhibition is set to open in Washington, D.C.The HeadlinesGET OUT OF THE KITCHEN.&nbsp;Staffers at London&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/possible-strike-at-the-vampa-museum-a-new-american-pride-focused-art-exhibition-in-dc-and-more-morning-links-for-july-27nbsp2026-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/possible-strike-at-the-vampa-museum-a-new-american-pride-focused-art-exhibition-in-dc-and-more-morning-links-for-july-27nbsp2026-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possible Strike at the V&amp;A Museum, a New American Pride-Focused Art Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for July 27,&nbsp;2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!Staffers at London&rsquo;s V&amp;A Museum are voting on possible &ldquo;heatwave&rdquo; strike action.A Vancouver real-estate collapse has exposed an alleged art-fraud dispute involving artworks worth almost $5 million.A new Art in Embassies exhibition is set to open in Washington, D.C.The HeadlinesGET OUT OF THE KITCHEN.&nbsp;Staffers at London&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/possible-strike-at-the-vampa-museum-a-new-american-pride-focused-art-exhibition-in-dc-and-more-morning-links-for-july-27nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/possible-strike-at-the-vampa-museum-a-new-american-pride-focused-art-exhibition-in-dc-and-more-morning-links-for-july-27nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malta International Contemporary Art Space is at the Forefront of the Country’s Burgeoning Art Scene]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an island-nation known for its rich cultural heritage, MICAS is shaping Malta into a contemporary art hub with its world-class program of exhibitions.Related ArticlesPossible Strike at the V&amp;A Museum, a New American Pride-Focused Art Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for July 27, 2026	Thieves Snatch 2,500-Year-Old Celtic Gold Torque from French Museum in Broad Daylight	Situated in the Mediterranean between Italy and North Africa, the island of Malta is known for its 5,000-year-old]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malta-international-contemporary-art-space-is-at-the-forefront-of-the-countrys-burgeoning-artscene/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malta-international-contemporary-art-space-is-at-the-forefront-of-the-countrys-burgeoning-artscene/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who decided to grab hold of a third rail: youth gender medicine]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a provocateur,&rdquo; insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who decided to grab hold of a third rail: youth gender medicine]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/im-not-a-provocateur-insists-alex-byrne-the-mit-philosopher-who-decided-to-grab-hold-of-a-third-rail-youth-gender-medicine/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:46:27 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/im-not-a-provocateur-insists-alex-byrne-the-mit-philosopher-who-decided-to-grab-hold-of-a-third-rail-youth-gender-medicine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thieves Snatch 2,500-Year-Old Celtic Gold Torque from French Museum in Broad Daylight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 2,500-year-old gold collar belonging to the Vix Treasure archaeological find was stolen Friday in broad daylight from a French museum, according to reports in Le Parisien and France 3.The thieves allegedly entered the Mus&eacute;e du Pays Ch&acirc;tillonnais &ndash; Tr&eacute;sor de Vix in Ch&acirc;tillon-sur-Seine, Burgundy, around 10:30 a.m. on July 24 by paying the admission fee, acting as regular visitors to the museum. Dijon prosecutor Olivier Caracotch said in a statement to Le Parisien]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thieves-snatch-2500-year-old-celtic-gold-torque-from-french-museum-in-broaddaylight/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thieves-snatch-2500-year-old-celtic-gold-torque-from-french-museum-in-broaddaylight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archie Rand’s Landmark Letter Paintings Acquired by Italy’s Modena FC Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, Archie Rand&rsquo;s&nbsp;&ldquo;Letter Paintings&rdquo; series&nbsp;has been something of a cult favorite among painters and critics. Now, 44 of them are heading to an unlikely home: the corporate collection of Italy&rsquo;s Modena FC.New York&ndash;based gallery Jarvis Art announced this week that the Italian football club has acquired the group of paintings, which Rand made between 1968 and 1971 while still a teenager. The series was shown in 1983 at the Museum of the Carnegie Ins]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archie-rands-landmarkletter-paintingsacquired-by-italys-modena-fccollection/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archie-rands-landmarkletter-paintingsacquired-by-italys-modena-fccollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Trump Orders Signs Installed Outside Smithsonian Warning Public of ‘Inaccurate Information’]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump escalated his battle with the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Museum of American History Friday, ordering signage outside the institution to flag what an executive order calls &ldquo;inaccurate information&rdquo; presented in its exhibits.The extraordinary directive comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny of the Smithsonian branch, which was the subject of a recent 162-page report accusing its director, Anthea M. Hartig, of replacing &ldquo;historical education&rdquo; wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/president-trump-orders-signs-installed-outside-smithsonian-warning-public-of-inaccurate-information/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/president-trump-orders-signs-installed-outside-smithsonian-warning-public-of-inaccurate-information/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten in French Customs for Decades, a Chagall Finds New Home in Museum Near Swiss Border]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, French customs near the Swiss border gifted an artwork by Marc Chagall to a nearby museum in France, after it had been languishing in bureaucratic purgatory, forgotten on a warehouse shelf for over 20 years, reported ICI Besan&ccedil;on.In 2006, French authorities stopped a truck carrying artworks from France into Switzerland, and seized an etching by Chagall, along with a 1959 drawing by modern sculptor and painter Ossip Zadkine, because they lacked required certificates for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/forgotten-in-french-customs-for-decades-a-chagall-finds-new-home-in-museum-near-swissborder/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/forgotten-in-french-customs-for-decades-a-chagall-finds-new-home-in-museum-near-swissborder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself to be Guerrilla Girl Lydia Popova]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joyce Kozloff, the renowned Pattern and Decoration artist and founder of the feminist magazine Heresies (1977&ndash;93), has revealed herself to be a founding member of the feminist action group Guerrilla Girls. She made the disclosure in an interview published July 22 in Art Journal Open.The Guerrilla Girls collective was formed in 1984 in response to the exhibition &ldquo;International Survey of Painting and Sculpture&rdquo; at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which included the work of 1]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-joyce-kozloff-reveals-herself-to-be-guerrilla-girl-lydiapopova/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-joyce-kozloff-reveals-herself-to-be-guerrilla-girl-lydiapopova/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Joyce Kosloff Reveals Herself to be Guerrilla Girl Lydia Popova]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joyce Kozloff, the renowned Pattern and Decoration artist and founder of the feminist magazine Heresies (1977&ndash;93), has revealed herself to be a founding member of the feminist action group Guerrilla Girls. She made the disclosure in an interview published July 22 in Art Journal Open.The Guerrilla Girls collective was formed in 1984 in response to the exhibition &ldquo;International Survey of Painting and Sculpture&rdquo; at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which included the work of 1]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-joyce-kosloff-reveals-herself-to-be-guerrilla-girl-lydiapopova/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-joyce-kosloff-reveals-herself-to-be-guerrilla-girl-lydiapopova/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trenchant-but-sententious-john-berger-could-sound-like-platonov-one-moment-the-next-like-alain-de-botton/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:10:27 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trenchant-but-sententious-john-berger-could-sound-like-platonov-one-moment-the-next-like-alain-de-botton/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Increasingly “ancient history” is not just Greco-Roman, but leads through such locales as Kerala, Tillya Tepe, and Guangzhou]]></title><description><![CDATA[Increasingly &ldquo;ancient history&rdquo; is not just Greco-Roman, but leads through such locales as Kerala, Tillya Tepe, and Guangzhou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/increasingly-ancient-history-is-not-just-greco-roman-but-leads-through-such-locales-as-kerala-tillya-tepe-and-guangzhou/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:10:27 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/increasingly-ancient-history-is-not-just-greco-roman-but-leads-through-such-locales-as-kerala-tillya-tepe-and-guangzhou/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a provocateur,&rdquo; insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/im-not-a-provocateur-insists-alex-byrne-the-mit-philosopher-who-helped-author-a-report-for-the-trump-administration-on-youth-gender-medicine/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:10:27 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/im-not-a-provocateur-insists-alex-byrne-the-mit-philosopher-who-helped-author-a-report-for-the-trump-administration-on-youth-gender-medicine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BBC Series ‘Fake or Fortune?’  Discovers ‘Enormously Important’ Katherine Read Painting]]></title><description><![CDATA[An episode of the BBC One documentary series Fake or Fortune? that aired on July 23 confirmed that a previously unattributed artwork was in fact painted by the 18th century Scottish artist Katherine Read. The painting belongs to Mary-Louise Wedderburn, a retired accountant who inherited it from her uncle 20 years ago.Wedderburn presented the gold-framed painting&mdash;a portrait of a young Indian woman with a languid expression, wearing several strands of pearl necklaces and a large emerald pend]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bbc-series-fake-or-fortune-discovers-enormously-important-katherine-readpainting/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bbc-series-fake-or-fortune-discovers-enormously-important-katherine-readpainting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buffalo AKG Promotes Two of Its Own to Co-Lead Art Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following the departure of Buffalo AKG Art Museum director Janne Sir&eacute;n in October, after 13 years on the job, the Upstate New York modern and contemporary art museum is turning inward for its future leaders. Today, it announced the appointment of the museum&rsquo;s current chief curator, Cathleen Chaffee, as the new artistic director, alongside the promotion of its deputy director, Jillian Jones, to become the next executive director. Both will start in their new roles on November 1.&ldqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/buffalo-akg-promotes-two-of-its-own-to-co-lead-artmuseum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/buffalo-akg-promotes-two-of-its-own-to-co-lead-artmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversial Gelman Collection to Inaugurate Spain’s New Faro Santander in September]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Banco Santander Foundation announced September 8 as the new opening date for its forthcoming art center, the Faro Santander. The news was first reported by El Pa&iacute;s.The space&rsquo;s three inaugural shows include a Leonora Carrington solo, an exhibition looking at the Banco Santander&rsquo;s previously unseen collection of masterpieces, and &ldquo;Modern Mexico in the Gelman Santander Collection,&rdquo; drawing from the holdings of the Gelman Collection, which has been mired in controv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/controversial-gelman-collection-to-inaugurate-spains-new-faro-santander-inseptember/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/controversial-gelman-collection-to-inaugurate-spains-new-faro-santander-inseptember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale President Calls EU Withdrawal of Funding Over Russia ‘Entirely Political, Certainly Not Legal’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale will not exclude Russia from its events due to political pressure, the foundation&rsquo;s president said Thursday in a public address criticizing the European Union&rsquo;s recent confirmation that it will suspend a &euro;2 million ($2.3 million) grant. The withdrawal of funding was made in response to Russia&rsquo;s participation in this year&rsquo;s Biennale for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.During the opening of the 2026 Venice Film Festiv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-president-calls-eu-withdrawal-of-funding-over-russia-entirely-political-certainly-notlegal/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-president-calls-eu-withdrawal-of-funding-over-russia-entirely-political-certainly-notlegal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Reveals Inaugural Film Program, Including Busby Berkeley Fantasias and Avant-Garde Shorts]]></title><description><![CDATA[As previews continue in advance of showtime upon its opening on September 22, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles&mdash;the starry institution conceived by director George Lucas and his wife Melody Hobson&mdash;announced its inaugural film program at San Diego Comic Con.In a panel discussion featuring Lucas Museum senior curator and head of film programs Ryan Linkof alongside DC Comics CEO Jim Lee, actress Keke Palmer, and two founders of ConStoopid Buddy Stoodios, news dropped for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-reveals-inaugural-film-program-including-busby-berkeley-fantasias-and-avant-gardeshorts/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-reveals-inaugural-film-program-including-busby-berkeley-fantasias-and-avant-gardeshorts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal Disputes Claim It Left Replica Viking Ship Used in ‘The Odyssey’ Damaged]]></title><description><![CDATA[The replica Viking ship used in Christopher Nolan&rsquo;s blockbuster&nbsp;The Odyssey&nbsp;has become the subject of a dispute between its Swedish owners and Universal Pictures over who should pay for repairs after filming.&nbsp;The nonprofit V&auml;rmlands Vikingacenter says its 17.5-meter replica warship,&nbsp;Glad av Gillberga, returned from production in need of repairs including a cracked hull and damaged rigging. According to&nbsp;The New York Times, the organization invoiced Universal ro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/universal-disputes-claim-it-left-replica-viking-ship-used-in-the-odysseydamaged/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/universal-disputes-claim-it-left-replica-viking-ship-used-in-the-odysseydamaged/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museo Nacional del Ecuador Selects an Architect for Quito, Chelsea Set to Get a New Gallery this Art Week: Morning Links for July 24, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!How will Jessica Morgan transform Tate? Expect more adventurous shows, greater accountability, and stronger connections with artists.A new design by Japanese architecture firm SANAA has been selected for the Museo Nacional del Ecuador&rsquo;s $100 million new home.A replica Viking ship from Christopher Nolan&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Odyssey&nbsp;is embroiled in a payment dispute, with its owner alleging that Universal failed to cover damage costs. Universal denies the claim.THE HEADLINES	BI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museo-nacional-del-ecuador-selects-an-architect-for-quito-chelsea-set-to-get-a-new-gallery-this-art-week-morning-links-for-july-242026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museo-nacional-del-ecuador-selects-an-architect-for-quito-chelsea-set-to-get-a-new-gallery-this-art-week-morning-links-for-july-242026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bard’s Betty Parsons Retrospective Is a Revelation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Betty Parsons&rsquo;s importance in postwar American art history as a fearless, groundbreaking art dealer is indisputable. Within a year after she opened her eponymous gallery in 1946, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still had all signed with her. Remarkable as this beginning was, her importance as a champion of unknown artists does not end there. Parsons gave first shows to Forrest Bess in 1949, followed by Robert Rauschenberg in 1951, Kenzo Okada in 195]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bards-betty-parsons-retrospective-is-arevelation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bards-betty-parsons-retrospective-is-arevelation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Ways to Celebrate Betye Saar’s 100th Birthday]]></title><description><![CDATA[On July 30, legendary artist Betye Saar will celebrate her 100th birthday. A central figure in the Black Arts and feminist art movements of the 1960s, she is best known for her assemblage boxes reframing the history and legacy of racism in America, which she has sought to transform objects of hate into symbols of liberation. One of Saar&rsquo;s most famous works is her 1972 sculpture The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, in which an Aunt Jemima figurine is armed with a small broom and a tiny rifle.&ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-ways-to-celebrate-betye-saars-100thbirthday/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-ways-to-celebrate-betye-saars-100thbirthday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nose hairs tweezed just so, and set with Krazy Glue. Gently dappled liver spots. Their art is increasingly rare, but a few morticians are hanging on]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nose hairs tweezed just so, and set with Krazy Glue. Gently dappled liver spots. Their art is increasingly rare, but a few morticians are hanging on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nose-hairs-tweezed-just-so-and-set-with-krazy-glue-gently-dappled-liver-spots-their-art-is-increasingly-rare-but-a-few-morticians-are-hanging-on/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:48:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nose-hairs-tweezed-just-so-and-set-with-krazy-glue-gently-dappled-liver-spots-their-art-is-increasingly-rare-but-a-few-morticians-are-hanging-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-we-are-not-post-literate-the-reading-panic-is-merely-the-result-of-histrionic-op-eds-that-misdiagnose-the-erosion-of-literary-culture/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:48:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/no-we-are-not-post-literate-the-reading-panic-is-merely-the-result-of-histrionic-op-eds-that-misdiagnose-the-erosion-of-literary-culture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Durkheim called it "collective effervescence." The rest of us call it getting gussied up to drink, dance, and have fun]]></title><description><![CDATA[Durkheim called it "collective effervescence." The rest of us call it getting gussied up to drink, dance, and have fun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/durkheim-called-it-collective-effervescence-the-rest-of-us-call-it-getting-gussied-up-to-drink-dance-and-have-fun/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:48:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/durkheim-called-it-collective-effervescence-the-rest-of-us-call-it-getting-gussied-up-to-drink-dance-and-have-fun/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Korean Museum Returns Two Qing Dynasty Lion Sculptures to China]]></title><description><![CDATA[On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul hosted a ceremony to mark the return of two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China. According to a report in the South Korean publication Yonhap News Agency, the ceremony was attended by Chun In-keon, director of the Kansong Art Museum, You Hong-june, director of the National Museum of Korea, Dai Bing, the Chinese ambassador to South Korea, and Rao Quan, head of China&rsquo;s National Cultural Heritage Administration. The lions&rsquo; return had b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-korean-museum-returns-two-qing-dynasty-lion-sculptures-tochina/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-korean-museum-returns-two-qing-dynasty-lion-sculptures-tochina/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci May Become the Face of Future Euro Banknotes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Could Leonardo da Vinci, alongside imagery of visitors strolling through art exhibitions, become the face of future euro banknotes?In a first, Europeans can now help decide how they want to pay for their Belgian chocolate and French cheese: with bills printed in designs depicting either &ldquo;European culture&rdquo; or &ldquo;Rivers and birds,&rdquo; announced the European Central Bank (ECB) today. Not too shabby. The bank has revealed 10 shortlisted finalists of an international competition fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leonardo-da-vinci-may-become-the-face-of-future-eurobanknotes/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leonardo-da-vinci-may-become-the-face-of-future-eurobanknotes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FBI Returns Looted Cultural Artifacts to Indonesia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States has repatriated a collection of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia, according to a report by the Associated Press. The handover took place July 22 at a meeting between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel in Jakarta.The returned items, from Indonesia&rsquo;s Papua region, are part of the cultural heritage of the Dani and Asmat tribes and Lake Sentani communities, said Indonesia&rsquo;s culture minister Fadi Zon. They were repatriated through coo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fbi-returns-looted-cultural-artifacts-toindonesia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fbi-returns-looted-cultural-artifacts-toindonesia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Knicks Championship Trophy Is Heading to the American Museum of Natural History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Missed a golden glimpse of the first Knicks&rsquo; championship trophy in 53 years, as it made its victory lap through Manhattan? Never fear, New York: Get yourself to the American Museum of Natural History starting Monday, where the Larry O&rsquo;Brien Trophy will be on display through January 3.The Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs on June 13, crowning a spectacular comeback season and ending a two generation-spanning dignity drought for New York City. And so commenced a literally explosive we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-knicks-championship-trophy-is-heading-to-the-american-museum-of-naturalhistory/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-knicks-championship-trophy-is-heading-to-the-american-museum-of-naturalhistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restoration of Fire-Ravaged Glasgow School of Art May Be Too Expensive]]></title><description><![CDATA[The future of the architecturally illustrious centerpiece of the Glasgow School of Art&mdash;designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in stages between 1899 and 1909&mdash;is uncertain after the school said planned renovation work following two fires is too expensive to undertake on its own.After a fire in 2014, actors Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi led a fundraising drive to restore the building. But another blaze in 2018 did further damage that was deemed &ldquo;exceptionally significa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/restoration-of-fire-ravaged-glasgow-school-of-art-may-be-tooexpensive/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/restoration-of-fire-ravaged-glasgow-school-of-art-may-be-tooexpensive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made in L.A. 2027 to Be Curated by Hammer Chief Curator Michael Wellen and MOCA’s José Luis Blondet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has named the two curators for the next edition of its closely watched Made in L.A. biennial: Michael Wellen and Jos&eacute; Luis Blondet. Their edition, the eighth overall, will open in the fall 2027.Wellen is the recently appointed chief curator of the Hammer, who officially joined the museum in April from Tate Modern. Blondet has been senior curator at LA&rsquo;s Museum of Contemporary Art since 2023, and previously worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/made-in-la-2027-to-be-curated-by-hammer-chief-curator-michael-wellen-and-mocas-jos-luisblondet/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/made-in-la-2027-to-be-curated-by-hammer-chief-curator-michael-wellen-and-mocas-jos-luisblondet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead: "It is everywhere.&rdquo; He had a point]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead: "It is everywhere.&rdquo; He had a point]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1994-stanley-fish-described-deconstruction-as-dead-in-the-same-way-that-freudianism-is-dead-it-is-everywhererdquo-he-had-a-point-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:03:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1994-stanley-fish-described-deconstruction-as-dead-in-the-same-way-that-freudianism-is-dead-it-is-everywhererdquo-he-had-a-point-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco Art School Renamed for Silicon Valley Tycoon, New Tate Director Takes Big Pay Cut: Morning Links for July 23, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Vanderbilt University to keep art at the heart of the former California College of the Arts campus after a $75 million gift from Jensen and Lori Huang.A new study argues that art-world inequality is shaped by institutional networks, not just representation.Ex-Dia director Jessica Morgan is taking a $500,000 pay cut to take the reins at London&rsquo;s Tate.&nbsp;The Headlines	CCA HUANGING ON.&nbsp;Nvidia&nbsp;founder&nbsp;Jensen Huang&nbsp;is making waves in the art world. Just days]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/san-francisco-art-school-renamed-for-silicon-valley-tycoon-new-tate-director-takes-big-pay-cut-morning-links-for-july-232026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/san-francisco-art-school-renamed-for-silicon-valley-tycoon-new-tate-director-takes-big-pay-cut-morning-links-for-july-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connecticut Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty in $2.1 M. Theft Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Connecticut antiques dealer and auction house owner pleaded guilty to a federal money laundering charge Tuesday, according to the US Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the District of Connecticut, which alleges that the theft totaled some $2.1 million.According to the plea deal, David L. Johnson, a 66-year-old resident of Greenwich who operated the Stamford-based businesses Antique Treasures and Greenwich Auction, &ldquo;participated in a scheme to defraud W.L.,&rdquo; whom the government identifies]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/connecticut-antiques-dealer-pleads-guilty-in-21-m-theftscheme/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/connecticut-antiques-dealer-pleads-guilty-in-21-m-theftscheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauren Oyler on Florentina Holzinger, Watermill Center’s New Advisory Council, and More: Industry Moves for July 23, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Happy Thursday! Here&rsquo;s who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art world this week.Jessica Morgan Appointed Director of Tate:The British curator, currently director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York,&nbsp;will succeed&nbsp;Maria Balshaw at the helm of the Tate network, which oversees Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives.Watermill Center Announces New Creative and Advisory Councils:&nbsp;The Long Island institution established the bodies to guide its next chapter fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lauren-oyler-on-florentina-holzinger-watermill-centers-new-advisory-council-and-more-industry-moves-for-july-232026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lauren-oyler-on-florentina-holzinger-watermill-centers-new-advisory-council-and-more-industry-moves-for-july-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track Down Hundreds of WWII-era Looted Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you seen a middle-aged man sporting an 18th-century, white, powdered wig, a nobleman&rsquo;s fine clothes, and a gentle, open smile? If so, you may have come upon a certain Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, a French engraver, designer, and art critic, who worked for King Louis XV and lived from 1715 to 1790.The fact that he is long dead does not preclude him from effectively being a wanted man in France today. Or more accurately, a painting of him by the celebrated French artist Jean Sim&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-museum-launches-wanted-campaign-to-track-down-hundreds-of-wwii-era-lootedartworks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-museum-launches-wanted-campaign-to-track-down-hundreds-of-wwii-era-lootedartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track Down 424 Artworks Looted by Nazis]]></title><description><![CDATA[Have you seen a middle-aged man sporting an 18th-century, white, powdered wig, a nobleman&rsquo;s fine clothes, and a gentle, open smile? If so, you may have come upon a certain Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, a French engraver, designer, and art critic, who worked for King Louis XV and lived from 1715 to 1790.The fact that he is long dead does not preclude him from effectively being a wanted man in France today. Or more accurately, a painting of him by the celebrated French artist Jean Sim&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-museum-launches-wanted-campaign-to-track-down-424-artworks-looted-bynazis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-museum-launches-wanted-campaign-to-track-down-424-artworks-looted-bynazis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead. "It is everywhere.&rdquo; He had a point]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead. "It is everywhere.&rdquo; He had a point]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1994-stanley-fish-described-deconstruction-as-dead-in-the-same-way-that-freudianism-is-dead-it-is-everywhererdquo-he-had-a-point/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:46:18 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1994-stanley-fish-described-deconstruction-as-dead-in-the-same-way-that-freudianism-is-dead-it-is-everywhererdquo-he-had-a-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative ]]></title><description><![CDATA[For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-some-conservatives-the-great-books-are-simply-an-anti-woke-bulwark-but-the-case-for-them-is-much-grander-and-more-provocative/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:46:18 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-some-conservatives-the-great-books-are-simply-an-anti-woke-bulwark-but-the-case-for-them-is-much-grander-and-more-provocative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Anonymity is what the aesthete fears above all," says Mark Lilla. One task of poetry is to assert the individual against the masses]]></title><description><![CDATA["Anonymity is what the aesthete fears above all," says Mark Lilla. One task of poetry is to assert the individual against the masses]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anonymity-is-what-the-aesthete-fears-above-all-says-mark-lilla-one-task-of-poetry-is-to-assert-the-individual-against-the-masses/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:46:18 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anonymity-is-what-the-aesthete-fears-above-all-says-mark-lilla-one-task-of-poetry-is-to-assert-the-individual-against-the-masses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff Koons Prevails in Appeal Over Copyright Challenge to ‘Made in Heaven’ Series]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Jeff Koons has once again prevailed in a legal challenge, as a New York federal appeals court affirmed that a copyright lawsuit filed against him by artist Michael Hayden was brought too late.According to court documents filed yesterday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit was dismissed for the second time on procedural grounds: Hayden waited until 2021 to file suit, which sought to assert copyright over a set piece Hayden had created that appears in a 1]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-prevails-in-appeal-over-copyright-challenge-tomade-in-heavenseries/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jeff-koons-prevails-in-appeal-over-copyright-challenge-tomade-in-heavenseries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Reopens, This Time Without Any Crown Jewels]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Louvre reopened its now-infamous Apollo Gallery on July 22, nine months after a group of thieves lifted $102 million worth of Napoleon era jewels from the Paris museum. The brazen daytime heist took less than eight minutes, during which time thieves, disguised as construction workers, used a monte-meubles, or a moving exterior staircase, to break into the Apollo Gallery. Once inside, they quickly absconded with nine bejeweled objects, including a tiara, a necklace, earrings, and a brooch. On]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-louvres-apollo-gallery-reopens-this-time-without-any-crownjewels/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-louvres-apollo-gallery-reopens-this-time-without-any-crownjewels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Dealers Want to Sell an Artwork to a Museum, They May Have to Find the Buyer Themselves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art dealer Sonia Dutton was at her gallery on the Lower East Side last fall, where &ldquo;Night Drawing,&rdquo; Boston artist Rose deSmith Greenman&rsquo;s debut New York exhibition, was on view. The untrained artist began drawing only in her seventies, but her still lifes, often made after dark with humble materials like everyday markers and ballpoint pen, bristle with energy.&nbsp;In came a museum curator who expressed enthusiasm about the show, and even interest in acquiring a piece. But that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/if-dealers-want-to-sell-an-artwork-to-a-museum-they-may-have-to-find-the-buyerthemselves/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/if-dealers-want-to-sell-an-artwork-to-a-museum-they-may-have-to-find-the-buyerthemselves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Open Three New Kingdom Tombs at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three rock-cut tombs dating to Egypt&rsquo;s New Kingdom period (ca. 1550&ndash;1070&nbsp;B.C.) at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara. The news was first reported by Ahram Online.Located 40 km southwest of Cairo, Saqqara was an important cemetery of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. In the second half of the 18th Dynasty (1550&mdash;1292 BCE), high-ranking city dignitaries created tombs for themselves in the limestone cliffs at Bubasteion.Hi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-open-three-new-kingdom-tombs-at-egypts-saqqaranecropolis/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-open-three-new-kingdom-tombs-at-egypts-saqqaranecropolis/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After $75 M. Gift, Shuttered California College of the Arts to Become School Named for Silicon Valley Billionaire]]></title><description><![CDATA[In January, the Bay Area&rsquo;s California College of the Arts announced that it would close in 2027 after selling its two campuses to Nashville&rsquo;s Vanderbilt University. Now, Vanderbilt has revealed that its San Francisco campus will open next year as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, named in recognition of a $75 million donation from Nvidia founder Jen-Hsun &ldquo;Jensen&rdquo; Huang and his wife, Lori Huang.&ldquo;Technology expands what we can build.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-75-m-gift-shuttered-california-college-of-the-arts-to-become-school-named-for-silicon-valleybillionaire/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-75-m-gift-shuttered-california-college-of-the-arts-to-become-school-named-for-silicon-valleybillionaire/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getty Names Final Round of Grantees for Initiative Focused on Preserving Black Architects’ Work ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced the final cohort of grantees for the Conserving Black Modernism initiative, which focuses on preserving the&nbsp;work of Black architects.&nbsp;&nbsp;This year&rsquo;s grantees range, which each receive $150,000 for a total of $750,000 for the cohort&nbsp;from an urban park&nbsp;to&nbsp;a shopping mall.&nbsp;The funding will&nbsp;primarily be used to support historic structures report for the buildings that will]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-namesfinal-round-of-grantees-for-initiative-focused-onpreservingblack-architectswork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-namesfinal-round-of-grantees-for-initiative-focused-onpreservingblack-architectswork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gagosian to Stage Major René Magritte Exhibition During Frieze London]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gagosian will present a major exhibition devoted to Ren&eacute; Magritte and his influence on contemporary art this fall, bringing together museum and private loans alongside newly commissioned works by living artists in London during Frieze week.Opening September 24 at the gallery&rsquo;s Grosvenor Hill space,&nbsp;&ldquo;This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte&rdquo;&nbsp;will feature paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and photography spanning the Belgian Surrealist&rsquo;s care]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-to-stage-major-ren-magritte-exhibition-during-friezelondon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-to-stage-major-ren-magritte-exhibition-during-friezelondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank Gehry’s Seven-Ton Glass Desk Sells for $243,200, Setting Auction Record for His Design Work]]></title><description><![CDATA[A monumental desk designed by the Pritzker Prize&ndash;winning architect Frank Gehry sold for $243,200 at Freeman&rsquo;s in Chicago last week, according to&nbsp;Artnet News. The figure is more than ten times its $20,000 high estimate and sets a new auction record for one of Gehry&rsquo;s design objects.&nbsp;Known as&nbsp;Icehenge, the sprawling 16-piece work was created in 2012 for the lobby of Chicago&rsquo;s landmark Inland Steel Building, where Gehry oversaw a renovation after acquiring a s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frank-gehrys-seven-ton-glass-desk-sells-for-243200-setting-auction-record-for-his-designwork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frank-gehrys-seven-ton-glass-desk-sells-for-243200-setting-auction-record-for-his-designwork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check Out Refik Anadol’s AI-Powered Light and Sound Projection on the Smithsonian’s Iconic ‘Castle’ Building]]></title><description><![CDATA[During a brief pause in a years-long renovation that began in 2023, the Smithsonian&rsquo;s iconic red sandstone Castle hosted an immersive light and sound installation by Refik Anadol. The project, Smithsonian Dreams, was projected onto the fa&ccedil;ade of the building for two hours, starting at 9 PM, on Friday and Saturday evenings last week.A Smithsonian spokesperson estimates that approx. 20,000 visitors settled onto the mall over the course of both nights to experience the multisensory pro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/check-out-refik-anadols-ai-powered-light-and-sound-projection-on-the-smithsonians-iconic-castlebuilding/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/check-out-refik-anadols-ai-powered-light-and-sound-projection-on-the-smithsonians-iconic-castlebuilding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre Reopens Apollo Gallery, Jessica Morgan to the Tate, and More: Morning Links for July 22, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Jessica Morgan has been named director of the Tate museum network.The Louvre&rsquo;s Apollo Gallery has reopened nine months after the infamous crown jewels heist exposed major security weaknesses.British artist Lucy Sparrow&rsquo;s first US museum exhibition has transformed a 1980s supermarket into a felt-filled wonderland.The Headlines	COMING HOME.&nbsp;After more than a decade building a more expansive and globally minded Dia Art Foundation,&nbsp;Jessica Morgan&nbsp;is returning&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-reopens-apollo-gallery-jessica-morgan-to-the-tate-and-more-morning-links-for-july-222026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-reopens-apollo-gallery-jessica-morgan-to-the-tate-and-more-morning-links-for-july-222026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At The Momentary, Lucy Sparrow Transforms a Supermarket into a Felt Wonderland]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK-based artist Lucy Sparrow is known for transforming seemingly ordinary spaces&mdash;supermarkets, pharmacies, restaurants, to name a few&mdash;into felt wonderlands, celebrated both for tempting tactility and their technicolor allusions to childhood. What began as a nascent fascination with the material&rsquo;s ease of use soon grew into a fine art practice, one that asks viewers to see the seemingly humdrum artifacts of daily life in a new, playful way.She first found success in 2014, wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-momentary-lucy-sparrow-transforms-a-supermarket-into-a-feltwonderland/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-momentary-lucy-sparrow-transforms-a-supermarket-into-a-feltwonderland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jessica Morgan Named Top Director at Tate, Departing Dia After More Than a Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027.In that new role, she will oversee one of England&rsquo;s most important art institutions. Tate facilitates two major London museums&mdash;Tate Modern and Tate Britain&mdash;as well as institutions in Liverpool and St. Ives.She fills a role left vacant by Maria Balshaw, who departed Tate at the end of 2025, during a period of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jessica-morgan-named-top-director-at-tate-departing-dia-after-more-than-adecade/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jessica-morgan-named-top-director-at-tate-departing-dia-after-more-than-adecade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jessica Morgan Heads to Tate as Director, Departing Dia After More Than a Decade]]></title><description><![CDATA[After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027.In that new role, she will oversee one of England&rsquo;s most important art institutions. Tate facilitates two major London museums&mdash;Tate Modern and Tate Britain&mdash;as well as institutions in Liverpool and St. Ives.She fills a role left vacant by Maria Balshaw, who departed Tate at the end of 2025, during a period of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jessica-morgan-heads-to-tate-as-director-departing-dia-after-more-than-adecade/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jessica-morgan-heads-to-tate-as-director-departing-dia-after-more-than-adecade/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Online Backlash to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Misses the Point of the Epic Poem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Months before Christopher Nolan&rsquo;s The Odyssey hit theaters, many on the internet had seemingly already reached a conclusion. The armor was wrong. Agamemnon&rsquo;s black, plasticky helmet looked, one widely shared post complained, was like something out of a Batman movie. Odysseus&rsquo;s ship was a Norse longship, from the wrong civilization and the wrong era. Most of the costumes belonged to the classical period, a good thousand years after the Bronze Age world the poem supposedly descr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-online-backlash-to-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-misses-the-point-of-the-epicpoem/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-online-backlash-to-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-misses-the-point-of-the-epicpoem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Venice and Shanghai, Wallace Chan Presents a Vision of Buddhist Maximalism]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 1990s, the Hong Kong&ndash;based artist Wallace Chan purged all his earthly possessions to live as a Buddhist monk for six months. But since then, he has swapped austerity for exuberance, channeling his spirituality into glittering works of art. After studying metal intently for eight years, he found himself pioneering new techniques in titanium. And for his two-venue summer show, &ldquo;Vessels of Other Worlds&rdquo;&mdash;on view both in Venice at the Piet&agrave; Chapel and in Shanghai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-and-shanghai-wallace-chan-presents-a-vision-of-buddhistmaximalism/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-and-shanghai-wallace-chan-presents-a-vision-of-buddhistmaximalism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI distills &ldquo;the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.&rdquo; That's why its output is, put simply, slop&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI distills &ldquo;the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.&rdquo; That's why its output is, put simply, slop&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-distills-ldquothe-most-pedestrian-noncontroversial-conventions-of-human-expressionrdquo-thats-why-its-output-is-put-simply-slopnbsp/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:56:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-distills-ldquothe-most-pedestrian-noncontroversial-conventions-of-human-expressionrdquo-thats-why-its-output-is-put-simply-slopnbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Canadian poet Margaret Avison lived with such intense inwardness that Northrop Frye called her “a conscientious objector to life”]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Canadian poet Margaret Avison lived with such intense inwardness that Northrop Frye called her &ldquo;a conscientious objector to life&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-canadian-poet-margaret-avison-lived-with-such-intense-inwardness-that-northrop-frye-called-her-a-conscientious-objector-to-life/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:39:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-canadian-poet-margaret-avison-lived-with-such-intense-inwardness-that-northrop-frye-called-her-a-conscientious-objector-to-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At its American debut, half the audience walked out of Waiting for Godot. Now the whole world waits with it]]></title><description><![CDATA[At its American debut, half the audience walked out of Waiting for Godot. Now the whole world waits with it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-its-american-debut-half-the-audience-walked-out-of-waiting-for-godot-now-the-whole-world-waits-with-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:39:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-its-american-debut-half-the-audience-walked-out-of-waiting-for-godot-now-the-whole-world-waits-with-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI distills “the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.” Its output is, put simply, slop ]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI distills &ldquo;the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.&rdquo; Its output is, put simply, slop&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-distills-the-most-pedestrian-noncontroversial-conventions-of-human-expression-its-output-is-put-simply-slop/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:39:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-distills-the-most-pedestrian-noncontroversial-conventions-of-human-expression-its-output-is-put-simply-slop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Art + Tech Summit, Christie’s Pins Its Future on AI Billionaires Who Aren’t Buying Art… Yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We are in a historic moment in wealth creation,&rdquo; said CNBC wealth reporter Robert Frank at the keynote presentation of the 2026 edition of the Christie&rsquo;s Art + Tech Summit last week, alongside Christie&rsquo;s CEO Bonnie Brennan and Michael Anders, founder of the investment firm ICONIQ Capital. Frank was referring to the riches being created as big AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX go public. These initial public offerings are projected to create 20 new billionai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-art-tech-summit-christies-pins-its-future-on-ai-billionaires-who-arent-buying-artyet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-art-tech-summit-christies-pins-its-future-on-ai-billionaires-who-arent-buying-artyet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Installs New Thomas Jefferson Bronze Sculpture in White House Rose Garden]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, President Trump installed a new, life-size bronze sculpture of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden, making it the fifth statue he has added to the White House grounds during his second administration, the Washington Post reports.The piece is another example of Trump-led efforts to install realistic statues around the country of America&rsquo;s Founding Fathers in particular, partly in reaction to damage done to Confederate monuments and statues of other figures with divisive contribut]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-installs-new-thomas-jefferson-bronze-sculpture-in-white-house-rosegarden/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-installs-new-thomas-jefferson-bronze-sculpture-in-white-house-rosegarden/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Katie Holmes Has a New Boyfriend—And He Is an Artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life imitates art, sort of. Katie Holmes plays a New York&ndash;based photographer reconnecting with her high school flame in Happy Hours, a new film Holmes also wrote and directed. Happy Hours premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 6, and, according to TMZ, it was at a dinner related to the festival that Holmes met her new boyfriend, New York&ndash;based artist Jason Bard Yarmosky.Yarmosky was one of the 10 artists who participated in the 2026 Tribeca Festival Artist Awards Program, an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/katie-holmes-has-a-new-boyfriendand-he-is-anartist/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/katie-holmes-has-a-new-boyfriendand-he-is-anartist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Do You Love America?’: Smithsonian Museum Leader Grilled Over Gender, Diversity, Patriotism at Congressional Hearing]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Dr. Hartig, are you America first? Do you love America?&rdquo; So asked Representative Tim Burchett (Republican of Tennessee) of Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Museum of American History (NMAH), during a two-hour congressional hearing Tuesday over allegations that the institution has failed in its duty to preserve and present the nation&rsquo;s story.The hearing will likely carve out its own place in American history&mdash;not merely for the spectacle of the p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/do-you-love-america-smithsonian-museum-leader-grilled-over-gender-diversity-patriotism-at-congressionalhearing/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/do-you-love-america-smithsonian-museum-leader-grilled-over-gender-diversity-patriotism-at-congressionalhearing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-Lost Artworks by Chilean Muralist Julio Escámez Are Slowly Being Uncovered and Restored]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two 1970s murals by Chilean artist Julio Esc&aacute;mez, long thought to have been destroyed by Augusto Pinochet&rsquo;s military regime, are currently in the process of being uncovered and restored. The Heritage Unit of the Municipality of Chill&aacute;n (UPA), which has been carrying out the work, announced this week that they expect to finish restoring the first of the murals by December 2027. &nbsp;In 1969, Eduardo Contreras Mella, the mayor of Chill&aacute;n and a member of Chile&rsquo;s Co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/long-lost-artworks-by-chilean-muralist-julio-escmez-are-slowly-being-uncovered-andrestored/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/long-lost-artworks-by-chilean-muralist-julio-escmez-are-slowly-being-uncovered-andrestored/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Palace Museum Partners With Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hong Kong Palace Museum entered into an agreement with the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan to collaborate on exhibitions, academic research, and other projects.At a signing ceremony on Monday, the connection forged between the two institutions marked the first official reciprocal visit by a Central Asian cultural institution since Hong Kong&rsquo;s chief executive, John Lee Ka-chiu, led a delegation including the Palace Museum&rsquo;s director to the region last month. It follows a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hong-kong-palace-museum-partners-with-islamic-civilization-center-inuzbekistan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hong-kong-palace-museum-partners-with-islamic-civilization-center-inuzbekistan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump-Backed Federal Council Aims to Reduce Protections of Historic Sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Friday, the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), most of whose members were appointed by President Trump or include leaders of Trump-controlled agencies, sent an internal draft proposal to eliminate federal regulations requiring public and state input before construction begins on historic sites, as first reported The Atlantic.The suggested amendments to regulations, shared by the Washington Post, have stoked fears that the requested changes to existing rules will give Tr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-backed-federal-council-aims-to-reduce-protections-of-historicsites/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-backed-federal-council-aims-to-reduce-protections-of-historicsites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Sculptor Bet $100,000 on a Charlie Kirk Statue, Now No One Wants to Buy It]]></title><description><![CDATA[A New York sculptor thought he had found an unlikely market for a new artwork. Instead, he found himself stuck with a six-foot-four-inch bronze-colored monument sitting in his studio, a broken foot, a six-figure bill, and almost no interest from collectors.Artist Sergio Furnari says he spent roughly $100,000 building a life-size sculpture of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, believing wealthy donors would help finance the project and eventually turn it into a traveling monument. Inste]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-sculptor-bet-100000-on-a-charlie-kirk-statue-now-no-one-wants-to-buyit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-sculptor-bet-100000-on-a-charlie-kirk-statue-now-no-one-wants-to-buyit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Italy’s Famed Ancient ‘Warrior of Capestrano’ a Mussolini-Backed Fake?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is Italy&rsquo;s famous 6th-century BCE statue known as the &ldquo;Warrior of Capestrano&rdquo; a Mussolini-backed forgery? Recently granted permission to test the mysterious statue, held in Abruzzo&rsquo;s National Archaeology Museum in Chieti, central Italy, may have the answers, reports the Times of London.The over-two-meters-high, imposing limestone figure, adorned with a wide-brimmed hat, its arms crossed upon an hourglass-shaped body outfitted with intricately carved armor and weapons, was]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-italys-famed-ancient-warrior-of-capestrano-a-mussolini-backed-fake/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-italys-famed-ancient-warrior-of-capestrano-a-mussolini-backed-fake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Officially Suspends €2 M. Grant to Venice Biennale Over Russia’s Inclusion After Review  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The European Union has officially suspended its&nbsp;&euro;2 million ($2.3 million)&nbsp;grant&nbsp;to&nbsp;the Venice Biennale after a review of the inclusion of the Russian Pavilion in its official program.&nbsp;&nbsp;The decision was announced by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) after a legal review and on the recommendation of the European Commission,&nbsp;Monopol&nbsp;reported Tuesday.&nbsp;Last week, the Commission&nbsp;announced&nbsp;its recommendation to suspen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-officially-suspends-2-m-grant-to-venice-biennaleover-russias-inclusionafter-review/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-officially-suspends-2-m-grant-to-venice-biennaleover-russias-inclusionafter-review/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Joyce stands out among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress, and the preciousness of the everyday”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Joyce stands out among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress, and the preciousness of the everyday&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joyce-stands-out-among-the-great-modernist-writers-for-his-belief-in-tolerance-equality-democracy-progress-and-the-preciousness-of-the-everyday-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:28:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joyce-stands-out-among-the-great-modernist-writers-for-his-belief-in-tolerance-equality-democracy-progress-and-the-preciousness-of-the-everyday-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What separates American architecture from European is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle]]></title><description><![CDATA[What separates American architecture from European is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-separates-american-architecture-from-european-is-a-matter-of-scale-speed-and-spectacle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:11:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-separates-american-architecture-from-european-is-a-matter-of-scale-speed-and-spectacle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pousette-Dart Foundation Receives Major Donation, Announces Search for Next Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation has received a donation of work&nbsp;by&nbsp;the artist from his&nbsp;late&nbsp;widow, Evelyn Pousette-Dart.&nbsp;&nbsp;The gift&nbsp;consists of&nbsp;all works by the artist that Evelyn&nbsp;owned at&nbsp;the&nbsp;time of&nbsp;her death&nbsp;in 2025. The foundation characterized the gift as &ldquo;very substantial&rdquo; and is still&nbsp;in the process of inventorying&nbsp;the extent of the donation, which includes paintings, sculptures, works on paper, pho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pousette-dart-foundation-receives-major-donation-announces-search-for-nextdirector/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pousette-dart-foundation-receives-major-donation-announces-search-for-nextdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pousette-Dart Foundation Announces Major Donation and Search for Next Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation has announced a bequest of work&nbsp;by&nbsp;the artist from his&nbsp;late&nbsp;widow, Evelyn Pousette-Dart.&nbsp;&nbsp;The gift&nbsp;will consist of&nbsp;all works by the artist that Evelyn&nbsp;owned at&nbsp;the&nbsp;time of&nbsp;her death&nbsp;in 2025. The foundation characterized the gift as &ldquo;very substantial&rdquo; and is still&nbsp;in the process of inventorying&nbsp;the extent of the planned donation, which includes paintings, sculptures, works o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pousette-dart-foundation-announces-major-donation-and-search-for-nextdirector/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pousette-dart-foundation-announces-major-donation-and-search-for-nextdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Culture Ministry’s Challenges Under New Prime Minister, Charlie Kirk Statue with No Funding, and More: Morning Links for July 21, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!UK culture ministry faces a series of challenges under new prime minister, Andy Burnham.&nbsp;An artist who spent $100,000 of his own money making a statue of Charlie Kirk is struggling to sell and exhibit the work.How does artwork pricing work, and how do you know if you&rsquo;re getting a good deal?The Headlines	NO REST FOR THE WICKED.&nbsp;As]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-culture-ministrys-challenges-under-new-prime-minister-charlie-kirk-statue-with-no-funding-and-more-morning-links-for-july-212026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-culture-ministrys-challenges-under-new-prime-minister-charlie-kirk-statue-with-no-funding-and-more-morning-links-for-july-212026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What separates American architecture from Europe's is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle]]></title><description><![CDATA[What separates American architecture from Europe's is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-separates-american-architecture-from-europes-is-a-matter-of-scale-speed-and-spectacle/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:47:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-separates-american-architecture-from-europes-is-a-matter-of-scale-speed-and-spectacle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Joyce stands out? among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress, and the preciousness of the everyday”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Joyce stands out? among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress, and the preciousness of the everyday&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joyce-stands-out-among-the-great-modernist-writers-for-his-belief-in-tolerance-equality-democracy-progress-and-the-preciousness-of-the-everyday/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:47:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/joyce-stands-out-among-the-great-modernist-writers-for-his-belief-in-tolerance-equality-democracy-progress-and-the-preciousness-of-the-everyday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Marco Roth, the cardinal sin of elegy writing “is to make it about oneself more than the deceased”]]></title><description><![CDATA[For Marco Roth, the cardinal sin of elegy writing &ldquo;is to make it about oneself more than the deceased&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-marco-roth-the-cardinal-sin-of-elegy-writing-is-to-make-it-about-oneself-more-than-the-deceased/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:47:46 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-marco-roth-the-cardinal-sin-of-elegy-writing-is-to-make-it-about-oneself-more-than-the-deceased/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christine Borland, Artist Who Researched Histories of Science and Medicine, Dies at 60]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christine Borland, a Scottish artist whose research-intensive work delved into such subjects as forensic science, the history of medicine, and human genetics, died on Sunday at the age of 60. Her death was confirmed by Patricia Fleming Gallery in Glasgow, which represented Borland. Her death followed a battle with cancer.Borland was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 1997, for artwork &ldquo;exploring themes of creation and destruction through institutional (scientific/forensic/police]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christine-borland-artist-who-researched-histories-of-science-and-medicine-dies-at60/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christine-borland-artist-who-researched-histories-of-science-and-medicine-dies-at60/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vienna Will Get a New Art Fair in September, After Cancelation of City’s Main Two Fairs]]></title><description><![CDATA[After the cancelation of two Viennese art fairs, an association of 35 of the city&rsquo;s galleries has come together to launch a new fair: Astoria Artshow.Running September 10&ndash;13, Astoria Artshow will take place at the historic Astoria Garage, a six-story historic building dating to 1923 in Vienna&rsquo;s 8th District that will host an art event for the first time. The inaugural edition host around 70 galleries, both from Austria and abroad, and it will act as a preview for a more formali]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vienna-will-get-a-new-art-fair-in-september-after-cancelation-of-citys-main-twofairs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vienna-will-get-a-new-art-fair-in-september-after-cancelation-of-citys-main-twofairs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[V&amp;A Museum&rsquo;s Head of Academic Programs Quits Citing &lsquo;Racist&rsquo; Behavior of Staff, Newly Revealed Letter&nbsp;Shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[The former head of academic programs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London resigned in late January after accusing the institution&rsquo;s staff of &ldquo;racist&rdquo; and &ldquo;culturally insensitive&rdquo; behaviors, the Art Newspaper reported Monday.The accusations by Yuko Kikuchi came in a January 26 letter addressed to V&amp;A director Tristram Hunt, as well as trustees of the V&amp;A&rsquo;s research committee. In that letter, Kikuchi wrote that the museum &ldquo;likely&rdquo; has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-museumrsquos-head-of-academic-programs-quits-citing-lsquoracistrsquo-behavior-of-staff-newly-revealed-letternbspshows/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vampa-museumrsquos-head-of-academic-programs-quits-citing-lsquoracistrsquo-behavior-of-staff-newly-revealed-letternbspshows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Gallery The Hole Sued by Artists for Nearly $50,000 in Outstanding Payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two artists have sued Manhattan art gallery The Hole, alleging roughly $50,000 in unpaid proceeds from sales of their artwork.In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on July 16, artists Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi say they provided multiple paintings and other artworks to The Hole for display and sale on consignment between 2024 and 2026. The artists allege that, despite receiving partial payments, they are still owed a combined total of nearly $50,000&mdash;$28,975 to Um and $21,000 t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-gallery-the-holesued-by-artists-for-nearly-50000-in-outstandingpayments-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-gallery-the-holesued-by-artists-for-nearly-50000-in-outstandingpayments-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ New York Gallery The Hole Sued by Artists for Nearly $50,000 in Outstanding Payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two artists have sued Manhattan art gallery The Hole, alleging roughly $50,000 in unpaid proceeds from sales of their artwork.In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on July 16, artists Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi say they provided multiple paintings and other artworks to The Hole for display and sale on consignment between 2024 and 2026. The artists allege that, despite receiving partial payments, they are still owed a combined total of nearly $50,000&mdash;$28,975 to Um and $21,000 t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-gallery-the-holesued-by-artists-for-nearly-50000-in-outstandingpayments/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-gallery-the-holesued-by-artists-for-nearly-50000-in-outstandingpayments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Zwirner Closes Upper East Side Gallery, Consolidating Manhattan Footprint]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Zwirner has closed its Upper East Side gallery, ending nearly a decade at the townhouse at 34 East 69th Street as the blue-chip dealer continues to concentrate its New York operations downtown.A spokesperson for the gallery told ARTNews that the move had been planned for a while. &ldquo;It was always our plan to leave the Upper East Side once the last phase of our Chelsea overhaul was complete,&rdquo; the spokesperson said in an email. &ldquo;With our Selldorf-designed space at 525 West 19]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-zwirner-closes-upper-east-side-gallery-consolidating-manhattanfootprint/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-zwirner-closes-upper-east-side-gallery-consolidating-manhattanfootprint/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2,500-Year-Old Necropolis Discovered Under Italian Pasta Factory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archeologists conducting preventative excavations ahead of an industrial expansion in southern Italy have discovered a well-preserved, 2,500-year-old necropolis. The news was first reported at a press conference held on July 15 by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan Area of Naples (Soprintendenza ABAP Napoli), which supervised the excavation.The cemetery, which was unearthed beneath the historic Garofalo pasta factory in Gragnano, near Naples, dates t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2500-year-old-necropolis-discovered-under-italian-pastafactory/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2500-year-old-necropolis-discovered-under-italian-pastafactory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Days of Uncertainty, Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Surfaces in Miami]]></title><description><![CDATA[For nearly two weeks, nobody seemed to know where Luis Manuel Otero Alc&aacute;ntara was.The Cuban artist and dissident, whose five-year prison sentence officially ended on July 9, had vanished after state security agents removed him from prison days before his scheduled release, prompting fellow artist Coco Fusco to&nbsp;publish an essay last week&nbsp;asking, &ldquo;Where Is Luis Manuel Otero Alc&aacute;ntara?&rdquo; and warning that human rights organizations believed he had been forcibly dis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-days-of-uncertainty-cuban-artist-luis-manuel-otero-alcntara-surfaces-inmiami/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-days-of-uncertainty-cuban-artist-luis-manuel-otero-alcntara-surfaces-inmiami/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Days of Uncertainty, Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Arrives in Miami]]></title><description><![CDATA[For nearly two weeks, nobody seemed to know where Luis Manuel Otero Alc&aacute;ntara was.The Cuban artist and dissident, whose five-year prison sentence officially ended on July 9, had vanished after state security agents removed him from prison days before his scheduled release, prompting fellow artist Coco Fusco to&nbsp;publish an essay last week&nbsp;asking, &ldquo;Where Is Luis Manuel Otero Alc&aacute;ntara?&rdquo; and warning that human rights organizations believed he had been forcibly dis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-days-of-uncertainty-cuban-artist-luis-manuel-otero-alcntara-arrives-inmiami/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-days-of-uncertainty-cuban-artist-luis-manuel-otero-alcntara-arrives-inmiami/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flash Flooding at the New Museum, Legionnaires Outbreak in NYC Continues, and More: Morning Links for July 20, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Flash flooding in New York City forced the New Museum to close over the weekend.A third person has died in New York City&rsquo;s Legionnaires&rsquo; disease outbreak, with Legionella bacteria found in the Met and Guggenheim.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang&rsquo;s trademark leather jacket sold at Sotheby&rsquo;s for $960,000, more than 15 times its high estimate.The Headlines	WET. WET. WET. Flash flooding in New York City forced the New Museum to close over the weekend after water leaked int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/flash-flooding-at-the-new-museum-legionnaires-outbreak-in-nyc-continues-and-more-morning-links-for-july-202026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/flash-flooding-at-the-new-museum-legionnaires-outbreak-in-nyc-continues-and-more-morning-links-for-july-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Armory Show Names Nearly 230 Galleries for 2026 Edition, Pushed to Late September]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Armory Show, one of New York&rsquo;s top fairs, relocated to the Javits Center in 2021, it also changed its date, moving from spring to the first week after Labor Day, which the fair touted at the time as a way to ring in the new season. Now, for its 2026 edition, the Armory Show has shifted back a few weeks to run September 24&ndash;27.The change in dates will help alleviate the conflict between two important September fairs, which have both been owned by the same company since 2023, w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/armory-show-names-nearly-230-galleries-for-2026-edition-pushed-to-lateseptember/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/armory-show-names-nearly-230-galleries-for-2026-edition-pushed-to-lateseptember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vienna's coffeehouses bred inward-looking modernists. Belgrade's kafanas bred regicide and revolution&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vienna's coffeehouses bred inward-looking modernists. Belgrade's kafanas bred regicide and revolution&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/viennas-coffeehouses-bred-inward-looking-modernists-belgrades-kafanas-bred-regicide-and-revolutionnbsp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:46:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/viennas-coffeehouses-bred-inward-looking-modernists-belgrades-kafanas-bred-regicide-and-revolutionnbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Treat me as though I were dead," Muriel Spark told her biographer. Then she tried to bury the book]]></title><description><![CDATA["Treat me as though I were dead," Muriel Spark told her biographer. Then she tried to bury the book]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/treat-me-as-though-i-were-dead-muriel-spark-told-her-biographer-then-she-tried-to-bury-the-book/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:46:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/treat-me-as-though-i-were-dead-muriel-spark-told-her-biographer-then-she-tried-to-bury-the-book/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fueled by peyote, the anthropologist and cult leader Carlos Castaneda was one of the world’s most read authors in 1970. Today he’s an artifact]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fueled by peyote, the anthropologist and cult leader Carlos Castaneda was one of the world&rsquo;s most read authors in 1970. Today he&rsquo;s an artifact]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fueled-by-peyote-the-anthropologist-and-cult-leader-carlos-castaneda-was-one-of-the-worlds-most-read-authors-in-1970-today-hes-an-artifact/</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:46:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fueled-by-peyote-the-anthropologist-and-cult-leader-carlos-castaneda-was-one-of-the-worlds-most-read-authors-in-1970-today-hes-an-artifact/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaks Spotted in New Museum Gallery with WangShui Work as NYC Braces for Floods]]></title><description><![CDATA[Flash flooding in New York City this weekend has presented a new test for the New Museum, which experienced a significant water leak on Saturday in a gallery housing work by WangShui. Video footage shared with ARTnews and confirmed by the museum as accurate shows water pooling on the gallery floor as staff members move quickly to place buckets beneath active leaks, as well as water streaming down the didactic for &ldquo;New Humans: Memories of the Future&rdquo;.The incident comes months after th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leaks-spotted-in-new-museum-gallery-with-wangshui-work-as-nyc-braces-forfloods/</link><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leaks-spotted-in-new-museum-gallery-with-wangshui-work-as-nyc-braces-forfloods/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congressional Representatives Introduce New Bill to Protect Public Artworks in Government Buildings]]></title><description><![CDATA[On July 14, two Congressional representatives&mdash;Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) proposed a bill that would protect public artworks commissioned by the U.S. government.The PRESERVE Act (&ldquo;Protecting Resources and Ensuring Stewardship of Enduring Records of Visual Expression Act&rdquo;) would require the General Services Administration, which manages federal agencies, to identify any artworks contained within government buildings deemed &ldquo;surplus property&rdquo; and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/congressional-representatives-introduce-new-bill-to-protect-public-artworks-in-governmentbuildings/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/congressional-representatives-introduce-new-bill-to-protect-public-artworks-in-governmentbuildings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Officials Confirm Bayeux Tapestry Undamaged by Controversial Trip to British Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cueing a collective sigh of relief on both sides of the English Channel, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry was not damaged during its contested voyage from France to London&rsquo;s British Museum, according to French culture ministry officials, speaking to AFP on Thursday. &nbsp;&ldquo;I am able to confirm that there was no visible alteration and that the tapestry traveled well,&rdquo; said Delphine Christophe, France&rsquo;s general director of heritage and architecture, speaking Thursday, Jul]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-officials-confirm-bayeux-tapestry-undamaged-by-controversial-trip-to-britishmuseum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-officials-confirm-bayeux-tapestry-undamaged-by-controversial-trip-to-britishmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shanghai Auction Executives Sentenced in Major Fraud Case as Industry Scrutiny Intensifies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two former managers of a prominent Shanghai auction house have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for orchestrating an extensive fraud scheme that led one collector to spend about RMB 500 million ($74 million) on counterfeit or grossly overpriced artifacts.Hong Kong media reported on Wednesday that the collector, from Shandong province, purchased more than 40 items from Shanghai Jiahe Auction Co., Ltd., only to discover that authentication documents revealed many were forgeries or had been a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/shanghai-auction-executives-sentenced-in-major-fraud-case-as-industry-scrutinyintensifies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/shanghai-auction-executives-sentenced-in-major-fraud-case-as-industry-scrutinyintensifies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong First Half Numbers Confirm That the Auction Houses Have Changed, Even If the Rest of the Art Market Is Still Catching Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[The most revealing thing about this year&rsquo;s first-half auction reports wasn&rsquo;t how much money Christie&rsquo;s or Sotheby&rsquo;s made. It was how they made it.Just a few years ago, these reports would have revolved around blue-chip artists and auction records. This year, the houses devoted nearly as much space to private sales, lending, financial services, luxury goods, hospitality, and advisory work as they did to paintings and sculptures. Read together, they suggest that the biggest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/strong-first-half-numbers-confirm-that-the-auction-houses-have-changed-even-if-the-rest-of-the-art-market-is-still-catchingup/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/strong-first-half-numbers-confirm-that-the-auction-houses-have-changed-even-if-the-rest-of-the-art-market-is-still-catchingup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Move to Shield Landmarks, Russian Artist’s Refugee Status, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill to protect federal artworks, including New Deal-era masterpieces, from possible sale or destruction.France considers withdrawing Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky&rsquo;s refugee status.Think you need a degree in art history to appreciate a masterpiece? Think againThe Headlines	PRESERVE, PROTECT, PROSPER. Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced the Preserve Act, a bill aimed at protecting public artworks in federal buildings]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/democrats-move-to-shield-landmarks-russian-artists-refugee-status-andmore/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/democrats-move-to-shield-landmarks-russian-artists-refugee-status-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mural at Ancient City of Calakmul May Be the Oldest Known Image of Maya Hero Juun Ajaw]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have identified what they believe is one of the oldest known representations of the mythical Maya hero Juun Ajaw at the ancient city of Calakmul in Mexico. Their findings, which were based on three years of research and analysis, were published in IdeAs, the online journal of the Institute of the Americas.The authors of the paper, archeologists Daniel Salazar Lama, Ana Garc&iacute;a Barrios, and Benjamin Esqueda Lazo De La Vega, focused on what is considered the earliest mural painti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-mural-at-ancient-city-of-calakmul-may-be-the-oldest-known-image-of-maya-hero-juunajaw/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-mural-at-ancient-city-of-calakmul-may-be-the-oldest-known-image-of-maya-hero-juunajaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In His Beaded Portraits of Black Luminaries, Felandus Thames Wants to Spark Curiosity]]></title><description><![CDATA[A shrine to Black cultural scripts stands in West Haven, Connecticut, a short ride from Union Station. It isn&rsquo;t an official monument of any kind, but the studio of Felandus Thames, who has been based in the Constitution State since 2008. &nbsp;During a visit in March, the two-room space served as the temporary home to Thames&rsquo;s latest beaded curtain portraits of notable Black luminaries, which lay on tables awaiting completion. One of his earlier works, a green beaded curtain with the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-his-beaded-portraits-of-black-luminaries-felandus-thames-wants-to-sparkcuriosity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-his-beaded-portraits-of-black-luminaries-felandus-thames-wants-to-sparkcuriosity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Surrealists Psyopped the Gestapo and Otherwise Fought Fascism]]></title><description><![CDATA[While living on the English island of Jersey in the 1940s, a young queer French couple&mdash;Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore&mdash;performed a sly psyop on the Gestapo. They wrote notes taunting them to defect or commit sabotage and offering contagious complaints: I don&rsquo;t want to spend my whole life in a uniform, signed SOLDAT OHNE NAMEN (soldier with no name).Those &ldquo;paper bullets,&rdquo; as Moore and Cahun called them, are on view in the heart of &ldquo;In the Very Bowels of Change: S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-surrealists-psyopped-the-gestapo-and-otherwise-foughtfascism/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-surrealists-psyopped-the-gestapo-and-otherwise-foughtfascism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scholarship requires bracketing your own convictions long enough to inhabit a possibly repugnant argument. Too few now attempt it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scholarship requires bracketing your own convictions long enough to inhabit a possibly repugnant argument. Too few now attempt it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/scholarship-requires-bracketing-your-own-convictions-long-enough-to-inhabit-a-possibly-repugnant-argument-too-few-now-attempt-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:11:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/scholarship-requires-bracketing-your-own-convictions-long-enough-to-inhabit-a-possibly-repugnant-argument-too-few-now-attempt-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and “correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony”]]></title><description><![CDATA[For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and &ldquo;correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-gen-z-periods-at-the-ends-of-sentences-are-passive-aggressive-and-correct-punctuation-itself-is-a-signal-of-irony/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:11:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/for-gen-z-periods-at-the-ends-of-sentences-are-passive-aggressive-and-correct-punctuation-itself-is-a-signal-of-irony/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI may sharpen what we do. But what manner of people will we become? K. Anthony Appiah on LLMs and morality]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI may sharpen what we do. But what manner of people will we become? K. Anthony Appiah on LLMs and morality]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-may-sharpen-what-we-do-but-what-manner-of-people-will-we-become-k-anthony-appiah-on-llms-and-morality/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:11:38 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-may-sharpen-what-we-do-but-what-manner-of-people-will-we-become-k-anthony-appiah-on-llms-and-morality/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LEGO Partners with Vienna’s Belvedere Museum on 4,000-Piece Set of Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The LEGO Group has announced a partnership with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna to release a 4,000-piece Lego set of Gustav Klimt&rsquo;s The Kiss (1907&ndash;08).The set, the largest painting-inspired one that the company has ever produced, will be available for purchase beginning August 1. It has a retail price of $299.99.Unlike the original painting, the Lego version of The Kiss is technically three-dimensional, as building enthusiasts (ages 18+, per the box) are meant to stack various section]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lego-partners-with-viennas-belvedere-museum-on-4000-piece-set-of-klimts-thekiss/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lego-partners-with-viennas-belvedere-museum-on-4000-piece-set-of-klimts-thekiss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manhattan District Attorney Repatriates Three Antiquities to Mexico]]></title><description><![CDATA[The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr.,&nbsp;announced the repatriation of three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.The return of the objects is a result of multiple investigations into illegal trafficking networks, including one that led to the conviction of Eugene Alexander last summer. According to a press release announcing the news, &ldquo;This marks this Office&rsquo;s sixth repatriation to the People of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-district-attorney-repatriates-three-antiquities-tomexico/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-district-attorney-repatriates-three-antiquities-tomexico/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Politicians Call For Investigation of British Museum’s Removal of ‘Palestine’ from Display]]></title><description><![CDATA[Several political parties across the UK Parliament have called for an independent investigation into the British Museum&rsquo;s removal of the terms &ldquo;Palestine,&rdquo; &ldquo;Palestinian,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Israelite occupation&rdquo; after a Middle East Eye report linked the museum&rsquo;s decision to lobbying by pro-Israel activists.The British Museum defended its decision to alter some displays in February, saying that &ldquo;audience testing&rdquo; showed the term &ldquo;Palestine&rdquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-politicians-call-for-investigation-of-british-museums-removal-of-palestine-fromdisplay/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-politicians-call-for-investigation-of-british-museums-removal-of-palestine-fromdisplay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Hamill’s ‘Star Wars’ Lightsaber Breaks Auction Record with $3.7M. Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[An iconic piece of&nbsp;Star Wars&nbsp;memorabilia smashed predictions and sold for a record-setting sum.&nbsp;Heritage Auctions&nbsp;confirmed late Wednesday afternoon that Mark Hamill&rsquo;s original screen-used Luke Skywalker lightsaber sold for $3.75 million. It&rsquo;s the one he wielded during a climactic face-off with Darth Vader in 1980&rsquo;s&nbsp;Star Wars: Episode V &ndash; The Empire Strikes Back&nbsp;until the Sith Lord cut off his hand and delivered the infamous &ldquo;I am your]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mark-hamills-star-wars-lightsaber-breaks-auction-record-with-37msale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mark-hamills-star-wars-lightsaber-breaks-auction-record-with-37msale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bavaria Revamps Procedures for Evaluating Restitution Claims for Nazi-Looted Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[The German state of Bavaria has overhauled the way that claims for restitution of Nazi-looted artworks will be evaluated. The state will establish a Center for Provenance Research and Restitution Issues of Nazi-Looted Art at the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ). This takes the provenance research outside of the museums that own the works and thus could be suspected of being less than objective in evaluating such claims. Andreas Wirsching, director of the IfZ, called the move a &ldquo;qua]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bavaria-revamps-procedures-for-evaluating-restitution-claims-for-nazi-lootedart/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bavaria-revamps-procedures-for-evaluating-restitution-claims-for-nazi-lootedart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Lawsuit Alleges Stolen Pierre Soulages Painting Sold at Christie’s as Part of Weis Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Pierre Soulages painting that sold at Christie&rsquo;s last fall is at the center of a new lawsuit, which alleges that the work was stolen from the plaintiffs&rsquo; family decades ago.Filed in New York State Supreme Court on Monday, the suit concerns Soulages&rsquo;s 1958 abstraction Peinture 161 x 200 cm, 14 novembre 1958, which sold for just under $5 million at Christie&rsquo;s last November during an evening sale of the collection of Patricia G. Ross Weis and Robert F. Weis, who founded th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-lawsuit-alleges-stolen-pierre-soulages-painting-sold-at-christies-as-part-of-weiscollection/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-lawsuit-alleges-stolen-pierre-soulages-painting-sold-at-christies-as-part-of-weiscollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steidl, the Art World’s Go-To Photobook Publisher, Faces Insolvency Proceedings in Germany]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steidl Verlag, one of the most beloved publishers of photobooks, is facing preliminary insolvency proceedings in Germany, according to reports in the German media.NDR reports that insolvency proceedings were opened on Friday in a court in G&ouml;ttingen at the request of a creditor. A court is also reviewing claims that the publishing house did not pay salaries to employees or delayed &ldquo;a considerable amount&rdquo; of payment&mdash;as much as five or six months&rsquo; worth in some cases, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/steidl-the-art-worlds-go-to-photobook-publisher-faces-insolvency-proceedings-ingermany/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/steidl-the-art-worlds-go-to-photobook-publisher-faces-insolvency-proceedings-ingermany/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LA’s Murmurs Gallery, Known for Its Eye for Rising Talent, to Close After Seven Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Murmurs, a gallery located in Downtown Los Angeles that was known for its eye for spotting rising talent, announced this week that it will close after seven years in business. Its final exhibition was a solo for Rodrigo Ram&iacute;rez Rodr&iacute;guez, which ended on June 27.In an Instagram post, cofounders Allison Littrell and Morgan Elder and director Gabrielle Datau wrote that the &ldquo;bittersweet news&rdquo; came after &ldquo;a long period of reflection.&rdquo; They cited the &ldquo;intens]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-murmurs-gallery-known-for-its-eye-for-rising-talent-to-close-after-sevenyears/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-murmurs-gallery-known-for-its-eye-for-rising-talent-to-close-after-sevenyears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pat Oleszko Wins Whitney Biennial’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pat Oleszko, a sculptor and performance artist who was not well-known in New York before earlier this year, has won the 2026 Whitney Biennial&rsquo;s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, a prize previously won by famed artists such as Zoe Leonard, Ralph Lemon, and Pope.L.Oleszko&rsquo;s contribution to the show was a large inflatable sculpture called Blow Hard (1995), featuring a gigantic green face pushing air into a trumpet that expels flames. As is the case with most of Oleszko&rsquo;s work, the title i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pat-oleszko-wins-whitney-biennials-100000-bucksbaumaward/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pat-oleszko-wins-whitney-biennials-100000-bucksbaumaward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Perspective on Munch’s Famous Frieze, How NYC’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit Transformed the Art Market: Morning Links for July 16, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos on the fight against the global trade in stolen antiquities.&nbsp;A new show in Norway explores the &ldquo;harsher realities&rdquo; behind Edvard Munch&rsquo;s famous 1922 Freia frieze, which depicts cheerful scenes of workers enjoying nature.&nbsp;The British Council is closing offices in nine countries, inc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-perspective-on-munchs-famous-frieze-how-nycs-antiquities-trafficking-unit-transformed-the-art-market-morning-links-for-july-162026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-perspective-on-munchs-famous-frieze-how-nycs-antiquities-trafficking-unit-transformed-the-art-market-morning-links-for-july-162026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clark Art Institute Unveils its Massive Aso Tavitian Gift, To Be Housed in a Brand-New Wing: ‘Any Curator or Director’s Dream’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Clark Art Institute, a treasure trove of Western art, opened in the scenic Berkshire Mountains in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1955. The site was chosen partly because of the museum&rsquo;s ties to Williams College on the part of founders Sterling and Francine Clark, but also, in the wake of World War II, so that the collection would be outside the blast zone of a potential nuclear attack on New York City (where the founders lived and also considered setting up shop). It expanded in 1973,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/clark-art-institute-unveils-its-massive-aso-tavitian-gift-to-be-housed-in-a-brand-new-wing-any-curator-or-directorsdream/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/clark-art-institute-unveils-its-massive-aso-tavitian-gift-to-be-housed-in-a-brand-new-wing-any-curator-or-directorsdream/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondering why "everything feels divided and why it sucks constantly"? Blame the uni-context. Agnes Callard explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wondering why "everything feels divided and why it sucks constantly"? Blame the uni-context. Agnes Callard explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wondering-why-everything-feels-divided-and-why-it-sucks-constantly-blame-the-uni-context-agnes-callard-explains-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:57:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wondering-why-everything-feels-divided-and-why-it-sucks-constantly-blame-the-uni-context-agnes-callard-explains-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wondering why "everything feels divided and why it sucks constantly?" Blame the uni-context. Agnes Callard explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wondering why "everything feels divided and why it sucks constantly?" Blame the uni-context. Agnes Callard explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wondering-why-everything-feels-divided-and-why-it-sucks-constantly-blame-the-uni-context-agnes-callard-explains/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:33:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wondering-why-everything-feels-divided-and-why-it-sucks-constantly-blame-the-uni-context-agnes-callard-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With their mad methods and aesthetic gimmicks, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin were, together, a brand: The Cut-Up Boys of the Interzone ]]></title><description><![CDATA[With their mad methods and aesthetic gimmicks, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin were, together, a brand: The Cut-Up Boys of the Interzone&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-their-mad-methods-and-aesthetic-gimmicks-william-s-burroughs-and-brion-gysin-were-together-a-brand-the-cut-up-boys-of-the-interzone/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:33:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-their-mad-methods-and-aesthetic-gimmicks-william-s-burroughs-and-brion-gysin-were-together-a-brand-the-cut-up-boys-of-the-interzone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ketamine, public cuddling, and prediction markets on just about everything pervade Manifest, a gathering of self-described “rationalists”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ketamine, public cuddling, and prediction markets on just about everything pervade Manifest, a gathering of self-described &ldquo;rationalists&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ketamine-public-cuddling-and-prediction-markets-on-just-about-everything-pervade-manifest-a-gathering-of-self-described-rationalists/</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:33:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ketamine-public-cuddling-and-prediction-markets-on-just-about-everything-pervade-manifest-a-gathering-of-self-described-rationalists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Skewered in Satirical ‘Iran War Participation Trophy’ Art Installation]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has made no secret of his love for all things gold&mdash;the larger and glitzier the better. So visitors this week to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., who happened upon a 10-foot-tall, golden &ldquo;Iran War Participation Trophy&rdquo; dedicated to the president, can be forgiven for initially thinking it was a legitimate monument installed by the current administration.&ldquo;I thought it was serious because there are so many ridiculous things happening that it&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-skewered-in-satirical-iran-war-participation-trophy-artinstallation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-skewered-in-satirical-iran-war-participation-trophy-artinstallation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Residencies in London and the Hudson Valley Name Recipients: Industry Moves for July 15, 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	Artists Hellen Ascoli and Jos&eacute; Morb&aacute;n Selected for Delfina Foundation Residencies: The two artists will head to London for 12 weeks via support from the Jorge M. Perez Collection and El Espacio 23, the top collector&rsquo;s Miami exhibition space.Storm King Art Center Names]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-residencies-in-london-and-the-hudson-valley-name-recipients-industry-moves-for-july-152026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-residencies-in-london-and-the-hudson-valley-name-recipients-industry-moves-for-july-152026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Residencies in London and the Hudson Valley: Industry Moves for July 15, 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	Artists Hellen Ascoli and Jos&eacute; Morb&aacute;n Selected for Delfina Foundation Residencies: The two artists will head to London for 12 weeks via support from the Jorge M. Perez Collection and El Espacio 23, the top collector&rsquo;s Miami exhibition space.Storm King Art Center Names]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-residencies-in-london-and-the-hudson-valley-industry-moves-for-july-152026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-residencies-in-london-and-the-hudson-valley-industry-moves-for-july-152026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vija Celmins and Denis Villeneuve Are the 2026 Honorees of LACMA’s Glitzy Art+Film Gala]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art has announced the honorees for its annual Art+Film Gala, chaired by returning hosts Leonardo DiCaprio and LACAMA trustee Eva Chow.This year&rsquo;s star-studded event on Nov. 7 will honor artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. The Art + Film gala raises funds for LACMA&rsquo;s exhibition, acquisition, and education programming, with a special focus on projects at the intersection of visual art and film.Last year&rsquo;s gala honored Ryan Co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vija-celmins-and-denis-villeneuve-are-the-2026-honorees-of-lacmas-glitzy-artfilmgala/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vija-celmins-and-denis-villeneuve-are-the-2026-honorees-of-lacmas-glitzy-artfilmgala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Management Gallery, Grotesque Art Evolves for the Doomscroll Era]]></title><description><![CDATA[The third episode of 2026&rsquo;s breakout show on Apple TV,&nbsp;Widow&rsquo;s Bay, ends with the creature of the week&mdash;the perpetually sopping Sea Hag&mdash;astride her prey:&nbsp;cynical&nbsp;mayor&nbsp;Tom Loftis, played by Matthew&nbsp;Rhys.&nbsp;He&rsquo;d&nbsp;been warned.&nbsp;Her&nbsp;preferred&nbsp;method of murder is asphyxiation (she sits on your face).&nbsp;Pinned&nbsp;beneath&nbsp;her rotting legs&nbsp;in&nbsp;his recliner chair,&nbsp;Loftis&nbsp;narrowly escapes by&nbsp;yanki]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-management-gallery-grotesque-art-evolves-for-the-doomscrollera/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-management-gallery-grotesque-art-evolves-for-the-doomscrollera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh Insights into China’s Famed Sanxingdui Illuminate Ancient Trade Networks]]></title><description><![CDATA[New research suggests that a treasured bronze artifact excavated from the Sanxingdui archaeological site in China is an assemblage of different parts made in different areas at different points in time&mdash;&ldquo;offering fresh evidence of ancient trade networks and advanced metalworking techniques,&rdquo; according to a report in Heritage Daily.The research released by the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology pertains to a well-known bronze figure&mdash;wearing an e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fresh-insights-into-chinas-famed-sanxingdui-illuminate-ancient-tradenetworks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fresh-insights-into-chinas-famed-sanxingdui-illuminate-ancient-tradenetworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jacolby Satterwhite Receives Inaugural Artists Living With Cancer Grant From Rema Hort Mann Fund and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jacolby Satterwhite has been named the inaugural recipient of the Artists Living With Cancer Grant, a new $25,000 award co-presented by the Rema Hort Mann Fund (RHMF) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.Satterwhite will be presented with the inaugural grant, the first such partnership between RHMF and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, at the former&rsquo;s 30th anniversary gala on October 28.The new grant is meant to build on RHMF&rsquo;s Peter Hort Quality of Life Cancer Grants, which have]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jacolby-satterwhite-receives-inaugural-artists-living-with-cancer-grant-from-rema-hort-mann-fund-and-robert-rauschenbergfoundation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jacolby-satterwhite-receives-inaugural-artists-living-with-cancer-grant-from-rema-hort-mann-fund-and-robert-rauschenbergfoundation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rousing Tate Modern Retrospective Refuses to Reduce Ana Mendieta to a Tragic Figure]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1980, Ana Mendieta returned to her homeland of Cuba for the first time, having fled as a child refugee in 1961. She would make another six trips between 1980 and 1983, and the works she made during these visits open Tate Modern&rsquo;s new major retrospective of her work. &ldquo;Esculturas Repuestras&rdquo;(1981)is a series of sculptures carved into limestone caves, cliffs, and valleys in La Escaleras de Jaruco, a nature reserve in Cuba. They combine so much of what animated Mendieta&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rousing-tate-modern-retrospective-refuses-to-reduce-ana-mendieta-to-a-tragicfigure/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rousing-tate-modern-retrospective-refuses-to-reduce-ana-mendieta-to-a-tragicfigure/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rutgers’s Zimmerli Art Museum Receives 70-Work Gift, Including Pieces by Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, and Lee Friedlander]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey is now richer by more than 70 artworks after a donation from the collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein that includes pieces by established figures such as Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, Kuni&eacute; Sugiura, and John Waters, as well as emerging artists like Ever Baldwin, Troy Lamarr Chew II, and Lamar Peterson.&ldquo;Anne and Arthur are visionary collectors who have long championed artists of color, women a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rutgerss-zimmerli-art-museum-receives-70-work-gift-including-pieces-by-mark-bradford-nicole-eisenman-and-leefriedlander/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rutgerss-zimmerli-art-museum-receives-70-work-gift-including-pieces-by-mark-bradford-nicole-eisenman-and-leefriedlander/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bacteria Linked to Legionnaires’ Disease Detected at Metropolitan Museum of Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Museum of Art has tested positive for traces of the bacteria linked to a Legionnaires&rsquo; disease outbreak on Manhattan&rsquo;s Upper East Side, health officials announced Tuesday. The bacteria were previously detected at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as authorities continue searching for the source of the outbreak.The Met is typically closed on Wednesdays, and it said in a statement that the day would be dedicated to cleaning the premises and conducting follow-up testing]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bacteria-linked-to-legionnaires-disease-detected-at-metropolitan-museum-ofart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bacteria-linked-to-legionnaires-disease-detected-at-metropolitan-museum-ofart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Pressure on the Smithsonian, Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” Revisited at the Broad, and More: Morning Links for July 15, 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 Smithsonian is under yet more pressure from the Trump administration over its leadership and governance.Yoko Ono&rsquo;s landmark performance Cut Piece is being revisited at The Broad in Los Angeles.The Cincinnati Art Museum opens its first Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room.The Headlines	BOARD OF CONTENTION. The Smithsonian is facing an unusu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-pressure-on-the-smithsonian-yoko-onos-cut-piece-revisited-at-the-broad-and-more-morning-links-for-july-152026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-pressure-on-the-smithsonian-yoko-onos-cut-piece-revisited-at-the-broad-and-more-morning-links-for-july-152026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Cohan Gallery to Become Norr Cohan as Partner David Norr Assumes Sole Ownership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.In 2020, after over 20 years in business, James and Jane Cohan started thinking about the future of their gallery, and made a decision: they wanted it to have a future beyond them. This week, those plans come to fruition as James Cohan Gallery takes on a new identity as Norr Cohan, with gallery partner]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-cohan-gallery-to-become-norr-cohan-as-partner-david-norr-assumes-soleownership/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-cohan-gallery-to-become-norr-cohan-as-partner-david-norr-assumes-soleownership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hauser &amp; Wirth Expands to Silicon Valley with New Gallery in Palo&nbsp;Alto]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hauser &amp; Wirth is planting another flag in California, announcing that it will open a new gallery in downtown Palo Alto on October 3, marking the mega-gallery&rsquo;s first permanent location in Silicon Valley. The space will debut with&nbsp;&ldquo;Calder | O&rsquo;Keeffe,&rdquo; which is dedicated to the friendship and artistic relationship between Alexander Calder and Georgia O&rsquo;Keeffe.&nbsp;The opening adds another pin to what is already one of the world&rsquo;s largest commercial ga]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hauser-amp-wirth-expands-to-silicon-valley-with-new-gallery-in-palonbspalto/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hauser-amp-wirth-expands-to-silicon-valley-with-new-gallery-in-palonbspalto/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Reports $4.5 B. in Sales, Strongest First Half in Five Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The global auction market is finding its footing again, at least according to Christie&rsquo;s.Christie&rsquo;s reported $4.5 billion in first-half revenue on Tuesday, including $3.5 billion in auction sales and more than $1 billion in private sales, marking the company&rsquo;s strongest first six months since 2021. Auction sales rose a full 71 percent from the same period last year. The results were driven by blockbuster consignments, led by the $630.8 million sale of the collection of publishi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-reports-45-b-in-sales-strongest-first-half-in-fiveyears/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-reports-45-b-in-sales-strongest-first-half-in-fiveyears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“The smartphone erodes freedom not because it invades our private space, but because it gives us the feel of a private world”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The smartphone erodes freedom not because it invades our private space, but because it gives us the feel of a private world&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-smartphone-erodes-freedom-not-because-it-invades-our-private-space-but-because-it-gives-us-the-feel-of-a-private-world/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:15:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-smartphone-erodes-freedom-not-because-it-invades-our-private-space-but-because-it-gives-us-the-feel-of-a-private-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saul Bellow peeked under Allan Bloom's kimono and called it a tribute. Was the betrayal worth it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Saul Bellow peeked under Allan Bloom's kimono and called it a tribute. Was the betrayal worth it?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saul-bellow-peeked-under-allan-blooms-kimono-and-called-it-a-tribute-was-the-betrayal-worth-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:15:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saul-bellow-peeked-under-allan-blooms-kimono-and-called-it-a-tribute-was-the-betrayal-worth-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet and a theologian grope towards meaning by mail, trading letters about faith and friendship for two years ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A poet and a theologian grope towards meaning by mail, trading letters about faith and friendship for two years&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-poet-and-a-theologian-grope-towards-meaning-by-mail-trading-letters-about-faith-and-friendship-for-two-years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:15:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-poet-and-a-theologian-grope-towards-meaning-by-mail-trading-letters-about-faith-and-friendship-for-two-years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lyndon J. Barrois Sr.’s Miniature Portraits of World Cup History Explore Moments of Joy and Political Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[There have been no shortage of controversies at this year&rsquo;s World Cup, which enters its final leg this with the final match happening Sunday.	The Iranian team was not able to stay in the US. Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry into the US and therefore unable to officiate any games. President Donald Trump intervened to have US player Folarin Balogun&rsquo;s automatic match suspension from a red card being delayed a year so he could play in the USMNT&rsquo;s match against Belgium. Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lyndon-j-barrois-srs-miniature-portraits-of-world-cup-history-explore-moments-of-joy-and-politicalcontroversy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lyndon-j-barrois-srs-miniature-portraits-of-world-cup-history-explore-moments-of-joy-and-politicalcontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superblue Teams Up With Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre to Bring Immersive Art to Mumbai]]></title><description><![CDATA[Superblue, the experiential art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and former Pace London president Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, has landed in India for the first time, with a sprawling nine-work exhibition of immersive installations at Mumbai&rsquo;s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC).Titled &ldquo;Second Nature,&rdquo; the show opened at NMACC&rsquo;s four-story Art House on July 3 and runs through January 10, 2027. Curated by Dent-Brocklehurst, the company&rsquo;s cofoun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/superblue-teams-up-with-nita-mukesh-ambani-cultural-centre-to-bring-immersive-art-tomumbai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/superblue-teams-up-with-nita-mukesh-ambani-cultural-centre-to-bring-immersive-art-tomumbai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zendaya Gets an Earful of ‘Orientalist’ Complaints for Wearing Ancient Iranian Earrings to ‘Odyssey’ Promo Amid US-Iran War]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actress Zendaya has been on the receiving end of some, ahem, piercing criticism after wearing ancient Iranian earrings to a London event promoting the new Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey, in which she plays the Greek goddess Athena. The film hits US and UK theaters July 17 and has already been the subject of intense debate.Zendaya got the earrings, believed to date from the first millennium BCE, from London dealer Charlie Barron, and then had them remounted with diamonds and 18-karat yellow g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zendaya-gets-an-earful-of-orientalist-complaints-for-wearing-ancient-iranian-earrings-to-odyssey-promo-amid-us-iranwar/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zendaya-gets-an-earful-of-orientalist-complaints-for-wearing-ancient-iranian-earrings-to-odyssey-promo-amid-us-iranwar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze Seoul’s Public Programs Include a Hunt for Hidden Coins and a Place to Talk About Climate Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art fairs may have started out as trade shows for dealers to sell each other their inventory, but they have long since become major events in the art world&rsquo;s attention economy, zhuzhed up with public art commissions and intellectual dressings, including elaborate programs of public talks and film screenings, as well as plain old fun events like concerts. (As I wrote in 2020, the Armory Show even once offered a museum-style audio guide.)&nbsp;The public programming for the upcoming edition]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-seouls-public-programs-include-a-hunt-for-hidden-coins-and-a-place-to-talk-about-climatechange/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-seouls-public-programs-include-a-hunt-for-hidden-coins-and-a-place-to-talk-about-climatechange/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealer Dominique Lévy Says She Received Death Threats After Denouncing Post–October 7 Letter in Artforum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dominique L&eacute;vy, one of the dealers behind the blue-chip New York gallery L&eacute;vy Gorvy Dayan, spoke at length in a new profile about her response to October 7, claiming that she received death threats after publicly denouncing a 2023 open letter in Artforum that called for a ceasefire in Gaza.Published on October 19, 2023, the letter that ran in Artforum described Israel&rsquo;s war in Gaza as an &ldquo;escalating genocide&rdquo; and demanded &ldquo;an immediate ceasefire and the open]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealer-dominique-lvy-says-she-received-death-threats-after-denouncing-postoctober-7-letter-inartforum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealer-dominique-lvy-says-she-received-death-threats-after-denouncing-postoctober-7-letter-inartforum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces Citywide Mural Project to Commemorate Historic FIFA World Cup ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fever for the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament, the largest, most expansive in the competition&rsquo;s 96-year history, has swept North America. Star players like Norway&rsquo;s Erling Haaland,&nbsp;England&rsquo;s Harry Kane, France&rsquo;s Kylian Mbappe, and Argentina&rsquo;s Lionel Messi have turned in dramatic performances. Americans have fallen in love with visiting teams and foreign visitors have become enamored, of all things, with American-size food portions and ranch dressing.&nbsp;No]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-mamdani-announces-citywide-mural-project-to-commemorate-historic-fifa-worldcup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-city-mayor-zohran-mamdani-announces-citywide-mural-project-to-commemorate-historic-fifa-worldcup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hieroglyphs Inscribed on Wall of Ancient Building Reveal Name of Mayan Astronomer for the First Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists excavating Xultun, a large Mayan site in northeast Guatemala, have identified the name of an 8th-century Mayan astronomer-mathematician who wrote a calendrical formula on an interior wall of a small masonry building.The individual&rsquo;s name, Sak Tahn Waax, translates to &ldquo;White-chested Fox,&rdquo; and the formula (either written by him, or by someone else and attributed to him) calculates the orbital cycles of Mars and Venus. According to a paper published by Antiquity, th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hieroglyphs-inscribed-on-wall-of-ancient-building-reveal-name-of-mayan-astronomer-for-the-firsttime/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hieroglyphs-inscribed-on-wall-of-ancient-building-reveal-name-of-mayan-astronomer-for-the-firsttime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Charged in Theft of More Than 600 Artifacts from UK’s Bristol Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[A suspect has been charged in the wake of what British authorities described as a &ldquo;high-value burglary&rdquo; at the Bristol Museum in the UK last September.As reported by the BBC, &ldquo;Dean Hall, 41, from Redcliffe, Bristol, has been charged with handling stolen goods. He was given unconditional bail and he is next due at Bristol Crown Court on 17 August.&rdquo;The police said the investigation into the burglary&mdash;which involved more than 600 objects from the Bristol Museum&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-charged-in-theft-of-more-than-600-artifacts-from-uks-bristolmuseum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-charged-in-theft-of-more-than-600-artifacts-from-uks-bristolmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Reports Record $4.4 B. First Half as Private Sales and Luxury Fuel Growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s reported record first-half consolidated sales of $4.4 billion on Tuesday, up 58 percent from the same period last year, fueled by gains across auctions, private sales, and its growing luxury businesses. Auction sales rose 59 percent to $3.4 billion, while private sales climbed 52 percent to a record $826 million. The company also posted its highest sell-through rate since at least 2010 and a record 4.9 bidders per lot sold.The numbers are undeniably strong. But the more interesti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-reports-record-44-b-first-half-as-private-sales-and-luxury-fuelgrowth/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-reports-record-44-b-first-half-as-private-sales-and-luxury-fuelgrowth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s $50.1 M. T. Rex Sale Sets New Record as Scientists Scowl]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Tyrannosaurus rex known as &ldquo;Gus&rdquo; has become the most expensive dinosaur ever sold at auction after fetching $50.1 million at Sotheby&rsquo;s on Tuesday, extending a remarkable run that has transformed prehistoric fossils from natural history curiosities into one of&nbsp;the hottest corners of the luxury collectibles market.&nbsp;The 67-million-year-old skeleton sold after 19 bids, hammering at $43 million before premiums, comfortably stomping on the previous auction record of&nbs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-501-m-t-rex-sale-sets-new-record-as-scientistsscowl/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-501-m-t-rex-sale-sets-new-record-as-scientistsscowl/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dinosaur Dealer Sal Aaron Discusses the Fossil Market as Sotheby’s Sells T. Rex for Record $50 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Sotheby&rsquo;s sold &ldquo;Sue,&rdquo; a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, for $8.4 million in 1997, the house changed the way the art world looked at dinosaur fossils. Nearly three decades later, the market has grown dramatically. In 2020, Christie&rsquo;s sold another T. rex, named &ldquo;Stan,&rdquo; for $31.8 million. And then, in 2024, Sotheby&rsquo;s set a new record with &ldquo;Apex,&rdquo; a nearly complete stegosaurus that sold for $44.6 million.On Tuesday, Sotheby&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dinosaur-dealer-sal-aaron-discusses-the-fossil-market-as-sothebys-sells-t-rex-for-record-50m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dinosaur-dealer-sal-aaron-discusses-the-fossil-market-as-sothebys-sells-t-rex-for-record-50m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Slashes Size of National Monument Rich with Ancient Rock Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grand Staircase&ndash;Escalante, a national monument in Utah that is host to rock art dating back multiple millennia, will be significantly decreased in scale by Donald Trump as his administration attempts to capitalize on resources on the site&rsquo;s land.Established in 1996 at a scale of 1.7 million acres, Grand Staircase&ndash;Escalante has contracted and expanded in size depending on which president is in power. In 2017, Trump cut it in half; in 2021, Joe Biden expanded it once more.Though]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-slashes-size-of-national-monument-rich-with-ancient-rockart/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-slashes-size-of-national-monument-rich-with-ancient-rockart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$30 M. T. Rex Sparks Debate Over Fossils Being in Private Collections, Felix Art Fair Announces New Format for 2027, and More: Morning Links for July 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 />
A $30 million&nbsp;T. rex&nbsp;reignites a debate over whether fossils belong in private collections.Felix Art Fair will change its format for the 2027 edition.&nbsp;A forgotten Andy Warhol artwork made on a restaurant table has resurfaced in Austria.The Headlines	DINO DRAMA.&nbsp;A nearly complete&nbsp;Tyrannosaurus rex&nbsp;skeleton is current]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/30-m-t-rex-sparks-debate-over-fossils-being-in-private-collections-felix-art-fair-announces-new-format-for-2027-and-more-morning-links-for-july-142026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/30-m-t-rex-sparks-debate-over-fossils-being-in-private-collections-felix-art-fair-announces-new-format-for-2027-and-more-morning-links-for-july-142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$130 M. T. Rex Sparks Debate Over Fossils Being in Private Collections, Felix Art Fair Announces New Format for 2027, and More: Morning Links for July 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 />
A $30 million&nbsp;T. rex&nbsp;reignites a debate over whether fossils belong in private collections.Felix Art Fair will change its format for the 2027 edition.&nbsp;A forgotten Andy Warhol artwork made on a restaurant table has resurfaced in Austria.The Headlines	DINO DRAMA.&nbsp;A nearly complete&nbsp;Tyrannosaurus rex&nbsp;skeleton is current]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/130-m-t-rex-sparks-debate-over-fossils-being-in-private-collections-felix-art-fair-announces-new-format-for-2027-and-more-morning-links-for-july-142026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/130-m-t-rex-sparks-debate-over-fossils-being-in-private-collections-felix-art-fair-announces-new-format-for-2027-and-more-morning-links-for-july-142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rauschenberg Foundation Gives Works to Tate, National Galleries of Scotland]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has given three works by the artist to Artist Rooms, a collection that is jointly managed by the London-based Tate museum network and the National Galleries of Scotland.Though Rauschenberg remains best known for his Combines from the postwar era, all three of the works given to Artist Rooms are part of a 1980s series called &ldquo;Gluts.&rdquo; Like his Combines, these sculptures harvest ready-made materials borrowed from everyday life&mdash;found pieces of met]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rauschenberg-foundation-gives-works-to-tate-national-galleries-ofscotland/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rauschenberg-foundation-gives-works-to-tate-national-galleries-ofscotland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Felix Art Fair Overhauls Its Format, Emphasizing Solo, Two-Artist Booths and Poolside Experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[Felix Art Fair is betting that less can be more.The Los Angeles fair will dramatically reshape its format beginning with its 2027 edition, abandoning its longtime split between the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel&rsquo;s upper-floor suites and its famous poolside cabanas in favor of a unified layout centered entirely around the hotel&rsquo;s two-story cabana complex. At the same time, exhibitors will be encouraged to present solo and two-artist booths instead of the larger group displays that have bec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/felix-art-fair-overhauls-its-format-emphasizing-solo-two-artist-booths-and-poolsideexperience/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/felix-art-fair-overhauls-its-format-emphasizing-solo-two-artist-booths-and-poolsideexperience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Turns to the World Cup After Record-Breaking Jim Irsay Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fresh off the record-breaking sale of the late Jim Irsay&rsquo;s memorabilia collection, Christie&rsquo;s is planning a sale centered around another topic with broad popular appeal: the World Cup.The house announced an online charity auction tied to the tournament that will include game-used match balls, team-signed jerseys, and costumes worn by performers including Shakira and Coldplay&rsquo;s Chris Martin.The sale,&nbsp;called &ldquo;One Goal: An Auction to Benefit the FIFA Global Citizen Educ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-turns-to-the-world-cup-after-record-breaking-jim-irsaysales/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-turns-to-the-world-cup-after-record-breaking-jim-irsaysales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nazi-Looted Painting Found Decades Ago Among Amsterdam’s Street Trash Will Be Returned to Jewish Dealer’s Heirs]]></title><description><![CDATA[A painting that once belonged to the prominent Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has been successfully identified and will be returned to his heirs.The discovery of the painting, depicting the interior of Amsterdam&rsquo;s Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and likely by Dutch Golden Age painter Hendrick van der Burgh, has an unusual history, according to De Telegraaf, which first reported the news. The paper&rsquo;s crime reporter John van den Heuvel worked with art detective Arthur Brand to id]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nazi-looted-painting-found-decades-ago-among-amsterdams-street-trash-will-be-returned-to-jewish-dealersheirs/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nazi-looted-painting-found-decades-ago-among-amsterdams-street-trash-will-be-returned-to-jewish-dealersheirs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten thousand books in 600 square feet: For a young member of the literati, it was a temple of the mind; for his landlord, it was a fire hazard]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten thousand books in 600 square feet: For a young member of the literati, it was a temple of the mind; for his landlord, it was a fire hazard]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ten-thousand-books-in-600-square-feet-for-a-young-member-of-the-literati-it-was-a-temple-of-the-mind-for-his-landlord-it-was-a-fire-hazard/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:06:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ten-thousand-books-in-600-square-feet-for-a-young-member-of-the-literati-it-was-a-temple-of-the-mind-for-his-landlord-it-was-a-fire-hazard/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” ]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I do support you&mdash;difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff&mdash;urine ... fist up rectum&rdquo;&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/i-do-support-youdifficult-job-but-barbara-and-i-are-bothered-about-the-raunchy-stuffurine-fist-up-rectum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:06:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/i-do-support-youdifficult-job-but-barbara-and-i-are-bothered-about-the-raunchy-stuffurine-fist-up-rectum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carolyn Rouse did an interview to rebut the charge that anthropology has too much politics and too little rigor. It didn't go well]]></title><description><![CDATA[Carolyn Rouse did an interview to rebut the charge that anthropology has too much politics and too little rigor. It didn't go well]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/carolyn-rouse-did-an-interview-to-rebut-the-charge-that-anthropology-has-too-much-politics-and-too-little-rigor-it-didnt-go-well/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:06:41 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/carolyn-rouse-did-an-interview-to-rebut-the-charge-that-anthropology-has-too-much-politics-and-too-little-rigor-it-didnt-go-well/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant Shipping Container Sculpture at Montauk Art Space The Ranch Draws Municipal Fire]]></title><description><![CDATA[Standing 60 feet tall in a former horse pasture at Max Levai&rsquo;s Montauk exhibition space, The Ranch, Matt Johnson&rsquo;s&nbsp;Meditating Figure is impossible to ignore. Built from 12 retired shipping containers that collectively traveled more than 12 million miles before being stacked into the outline of a cross-legged figure, the sculpture turns one of globalization&rsquo;s least glamorous inventions into something approaching a contemporary colossus.Now, it has become the center of an in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giant-shipping-container-sculpture-at-montauk-art-space-the-ranch-draws-municipalfire/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giant-shipping-container-sculpture-at-montauk-art-space-the-ranch-draws-municipalfire/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giant Shipping Container Sculpture at East Hampton Art Space Generates Legal Battle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Standing 60 feet tall in a former horse pasture at Levai&rsquo;s exhibition space, The Ranch, Matt Johnson&rsquo;s&nbsp;Meditating Figureis impossible to ignore. Built from 12 retired shipping containers that collectively traveled more than 12 million miles before being stacked into the outline of a cross-legged figure, the sculpture turns one of globalization&rsquo;s least glamorous inventions into something approaching a contemporary colossus.Now it has become the center of an increasingly pub]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giant-shipping-container-sculpture-at-east-hampton-art-space-generates-legalbattle/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giant-shipping-container-sculpture-at-east-hampton-art-space-generates-legalbattle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Museum of Art’s Former COO Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $600,000]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brady Lum, former chief operating officer at Atlanta&rsquo;s High Museum of Art, pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal charge of theft. Lum &ldquo;pilfered more than $600,000 from the museum by doctoring invoices and approving transactions for personal purchases,&rdquo; says an announcement from the Justice Department.&nbsp;&ldquo;Over several years, Lum deceptively plundered the southeast&rsquo;s premier museum of visual art, embezzling more than half a million dollars,&rdquo; said US Attorney]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/high-museum-of-arts-former-coo-pleads-guilty-to-embezzling-more-than600000/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/high-museum-of-arts-former-coo-pleads-guilty-to-embezzling-more-than600000/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archeologists Uncover Previously Unknown Tomb of Ancient Egyptian High Official]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists have uncovered a previously unknown tomb in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Sheikh Abd El-Qurna on Luxor&rsquo;s West Bank. The 3,000-year-old monument contains colorful wall paintings and inscriptions identifying the former occupant as a man named Paser.Part of the Theban Necropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Sheikh Abd El-Qurna cemetery is known for its concentration of tombs of priests and high-ranking officials from Egypt&rsquo;s New Kingdom (1570&ndash;1069 BCE). B]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archeologists-uncover-previously-unknown-tomb-of-ancient-egyptian-highofficial/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archeologists-uncover-previously-unknown-tomb-of-ancient-egyptian-highofficial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Uncover Previously Unknown Tomb of Ancient Egyptian High Official]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists have uncovered a previously unknown tomb in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Sheikh Abd El-Qurna on Luxor&rsquo;s West Bank. The 3,000-year-old monument contains colorful wall paintings as well as inscriptions identifying the former occupant as a man named Paser.Part of the Theban Necropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Sheikh Abd El-Qurna cemetery is known for its concentration of tombs of priests and high-ranking officials from Egypt&rsquo;s New Kingdom (1570&ndash;1069]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-uncover-previously-unknown-tomb-of-ancient-egyptian-highofficial/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-uncover-previously-unknown-tomb-of-ancient-egyptian-highofficial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre Jewel Heist Suspects Claim ‘Mysterious Sponsor’ Recruited Them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The two prime suspects in the infamous 2025 Louvre jewel heist claimed they were recruited by a &ldquo;mysterious sponsor,&rdquo; according to statements made to Paris judicial authorities that were published by Le Monde over the weekend.Arrested one week after the robbery and indicted on charges of &ldquo;organized gang robbery,&rdquo; Abdoulaye N., 40, and Ghelamallah A., 36, remained silent for months in pre-trial detention. In June, however, they appeared before investigating judges and, for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-jewel-heist-suspects-claim-mysterious-sponsor-recruitedthem/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-jewel-heist-suspects-claim-mysterious-sponsor-recruitedthem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design for New National Museum of Ecuador Prompts Petition Calling for Reconsideration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The winning design for a new National Museum of Ecuador (MuNA) in Quito has met with criticism among detractors who deride its minimalist aesthetic and claim it clashes with the culture of the country.&ldquo;A heritage that tells our Andean, Amazonian, coastal, and insular history cannot be contained within a structure that emulates the homogeneity of high-rise corporate real estate projects,&rdquo; reads an online petition that has been signed by more than 20,000 people. &ldquo;The design must]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/design-for-new-national-museum-of-ecuador-prompts-petition-calling-forreconsideration/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/design-for-new-national-museum-of-ecuador-prompts-petition-calling-forreconsideration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistleblowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Awarding No-Bid Contracts for $257 M. Trump-Led Renovation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the ranking member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, detailed allegations that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts &ldquo;mismanaged federally appropriated funds,&rdquo; rushed renovation work, and skirted standard government contracting procedures.The allegations, laid out in a letter on July 9 from Whitehouse to Matt Floca, the executive director of the center, were drawn from whistleblower disclosures submitted to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whistleblowers-accuse-kennedy-center-of-awarding-no-bid-contracts-for-257-m-trump-ledrenovation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whistleblowers-accuse-kennedy-center-of-awarding-no-bid-contracts-for-257-m-trump-ledrenovation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California Man Sentenced in Theft of Rare Chinese Manuscripts from UCLA Library]]></title><description><![CDATA[A California resident was sentenced last week for his theft of a rare 17th-century Chinese manuscript from the library of the University of California, Los Angeles.&nbsp;Jeffrey Ying, 39, had pleaded guilty to a single count of art theft last October. He was sentenced to &ldquo;time served, accounting for around one month in jail, in addition to one year of home confinement and three years of supervised release,&rdquo; the South China Morning Post reports. &nbsp;The string of thefts attributed t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/california-man-sentenced-in-theft-of-rare-chinese-manuscripts-from-uclalibrary/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/california-man-sentenced-in-theft-of-rare-chinese-manuscripts-from-uclalibrary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Commission Recommends Cancelation of Venice Biennale Grant over Russian Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, a European Union commission followed up on its earlier threats to cancel a &euro;2 million grant to the Venice Biennale, citing Russia&rsquo;s participation in the event this year as its reasoning.The European Commission was among the most high-profile voices to denounce the Biennale in advance of the opening, saying that the exhibition should never have let Russia back into the show. Russia had not staged a pavilion at the Venice Biennale since 2022, the year that the country]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-commission-recommends-cancelation-of-venice-biennale-grant-over-russianpavilion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-commission-recommends-cancelation-of-venice-biennale-grant-over-russianpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[European Commission Recommends Withdrawal of Venice Biennale Grant, UNESCO Reviews ‘Black Cube’ in Florence, and More: Morning Links for July 13, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesEU TO PULL VENICE FUNDING?&nbsp;The&nbsp;European Commission&nbsp;has recommended the withdrawal of &euro;2 million from the&nbsp;Venice Biennale&nbsp;as a dispute over Russia&rsquo;s participation in the exhibition continues, the&nbsp;Art Journal&nbsp;reports. The move follows months of tension over the reopening of the Russian Pavilion, which returned this year after closing in the wake of Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine. EU executive vice-president&nbsp;Henna Virkkunen&nbsp;sa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/european-commission-recommends-withdrawal-of-venice-biennale-grant-unesco-reviews-black-cube-in-florence-and-more-morning-links-for-july-132026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/european-commission-recommends-withdrawal-of-venice-biennale-grant-unesco-reviews-black-cube-in-florence-and-more-morning-links-for-july-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years — he called it the best time of his life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years &mdash; he called it the best time of his life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/young-j-g-ballard-and-his-family-were-imprisoned-in-a-japanese-camp-for-a-two-and-a-half-years-he-called-it-the-best-time-of-his-life/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:54:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/young-j-g-ballard-and-his-family-were-imprisoned-in-a-japanese-camp-for-a-two-and-a-half-years-he-called-it-the-best-time-of-his-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot]]></title><description><![CDATA[PEN America was founded in 1922 to protect free speech and defend writers. That creed has developed a blind spot]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pen-america-was-founded-in-1922-to-protect-free-speech-and-defend-writers-that-creed-has-developed-a-blind-spot/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:54:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pen-america-was-founded-in-1922-to-protect-free-speech-and-defend-writers-that-creed-has-developed-a-blind-spot/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michel Foucault, who warned against domination, became dominant himself. He'd have savored the irony&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michel Foucault, who warned against domination, became dominant himself. He'd have savored the irony&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michel-foucault-who-warned-against-domination-became-dominant-himself-hed-have-savored-the-ironynbsp/</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:54:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michel-foucault-who-warned-against-domination-became-dominant-himself-hed-have-savored-the-ironynbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chua Mia Tee, Leading Singaporean Social Realist Artist, Has Died at 94]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chua Mia Tee, known for his sympathetic depictions of the people of Singapore during the country&rsquo;s early period of self-rule, has died, age 94. The artist&rsquo;s daughter, Chua Yang, told the Straits Times that her father was recently hospitalized for pneumonia and died at his Bukit Timah home on July 10.No less than Singaporean president Tharman Shanmugaratnam posted on Facebook about the artist&rsquo;s passing, expressing &ldquo;much respect&rdquo; and saying, &ldquo;He gave everyone, f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chua-mia-tee-leading-singaporean-social-realist-artist-has-died-at94/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chua-mia-tee-leading-singaporean-social-realist-artist-has-died-at94/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Archeologists Find 5,800-Year-Old Neolithic Monument in Suffolk]]></title><description><![CDATA[British archeologists have uncovered a type of Neolithic earthwork called a long enclosure on the Suffolk coast. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily, following an announcement by Oxford Cotswold Archeology, which has been excavating in the area ahead of the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear power station.The&nbsp;Neolithic period&nbsp;in Britain spanned roughly 4000 to 2500 BCE. During this period, humans shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to sedentary farming, cultivating]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-archeologists-find-5800-year-old-neolithic-monument-insuffolk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-archeologists-find-5800-year-old-neolithic-monument-insuffolk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heritage Auctions’ Record $1.41 B. First Half Suggests Collecting Is Getting Broader]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heritage Auctions posted more than $1.41 billion in sales during the first six months of 2026, the highest midyear total in the company&rsquo;s 50-year history and a 47 percent increase over the same period last year, putting the Dallas-based auction house on pace for what could become another record year.&nbsp;The numbers are notable on their own. But the more revealing story may be what drove them.For years, categories like video games, trading cards and comic books occupied the margins of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heritage-auctions-record-141-b-first-half-suggests-collecting-is-gettingbroader/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heritage-auctions-record-141-b-first-half-suggests-collecting-is-gettingbroader/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Returns Two Looted Bronze Buddha Statues, Sold by Disgraced Antiquities Dealer Douglas Latchford, to Indonesia]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the Indonesian Consulate in New York hosted an event celebrating the return of two 8th-century bronze sculptures to Indonesia.According to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the Southern District of New York, the Buddhist sculptures were originally taken from archaeological sites in Republic of Indonesia by an organized looting network and sold to Douglas Latchford, the British dealer who died in Thailand in 2020, a year after he was indicted for trafficking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-returns-two-looted-bronze-buddha-statues-sold-by-disgraced-antiquities-dealer-douglas-latchford-toindonesia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-returns-two-looted-bronze-buddha-statues-sold-by-disgraced-antiquities-dealer-douglas-latchford-toindonesia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Museum Teams With BTS as Part of Citywide Art Trail Timed to the Group’s World Tour]]></title><description><![CDATA[After gracing the ramps of the Guggenheim with their pop-projecting presence, BTS have turned their eyes to another museum as part of a marketing campaign for its latest world tour. This time, the K-pop group is in league with the British Museum in London, where visitors can see a showcase of artworks in the institution&rsquo;s Korea Foundation Gallery, chosen in collaboration with curator Sang-ah Kim.The Guggenheim gambit was a private affair during which BTS performed amid a Carol Bove retrosp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-museum-teams-with-bts-as-part-of-citywide-art-trail-timed-to-the-groups-worldtour/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-museum-teams-with-bts-as-part-of-citywide-art-trail-timed-to-the-groups-worldtour/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian Americans Say a 2020 Zohran Mamdani Tweet About a Christopher Columbus Monument Shows ‘Seething Hatred’]]></title><description><![CDATA[American conservatives are once again up in arms about a six-year-old tweet by Zohran Kwame Mamdani, elected last year as New York&rsquo;s mayor.It was June 2020, and a wave of iconoclasm was sweeping the United States. Minneapolis police had murdered George Floyd, an African American man, the month before, and protesters argued that monuments to Confederate soldiers and leaders, slaveholders, and similar figures didn&rsquo;t just mark important parts of American history, but rather promoted the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-americans-say-a-2020-zohran-mamdani-tweet-about-a-christopher-columbus-monument-shows-seethinghatred/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-americans-say-a-2020-zohran-mamdani-tweet-about-a-christopher-columbus-monument-shows-seethinghatred/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICOM Adopts New Museum Code of Ethics Taking Aim at AI, Colonialism, and Climate Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time in over 20 years, the International Council of Museums has revised its code of ethics to address new and pressing issues facing institutions, including &ldquo;the rise of digital technologies, the climate crisis, and the ongoing need to address the legacies of colonialism through responsible and ethical museum practice,&rdquo; per a press release.The revised code was officially adopted in late June at the organization&rsquo;s 41st Ordinary General Assembly in Paris, following]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/icom-adopts-new-museum-code-of-ethics-taking-aim-at-ai-colonialism-and-climatechange/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/icom-adopts-new-museum-code-of-ethics-taking-aim-at-ai-colonialism-and-climatechange/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legionella Bacteria Found in Guggenheim Cooling Tower as Outbreak Plagues Upper East Side]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bacteria that causes Legionnaires&rsquo; disease has been detected in a cooling tower at New York&rsquo;s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, though museum officials say the building remains safe for visitors and staff.&nbsp;The discovery comes as city health officials investigate an outbreak of the potentially serious form of pneumonia across Manhattan&rsquo;s Upper East Side. Legionnaires&rsquo; disease is spread by inhaling tiny water droplets contaminated with&nbsp;Legionella&nbsp;bacteria. It]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/legionella-bacteria-found-in-guggenheim-cooling-tower-as-outbreak-plagues-upper-eastside/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/legionella-bacteria-found-in-guggenheim-cooling-tower-as-outbreak-plagues-upper-eastside/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Late Swiss Businessman’s Treasure-Filled Modern Art Collection Faces Bitter Legal Battle]]></title><description><![CDATA[An important collection of modern art amassed by Werner Merzbacher, a Swiss collector who died in 2024, is currently the subject of a legal battle centered around the late businessman&rsquo;s will and who really gets the right to control the paintings he owned.Merzbacher, who generated his fortune through a fur business and currency trading, gained many of the artworks in his possession through his grandfather-in-law, Bernhard Mayer. His collection included a range of high-quality Impressionist,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/late-swiss-businessmans-treasure-filled-modern-art-collection-faces-bitter-legalbattle/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/late-swiss-businessmans-treasure-filled-modern-art-collection-faces-bitter-legalbattle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists and Former Staffers Accuse Cape Town Gallery SMAC of Nonpayment and Withholding Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[South African artist Kate Gottgens recently took to social media to accuse Cape Town gallery SMAC of failing to either pay her for works the gallery had sold or return the works if they were still in the gallery&rsquo;s possession.&nbsp;On July 2, she posted an image of her painting&nbsp;Audible Doom&nbsp;(2011) to Instagram. In the green-hued, hazy scene, a female figure, apparently with a bag over her head, stands on a ledge, seemingly addressing several other shadowy figures. Gottgens asked,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-and-former-staffers-accuse-cape-town-gallery-smac-of-nonpayment-and-withholdingartworks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-and-former-staffers-accuse-cape-town-gallery-smac-of-nonpayment-and-withholdingartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bayeux Tapestry Makes Historic Arrival at London’s British Museum in the Dead of Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[Escorted in secret by police under the cover of darkness, the millennium-old Bayeux Tapestry finally arrived to London&rsquo;s British Museum on Friday. The long-awaited but controversial loan from France was welcomed at 2:48 am by a &ldquo;select crowd,&rdquo; including France&rsquo;s ambassador to the UK, per British reports. A large black box within a gridded, aluminum casing designed to keep the relic suspended to avoid damaging vibrations was removed from a yellow truck, as some teary-eyed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bayeux-tapestry-makes-historic-arrival-at-londons-british-museum-in-the-dead-ofnight/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bayeux-tapestry-makes-historic-arrival-at-londons-british-museum-in-the-dead-ofnight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Jersey Worn by Knicks Point Guard Jalen Brunson in NBA Finals Fetches $1 M. at Sotheby’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following the New York Knickerbockers&rsquo; historic win in the 2025&ndash;26 NBA season finals, Sotheby&rsquo;s New York sold a jersey worn by point guard Jalen Brunson on Wednesday for just over $1 million. It was the Knicks&rsquo; first championship win in 53 years, and the jersey set a new record for any piece of Knicks memorabilia.&nbsp;The house&rsquo;s expert, Brahm Wachter, had estimated it could make in excess of $1 million.Opened on June 30, the sale of finals memorabilia concluded We]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-jersey-worn-by-knicks-point-guard-jalen-brunson-in-nba-finals-fetches-1-m-atsothebys/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-jersey-worn-by-knicks-point-guard-jalen-brunson-in-nba-finals-fetches-1-m-atsothebys/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Robert Rauschenberg and Why Was He So Important?]]></title><description><![CDATA[If there&rsquo;s a single adjective that sums up Robert Rauschenberg (1925&ndash;2008), it would have to be protean, though prolific fits as well. Estimated to number some 10,000 works, Rauschenberg&rsquo;s oeuvre was driven by an expansive sensibility that saw possibilities for art everywhere and a generosity of spirit reflected in his cooperation with other artists.Rauschenberg&rsquo;s avidity manifested most famously in his &ldquo;combines,&rdquo; begun in the mid 1950s. Harvested from the st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-was-robert-rauschenberg-and-why-was-he-soimportant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-was-robert-rauschenberg-and-why-was-he-soimportant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Original Antifa Fought the Nazis. A New Art Exhibition Asks What’s Next]]></title><description><![CDATA[A small German city unearthed a large chunk of history this past May. Urban construction in the Black Forest municipality of Pforzheim uncovered an undetonated World War II bomb, forcing an evacuation of surrounding areas before its eventual defusing.Other ghosts are not so easily exorcised. This past spring, a teen disco in Brandenburg saw more than a hundred adolescents chant Nazi slogans, while young folk in North Frisia were recorded intoning the same lines in May: &ldquo;Foreigners out, Ger]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-original-antifa-fought-the-nazis-a-new-art-exhibition-asks-whatsnext/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-original-antifa-fought-the-nazis-a-new-art-exhibition-asks-whatsnext/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MFA Houston Announces Recent Acquisitions, Including Works by Ferdinand Hodler, Peter Bradley, Anicka Yi, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has announced a group of new acquisitions, both gifts and purchases, across its curatorial departments. The artworks range from a 17th-century wall hanging depicting courtly life in India to recent animatronic sculptures by contemporary artist Anicka Yi.In statement, MFAH director Gary Tinterow said of this round of acquisitions include &ldquo;two works that constitute astounding rediscoveries in their respective fields: Ladies of the Court belongs to a series o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mfa-houston-announces-recent-acquisitions-including-works-by-ferdinand-hodler-peter-bradley-anicka-yi-andmore/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mfa-houston-announces-recent-acquisitions-including-works-by-ferdinand-hodler-peter-bradley-anicka-yi-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are becoming participants in a vast philosophical experiment: Will Kant or Nietzsche be proved right?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are becoming participants in a vast philosophical experiment: Will Kant or Nietzsche be proved right?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-are-becoming-participants-in-a-vast-philosophical-experiment-will-kant-or-nietzsche-be-proved-right/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:57:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-are-becoming-participants-in-a-vast-philosophical-experiment-will-kant-or-nietzsche-be-proved-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are becoming participants in a vast philosophical experiment: Will Kant or Nietzsche be proven right?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are becoming participants in a vast philosophical experiment: Will Kant or Nietzsche be proven right?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-are-becoming-participants-in-a-vast-philosophical-experiment-will-kant-or-nietzsche-be-proven-right/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:01:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-are-becoming-participants-in-a-vast-philosophical-experiment-will-kant-or-nietzsche-be-proven-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: “vibrant pessimism”]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French surrealists, stricken by serving in World War I, adopted a new philosophical approach: &ldquo;vibrant pessimism&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-french-surrealists-stricken-by-serving-in-world-war-i-adopted-a-new-philosophical-approach-vibrant-pessimism/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:01:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-french-surrealists-stricken-by-serving-in-world-war-i-adopted-a-new-philosophical-approach-vibrant-pessimism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naomi Kanakia has two questions about n+1: How did it publish so much consistently amazing work? And why did it get so bad?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Naomi Kanakia has two questions about n+1: How did it publish so much consistently amazing work? And why did it get so bad?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/naomi-kanakia-has-two-questions-about-n1-how-did-it-publish-so-much-consistently-amazing-work-and-why-did-it-get-so-bad/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:01:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/naomi-kanakia-has-two-questions-about-n1-how-did-it-publish-so-much-consistently-amazing-work-and-why-did-it-get-so-bad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1962, Marshall McLuhan predicted that we would become post-literate. He was early, but he wasn't wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1962, Marshall McLuhan predicted that we would become post-literate. He was early, but he wasn't wrong]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1962-marshall-mcluhan-predicted-that-we-would-become-post-literate-he-was-early-but-he-wasnt-wrong/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:01:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-1962-marshall-mcluhan-predicted-that-we-would-become-post-literate-he-was-early-but-he-wasnt-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appeals Court Denies President Trump’s Request to Restore Name to Kennedy Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied President Trump&rsquo;s request to restore his name to the facade of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in the latest setback to the institution&rsquo;s legal battle against the federal courts.	In their decision, three judges from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said that President Trump had failed to prove that the arts complex would be &ldquo;irreparably injured&rdquo; by the removal, as his attorneys had arg]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/appeals-court-denies-president-trumps-request-to-restore-name-to-kennedycenter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/appeals-court-denies-president-trumps-request-to-restore-name-to-kennedycenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi Appointed President of Sharjah Museums Authority]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation and a member of the Sharjawi royal family, has been appointed as president of the Sharjah Museums Authority. In her post, she will oversee 16 museums across Sharjah with purviews including Islamic art and culture, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life, and history.The appointment&mdash;issued by Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah&mdash;applies to an enterprise foun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sheikha-hoor-al-qasimi-appointed-president-of-sharjah-museumsauthority/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sheikha-hoor-al-qasimi-appointed-president-of-sharjah-museumsauthority/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edi Rama, Artist and Albanian Prime Minister, Defends Controversial Kanye West Concert Near Tirana]]></title><description><![CDATA[Edi Rama, an artist who also happens to serve as Albania&rsquo;s Prime Minster, has defended plans to stage a Kanye West concert in a recently built stadium outside Tirana, even as some Jewish groups continued to accuse the rapper of antisemitism.West, who previously denied the Holocaust and posted about his intentions to go &ldquo;death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,&rdquo; is set to perform on Saturday in a custom-built venue erected at a cost of millions of euros. The Albanian media previously quote]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edi-rama-artist-and-albanian-prime-minister-defends-controversial-kanye-west-concert-neartirana/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edi-rama-artist-and-albanian-prime-minister-defends-controversial-kanye-west-concert-neartirana/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egyptian Archeologists Discover ‘Golden Tongues’ Inside Sealed Tombs at Ancient Coastal City]]></title><description><![CDATA[Egyptian archeologists have found 18 previously unknown Ptolomeic and Roman tombs, as well as a stone sarcophagus and rare grave goods, at the Marina el-Alamein archeological site near Alexandria. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily on July 4, following an announcement by Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. &nbsp;The most recent discovery offers fresh insights into Marina el-Alamein, one of Egypt&rsquo;s best-preserved ancient settlements, and illustrates how Egyptian be]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egyptian-archeologists-discover-golden-tongues-inside-sealed-tombs-at-ancient-coastalcity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egyptian-archeologists-discover-golden-tongues-inside-sealed-tombs-at-ancient-coastalcity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polarizing Portrait of King Charles Included in Buckingham Palace’s Picture Gallery Rehang]]></title><description><![CDATA[A large oil study for King Charles III&rsquo;s polarizing first official portrait, unveiled a year after his coronation in May 2023, is now on view at Buckingham Palace, part of a major transformation of the Picture Gallery, one of the palace&rsquo;s most popular semi-public spaces.	The gallery now showcases 120 paintings, nearly double the 63 that had previously been on view there. The revamp also involved replacing the coral velvet wall hangings with green silk damask and updating the gallery&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/polarizing-portrait-of-king-charles-included-in-buckingham-palaces-picture-galleryrehang/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/polarizing-portrait-of-king-charles-included-in-buckingham-palaces-picture-galleryrehang/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Investigators Return 59 Looted Antiquities to Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fifty-nine antiquities looted from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia, including 45 seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, have been returned to their countries of origin, the Manhattan District Attorney&rsquo;s Office announced on Wednesday.Among the objects seized from the Met and returned to Italy was a terracotta vase used for chilling and mixing wine and water, attributed to the famed Troilos Painter. One side depicts Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, and the hero Herakles on Mount Olympus; the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-investigators-return-59-looted-antiquities-to-italy-iraq-andindonesia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-investigators-return-59-looted-antiquities-to-italy-iraq-andindonesia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honolulu Museum of Art Appoints New Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) in Hawai&lsquo;i has named David Odo as its next director and chief executive. He will start in the role on September 1. &nbsp;He succeeds Halona Norton-Westbrook, who left in July 2025 to lead the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.Odo is currently director and chief curator of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. During his tenure, the museum saw record attendance, which now sees around 61,000 annual visitors. He also increas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/honolulu-museum-of-art-appoints-newdirector/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/honolulu-museum-of-art-appoints-newdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Slams White House Report As ‘Not a Fair Characterization’ of Museum’s Scholarship]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Saturday, July 4, the Trump Administration released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Museum of American History of &ldquo;institutional capture by a radical, activist ideology.&rdquo; On Tuesday, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III finally responded.In an email to staff obtained by the Washington Post and published Wednesday evening, Bunch wrote that the report was &ldquo;not a fair characterization of the work and totality of the National Museum of A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-slams-white-house-report-as-not-a-fair-characterization-of-museumsscholarship/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-slams-white-house-report-as-not-a-fair-characterization-of-museumsscholarship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hauser &amp; Wirth Cleared by UK Judge of Breaching Russia Sanctions with Sale of a George Condo&nbsp;Artwork]]></title><description><![CDATA[Swiss-based megagallery Hauser &amp; Wirth was cleared on Thursday of charges of violating Russia sanctions by selling an artwork by George Condo to Alexander Popov, a person connected with Russia. Judge Tony Baumgardner dismissed the criminal charges, saying prosecutors had not proven that Popov was a Russian resident at the time of the sale, reports the Independent.His Majesty&rsquo;s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) had charged the Swiss-based megagallery, which has 17 locations around the globe, i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hauser-amp-wirth-cleared-by-uk-judge-of-breaching-russia-sanctions-with-sale-of-a-george-condonbspartwork/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hauser-amp-wirth-cleared-by-uk-judge-of-breaching-russia-sanctions-with-sale-of-a-george-condonbspartwork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Condo Returns to Hauser &amp; Wirth, Painting Illuminates Shakespeare&rsquo;s Rebellious Politics, and More: Morning Links for July 9,&nbsp;2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good MorningA White House report accusing the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Museum of American History of erasing US heritage is unfair, says the institution&rsquo;s chief, Lonnie Bunch.Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi was appointed president of the Sharjah Museums Authority.George Condo is heading back to Hauser &amp; Wirth after leaving the gallery.The HeadlinesBUNCH]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-condo-returns-to-hauser-amp-wirth-painting-illuminates-shakespearersquos-rebellious-politics-and-more-morning-links-for-july-9nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-condo-returns-to-hauser-amp-wirth-painting-illuminates-shakespearersquos-rebellious-politics-and-more-morning-links-for-july-9nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an irreverent satire landed Daniel Defoe in peril in 1702, the English government offered a way out: Become a spy]]></title><description><![CDATA[When an irreverent satire landed Daniel Defoe in peril in 1702, the English government offered a way out: Become a spy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-an-irreverent-satire-landed-daniel-defoe-in-peril-in-1702-the-english-government-offered-a-way-out-become-a-spy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:50:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-an-irreverent-satire-landed-daniel-defoe-in-peril-in-1702-the-english-government-offered-a-way-out-become-a-spy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naomi Kanakia has two questions about n+1: How did it used to publish so much consistently amazing work? Why did it get so much worse?  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Naomi Kanakia has two questions about n+1: How did it used to publish so much consistently amazing work? Why did it get so much worse?&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/naomi-kanakia-has-two-questions-about-n1-how-did-it-used-to-publish-so-much-consistently-amazing-work-why-did-it-get-so-much-worse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:50:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/naomi-kanakia-has-two-questions-about-n1-how-did-it-used-to-publish-so-much-consistently-amazing-work-why-did-it-get-so-much-worse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beekeeping, calligraphy, and glassblowing are flourishing as skill nostalgia grips our AI-terrified world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beekeeping, calligraphy, and glassblowing are flourishing as skill nostalgia grips our AI-terrified world]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beekeeping-calligraphy-and-glassblowing-are-flourishing-as-skill-nostalgia-grips-our-ai-terrified-world/</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:50:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/beekeeping-calligraphy-and-glassblowing-are-flourishing-as-skill-nostalgia-grips-our-ai-terrified-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Condo Returns to Hauser &amp; Wirth Less Than One Year After Leaving the&nbsp;Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[George Condo is heading back to Hauser &amp; Wirth less than a year after leaving the mega-gallery, with the two sides reuniting for a pair of exhibitions in 2027 and resuming a relationship that dates back to 2019.&nbsp;Hauser &amp; Wirth announced Wednesday that it will present exhibitions of new and historical works by Condo at its Paris and Palo Alto galleries in 2027, following the artist&rsquo;s 2025 career survey at the Mus&eacute;e d&rsquo;Art Moderne de Paris.&nbsp;When asked about the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-condo-returns-to-hauser-amp-wirth-less-than-one-year-after-leaving-thenbspgallery/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/george-condo-returns-to-hauser-amp-wirth-less-than-one-year-after-leaving-thenbspgallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curator Ingrid Schaffner Talks Hauser &amp; Wirth&rsquo;s Henry Taylor&mdash;James Jarvaise&nbsp;Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Jarvaise, the late California modernist (1924&mdash;2015), cuts a slick silhouette in Henry Taylor&rsquo;s vibrant impasto rendering of him. Jarvaise, wearing black shades, his shoulder-length hair combed back, sits slouched at the lower center of Taylor&rsquo;s glowing, yellow canvas. &ldquo;He had swag,&rdquo; Taylor has said of his subject and first real art teacher, who encouraged him to enroll in art school and eventually embark on a path to become the luminous, lauded talent Taylor i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/curator-ingrid-schaffner-talks-hauser-amp-wirthrsquos-henry-taylormdashjames-jarvaisenbspshow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/curator-ingrid-schaffner-talks-hauser-amp-wirthrsquos-henry-taylormdashjames-jarvaisenbspshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement in New Lawsuit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mickalene Thomas, an artist known for her popular paintings and photo-based installations centering Black women, is facing a lawsuit from the photographer Barbara Karant, who alleges that Thomas used her pictures without attribution or permission in works that appeared at an array of museums and blue-chip galleries.&ldquo;In installation after installation, and in collage after collage, Thomas has engaged in the wholesale copying of copyrighted works from a fellow artist,&rdquo; the lawsuit clai]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photographer-accuses-mickalene-thomas-of-copyright-infringement-in-newlawsuit/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photographer-accuses-mickalene-thomas-of-copyright-infringement-in-newlawsuit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy Advances Legislation on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Italian parliament is advancing legislation to create a formal process for restituting art and cultural property looted by the Nazis under Italian Fascist racial laws. The news was reported by the Jewish News Syndicate following a statement by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), a Jerusalem-based nonprofit that works toward the return of Jewish-owned property in Europe.&ldquo;The bill offers a historic opportunity to finally deliver justice to victims of Nazi and fascist persec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italy-advances-legislation-on-restitution-of-nazi-lootedart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italy-advances-legislation-on-restitution-of-nazi-lootedart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artissima Announces 180 International Exhibitors Participating in Fall Art Fair in Turin]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the long-running contemporary art fair Artissima opens its 33rd edition in late October, 180 galleries from 35 countries will welcome visitors to the Oval, a vast former Olympic speed skating facility that has hosted the fair since 2010.Luigi Fassi returns as director for the fifth year running. He has organized this year&rsquo;s 180 galleries (a handful more than the 176 that participated last year) into several distinct sections: new entries (33 galleries are participating for the first t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artissima-announces-180-international-exhibitors-participating-in-fall-art-fair-inturin/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artissima-announces-180-international-exhibitors-participating-in-fall-art-fair-inturin/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Is Adapting to a Softer Wine Market by Selling Access and Experiences—Not Just Bottles]]></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.&nbsp;This story is also part of a new series on the convergence of art and&nbsp;luxury. See all of&nbsp;our reporting on the topic here.The wine market is in flux. After years of rising prices, fueled by low interest rates, global demand, and a pandemic-era rush into collectible assets, previously cove]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-is-adapting-to-a-softer-wine-market-by-selling-access-and-experiencesnot-justbottles/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-is-adapting-to-a-softer-wine-market-by-selling-access-and-experiencesnot-justbottles/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lari Pittman Responds to Marc Spiegler&rsquo;s Op-Ed, Leonard Feinstein Consigned $35 M. Picasso to Hauser &amp; Wirth: Industry Moves for July 8,&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.Happy Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a roundup of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Philadelphia Museum of Art Promotes Jennifer Thompson: With a 25-year tenure at the museum, Thompson was most recently curator of European painting and sculpture and department head. She will now be depu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lari-pittman-responds-to-marc-spieglerrsquos-op-ed-leonard-feinstein-consigned-35-m-picasso-to-hauser-amp-wirth-industry-moves-for-july-8nbsp2026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lari-pittman-responds-to-marc-spieglerrsquos-op-ed-leonard-feinstein-consigned-35-m-picasso-to-hauser-amp-wirth-industry-moves-for-july-8nbsp2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Line Art Wants the Public’s Opinion on 62 Artist Proposals for Its Plinth Commission]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a few years&rsquo; time, a giant teddy bear, a full-scale replica of a brownstone covered in clothing or a pair of legs painted with color dots could rise up on the High Line on New York&rsquo;s West Side. Which work will ultimately be installed is up to the public.High Line Art is once again seeking public comment for public art proposals that will go on view in 2029 and 2030 at its plinth, located above 30th Street and 10th Avenue. Until September 8, the public can leave a comment on each o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/high-line-art-wants-the-publics-opinion-on-62-artist-proposals-for-its-plinthcommission/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/high-line-art-wants-the-publics-opinion-on-62-artist-proposals-for-its-plinthcommission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belgium’s Magritte-Inspired World Cup Jersey Is Having a Moment After Win Over US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Belgium&rsquo;s crushing 4&ndash;1 victory over the United States on Tuesday night did more than send the Red Devils into the World Cup quarterfinals. It also subtly brought one of Belgium&rsquo;s greatest artists into the spotlight before a global audience.As&nbsp;Artsy&nbsp;first reported, Belgium&rsquo;s away kit is an explicit homage to the Surrealist painter Ren&eacute; Magritte, transforming imagery from one of his most celebrated paintings into one of the tournament&rsquo;s most distincti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/belgiums-magritte-inspired-world-cup-jersey-is-having-a-moment-after-win-overus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/belgiums-magritte-inspired-world-cup-jersey-is-having-a-moment-after-win-overus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Files Copyright Lawsuit Against David Salle Over Painting Removed from Gallery Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Kelly Reemtsen filed a copyright lawsuit last month against David Salle, alleging that his 2025 painting Hatchet&mdash;which first attracted plagiarism allegations in March&mdash;copied protected elements from two of her works. The complaint seeks damages, profits from the allegedly infringing work, and an injunction preventing Hatchet from being sold or exhibited, while also requesting that the painting either be turned over to Reemtsen or destroyed.The lawsuit, filed June 22 in the US D]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-files-copyright-lawsuit-against-david-salle-over-painting-removed-from-galleryshow/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-files-copyright-lawsuit-against-david-salle-over-painting-removed-from-galleryshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Museum of Natural History to Repatriate 2,700 Native American Hair Samples Under NAGPRA]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American Museum of Natural History, home to a famous model whale and gem collection as well as a gleaming planetarium on the Upper West Side of New York, has made plans to repatriate hair samples taken from Native Americans in the 19th century as part of spurious scientific studies.As reported by the New York Times, clippings of hair&mdash;originally collected for display at the 1893 Chicago World&rsquo;s Fair and held in the collection of the museum ever since&mdash;now count among the hold]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/american-museum-of-natural-history-to-repatriate-2700-native-american-hair-samples-undernagpra/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/american-museum-of-natural-history-to-repatriate-2700-native-american-hair-samples-undernagpra/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist ‘Interrupted’ Whitney Museum’s Displays with Pro-Palestine Messages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, Whitney Museum displays that advertised the current Whitney Biennial briefly bore unsanctioned messages in support of Palestine, courtesy the artist Jonathan Allen.According to the Forward, on July 3, Allen placed translucent vinyl stickers on certain displays at the New York museum. Part of his &ldquo;Interruptions&rdquo; series, these vinyls called attention to Israel&rsquo;s military actions in Gaza.&ldquo;The Israeli military forces have deliberately targeted and killed Palestinia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-interrupted-whitney-museums-displays-with-pro-palestinemessages/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-interrupted-whitney-museums-displays-with-pro-palestinemessages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire at Kanal-Centre Pompidou, American Museum of Natural History Repatriation, and More: Morning Links for July 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 MorningA fire broke out near the roof of the forthcoming Kanal&ndash;Centre Pompidou museum in Brussels on Monday evening.The American Museum of Natural History is repatriating Indigenous hair clippings that should have been returned under a 1990 federal law.Twenty-seven pieces of jewelry were stolen from France&rsquo;s Mus&eacute;e Lalique on July 5, th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fire-at-kanal-centre-pompidou-american-museum-of-natural-history-repatriation-and-more-morning-links-for-july-82026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fire-at-kanal-centre-pompidou-american-museum-of-natural-history-repatriation-and-more-morning-links-for-july-82026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s to Mount Exhibition of Rarely Seen Fernando Botero Works in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s will open an exhibition dedicated to the work of Fernando Botero later this month in partnership with the artist&rsquo;s foundation.On view July 22 to September 7, &ldquo;Botero in New York&rdquo; will feature rarely seen works by the artist from period when he lived in New York, from 1960 to 1973, before he moved to Paris. The works are drawn from both the holdings of the Botero family and private collections, with some available for private sale.&ldquo;Botero in New York&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-mount-exhibition-of-rarely-seen-fernando-botero-works-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-mount-exhibition-of-rarely-seen-fernando-botero-works-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warhol Foundation Announces $5.2 M. in Grants to 78 Arts Organizations, Including 33 First-Time Grantees]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its Spring 2026 grant cycle, which will see the nonprofit dole out nearly $5.2 million to 78 arts and cultural organizations.The Spring 2026 cycle is divided into four types of grants: &ldquo;Program Support Over 2 Years&rdquo; (ranging from $50,000 to $100,000), &ldquo;Exhibition Support&rdquo; ($50,000&ndash;$100,000), &ldquo;Curatorial Research Fellowships&rdquo; ($27,000&ndash;$50,000), and &ldquo;Projects Grants]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/warhol-foundation-announces-52-m-in-grants-to-78-arts-organizations-including-33-first-timegrantees/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/warhol-foundation-announces-52-m-in-grants-to-78-arts-organizations-including-33-first-timegrantees/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young John Berryman revered the elder generation of poets. By 1947, though, he diagnosed “a deadly and vacant period” in American poetry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Young John Berryman revered the elder generation of poets. By 1947, though, he diagnosed &ldquo;a deadly and vacant period&rdquo; in American poetry]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/young-john-berryman-revered-the-elder-generation-of-poets-by-1947-though-he-diagnosed-a-deadly-and-vacant-period-in-american-poetry/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:37:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/young-john-berryman-revered-the-elder-generation-of-poets-by-1947-though-he-diagnosed-a-deadly-and-vacant-period-in-american-poetry/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norbert Wiener warned in 1960 that machines and humans are foreign to each other. We still are]]></title><description><![CDATA[Norbert Wiener warned in 1960 that machines and humans are foreign to each other. We still are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/norbert-wiener-warned-in-1960-that-machines-and-humans-are-foreign-to-each-other-we-still-are/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:37:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/norbert-wiener-warned-in-1960-that-machines-and-humans-are-foreign-to-each-other-we-still-are/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bolaño envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bola&ntilde;o envy. Is Latin American literature, in its totality, more important than literature produced in the United States?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bolao-envy-is-latin-american-literature-in-its-totality-more-important-than-literature-produced-in-the-united-states/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:37:25 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bolao-envy-is-latin-american-literature-in-its-totality-more-important-than-literature-produced-in-the-united-states/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denmark’s Louisiana Museum Announces Remedios Varo Exhibition in Fall 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[An exhibition of some 70 artworks by the Spanish artist Remedios Varo will open at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a destination museum on the coast just north of Copenhagen, this fall. The show, &ldquo;Painting Magic,&rdquo; is on view from September 18, 2026, through January 10, 2027, and includes examples of Varo&rsquo;s paintings, drawings, and photographs. It will subsequently travel to the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.Varo was born in Spain in 1908 and left for Paris when she was 19, wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denmarks-louisiana-museum-announces-remedios-varo-exhibition-in-fall2026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denmarks-louisiana-museum-announces-remedios-varo-exhibition-in-fall2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check Out the Art Behind the Scenes of Loro Piana’s Fall/Winter 2026 Ad Campaign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Loro Piana, the Italian luxury brand known for its high-end wool and cashmere garments, shot its fall/winter 2026 ad campaign at a trio of unexpected (for a fashion brand, at least) locations in Houston: the Menil Collection and private de Menil residence, both run by the Menil Foundation, and the nearby Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational space founded by John and Dominique de Menil that is full of serene, monochromatic canvases by the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko.The fashion hous]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/check-out-the-art-behind-the-scenes-of-loro-pianas-fallwinter-2026-adcampaign/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/check-out-the-art-behind-the-scenes-of-loro-pianas-fallwinter-2026-adcampaign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundación Kahlo Launches $50,000 Prize for Emerging Mexican Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fundaci&oacute;n Kahlo, the New York&ndash;based nonprofit established by the family of the iconic painter Frida Kahlo, has announced the launch of a new prize to support emerging Mexican artists.Underwritten by the auction house Phillips, the Kahlo Art Prize will be awarded every other year and come with a $50,000 stipend, as well as opportunities for the winner&rsquo;s work to be exhibited in Mexico City at the recently opened Museo Casa Kahlo.&ldquo;Through the process of opening the muse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fundacin-kahlo-launches-50000-prize-for-emerging-mexicanartists/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fundacin-kahlo-launches-50000-prize-for-emerging-mexicanartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro-Palestinian Cultural Workers Call for Strike Over US Ambassador’s Visit to Venice]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cultural activist group that led a historic strike and rally at this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale over Israel&rsquo;s inclusion in the international exhibition has called for a mass mobilization on July 17, when the US Ambassador to Italy, Tilman Fertitta, is scheduled to arrive in Venice.The group, Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), announced the action in an Instagram post published today, inviting supporters to gather at 4 p.m. at Campo San Zaccaria, a square in central Venice just steps f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pro-palestinian-cultural-workers-call-for-strike-over-us-ambassadors-visit-tovenice/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pro-palestinian-cultural-workers-call-for-strike-over-us-ambassadors-visit-tovenice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips Posts $507 M. in First Half of 2026 as Watch Business Drives 60 Percent Jump in Auction Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the auction house Phillips said its spring season generated $507 million in auction sales, a 60 percent increase from a year earlier, as a record-breaking watch business and stronger demand for high-value consignments helped propel one of the house&rsquo;s best performances in recent years.The auction house said average lot value increased 55 percent over the same period, while maintaining a 90 percent sell-through rate by lot. Evening sales achieved a 94 percent sell-through rate by]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-posts-507-m-in-first-half-of-2026-as-watch-business-drives-60-percent-jump-in-auctionsales/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-posts-507-m-in-first-half-of-2026-as-watch-business-drives-60-percent-jump-in-auctionsales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips Posts $507 M. in First Half of 2026 as Watch Business Drives 60% Jump in Auction Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the auction house Phillips said its spring season generated $507 million in auction sales, a 60 percent increase from a year earlier, as a record-breaking watch business and stronger demand for high-value consignments helped propel one of the house&rsquo;s best performances in recent years.The auction house said average lot value increased 55 percent over the same period, while maintaining a 90 percent sell-through rate by lot. Evening sales achieved a 94 percent sell-through rate by]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-posts-507-m-in-first-half-of-2026-as-watch-business-drives-60-jump-in-auctionsales/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-posts-507-m-in-first-half-of-2026-as-watch-business-drives-60-jump-in-auctionsales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese Artist Whose Sound Sculptures Explored the Power of Language, Dies at 77]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lu&iacute;sa Cunha, the Portuguese conceptual artist whose whispering sound installations and language-based works made her one of her country&rsquo;s most influential contemporary artists, died on Monday of cancer at Lisbon&rsquo;s Hospital de S&atilde;o Jos&eacute;. She was 77.&nbsp;Over a career that began in the early 1990s, Cunha built a body of work that quietly transformed ordinary words into immersive works of art. Using whispered recordings, brief commands and fragments of conversation,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lusa-cunha-the-portuguese-artist-whose-sound-sculptures-explored-the-power-of-language-dies-at77/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lusa-cunha-the-portuguese-artist-whose-sound-sculptures-explored-the-power-of-language-dies-at77/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New York’s New Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Museum in New York announced that Massimiliano Gioni, its longtime artistic director, has been named as the institution&rsquo;s next director. He will take on the role beginning August 1. He succeeds Lisa Phillips, who announced her retirement, after 26 years, last September.	&ldquo;After an extensive international search, we are thrilled to announce Massimiliano Gioni&rsquo;s appointment as steward of the New Museum in its next chapter,&rdquo; New Museum board president James-Keith Brow]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/massimiliano-gioni-named-director-of-new-yorks-newmuseum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/massimiliano-gioni-named-director-of-new-yorks-newmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Artists Accuse Shuttering Artist Pension Trust of ‘Epic Betrayal,’ Former Barnes Foundation President Richard Glanton Has Died, and More: Morning Links for July 7, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!The London branch of the Artist Pension Trust is closing to the dismay of participating artists.&ldquo;Combative&rdquo; former head of the Barnes Foundation has died at 79.Historians rebut White House attack against the National Museum of American History.The Headlines	ARTIST PENSION DISTRUST. The London chapter of the New York&ndash;founded&nbsp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-artists-accuse-shuttering-artist-pension-trust-of-epic-betrayal-former-barnes-foundation-president-richard-glanton-has-died-and-more-morning-links-for-july-72026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-artists-accuse-shuttering-artist-pension-trust-of-epic-betrayal-former-barnes-foundation-president-richard-glanton-has-died-and-more-morning-links-for-july-72026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valerie Brathwaite, Sculptor Who Drew Parallels Between Landscapes and Bodies, Has Died]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valerie Brathwaite, an artist whose sculptures utilized sinuous forms that intentionally recall both geographic formations and curvaceous bodies, died on Monday. The news was announced via the artist&rsquo;s Instagram page, whose bio memorably terms her a &ldquo;Sculptress &amp; Dj.&rdquo; She was either 87 or 88.In the second half of the 20th century, Brathwaite rose to become one of the most important artists working in Venezuela. Working in ceramic, drawing, and less classifiable mediums, the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valerie-brathwaite-sculptor-who-drew-parallels-between-landscapes-and-bodies-hasdied/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valerie-brathwaite-sculptor-who-drew-parallels-between-landscapes-and-bodies-hasdied/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An English National Is the First to Be Convicted of Violating Sanctions Against Russia]]></title><description><![CDATA[British national Jonathan Hornby is the first from his country to be convicted of violating the UK&rsquo;s sanctions on exports of luxury goods to Russia, imposed in response to Russia&rsquo;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which was launched on February 24, 2022.Hornby, managing director of a logistics company, attempted to send four artworks to Russia in February 2024, according to His Majesty&rsquo;s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Government officials seized the shipment, which was linked to Ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-english-national-is-the-first-to-be-convicted-of-violating-sanctions-againstrussia/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-english-national-is-the-first-to-be-convicted-of-violating-sanctions-againstrussia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Anderson Takes Inspiration from Sculptor Lynda Benglis for Dior’s Latest Haute Couture Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Designer Jonathan Anderson has once again taken inspiration from the work of sculptor Lynda Benglis for his latest fashion show.The creative director of Dior since 2025, Anderson presented the house&rsquo;s Fall Winter 2026-27 Haute Couture Show at the Mus&eacute;e Rodin in Paris on Monday, marking his second haute couture collection for Dior.&ldquo;The collection responds, in the language of couture, to the work of American sculptor Lynda Benglis,&rdquo; a description published on Dior&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-anderson-takes-inspiration-from-sculptor-lynda-benglis-for-diors-latest-haute-couturecollection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-anderson-takes-inspiration-from-sculptor-lynda-benglis-for-diors-latest-haute-couturecollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are entering a world of extreme cognitive polarization. Some people will use AI to think more. Others will use AI to think less ]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are entering a world of extreme cognitive polarization. Some people will use AI to think more. Others will use AI to think less&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-are-entering-a-world-of-extreme-cognitive-polarization-some-people-will-use-ai-to-think-more-others-will-use-ai-to-think-less/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:25:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-are-entering-a-world-of-extreme-cognitive-polarization-some-people-will-use-ai-to-think-more-others-will-use-ai-to-think-less/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary scholars think about words that wound with a mix of conceptual incoherence and primness that has become all too common]]></title><description><![CDATA[Literary scholars think about words that wound with a mix of conceptual incoherence and primness that has become all too common]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/literary-scholars-think-about-words-that-wound-with-a-mix-of-conceptual-incoherence-and-primness-that-has-become-all-too-common/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:25:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/literary-scholars-think-about-words-that-wound-with-a-mix-of-conceptual-incoherence-and-primness-that-has-become-all-too-common/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fowler dismissed them as the mark of an amateur; Adorno called them soundless cymbal-crashing. How do you feel about exclamation points?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fowler dismissed them as the mark of an amateur; Adorno called them soundless cymbal-crashing. How do you feel about exclamation points?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fowler-dismissed-them-as-the-mark-of-an-amateur-adorno-called-them-soundless-cymbal-crashing-how-do-you-feel-about-exclamation-points/</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:25:23 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fowler-dismissed-them-as-the-mark-of-an-amateur-adorno-called-them-soundless-cymbal-crashing-how-do-you-feel-about-exclamation-points/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Marlborough Gallery Space in Chelsea Sells for $7.5 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The&nbsp;former New York home&nbsp;of Marlborough Gallery, arguably the world&rsquo;s pioneering mega-gallery before its collapse and closure in 2024, has found a new owner.Gazelli Art House, which operates galleries in London and Baku, Azerbaijan, has purchased the former Marlborough space at 545 West 25th Street for $7.5 million. Brown Harris Stevens brokers Jeffrey Zoldan and Roger Gillen represented the seller.The sale marks another chapter in the&nbsp;winding down of Marlborough&rsquo;s leg]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-marlborough-gallery-space-in-chelsea-sells-for-75m/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-marlborough-gallery-space-in-chelsea-sells-for-75m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hannibal, Mo. is a company town, and the local industry is Mark Twain. "The perfume of manufactured nostalgia hangs heavy in the air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hannibal, Mo. is a company town, and the local industry is Mark Twain. "The perfume of manufactured nostalgia hangs heavy in the air"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hannibal-mo-is-a-company-town-and-the-local-industry-is-mark-twain-the-perfume-of-manufactured-nostalgia-hangs-heavy-in-the-air/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:38:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hannibal-mo-is-a-company-town-and-the-local-industry-is-mark-twain-the-perfume-of-manufactured-nostalgia-hangs-heavy-in-the-air/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frida Kahlo Effect: Why the Mexican Artist Is Still a Pop-Cultural Icon Today]]></title><description><![CDATA[Updated July 6, 2026Our fascination with all things Frida Kahlo seemingly knows no end. Fridamania, the global obsession with this painter whose life was as artful as her canvases, has been rising for decades but is now at a fever pitch.A major exhibition of her work that opened in late June at London&rsquo;s Tate Modern pre-sold 41,000 tickets, a record for the museum (outperforming shows for beloved artists such as David Hockney). That exhibition opened earlier this year at the Museum of Fine]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-frida-kahlo-effect-why-the-mexican-artist-is-still-a-pop-cultural-icontoday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-frida-kahlo-effect-why-the-mexican-artist-is-still-a-pop-cultural-icontoday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid Its Own Copyright Controversy, Midjourney Asks Court to Reveal How Disney Uses AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Midjourney has asked a federal US court to force Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose how they use artificial intelligence, returning a legal volley first fired by the entertainment giants.The studios sued Midjourney, accusing it of facilitating widespread infringement of their copyrighted characters&mdash;a potentially devastating legal challenge for the popular AI image generator. Per Variety, Midjourney has claimed &ldquo;fair use&rdquo; and now argues that the studios are employin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-its-own-copyright-controversy-midjourney-asks-court-to-reveal-how-disney-usesai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-its-own-copyright-controversy-midjourney-asks-court-to-reveal-how-disney-usesai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2,000-Year-Old Gold Rings Found in Thailand by Human Bones]]></title><description><![CDATA[An archaeological dig in western Thailand turned up a pair of gold rings in the vicinity of human bones.As reported by the Associated Press, one of the rings bears script that reads &ldquo;pusarakhitasa,&rdquo; which means &ldquo;the one protected by Pushya.&rdquo; Written in Bhrami, an ancient Indian system of writing, the allusion to Pushya refers to &ldquo;one of the most auspicious zodiac signs in Indian astronomy,&rdquo; according to the Thai government&rsquo;s Fine Arts Department. The oth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2000-year-old-gold-rings-found-in-thailand-by-humanbones/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2000-year-old-gold-rings-found-in-thailand-by-humanbones/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portrait of Spanish Count-Duke Is Newly Attributed to Velázquez by Detroit Institute of Arts Director]]></title><description><![CDATA[Salvador Salort-Pons, the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), recently revealed the discovery of a portrait by Diego Vel&aacute;zquez made during the artist&rsquo;s earliest years as a court painter to King Philip IV. Salort-Pons, a specialist on Vel&aacute;zquez, published his findings in the current issue of ARS Magazine, which is run by the Museo Prado in Madrid.Titled The Count-Duke of Olivares in Armor (1626), the rediscovered painting depicts Gaspar de Guzm&aacute;n y Pimental]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/portrait-of-spanish-count-duke-is-newly-attributed-to-velzquez-by-detroit-institute-of-artsdirector/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/portrait-of-spanish-count-duke-is-newly-attributed-to-velzquez-by-detroit-institute-of-artsdirector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Uncover a Well-Preserved Byzantine-Era City in Egypt’s Western Desert]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists working in Egypt&rsquo;s Western Desert have uncovered a well-preserved Byzantine-era city at the Dakhla Oasis, reports Heritage Daily. According to the country&rsquo;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the discovery provides important insights into daily life when Egypt was part of the Byzantine Empire. &nbsp;Excavation of the fourth-century settlement, conducted at the Ain Al-Sabil archaeological site by a mission from Egypt&rsquo;s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), revea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-uncover-a-well-preserved-byzantine-era-city-in-egypts-westerndesert/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-uncover-a-well-preserved-byzantine-era-city-in-egypts-westerndesert/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yemen Identifies 28 Looted Artifacts at British Museum, London Auction Houses]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yemen&rsquo;s Antiquities Authority said it had identified 28 allegedly looted Yemeni artifacts in overseas collections, including eight pieces recently offered for sale at auction houses in London and 20 held by the British Museum.According to Yemen&rsquo;s General Authority for Antiquities and Museums, the first group of objects appeared in antiquities sales held around July 2 at Bonhams in London and at Apollo Art Auctions. The group comprises statue heads, a statue, an inscription, and funer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yemen-identifies-28-looted-artifacts-at-british-museum-london-auctionhouses/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yemen-identifies-28-looted-artifacts-at-british-museum-london-auctionhouses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yervant Gianikian, Artist Who Helped Win Armenia the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, Dies at 84]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yervant Gianikian, an Italian filmmaker whose work helped Armenia win the Venice Biennale&rsquo;s top honors in 2015, has died, according to reports in the Italian press. He was 84.Frequently working with his partner Angela Ricci Lucchi, who died in 2018, Gianikian produced experimental films that considered forms of dispossession and the lingering pain that often accompanies it. He sometimes appropriated archival footage and then repurposed it, to mull how &ldquo;history ends up liberating us f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yervant-gianikian-artist-who-helped-win-armenia-the-venice-biennales-golden-lion-dies-at84/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yervant-gianikian-artist-who-helped-win-armenia-the-venice-biennales-golden-lion-dies-at84/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oregon Estate Sale’s $45 Chinese Paintings Could Be Worth Millions, Lawsuit Claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[Google Image Search can identify a lot of things. But according to a new lawsuit filed in Oregon, multimillion-dollar Chinese paintings aren&rsquo;t one of them.An estate sale company is accused of selling dozens of Chinese scrolls and rubbings for as little as $45 apiece after allegedly relying on Google Image Search to value them. Now the family that owned the works wants the sale unwound, arguing that several pieces could be worth hundreds of thousands&mdash;or even millions&mdash;of dollars.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oregon-estate-sales-45-chinese-paintings-could-be-worth-millions-lawsuitclaims/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oregon-estate-sales-45-chinese-paintings-could-be-worth-millions-lawsuitclaims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewelry Heist at French Decorative Arts Museum Is Latest in Spate of Thefts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jewelry worth an estimated &euro;4 million ($4.57 million) was stolen from a decorative arts museum in northeastern France&rsquo;s Alsace region early on Sunday morning, less than a week after another heist at an archaeological museum on the other side of the country.According to French reports, soon after 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, masked thieves smashed through a door to the Lalique Museum in Wingen-sur-Moder, which is dedicated to Art Deco and Art Nouveau designer Ren&eacute; Lalique. Next, they br]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jewelry-heist-at-french-decorative-arts-museum-is-latest-in-spate-ofthefts/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jewelry-heist-at-french-decorative-arts-museum-is-latest-in-spate-ofthefts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Sues Downtown New York Gallery, Alleging That He Wasn’t Paid for Sold Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Jonathan Bruce Williams sued New York&rsquo;s Kai Matsumiya last month, alleging that the gallery still owes him more than $16,000 for two artworks that sold from his 2025 show there.Located near Tribeca, one of the city&rsquo;s most densely populated gallery districts, Kai Matsumiya was founded in 2014 and has shown artists such as Steffani Jemison, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Hadi Fallapisheh. The gallery&rsquo;s exhibitions have earned acclaim from critics, with a 2020 Surface profil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-sues-downtown-new-york-gallery-alleging-that-he-wasnt-paid-for-soldartworks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-sues-downtown-new-york-gallery-alleging-that-he-wasnt-paid-for-soldartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meet the Founders of Black Crown, the Only Active Black-Owned Fine Art Auction House in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[In February, Walter and Cathy Shannon launched Black Crown Art Auctions, the only active Black-owned and Black-operated fine art auction house in the United States. They created the platform to ensure equity, visibility, and legacy for African American artists, gallerists, and collectors.The Shannons, who launched Black Crown Art Auctions at the 18th Annual Harlem Fine Art Show, are no strangers to the art world. The couple own E&amp;S Gallery, a gallery based in Louisville in operation since 19]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/meet-the-founders-of-black-crown-the-only-active-black-owned-fine-art-auction-house-in-theus/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/meet-the-founders-of-black-crown-the-only-active-black-owned-fine-art-auction-house-in-theus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New Report, White House Accuses Smithsonian Museum of Abandoning Scholarship for Extreme ‘Political Activism’]]></title><description><![CDATA[While most of the country was celebrating United States&rsquo;s 250th birthday, the Trump White House launched its latest broadside against the Smithsonian Institution: a 162-page report from the Domestic Policy Council detailing supposed &ldquo;ideological capture&rdquo; at the National Museum of American History.The report, released on July 4, alleges the museum &ldquo;purposely presents America as a problematic country irredeemably conceived, founded by deeply flawed men, and still operating]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-new-report-white-house-accuses-smithsonian-museum-of-abandoning-scholarship-for-extreme-political-activism/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-new-report-white-house-accuses-smithsonian-museum-of-abandoning-scholarship-for-extreme-political-activism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House Report Claims Smithsonian Museum ‘Erases’ Heritage, Another Jewelry Heist at a French Museum, and More: Morning Links for July 6, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesHISTORY WILL TELL?&nbsp;On July 4, as Americans celebrated the nation&rsquo;s 250th anniversary, the White House published a scathing attack on the&nbsp;Smithsonian Institution, in particular its&nbsp;National Museum of American History,&nbsp;reports&nbsp;the&nbsp;New York Times. Titled &ldquo;Saving America&rsquo;s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution&rsquo;s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage,&rdquo; the 162-page&nbsp;report&nbsp;by th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-house-report-claims-smithsonian-museum-erases-heritage-another-jewelry-heist-at-a-french-museum-and-more-morning-links-for-july-62026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-house-report-claims-smithsonian-museum-erases-heritage-another-jewelry-heist-at-a-french-museum-and-more-morning-links-for-july-62026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should lower the threshold for when to start treating AI systems as potentially conscious ]]></title><description><![CDATA[We should lower the threshold for when to start treating AI systems as potentially conscious&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-should-lower-the-threshold-for-when-to-start-treating-ai-systems-as-potentially-conscious/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:15:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-should-lower-the-threshold-for-when-to-start-treating-ai-systems-as-potentially-conscious/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religious rites, rock concerts, and other transcendent moments stem from directing our attention to “something more than human”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Religious rites, rock concerts, and other transcendent moments stem from directing our attention to &ldquo;something more than human&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/religious-rites-rock-concerts-and-other-transcendent-moments-stem-from-directing-our-attention-to-something-more-than-human/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:15:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/religious-rites-rock-concerts-and-other-transcendent-moments-stem-from-directing-our-attention-to-something-more-than-human/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hannibal, Missouri is a company town, and the local industry is Mark Twain. "The perfume of manufactured nostalgia hangs heavy in the air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hannibal, Missouri is a company town, and the local industry is Mark Twain. "The perfume of manufactured nostalgia hangs heavy in the air"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hannibal-missouri-is-a-company-town-and-the-local-industry-is-mark-twain-the-perfume-of-manufactured-nostalgia-hangs-heavy-in-the-air/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:15:29 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hannibal-missouri-is-a-company-town-and-the-local-industry-is-mark-twain-the-perfume-of-manufactured-nostalgia-hangs-heavy-in-the-air/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why We Can’t Get Enough Juicy Art Heist Stories]]></title><description><![CDATA[I didn&rsquo;t take much convincing. In movies, there is always that scene where the criminal, having said no, changes his mind and growls, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m in,&rdquo; but I was feeling more agreeable. When an old friend approached me about one more job with a big payday, I decided to say yes before I&rsquo;d finished the email. And so, for weeks, I read and watched nothing but stories about stealing art.In time, they began to blend together, until I felt I was investigating a single elaborate c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-we-cant-get-enough-juicy-art-heiststories/</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-we-cant-get-enough-juicy-art-heiststories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tens of Thousands Try for Tickets to See Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry when it goes on view at the British Museum this fall sold out in just over 24 hours this week, reports the Telegraph. The museum said it was the biggest day of ticket sales in its history.Depicting the Norman conquest of England 1066 and made there in the 1070s, the Bayeux Tapestry (technically an embroidery) is an astonishing 230 feet long and, according to the British Museum, features 58 detailed scenes, each rendered in colored wool on flax. On loan from the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tens-of-thousands-try-for-tickets-to-see-bayeux-tapestry-at-the-britishmuseum/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tens-of-thousands-try-for-tickets-to-see-bayeux-tapestry-at-the-britishmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Standout 250th Show Confronts Centuries of American Contradictions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fragments of an equestrian statue of King George III, which loomed over Bowling Green in New York City until it was toppled in 1776, open &ldquo;Democracy Matters,&rdquo; the inaugural exhibition in the new Tang Wing for American Democracy at the New York Historical. Most of the statue was melted down and reformed into musket balls, and several of these are on display in the opening section of the show across from four large intact pieces of the original. These are framed by an animation of silh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-standout-250th-show-confronts-centuries-of-americancontradictions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-standout-250th-show-confronts-centuries-of-americancontradictions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s National Gallery Acquires Major Angelica Kauffman History Painting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Gallery in London announced that it has acquired a significant history painting by 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman. The work is now on view at the museum.&nbsp;Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes (1787&ndash;88) is the first work by Kauffman to enter a UK national collection in nearly two centuries. Another painting by the artist was bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1835 but was later transferred to Tate Britain, as the museum is now known, when it opened]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-national-gallery-acquires-major-angelica-kauffman-historypainting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-national-gallery-acquires-major-angelica-kauffman-historypainting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toxic Lead Levels in Paris’s Palais Garnier Opera Delay Renovation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The discovery of lead during renovation work at Paris&rsquo;s historic Palais Garnier&mdash;opened in 1875 and summoned as inspiration for Gaston Leroux&rsquo;s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera (and even more famously for Andrew Lloyd Weber&rsquo;s musical adaptation)&mdash;has &ldquo;throw[n] a tight schedule of venue closures and the projected budget into disarray,&rdquo; according to a report in Le Figaro.Planned restoration work that was supposed to take two years is now projected for fiv]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/toxic-lead-levels-in-pariss-palais-garnier-opera-delayrenovation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/toxic-lead-levels-in-pariss-palais-garnier-opera-delayrenovation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Calls on Manifesta 16 to Remove Installation, Alleging Plagarism]]></title><description><![CDATA[An artist has demanded the organizers of Manifesta 16 remove an installation from the exhibition in Essen, Germany, alleging that a piece in the show plagiarizes one of her earlier works.&nbsp;The piece, titled Elevation and made by the Turkish sculptor Nasan Tur, consists of reclaimed church pews installed on their side inside St. Gertud Church and engraved with anonymous musings submitted by the public. Bochum-based artist Dorothee Bielfeld told the German outlet Waz that the Elevation&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-calls-on-manifesta-16-to-remove-installation-allegingplagarism/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-calls-on-manifesta-16-to-remove-installation-allegingplagarism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spanish Man Inadvertently Swipes Valuable Painting Left on Sidewalk in Seville]]></title><description><![CDATA[A word to the wise: no matter how frazzled you are while preparing to leave town for a family vacation, make sure you don&rsquo;t forget anything on the sidewalk when you drive away. Especially if you are the type of family that takes valuable, framed artwork on road trips.Andr&eacute;s Hurtado, a 57-year-old man from Murcia, was visiting Seville with his family when an artwork leaning against a garage door caught his eye while on a walk around the city center. He picked it up, particularly take]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spanish-man-inadvertently-swipes-valuable-painting-left-on-sidewalk-inseville/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spanish-man-inadvertently-swipes-valuable-painting-left-on-sidewalk-inseville/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photograph by Boris Mikhailov Stolen from Lithuanian Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[A photograph by acclaimed Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov has been stolen from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in what officials believe was a targeted theft.The work, part of Mikhailov&rsquo;s 1993 series&nbsp;At Dusk, disappeared from the Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on June 28 while on view in the exhibition&nbsp;Ukrainian Dreamers: Kharkiv School of Photography, according to museum officials. Police are investigating after the incident was captured on security cameras.&nbsp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photograph-by-boris-mikhailov-stolen-from-lithuanianmuseum/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photograph-by-boris-mikhailov-stolen-from-lithuanianmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘The Accidental Collector’: Herbert Lust Dead at 99]]></title><description><![CDATA[Herbert Lust, a major collector of modern and contemporary art who befriended Alberto Giacometti, Robert Indiana, and other artists, died on May 12 at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, the New York Times reports. He was 99.Lust often described his life in the art world as something of an &ldquo;accident.&rdquo; On multiple occasions, he recounted how in 1949, while on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, he ended up at a luncheon sitting next to Giacometti. Int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-accidental-collector-herbert-lust-dead-at99/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-accidental-collector-herbert-lust-dead-at99/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips Has Sold Nearly $2 M. Worth of Art from Disgraced Art Adviser Lisa Schiff’s Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phillips has sold $1.9 million worth of art from the holdings of disgraced art advisor Lisa Schiff&mdash;and the sales are not finished yet.According to a list provided by a Phillips spokesperson, the house has so far sold 231 pieces from Schiff&rsquo;s collection of contemporary art. The result of $1.9 million is roughly in line with an estimate set two years ago.In September 2024, Artnet News reported that bankruptcy trustees had retained Phillips to sell some 220 pieces from Schiff&rsquo;s co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-has-sold-nearly-2-m-worth-of-art-from-disgraced-art-adviser-lisa-schiffscollection/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-has-sold-nearly-2-m-worth-of-art-from-disgraced-art-adviser-lisa-schiffscollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste-Making Downtown Gallery Lyles &amp; King to Close After a Decade in&nbsp;Business]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lyles &amp; King, a taste-making downtown New York gallery that&rsquo;s been in business for just over a decade, announced on Thursday that it had closed.Its final exhibitions, a solo for Jessie Makinson and a three-person show for Cato Ouyang, Fernanda Galv&atilde;o, and Ren Light Pan, closed on June 20. The gallery&rsquo;s roster included artists like Aneta Grzeszykowska, Mira Schor, Jo-ey Tang &amp; Thomas Fougeirol, Kathy Ruttenberg, and Lily Wong.In an email to its listserv, addressed as &l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taste-making-downtown-gallery-lyles-amp-king-to-close-after-a-decade-innbspbusiness/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taste-making-downtown-gallery-lyles-amp-king-to-close-after-a-decade-innbspbusiness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santander Bank Says Gelman Collection’s Travel to Spain Is in ‘Full Compliance with Mexican Law’]]></title><description><![CDATA[As controversy has continued to swirl around a mass of important Mexican artworks that were partially rediscovered in the holdings of the Madrid-based Banco Santander earlier this year, the bank spoke at length about the matter for the first time, saying it had done nothing illegal by bringing the trove to Spain, where it is on view at Faro Santander.Amassed by the late collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman during the 20th century, the Gelman Collection is particularly rich in works by Frida Kah]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/santander-bank-says-gelman-collections-travel-to-spain-is-in-full-compliance-with-mexicanlaw/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/santander-bank-says-gelman-collections-travel-to-spain-is-in-full-compliance-with-mexicanlaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces a Record $323.8 M. in Culture Funding]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the speaker of the city council have announced their first budget, totaling $125.8 billion. That will include some $323.8 million for the city&rsquo;s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), its highest-ever appropriation, as part of the city&rsquo;s 2027 fiscal year budget, per a report in Hyperallergic.&nbsp;That figure represents a more than 6 percent increase from last year&rsquo;s allocation of $299.6 million, which was also a record.DCLA is the largest cult]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-announces-a-record-3238-m-in-culturefunding/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-york-mayor-zohran-mamdani-announces-a-record-3238-m-in-culturefunding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precious Okoyomon’s New MoMA PS1 Commission, Assembly Art Fair Launch, and More: Industry Moves for July 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.Happy Thursday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.MoMA PS1 Inaugurates New Courtyard Commission Program with Precious Okoyomon: The Long Island City institution has launched an annual Courtyard Commission program, with its first edition going to Nigeria]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/precious-okoyomons-new-moma-ps1-commission-assembly-art-fair-launch-and-more-industry-moves-for-july-22026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/precious-okoyomons-new-moma-ps1-commission-assembly-art-fair-launch-and-more-industry-moves-for-july-22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[León Ferrari Exhibition Nixed by Chile’s Far-Right Government, NYC Gets Record Arts Budget: Morning Links for July 2, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.The Headlines	THEY SHOOK ON IT.&nbsp;Mayor Zohran Mamdani&nbsp;and New York&rsquo;s City Council have approved $323.8 million in funding for culture,&nbsp;reports&nbsp;Hyperallergic. That&rsquo;s a record amount of yearly funding. Specifically, the $323.8 million will go to the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), representing a seven percent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/len-ferrari-exhibition-nixed-by-chiles-far-right-government-nyc-gets-record-arts-budget-morning-links-for-july-22026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/len-ferrari-exhibition-nixed-by-chiles-far-right-government-nyc-gets-record-arts-budget-morning-links-for-july-22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seattle Art Museum Names New Chief Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Frank Feltens as its next chief curator. He succeeds Jos&eacute; Carlos Diaz, who departed the institution last October to be the chief curator of the Per&eacute;z Art Museum Miami. Feltens will start in his role on August 17.Feltens is currently associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian&rsquo;s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C. He joined the museum as a postdoctoral fellow in 2016 and worked]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seattle-art-museum-names-new-chiefcurator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seattle-art-museum-names-new-chiefcurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angela Nikolau, the Woman Who Climbed the Empire State Building, Is an Artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Details may still be coming into focus about the couple who climbed the Empire State Building on Wednesday, but here is one thing for certain: Angela Nikolau, the woman who ascended the skyscraper alongside her partner Ivan Beerkus, is an artist.On her website, Nikolau terms herself a &ldquo;neo-artist working with extreme performance, visual art and projects with global reach.&rdquo;&ldquo;I create high-impact cultural moments, extreme performances and visual content that brands want to be part]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/angela-nikolau-the-woman-who-climbed-the-empire-state-building-is-anartist/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/angela-nikolau-the-woman-who-climbed-the-empire-state-building-is-anartist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vasily Grossman died believing that his masterpiece had been seized by the KGB and lost forever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vasily Grossman died believing that his masterpiece had been seized by the KGB and lost forever]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vasily-grossman-died-believing-that-his-masterpiece-had-been-seized-by-the-kgb-and-lost-forever/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:09:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vasily-grossman-died-believing-that-his-masterpiece-had-been-seized-by-the-kgb-and-lost-forever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny honorariums, endless reading, and a bewildering amount of randomness — book prizes don’t work how you think]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tiny honorariums, endless reading, and a bewildering amount of randomness &mdash; book prizes don&rsquo;t work how you think]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tiny-honorariums-endless-reading-and-a-bewildering-amount-of-randomness-book-prizes-dont-work-how-you-think/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:09:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tiny-honorariums-endless-reading-and-a-bewildering-amount-of-randomness-book-prizes-dont-work-how-you-think/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afternoon naps, long walks, and five hours of work a day. The lifestyles of great intellectuals reveal the value of spontaneous thought]]></title><description><![CDATA[Afternoon naps, long walks, and five hours of work a day. The lifestyles of great intellectuals reveal the value of spontaneous thought]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/afternoon-naps-long-walks-and-five-hours-of-work-a-day-the-lifestyles-of-great-intellectuals-reveal-the-value-of-spontaneous-thought/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:09:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/afternoon-naps-long-walks-and-five-hours-of-work-a-day-the-lifestyles-of-great-intellectuals-reveal-the-value-of-spontaneous-thought/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Old Masters Sales Reveal a Market Split Between Trophy Works and Everything Else]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.In London on Wednesday, Sotheby&rsquo;s Old Master &amp; 19th Century Paintings and Sculpture sale brought in &pound;37.8 million ($50.2 million), a solid result that masked a sharply divided market. Record prices, a flurry of bidding for museum-quality works, and a &pound;13.6 million sculpture suggest]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-old-masters-sales-reveal-a-market-split-between-trophy-works-and-everythingelse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-old-masters-sales-reveal-a-market-split-between-trophy-works-and-everythingelse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norval Morrisseau Case Deepens as Art Expert Says the Artist’s Children Were in on Forgery Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[A complex, sprawling legal case surrounding the late Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau took a new turn this week after an art expert testified that the painter&rsquo;s children were active participants in a scheme that saw many of his works forged and passed off as authentic.Labeled Canada&rsquo;s largest art fraud ever by investigators, the scheme has been the subject of a prolonged court battle that culminated last year in the conviction of Jeffrey Cowan, one of eight people arrested in 202]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/norval-morrisseau-case-deepens-as-art-expert-says-the-artists-children-were-in-on-forgeryscheme/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/norval-morrisseau-case-deepens-as-art-expert-says-the-artists-children-were-in-on-forgeryscheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexican Government Faces Legal Action over Its Handling of Art Collection Rich in Kahlos]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Mexican government continued to face scrutiny this week over its handling of the Gelman Collection,a trove of artworks that includes an array of historically important paintings by Frida Kahlo and other artists of note.Amassed by the late collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman, the 300-work Gelman Collection partially resurfaced in the holdings of Spain&rsquo;s Banco Santander in January, about a year and a half after the Mexican government claimed not know the whereabouts of the collection.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mexican-government-faces-legal-action-over-its-handling-of-art-collection-rich-inkahlos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mexican-government-faces-legal-action-over-its-handling-of-art-collection-rich-inkahlos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facing Protests and Political Pressure, Canadian Humans Rights Opens Palestine Exhibition ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The leader of Canada&rsquo;s New Democratic Party (NDP) has criticized Heritage Minister Marc Miller for suggesting the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg should alter the language of its exhibition on Palestinian displacement. The backlash against Miller&mdash;who had previously vowed not to intervene in the exhibition&mdash;comes as a Jewish trustee of the museum resigned and museums worldwide grapple with the framing of Israel&rsquo;s ongoing military assault on Gaza.&nbsp;Miller to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/facing-protests-and-political-pressure-canadian-humans-rights-opens-palestineexhibition/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/facing-protests-and-political-pressure-canadian-humans-rights-opens-palestineexhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector and Patron Flavia Nespatti to Open Commercial Art Space in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Brazilian-born, London-based art collector and patron Flavia Nespatti will open a commercial gallery in London this October, reports the Art Newspaper. Located in a mid-century industrial building in the central London neighborhood of Fitzrovia, Antesala will focus on art and artists from Latin America.The gallery will organize selling exhibitions of both primary and secondary market works in collaboration with galleries, artists, estates, collections, publications, and nonprofits, together]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-and-patron-flavia-nespatti-to-open-commercial-art-space-inlondon/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-and-patron-flavia-nespatti-to-open-commercial-art-space-inlondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Star Auctioneer Oliver Barker on the Coming AI Windfall that Could Change the Art Market]]></title><description><![CDATA[With Sotheby&rsquo;s London double-header sale last week an unqualified success&mdash;generating &pound;393.4 million ($520.7 million), or the &ldquo;highest total ever achieved in a single night at auction in Europe,&rdquo; according to the house&mdash;its European chairman Oliver Barker is taking a victory lap in the press.On Monday,&nbsp;the Telegraph&nbsp;published a lengthy profile and interview with the star auctioneer, detailing his (somewhat) humble beginnings in Battersea, London; his d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-star-auctioneer-oliver-barker-on-the-coming-ai-windfall-that-could-change-the-artmarket/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-star-auctioneer-oliver-barker-on-the-coming-ai-windfall-that-could-change-the-artmarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Truth Social, Trump Plasters an AI-Generated Golden Bald Eagle on the White House]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has, as usual, been a busy week for President Donald J. Trump. No, he hasn&rsquo;t negotiated an actual peace agreement with Iran (beyond a hazy and already-violated memorandum of understanding), or ended Russia&rsquo;s war on Ukraine (which he promised to end within a day), or, back at home, tamed mounting inflation (because he insists &ldquo;affordability&rdquo; is a word made up by&mdash;speaking of made-up words&mdash;&ldquo;Dumocrats&rdquo;). No, it&rsquo;s been a busy week for the 47th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-truth-social-trump-plasters-an-ai-generated-golden-bald-eagle-on-the-whitehouse/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-truth-social-trump-plasters-an-ai-generated-golden-bald-eagle-on-the-whitehouse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marseille Museum President Suspended After Harassment Investigation, Christie’s Old Masters Sale, and More: Morning Links for July 1, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!The Manhattan District Attorney&rsquo;s office seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total value of looted objects recovered from the New York institution to $95 million.Christie&rsquo;s Old Masters sale in London totaled $48.7 million on Tuesday.A Canadian politician has accused the country&rsquo;s heritage minister of interfering in a museum exhibition about Palestinian displacement.The Headlines	BEATEN TO THE PUNCH.&nbsp;The&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marseille-museum-president-suspended-after-harassment-investigation-christies-old-masters-sale-and-more-morning-links-for-july-12026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marseille-museum-president-suspended-after-harassment-investigation-christies-old-masters-sale-and-more-morning-links-for-july-12026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getty Images and Shutterstock Pull the Plug on $3.7 Billion Merger]]></title><description><![CDATA[Getty Images&nbsp;and Shutterstock, two of the top photo, video, and stock image marketplaces, called off a $3.7 billion merger after hitting a regulatory roadblock in the United Kingdom.Getty, led by CEO Craig Peters, said on Tuesday that its board of directors unanimously decided to scuttle the deal to merge with its rival after the top regulator in the U.K., the Competition and Markets Authority, required the sale of Shutterstock&rsquo;s editorial business.Getty&rsquo;s board viewed that requ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-images-and-shutterstock-pull-the-plug-on-37-billionmerger/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/getty-images-and-shutterstock-pull-the-plug-on-37-billionmerger/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manhattan DA’s Office Seized Dozens of Antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum in June, Bringing Total to $95 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Investigators from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg&rsquo;s office seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum in June, reports the New York Times. According to an inventory produced by the office, this brings the total number of artifacts it has removed from the Met since 2017 to more than 120, collectively worth more than $95 million.The removals have followed on the office&rsquo;s investigations into the work of the international smuggling rings (and their stateside]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-das-office-seized-dozens-of-antiquities-from-the-metropolitan-museum-in-june-bringing-total-to-95m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-das-office-seized-dozens-of-antiquities-from-the-metropolitan-museum-in-june-bringing-total-to-95m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Kant and Rousseau theorized, George Forster sailed the world to learn what makes humans human]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where Kant and Rousseau theorized, George Forster sailed the world to learn what makes humans human]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/where-kant-and-rousseau-theorized-george-forster-sailed-the-world-to-learn-what-makes-humans-human/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:05:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/where-kant-and-rousseau-theorized-george-forster-sailed-the-world-to-learn-what-makes-humans-human/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Silly on top of silly.” To some sociologists, the field’s yearslong drift toward left-wing advocacy is self-defeating]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Silly on top of silly.&rdquo; To some sociologists, the field&rsquo;s yearslong drift toward left-wing advocacy is self-defeating]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/silly-on-top-of-silly-to-some-sociologists-the-fields-yearslong-drift-toward-left-wing-advocacy-is-self-defeating/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:05:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/silly-on-top-of-silly-to-some-sociologists-the-fields-yearslong-drift-toward-left-wing-advocacy-is-self-defeating/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit by a car, beset by family tragedy, diagnosed with cancer: William T. Vollmann may be dying, but he’s also just finished a 3,000 page opus]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hit by a car, beset by family tragedy, diagnosed with cancer: William T. Vollmann may be dying, but he&rsquo;s also just finished a 3,000 page opus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hit-by-a-car-beset-by-family-tragedy-diagnosed-with-cancer-william-t-vollmann-may-be-dying-but-hes-also-just-finished-a-3000-page-opus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:05:30 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hit-by-a-car-beset-by-family-tragedy-diagnosed-with-cancer-william-t-vollmann-may-be-dying-but-hes-also-just-finished-a-3000-page-opus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Old Masters Sale in London Totals $51.4 M. as Collectors Chase Standout Pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since Gustav Klimt&rsquo;s&nbsp;Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer&nbsp;sold for $236.4 million last November, clinching the title of second most expensive artwork to sell at auction, the secondary market&rsquo;s mantra can best be summed up as &ldquo;collectors will open their hearts and their wallets for exceptional work.&rdquo;On Tuesday, Christie&rsquo;s put that dictum to the test with its Old Masters Evening Sale in London, a 40-lot offering that landed comfortably within its pre-sale estimate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-old-masters-sale-in-london-totals-514-m-as-collectors-chase-standoutpictures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-old-masters-sale-in-london-totals-514-m-as-collectors-chase-standoutpictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Old Masters Sale in London Totals $48.7 M. as Collectors Chase Standout Pictures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since Gustav Klimt&rsquo;s&nbsp;Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer&nbsp;sold for $236.4 million last November, clinching the title of second most expensive artwork to sell at auction, the secondary market&rsquo;s mantra can best be summed up as &ldquo;collectors will open their hearts and their wallets for exceptional work.&rdquo;On Tuesday, Christie&rsquo;s put that dictum to the test with its Old Masters Evening Sale in London, a 40-lot offering that landed comfortably within its pre-sale estimate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-old-masters-sale-in-london-totals-487-m-as-collectors-chase-standoutpictures/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-old-masters-sale-in-london-totals-487-m-as-collectors-chase-standoutpictures/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Monuments Fund Adds Black Mountain College Building to U.S. Preservation Watch List]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, World Monuments Fund (WMF) has unveiled a list of 10 historic sites across the United States whose preservation is &ldquo;essential to the richness and complexity&rdquo; of the nation&rsquo;s story. The sites range from colonial-era architecture and public health landmarks to early mission churches, all of which face deterioration without sustained preservation efforts, according to the organization.One designated site wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/world-monuments-fund-adds-black-mountain-college-building-to-us-preservation-watchlist/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/world-monuments-fund-adds-black-mountain-college-building-to-us-preservation-watchlist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 New Books to Keep Your Brain From Melting in July]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don&rsquo;t let the summer heat waves melt your brain entirely! We hope you can retreat to an air-conditioned library or a cool body of water somewhere. If you do, check out one of July&rsquo;s latest and greatest art books below.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-new-books-to-keep-your-brain-from-melting-injuly/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-new-books-to-keep-your-brain-from-melting-injuly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Books to Keep Your Brain From Melting in July]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don&rsquo;t let the summer heat waves melt your brain entirely! We hope you can retreat to an air-conditioned library or a cool body of water somewhere. If you do, check out one of July&rsquo;s latest and greatest art books below.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-books-to-keep-your-brain-from-melting-injuly/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-books-to-keep-your-brain-from-melting-injuly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rune Mields, Self-Taught German Conceptual Artist, Dies at 91]]></title><description><![CDATA[Self-taught German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne, Germany, at the age of 91. Her death was first reported by the German Press Agency.Born in M&uuml;nster in 1935, Mields came to art-making in her 30s after completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller. She first gained attention for her &ldquo;R&ouml;hrenbilder&rdquo; (Pipe Paintings) of the late 1960s and early &rsquo;70s, large-format monochrome canvases featuring hyperreal renderings of three-dimensional geometric fo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rune-mields-self-taught-german-conceptual-artist-dies-at91/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rune-mields-self-taught-german-conceptual-artist-dies-at91/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Utilize AI to Translate 2,000-Year-Old Carbonized Scrolls from Herculaneum]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, among the objects and remains preserved for the next two millennia were a collection of carbonized scrolls from a residence in Herculaneum known as the Villa of the Papyri. This ancient Greco-Roman library was situated near Pompeii, just 11 miles from the base of Mount Vesuvius. These ancient scrolls are too fragile to unfurl, stymieing scholars&rsquo; attempts over the past few centuries to complete translations of the texts within.That&rsquo;s where the Ve]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/researchers-utilize-ai-to-translate-2000-year-old-carbonized-scrolls-fromherculaneum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/researchers-utilize-ai-to-translate-2000-year-old-carbonized-scrolls-fromherculaneum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IM Youngzoo’s ‘The Late’ Blends a 1,254-Page Research Book and a 7-Channel Video Into a Meditation on Belief and Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s hot out and the sun must be at its zenith because you can spot a woman&rsquo;s shadow against the parched asphalt as she walks down the street. The woman, however, isn&rsquo;t quite visible. Sometimes you see a bit of her hat, her jacket, or her hands, but mostly she is obscured by a spray of scattered light that warps the world around it. At &ldquo;The Late,&rdquo; artist IM Youngzoo&rsquo;s solo show at Brooklyn&rsquo;s Space ZeroOne&mdash;on view until July 25&mdash;the shadow and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/im-youngzoos-the-late-blends-a-1254-page-research-book-and-a-7-channel-video-into-a-meditation-on-belief-andtechnology/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/im-youngzoos-the-late-blends-a-1254-page-research-book-and-a-7-channel-video-into-a-meditation-on-belief-andtechnology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artistic Director for 2028 Gwangju Biennale Will Be Selected Via Open-Call in Break from Tradition]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 17th edition of the Gwangju Biennale, a closely watched exhibition in South Korea with a broadly international legacy, will be led by an artistic director selected through an open call&mdash;&ldquo;marking a significant shift in the Biennale&rsquo;s curatorial selection process,&rdquo; according to an announcement.As published via e-flux, the announcement states: &ldquo;Until now, the Artistic Director has been selected through a recommendation-based system, in which a small group of advisor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artistic-director-for-2028-gwangju-biennale-will-be-selected-via-open-call-in-break-fromtradition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artistic-director-for-2028-gwangju-biennale-will-be-selected-via-open-call-in-break-fromtradition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bae Young-hwan, Artist Who Represented Korea at Venice Biennale, Dies at 57]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bae Young-hwan, a beloved artist who represented his home country of Korea at the 2005 edition of the Venice Biennale, died on June 19 at 57. His Seoul representative, Gallery BB&amp;M, did not state a cause in its announcement of his passing on June 20, which described Bae&rsquo;s death as &ldquo;sudden.&rdquo;He was most widely known for his artworks that appropriated lyrics from Korean pop songs. Remaking those lyrics from pain medications, disinfectant, and cotton used to soothe wounds, Bae]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bae-young-hwan-artist-who-represented-korea-at-venice-biennale-dies-at57/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bae-young-hwan-artist-who-represented-korea-at-venice-biennale-dies-at57/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adrien Brody’s Latest Art Monstrosity Is a Mural for the Raising Cane’s in Times Square]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raising Cane&rsquo;s is a place where you can buy chicken finger combos, super-sized Cokes, and crinkle-cut fries, all for under $15&mdash;a steal in today&rsquo;s economy. Now, it&rsquo;s also a place where you can &hellip; see art?Such is the case, at least, at the fast food chain&rsquo;s Times Square establishment, where a new mural featuring the eatery&rsquo;s logo was unveiled this week. Its maker is none other than Adrien Brody.Though better known as an Oscar-winning actor, Brody has recen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adrien-brodys-latest-art-monstrosity-is-a-mural-for-the-raising-canes-in-timessquare/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adrien-brodys-latest-art-monstrosity-is-a-mural-for-the-raising-canes-in-timessquare/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia’s Hermitage Museum Suspends Archaeological Expeditions in Crimea, Citing Fuel Shortage]]></title><description><![CDATA[The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has suspended all archaeological expeditions in annexed Crimea as the Kremlin declares a state of emergency amid a severe fuel shortage and continued Ukrainian attacks, according to the Moscow Times.&ldquo;The expeditions are being postponed until the situation improves,&rdquo; Alexander Butyagin, head of the Hermitage archaeology department, told the Russian state-run news agency TASS on Monday. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s too difficult to organize normal oper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russias-hermitage-museum-suspends-archaeological-expeditions-in-crimea-citing-fuelshortage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russias-hermitage-museum-suspends-archaeological-expeditions-in-crimea-citing-fuelshortage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Lawmakers Fault Government’s Oversight of National Museums, Raise Prospect of Admission Fees for Foreign Visitors]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United Kingdom&rsquo;s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has come under fire from a cross-party parliamentary committee, which says the government has done too little to help the country&rsquo;s national museums navigate increasing financial and security challenges.The report, according to&nbsp;the Art Newspaper, also shows that the government is considering whether overseas visitors should pay admission to Britain&rsquo;s national museums, a major change for institutions that have off]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-lawmakers-fault-governments-oversight-of-national-museums-raise-prospect-of-admission-fees-for-foreignvisitors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uk-lawmakers-fault-governments-oversight-of-national-museums-raise-prospect-of-admission-fees-for-foreignvisitors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Zabludowicz Online Sale at Christie’s, Over Half the Artworks Failed to Sell]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an online sale of works from the esteemed Zabludowicz collection of contemporary art that concluded on Tuesday, over half the artworks failed to sell. Estimated to bring in &pound;292,000 to &pound;435,400 ($385,100&ndash;$574,200), the sale brought in &pound;95,377 ($126,285). (All prices reported are inclusive of fees; pre-sale estimates do not include fees.)Anita&nbsp;and&nbsp;Chaim&nbsp;&ldquo;Poju&rdquo; Zabludowicz, who have long been among the world&rsquo;s top collectors, sold 100 wor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-zabludowicz-online-sale-at-christies-over-half-the-artworks-failed-tosell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-zabludowicz-online-sale-at-christies-over-half-the-artworks-failed-tosell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Zabludowicz Day Sale at Christie’s, Over Half the Artworks Failed to Sell]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an online sale of works from the esteemed Zabludowicz collection of contemporary art that concluded on Tuesday, over half the artworks failed to sell. Estimated to bring in &pound;292,000 to &pound;435,400 ($385,100&ndash;$574,200), the sale brought in &pound;95,377 ($126,285). (All prices reported are inclusive of fees; pre-sale estimates do not include fees.)Anita&nbsp;and&nbsp;Chaim&nbsp;&ldquo;Poju&rdquo; Zabludowicz, who have long been among the world&rsquo;s top collectors, sold 100 wor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-zabludowicz-day-sale-at-christies-over-half-the-artworks-failed-tosell/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-zabludowicz-day-sale-at-christies-over-half-the-artworks-failed-tosell/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeks After His Death, a $3.2 M. David Hockney Leads Phillips London’s $15.8 M. Modern and Contemporary Art Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a sweltering London on Friday amid a Europe-wide heat wave, David Hockney led the night at Phillips London&rsquo;s sale of modern and contemporary art, his The Only One with Waves (1991) selling for &pound;2.4 million ($3.2 million), just above its low estimate. The four-foot-wide canvas was painted in Malibu, California, and shows breaking waves in a flattened pictorial space; it was the first major work by the British artist to come to auction since he died at his London home on June 11, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/weeks-after-his-death-a-32-m-david-hockney-leads-phillips-londons-158-m-modern-and-contemporary-artsale/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/weeks-after-his-death-a-32-m-david-hockney-leads-phillips-londons-158-m-modern-and-contemporary-artsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliamentary Report Accuses UK Government of Leaderless Approach to Caring for Museums and More: Morning Links for June 30, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!A new parliamentary report says the UK government lacks leadership and has a &ldquo;hands-off&rdquo; approach to how it funds and cares for national museums.The German conceptual artist and painter Rune Mields, who designed her own grave, has died at age 91.Skulptur Projekte M&uuml;nster nhas revealed some of the first details for its 2027 editio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/parliamentary-report-accuses-uk-government-of-leaderless-approach-to-caring-for-museums-and-more-morning-links-for-june-302026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/parliamentary-report-accuses-uk-government-of-leaderless-approach-to-caring-for-museums-and-more-morning-links-for-june-302026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guggenheim Museum Workers Vote to Strike as Contract Negotiations Continue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unionized staff at the Guggenheim Museum have voted to authorize a strike, its union UAW Local 2110 announced today. The union is currently in contract negotiations with the museum, seeking better pay, health benefits, and job security.UAW Local 2110 announced that 93 percent of its membership voted last week in favor of the strike, saying, per a release, that the workers would do so &ldquo;if necessary to win a fair contract.&rdquo; The union has not yet set a date for when the strike would tak]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-museum-workers-vote-to-strike-as-contract-negotiationscontinue/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-museum-workers-vote-to-strike-as-contract-negotiationscontinue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale’s Record African Participation Comes With Caveats]]></title><description><![CDATA[There was a heaviness around the opening celebrations marking the 2026 Biennale, titled &ldquo;In Minor Keys.&rdquo; Compounding the psychological weight of so much global angst was the first anniversary of the sudden passing of Koyo Kouoh, the Cameroonian-Swiss curator who was the second African and sixth woman to spearhead the event.There was no shortage of acknowledgments and tributes. Some appeared in the show itself, like Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons&rsquo; four-panel Anatomy of the Magnolia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-venice-biennales-record-african-participation-comes-withcaveats/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-venice-biennales-record-african-participation-comes-withcaveats/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2027 Skulptur Projekte Münster Will Include ‘Communal Cooking,’ Examinations of Power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skulptur Projekte M&uuml;nster, the storied exhibition that takes place once every decade in the titular German town, has revealed some of the first details of its 2027 edition&mdash;the first staged without the leadership of its founder, the lauded curator Kasper K&ouml;nig, who died in 2024.Celebrated artists such as Oscar Murillo, Selma Selman, and Hew Locke will be among the participants innext year&rsquo;s edition of the show, which situates commissions around M&uuml;nster. Also taking part]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2027-skulptur-projekte-mnster-will-include-communal-cooking-examinations-ofpower/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/2027-skulptur-projekte-mnster-will-include-communal-cooking-examinations-ofpower/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“We should not start from good old things, but from bad new things.” Brecht’s motto is a guide for intellectuals]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;We should not start from good old things, but from bad new things.&rdquo; Brecht&rsquo;s motto is a guide for intellectuals]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-should-not-start-from-good-old-things-but-from-bad-new-things-brechts-motto-is-a-guide-for-intellectuals/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:56:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-should-not-start-from-good-old-things-but-from-bad-new-things-brechts-motto-is-a-guide-for-intellectuals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde foresaw machines freeing humanity for beauty and leisure. Greed has other plans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde foresaw machines freeing humanity for beauty and leisure. Greed has other plans]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oscar-wilde-foresaw-machines-freeing-humanity-for-beauty-and-leisure-greed-has-other-plans/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:56:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oscar-wilde-foresaw-machines-freeing-humanity-for-beauty-and-leisure-greed-has-other-plans/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eric Hobsbawm made the 20th century intelligible. But he never could fully explain his own communism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eric Hobsbawm made the 20th century intelligible. But he never could fully explain his own communism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eric-hobsbawm-made-the-20th-century-intelligible-but-he-never-could-fully-explain-his-own-communism/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:56:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eric-hobsbawm-made-the-20th-century-intelligible-but-he-never-could-fully-explain-his-own-communism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's foundational literary genre isn't the novel or the sermon. It is the captivity narrative]]></title><description><![CDATA[America's foundational literary genre isn't the novel or the sermon. It is the captivity narrative]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americas-foundational-literary-genre-isnt-the-novel-or-the-sermon-it-is-the-captivity-narrative/</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:56:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americas-foundational-literary-genre-isnt-the-novel-or-the-sermon-it-is-the-captivity-narrative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Swiss Museums Return Trove of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three Swiss museums have returned 18 royal and religious artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria, marking another significant repatriation of the so-called Benin Bronzes.A handover ceremony took place today at the University of Zurich between Swiss Federal Councillor Elisabeth Baume-Schneider and Nigeria&rsquo;s Minister of Culture, Hannatu Musa Musawa. The university returned 14 objects from its Ethnographic Museum, while two additional Benin Bronzes came from Museum Rietberg Zurich and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-swiss-museums-return-trove-of-benin-bronzes-tonigeria/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-swiss-museums-return-trove-of-benin-bronzes-tonigeria/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refik Anadol to Stage Monumental AI Installation on Smithsonian Castle in DC]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fresh off the opening of Dataland, Refik Anadol&rsquo;s new AI art museum in Los Angeles, the media artist has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution for a new monumental installation.Dubbed Smithsonian Dreams, the new project will see Anadol transform the Smithsonian Castle, the headquarters of the Institution on the National Mall, with an immersive performance of light, sound, and visuals on July 17 and July 18 at 9 p.m..For the work, Anadol built a custom AI system that reinterprets 200 y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/refik-anadol-to-stage-monumental-ai-installation-on-smithsonian-castle-indc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/refik-anadol-to-stage-monumental-ai-installation-on-smithsonian-castle-indc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Announces Replacement for Long-Toppled Lenin Monument in Kyiv]]></title><description><![CDATA[A pedestal that once supported a Lenin monument in Kyiv that has remained empty ever since 2013 may soon host a statue of a Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa, who is revered by many in Ukraine as a national hero.A 12-foot-tall red quartzite sculpture of Vladimir Lenin stood on the pedestal at the intersection of two main roads in Kyiv for almost 60 years, until it was toppled during the Euromaidan Uprising. The Euromaidan demonstrations had begun the previous month when then-president Viktor Yanukovych]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-announces-replacement-for-long-toppled-lenin-monument-inkyiv/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-announces-replacement-for-long-toppled-lenin-monument-inkyiv/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chyrum Lambert’s Paper Cutouts Open New Dimensions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chyrum Lambert moved to Los Angeles in 2012 and was immediately struck by the community of artists and poets he found there. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t go to art school, and I don&rsquo;t have any formal education other than high school, so I&rsquo;ve never had friends who are artists,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s just so much here that I never had in my life. This whole practice came out of LA.&rdquo;&nbsp;For around a decade, Lambert has ventured beyond typical painterly techniques to creat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chyrum-lamberts-paper-cutouts-open-newdimensions/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chyrum-lamberts-paper-cutouts-open-newdimensions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Museum Cardiff in Wales May Close for Repairs to Address ‘Deteriorating Condition’               ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Museum Cardiff&nbsp;in Wales may close for much-needed repair work, according to a workers&rsquo; union claim that it is in early discussions about a temporary closure in the wake of work last year to address what the institution&rsquo;s director general described as the building&rsquo;s &ldquo;deteriorating condition.&rdquo;As reported by the BBC, &ldquo;The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said it understands that Amgueddfa Cymru, which runs the site, is &lsquo;consideri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-cardiff-in-wales-may-close-for-repairs-to-address-deteriorating-condition/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-museum-cardiff-in-wales-may-close-for-repairs-to-address-deteriorating-condition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[70-Ton Statue of Lionel Messi Appears in Argentina Amid World Cup Fervor]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lionel Messi, the Argentine superhero of soccer who is the highest-scoring player in World Cup history as of last week, has been monumentalized in a remote town in Patagonia. The stats: 85 feet tall, 70 tons in weight, and $130,000 to fabricate.As reported by the New York Times, the statue by artist Aldo Beroisa follows from other creations of his including statues of dinosaurs and Jesus, and has been in the works for more than a year. &ldquo;This is going to be our Sistine Chapel,&rdquo; said t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/70-ton-statue-of-lionel-messi-appears-in-argentina-amid-world-cupfervor/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/70-ton-statue-of-lionel-messi-appears-in-argentina-amid-world-cupfervor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the California African American Museum Celebrates 50 Years, Its Leader Looks Ahead]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week, the United States marks its 250th birthday,&nbsp;arguably no&nbsp;closer to agreeing on how the story of its journey should be told&mdash;or who gets to tell it.&nbsp;Under the second Trump administration, museums have become one of the clearest arenas for that struggle. These are places where America&rsquo;s myth of exceptionalism collides with its lived reality: a contested&nbsp;memory&nbsp;of&nbsp;race, class, and political ambition.&nbsp;As the unfolding case of the Smithsonian at]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-the-california-african-american-museum-celebrates-50-years-its-leader-looksahead/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-the-california-african-american-museum-celebrates-50-years-its-leader-looksahead/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heir of German Jewish Collector Seeks Return of Van Gogh Painting from Musée d’Orsay]]></title><description><![CDATA[Klaus Kallmann is 98 years old, but he still remembers being a little boy and looking at a painting by Vincent van Gogh that hung in his grandfather&rsquo;s Berlin villa until the early 1930s. The work depicts the artist&rsquo;s doctor, Th&eacute;ophile Peyron, standing by a gnarled tree, his hands on his hips, in front of the mental hospital he ran, where Van Gogh was also a patient.&nbsp;That painting, titled H&ocirc;pital Saint-Paul &agrave; Saint-R&eacute;my-de-Provence (1889), is now in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heir-of-german-jewish-collector-seeks-return-of-van-gogh-painting-from-musedorsay/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heir-of-german-jewish-collector-seeks-return-of-van-gogh-painting-from-musedorsay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Hell Is That Weird Painting Donald Trump Just Posted?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The point of art, arguably, is to make us ask questions, including such open-ended queries as: What the hell is that? Indeed, that&rsquo;s a question one might ask while staring at the latest artwork posted by President Donald Trump to his social media platform Truth Social.Late on Sunday night, he posted an image of an artwork&mdash;apparently a framed painting&mdash;that sets out to provide a full picture of American history. Represented here are George Washington, American soldiers planting t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-the-hell-is-that-weird-painting-donald-trump-justposted/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-the-hell-is-that-weird-painting-donald-trump-justposted/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Pleads Guilty in Fraud That Swindled Bruce Springsteen Manager]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Doyle, a man who was once described by a federal judge as a &ldquo;career criminal,&rdquo; pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud in a scheme involving a Gustave Courbet painting that eventually ended up in the collection of Jon Landau, Bruce Springsteen&rsquo;s longtime manager.&nbsp;According to the&nbsp;New York Times, Doyle persuaded London dealer Patrick Matthiesen to send him Courbet&rsquo;s&nbsp;Mother and Child on a Hammock, painted around 1848, after promising to broker its sale. Ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-pleads-guilty-in-fraud-that-swindled-bruce-springsteenmanager/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-pleads-guilty-in-fraud-that-swindled-bruce-springsteenmanager/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swiss Institute to Move to Permanent Home on the Bowery Next Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York&ndash;based Swiss Institute has acquired the ground floor and lower level of 250 Bowery, which will become its permanent home when it opens in spring 2027.In an interview, Swiss Institute director Stefanie Hessler described the move as a &ldquo;new chapter&rdquo; in the institution&rsquo;s history as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. The organization had been looking for about 2.5 years for a new home while also securing the funds needed to purchase the space.&ldquo;We wanted to f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/swiss-institute-to-move-to-permanent-home-on-the-bowery-nextspring/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/swiss-institute-to-move-to-permanent-home-on-the-bowery-nextspring/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven Artworks to Catch Up On During the FIFA World Cup]]></title><description><![CDATA[A ceaselessly ticking clock, sweat-drenched players, and howling crowds: Soccer is a game of extremes. A few minutes spent watching a heated match proves why it is the most popular sport on earth. Fans obsess over what most of the world calls football for its glorious display of the desire to win. The emotional complexities and the politics of competition and stardom make the game an attractive subject for artists as well. Footage from canonized matches and emblems associated with the game have]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seven-artworks-to-catch-up-on-during-the-fifa-worldcup/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seven-artworks-to-catch-up-on-during-the-fifa-worldcup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family of Venezuelan Artist Trapped in Earthquake Rubble Pleads for Help, Workers Dismantle JR Work Impacted by Heat Wave, and More: Morning Links for June 29, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesVENEZUELA FALLOUT.&nbsp;The painter&nbsp;Onai Qui&ntilde;onez&nbsp;is one of thousands still missing since Venezuela&rsquo;s devastating double earthquake on Wednesday, June 24,&nbsp;reports&nbsp;Hyperallergic. His family has issued a call for help in rescuing the artist, whom they believe remains trapped under rubble from his collapsed residential building in the coastal town of Caraballeda in La Guaira. &ldquo;We need to give visibility to Onai&rsquo;s situation,&rdquo; his sister]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/family-of-venezuelan-artist-trapped-in-earthquake-rubble-pleads-for-help-workers-dismantle-jr-work-impacted-by-heat-wave-and-more-morning-links-for-june-292026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/family-of-venezuelan-artist-trapped-in-earthquake-rubble-pleads-for-help-workers-dismantle-jr-work-impacted-by-heat-wave-and-more-morning-links-for-june-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kael, Tynan, Sontag: Once, critics were as magnetic as artists. But the golden age looks golden only in hindsight]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kael, Tynan, Sontag: Once, critics were as magnetic as artists. But the golden age looks golden only in hindsight]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kael-tynan-sontag-once-critics-were-as-magnetic-as-artists-but-the-golden-age-looks-golden-only-in-hindsight/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:28:49 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kael-tynan-sontag-once-critics-were-as-magnetic-as-artists-but-the-golden-age-looks-golden-only-in-hindsight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Thomson spent 60 years celebrating cinema. Now he thinks movies may have ruined us]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Thomson spent 60 years celebrating cinema. Now he thinks movies may have ruined us]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-thomson-spent-60-years-celebrating-cinema-now-he-thinks-movies-may-have-ruined-us/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:28:49 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-thomson-spent-60-years-celebrating-cinema-now-he-thinks-movies-may-have-ruined-us/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America's foundational literary genre wasn't the novel or the sermon. It was the captivity narrative]]></title><description><![CDATA[America's foundational literary genre wasn't the novel or the sermon. It was the captivity narrative]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americas-foundational-literary-genre-wasnt-the-novel-or-the-sermon-it-was-the-captivity-narrative/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:28:49 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americas-foundational-literary-genre-wasnt-the-novel-or-the-sermon-it-was-the-captivity-narrative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vatican Museums Launch Major Restoration of Raphael’s Famous Frescoes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raphael&rsquo;s epic fresco cycle, the Loggias, is getting a makeover.&nbsp;The Vatican Museums launched a restoration of the Renaissance masterpiece this week, unprecedented in scale: more than 20 experts are set to clean the artwork spanning 65 meters (nearly 215 feet) in the Apostolic Palace, also known as the Pope&rsquo;s residence. The project will last five years, addressing a slew of restoration concerns accrued over the centuries, the weather being chief among them. According to Italian]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vatican-museums-launch-major-restoration-of-raphaels-famousfrescoes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/vatican-museums-launch-major-restoration-of-raphaels-famousfrescoes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Committee Urges Irish Government to Establish New Laws and Policies Related to Restitution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three years ago, in the summer of 2023, the Irish government formed a committee to advise museums and other cultural institutions on matters related to restitution and repatriation. That endeavor, known as the Advisory Committee on the Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage, presented its final report last month.According to The Art Newspaper, the report aims to address the &ldquo;practical and legal impediments&rdquo; that can prevent some institutions from properly responding to cla]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/committee-urges-irish-government-to-establish-new-laws-and-policies-related-torestitution/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/committee-urges-irish-government-to-establish-new-laws-and-policies-related-torestitution/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US State Department Seeks Designs ‘Exemplifying America’s Exceptionalism’ for Venice Architecture Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US State Department is now accepting design proposals for the 2027 Venice Biennale of Architecture, with stipulations echoing its application process for this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale: designs should &ldquo;exemplify America&rsquo;s exceptionalism,&rdquo; and &ldquo;advance and complement U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy objectives.&rdquo;Per the proposal submission guidelines, the ideal architectural design would &ldquo;promote the achievements of American architectural communit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-state-department-seeks-designs-exemplifying-americas-exceptionalism-for-venice-architecturebiennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-state-department-seeks-designs-exemplifying-americas-exceptionalism-for-venice-architecturebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House Historical Association’s $7.2 M. Rockwells Are Finally on View]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four panels of an interconnected painting by Norman Rockwell have gone on public view for the first time at the headquarters for the White House Historical Association, a &ldquo;non-profit, non-partisan organization&rdquo; a short walk from its namesake in Washington, D.C.The work ran under the headline &ldquo;So You Want to See the President!&rdquo; in the Saturday Evening Post after it had been commissioned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt&rsquo;s press secretary Stephen Early in 1943.As reported]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-house-historical-associations-72-m-rockwells-are-finally-onview/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-house-historical-associations-72-m-rockwells-are-finally-onview/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient City of Sardis Earns UNESCO World Heritage Status After Nearly 70 Years of Excavation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Iron Age city of Sardis in western Turkey has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, marking a milestone in one of the longest-running archaeological projects in history.Every year since 1958, archaeologists have returned to the ancient city as part of the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis, and excavations are still ongoing. Once the capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Lydia, Sardis stood at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Anatolian Plateau, a position that endo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-city-of-sardis-earns-unesco-world-heritage-status-after-nearly-70-years-ofexcavation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-city-of-sardis-earns-unesco-world-heritage-status-after-nearly-70-years-ofexcavation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critic Sebastian Smee Joins The Atlantic, MIT Museum Gets I.M. Pei Archive, and More: Industry Moves for June 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.Happy Friday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry Moves	Frank Trujillo Named Director of the Morgan&rsquo;s Thaw Conservation Center:&nbsp;Trujillo joined the institution as associate book conservator in 2006, and succeeds Maria L. Fredericks, wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/critic-sebastian-smee-joins-the-atlantic-mit-museum-gets-im-pei-archive-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-262026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/critic-sebastian-smee-joins-the-atlantic-mit-museum-gets-im-pei-archive-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-262026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upstate Art Weekend Opens For 7th Edition—Here Are 5 Shows to See]]></title><description><![CDATA[How time flies: Upstate Art Weekend, the annual arts festival spread across the Hudson Valley, returns this weekend for its seventh edition. Since its founding in 2020, the festival has grown from 23 participants to 160, with an additional open studios event in May that featured 240 artists.There are several additional changes for the 2026 edition. Most notably, the festival lands this weekend in the coveted post-Art Basel slot. (Previous editions were held in late July.)There&rsquo;s also a new]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/upstate-art-weekend-opens-for-7th-editionhere-are-5-shows-tosee/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/upstate-art-weekend-opens-for-7th-editionhere-are-5-shows-tosee/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ‘Lucky’ Orange Handbag Designed by Fiancée of Knicks Star Karl Anthony-Towns Heads to the Guggenheim]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tired of winning yet? The Guggenheim in New York isn&rsquo;t. Earlier this week, the museum announced that a &ldquo;courtside icon&rdquo; from the New York Knicks&rsquo;s NBA Finals run is coming its way.Fashion designer Jordyn Brooks, who is also the fianc&eacute;e of Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns, made a sample Tux Clutch Mini bag in orange to commemorate the Knicks playoff run. At the Finals, she carried the bag with her at every game except Game 3, due to Madison Square Garden&rsquo;s &ldqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-lucky-orange-handbag-designed-by-fiance-of-knicks-star-karl-anthony-towns-heads-to-theguggenheim/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-lucky-orange-handbag-designed-by-fiance-of-knicks-star-karl-anthony-towns-heads-to-theguggenheim/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Untitled Art, Houston Lines Up 95 Galleries for Sophomore Edition in October]]></title><description><![CDATA[Untitled Art, Houston will gather 95 galleries for its upcoming second edition, scheduled to run October 2&ndash;4, with a preview day on October 1, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston.For its sophomore outing, the Houston edition of the fair has expanded slightly, adding 11 more galleries than it had in 2025. It has also secured several blue-chip dealers that will participate for the first time, including Anton Kern Gallery, Nara Roesler, Night Gallery, Richard Saltoun]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/untitled-art-houston-lines-up-95-galleries-for-sophomore-edition-inoctober/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/untitled-art-houston-lines-up-95-galleries-for-sophomore-edition-inoctober/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mystery Seller Will Offer $60 M. in Art and Design at Sotheby’s, Including Works by Canaletto, Degas, Guardi, Fragonard, and Picasso]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s will stage a series of sales, starting in October, of over 900 works spanning antiquity to 20th century and including fine art and design, from an unnamed collector, with the total estimated at more than $60 million.	The collection, which Sotheby&rsquo;s is calling &ldquo;Magnum Opus,&rdquo; includes artworks by masters like Canaletto, Edgar Degas, Max Ernst, Francesco Guardi, Jean-Honor&eacute; Fragonard, Luis Mel&eacute;ndez, Pablo Picasso, and Jacob van Ruisdael.&nbsp;Four New]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-mystery-seller-will-offer-60-m-in-art-and-design-at-sothebys-including-works-by-canaletto-degas-guardi-fragonard-andpicasso/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-mystery-seller-will-offer-60-m-in-art-and-design-at-sothebys-including-works-by-canaletto-degas-guardi-fragonard-andpicasso/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Lukewarm London Sale, Researchers Decipher Mount Vesuvius Scroll, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Christie&rsquo;s double-header sale in London on Thursday hammered for just under its low estimate, a lukewarm result after Sotheby&rsquo;s $520.7 million result on Wednesday.Norman Rockwell&rsquo;s&nbsp;So You Want to See the President!&nbsp;finally goes on public view, after decades spent in the White House.Researchers have deciphered at least 20 columns of text from a papyrus scroll charred and carbonized by the Mount Vesuvius eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.The Headlines	NOT SO]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-lukewarm-london-sale-researchers-decipher-mount-vesuvius-scroll-andmore/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-lukewarm-london-sale-researchers-decipher-mount-vesuvius-scroll-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tokyo Gendai Names 63 Exhibitors for Upcoming 2026 Edition in September]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tokyo Gendai has named the 63 exhibitors that will participate in its upcoming fourth edition, which is scheduled to run September 11&ndash;13, with a VIP day on September 10, at the Pacifico Yokohama.Among the galleries participating in the main Galleries section are Pace Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Ceysson &amp; B&eacute;n&eacute;ti&egrave;re, Mizuma Art Gallery, A Lighthouse called Kanata, and Taka Ishii Gallery. The Eda (&ldquo;Branch&rdquo;) section will feature two exhibitors: Ippodo Gallery]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tokyo-gendai-names-63-exhibitors-for-upcoming-2026-edition-inseptember/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tokyo-gendai-names-63-exhibitors-for-upcoming-2026-edition-inseptember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’ll Be More Than Amused by These 15 Photos of Theme Parks. Their Electrifying Attractions Will Have Your Heart Racing Before You Even Set Foot on a Ride]]></title><description><![CDATA[These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest remind us that amusement parks have entertained generations of thrill-seekers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/youll-be-more-than-amused-by-these-15-photos-of-theme-parks-their-electrifying-attractions-will-have-your-heart-racing-before-you-even-set-foot-on-a-ride/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/youll-be-more-than-amused-by-these-15-photos-of-theme-parks-their-electrifying-attractions-will-have-your-heart-racing-before-you-even-set-foot-on-a-ride/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[95 Percent of Museums’ Collections Are Hidden from View. Is “Open Storage” a Real Solution—or a Cop-Out?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is a symptom of museums&rsquo; perpetually acquisitive nature that a majority of global museum collections&mdash;up to 95 percent, according to some estimates&mdash;remains in storage. A number of high-profile institutions are addressing this surplus by providing public views into their storage facilities: While &ldquo;visible storage&rdquo; has been around since the 80s, projects like The Depot of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam (opened in 2021) and V&amp;A East Storehouse in Lond]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/95-percent-of-museums-collections-are-hidden-from-view-is-open-storage-a-real-solutionor-acop-out/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/95-percent-of-museums-collections-are-hidden-from-view-is-open-storage-a-real-solutionor-acop-out/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rediscovered, Restored Early Rembrandt Comes to Sotheby’s at $15.9 M., Possibly Joining His Priciest Works at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s London will offer a restored early painting by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn that was discovered over a decade ago and reattributed to the artist. The painting has undergone extensive restoration, removing overpainting by other hands and revealing imagery that, experts say, may have articulated a message of religious tolerance in a moment of social tensions arising partly from a refugee crisis.Let The Little Children Come Unto Me (begun in 1627) comes to auction July 1 and is e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rediscovered-restored-early-rembrandt-comes-to-sothebys-at-159-m-possibly-joining-his-priciest-works-atauction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rediscovered-restored-early-rembrandt-comes-to-sothebys-at-159-m-possibly-joining-his-priciest-works-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are humanists so bad at defending the humanities? There is a more persuasive case, and it’s been ignored]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why are humanists so bad at defending the humanities? There is a more persuasive case, and it&rsquo;s been ignored]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-are-humanists-so-bad-at-defending-the-humanities-there-is-a-more-persuasive-case-and-its-been-ignored/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:55:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-are-humanists-so-bad-at-defending-the-humanities-there-is-a-more-persuasive-case-and-its-been-ignored/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Renaissance didn't begin in Florence. It began six thousand years ago in the Middle East. So argues a new book]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Renaissance didn't begin in Florence. It began six thousand years ago in the Middle East. So argues a new book]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-renaissance-didnt-begin-in-florence-it-began-six-thousand-years-ago-in-the-middle-east-so-argues-a-new-book/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:55:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-renaissance-didnt-begin-in-florence-it-began-six-thousand-years-ago-in-the-middle-east-so-argues-a-new-book/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul Klee painted it. Walter Benjamin coveted it. And Morgan Meis spent a lifetime obsessing over it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paul Klee painted it. Walter Benjamin coveted it. And Morgan Meis spent a lifetime obsessing over it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-klee-painted-it-walter-benjamin-coveted-it-and-morgan-meis-spent-a-lifetime-obsessing-over-it/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:55:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paul-klee-painted-it-walter-benjamin-coveted-it-and-morgan-meis-spent-a-lifetime-obsessing-over-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utopian fiction is implicitly anti-utopian; things regularly go awry in these ideal societies]]></title><description><![CDATA[Utopian fiction is implicitly anti-utopian; things regularly go awry in these ideal societies]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/utopian-fiction-is-implicitly-anti-utopian-things-regularly-go-awry-in-these-ideal-societies/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:52:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/utopian-fiction-is-implicitly-anti-utopian-things-regularly-go-awry-in-these-ideal-societies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Odyssey has survived three millennia. Can it survive a $250-million movie adaptation?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Odyssey has survived three millennia. Can it survive a $250-million movie adaptation?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-odyssey-has-survived-three-millennia-can-it-survive-a-250-million-movie-adaptation-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:52:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-odyssey-has-survived-three-millennia-can-it-survive-a-250-million-movie-adaptation-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrophysicists have always built tools to see farther. Their new tools may make humans unnecessary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astrophysicists have always built tools to see farther. Their new tools may make humans unnecessary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/astrophysicists-have-always-built-tools-to-see-farther-their-new-tools-may-make-humans-unnecessary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:52:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/astrophysicists-have-always-built-tools-to-see-farther-their-new-tools-may-make-humans-unnecessary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Exceptional Bronze Votive Chariot Was Unearthed, the First of its Kind Ever Found on the Iberian Peninsula]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Casas del Turu&ntilde;uelo archaeological site, in the municipality of Guare&ntilde;a, has turned up a remarkable specimen, an extraordinary bronze votive chariot, the likes of which has never been uncovered in the Iberian Peninsula. Its decorative and iconographic complexity are unparalleled, says Esther Rodr&iacute;guez, one of the co-directors of the investigation. Along with her counterpart, Sebasti&aacute;n Celestino, she presented her findings in a press conference on Wednesday at the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-exceptional-bronze-votive-chariot-was-unearthed-the-first-of-its-kind-ever-found-on-the-iberianpeninsula/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-exceptional-bronze-votive-chariot-was-unearthed-the-first-of-its-kind-ever-found-on-the-iberianpeninsula/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crystal Bridges Museum Appoints Courtenay Finn as Chief Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, announced that the appointment of Courtenay Finn as the next chief curator of both institutions. Finn will start in her role on August 24. She will report to Austen Bailly, who was promoted from chief curator to deputy director of curatorial affairs in October.Finn is currently chief curator and director of programs at the Orange County Museum of Art, which merged with the University of California, Irvine last]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crystal-bridges-museum-appoints-courtenay-finn-as-chiefcurator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crystal-bridges-museum-appoints-courtenay-finn-as-chiefcurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Artist Tess Jaray, Known for Her Hard-Edge Abstractions, Has Died at 88]]></title><description><![CDATA[British artist, printmaker, and educator Tess Jaray, known for her hard-edge abstractions, died on May 24 at age 88. The news was first reported by the Guardian in May.Jaray was born in 1937 in Vienna into a Jewish family with artistic connections: her father was an engineer and inventor, and her mother had studied fashion; her father&rsquo;s aunt was collector and gallerist Lea Bondi Jaray, and his godfather was the noted Austrian art historian Ernst Gombrich, author of The Story of Art.After N]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-artist-tess-jaray-known-for-her-hard-edge-abstractions-has-died-at88/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/british-artist-tess-jaray-known-for-her-hard-edge-abstractions-has-died-at88/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mayor Mamdani Teams Up with Whitney on World Cup Poster Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[As teams compete for the World Cup across North America, football fan can show some spirit at New York&rsquo;s leading museum of American art.The office of New York City Zohran Mamdani announced this week that New Yorkers who present their own World Cup-inspired poster to the Whitney will receive free admission (from July 11 through the end of the month). Rich Tu, the artist who created FIFA&rsquo;s official poster for the New York and New Jersey chapter of the competition, designed the project.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mayor-mamdani-teams-up-with-whitney-on-world-cup-posterproject/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mayor-mamdani-teams-up-with-whitney-on-world-cup-posterproject/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Gives Trump Administration Deadline to Explain Tarp Covering Kennedy Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has given the Trump administration until July 31 to explain why a tarp still obscures the facade of the Kennedy Center, days after the president&rsquo;s name was removed from the building by court order.U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the administration must report &ldquo;the purpose and status of the tarp and scaffolding&rdquo; currently obscuring the institution&rsquo;s full name, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Workers erected the scaffolding an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-gives-trump-administration-deadline-to-explain-tarp-covering-kennedycenter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-gives-trump-administration-deadline-to-explain-tarp-covering-kennedycenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $5 M. Guston Leads the Zabludowicz Collection at Christie’s London in a $34 M. Postwar to Contemporary Art Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Europe is seeing a historic heat wave, but things were a bit more lukewarm in Christie&rsquo;s London salesroom on Thursday evening at a two-part sale featuring 56 contemporary artworks from the collection of Anita and Poju Zabludowicz followed by a 79-lot sale of postwar and contemporary art. A &pound;4 million ($5.2 million) Philip Guston from the Zabludowicz&rsquo;s holdings led the sale. The evening totaled &pound;25.7 million ($34 million), with the first sale making &pound;15.5 million ($2]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-5-m-guston-leads-the-zabludowicz-collection-at-christies-london-in-a-34-m-postwar-to-contemporary-artsale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-5-m-guston-leads-the-zabludowicz-collection-at-christies-london-in-a-34-m-postwar-to-contemporary-artsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel’s Parent Company, MCH Group, To Launch New Miami Festival in October]]></title><description><![CDATA[MCH Group, the company behind Art Basel, is pushing into the media events business, backing a new venture called Jupiter Festival.The inaugural Jupiter Festival is currently slated to be held in Miami this October, with speakers that include Tribeca Enterprises CEO Rebecca Glashow, Fox One chief Pete Distad,&nbsp;Inside the NBA&nbsp;host Kenny Smith, YouTube&rsquo;s Brian Albert, and former&nbsp;60 Minutes&nbsp;executive producer Bill Owens.&ldquo;The industry doesn&rsquo;t have an event that do]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basels-parent-company-mch-group-to-launch-new-miami-festival-inoctober/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basels-parent-company-mch-group-to-launch-new-miami-festival-inoctober/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurie Anderson Talks About Fleeting Freedom and America Turning 250]]></title><description><![CDATA[Laurie Anderson is performing a show titled &ldquo;Republic of Love&rdquo; at SummerStage in New York&rsquo;s Central Park on June 26, as part of the 40th-anniversary season of the City Parks Foundation&rsquo;s outdoor concert series. She&rsquo;ll be backed by Sexmob, a downtown jazz band that grew out of the free-improv scene around the Knitting Factory in the 1990s, and she&rsquo;ll be singing songs of hers in the midst of other contributions by fellow American visionaries like Bob Dylan, Lou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/laurie-anderson-talks-about-fleeting-freedom-and-america-turning250/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/laurie-anderson-talks-about-fleeting-freedom-and-america-turning250/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris Museums and Tourist Sites Continue to Limit Hours Amid Record-Breaking Heatwave]]></title><description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re only a few days into summer, and there is seemingly no end in sight to the heatwave smothering much of Europe. On Tuesday, France recorded its highest average temperature ever, about 86 degrees Fahrenheit, with highs in some places reaching 104 degrees. It&rsquo;s not just France that is sweltering in late June; England, Italy, Spain, Germany, and many other countries unaccustomed to oppressive heat are, too, especially this early in the season.Many top museums and tourist sites in P]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-museums-and-tourist-sites-continue-to-limit-hours-amid-record-breakingheatwave/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-museums-and-tourist-sites-continue-to-limit-hours-amid-record-breakingheatwave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Zabludowicz Sale Raises Questions, British Artist Tess Jaray Has Died: Morning Links for June 25, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!<br />
Sources say influential European collectors Anita and Chaim &ldquo;Poju&rdquo; Zabludowicz&nbsp;are selling 100 works from their collection at Christie&rsquo;s in London because of disillusionment with the art world.Vienna-born, British artist Tess Jaray has died at age 88.Mayor Mamdani and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced a citywide partnership that includes free admission to the Whitney for participants in an arts activity guide.The Headlines	ZABLUDOWICZES ZIPPING OFF]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-zabludowicz-sale-raises-questions-british-artist-tess-jaray-has-died-morning-links-for-june-252026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-zabludowicz-sale-raises-questions-british-artist-tess-jaray-has-died-morning-links-for-june-252026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satchel Lee Builds Astonishing New Worlds]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s in the gentle, nibbling work of Satchel Lee that astonishing new worlds are built, new terms set. Like Kevin Jerome Everson, Callie Hernandez, and Hong Sang-soo, her attuned senses find, all around her, beauty in the &ldquo;tiny morbidly life-worn detail,&rdquo; to borrow a phrase from critic Manny Farber. Beauty: that too-maligned word. Lee&rsquo;s photographs, videos, miniatures, and music videos testify to a perpetual astonishment. &ldquo;I love people so much,&rdquo; she tells me,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/satchel-lee-builds-astonishing-newworlds/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/satchel-lee-builds-astonishing-newworlds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Utopian fiction is implicitly anti-utopian; things regularly go awry in an ideal society]]></title><description><![CDATA[Utopian fiction is implicitly anti-utopian; things regularly go awry in an ideal society]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/utopian-fiction-is-implicitly-anti-utopian-things-regularly-go-awry-in-an-ideal-society/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:39:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/utopian-fiction-is-implicitly-anti-utopian-things-regularly-go-awry-in-an-ideal-society/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Odyssey has survived three millennia. Can it survive a $250 million movie adaptation?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Odyssey has survived three millennia. Can it survive a $250 million movie adaptation?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-odyssey-has-survived-three-millennia-can-it-survive-a-250-million-movie-adaptation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:39:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-odyssey-has-survived-three-millennia-can-it-survive-a-250-million-movie-adaptation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astrophysicists have always built tools to see farther. The new tools may make the humans unnecessary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astrophysicists have always built tools to see farther. The new tools may make the humans unnecessary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/astrophysicists-have-always-built-tools-to-see-farther-the-new-tools-may-make-the-humans-unnecessary/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:39:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/astrophysicists-have-always-built-tools-to-see-farther-the-new-tools-may-make-the-humans-unnecessary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$63.5 M. Modigliani Nude from Joe Lewis Collection Leads Sotheby’s London Double-Header Auction Totaling $520.7 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Against the backdrop of British Prime Ministers Keir Starmer&rsquo;s resignation and London&rsquo;s hottest-ever June day, a Sotheby&rsquo;s double-header evening sale on Wednesday offered a rare note of reassurance. A total of 24 museum-quality works from modernist heavyweights hit the auction block from the collection of billionaire investor Joe Lewis, featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Francis Bacon. A modern and contemporary auction followed, containing lots that read like a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/635-m-modigliani-nude-from-joe-lewis-collection-leads-sothebys-london-double-header-auction-totaling-5207m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/635-m-modigliani-nude-from-joe-lewis-collection-leads-sothebys-london-double-header-auction-totaling-5207m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mayan City, Hidden for More Than 1,000 Years, Is Discovered Intact in Mexico]]></title><description><![CDATA[A joint Slovenian-Mexican archeological team has discovered an undisturbed Mayan city in a remote area of Campeche, Mexico. Located deep within the jungles of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the city&mdash;which the researchers have named &ldquo;Minanb&eacute;,&rdquo; a Maya Yucatec phrase meaning &ldquo;there is no road&rdquo;&mdash;had been hidden by vegetation for over a thousand years.The site features a 43-foot-high pyramid temple (about the height of a four-story apartment building), and 1]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mayan-city-hidden-for-more-than-1000-years-is-discovered-intact-inmexico/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mayan-city-hidden-for-more-than-1000-years-is-discovered-intact-inmexico/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Splashy Venice Debut, Florentina Holzinger’s ‘Seaworld’ is Coming to Berlin, Brooklyn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ring the alarm&mdash;the most striking performance of this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale is going on tour.An adapted version of Florentina Holzinger&rsquo;s&nbsp;Seaworld Venice, created for the Austrian Pavilion, will be presented at Gropius Bau in Berlin in spring 2027, followed by a stop at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna that fall, before concluding its run in March 2028 at Amant in Brooklyn. Nora&#8209;Swantje Almes, Curator for Live Programs and Outreach at Gropius Bau, who organized its Venice p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-splashy-venice-debut-florentina-holzingers-seaworld-is-coming-to-berlinbrooklyn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-splashy-venice-debut-florentina-holzingers-seaworld-is-coming-to-berlinbrooklyn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Splashy Venice Debut, Florentina Holzinger’s ‘Sea World’ is Coming to Berlin, Brooklyn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ring an alarm bell&mdash;the buzziest performance of this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennial is going on tour.An adapted version of Florentina Holzinger&rsquo;s&nbsp;Seaworld Venice, created for the Austrian Pavilion, will be presented at Gropius Bau in Berlin in spring 2027, followed by a stop at Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna that fall, before concluding its run in March 2028 at Amant in Brooklyn. Nora&#8209;Swantje Almes, Curator for Live Programs and Outreach at Gropius Bau, who organized its Venice pr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-splashy-venice-debut-florentina-holzingers-sea-world-is-coming-to-berlinbrooklyn/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-splashy-venice-debut-florentina-holzingers-sea-world-is-coming-to-berlinbrooklyn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actress Julia Ormond Threatens Top 200 Collector Michael Ovitz With Bench Warrant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lawyers for Julia Ormond are looking to have the court issue a bench warrant for the arrest of CAA co-founder&nbsp;Michael Ovitz&nbsp;for walking out of a deposition after being prodded about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.Ovitz was asked about his continuing association with Epstein after the disgraced financier&rsquo;s conviction for sex crimes. At one point, Ovitz stopped engaging. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to discuss anything about Jeffrey Epstein,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You can ask]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/actress-julia-ormond-threatens-top-200-collector-michael-ovitz-with-benchwarrant/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/actress-julia-ormond-threatens-top-200-collector-michael-ovitz-with-benchwarrant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Open Letter, Hundreds of Artists Urge Mayor Mamdani for Two-Year Ban on AI in Classrooms]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of New York City&ndash;based artists and cultural workers have called on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to implement a two-year moratorium on artificial intelligence in public schools.In an open letter published yesterday by the AI Moratorium Coalition, approximately 500 visual artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers called on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to prohibit the technology, describing it as &ldquo;built on theft, having stolen the work of countless creatives&rdquo; and arguing that it has no]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-open-letter-hundreds-of-artists-urge-mayor-mamdani-for-two-year-ban-on-ai-inclassrooms/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-open-letter-hundreds-of-artists-urge-mayor-mamdani-for-two-year-ban-on-ai-inclassrooms/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egyptian Archaeologists Unearth Two Tombs That Could Represent Early Development of Funerary Pyramids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists working in Upper Egypt discovered two tombs dating to the Early Dynastic period, both of them at the fabled location known as Gabal El-Teir&mdash;or, as translated from Arabic, &ldquo;Mountain of the Birds.&rdquo;The tombs date from 3100 to 2686 B.C.E. and &ldquo;will allow researchers to trace the development of funerary architecture,&rdquo; according to Archaeology Magazine, which noted that thick walls at the bottom that taper toward the top of the structures could represent an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egyptian-archaeologists-unearth-two-tombs-that-could-represent-early-development-of-funerarypyramids/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egyptian-archaeologists-unearth-two-tombs-that-could-represent-early-development-of-funerarypyramids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australian Artist Accused of Copying Work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Nicholas Harding]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Australian artist has been accused of copying the work of two artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, in paintings she has won prizes for in Australia.&nbsp;Jane Allan, an artist based&nbsp;in Lennox Head, a seaside town located about two hours south of Brisbane, is at the center of a controversy regarding her paintings, as reported by multiple Australian news outlets.Earlier this week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Philip Bacon, an art dealer based in Brisbane, had a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/australian-artist-accused-of-copying-work-of-jean-michel-basquiat-nicholasharding/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/australian-artist-accused-of-copying-work-of-jean-michel-basquiat-nicholasharding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the 1960s, Marilou Schultz Has Merged Diné Weaving and Digital Worlds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weaving may be the world&rsquo;s oldest way of reproducing information&mdash;and computing is poised to become its final one. Across millennia, surprising similarities persist: both media operate on binary logic (over/under, on/off), are intrinsically based on counting, and are characterized by patterns that emerge structurally, not on the surface. In fact, the first automated machine, the Jacquard machine, was a loom, and weaving was a favorite metaphor employed by Ada Lovelace while she was wo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/since-the-1960s-marilou-schultz-has-merged-din-weaving-and-digitalworlds/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/since-the-1960s-marilou-schultz-has-merged-din-weaving-and-digitalworlds/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did You Miss the Original Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius? Now You Can Experience It in Augmented Reality in Pompeii]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new augmented reality app will enable devotees of the ancient city of Pompeii to explore the city as it was in 79 C.E., before the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius&mdash;as well as during the historic catastrophe, in which some 2,000 are believed to have perished, possibly in ghastly fashion, including asphyxiating amid clouds of ash or even having their bodily fluids vaporized by burning gas. Besides seeing the sky go dark on that fateful day, they&rsquo;ll be able to see gladiators figh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/did-you-miss-the-original-eruption-of-mt-vesuvius-now-you-can-experience-it-in-augmented-reality-inpompeii/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/did-you-miss-the-original-eruption-of-mt-vesuvius-now-you-can-experience-it-in-augmented-reality-inpompeii/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Southbank Centre Director Will Leave His Post, Says Departure Is Unrelated to Social Media Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photographer and activist Misan Harriman has said on social media that he will leave his post as director of London&rsquo;s Southbank Centre after his current contract expires in the fall. The revelation comes after considerable criticism leveled at him over some social media posts, which he alludes to in the video, saying it came after his decision was already made.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s semi-public knowledge that my term is coming to an end anyway, my actual term at Southbank, my second term,&rdquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/southbank-centre-director-will-leave-his-post-says-departure-is-unrelated-to-social-mediacontroversy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/southbank-centre-director-will-leave-his-post-says-departure-is-unrelated-to-social-mediacontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignations at the Southbank Centre and Canadian Human Rights Museum, and More: Morning Links for June 24, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Misan Harriman, chair of London&rsquo;s Southbank Centre, is resigning following accusations of sharing antisemitic posts.The Louvre and Eiffel Tower close early due to crushing heatwave.Murals from the Works Progress Administration&rsquo;s Federal Art Project in Manhattan&rsquo;s Bellevue Men&rsquo;s Shelter could be lost for good.The Headlines	YOU CAN&rsquo;T FIRE ME, I QUIT.&nbsp;The chair of London&rsquo;s Southbank Centre,&nbsp;Misan Harriman, is resigning following accusations]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/resignations-at-the-southbank-centre-and-canadian-human-rights-museum-and-more-morning-links-for-june-242026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/resignations-at-the-southbank-centre-and-canadian-human-rights-museum-and-more-morning-links-for-june-242026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde said there is only good art and bad art &mdash; the artist's morality is beside the point. But it's not that simple&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde said there is only good art and bad art &mdash; the artist's morality is beside the point. But it's not that simple&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oscar-wilde-said-there-is-only-good-art-and-bad-art-mdash-the-artists-morality-is-beside-the-point-but-its-not-that-simplenbsp/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:21:16 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/oscar-wilde-said-there-is-only-good-art-and-bad-art-mdash-the-artists-morality-is-beside-the-point-but-its-not-that-simplenbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karl Popper is sometimes credited with coining "conspiracy theory." He didn't. The phrase is older and stranger&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Karl Popper is sometimes credited with coining "conspiracy theory." He didn't. The phrase is older and stranger&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/karl-popper-is-sometimes-credited-with-coining-conspiracy-theory-he-didnt-the-phrase-is-older-and-strangernbsp/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:21:16 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/karl-popper-is-sometimes-credited-with-coining-conspiracy-theory-he-didnt-the-phrase-is-older-and-strangernbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darwin spent only five weeks in the Galápagos. He ate tortoise, rode tortoise, and drank tortoise urine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Darwin spent only five weeks in the Gal&aacute;pagos. He ate tortoise, rode tortoise, and drank tortoise urine]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/darwin-spent-only-five-weeks-in-the-galpagos-he-ate-tortoise-rode-tortoise-and-drank-tortoise-urine/</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:21:16 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/darwin-spent-only-five-weeks-in-the-galpagos-he-ate-tortoise-rode-tortoise-and-drank-tortoise-urine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Museum and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum Inaugurate Partnership with Ho Tzu Nyen Commission]]></title><description><![CDATA[Though separated by roughly 6,000 miles, the New Museum and Korea&rsquo;s Ulsan Art Museum have never been closer.The two institutions today announced a multi-year partnership as part of the Hyundai Translocal Series, an initiative by the Hyundai Motor Company. The collaboration begins with a new commission by Singaporean multimedia artist and writer Ho Tzu Nyen. The work will be installed in the glass elevators of the New Museum&rsquo;s recently inaugurated OMA redesign, and in Ulsan, a coastal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-museum-and-koreas-ulsan-art-museum-inaugurate-partnership-with-ho-tzu-nyencommission/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-museum-and-koreas-ulsan-art-museum-inaugurate-partnership-with-ho-tzu-nyencommission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manhattan Borough President Plans to Use His $50 M. Budget Toward the Arts, as Rebuff to the Trump Administration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal announced Tuesday that he will dedicate $50 million, the entirety of his discretionary budget for the next fiscal year, toward the arts, reports the New York Times.Hoylman-Sigal, who assumed office in January, told the Times that this decision came as a direct response to President Donald Trump and his attempts to remake the nation&rsquo;s cultural institutions. During his second administration, Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center and attempted]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-borough-president-plans-to-use-his-50-m-budget-toward-the-arts-as-rebuff-to-the-trumpadministration/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-borough-president-plans-to-use-his-50-m-budget-toward-the-arts-as-rebuff-to-the-trumpadministration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Trust, Mid-Fight with Trump over White House Ballroom and Kennedy Center, Elects New President]]></title><description><![CDATA[The board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Congressionally chartered nonprofit involved in lawsuits against Donald Trump&rsquo;s plans for a new White House ballroom and a reimagined John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, elected Brent Leggs as its new president and chief executive.As reported by the New York Times, Leggs&mdash;who has worked for the organization for more than 20 years&mdash;&ldquo;becomes the 11th leader of the trust since it was&nbsp;formed in 1949&n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-trust-mid-fight-with-trump-over-white-house-ballroom-and-kennedy-center-elects-newpresident/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-trust-mid-fight-with-trump-over-white-house-ballroom-and-kennedy-center-elects-newpresident/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[R.M.S. Titanic’s Plan to Sell Salvaged Artifacts at Auction Faces Ongoing Opposition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in May, R.M.S. Titanic&rsquo;s plan to bring 100 artifacts recovered from the shipwreck to auction became public. R.M.S. Titanic is the name of the company that owns exclusive sales rights to the notorious shipwreck. The objects in question were among those rescued from the ocean floor in 1987, two years after the wreck was discovered and 75 years after the ship sank in the North Atlantic.Various government entities in the US and France had previously voiced objection to the company&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rms-titanics-plan-to-sell-salvaged-artifacts-at-auction-faces-ongoingopposition/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rms-titanics-plan-to-sell-salvaged-artifacts-at-auction-faces-ongoingopposition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists Facing Censorship Can Turn to This New Guideline for Guidance]]></title><description><![CDATA[As accusations of censorship mount at museums nationwide, a new resource has emerged to help artists safeguard freedom of expression. The Artist&rsquo;s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom, from the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), outlines strategies for artists facing canceled exhibitions, demands to alter works, and contract negotiations&mdash;situations that the guide notes are increasingly shaped by shrinking institutional space for risk-taking art.In its introduction, the NCAC]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-facing-censorship-can-turn-to-this-new-guideline-forguidance/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-facing-censorship-can-turn-to-this-new-guideline-forguidance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charles Hinman, Known for His Sculptural Paintings, Has Died at 93]]></title><description><![CDATA[Charles Hinman, known for his three-dimensional shaped canvases, died on May 29 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was 93. The news was first reported by the New York Times.Born in 1932 in Syracuse, New York, Hinman received a BFA from Syracuse University before moving to New York to study at the Art Students League. By the early 1960s, he was living on Coenties Slip, in Lower Manhattan, which had become home to a cast of artists&mdash;among them James Rosenquist, Agnes Martin, and Ellsworth Kelly&m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/charles-hinman-known-for-his-sculptural-paintings-has-died-at93/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/charles-hinman-known-for-his-sculptural-paintings-has-died-at93/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masterpieces from the Reuben Collection to Go on View at the Courtauld Gallery in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Courtauld Gallery in London announced this week that it will put on view works from the Reuben Collection alongside works from its own holdings this fall.Opening September 18, the exhibition, titled &ldquo;Modern Painting from the Courtauld and Reuben Collections,&rdquo; will feature works by Paul Cezanne, Juan Gris, Fernand L&eacute;ger, Amedeo Modigliani, Ren&eacute; Magritte, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso.Cezanne&rsquo;s Turning Road&nbsp;(1905) and Modigliani&rsquo;s Nude&nbsp;(ca.1916), fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/masterpieces-from-the-reuben-collection-to-go-on-view-at-the-courtauld-gallery-inlondon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/masterpieces-from-the-reuben-collection-to-go-on-view-at-the-courtauld-gallery-inlondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris Drug Bust Recovers Stolen $17 M. Picasso Canvas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Police raiding a house in the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne on June 15 got a welcome surprise when they stumbled upon a stolen Pablo Picasso painting.	Though the specific canvas has not yet been identified, it is reported to depict the artist&rsquo;s lover and muse Marie-Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Walter, reports Le Parisien, which indicates that the canvas, valued between about $13.7 million and $17.1 million, belongs to a collector from Singapore. It was allegedly stolen by a worker at an art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-drug-bust-recovers-stolen-17-m-picassocanvas/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-drug-bust-recovers-stolen-17-m-picassocanvas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch’s Lunch With Trump Actually Went Down]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian Institution, and its Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, have been under pressure for well over a year, with President Donald Trump and his administration trying a variety of tactics to compel the Institution to change its framing or approach to US History. That campaign reached its highest flashpoint last summer when Bunch and the president sat for a two-and-a-half hour lunch over their differing views on museum curation.Now, in a profile of Bunch for the Atlantic, writer Clint Smith]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunchs-lunch-with-trump-actually-wentdown/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunchs-lunch-with-trump-actually-wentdown/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Loss Register Recovers 17th-Century Flemish Painting Stolen in 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[The London-based Art Loss Register said Tuesday that it had recovered a 17th-century Flemish painting that had been stolen in September 2020 from a private residence in Canada.The missing painting was reported to police and logged with the Art Loss Register shortly after its theft. The stolen painting, Interior of a Collector&rsquo;s Cabinet: An Allegory of Sight (ca. 1660) by Jan van Kessel the Elder and Abraham Willemsens, was identified in October 2023 ahead of a planned sale at Sotheby&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-loss-register-recovers-17th-century-flemish-painting-stolen-in2020/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-loss-register-recovers-17th-century-flemish-painting-stolen-in2020/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studio Museum’s Connie H. Choi Named Chief Curator of the Barnes Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has named Connie H. Choi as chief curator and vice president for art and education, the latter being a newly created position. She succeeds Nancy Ireson, who held the title of chief curator and deputy director for collections and exhibitions and left the position in November. Choi begins at the Barnes on September 8.Choi is currently curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she has worked for nearly a decade. At the Studio Museum, she worked closely wit]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/studio-museums-connie-h-choi-named-chief-curator-of-the-barnesfoundation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/studio-museums-connie-h-choi-named-chief-curator-of-the-barnesfoundation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Helen Cammock Removes Controversial Video Referring to Churchill from London’s National Portrait Gallery: Morning Links for June 23, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!Helen Cammock removed her video claiming Churchill starved Indians during the Bengal famine from London&rsquo;s National Portrait Gallery.Charles Hinman, known for his three-dimensional sculpted canvases, has died at age 93.The top ten sales at Art Basel last week were revealed.The Headlines	UNDER PRESSURE. Following&nbsp;heated backlash, artist&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-helen-cammock-removes-controversial-video-referring-to-churchill-from-londons-national-portrait-gallery-morning-links-for-june-232026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-helen-cammock-removes-controversial-video-referring-to-churchill-from-londons-national-portrait-gallery-morning-links-for-june-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost one another. Noah Smith explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost one another. Noah Smith explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-the-blogosphere-gave-way-to-substack-writers-gained-audiences-but-lost-one-another-noah-smith-explains/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:41:15 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-the-blogosphere-gave-way-to-substack-writers-gained-audiences-but-lost-one-another-noah-smith-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in arts and culture resist AI most fiercely  and miss what is most interesting about it: the way it uses language]]></title><description><![CDATA[People in arts and culture resist AI most fiercely&nbsp; and miss what is most interesting about it: the way it uses language]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/people-in-arts-and-culture-resist-ai-most-fiercely-and-miss-what-is-most-interesting-about-it-the-way-it-uses-language/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:41:15 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/people-in-arts-and-culture-resist-ai-most-fiercely-and-miss-what-is-most-interesting-about-it-the-way-it-uses-language/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive — but unprovable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive &mdash; but unprovable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-there-life-after-death-the-psychiatrist-ian-stevenson-spent-his-life-collecting-evidence-what-he-found-was-suggestive-but-unprovable-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:41:15 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-there-life-after-death-the-psychiatrist-ian-stevenson-spent-his-life-collecting-evidence-what-he-found-was-suggestive-but-unprovable-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World’s First AI Art Museum Has a Strange Way of Honoring the Rainforest]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s no surprise that the world&rsquo;s first museum of AI art isn&rsquo;t a museum in the traditional sense. Dataland&mdash;co-founded by husband-and-wife artist duo Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkili&ccedil;&mdash;is nestled in downtown Los Angeles&rsquo; museum mile, where massive open-source models, along with visitors&rsquo; real-time biometric data, project maximalist AI-generated installations across its galleries.It&rsquo;s also no surprise that those installations rely on the breathles]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-worlds-first-ai-art-museum-has-a-strange-way-of-honoring-therainforest/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-worlds-first-ai-art-museum-has-a-strange-way-of-honoring-therainforest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost each other. Noah Smith explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost each other. Noah Smith explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-the-blogosphere-gave-way-to-substack-writers-gained-audiences-but-lost-each-other-noah-smith-explains/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:00:15 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-the-blogosphere-gave-way-to-substack-writers-gained-audiences-but-lost-each-other-noah-smith-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the arts and culture resist AI most fiercely — and miss what is most interesting about it: the way it uses language]]></title><description><![CDATA[People in the arts and culture resist AI most fiercely &mdash; and miss what is most interesting about it: the way it uses language]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/people-in-the-arts-and-culture-resist-ai-most-fiercely-and-miss-what-is-most-interesting-about-it-the-way-it-uses-language/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:00:15 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/people-in-the-arts-and-culture-resist-ai-most-fiercely-and-miss-what-is-most-interesting-about-it-the-way-it-uses-language/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-there-life-after-death-the-psychiatrist-ian-stevenson-spent-his-life-collecting-evidence-what-he-found-was-suggestive-but-unprovable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:00:15 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-there-life-after-death-the-psychiatrist-ian-stevenson-spent-his-life-collecting-evidence-what-he-found-was-suggestive-but-unprovable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Top Sales at Art Basel 2026, From a $2.3 M. Yves Klein to a $35 M. Picasso]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the close of business on Sunday, the 2026 edition of Art Basel in Switzerland is a wrap. For most collectors, it&rsquo;s time to jet off to Mallorca&mdash;though for the true diehards, there&rsquo;s always another convening point. (The London sales or Upstate Art Weekend, anyone?)Coming off two lackluster years, the first half of 2026 had stronger than expected activity. The May sales showed robust bidding across categories, with truly stellar results for museum-grade trophy works. That gra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-top-sales-at-art-basel-2026-from-a-23-m-yves-klein-to-a-35-mpicasso/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-top-sales-at-art-basel-2026-from-a-23-m-yves-klein-to-a-35-mpicasso/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Netherlands and Germany Agree to Return 2,000 Artifacts to Ghana]]></title><description><![CDATA[Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts to Ghana, which were taken from the country during the colonial era. The announcement was made at Next Steps, a conference held last week in the Ghanaian capital of Accra.The conference, hosted by John Dramani Mahama, the president of Ghana, was organized in response to the United Nations&rsquo; declaration, on March 25, 2026, that the trafficking of enslaved Africans and subsequent racialized chattel enslav]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-netherlands-and-germany-agree-to-return-2000-artifacts-toghana/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-netherlands-and-germany-agree-to-return-2000-artifacts-toghana/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center Tells Court It Won’t Reschedule Cancelled Shows, Even as Two-Year Closure Is Blocked]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chaos and confusion that have roiled the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since President Donald Trump set it in his sights continues as the institution&rsquo;s management said it won&rsquo;t reschedule shows even though its proposed closure was blocked by a federal judge.As reported by U.S. News &amp; World Report, &ldquo;Kennedy Center lawyers said the institution plans to &lsquo;maintain an operational model&rsquo; after the July 5 date when it was initially scheduled to shu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-tells-court-it-wont-reschedule-cancelled-shows-even-as-two-year-closure-isblocked/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-tells-court-it-wont-reschedule-cancelled-shows-even-as-two-year-closure-isblocked/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Artist Yaacov Agam, Known for His Optical and Kinetic Artworks, Has Died at 98]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israeli artist Yaacov Agam, known for his optical and kinetic artworks, has died at 98. The news was reported by outlets including the Times of Israel, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post.The son of an Orthodox rabbi, Agam was born Yaacov Gipstein in Rishon LeZion, Palestine (now Israel), in 1928. After studying art in Jerusalem, he traveled to Zurich in 1949 to study with artist Johannes Itten, who introduced him to Bauhaus ideas on color and abstraction; he was also influenced by Vasily Kandinsky&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israeli-artist-yaacov-agam-known-for-his-optical-and-kinetic-artworks-has-died-at98/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israeli-artist-yaacov-agam-known-for-his-optical-and-kinetic-artworks-has-died-at98/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Is Offering Knicks Star OG Anunoby’s NBA Finals Game 4–Winning Basketball]]></title><description><![CDATA[For most New Yorkers looking to savor the Knicks&rsquo; first NBA championship in 53 years, a commemorative T-shirt&mdash;perhaps purchased bootleg outside Madison Square Garden&mdash;will have to do. But for the lucky few superfans with a few million to spare, a far more rarefied piece of Knicks history is about to hit the auction block.Starting June 30, Sotheby&rsquo;s will offer the game-winning basketball from the Knicks&rsquo; improbable Game 4 comeback against the San Antonio Spurs, in whi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-is-offering-knicks-star-og-anunobys-nba-finals-game-4winningbasketball/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-is-offering-knicks-star-og-anunobys-nba-finals-game-4winningbasketball/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tate Modern’s Frida Kahlo Exhibition Has Already Sold a Record 41,000 Advance Tickets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Madonna collects her. Her work sets auction records for women artists. Netflix is developing a series about her. She&rsquo;s the subject of an opera.Now, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has another claim to fame. &ldquo;Frida: The Making of an Icon,&rdquo; opening this month at London&rsquo;s Tate Modern, has pre-sold 41,000 tickets, a record for the institution, reports the Guardian. That beats the 32,000 advance sales for the museum&rsquo;s 2017 David Hockney exhibition.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re pretty b]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tate-moderns-frida-kahlo-exhibition-has-already-sold-a-record-41000-advancetickets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tate-moderns-frida-kahlo-exhibition-has-already-sold-a-record-41000-advancetickets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Presidential Center Opening, Obama Warns Against Corruption, and More: Morning Links for June 22, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Multi-hyphenate artist Daniel &ldquo;Danny&rdquo; Simmons has died at age 72.&nbsp;Only two people attended David Hockney&rsquo;s funeral last week, per his last wishes.At the Obama Presidential Center opening on June 19, the former president warned against those who &ldquo;see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils.&rdquo;The Headlines	IN MEMORIAM. Artist, activist, philanthropist, and community leader&nbsp;Daniel &ldquo;Danny&rdquo; Simmons&nbsp;has died at 7]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-presidential-center-opening-obama-warns-against-corruption-and-more-morning-links-for-june-222026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-presidential-center-opening-obama-warns-against-corruption-and-more-morning-links-for-june-222026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kinkajous commute. Dusky farmerfish grow crops. Octopuses build cities. Cathedral termites build taller, relatively, than any human skyscraper]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kinkajous commute. Dusky farmerfish grow crops. Octopuses build cities. Cathedral termites build taller, relatively, than any human skyscraper]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kinkajous-commute-dusky-farmerfish-grow-crops-octopuses-build-cities-cathedral-termites-build-taller-relatively-than-any-human-skyscraper/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:57:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kinkajous-commute-dusky-farmerfish-grow-crops-octopuses-build-cities-cathedral-termites-build-taller-relatively-than-any-human-skyscraper/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante. Who is the great poet of America?]]></title><description><![CDATA[England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante. Who is the great poet of America?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/england-has-shakespeare-spain-has-cervantes-italy-has-dante-who-is-the-great-poet-of-america/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:57:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/england-has-shakespeare-spain-has-cervantes-italy-has-dante-who-is-the-great-poet-of-america/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dinosaurs, crocodilo-pythons, and other monsters populated the “lost world” novels that thrived between the 1880s and 1920s]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dinosaurs, crocodilo-pythons, and other monsters populated the &ldquo;lost world&rdquo; novels that thrived between the 1880s and 1920s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dinosaurs-crocodilo-pythons-and-other-monsters-populated-the-lost-world-novels-that-thrived-between-the-1880s-and-1920s/</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:57:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dinosaurs-crocodilo-pythons-and-other-monsters-populated-the-lost-world-novels-that-thrived-between-the-1880s-and-1920s/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daniel ‘Danny’ Simmons, Artist, Author, and Philanthropist, Has Died at 72]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist, activist, philanthropist and community leader Daniel &ldquo;Danny&rdquo; Simmons has died at 72. His family recently announced his death but did not indicate a location, date or cause, reports the New York Times.Born in Hollis, Queens in 1953, Simmons was older brother to hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons and rapper Joseph Simmons, known as Rev. Run in the rap trio Run DMC. In 1995, the three brothers co-founded the New York gallery Rush Arts (named for Russell&rsquo;s nickname) and Rus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/daniel-danny-simmons-artist-author-and-philanthropist-has-died-at72/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/daniel-danny-simmons-artist-author-and-philanthropist-has-died-at72/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Henry, Artist Nancy Shaver’s Collectibles Shop in Hudson, New York, Is Closing After 30 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henry, artist Nancy Shaver&rsquo;s collectibles store in Hudson, New York, is closing after 30 years. Its demise marks the end not only of a beloved retail enterprise, but of a singular, long-running art project.As a shop, Henry is an ever-changing compendium of objects, generally showing the effects of time and use, selected and arranged with purpose. As an artist, Shaver is now perhaps best known for her wall sculptures built up from fabric-covered wooden blocks (&ldquo;Blockers&rdquo;), conta]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/henry-artist-nancy-shavers-collectibles-shop-in-hudson-new-york-is-closing-after-30years/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/henry-artist-nancy-shavers-collectibles-shop-in-hudson-new-york-is-closing-after-30years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Is Everyone Obsessed with UFOs Right Now?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world, it seems, now really wants to believe. Look toward the skies: that ball of light could be, at last, Visitors. Or it could just be us, converting anything in front of us&mdash;be it sky, land, light&mdash;into a mirror.The latest UFO craze is seizing the big screen, the White House, the New York gallery scene. Mise-en-sc&egrave;ne master and freelance E.T. truther Steven Spielberg leads the charge with his glorious Disclosure Day (2026), his best film in decades (despite what you may h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-is-everyone-obsessed-with-ufos-rightnow/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-is-everyone-obsessed-with-ufos-rightnow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Say They’ve Found the Prototype for Stonehenge’s Solstice Alignment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists from Wessex Research, a British archeological firm, have found a structure that may have been a prototype for Stonehenge. The company announced the find just days before June 21, when thousands of visitors will converge on the ancient stone circle to celebrate the summer solstice.The Wessex Research team made the discovery while conducting required excavations in Bulford, three miles from Stonehenge, ahead of the British Ministry of Defense&rsquo;s construction of new housing. At]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-say-theyve-found-the-prototype-for-stonehenges-solsticealignment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-say-theyve-found-the-prototype-for-stonehenges-solsticealignment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Launches Augmented Reality Project On National Mall]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian American Women&rsquo;s History Museum, a museum-without-walls whose stated mission is to center women&rsquo;s history on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has launched a new augmented reality project called &ldquo;Unhidden Heroines.&rdquo; Starting on June 18, anyone with a smartphone (or a computer) will be able to conjure the presence of five women who helped shape the country over the past 250 years and learn about their history and influence.The five virtual monuments wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum-launches-augmented-reality-project-on-nationalmall/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum-launches-augmented-reality-project-on-nationalmall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helen Cammock Video Work Sparks Controversy Regarding Churchill’s Role in 1943 Bengal Famine]]></title><description><![CDATA[A video work by Helen Cammock that has been on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London for nine months has recently sparked controversy for its claim about former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill&rsquo;s role in the Bengal famine of 1943.In the 40-minute video, titled Persistence (2025), Cammock, who won the Turner Prize in 2019, mentions Oliver Cromwell&rsquo;s conquest of Ireland, which included a famine. In her narration, according to the Guardian, she says, Cromwell &ldquo;st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/helen-cammock-video-work-sparks-controversy-regarding-churchills-role-in-1943-bengalfamine/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/helen-cammock-video-work-sparks-controversy-regarding-churchills-role-in-1943-bengalfamine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Reykjavík Arts Festival, Poetic Perfumes Mingle with Björk and Much More]]></title><description><![CDATA[All arts festivals abound in sights and sounds, but the Reykjav&iacute;k Arts Festival invested in a sense seldom given its due: smell. And not just any smell but, suggestively, the scent of &ldquo;freshly cut grass resting by a fence post, chervil spilling across a sun-warmed sidewalk, a lawnmower shredding dandelions and sorrel, the echo of a distant party, blackcurrants dropping one by one from bare branches.&rdquo;Those are some of the poetic notes appended to a special scent created for the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-reykjavk-arts-festival-poetic-perfumes-mingle-with-bjrk-and-muchmore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-reykjavk-arts-festival-poetic-perfumes-mingle-with-bjrk-and-muchmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numerous Prominent Art Collectors Are on the Membership List of Peter Thiel’s Invite-Only ‘Dialog’ Organization]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Swiss anarchist-hacker Maia Arson Crimew leaked information about Dialog, the secretive, invite-only organization cofounded by right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel in 2006. Among the figures listed on the leaked membership rolls are numerous major art collectors and arts patrons.The organization convenes wealthy and powerful figures in tech, finance, politics, entertainment, and other sectors of American life for an annual retreat to &ldquo;discuss topics off-the-record.&rd]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/numerous-prominent-art-collectors-are-on-the-membership-list-of-peter-thiels-invite-only-dialog-organization/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/numerous-prominent-art-collectors-are-on-the-membership-list-of-peter-thiels-invite-only-dialog-organization/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New York Judge Gives Dealer David Nahmad 30 Days To Return Nazi-Looted Modigliani Painting]]></title><description><![CDATA[A legal battle that went on for 11 years over a prized painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani came to a close in April, when billionaire art dealer David Nahmad and his family lost their bid to hold on to Seated Man With a Cane (1918), valued at upward of $25 million. The family had bought the painting at auction in 1996 for $3.2 million.But the Nahmads have not returned the piece, and now, a new ruling in New York Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 16 gives Nahmad 30 days to return the canvas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-york-judge-gives-dealer-david-nahmad-30-days-to-return-nazi-looted-modiglianipainting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-york-judge-gives-dealer-david-nahmad-30-days-to-return-nazi-looted-modiglianipainting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penske Media Corporation Acquires Vox Media, Creating the World’s Largest Digital Media Publisher]]></title><description><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA&mdash;June&nbsp;18, 2026&mdash;Today, Penske Media Corporation (PMC) announced the acquisition of Vox&nbsp;Media&nbsp;and its leading&nbsp;brands:&nbsp;VOX Studios,&nbsp;Eater,&nbsp;The Verge,&nbsp;SB Nation,&nbsp;POPSUGAR,&nbsp;The Dodo, Punch,&nbsp;Thrillist&nbsp;and&nbsp;VOX Creative,&nbsp;along with&nbsp;Concert, Vox Media&rsquo;s premium ad marketplace, and&nbsp;Forte, Vox Media&rsquo;s&nbsp;first&nbsp;party data platform. PMC was Vox&rsquo;s largest&nbsp;shareholder prior t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/penske-media-corporation-acquires-vox-media-creating-theworldslargest-digitalmediapublisher/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/penske-media-corporation-acquires-vox-media-creating-theworldslargest-digitalmediapublisher/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Artists Reflect on David Hockney’s Enduring Influence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Across a seven-decade career, David Hockney, who died earlier this month, created a singular body of work that encapsulated the feeling and the sensibility of the places he called home. Among the most famous of these are his images from the late 1960s and early &rsquo;70s of Los Angeles, capturing the sun-drenched pools of wealthy homes and the collectors who lived there. Later on, he would paint vistas of the Grand Canyon, East Yorkshire, and Normandy, to name a few. Hockney would also become k]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-artists-reflect-on-david-hockneys-enduringinfluence/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-artists-reflect-on-david-hockneys-enduringinfluence/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Gavin Snider Accuses Tik Tok-Famous Artist Devon Rodriguez of Stealing Knicks Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Knicks fans across New York City may be on their way to celebrate the team&rsquo;s NBA Finals win with a ticker-tape parade this morning, but at least one New Yorker won&rsquo;t be celebrating just yet.	Brooklyn-based artist and designer Gavin Snider has accused Devon Rodriguez&mdash;he of the viral subway drawings on TikTok&mdash;of copying two recent paintings of Knicks fans and Madison Square Garden.	In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Snider said he had been hired in May by the team&rsquo;s mar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-gavin-snider-accuses-tik-tok-famous-artist-devon-rodriguez-of-stealing-knicksartworks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-gavin-snider-accuses-tik-tok-famous-artist-devon-rodriguez-of-stealing-knicksartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paula Cooper Wins First Art Basel Gallery Legacy Award, the Last Photographs of Martin Parr, and More: Morning Links for June 18, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!<br />
New York&rsquo;s Supreme Court ordered dealer David Nahmad to return a contested Amedeo Modigliani painting to the heirs of a Holocaust victim within 30 days.&nbsp;Paula Cooper Gallery has won the inaugural Art Basel Gallery Legacy Award.The Louvre museum is &ldquo;at the end of its rope,&rdquo; said its president.The Headlines	A MODIGLIANI MESS. On Tuesday, the New York Supreme Court ordered billionaire art dealer&nbsp;David Nahmad&nbsp;to return a prized&nbsp;Amedeo Modigliani&nb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paula-cooper-wins-first-art-basel-gallery-legacy-award-the-last-photographs-of-martin-parr-and-more-morning-links-for-june-182026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paula-cooper-wins-first-art-basel-gallery-legacy-award-the-last-photographs-of-martin-parr-and-more-morning-links-for-june-182026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of Evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What killed the masquerade ball: the rise of Evangelical moral values or an increasing affordability, which rendered it less appealing to the aristocracy?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-killed-the-masquerade-ball-the-rise-of-evangelical-moral-values-or-an-increasing-affordability-which-rendered-it-less-appealing-to-the-aristocracy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:55:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-killed-the-masquerade-ball-the-rise-of-evangelical-moral-values-or-an-increasing-affordability-which-rendered-it-less-appealing-to-the-aristocracy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty-seven paintings, 15 children, 43 years, and almost no paper trail: Vermeer is known to us only through crumbs and scraps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thirty-seven paintings, 15 children, 43 years, and almost no paper trail: Vermeer is known to us only through crumbs and scraps]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thirty-seven-paintings-15-children-43-years-and-almost-no-paper-trail-vermeer-is-known-to-us-only-through-crumbs-and-scraps/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:55:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thirty-seven-paintings-15-children-43-years-and-almost-no-paper-trail-vermeer-is-known-to-us-only-through-crumbs-and-scraps/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swift, Pope, and Gay gathered at Twickenham in 1726. They shared a villa, and a witty contempt for their age]]></title><description><![CDATA[Swift, Pope, and Gay gathered at Twickenham in 1726. They shared a villa, and a witty contempt for their age]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/swift-pope-and-gay-gathered-at-twickenham-in-1726-they-shared-a-villa-and-a-witty-contempt-for-their-age/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:55:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/swift-pope-and-gay-gathered-at-twickenham-in-1726-they-shared-a-villa-and-a-witty-contempt-for-their-age/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Menil Collection Launches New Commission Program, with Teresita Fernández as Inaugural Artist]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Menil Collection in Houston will reopen its Fresco Building in late 2027, converting the space into a site for site-specific commissions. The first artist to take up the challenge will be New York&ndash;based Teresita Fern&aacute;ndez.Closed since 2018 and reopening as part of the institution&rsquo;s 40th anniversary celebrations, the Fresco Building will be the new home to &ldquo;semi-permanent, site-specific commissions&rdquo; at the Menil, which each commission scheduled to be installed f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/menil-collection-launches-new-commission-program-with-teresita-fernndez-as-inauguralartist/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/menil-collection-launches-new-commission-program-with-teresita-fernndez-as-inauguralartist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staff of Kampala-based Umoja Art Gallery Denied Visas, Preventing Participation in Africa Basel Art Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arts workers affiliated with Umoja Art Gallery, based in Kampala, Uganda, were denied Swiss entry visas the week before the Africa Basel art fair opened on June 17.	The Art Newspaper reported the news, noting that the gallery&rsquo;s empty booth featured a sign explaining that the gallery&rsquo;s &ldquo;participation remains impossible due to the denial of visas.&rdquo; The booth is currently devoid of artworks, which are in the process of being shipped to Basel: &ldquo;An empty booth stands as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/staff-of-kampala-based-umoja-art-gallery-denied-visas-preventing-participation-in-africa-basel-artfair/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/staff-of-kampala-based-umoja-art-gallery-denied-visas-preventing-participation-in-africa-basel-artfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rare Working Manuscript of the ‘Big Book’ of Alcoholics Anonymous Tagged Up To $2 M. Heads to Auction at Christie’s from Jim Irsay Estate]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rare working copy of Alcoholics Anonymous, the basic text of the 12-step program, also known as &ldquo;the Big Book,&rdquo; is coming to auction at Christies New York on July 1 at its Rockefeller Center salesroom. It comes from the collection of the late billionaire Jim Irsay. Bearing extensive handwritten notations and edits by the authors, it is estimated to sell for between $1 and $2 million. The proceeds will go to philanthropic causes that were important to Irsay.The manuscript has sold f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-working-manuscript-of-the-big-book-of-alcoholics-anonymous-tagged-up-to-2-m-heads-to-auction-at-christies-from-jim-irsayestate/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-working-manuscript-of-the-big-book-of-alcoholics-anonymous-tagged-up-to-2-m-heads-to-auction-at-christies-from-jim-irsayestate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Art Basel in Basel, From Snoopy Climbing a Ladder to Upscaled Bronze Dominoes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art Basel, the world&rsquo;s largest art fair, opened its 2026 edition in Basel, Switzerland, with a busy VIP preview day on Tuesday. In front of Hall 2, queues remained relatively smooth, while in previous years art aficionados had already begun to gather outside. Inside, a constant hum made it clear that the aisles would be packed as soon as the fair opened at 11 a.m.&mdash;and they were. The eager crowd rushed through the booths of 290 galleries from 43 countries, including 21 newcomers acros]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-art-basel-in-basel-from-snoopy-climbing-a-ladder-to-upscaled-bronzedominoes/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-art-basel-in-basel-from-snoopy-climbing-a-ladder-to-upscaled-bronzedominoes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memphis Art Museum Announces Opening Date for New Herzog &amp; de Meuron&ndash;Designed Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American South will have a new and expanded museum to visit come December 6, when Tennessee&rsquo;s Memphis Art Museum (formerly the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art) reopens. The 123,500-square-foot cultural campus, designed by Pritzker Prize&ndash;winning architects Herzog &amp; de Meuron, expands the institution&rsquo;s gallery space by half and, per the museum, offers &ldquo;six times more art-filled free public space.&rdquo;&nbsp;The new facility was initially tagged at $180 million, report]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/memphis-art-museum-announces-opening-date-for-new-herzog-amp-de-meuronndashdesigned-home/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/memphis-art-museum-announces-opening-date-for-new-herzog-amp-de-meuronndashdesigned-home/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Were the Couples That Posed for David Hockney's Famed Double Portraits?]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of his subjects was a cousin I never knew. I wanted to learn more about the large-scale portraits that helped define the English artist's legacy]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-were-the-couples-that-posed-for-david-hockneys-famed-double-portraits/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-were-the-couples-that-posed-for-david-hockneys-famed-double-portraits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Bob Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Bob Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/plagiarism-nabokov-called-it-unconscious-bob-dylan-told-his-accusers-to-rot-in-hell-both-had-a-point/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:17:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/plagiarism-nabokov-called-it-unconscious-bob-dylan-told-his-accusers-to-rot-in-hell-both-had-a-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwight Macdonald opposed U.S. entry into World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dwight Macdonald opposed U.S. entry into World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-macdonald-opposed-us-entry-into-world-war-ii-denounced-the-atom-bomb-and-never-found-an-ideological-home-was-he-right/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:17:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-macdonald-opposed-us-entry-into-world-war-ii-denounced-the-atom-bomb-and-never-found-an-ideological-home-was-he-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coalition of Attorneys General File Amicus Brief in Support of Suit to Halt Construction of Trump’s Triumphal Arch]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of 19 attorneys general have moved to halt construction of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s triumphal arch, arguing that a project of this magnitude cannot proceed without congressional approval and a comprehensive federal review.&nbsp;The coalition of attorneys general filed an amicus brief in Lemmon v. Trump, which challenges plans to build a 250-foot arch on Memorial Circle in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A statement released a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/coalition-of-attorneys-general-file-amicus-brief-in-support-of-suit-to-halt-construction-of-trumps-triumphalarch/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/coalition-of-attorneys-general-file-amicus-brief-in-support-of-suit-to-halt-construction-of-trumps-triumphalarch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissident Russian Artist Robert ⁠Kuzovkov, aka Semyon Skrepetsky, Gunned Down in Poland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian artist Robert &#8288;Kuzovkov, known as Seymon Skrepetsky, was gunned down Monday in Bia&#322;a Podlaska, in eastern Poland. Two Belarusian nationals have been detained, though not yet charged, reports ArtReview, which adds that one was arrested close to the Belarusian consulate. The victim was found with five bullet wounds, reports UK&rsquo;s Telegraph.An artist and performer, Skrepetsky gained notice with his cutting portraits of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Belarusian president A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dissident-russian-artist-robert-kuzovkov-aka-semyon-skrepetsky-gunned-down-inpoland/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dissident-russian-artist-robert-kuzovkov-aka-semyon-skrepetsky-gunned-down-inpoland/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Kordansky Takes On Keith Sonnier Estate, Trellis Art Fund Grants, and More: Industry Moves for June 17, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Rebecca Ackroyd Joins Deborah Schamoni Gallery:&nbsp;The Munich gallery has a solo show planned for the Berlin-based British sculptor for September, alongside a presentation at Art Basel this week.David]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-kordansky-takes-on-keith-sonnier-estate-trellis-art-fund-grants-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-172026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-kordansky-takes-on-keith-sonnier-estate-trellis-art-fund-grants-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-172026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US House Appropriations Committee Proposes Cutting Department of Education’s Only Arts Grant Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US House Appropriations Committee, chaired by Republican Tom Cole of Oklahoma, advanced a budget proposal that could cut funding from the Department of Education&rsquo;s only arts grant.Erin Harkey, CEO of the advocacy nonprofit Americans for the Arts, told Hyperallergic that eliminating the department&rsquo;s Assistance for Arts Education program &ldquo;would reduce support for critical work that students, educators, and communities depend on, including teacher professional development, acc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-house-appropriations-committee-proposes-cutting-department-of-educations-only-arts-grantprogram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-house-appropriations-committee-proposes-cutting-department-of-educations-only-arts-grantprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Louvre President Tells French Senate Museum Is ‘at the End of Its Rope’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christophe Leribault, the Louvre&rsquo;s president-director since February, addressed the French Senate Wednesday, delivering an assessment that the storied Paris museum is &ldquo;&agrave; bout de souffle,&rdquo; or &ldquo;at the end of its rope.&rdquo;Speaking before the Senate&rsquo;s Committee on Culture, Education, Communication and Sport, Leribault characterized the situation as being &ldquo;at a crossroads&rdquo; and that &ldquo;urgent building issues are piling up, and we are facing a mas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-president-tells-french-senate-museum-is-at-the-end-of-itsrope/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/louvre-president-tells-french-senate-museum-is-at-the-end-of-itsrope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five Advances That Helped Turn a Night Out at the Movies Into the All-Enveloping Experience It Has Become]]></title><description><![CDATA[The power of film is often in its ability to feel larger than life. Movie makers have been developing ways to accentuate that aspect for more than a century]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/five-advances-that-helped-turn-a-night-out-at-the-movies-into-the-all-enveloping-experience-it-has-become/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/five-advances-that-helped-turn-a-night-out-at-the-movies-into-the-all-enveloping-experience-it-has-become/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Day of Art Basel Stronger Than Last Year, Anti-Putin Artist Killed, and More: Morning Links for June 17, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!The first day sales at Art Basel were stronger than last year, even if it&rsquo;s no selling frenzy.&nbsp;An artist who made work criticizing Putin was gunned down in Poland.The Louvre museum is &ldquo;at the end of its rope,&rdquo; said its president.The Headlines	IS BASEL BACK?&nbsp;As the aisles cleared yesterday evening from&nbsp;Art Basel&rs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/first-day-of-art-basel-stronger-than-last-year-anti-putin-artist-killed-and-more-morning-links-for-june-172026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/first-day-of-art-basel-stronger-than-last-year-anti-putin-artist-killed-and-more-morning-links-for-june-172026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Generation of Teenagers Redefines Pop Culture Through Its Favorite Music, Fads, Movies and Trends]]></title><description><![CDATA[When new government policies allowed kids more time to grown up, the teenager was born. And every decade or so, they&rsquo;ve changed the ways they entertain themselves &hellip; and everyone else]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/every-generation-of-teenagers-redefines-pop-culture-through-its-favorite-music-fads-movies-and-trends/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/every-generation-of-teenagers-redefines-pop-culture-through-its-favorite-music-fads-movies-and-trends/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/plagiarism-nabokov-called-it-unconscious-dylan-told-his-accusers-to-rot-in-hell-both-had-a-point/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:01:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/plagiarism-nabokov-called-it-unconscious-dylan-told-his-accusers-to-rot-in-hell-both-had-a-point/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dwight Macdonald opposed World War II, denounced the atom bomb, and never found an ideological home. Was he right?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-macdonald-opposed-world-war-ii-denounced-the-atom-bomb-and-never-found-an-ideological-home-was-he-right/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:01:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-macdonald-opposed-world-war-ii-denounced-the-atom-bomb-and-never-found-an-ideological-home-was-he-right/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate over whether David Foster Wallace was a virtuosic bully or a genius with a heart of gold has eclipsed consideration of his work]]></title><description><![CDATA[Debate over whether David Foster Wallace was a virtuosic bully or a genius with a heart of gold has eclipsed consideration of his work]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/debate-over-whether-david-foster-wallace-was-a-virtuosic-bully-or-a-genius-with-a-heart-of-gold-has-eclipsed-consideration-of-his-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:01:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/debate-over-whether-david-foster-wallace-was-a-virtuosic-bully-or-a-genius-with-a-heart-of-gold-has-eclipsed-consideration-of-his-work/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galleries Report Lots of Activity at Art Basel’s VIP Preview: ‘As Strong a First Day As We’ve Ever Had’]]></title><description><![CDATA[By the end of Tuesday&rsquo;s VIP preview day, it was clear that sales at Art Basel&rsquo;s flagship fair were noticeably stronger than in 2025, with plenty of transactions being completed shortly after the doors to the Messe opened. Yet, for as strong as sales were, dealers repeatedly cautioned ARTnews that this was not a return to the post-Covid days of frenzied speculative buying, but rather something more measured, particularly where it concerned the big-ticket works.As collectors thinned ou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/galleries-report-lots-of-activity-at-art-basels-vip-preview-as-strong-a-first-day-as-weve-everhad-2/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/galleries-report-lots-of-activity-at-art-basels-vip-preview-as-strong-a-first-day-as-weve-everhad-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Galleries Report Lots of Activity at Art Basel’s VIP Preview: “As Strong a First Day As We’ve Ever Had”]]></title><description><![CDATA[By the end of Tuesday&rsquo;s VIP preview day, it was clear that sales at Art Basel&rsquo;s flagship fair were noticeably stronger than in 2025, with plenty of transactions completing shortly after the doors to the Messeplatz opened. Yet, for as strong as sales were, dealers repeatedly cautioned ARTnews that this was not a return to the post-Covid days of frenzied speculative buying, but rather something more measured, particularly where it concerned the big-ticket works.As collectors thinned ou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/galleries-report-lots-of-activity-at-art-basels-vip-preview-as-strong-a-first-day-as-weve-everhad/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/galleries-report-lots-of-activity-at-art-basels-vip-preview-as-strong-a-first-day-as-weve-everhad/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soyoung Yoon to Lead Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Whitney Museum in New York has named Soyoung Yoon as the next director of its Independent Study Program (ISP). She will start in her role on June 16.Yoon will be only the third director in ISP&rsquo;s history and the first women and person of color to lead the program. Her hiring comes just over a year after the Whitney controversially paused the ISP. The program did not accept applicants for the 2025&ndash;26 cohort, but will welcome its next class in the fall 2027.Yoon is currently the dir]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/soyoung-yoon-to-lead-whitney-museums-independent-studyprogram/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/soyoung-yoon-to-lead-whitney-museums-independent-studyprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s to Open Wine Shop at Rockefeller Center in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s is planning to open a boutique wine shop at its headquarters in Rockefeller Center, thanks in part to assistance from New York state legislators who passed a law allowing the auction house to get around a regulation dating back more than a century.As reported by the New York Post, the development comes &ldquo;after New York legislators passed a law last month that allowed Christie&rsquo;s to sidestep Prohibition-era rules that prevent wine stores from also being wine makers. The]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-open-wine-shop-at-rockefeller-center-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-to-open-wine-shop-at-rockefeller-center-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Obama Center’s Newest Artistic Commissions, Including Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Portrait of the Former First Couple]]></title><description><![CDATA[America&rsquo;s newest presidential center and library, located in Chicago and devoted to the legacy of Barack Obama, America&rsquo;s 44th president, is a heavy hitter in the art department. Opening to the public June 19, the eight-story granite museum building, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, features major commissions by 25 artists, including stars such as Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose portrait of the former First Couple has just been unveiled; it is the first official portr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-obama-centers-newest-artistic-commissions-including-njideka-akunyili-crosbys-portrait-of-the-former-firstcouple/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-obama-centers-newest-artistic-commissions-including-njideka-akunyili-crosbys-portrait-of-the-former-firstcouple/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Preservationists Sue to Halt Trump’s Sculpture ‘Garden of American Heroes’]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump&rsquo;s proposed &ldquo;National Garden of American Heroes&rdquo; has hit another setback as a coalition of Washington-era preservation and cultural groups sues to halt its construction.The lawsuit, filed Monday, argues that the statuary garden&mdash;featuring roughly 250 Americans and planned for West Potomac Park&mdash;cannot proceed without congressional approval. The filing seeks to halt the project, which is already underway on a tract connected to the National Mall,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dc-preservationists-sue-to-halt-trumps-sculpture-garden-of-americanheroes/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dc-preservationists-sue-to-halt-trumps-sculpture-garden-of-americanheroes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two 1,700-Year-Old Roman Marble Statues Surface Inside an Ancient Wine Vat in Israel]]></title><description><![CDATA[An archeological excavation conducted ahead of a railway expansion near Binyamina in northern Israel has uncovered two well-preserved statues from the late Roman period. The news was reported June 15 by the Israeli Antiques Authority (IAA), which carried out the excavation.Dating to approximately the 4th century CE, the marble busts are thought to depict prominent figures from the Greco-Roman world, with one bearing an inscription with the name &ldquo;Lycurgus.&rdquo; According to Dr. Peter Gend]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-1700-year-old-roman-marble-statues-surface-inside-an-ancient-wine-vat-inisrael/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-1700-year-old-roman-marble-statues-surface-inside-an-ancient-wine-vat-inisrael/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Our Current Climate Crisis, Angelica Mesiti Asks How Can We Re-Tune Ourselves]]></title><description><![CDATA[One winter night a few years ago, I joined a motley group of about 35 people gathered in the walled courtyard of a former cosmetics factory in Aubervilliers, a commune just north of Paris. The derelict space had been taken over by artists, and low-income housing projects lit the skyline.The Sydney-born, Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti had invited people of different generations and backgrounds to participate in a midnight filmed performance. She outfitted the group with headpieces and a few l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-our-current-climate-crisis-angelica-mesiti-asks-how-can-we-re-tuneourselves/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-our-current-climate-crisis-angelica-mesiti-asks-how-can-we-re-tuneourselves/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Large-Scale Works at Art Basel Unlimited 2026, From a Deconstructed Airplane to Mounds of Hospital Bedsheets]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year&rsquo;s edition of Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, marks a new chapter for Unlimited, the fair&rsquo;s signature platform for large-scale artistic projects that transcend the traditional booth format. Taking over the vast halls of Messe Basel, the sector is organized this year by Ruba Katrib, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs at MoMA PS1 in New York, who succeeds Giovanni Carmine after five editions at the helm.&ldquo;The space is monumental, the installations are monum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-large-scale-works-at-art-basel-unlimited-2026-from-a-deconstructed-airplane-to-mounds-of-hospitalbedsheets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-large-scale-works-at-art-basel-unlimited-2026-from-a-deconstructed-airplane-to-mounds-of-hospitalbedsheets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Performance Lecture Is the Perfect Art Form for the Influencer Age]]></title><description><![CDATA[On stage right, a rack of children&rsquo;s dance costumes: tulle, sparkles, flounce. The lights went dark. When they shone again, artist Maya Man had taken her position. &ldquo;I always wanted to be a dancer,&rdquo; Man said. &ldquo;Look at me now, doing&hellip; this kind of performance.&rdquo;In mid-May, Man performed&nbsp;StarQuest&nbsp;at the Brooklyn performing arts center Roulette Intermedium, a performance-lecture that grew out of her show &ldquo;StarPower.&rdquo; The theater at Roulette w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-performance-lecture-is-the-perfect-art-form-for-the-influencerage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-performance-lecture-is-the-perfect-art-form-for-the-influencerage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips Just Had the Highest Grossing Watch Auction in US History at $75.8 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phillips&nbsp;has done it again.The auction house shattered another record over the weekend, holding the highest-grossing watch auction in U.S. history. The two-day&nbsp;New York Watch Auction: XIV, held in association with Bacs &amp; Russo, achieved a total of $75.8 million, shattering a&nbsp;record&nbsp;Phillips itself set only last December with a $43.5 million sale. A total of 16 timepieces sold for over $1 million each, according to the auction house.&ldquo;This season&rsquo;s results in Ne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-just-had-the-highest-grossing-watch-auction-in-us-history-at-758m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-just-had-the-highest-grossing-watch-auction-in-us-history-at-758m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Patek President Philippe Stern, One of the Watch World’s Most Influential People, Has Died]]></title><description><![CDATA[The man who gave us the Nautilus has died.Philippe Stern, president of the Swiss watchmaker from 1993 to 2009 and father to current Patek president&nbsp;Thierry Stern, passed away on June 14 at age 88. He is considered one of the most influential figures in watchmaking, shining a light on haute horologie and making&nbsp;Patek Philippe&nbsp;what it is today.&nbsp;Born in Geneva in 1938, Stern had watchmaking in his blood. His grandfather, Charles, and granduncle, Jean, acquired the Patek Philippe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-patek-president-philippe-stern-one-of-the-watch-worlds-most-influential-people-hasdied/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-patek-president-philippe-stern-one-of-the-watch-worlds-most-influential-people-hasdied/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Name Is Off the Kennedy Center. Why Is the Facade Still Covered with a Tarp?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the wee hours of Saturday, June 13, workers in the nation&rsquo;s capital, having erected a scaffold in front of the building that was at that moment labeled &ldquo;The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,&rdquo; reportedly carried out a judge&rsquo;s orders to remove the name of the current US president. Trump had added his own name to the facade in December, over loud protests and in spite of lawsuits filed to stop him, and in spite of the law, which]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-name-is-off-the-kennedy-center-why-is-the-facade-still-covered-with-atarp/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-name-is-off-the-kennedy-center-why-is-the-facade-still-covered-with-atarp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye, aka Kanye West, Spotted at Art Basel]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ye, the controversial rapper and fashion mogul, occasional architect, and Trump supporter formerly known as Kanye West, was spotted earlier today at Art Basel. The flagship art fair in Basel, Switzerland, has its VIP preview days on June 16-17, and opens to the public on Thursday.West was presumably there to support his wife Bianca Censori, an Australian artist who stars in Untitled (Izanami), a 2025 film installation by Vanessa Beecroft that is being presented at Art Basel Unlimited by Lia Rumm]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ye-aka-kanye-west-spotted-at-artbasel/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ye-aka-kanye-west-spotted-at-artbasel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealers ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About Art Basel, Lawsuit Over National Garden of American Heroes, and More: Morning Links for June 16, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!Art Basel opens this week in Switzerland, and dealers say they&rsquo;re cautiously optimistic after several challenging years.&nbsp;Ibrahim Mahama unveils a major M&uuml;nsterplatz commission as he recovers from a brutal attack in Ghana.Christie&rsquo;s is opening a wine shop in Rockefeller Center.	The Headlines	MOSTLY BLUE SKIES IN BASEL. After]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-cautiously-optimistic-about-art-basel-lawsuit-over-national-garden-of-american-heroes-and-more-morning-links-for-june-162026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dealers-cautiously-optimistic-about-art-basel-lawsuit-over-national-garden-of-american-heroes-and-more-morning-links-for-june-162026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Astounding True Story of America's Comic Book Creators, From 'The Yellow Kid' to Superman to Webcomics]]></title><description><![CDATA[A groundbreaking cartoonist paired images with a running narrative in 1896 to create the first comic strip. They've mutated into books, blockbuster movies and Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novels]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-astounding-true-story-of-americas-comic-book-creators-from-the-yellow-kid-to-superman-to-webcomics/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-astounding-true-story-of-americas-comic-book-creators-from-the-yellow-kid-to-superman-to-webcomics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen of Soap Operas Started Off By Telling Stories About the Drama She Was Missing in Her Own Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Irna Phillips was a radio voice actor in Chicago when she was asked to create a serialized program. From that, she created a legacy that includes &lsquo;Guiding Light&rsquo; and &lsquo;As the World Turns&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-queen-of-soap-operas-started-off-by-telling-stories-about-the-drama-she-was-missing-in-her-own-life/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-queen-of-soap-operas-started-off-by-telling-stories-about-the-drama-she-was-missing-in-her-own-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brice Marden Spent Sixty Years Chasing the Same Question. A New Gagosian Survey Shows the Results]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three years after Brice Marden&rsquo;s death, his daughters found themselves looking at nearly every painting he had ever made.The occasion was the completion of&nbsp;Brice Marden: Catalogue Raisonn&eacute; of Paintings, 1961&ndash;2023, a project the artist began with scholar Tiffany Bell in 2019 and one that his family helped bring to completion after his death in 2023. This fall, the publication will be accompanied by&nbsp;I Am Plane Image, a major survey at Gagosian that brings together pain]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brice-marden-spent-sixty-years-chasing-the-same-question-a-new-gagosian-survey-shows-theresults/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/brice-marden-spent-sixty-years-chasing-the-same-question-a-new-gagosian-survey-shows-theresults/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness &mdash; potent though they may be &mdash; are just that: stories&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/toni-morrison-believed-that-racial-blackness-and-whiteness-and-redness-potent-though-they-may-be-are-just-that-stories/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:52:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/toni-morrison-believed-that-racial-blackness-and-whiteness-and-redness-potent-though-they-may-be-are-just-that-stories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-renaissance-was-a-golden-age-invented-by-people-who-believed-they-were-living-through-a-dark-one/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:52:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-renaissance-was-a-golden-age-invented-by-people-who-believed-they-were-living-through-a-dark-one/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness ]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-may-be-sycophantic-but-that-is-just-one-expression-of-its-structural-bias-toward-familiarity-and-averageness/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:52:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-may-be-sycophantic-but-that-is-just-one-expression-of-its-structural-bias-toward-familiarity-and-averageness/</guid></item></channel></rss>