<?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>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:30:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><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><item><title><![CDATA[After Years of Uncertainty, Dealers Ready for Art Basel With Cautious Optimism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paris gallerist Jocelyn Wolff is always stressed before Art Basel, he told me over the phone from a caf&eacute; in the French capital earlier this month. In fact, by his calculation, he has suffered 20 years of pre-Basel stress, less from worrying about the vicissitudes of the art market, than from the high participation costs for his small 8th arrondissement gallery. This year, however, he is feeling a bit less anxious than usual, thanks to some fortuitous pre-sales. That bodes well for the fla]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-years-of-uncertainty-dealers-ready-for-art-basel-with-cautiousoptimism/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-years-of-uncertainty-dealers-ready-for-art-basel-with-cautiousoptimism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kennedy Center Establishes New Endowment in President Trump’s Name]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has voted to establish a new endowment in President Donald Trump&rsquo;s name, apparently creating an additional source of private funding to complement its existing endowments and the approximately $257 million in federal funding appropriated for its building renovations.&nbsp;The Center&rsquo;s board of trustees, which is chaired by Trump and composed largely of the president&rsquo;s allies, voted unanimously to establish the new endowment during a meeti]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-establishes-new-endowment-in-president-trumpsname/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kennedy-center-establishes-new-endowment-in-president-trumpsname/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Artist Puts Vandalized Self-Portrait on View at Houston Museum of African American Culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[A self-portrait by Clarence Heyward was vandalized last week by visitors to the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where the work by the Raleigh, North Carolina&ndash;based artist is on view as part of a survey titled &ldquo;Eden.&rdquo;As reported by the Houston Chronicle, &ldquo;the artwork was left with what appears to be a puncture and a horizontal gash in the canvas&rdquo; after two museumgoers were seen walking around the museum. &ldquo;Though staff did not witness the visitors in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-puts-vandalized-self-portrait-on-view-at-houstonmuseum-of-african-americanculture/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-puts-vandalized-self-portrait-on-view-at-houstonmuseum-of-african-americanculture/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s Jewish Museum Reopens in Temporary Location After Three Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Jewish Museum in London, an almost century-old institution that closed in 2023 amid ongoing financial and organizational challenges, is reopening on June 17. The temporary exhibition space is called Two Rooms and it will take up a pair of gallery spaces at JW3, a Jewish community center and cultural venue in Hampstead, North London, that was founded by Nick Viner, the museum&rsquo;s board chair. The museum plans to open a new permanent museum by 2030.Charles Ross, the museum&rsquo;s chief ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-jewish-museum-reopens-in-temporary-location-after-threeyears/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-jewish-museum-reopens-in-temporary-location-after-threeyears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel’s Vincenzo De Bellis on ‘Basel Exclusive,’ Price Freezes, and Why the Fair Is Getting Even More Global ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art Basel opens its doors in Switzerland this week in an art market that has had an intriguing first half of 2026. The fair company hosted a successful first edition of Art Basel Qatar in February, and last November&rsquo;s strong auction seasons, led by the blockbuster sales of trophy works, continued into May. What&rsquo;s becoming clearer is that the current market looks increasingly bifurcated: the highest strata is performing well, as are safer categories like Old Masters and Impressionism,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basels-vincenzo-de-bellis-on-basel-exclusive-price-freezes-and-why-the-fair-is-getting-even-moreglobal/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basels-vincenzo-de-bellis-on-basel-exclusive-price-freezes-and-why-the-fair-is-getting-even-moreglobal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tunnels From Henry VIII’s Palace of Beaulieu Found Beneath an English Boarding School]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tunnels dating to Henry VIII&rsquo;s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month.Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to contain livestock without interrupting the view across an estate, uncovered a tunnel entrance, along with Tudor-era artifacts including pottery, bones, and glass bottles.New Hall School is named for New Hall, a house Henry VII acquired from his future (and ill-fa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tunnels-from-henry-viiis-palace-of-beaulieu-found-beneath-an-english-boardingschool/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tunnels-from-henry-viiis-palace-of-beaulieu-found-beneath-an-english-boardingschool/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Bottle of Rare Japanese Whisky Sold for a Record-Setting $1 M. in Hong Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA[A unique bottle of Yamazaki 50 Year Old single-malt whisky created exclusively for Club Natsume, an elite private club in Nagoya, Japan, nearly doubled its high estimate recently to fetch HK$8,250,000, or about $1 million, after a contest involving three bidders at Bonhams Hong Kong.. That broke the previous record, HK$6,200,000 (about $790,000), set at Bonhams Hong Kong in 2020 for a Yamazaki 55-Year-Old. The sale occurred May 30.&ldquo;Breaking the world record for a Japanese whisky at auction]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-bottle-of-rare-japanese-whisky-sold-for-a-record-setting-1-m-in-hongkong/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/this-bottle-of-rare-japanese-whisky-sold-for-a-record-setting-1-m-in-hongkong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expansive Show Focusing on Willem de Kooning’s Drawings Opens at the Art Institute of Chicago]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Sunday, an expansive exhibition focused on Willem de Kooning&rsquo;s drawings opened at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show includes some 200 artworks, including paintings, bronze sculptures, and mixed-media works from throughout de Kooning&rsquo;s seven-decade career.The earliest work in the show, Dish With Jugs (ca. 1919-21), was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by de Kooning. It is a black-and-white, almost photorealistic depiction of the three vessels on a wooden table. Accordin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/expansive-show-focusing-on-willem-de-koonings-drawings-opens-at-the-art-institute-ofchicago/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/expansive-show-focusing-on-willem-de-koonings-drawings-opens-at-the-art-institute-ofchicago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyiv’s Dormition Cathedral Hit by Russian Strikes, Painting Vandalized in Houston, and More: Morning LInks for June 15, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Kyiv&rsquo;s 11th-century Dormition Cathedral was severely damaged in Russian strikes.Police are investigating the vandalism of a painting recognizing Black achievement at the Houston Museum of African American Culture.Almine Rech announced it is representing the estate of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.The Headlines	CULTURE UNDER FIRE. The UNESCO-listed, 11th-century&nbsp;Dormition Cathedral&nbsp;in Kyiv was set on fire following Russian strikes that also killed nine people i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kyivs-dormition-cathedral-hit-by-russian-strikes-painting-vandalized-in-houston-and-more-morning-links-for-june-152026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kyivs-dormition-cathedral-hit-by-russian-strikes-painting-vandalized-in-houston-and-more-morning-links-for-june-152026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They Were Just Having a Back-to-School Party in an Apartment Rec Room. Little Did They Know They Were Creating Hip-Hop]]></title><description><![CDATA[The music genre that became a global sensation started with some creative teens just getting together and riffing rhymes to DJ Kool Herc&rsquo;s curated beats]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/they-were-just-having-a-back-to-school-party-in-an-apartment-rec-room-little-did-they-know-they-were-creating-hip-hop/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/they-were-just-having-a-back-to-school-party-in-an-apartment-rec-room-little-did-they-know-they-were-creating-hip-hop/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leonardo Drew Joins Hauser &amp; Wirth for Worldwide&nbsp;Representation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leonardo Drew, one of the most recognizable sculptors working today, has joined Hauser &amp; Wirth, which will now represent the artist worldwide. The gallery announced the news on Tuesday and will debut a new work by Drew,&nbsp;Number 451, at Art Basel later this month. Drew&rsquo;s first solo exhibition with Hauser &amp; Wirth is scheduled to open in New York in fall 2027.Over the past four decades, Drew has built a career transforming weathered wood, metal, paper, and other materials into spr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leonardo-drew-joins-hauser-amp-wirth-for-worldwidenbsprepresentation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leonardo-drew-joins-hauser-amp-wirth-for-worldwidenbsprepresentation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jenny Calivas Buries Herself in Sand—and Reinvents Photography From the Ground Up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jenny Calivas had built her own darkroom in high school and trained at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies as well as the International Center of Photography, yet when she entered the graduate program at Yale, she wondered if photography was still the best fit for her. &ldquo;I wanted to experiment with other mediums,&rdquo; she told me. &ldquo;I had been getting more interested in sculpture and performance. I had a burning desire to use my hands.&rdquo;&nbsp;She tried new approaches in t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jenny-calivas-buries-herself-in-sandand-reinvents-photography-from-the-groundup/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jenny-calivas-buries-herself-in-sandand-reinvents-photography-from-the-groundup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the Tragicomic Feels Like the Most Honest Aesthetic Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[If it is true that every historical era gives rise to the aesthetic sensibility most perfectly calibrated to its moral and spiritual essence, one wonders what truth is revealed by the fact that all of a sudden, the tragicomic is back.This cockroach of forms&mdash;adaptive, resilient, unkillable&mdash;was named by the Roman dramatist Plautus in the second century BC, enjoyed its heyday in 17th-century Renaissance theater, and was revived in the 20th century to describe a slurry of existential des]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-the-tragicomic-feels-like-the-most-honest-aestheticnow/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/why-the-tragicomic-feels-like-the-most-honest-aestheticnow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-duchamp-took-new-york-europe-spurned-him-so-he-decamped-to-america-where-he-was-met-with-exaltation-and-outrage/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:06:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/when-duchamp-took-new-york-europe-spurned-him-so-he-decamped-to-america-where-he-was-met-with-exaltation-and-outrage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is a new academic report with a dry title a &ldquo;diabolically evil&rdquo; plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-a-new-academic-report-with-a-dry-title-a-diabolically-evil-plot-to-undermine-the-humanities-or-will-it-save-them/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:06:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-a-new-academic-report-with-a-dry-title-a-diabolically-evil-plot-to-undermine-the-humanities-or-will-it-save-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Children&rsquo;s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That&rsquo;s stopped &mdash; and has that turned the genre to &ldquo;crud&rdquo;?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/childrens-literature-used-to-get-reviewed-in-serious-outlets-thats-stopped-and-has-that-turned-the-genre-to-crud/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:06:13 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/childrens-literature-used-to-get-reviewed-in-serious-outlets-thats-stopped-and-has-that-turned-the-genre-to-crud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almine Rech Now Represents Famed Surrealist Leonora Carrington]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leonora Carrington&rsquo;s mystical menagerie has a new home at Almine Rech.The gallery is now the exclusive partner of the Consejo Leonora Carrington in France, giving its global network&mdash;with locations in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York, and beyond&mdash;access to the fantastical paintings and sculptures that cemented her place in the Surrealist canon.Almine Rech will mark the collaboration with the debut of a bronze sculpture cast from a life model Carrington created in 2010 at Art Bas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/almine-rech-now-represents-famed-surrealist-leonoracarrington/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/almine-rech-now-represents-famed-surrealist-leonoracarrington/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almine Rech Now Represents Famed Surrealist Leonora Carrington in France]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leonora Carrington&rsquo;s mystical menagerie has a new home at Almine Rech.The gallery is now the exclusive partner of the Consejo Leonora Carrington in France and rossogranada, giving its global network&mdash;with locations in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York, and Brussels&mdash;access to the fantastical paintings and sculptures that cemented her place in the Surrealist canon.Almine Rech will mark the collaboration with the debut of a bronze sculpture cast from a life model Carrington created]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/almine-rech-now-represents-famed-surrealist-leonora-carrington-infrance/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/almine-rech-now-represents-famed-surrealist-leonora-carrington-infrance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almine Rech Announces Collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leonora Carrington&rsquo;s mystical menagerie has a new home at Almine Rech.The gallery is now the exclusive partner of the Consejo Leonora Carrington in France and rossogranada, giving its global network&mdash;with locations in Paris, London, Shanghai, New York, and Brussels&mdash;access to the fantastical paintings and sculptures that cemented her place in the Surrealist canon.Almine Rech will mark the collaboration with the debut of a bronze sculpture cast from a life model Carrington created]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/almine-rech-announces-collaboration-with-the-consejo-leonora-carrington-androssogranada/</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/almine-rech-announces-collaboration-with-the-consejo-leonora-carrington-androssogranada/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Expensive Works by David Hockney Sold at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Hockney, one of the most celebrated British artists of the 20th century, died on June 11, at age 88 at his home in London.Since the early 1960s, Hockney has been a fixture in the contemporary art world, first rising to prominence as British Pop artist, who unabashedly explored queer desire at a time that homosexuality was still illegal in the UK. In the ensuing decades, he ventured across painting, drawing, printmaking, and iPad compositions, often painting the people and places that he sp]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-expensive-works-by-david-hockney-sold-atauction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-expensive-works-by-david-hockney-sold-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Just Helped Identify a Long-Lost F.C.B. Cadell Painting Bought for Under $100]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Helene Plotkin purchased a painting of a seated woman at a White Plains thrift store sixty years ago, she bought it because she liked it. A former art student, she admired its colors and brushwork, and the price was right: she remembers it costing under $100. Now, thanks to Ms. Plotkin&rsquo;s eye, her son&rsquo;s curiosity, and a little help from the Google chatbot Gemini, her family is more than $250,000 richer. &nbsp;Verified by specialists as an original canvas by noted Scottish artist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-just-helped-identify-a-long-lost-fcb-cadell-painting-bought-for-under100/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-just-helped-identify-a-long-lost-fcb-cadell-painting-bought-for-under100/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steven Adrian Stewart, Founder of Kansas Gallery, Dead at 46]]></title><description><![CDATA[Steven Adrian Stewart, founder of the Lower East Side&rsquo;s Kansas Gallery, is dead at 46. The gallerist, who later cofounded Futures Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, died on May 26 in Lawrence, Kansas, near where he grew up. No cause of death was provided.Stewart was best known for Kansas, the gallery he founded in 2011. Through Kansas, Stewart exhibited or represented Michael Berryhill, Mira Dancy, Carey Denniston, Ethan Greenbaum, Clay Ketter, Sylvan Lionni, David J. Merritt, Halsey Rodman,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/steven-adrian-stewart-founder-of-kansas-gallery-dead-at46/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/steven-adrian-stewart-founder-of-kansas-gallery-dead-at46/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Cup Fever: Soccer Balls Designed by Futura 2000, Katherine Bernhardt, Hank Willis Thomas, and 20 Other Contemporary Artists Have Been Installed Around New York and New Jersey]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many in the artworld might be surprised to learn that one of the last projects the legendary art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund worked on before her death last fall involved the 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted this year in North America. &nbsp;The project, Art of the Game, involved commissioning 23 contemporary artists&mdash;mostly nominated by high-profile museum curators&mdash;to design large-scale soccer ball sculptures that will be installed all summer long around New York and New Jerse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/world-cup-fever-soccer-balls-designed-by-futura-2000-katherine-bernhardt-hank-willis-thomas-and-20-other-contemporary-artists-have-been-installed-around-new-york-and-newjersey/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/world-cup-fever-soccer-balls-designed-by-futura-2000-katherine-bernhardt-hank-willis-thomas-and-20-other-contemporary-artists-have-been-installed-around-new-york-and-newjersey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prolific Armenian Painter Haroutiun Galentz is Making a Comeback Across Europe]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 20th-century modernist has been the subject of a recent book that reassessed his legacy, as well as a dedicated conference at Ca&rsquo; Foscari University of Venice this month.Related ArticlesSteven Adrian Stewart, Founder of Kansas Gallery, Dead at 46	Francesca Casadio Named Director of Getty Conservation Institute, GRIMM Opens Amsterdam Space, and More: Industry Moves for June 12, 2026	The work of Armenian painter Haroutiun Galentz (1910&ndash;1967) is seeing a resurgence with interest in bo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prolific-armenian-painter-haroutiun-galentz-is-making-a-comeback-acrosseurope/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prolific-armenian-painter-haroutiun-galentz-is-making-a-comeback-acrosseurope/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Francesca Casadio Named Director of Getty Conservation Institute, GRIMM Opens Amsterdam Space, and More: Industry Moves for June 12, 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 weekFrancesca Casadio Appointed Director of the Getty Conservation Institute:&nbsp;The conservation scientist, who currently serves as vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francesca-casadio-named-director-of-getty-conservation-institute-grimm-opens-amsterdam-space-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-122026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/francesca-casadio-named-director-of-getty-conservation-institute-grimm-opens-amsterdam-space-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-122026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Plans Year-Round Construction for Triumphal Arch]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River.The plan, which would see work happen year-round and for 20 hours a day, was revealed in a 24-page assessment by the National Park Service, according to a report by the Associated Press. The goal is to finish construction in three years.The assessment, part of a historic preservation re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-plans-year-round-construction-for-triumphalarch/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-plans-year-round-construction-for-triumphalarch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mauritshuis Museum Can Keep Contested Rembrandts, Fallout From Viral Artist Residency ‘Scandal,’ and More: Morning Links for June 12, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Iconic British artist David Hockney has died at 88.A court in The Hague said the Mauritshuis does not have to return 25 valuable artworks&mdash;including eight Rembrandts&mdash;to the heirs of its former museum director.Fallout continues from a viral artist residency &ldquo;scandal&rdquo; that misled artists.The Headlines	IN MEMORIAM. British artist&nbsp;David Hockney has died&nbsp;at 88. He &ldquo;passed away peacefully at home on June 11, 2026, one month short of his 89th birthday]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mauritshuis-museum-can-keep-contested-rembrandts-fallout-from-viral-artist-residency-scandal-and-more-morning-links-for-june-122026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mauritshuis-museum-can-keep-contested-rembrandts-fallout-from-viral-artist-residency-scandal-and-more-morning-links-for-june-122026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Hockney, Painter Who Captured the Sensibility of ’60s Los Angeles, Is Dead at 88]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Hockney, one of the 20th century&rsquo;s most famous artists best-known for his depictions of the sunny glitz of 1960s Los Angeles, has died at age 88. His publicist, Erica Bolton confirmed he &ldquo;passed away peacefully&rdquo; at home in London on Thursday, just one month away from his 89th birthday.Hockney is one of contemporary art&rsquo;s most influential and immediately recognizable figures in his signature cap, round glasses, and colorful, often checkered attire. Above all, he stan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-hockney-painter-who-captured-the-sensibility-of-60s-los-angeles-is-dead-at88/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-hockney-painter-who-captured-the-sensibility-of-60s-los-angeles-is-dead-at88/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleveland Museum of Art Plans $600 M. Fundraising Campaign to Sustain Museum’s Long-Term Health]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced Friday that it has a $600 million fundraising campaign in the works. The goal is to support the institution&rsquo;s long-term health&mdash;and it is nearly 80 percent of the way there.As it approaches the final stretch of the campaign, the museum is announcing the public phase of the campaign, which it is calling &ldquo;For the Benefit of All the People.&rdquo; It is the largest fundraising campaign in the museum&rsquo;s history and, according to the m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cleveland-museum-of-art-plans-600-m-fundraising-campaign-to-sustain-museums-long-termhealth/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cleveland-museum-of-art-plans-600-m-fundraising-campaign-to-sustain-museums-long-termhealth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There Was No American Regional Cuisine Until One 'Virginia Housewife' Thought to Compile a Diverse Collection of Recipes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Randolph, an in-law of the Jefferson family who was influenced by enslaved cooks and traditions of European immigrants, didn&rsquo;t change Southern cooking with her 1824 cookbook &hellip; she originated it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-was-no-american-regional-cuisine-until-one-virginia-housewife-thought-to-compile-a-diverse-collection-of-recipes/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-was-no-american-regional-cuisine-until-one-virginia-housewife-thought-to-compile-a-diverse-collection-of-recipes/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickalene Thomas, Known for Her Glittering Depictions of Black Women, Joins Jack Shainman Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&rsquo;s Jack Shainman Gallery will represent the artist Mickalene Thomas, widely known for her boldly colorful, rhinestone-adorned portraits that lionize Black women. She will have a solo show at the gallery in January 2028.The artist will maintain longstanding relationships with three of her existing galleries: Yancey Richardson in New York; Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris; and Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Colorado. (Thomas has in the past also been represented by New York&ndash;based Le]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mickalene-thomas-known-for-her-glittering-depictions-of-black-women-joins-jack-shainmangallery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mickalene-thomas-known-for-her-glittering-depictions-of-black-women-joins-jack-shainmangallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is This the First Good Eco Art Survey?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Biennials, triennials, and their ilk perennially ask: What does it mean to make art today? A new triennial in Medina, a rural village in Western New York, tackles the hard question: What does it mean to make art in an age of waning material comfort for all but the world&rsquo;s richest?While the baby boomer generation rode waves of economic growth, particularly in the United States, everyone else must now grapple with decline as the economy and environment continue their downward spiral. This re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-this-the-first-good-eco-artsurvey/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-this-the-first-good-eco-artsurvey/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great AI divide. All writing — novels, poems, screenplays, even love letters — will be judged according to which side it falls on]]></title><description><![CDATA[The great AI divide. All writing &mdash; novels, poems, screenplays, even love letters &mdash; will be judged according to which side it falls on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-great-ai-divide-all-writing-novels-poems-screenplays-even-love-letters-will-be-judged-according-to-which-side-it-falls-on/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:06:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-great-ai-divide-all-writing-novels-poems-screenplays-even-love-letters-will-be-judged-according-to-which-side-it-falls-on/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being Auden's typist. The experience left James Schuyler feeling awed, fascinated, and discouraged]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being Auden's typist. The experience left James Schuyler feeling awed, fascinated, and discouraged]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/being-audens-typist-the-experience-left-james-schuyler-feeling-awed-fascinated-and-discouraged/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:06:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/being-audens-typist-the-experience-left-james-schuyler-feeling-awed-fascinated-and-discouraged/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“After all the testing and lotteries and nail-biting, this is it?” Even New York parents are growing tired of gifted and talented programs]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;After all the testing and lotteries and nail-biting, this is it?&rdquo; Even New York parents are growing tired of gifted and talented programs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-all-the-testing-and-lotteries-and-nail-biting-this-is-it-even-new-york-parents-are-growing-tired-of-gifted-and-talented-programs/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:06:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-all-the-testing-and-lotteries-and-nail-biting-this-is-it-even-new-york-parents-are-growing-tired-of-gifted-and-talented-programs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Scientists Have Developed a New Technology To Help Identify Forged Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of scientists at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes have published a study introducing a newly developed method that they say will help authenticate artworks&mdash;and identify potential forgeries. The report was published in the June 2026 issue of Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on cross-disciplinary research involving physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering research.The research, conducted by F]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-scientists-have-developed-a-new-technology-to-help-identify-forgedartworks/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-scientists-have-developed-a-new-technology-to-help-identify-forgedartworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art Repatriates Two Khmer Sculptures to Cambodia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Metropolitan Museum of Art has repatriated two sandstone sculptures in its collection to the people of Cambodia: an Angkor period guardian deity (r&#257;k&#7779;asa), dating to c. 921-945, and a lintel featuring a carving of an anthropomorphic dragon from the mid-7th century.	The returns, which were reported by both the Met and the Manhattan District Attorney&rsquo;s office, follow on D.A. Alvin Bragg&rsquo;s ongoing investigation into Doris Wiener, a New York gallery dealer and known traffi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-repatriates-two-khmer-sculptures-tocambodia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-repatriates-two-khmer-sculptures-tocambodia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citing Financial Trouble, Charleston’s International African American Museum to Furlough Staff]]></title><description><![CDATA[Citing ongoing financial difficulties, Charleston&rsquo;s International African American Museum (IAAM) will furlough its entire staff, including senior leadership, according to a statement from the institution.The 20-day furlough program will begin July 1 and run into December in staggered phases. However, the museum will remain open throughout that time.&ldquo;This action is being taken to reduce expenses and avoid layoffs while we refocus on sustainable revenue growth and fundraising efforts,&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/citing-financial-trouble-charlestons-international-african-american-museumto-furloughstaff/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/citing-financial-trouble-charlestons-international-african-american-museumto-furloughstaff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A First Look at the Big-Ticket Artworks that Galleries Are Bringing to Art Basel 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been a whirlwind 2026 already. The year kicked off with a bang at Art Basel Qatar and barrelled forward into a spring marked by a much-talked-about Venice Biennale, a jam-packed week of fairs in New York, and a blockbuster series of sales at the auction houses. For the indefatigable collectors, dealers, and&mdash;yes&mdash;journalists that constitute the art world, there&rsquo;s one more marquee event before summer takes hold: Art Basel&rsquo;s flagship fair in the otherwise tranquil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-first-look-at-the-big-ticket-artworks-that-galleries-are-bringing-to-art-basel2026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-first-look-at-the-big-ticket-artworks-that-galleries-are-bringing-to-art-basel2026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fendi Names Rome Gallery for Couture Show, Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition]]></title><description><![CDATA[WHEN IN ROME:&nbsp;Fendi&nbsp;on Thursday revealed the location of the first couture show designed by&nbsp;Maria Grazia Chiuri&nbsp;&mdash; the Galleria Nazionale d&rsquo;Arte Moderna e Contemporanea&nbsp;in Rome on the evening of July 9.For the occasion, guests will be invited to a private view of the exhibition &ldquo;After un Percorso di Lavoro.&nbsp;Fendi/Karl Lagerfeld&nbsp;1985. After Steps Through Work.&rdquo; Although clearly dedicated to the late longtime and legendary couturier of the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fendi-names-rome-gallery-for-couture-show-karl-lagerfeldexhibition/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fendi-names-rome-gallery-for-couture-show-karl-lagerfeldexhibition/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crimean Museum Struck by Ukrainian Drone, Reportedly Damaging Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ukrainian drones damaged a historic museum in annexed Crimea amid a recent escalation in strikes on Russian-controlled territory in the Black Sea peninsula.The 19th-century museum is located in Sevastopol, Crimea, which Russia has occupied since 2014. Sevastopol&rsquo;s Russian-appointed governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, reported the damage on Telegram early Wednesday. According to Razvozhayev, the museum&rsquo;s 19th-century panorama painting by&nbsp;Franz Roubaud,&nbsp;titled the Siege of Sevasto]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crimean-museum-struck-by-ukrainian-drone-reportedly-damagingcollection/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crimean-museum-struck-by-ukrainian-drone-reportedly-damagingcollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duane Michals, Maker of Enigmatic Sequences of Images That Defied Photography’s Conventions, Dies at 94]]></title><description><![CDATA[Duane Michals, one of the 20th century&rsquo;s most important photographers, known for making sequences of images that conveyed enigmatic narratives and defied the conventions of the medium, died on Tuesday, June 9, at 94, in a Manhattan hospital. The news was confirmed by DC Moore Gallery, which had represented him since 2013.&ldquo;A person of immeasurable intellect, charm, wit and kindness, Duane always questioned the many paths of the human condition and through his art pointedly captured wh]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/duane-michals-maker-of-enigmatic-sequences-of-images-that-defied-photographys-conventions-dies-at94/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/duane-michals-maker-of-enigmatic-sequences-of-images-that-defied-photographys-conventions-dies-at94/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Never-Before-Shown Martin Wong Works, Now On View in a Show Of His Chinatown Paintings]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tucked away at a small institution in Chicago is an eye-opening show by beloved New York artist Martin Wong, a self-taught artist of Chinese-American descent who recorded a bombed-out Lower East Side and heroized his Asian and Latino contemporaries who lived there. &ldquo;Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,&rdquo; at Wrightwood 659, also happens to include 11 never-before-exhibited paintings&mdash;a dozen if you include the never-before-seen back side of one large canvas. It&rsquo;s a rare treat for lov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-never-before-shown-martin-wong-works-now-on-view-in-a-show-of-his-chinatownpaintings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-never-before-shown-martin-wong-works-now-on-view-in-a-show-of-his-chinatownpaintings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dépendence Gallery To Close After 23 Years in Brussels]]></title><description><![CDATA[D&eacute;pendence, the iconoclast, 23-year-old Brussels gallery that built a trusted reputation as an &ldquo;artists&rsquo; gallery,&rdquo; is closing.&ldquo;Galleries come and go. Some are short-lived but leave a clear trace, others endure for decades without changing much. D&eacute;pendance has been there for twenty-three years and now we feel it&rsquo;s time to say good-bye,&rdquo; stated the gallery (spelled in all lowercase) via press release sent last night.Co-founded by Michael Callies, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dpendence-gallery-to-close-after-23-years-inbrussels/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dpendence-gallery-to-close-after-23-years-inbrussels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dépendance Gallery To Close After 23 Years in Brussels]]></title><description><![CDATA[D&eacute;pendance, the iconoclast, 23-year-old Brussels gallery that built a trusted reputation as an &ldquo;artists&rsquo; gallery,&rdquo; is closing.&ldquo;Galleries come and go. Some are short-lived but leave a clear trace, others endure for decades without changing much. D&eacute;pendance has been there for twenty-three years and now we feel it&rsquo;s time to say good-bye,&rdquo; stated the gallery (spelled in all lowercase) via press release sent last night.Co-founded by Michael Callies, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dpendance-gallery-to-close-after-23-years-inbrussels/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dpendance-gallery-to-close-after-23-years-inbrussels/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ARTnews &amp; Artforum Partner to Launch First Ever Art Week in New&nbsp;York]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARTnews and Artforum, two of the world&rsquo;s leading authorities on art, announced Thursday the launch of New York&rsquo;s first-ever dedicated Art Week, dubbed Art Week NYC.The upcoming four-day event, set to run November 11 to Novvember 14, will bring together public programming, neighborhood walking tours, artist talks, gallery openings and more. Among the highlights are a Midtown hub programmed by ARTnews and sister magazine Art in America, featuring conversations with top figures in the a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnews-amp-artforum-partner-to-launch-first-ever-art-week-in-newnbspyork/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artnews-amp-artforum-partner-to-launch-first-ever-art-week-in-newnbspyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pope Leo Blesses Sagrada Familia, Frieze London and Frieze Masters Name Exhibitors, and More: Morning Links for June 11, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!<br />
Ukrainian drones struck and set on fire the Defense of Sevastopol museum in Crimea.Self-taught photographer&nbsp;Duane Michals&nbsp;has died at 94.Brussels&rsquo; 2003-founded d&eacute;pendance gallery is closing.The Headlines	CRIMEA CULTURAL CONFLICT. Yesterday, Ukrainian drone strikes on supply chains to Russian-controlled areas also set ablaze a war museum in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea, called the&nbsp;Defense of Sevastopol,&nbsp;reported Reuters. Images showed the roo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pope-leo-blessessagrada-familia-frieze-london-and-frieze-masters-name-exhibitors-and-more-morning-links-for-june-112026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pope-leo-blessessagrada-familia-frieze-london-and-frieze-masters-name-exhibitors-and-more-morning-links-for-june-112026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze London and Frieze Masters Name Exhibitors,   Photographer Duane Michals Dies, and More: Morning Links for June 11, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!<br />
Ukrainian drones struck and set on fire the Defense of Sevastopol museum in Crimea.Self-taught photographer&nbsp;Duane Michals&nbsp;has died at 94.Brussels&rsquo; 2003-founded d&eacute;pendance gallery is closing.The Headlines	CRIMEA CULTURAL CONFLICT. Yesterday, Ukrainian drone strikes on supply chains to Russian-controlled areas also set ablaze a war museum in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea, called the&nbsp;Defense of Sevastopol,&nbsp;reported Reuters. Images showed the roo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-london-and-frieze-masters-name-exhibitors-photographerduane-michalsdies-and-more-morning-links-for-june-112026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-london-and-frieze-masters-name-exhibitors-photographerduane-michalsdies-and-more-morning-links-for-june-112026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze Lines Up Nearly 300 Galleries for Its Two London Fairs in October]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly 300 galleries will participate in the upcoming editions of Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which will run in the Regent&rsquo;s Park from October 14 to October 18.Frieze London will have 172 exhibitors, while Frieze Masters will host 138. Eight galleries will have booths in both fairs including Hauser &amp; Wirth, Hales, Alison Jacques, Harlesden High Street, and Richard Saltoun Gallery.&ldquo;What gives Frieze London and Frieze Masters their energy is the breadth of what comes together]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-lines-up-nearly-300-galleries-for-its-two-london-fairs-inoctober/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-lines-up-nearly-300-galleries-for-its-two-london-fairs-inoctober/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Hujar and Paul Thek shaped Manhattan's art scene. They died before anyone fully understood what they'd made]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter Hujar and Paul Thek shaped Manhattan's art scene. They died before anyone fully understood what they'd made]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-hujar-and-paul-thek-shaped-manhattans-art-scene-they-died-before-anyone-fully-understood-what-theyd-made/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:23:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-hujar-and-paul-thek-shaped-manhattans-art-scene-they-died-before-anyone-fully-understood-what-theyd-made/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the pursuit of mathematical understanding built the tools now poised to replace it]]></title><description><![CDATA[How the pursuit of mathematical understanding built the tools now poised to replace it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-pursuit-of-mathematical-understanding-built-the-tools-now-poised-to-replace-it/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:23:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-pursuit-of-mathematical-understanding-built-the-tools-now-poised-to-replace-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we really in “the least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture since the invention of the printing press”?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are we really in &ldquo;the least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture since the invention of the printing press&rdquo;?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-we-really-in-the-least-innovative-least-transformative-least-pioneering-century-for-culture-since-the-invention-of-the-printing-press/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:23:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/are-we-really-in-the-least-innovative-least-transformative-least-pioneering-century-for-culture-since-the-invention-of-the-printing-press/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gagosian and Olney Gleason to Present Solo Exhibition for Lee Krasner in France]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just months after the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a blockbuster Lee Krasner&ndash;Jackson Pollock exhibition, galleries Olney Gleason and Gagosian have announced their own Krasner presentation, albeit at the latter&rsquo;s Rue de Ponthieu space in Paris.&nbsp;Both shows will open in October: October 4 for the Met, and October 19 for Gagosian, a week before the run of Art Basel Paris&rsquo;s 2026 edition.The Olney Gleason&ndash;Gagosian show, presented in collaboration with the Pollock-K]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-and-olney-gleason-to-present-solo-exhibition-for-lee-krasner-infrance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-and-olney-gleason-to-present-solo-exhibition-for-lee-krasner-infrance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Prized Lucien Freud Nude, Estimated at $47 M., is Poised to Break Records at Sotheby’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[The subject of an auction-bound Lucian Freud nude portrait may be asleep, but the painter&rsquo;s market is wide awake and keenly watching the rare lot.Titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, the painting could fetch between &pound;25 million and &pound;35 million ($33.4 million to $46.8 million) when it hits the block on June 24 at Sotheby&rsquo;s in London&mdash;to the astonishment of its subject, Sussex resident Sue Tilley. The model and frequent Freud muse told BBC Radio Sussex that she was &ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-prized-lucien-freud-nude-estimated-at-47-m-is-poised-to-break-records-atsothebys/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-prized-lucien-freud-nude-estimated-at-47-m-is-poised-to-break-records-atsothebys/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Prized Lucian Freud Nude, Estimated at $47 M., is Poised to Break Records at Sotheby’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[The subject of an auction-bound Lucian Freud nude portrait may be asleep, but the painter&rsquo;s market is wide awake and keenly watching the rare lot.Titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, the painting could fetch between &pound;25 million and &pound;35 million ($33.4 million to $46.8 million) when it hits the block on June 24 at Sotheby&rsquo;s in London&mdash;to the astonishment of its subject, Sussex resident Sue Tilley. The model and frequent Freud muse told BBC Radio Sussex that she was &ldq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-prized-lucian-freud-nude-estimated-at-47-m-is-poised-to-break-records-atsothebys/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-prized-lucian-freud-nude-estimated-at-47-m-is-poised-to-break-records-atsothebys/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valentine Willie, Visionary Advocate of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, Dies at 71]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valentine Willie, a lawyer by training who spent his career promoting contemporary Southeast Asian art as a curator and galleriest, died on June 9 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was 71. The news was reported by the Malaysian website The Star.Willie was born in Sabah, a state on the norther part of the island of Borneo, in 1954. He studied law at University College London in the &lsquo;70s. In a profile published in Nikkei Asia days before his death, Willie reminisced about finding refuge from the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valentine-willie-visionary-advocate-of-southeast-asian-contemporary-art-dies-at71/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valentine-willie-visionary-advocate-of-southeast-asian-contemporary-art-dies-at71/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sagrada Familia’s Inauguration Day, Influential Curator Valentine Willie Has Died, and More: Morning Links for June 10, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Day!Pace CEO Marc Glimcher announces plan to downsize its London branch.Influential South-East Asian dealer and curator Valentine Francis Willie has died at 71.Experts in Italy accidentally mistook a three for an eight, and misdated an important, 14th-century&nbsp;Madonna and Child&nbsp;painting, now up for auction.The Headlines	IT&rsquo;S ME, NOT YOU. Uncertainty still reigns a week after&nbsp;Pace&nbsp;galleryannounced&nbsp;it was cutting roughly 50 jobs and 50 artists. Layoffs have hit n]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sagrada-familias-inauguration-day-influential-curator-valentine-willie-has-died-and-more-morning-links-for-june-102026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sagrada-familias-inauguration-day-influential-curator-valentine-willie-has-died-and-more-morning-links-for-june-102026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘London Needs Some Lobbying’: 50,000 Attend London Gallery Weekend as Dealers Fight Narrative of City’s Decline]]></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.Last Thursday, in a basement at No. 9 Cork Street in Mayfair, mega-dealer Thaddaeus Ropac was on hand to launch the 2026 edition of London Gallery Weekend (LGW). The occasion was a panel discussion with Pale Horse Gallery cofounder Emma Hodgson and Kate MacGarry, who runs an eponymous space in Shoreditc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-needs-some-lobbying-50000-attend-london-gallery-weekend-as-dealers-fight-narrative-of-citysdecline/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-needs-some-lobbying-50000-attend-london-gallery-weekend-as-dealers-fight-narrative-of-citysdecline/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s London to Offer Two Monets With Blue-Chip Provenance, Estimated at up to $67 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[At its June 24 modern and contemporary art sale, Sotheby&rsquo;s London will offer two Monets&mdash;one depicting the famed water lily pond on his estate, the other a portrait of his wife&mdash;that have previously passed through the hands of top collectors. Both come from the same unnamed seller, and are coming back to the market just a few years after they last appeared at auction.Nymph&eacute;as (1907), estimated at &pound;30 to &pound;40 million ($40 to $53.5 million), was once in the collec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-london-to-offer-two-monets-with-blue-chip-provenance-estimated-at-up-to-67m/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-london-to-offer-two-monets-with-blue-chip-provenance-estimated-at-up-to-67m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rare Recording of Harpo Marx Speaking Publicly Was Mislabeled in an Archive for Decades. Now You Can Listen to the 'Silent' Comedian Yourself]]></title><description><![CDATA[The comedian of the stage and big screen thrilled millions of Americans without ever speaking a word, leaving many to wonder what his voice sounded like]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-recording-of-harpo-marx-speaking-publicly-was-mislabeled-in-an-archive-for-decades-now-you-can-listen-to-the-silent-comedian-yourself-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-recording-of-harpo-marx-speaking-publicly-was-mislabeled-in-an-archive-for-decades-now-you-can-listen-to-the-silent-comedian-yourself-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rare Recording of Harpo Marx Speaking Publicly Was Mislabeled in an Archive for Decades. Now You Can Listen to the 'Silent' Comedian Yourself.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The comedian of the stage and big screen thrilled millions of Americans without ever speaking a word, leaving many to wonder what his voice sounded like]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-recording-of-harpo-marx-speaking-publicly-was-mislabeled-in-an-archive-for-decades-now-you-can-listen-to-the-silent-comedian-yourself/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-recording-of-harpo-marx-speaking-publicly-was-mislabeled-in-an-archive-for-decades-now-you-can-listen-to-the-silent-comedian-yourself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guggenheim Museum to Livestream Select World Cup Matches, Screen Art Film on Legendary Football Star Zinédine Zidane]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Guggenheim Museum in New York announced today that it would host livestreams of a selection of World Cup matches on Friday afternoons this summer.The livestreams will take place at Frank Pub&rsquo;s, a pop-up at the Wright, the Guggenheim&rsquo;s restaurant. In a release, the museum described the program as a way to create &ldquo;a space for people to grab a bite, watch the World Cup, and share in the excitement together.&rdquo; The experience will be free to members and free with that day&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-museum-to-livestream-select-world-cup-matches-screen-art-film-on-legendary-football-star-zindinezidane/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guggenheim-museum-to-livestream-select-world-cup-matches-screen-art-film-on-legendary-football-star-zindinezidane/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Independent 20th Century Heads to the Breuer With Its Biggest Edition Yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Independent launched Independent 20th Century in 2022 in the Battery Maritime Building, a Beaux-Arts landmark overlooking New York Harbor. This fall, the fair is moving uptown to Marcel Breuer&rsquo;s former Whitney Museum building, now Sotheby&rsquo;s global headquarters.The fifth edition of Independent 20th Century will run from September 24&ndash;27 at the Breuer, bringing together 56 exhibitors and presentations devoted to artists and movements from across the 20th century. More than 130 art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/independent-20th-century-heads-to-the-breuer-with-its-biggest-editionyet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/independent-20th-century-heads-to-the-breuer-with-its-biggest-editionyet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pace Plans to Give Up 8,600-Square-Foot London Gallery as It Continues to Cut Costs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pace gallery has put up its 8,600-square-foot space in London&rsquo;s Hanover Square for rent, with plans to take on a smaller, &ldquo;less corporate&rdquo; space, CEO Marc Glimcher told the Financial Times Wednesday.While Glimcher would not confirm rumors about additional layoffs in London, he did praise &ldquo;how tight teams have worked in [our galleries in] Korea, Tokyo and Berlin,&rdquo; adding, &ldquo;That is definitely the model for us.&rdquo; The gallery said further it plans to maintain]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-plans-to-give-up-8600-square-foot-london-gallery-as-it-continues-to-cutcosts/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-plans-to-give-up-8600-square-foot-london-gallery-as-it-continues-to-cutcosts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Lomax Spent Years Traveling the Country to Record the Sounds of America. The Legacy of His Obsession Will Live Forever]]></title><description><![CDATA[By letting Muddy Waters hear himself for the first time, he unlocked a new confidence that set the sharecropper on the path to superstardom. And that&rsquo;s just the start of what he found in churches, prisons and even lumberjack camps]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alan-lomax-spent-years-traveling-the-country-to-record-the-sounds-of-america-the-legacy-of-his-obsession-will-live-forever/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alan-lomax-spent-years-traveling-the-country-to-record-the-sounds-of-america-the-legacy-of-his-obsession-will-live-forever/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saidiya Hartman on Teaming Up with All-Star Artists to Imagine the End of White Supremacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s hard to think of a scholar who has had a bigger impact on the art of our times than Saidiya Hartman. The Columbia professor is best known for her method of writing history that she calls &ldquo;critical fabulation,&rdquo; a way of using theory and speculative storytelling to fill silences and omissions left in the archives. Specifically, it&rsquo;s a way of painting a picture of people who were prevented from leaving straightforward material traces, often those who were oppressed or e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saidiya-hartman-on-teaming-up-with-all-star-artists-to-imagine-the-end-of-whitesupremacy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saidiya-hartman-on-teaming-up-with-all-star-artists-to-imagine-the-end-of-whitesupremacy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museum Rietberg’s A Kind of Paradise: Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art is Balm for the Scars of European Conquest]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new group exhibition in Zurich surveys the state of global photographic heritage through the work of twenty renowned artists.Related ArticlesHow the Pace Layoffs Went Down&ndash;And What Comes Next	Three Men Convicted in High-Profile Dutch Museum Heist of Ancient Romanian Gold	&ldquo;There is something predatory in the act of taking a picture,&rdquo; writes Susan Sontag in her pivotal 1977 volume, On Photography. &ldquo;To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museum-rietbergs-a-kind-of-paradise-colonial-era-photography-in-contemporary-art-is-balm-for-the-scars-of-europeanconquest/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museum-rietbergs-a-kind-of-paradise-colonial-era-photography-in-contemporary-art-is-balm-for-the-scars-of-europeanconquest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“I said I would do it before I die.” At 90, the esteemed American historian Gordon Wood turned to Proust]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I said I would do it before I die.&rdquo; At 90, the esteemed American historian Gordon Wood turned to Proust]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/i-said-i-would-do-it-before-i-die-at-90-the-esteemed-american-historian-gordon-wood-turned-to-proust/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:29:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/i-said-i-would-do-it-before-i-die-at-90-the-esteemed-american-historian-gordon-wood-turned-to-proust/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daniel Greco is a professor of philosophy at Yale. Why is he training an AI to replace him?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Greco is a professor of philosophy at Yale. Why is he training an AI to replace him?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/daniel-greco-is-a-professor-of-philosophy-at-yale-why-is-he-training-an-ai-to-replace-him/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:29:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/daniel-greco-is-a-professor-of-philosophy-at-yale-why-is-he-training-an-ai-to-replace-him/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mediocre student, a crushing bore, a compulsive seducer. How an improbable group of spies helped Stalin build an empire]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mediocre student, a crushing bore, a compulsive seducer. How an improbable group of spies helped Stalin build an empire]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-mediocre-student-a-crushing-bore-a-compulsive-seducer-how-an-improbable-group-of-spies-helped-stalin-build-an-empire/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:29:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-mediocre-student-a-crushing-bore-a-compulsive-seducer-how-an-improbable-group-of-spies-helped-stalin-build-an-empire/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Pace Layoffs Went Down—And What Comes Next]]></title><description><![CDATA[Early in the morning last Thursday, cell phones started buzzing. Pace gallery staff and their friends in the art world were sending each other a couple of short messages: &ldquo;Is everything okay? What&rsquo;s happening?&rdquo;Just after midnight, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;ran a story reporting that Pace was preparing to lay off roughly 50 employees and cut about 50 artists from its roster. For many Pace staffers, it was the first they had heard of it. The timing could hardly have been worse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-pace-layoffs-went-downand-what-comesnext/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-the-pace-layoffs-went-downand-what-comesnext/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Men Convicted in High-Profile Dutch Museum Heist of Ancient Romanian Gold]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three men have each been sentenced to 47 months in prison for the theft of ancient Romanian gold from a Dutch museum, marking a major development in the 16-month-long case.In the pre-dawn hours of January 25, 2025, a band of thieves blasted open several windows at the Drents Museum in the city of Assen, ultimately absconding with a cache of Iron Age gold artifacts from the exhibition &ldquo;Dacia&mdash;Empire of Gold and Silver&rdquo; and triggering a diplomatic conflict between Romania and the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-men-convicted-in-high-profile-dutch-museum-heist-of-ancient-romaniangold/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/three-men-convicted-in-high-profile-dutch-museum-heist-of-ancient-romaniangold/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the Artist List for the 16th Gwangju Biennial]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 16th Gwangju Biennial, opening this fall in South Korea (Sept 5-Nov. 15, 2026), has announced the names of the 40-some artists and groups who will be included in the exhibition. The list was first published by e-flux.The Biennial&rsquo;s curator, &ldquo;fast-rising&rdquo; Singaporean artist and filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, was announced in April 2025. Ho represented Singapore at the 2011 Venice Biennale, and organized the Asian Art Biennial in 2019. The title of Ho&rsquo;s show, &ldquo;You Must Ch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/here-is-the-artist-list-for-the-16th-gwangjubiennial/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/here-is-the-artist-list-for-the-16th-gwangjubiennial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MoMA to Present the First Survey of Piet Mondrian’s New York Paintings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian&rsquo;s years in New York&mdash;in particular, the influence of the city&rsquo;s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian&rsquo;s paintings either made or completed between his move to New York in 1940 and his death in 1944.Known as a pioneer of 20th-century abstraction, Mondrian began as a figurative painter before co-founding the De Stijl art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-to-present-the-first-survey-of-piet-mondrians-new-yorkpaintings/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/moma-to-present-the-first-survey-of-piet-mondrians-new-yorkpaintings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art News, Indeed: NBA Star Victor Wembanyama Prepped For Finals Game By Sketching in Gramercy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Victor Wembanyama is much more than a transcendant basketball star. In the hours leading up to a decisive Game 3 victory in the 2026 NBA Finals&mdash;the first such game in New York City in 25 years&mdash;the 7-Foot-4 Frenchman spent the afternoon in Gramercy sketching.	As seen in a viral video posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Wembanyama and his sister Eve, who also plays professional basketball, but in Europe, were spotted in Gramercy Park, one of just two private parks in New York City, sketchi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-news-indeed-nba-star-victor-wembanyama-prepped-for-finals-game-by-sketching-ingramercy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-news-indeed-nba-star-victor-wembanyama-prepped-for-finals-game-by-sketching-ingramercy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boy Punctures Magritte’s ‘The Castle of the Pyrenees’ With a Pinecone at the Israel Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ren&eacute; Magritte&rsquo;s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a pinecone before a museum guard could stop him, museum staff told The Times of Israel.Sharon Tager, head of conservation at the museum, told Ha&rsquo;aretz that repairs would take several weeks. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re experienced in conserving]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/boy-punctures-magrittes-the-castle-of-the-pyrenees-with-a-pinecone-at-the-israelmuseum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/boy-punctures-magrittes-the-castle-of-the-pyrenees-with-a-pinecone-at-the-israelmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Under Investigation for Referencing Palestine]]></title><description><![CDATA[A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is under investigation over course materials that referenced Palestine, becoming the latest flashpoint in debates about eroding freedom of expression on American college campuses, the Guardian reported Friday.&nbsp;Savneet Talwar was reportedly suspended from teaching and is facing a disciplinary investigation following a student&rsquo;s complaint about a case study assigned in April. Talwar told the Guardian that the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/professor-at-school-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago-under-investigation-for-referencingpalestine/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/professor-at-school-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago-under-investigation-for-referencingpalestine/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Templon Gallery Closes New York Outpost, Tone Hansen to Lead Moderna Museet: Morning Links for June 9, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good morning!Paris-founded Templon Gallery is closing its Chelsea location and hopes to open a smaller space in New York City.Japan&rsquo;s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum sparked criticism for its plans to replace the word &ldquo;massacre&rdquo; with the word &ldquo;incident,&rdquo; in reference to the Nanjing Massacre.A Dutch court has sentenced three men to nearly four years in prison for the theft of golden Romanian treasures from the Drents Museum.The Headlines	TEMPLON TONES DOWN. The Paris-fou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/templon-gallery-closes-new-york-outpost-tone-hansento-lead-moderna-museet-morning-links-for-june-92026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/templon-gallery-closes-new-york-outpost-tone-hansento-lead-moderna-museet-morning-links-for-june-92026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is The Game of Exquisite Corpse, and Why Do Artists Still Play It?]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do artists get out of their own heads and just play? The Surrealists had some fantastic answers to this question. Lovers of chance, surprise, and the bizarre, the early 20th-century group had a cache of games that they used to tap into the unconscious and foster collaborative creativity. Exquisite corpse was among the most popular of the Surrealist games and is still widely enjoyed to this day.In exquisite corpse (or cadavre exquis), participants take turns drawing sections of a human body o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-the-game-of-exquisite-corpse-and-why-do-artists-still-playit/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-the-game-of-exquisite-corpse-and-why-do-artists-still-playit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To America, a country built on an idea, the inability to tell a story in common might well prove fatal]]></title><description><![CDATA[To America, a country built on an idea, the inability to tell a story in common might well prove fatal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-america-a-country-built-on-an-idea-the-inability-to-tell-a-story-in-common-might-well-prove-fatal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:23:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-america-a-country-built-on-an-idea-the-inability-to-tell-a-story-in-common-might-well-prove-fatal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinate pedantry and an endless focus on commercialism — in the world of the film critic A.S. Hamrah, one misrepresentation leads to another]]></title><description><![CDATA[Obstinate pedantry and an endless focus on commercialism &mdash; in the world of the film critic A.S. Hamrah, one misrepresentation leads to another]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obstinate-pedantry-and-an-endless-focus-on-commercialism-in-the-world-of-the-film-critic-as-hamrah-one-misrepresentation-leads-to-another/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:23:11 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obstinate-pedantry-and-an-endless-focus-on-commercialism-in-the-world-of-the-film-critic-as-hamrah-one-misrepresentation-leads-to-another/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To America, a country built on an idea, the inability to tell a common story might well prove fatal]]></title><description><![CDATA[To America, a country built on an idea, the inability to tell a common story might well prove fatal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-america-a-country-built-on-an-idea-the-inability-to-tell-a-common-story-might-well-prove-fatal/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:17:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-america-a-country-built-on-an-idea-the-inability-to-tell-a-common-story-might-well-prove-fatal/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are plenty of reasonable grounds on which to criticize the Frankfurt School. Why resort to delusional fantasies? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are plenty of reasonable grounds on which to criticize the Frankfurt School. Why resort to delusional fantasies?&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-are-plenty-of-reasonable-grounds-on-which-to-criticize-the-frankfurt-school-why-resort-to-delusional-fantasies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:17:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-are-plenty-of-reasonable-grounds-on-which-to-criticize-the-frankfurt-school-why-resort-to-delusional-fantasies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinate pedantry and an endless focus on commercialism — in the world of film critic A.S. Hamrah, one misrepresentation leads to another ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Obstinate pedantry and an endless focus on commercialism &mdash; in the world of film critic A.S. Hamrah, one misrepresentation leads to another&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obstinate-pedantry-and-an-endless-focus-on-commercialism-in-the-world-of-film-critic-as-hamrah-one-misrepresentation-leads-to-another/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:17:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obstinate-pedantry-and-an-endless-focus-on-commercialism-in-the-world-of-film-critic-as-hamrah-one-misrepresentation-leads-to-another/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Rom, Art Adviser and Performance Space Chair, On His Top Exhibitions in Venice This Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale vernissage week brought more than the usual round of openings for art adviser and Performance Space New York board chair Thomas Rom, as the institution&rsquo;s Visionaries Circle co-hosted a performance by theater impresario-turned-artist Jordan Roth at Palazzo dei Fiori. We asked Rom to share his reflections on everything he saw in La Serenissima&mdash;from the Biennale&rsquo;s main exhibition, &ldquo;In Minor Keys,&rdquo; to quieter collateral shows, like Kan]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-rom-art-adviser-and-performance-space-chair-on-his-top-exhibitions-in-venice-thisyear/</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/thomas-rom-art-adviser-and-performance-space-chair-on-his-top-exhibitions-in-venice-thisyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art may have opened its 200,000-square-foot facility in Bentonville, Arkansas just 15 years ago, but it is already ready for its first major addition. At the museum&rsquo;s campus last week, founder Alice Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune and, per Bloomberg, the world&rsquo;s richest woman at $143 billion, explained that she and architect Moshe Safide had drawn up a fifty-year plan for the institution, but given their ages and her insistence that no one but S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crystal-bridges-museum-tacks-on-a-big-expansion-just-15-years-after-opening-and-packs-it-with-americanart/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/crystal-bridges-museum-tacks-on-a-big-expansion-just-15-years-after-opening-and-packs-it-with-americanart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alma Allen Doubles Down on Accusations Against Publicist David Resnicow of Working Against His Venice Biennale Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Alma Allen has again accused art publicist David Resnicow of working against Allen&rsquo;s controversial U.S. Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, after months of criticism surrounding the project.In an Instagram post published Monday afternoon, Allen wrote that &ldquo;two of the three galleries that withdrew their support for my pavilion informed me that they did so on the advice of David Resnicow,&rdquo; referring to the veteran art-world publicist whose firm has represented the US Pav]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alma-allen-doubles-down-on-accusations-against-publicist-david-resnicow-of-working-against-his-venice-biennalepavilion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alma-allen-doubles-down-on-accusations-against-publicist-david-resnicow-of-working-against-his-venice-biennalepavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twice a Week, David Haskell Leaves New York Magazine To Throw Clay]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Haskell spends his days running&nbsp;New York Magazine.&nbsp;Twice a week, he goes to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and throws clay.The Editor-in-Chief of one of the country&rsquo;s most influential magazines has spent the last dozen years quietly building a second life as a sculptor. Now, that work is the subject of his first solo exhibition,&nbsp;Boom Beach, at Donzella Ltd., a design gallery tucked away on the fifteenth floor of the New York Design Center at 200 Lexington Avenue.Haskell is exa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/twice-a-week-david-haskell-leaves-new-york-magazine-to-throwclay/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/twice-a-week-david-haskell-leaves-new-york-magazine-to-throwclay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian and Kyrgyz Scientists Explore Medieval City That Drowned in a 15th Century Earthquake]]></title><description><![CDATA[Russian and Kyrgyz scientists are exploring the ruins of the medieval trading center of Turu-Aygyr, submerged in the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan for centuries. Their findings were first reported by the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) last November, when it launched a joint archeological mission with the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic to study the drowned city.An important stop on the anci]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-and-kyrgyz-scientists-explore-medieval-city-that-drowned-in-a-15th-centuryearthquake/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-and-kyrgyz-scientists-explore-medieval-city-that-drowned-in-a-15th-centuryearthquake/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elfie Semotan, Austrian Fashion Photographer, Dies at 84]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elfie Semotan, an Austrian fashion photographer known for her collaboration with designer Helmut Lang, died &ldquo;unexpectedly&rdquo; on Saturday at 84 years old in Jennersdorf, a town in southeast Austria, according to an obituary posted on Instagram and a report by Austria&rsquo;s national public broadcasting network ORF.Semotan was based in Vienna, New York, and Jennersdorf, which is near the border with Slovenia and Hungary. She had spent time there since first buying a farmhouse in the are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elfie-semotan-austrian-fashion-photographer-dies-at84/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elfie-semotan-austrian-fashion-photographer-dies-at84/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anti-Trump Street Art Collective VJayBombs Goes Viral as LA Becomes a Canvas of Protest]]></title><description><![CDATA[As&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;finished his record-length State of the Union address earlier this year, a group of artists drove to a cul-de-sac off Echo Park Lake in L.A. and got to work. The three men dressed in loose-fitting work pants and hoodies unloaded two laser projectors (one for backup), some lenses, a laptop and battery packs onto carts and brought them to the middle of a pedestrian bridge that crosses over the 101. In the anonymity of darkness, the members of the guerilla&nbsp;art&nbsp;co]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anti-trump-street-art-collective-vjaybombs-goes-viral-as-la-becomes-a-canvas-ofprotest/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anti-trump-street-art-collective-vjaybombs-goes-viral-as-la-becomes-a-canvas-ofprotest/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price for Billionaire Bill Koch’s Aspen Home Cut from $125 M. to $99 M., Put Up For Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year and a half ago, the billionaire Bill Koch spun his massive&nbsp;Aspen&nbsp;estate&nbsp;on the market&nbsp;for $125 million, making it one of the&nbsp;most expensive homes for sale&nbsp;across the globe. That hefty sum likely wasn&rsquo;t palatable for most people, and the price has since dropped to $99 million&mdash;no measly asking price either.Now, still searching for a buyer, Koch is putting the 52-acre spread&nbsp;up for auction. From July 7 to 17, you&rsquo;ll have chance to bid on E]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/price-for-billionaire-bill-kochs-aspen-home-cut-from-125-m-to-99-m-put-up-forauction/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/price-for-billionaire-bill-kochs-aspen-home-cut-from-125-m-to-99-m-put-up-forauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Supreme Court Tears Up Lawsuit Aiming to Halt Bayeux Tapestry Loan to the British Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last July, French president Emmanuel Macron announced hat one of his country&rsquo;s great cultural treasures, the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, would be loaned to the British Museum. Six months later, in December, heritage group Sites &amp; Monuments appealed to the French supreme courtto stop the move of the monumental but fragile artifact. Last week, the court shot down the organization&rsquo;s attempt, reports Le Journal des Arts.Sites &amp; Monuments cited Bayeux deputy mayor Lo&iuml;c Jami]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-supreme-court-tears-up-lawsuit-aiming-to-halt-bayeux-tapestry-loan-to-the-britishmuseum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-supreme-court-tears-up-lawsuit-aiming-to-halt-bayeux-tapestry-loan-to-the-britishmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chairman of US Commission of Fine Arts Attends ‘Russian Davos,’ Joins Roundtable With Russian Envoy Responsible for Venice Biennale Participation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Late last week, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts, became the first US official to participate in St. Petersburg&rsquo;s so-called &ldquo;Russian Davos&rdquo; in nearly a decade, according to reports.	The St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, is designed to attract foreign investment in Russia, but has seen a drop in attendance of high-profile Western leaders since Russia&rsquo;s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chairman-of-us-commission-of-fine-arts-attends-russian-davos-joins-roundtable-with-russian-envoy-responsible-for-venice-biennaleparticipation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chairman-of-us-commission-of-fine-arts-attends-russian-davos-joins-roundtable-with-russian-envoy-responsible-for-venice-biennaleparticipation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Talks About Making Music for Art Projects and Robot Life as Performance]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Bangalter made a name for himself as one half of the French electronic-music duo Daft Punk starting from the early 1990s through the group&rsquo;s dissolution in 2021. A name but definitely not a face&mdash;he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, famously presented themselves as robots replete with all-concealing mechanistic helmets and gloves.After Daft Punk&rsquo;s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/daft-punks-thomas-bangalter-talks-about-making-music-for-art-projects-and-robot-life-asperformance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/daft-punks-thomas-bangalter-talks-about-making-music-for-art-projects-and-robot-life-asperformance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s To Offer $60 M. Modigliani From Exhibition Once Shuttered For Indeceny, and More: Morning Links for June 8, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good Morning!Sotheby&rsquo;s attempt at a private sale of Pace founder Arne Glimcher&rsquo;s Jackson Pollock painting was called off for lack of bidders.The chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts participated in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the first US official to do so in nearly a decade.Sotheby&rsquo;s will offer Amedeo Modigliani&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-offer-60-m-modigliani-from-exhibition-once-shuttered-for-indeceny-and-more-morning-links-for-june-82026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-to-offer-60-m-modigliani-from-exhibition-once-shuttered-for-indeceny-and-more-morning-links-for-june-82026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through Sculpture, Kiah Celeste Finds Elegance in the Everyday]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kiah Celeste trained as a photographer, majoring in the medium at SUNY Purchase. But after school, she abandoned it quickly, frustrated by all the rules that accompany such a technical pursuit. When I visited her Brooklyn live/work studio, it was brimming with sculptures, and I asked her if she thought she used her photo training indirectly. &ldquo;If I do,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s by avoiding every single thing I learned.&rdquo;&nbsp;Instead, Celeste credits her hands-on post-college]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/through-sculpture-kiah-celeste-finds-elegance-in-theeveryday/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/through-sculpture-kiah-celeste-finds-elegance-in-theeveryday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes Great Books great? Their honesty, rigor, seriousness, and sensitivity — all qualities they can lend to their readers]]></title><description><![CDATA[What makes Great Books great? Their honesty, rigor, seriousness, and sensitivity &mdash; all qualities they can lend to their readers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-makes-great-books-great-their-honesty-rigor-seriousness-and-sensitivity-all-qualities-they-can-lend-to-their-readers/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:09:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-makes-great-books-great-their-honesty-rigor-seriousness-and-sensitivity-all-qualities-they-can-lend-to-their-readers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read by a crowd of “envious para-intellectuals,” The Drift seems like it’s written, first and foremost, to avoid the possibility of critique]]></title><description><![CDATA[Read by a crowd of &ldquo;envious para-intellectuals,&rdquo; The Drift seems like it&rsquo;s written, first and foremost, to avoid the possibility of critique]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/read-by-a-crowd-of-envious-para-intellectuals-the-drift-seems-like-its-written-first-and-foremost-to-avoid-the-possibility-of-critique/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:09:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/read-by-a-crowd-of-envious-para-intellectuals-the-drift-seems-like-its-written-first-and-foremost-to-avoid-the-possibility-of-critique/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a classic case of therapeutic culture run amok, professors are refusing to punish their students for cheating with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a classic case of therapeutic culture run amok, professors are refusing to punish their students for cheating with AI]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-classic-case-of-therapeutic-culture-run-amok-professors-are-refusing-to-punish-their-students-for-cheating-with-ai/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:09:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-a-classic-case-of-therapeutic-culture-run-amok-professors-are-refusing-to-punish-their-students-for-cheating-with-ai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Country Turns 250, Why Won’t Its Museums Meet the Moment?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ultimate Fighting ring had not yet been erected on the White House lawn. The National Mall had not yet been repaved into an IndyCar race track for the Freedom 250. But the entertainment programming of America 250, the semiquincentennial celebration of the birth of a nation, was nevertheless well underway.&nbsp;Banners three stories tall with Donald Trump&rsquo;s menacing portrait were being stretched accross federal office buildings around the Mall, including the Department of Justice. A sim]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-the-country-turns-250-why-wont-its-museums-meet-themoment/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-the-country-turns-250-why-wont-its-museums-meet-themoment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Quietly Tried to Sell Arne Glimcher’s Pollock for $50 M.—It Didn’t Go as Planned]]></title><description><![CDATA[For much of Tuesday, June 2,, the second floor of Sotheby&rsquo;s headquarters at Manhattan&rsquo;s Breuer Building was off limits.Security guards turned away employees hoping to access the floor, which, when not used as a traditional gallery, is where the auction house stages its biggest and most closely watched auctions&mdash;including the $236 million Gustav Klimt painting that last year broke the record for any work of modern art sold at auction. According to sources familiar with the matter]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-quietly-tried-to-sell-arne-glimchers-pollock-for-50-mit-didnt-go-asplanned/</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-quietly-tried-to-sell-arne-glimchers-pollock-for-50-mit-didnt-go-asplanned/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexico Demands a Halt to an Auction of Mexican Artifacts in Colorado]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Mexican Ministry of Culture has demanded the suspension of an auction in Colorado, reports the Latin American news channel TeleSUR. Organized by the Artemis Fine Arts in Louisville, Colorado, and scheduled for today, the sale, titled &ldquo;Fine/Visual Art, Ancient, Ethnographic Art,&rdquo; includes 80 artifacts of Mexican origin. The works were flagged by Mexico&rsquo;s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), a federal agency one of whose roles is to protect the country&rsquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mexico-demands-a-halt-to-an-auction-of-mexican-artifacts-incolorado/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mexico-demands-a-halt-to-an-auction-of-mexican-artifacts-incolorado/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Park Service Orders Removal of Quotes at Bunker Hill After Visitor Complains of ‘Woke’ Ideology]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a visitor to the Bunker Hill Monument in Massachusetts complained that a panel contained a quote expressing &ldquo;woke&rdquo; feminist ideology, the National Park Service ordered a review of materials at the site. As a result of the review, the Washington Post reported Thursday, the organization ordered the removal of three quotes at the site. The one that drew the initial complaint, referencing women&rsquo;s suffrage, was not set for removal.While the panel quotes have not yet been remov]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-park-service-orders-removal-of-quotes-at-bunker-hill-after-visitor-complains-of-woke-ideology/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-park-service-orders-removal-of-quotes-at-bunker-hill-after-visitor-complains-of-woke-ideology/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following Federal Order, Kennedy Center Begins Removing References to Donald Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has begun removing references to Donald Trump from the institution, one week after a federal judge ruled that his name had been added illegally to the prestigious performing arts center.&nbsp;In a memo dated June 4, the center&rsquo;s attorneys instructed staff to immediately remove Trump&rsquo;s name from signs, letterheads, and email signatures, restoring the institution&rsquo;s legal name: &ldquo;The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.&rdquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/following-federal-order-kennedy-center-begins-removing-references-to-donaldtrump/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/following-federal-order-kennedy-center-begins-removing-references-to-donaldtrump/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police Investigate Suspected Arson at Boston Museum of African American History]]></title><description><![CDATA[Police and federal authorities are investigating a suspected act of arson at the Museum of African American History in Boston after a package containing materials for an upcoming Juneteenth celebration was set on fire outside the institution this week.According to Boston police, the incident occurred around 8 a.m. on Wednesday at the museum&rsquo;s African Meeting House site on Beacon Hill. Security footage reportedly shows a man opening a package, scattering some of its contents, and setting se]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/police-investigate-suspected-arson-at-boston-museum-of-african-americanhistory/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/police-investigate-suspected-arson-at-boston-museum-of-african-americanhistory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, "as well as a lot of promising"]]></title><description><![CDATA["AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, "as well as a lot of promising"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ais-like-talking-about-sweetness-loudness-quiet-age-and-beauty-there-is-a-lot-of-insisting-says-malin-hay-as-well-as-a-lot-of-promising-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:14:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ais-like-talking-about-sweetness-loudness-quiet-age-and-beauty-there-is-a-lot-of-insisting-says-malin-hay-as-well-as-a-lot-of-promising-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heir of Margarethe Lieser Sues for Restitution of Gustav Klimt Portrait That Fetched $37.5 M. at Auction in Austria Before the Sale Fell Through]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman claiming to be the sole heir to the Austrian subject of a long-lost Gustav Klimt painting has sued for restitution of the portrait, which came to auction at the small Austrian auction house Im Kinsky in 2024. The painting sold on a single bid for $37.5 million, setting a record for any artwork sold at auction in Austria, but the bidder, a Hong Kong collector represented by Patti Wong and Associates, withdrew their offer after the sale.South Carolina&ndash;based Patricia J. Leahy, on her]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heir-of-margarethe-lieser-sues-for-restitution-of-gustav-klimt-portrait-that-fetched-375-m-at-auction-in-austria-before-the-sale-fellthrough/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heir-of-margarethe-lieser-sues-for-restitution-of-gustav-klimt-portrait-that-fetched-375-m-at-auction-in-austria-before-the-sale-fellthrough/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Turrell to Open Largest Museum Skyspace in Denmark, Floating Art Hotel’s Maiden Voyage in Monaco, and More: Morning Links for June 5, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark&rsquo;s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.&nbsp;A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, &ldquo;museum-grade&rdquo; exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco.Abram Champanier&rsquo;s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go on view at the Museum of the City of New York.The Headlines	SEEING (AND PAINTING) THE LIGHT. James Turrell&nbsp;is debuting his largest Skyspace to date in a museum setting, at D]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-turrell-to-open-largest-museum-skyspace-in-denmark-floating-art-hotels-maiden-voyage-in-monaco-and-more-morning-links-for-june-52026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-turrell-to-open-largest-museum-skyspace-in-denmark-floating-art-hotels-maiden-voyage-in-monaco-and-more-morning-links-for-june-52026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 430 Miles From Northeast Scotland, New Study Argues]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once thought to have originated in Wales, like the rest of the 4,500-year-old monument&rsquo;s bluestones, Stonehenge&rsquo;s altar stone has recently been traced through geological fingerprinting to Scotland. The question of how the megalith made the 435-mile journey from there to Salsbury Plain in England is now the focus of a study by scientists at Curtin University in Australia in collaboration with experts from Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield, Wessex Archaeology, an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/stonehenges-altar-stone-was-hauled-430-miles-from-northeast-scotland-new-studyargues/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/stonehenges-altar-stone-was-hauled-430-miles-from-northeast-scotland-new-studyargues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High-End Art Market Not Exclusive Enough For You? Now There’s an Art Show Aboard a 236-Foot Yacht Featuring Marina Abramović and Shirin Neshat]]></title><description><![CDATA[If, unfortunate reader, you&rsquo;re licking your wounds after being outbid on the $181.2 million Jackson Pollock at the New York auctions last month, take heart: you, too, can still buy access to art that will be seen only by the world&rsquo;s precious few wealthiest. That&rsquo;s because now there is a hyper-exclusive, &ldquo;museum-grade&rdquo; art show aboard a 236-foot &ldquo;superyacht,&rdquo; and you may yet be able to reserve a suite there.In its maiden voyage, the Floating Art Hotel has]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/high-end-art-market-not-exclusive-enough-for-you-now-theres-an-art-show-aboard-a-236-foot-yacht-featuring-marina-abramovi-and-shirinneshat/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/high-end-art-market-not-exclusive-enough-for-you-now-theres-an-art-show-aboard-a-236-foot-yacht-featuring-marina-abramovi-and-shirinneshat/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A MoMA Retrospective Proves Duchamp Was More Sincere Than He Seems]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first rooms of MoMA&rsquo;s Marcel Duchamp retrospective almost dare the visitor to find in his early paintings some hint of the artist&rsquo;s future travesty of those mediums. The picture with which the show opens&mdash;a placid scene of the artist&rsquo;s two older brothers, Gaston (Jacques Villon) and Raymond, engrossed in a game of chess&mdash;telegraphs Duchamp&rsquo;s future, temporary abandonment of art in favor of the game, which, he avowed, &ldquo;could not be commercialized.&rdquo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-moma-retrospective-proves-duchamp-was-more-sincere-than-heseems/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-moma-retrospective-proves-duchamp-was-more-sincere-than-heseems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-see-like-a-dog-in-a-work-of-art-is-to-have-moral-perceptions-about-human-beings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-see-like-a-dog-in-a-work-of-art-is-to-have-moral-perceptions-about-human-beings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of anti-woke intellectuals. The first type criticizes ideas; the second is consumed by them]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are two types of anti-woke intellectuals. The first type criticizes ideas; the second is consumed by them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-are-two-types-of-anti-woke-intellectuals-the-first-type-criticizes-ideas-the-second-is-consumed-by-them/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-are-two-types-of-anti-woke-intellectuals-the-first-type-criticizes-ideas-the-second-is-consumed-by-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, " as well as a lot of promising"]]></title><description><![CDATA["AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, " as well as a lot of promising"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ais-like-talking-about-sweetness-loudness-quiet-age-and-beauty-there-is-a-lot-of-insisting-says-malin-hay-as-well-as-a-lot-of-promising/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ais-like-talking-about-sweetness-loudness-quiet-age-and-beauty-there-is-a-lot-of-insisting-says-malin-hay-as-well-as-a-lot-of-promising/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump To Divert $90 M. in National Park Revenue to D.C. Construction Projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Trump administration has diverted at least $90 million in entry fees collected at national parks, including Yellowstone and Yosemite, to projects in Washington, D.C., according to National Park Service documents reviewed by the Washington Post. The funds have reportedly been earmarked for a range of projects tied to the 250th anniversary of America&rsquo;s independence, including a $1.6 million fireworks display&mdash;over five times the event&rsquo;s standard budget&mdash;and a $76 million]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-to-divert-90-m-in-national-park-revenue-to-dc-constructionprojects/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-to-divert-90-m-in-national-park-revenue-to-dc-constructionprojects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New School Lays Off 87 Staff and Faculty As It Attemps to Plug $48 M. Deficit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to87 of its employees.The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, affect 19 full-time faculty members, 10 of whom were tenured, with dozens more taking the early retirement or buyout offers. Additionally, 68 staff members were also laid off. As part of the restructuring]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-school-lays-off-87-staff-and-faculty-as-it-attemps-to-plug-48-mdeficit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-school-lays-off-87-staff-and-faculty-as-it-attemps-to-plug-48-mdeficit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New School Lays Off 15 Percent of Staff and Faculty As It Attemps to Plug $48 M. Deficit]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to around 15 percent of its employees.The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, affect 19 full-time faculty members, 10 of whom were tenured, with dozens more taking the early retirement or buyout offers. As part of the restructuring, the school will go from four coll]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-school-lays-off-15-percent-of-staff-and-faculty-as-it-attemps-to-plug-48-mdeficit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-school-lays-off-15-percent-of-staff-and-faculty-as-it-attemps-to-plug-48-mdeficit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New French Study Says It Is Safe to Ship the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry will head to the UK in July to go on display at the British Museum. A new report, presented by the French Culture Ministry on Wednesday, expresses confidence that the fragile piece will not be threatened by the move, reports Le Monde.Dating to the 11th century, the artwork, which is designated in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as a &ldquo;unique work,&rdquo; depicts the triumph of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. A 2021 assessmen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-french-study-says-it-is-safe-to-ship-the-bayeux-tapestry-to-the-britishmuseum/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-french-study-says-it-is-safe-to-ship-the-bayeux-tapestry-to-the-britishmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pope Will Inaugurate Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família After 144 Years of Construction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Later this month, Pope Leo XIV will visit Barcelona&rsquo;s famed Sagrada Familia to inaugurate and bless the Tower of Jesus Christ, the final tower of the long-gestating church. The tower was completed in February, wrapping up 144 years of construction on the notoriously complex and intricate design.The famed church was designed by architect Antoni Gaudi, a pioneer of Art Nouveau and modernisme, or Catalan Modernism. Construction on La Bas&iacute;lica de la Sagrada Familia, considered his maste]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-pope-will-inaugurate-antoni-gauds-sagrada-famlia-after-144-years-ofconstruction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-pope-will-inaugurate-antoni-gauds-sagrada-famlia-after-144-years-ofconstruction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marjane Satrapi, ‘Persepolis’ Director, Dies at 56]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director whose landmark animated feature&nbsp;Persepolis&nbsp;earned a Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nomination and made her one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema, has died. She was 56.&ldquo;Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,&rdquo; members of her family said in a statement sent to AFP.Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor and scr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-director-dies-at56/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-director-dies-at56/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museum Veteran Philippe Vergne Joins Miami’s Bass Museum as Artistic Director and Chief Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longtime museum director and curator Philippe Vergne is assuming a newly created position at Miami&rsquo;s Bass Museum of Art, joining the institution on October 1 as artistic director and chief curator. Since 2019 he has led Portugal&rsquo;s Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, in Porto.&ldquo;Philippe Vergne brings a remarkable depth of curatorial experience and a global perspective to The Bass at a pivotal moment in Miami Beach&rsquo;s growth as a dynamic and complex city,&rdquo; said Silvia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museum-veteran-philippe-vergne-joins-miamis-bass-museum-as-artistic-director-and-chiefcurator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/museum-veteran-philippe-vergne-joins-miamis-bass-museum-as-artistic-director-and-chiefcurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Lennon Drawings to be Animated, Pace Gallery Trims Artist Roster, and More: Morning Links for June 4, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!<br />
Pace Gallery is dropping some 50 artists from its roster and cutting about 50 staff.Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel&nbsp;Persepolis, has died at 56.A new study says the Bayeux Tapestry can safely travel to London&rsquo;s British Museum from Normandy.The Headlines	SLOWING THE PACE. The mega&nbsp;Pace Gallery, with seven locations worldwide, is laying off some 50 staff and dropping about 50 artists, per last night&rsquo;s&nbsp;New York Times]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-lennon-drawings-to-be-animated-pace-gallery-trims-artist-roster-and-more-morning-links-for-june-42026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-lennon-drawings-to-be-animated-pace-gallery-trims-artist-roster-and-more-morning-links-for-june-42026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists &amp; Mothers Announces 2026 Recipients of Childcare&nbsp;Grants]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York City nonprofit Artists &amp; Mothers has named the 2026 recipients of its eponymous $25,000 grant for artists who identify as mothers. The landmark program provides funding to cover nine months of childcare and is open to emerging and mid-career artists raising a child under the age of three.From photography and sculpture to collage and bookmaking, this year&rsquo;s awardees span a wide range of artistic practices, conceptual concerns, and styles. Mimi &#7884;n&#7909;&#7885;ha centers h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-amp-mothers-announces-2026-recipients-of-childcarenbspgrants/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-amp-mothers-announces-2026-recipients-of-childcarenbspgrants/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mega Gallery Pace is Dropping Some 50 Artists, 50 Staff in ‘Model Correction’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pace Gallery, a mega gallery with seven locations worldwide, is laying off some 50 staff and dropping about 50 artists.In a statement to ARTnews Thursday, CEO Marc Glimcher said that the gallery will now focus its roster on 85 artists, after growing to 135 and will &ldquo;continue to be a global gallery&rdquo; with plans to &ldquo;ground their programs in the character of the local art scene.&rdquo;&ldquo;Galleries need a model correction,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;For Pace, this means returning to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mega-gallery-pace-is-dropping-some-50-artists-50-staff-in-model-correction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mega-gallery-pace-is-dropping-some-50-artists-50-staff-in-model-correction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kulapat Yantrasast Named Artistic Director of Next Bukhara Biennial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kulapat Yantrasast, the architect behind major museum projects for institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, has been named artistic director of the 2027 Bukhara Biennial in Uzbekistan.The appointment comes less than a year after the&nbsp;debut edition&nbsp;of the biennial, which drew an estimated 1.8 million visitors and quickly became one of the&nbsp;most talked-about events&nbsp;on the international art calendar. Conceived and commissioned by Gayane Umerova and the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kulapat-yantrasast-named-artistic-director-of-next-bukharabiennial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kulapat-yantrasast-named-artistic-director-of-next-bukharabiennial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georgia O’Keeffe Ignored Advice to Mimic Great European Masters. Her Goal Instead Was to Be a Great American Painter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The genius of her work was in painting things as she saw them through her own eyes. So when she surrounded herself with beauty, her work reflected it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/georgia-okeeffe-ignored-advice-to-mimic-great-european-masters-her-goal-instead-was-to-be-a-great-american-painter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/georgia-okeeffe-ignored-advice-to-mimic-great-european-masters-her-goal-instead-was-to-be-a-great-american-painter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Drawing Women Trapped in Labyrinths for Years, Kyung-Me Painted Herself Free]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s rare for an artist to spend years honing a craft and perfecting a way of working only to one day pivot 180 degrees. Kyung-Me makes this look both easy and essential.&nbsp;After Kyung-Me first saw the 12th century illustrations for The Tale of Genji, she &ldquo;became obsessed with drawing, almost overnight,&rdquo; as she told me when I visited her studio in Ridgewood, Queens. First, she copied drawings from the work&mdash;considered the world&rsquo;s first novel, and written by a woma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-drawing-women-trapped-in-labyrinths-for-years-kyung-me-painted-herselffree/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-drawing-women-trapped-in-labyrinths-for-years-kyung-me-painted-herselffree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Books on Steffani Jemison’s Shelf]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the sprawling, splashy &ldquo;New Humans&rdquo; exhibition inaugurating New York&rsquo;s newly expanded New Museum (sound new enough for you?), a mechanical apparatus quietly whirrs. This tumbler, by the artist Steffani Jemison, is slowly but surely agitating and refining dredged debris: glass, coins, stone.Having studied comparative literature as an undergraduate, Jemison often moves between writing and art in thoughtful if seemingly unlikely ways, as in her novella A Rock, A River, A Street]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-books-on-steffani-jemisonsshelf/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/5-books-on-steffani-jemisonsshelf/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Psilocybin is doing what decades of philosophy couldn't: turning committed materialists into reluctant mystics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Psilocybin is doing what decades of philosophy couldn't: turning committed materialists into reluctant mystics]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/psilocybin-is-doing-what-decades-of-philosophy-couldnt-turning-committed-materialists-into-reluctant-mystics/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:13:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/psilocybin-is-doing-what-decades-of-philosophy-couldnt-turning-committed-materialists-into-reluctant-mystics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harold Bloom, flatterer. John Ashbery was “THE POET ABSOLUTE,” yet A.R. Ammons’s work was “larger and better” — and then there was Henri Cole]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harold Bloom, flatterer. John Ashbery was &ldquo;THE POET ABSOLUTE,&rdquo; yet A.R. Ammons&rsquo;s work was &ldquo;larger and better&rdquo; &mdash; and then there was Henri Cole]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-bloom-flatterer-john-ashbery-was-the-poet-absolute-yet-ar-ammonss-work-was-larger-and-better-and-then-there-was-henri-cole/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:13:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-bloom-flatterer-john-ashbery-was-the-poet-absolute-yet-ar-ammonss-work-was-larger-and-better-and-then-there-was-henri-cole/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denis-johnsons-life-was-a-mess-his-prose-somehow-was-immaculate-how-to-explain-the-distance-between-life-and-art/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:13:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/denis-johnsons-life-was-a-mess-his-prose-somehow-was-immaculate-how-to-explain-the-distance-between-life-and-art/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Freeman’s CEO, Rana Begum Joins Lehmann Maupin, and More: Industry Moves for June 3, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Makeda Best Named Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA: The curator comes from the Oakland Museum of California, where she served as deputy director. Best will fill a role that has been vacant at MoMA f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-freemans-ceo-rana-begum-joins-lehmann-maupin-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-32026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-freemans-ceo-rana-begum-joins-lehmann-maupin-and-more-industry-moves-for-june-32026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asked Artists, Dealers, Lawyers, and Advisers What Gallery Representation Means Today—And It’s Surprisingly Complicated]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Every young artist wants gallery representation. The details vary. Maybe it&rsquo;s Gagosian. Maybe it&rsquo;s Hauser &amp; Wirth. Maybe it&rsquo;s a scrappy gallery on Henry Street with a leaky roof and an owner who still installs every show themselves. The dream remains remarkably consistent: Someone]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-artists-dealers-lawyers-and-advisers-what-gallery-representation-means-todayand-its-surprisinglycomplicated/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/we-asked-artists-dealers-lawyers-and-advisers-what-gallery-representation-means-todayand-its-surprisinglycomplicated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Labor Relations Board Rules Buffalo AKG Art Museum Violated Federal Law With Layoff]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Labor Relations Board has determined that the Buffalo AKG Art Museum violated federal labor law and retaliated against union workers when it laid off 13 employees last year. The layoffs and subsequent restructuring were widely condemned by the union, which described them as an effort to eliminate union positions.In a win for Buffalo AKG Workers United, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on May 28 ordered the museum to reinstate the 13 union workers laid off from its Visitor E]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-labor-relations-board-rules-buffalo-akg-art-museum-violated-federal-law-withlayoff/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-labor-relations-board-rules-buffalo-akg-art-museum-violated-federal-law-withlayoff/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colorado Governor Signs Artist Corporation Bill into State Law]]></title><description><![CDATA[On June 2, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 133, a bill that creates a new type of limited liability company (LLC) called an Artist Company, or A-Corp, report the Art Newspaper and the Colorado Sun. The new business structure is designed to help artists in the state&mdash;defined in the bill as &ldquo;individuals that create works of authorship or artistic expression comprising written, oral, visual, graphic, literary, musical, audiovisual, digital, or performing art in any mediu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/colorado-governor-signs-artist-corporation-bill-into-statelaw/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/colorado-governor-signs-artist-corporation-bill-into-statelaw/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Painting Sells for Over  10 Times High Estimate in Strong Week for Old Masters in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[A small painting of hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch led a string of surprise results during this week&rsquo;s Old Masters sales in New York, selling for $537,600 at Sotheby&rsquo;s against an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. (All prices include buyer&rsquo;s premium unless otherwise noted.)The result came as Christie&rsquo;s Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings sale brought in nearly $7 million with a sell-though rate of 89 percent, while the similarly titled sale at Sotheby&rsquo;s sale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/follower-of-hieronymus-bosch-painting-sells-for-over-10-times-high-estimate-in-strong-week-for-old-masters-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/follower-of-hieronymus-bosch-painting-sells-for-over-10-times-high-estimate-in-strong-week-for-old-masters-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Gedi Sibony Makes a Show, By Transforming Street Finds Into Magical ‘Frozen Moments’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The latest show by Gedi Sibony continues the artist&rsquo;s practice of making enchanting assemblage sculptures out of the most minimal means, and of making paintings that rely on such restrained gestures that they&rsquo;re barely there.	The press release for &ldquo;The Invisible Point,&rdquo; his eighth show at New York&rsquo;s Greene Naftali since 2008, consists of just four sentences, explaining that his process is &ldquo;powered by an intuitive momentum,&rdquo; that the show includes &ldquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-gedi-sibony-makes-a-show-by-transforming-street-finds-into-magical-frozenmoments/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-gedi-sibony-makes-a-show-by-transforming-street-finds-into-magical-frozenmoments/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christo-Inspired Public Artwork in Paris By French Artist JR Delayed Because of Storm]]></title><description><![CDATA[The opening of a public artwork by French artist JR inspired by Christo and Jeanne-Claude&rsquo;s 1985 intervention The Pont Neuf Wrapped has reportedly been delayed after a storm damaged the installation overtop the River Seine in Paris.As reported by Euronews, the opening planned for this weekend has been postponed to an unspecified date after severe winds mangled part of the artwork on the oldest bridge in the French capital. A statement from Atelier JR, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christo-inspired-public-artwork-in-paris-by-french-artist-jr-delayed-because-ofstorm/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christo-inspired-public-artwork-in-paris-by-french-artist-jr-delayed-because-ofstorm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Artists Threaten Legal Action Against Organizers For Disregarding Requests to Be Withdrawn from ‘Visitors’ Lions’ Awards]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation for ignoring their demands that the foundation withdraw their names from consideration for the &ldquo;Visitors&rsquo; Lion&rdquo; awards at the current edition over the inclusion of national pavilions by Israel and Russia. The threat is included in a new announcement published on e-flux.A May 20 letter addressed to the foundation and its president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, is published in the announcement. I]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-artists-threaten-legal-action-against-organizers-for-disregarding-requests-to-be-withdrawn-from-visitors-lionsawards/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-artists-threaten-legal-action-against-organizers-for-disregarding-requests-to-be-withdrawn-from-visitors-lionsawards/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Makeda Best to Lead MoMA Photography Department, New Lead in Louvre Heist, and More: Morning Links for June 3, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Headlines	BRINGING OUT THE BEST. The&nbsp;Museum of Modern Art&nbsp;in New York finally has a new chief curator of photography:&nbsp;Makeda Best, who has served as deputy director at the&nbsp;Oakland Museum of California&nbsp;since 2023,&nbsp;reports&nbsp;the&nbsp;New York Times. The plum position &ldquo;has influenced, implicitly or explicitly, so much of how we understand the medium,&rdquo; said Best, who starts in September. It has also been vacant for almost four years. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/makeda-best-to-lead-moma-photography-department-new-lead-in-louvre-heist-and-more-morning-links-for-june-32026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/makeda-best-to-lead-moma-photography-department-new-lead-in-louvre-heist-and-more-morning-links-for-june-32026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To anyone in love with the precious, fleeting things of this world, resistance to disappearance seems only natural and proper. And yet]]></title><description><![CDATA[To anyone in love with the precious, fleeting things of this world, resistance to disappearance seems only natural and proper. And yet]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-anyone-in-love-with-the-precious-fleeting-things-of-this-world-resistance-to-disappearance-seems-only-natural-and-proper-and-yet/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-anyone-in-love-with-the-precious-fleeting-things-of-this-world-resistance-to-disappearance-seems-only-natural-and-proper-and-yet/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The publishing midlist isn't shrinking. It's growing faster than the pool of available readers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The publishing midlist isn't shrinking. It's growing faster than the pool of available readers]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-publishing-midlist-isnt-shrinking-its-growing-faster-than-the-pool-of-available-readers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-publishing-midlist-isnt-shrinking-its-growing-faster-than-the-pool-of-available-readers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better]]></title><description><![CDATA[The humanities spent decades decentering the human.&nbsp;Now Big Tech is doing it better]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-humanities-spent-decades-decentering-the-humannow-big-tech-is-doing-it-better/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-humanities-spent-decades-decentering-the-humannow-big-tech-is-doing-it-better/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand tour’s most enduring truth: Even the most miraculous work of art is born not just into history, but also out of it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The grand tour&rsquo;s most enduring truth: Even the most miraculous work of art is born not just into history, but also out of it]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-grand-tours-most-enduring-truth-even-the-most-miraculous-work-of-art-is-born-not-just-into-history-but-also-out-of-it/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-grand-tours-most-enduring-truth-even-the-most-miraculous-work-of-art-is-born-not-just-into-history-but-also-out-of-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dons of Oxbridge have traded the BBC for podcasts. Is this decline or progress?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dons of Oxbridge have traded the BBC for podcasts. Is this decline or progress?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-dons-of-oxbridge-have-traded-the-bbc-for-podcasts-is-this-decline-or-progress/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-dons-of-oxbridge-have-traded-the-bbc-for-podcasts-is-this-decline-or-progress/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not simply trivia, not simply a hobby — for the believer, quiz verges on a way of life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not simply trivia, not simply a hobby &mdash; for the believer, quiz verges on a way of life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/not-simply-trivia-not-simply-a-hobby-for-the-believer-quiz-verges-on-a-way-of-life/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/not-simply-trivia-not-simply-a-hobby-for-the-believer-quiz-verges-on-a-way-of-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That’s what we’re all storing away in “The Cloud”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re all storing away in &ldquo;The Cloud&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/imagine-a-metastasizing-heap-of-incalculable-forgotten-junk-thats-what-were-all-storing-away-in-the-cloud/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/imagine-a-metastasizing-heap-of-incalculable-forgotten-junk-thats-what-were-all-storing-away-in-the-cloud/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harold Bloom read everything, praised lavishly, and struggled mightily with self-doubt ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harold Bloom read everything, praised lavishly, and struggled mightily with self-doubt&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-bloom-read-everything-praised-lavishly-and-struggled-mightily-with-self-doubt/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harold-bloom-read-everything-praised-lavishly-and-struggled-mightily-with-self-doubt/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. Now there’s data to back it up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. Now there&rsquo;s data to back it up]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/every-generation-of-professors-has-complained-that-their-students-cannot-read-now-theres-data-to-back-it-up/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/every-generation-of-professors-has-complained-that-their-students-cannot-read-now-theres-data-to-back-it-up/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, had been replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, had been replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alasdair-macintyre-believed-that-western-morality-having-lost-its-rationale-had-been-replaced-by-something-thinner-mere-moral-passion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:06:10 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alasdair-macintyre-believed-that-western-morality-having-lost-its-rationale-had-been-replaced-by-something-thinner-mere-moral-passion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn—a Painter, Collector, and Collaborator of Carl Jung—Mined the Archive and Her Subconscious]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The deepest things in human life &hellip; can only be expressed in images,&rdquo; wrote Olga Fr&ouml;be-Kapteyn. And yet, though obsessed with images, she never called herself an &ldquo;artist,&rdquo; even as she painted and drew. Fundamentally, she was a collector: of people, of images, of ideas, always animated by her interest in symbols and archetypes. Carl Jung, her close friend and collaborator, fueled this long, epic inquiry. Still, she remains profoundly mysterious and contradictor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-olga-frbe-kapteyna-painter-collector-and-collaborator-of-carl-jungmined-the-archive-and-hersubconscious/</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-olga-frbe-kapteyna-painter-collector-and-collaborator-of-carl-jungmined-the-archive-and-hersubconscious/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher-Ed Groups Decry Proposed Federal ‘Earnings Test’ That Could Decimate Arts Education]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Department of Education has proposed a new &ldquo;accountability&rdquo; system that would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates&rsquo; earnings, prompting concern from liberal arts institutions and education advocates who argue that this is a test that music, visual arts, and filmmaking programs would, by their nature, be likely to fail.The proposed guidelines, known as the Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability rule, are intended to provid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/higher-ed-groups-decry-proposed-federal-earnings-test-that-could-decimate-artseducation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/higher-ed-groups-decry-proposed-federal-earnings-test-that-could-decimate-artseducation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Reveals More Participating Galleries and the Artists Selected for its ‘Exclusive’ Initiative, Which Withholds Artworks from Email Previews]]></title><description><![CDATA[The criticisms of art fairs (and the art market they are a defining part of) are many. One of them is that though we might think of these shows as real-time events, where deals are made and multimillion-dollar artworks are sold to whoever gets to the gallery&rsquo;s booth first, in reality some of the biggest-ticket sales are are quietly engineered ahead of time: the galleries email PDF previews to high-powered advisors and deep-pocketed collectors in the weeks leading up to opening day, such th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-reveals-more-participating-galleries-and-the-artists-selected-for-its-exclusive-initiative-which-withholds-artworks-from-emailpreviews/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-reveals-more-participating-galleries-and-the-artists-selected-for-its-exclusive-initiative-which-withholds-artworks-from-emailpreviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kara Walker Fronts Loewe’s 180th Anniversary Campaign Nodding to Its Art-Filled Past]]></title><description><![CDATA[Loewe unveiled a new campaign on Monday celebrating the fashion brand&rsquo;s 180th anniversary, complete with a capsule collection, an anniversary magazine, and an animated film, much of which nods to the house&rsquo;s long-standing connections to the art world.Under former creative director Jonathan Anderson, the fashion brand played up that connection through numerous high-profile collaborations with artists ranging from Lynda Benglis to Richard Hawkins. Many of Anderson&rsquo;s collections w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kara-walker-fronts-loewes-180th-anniversary-campaign-nodding-to-its-art-filledpast/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kara-walker-fronts-loewes-180th-anniversary-campaign-nodding-to-its-art-filledpast/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raymonde Arcier, Feminist Artist Who Worked With Fabric in France, Dies at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raymonde Arcier, who brought attention to women&rsquo;s work by way of an art practice based in fabric and textiles of different kinds, died in May at the age of 86. Her death was acknowledged by sources including curators and the magazine Textile/Art.Arcier was born in 1939 in Bellac, France, and made her way as an office worker and self-taught artist who &ldquo;from 1970 on, produced her most striking works, crocheting wool and cotton, and knitting metal&mdash;with each piece demanding up to a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raymonde-arcier-feminist-artist-who-worked-with-fabric-in-france-dies-at86/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raymonde-arcier-feminist-artist-who-worked-with-fabric-in-france-dies-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit 900-Year-Old Crusader Castle in Lebanon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress in Lebanon, was reportedly struck directly by Israeli airstrikes on May 27, according to footage posted on social media and local reports. The news follows intense Israeli strikes on the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Lebanon that is home to some of the region&rsquo;s most significant Phoenician and Roman ruins, as well as a large civilian population.As reported by the Associated Press, the Israeli military release]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israeli-airstrikes-reportedly-hit-900-year-old-crusader-castle-inlebanon/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israeli-airstrikes-reportedly-hit-900-year-old-crusader-castle-inlebanon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Court Rules That Lawsuit Between Monet Heirs and Wildenstein &amp; Co. Gallery Can&nbsp;Proceed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Late last week, a French judge ruled that a judicial court in Rouen, Normandy, can proceed with handling a legal complaint filed by the heirs of Claude Monet, against the New York gallery dynasty Wildenstein &amp; Co., according to French reports.The complex case revolves around a 2004 transaction, in which Monet&rsquo;s great-nephew agreed to relinquish a rare Monet painting depicting the artist&rsquo;s father, Adolphe, to the internationally renowned Wildenstein gallery, in exchange for severa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-court-rules-that-lawsuit-between-monet-heirs-and-wildenstein-amp-co-gallery-cannbspproceed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-court-rules-that-lawsuit-between-monet-heirs-and-wildenstein-amp-co-gallery-cannbspproceed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup]]></title><description><![CDATA[When soccer fans converge on Dallas this month for World Cup games, the aesthetically inclined ones will encounter a city home to art museums, galleries, and public art. And yet, the city will be missing a major and longstanding public artwork, after conservationist artist&rsquo;s beloved mural was painted over in May.Florida-based artist Robert Wyland has filed a $25 million federal lawsuit against FIFA and the owners of the building where his mural had appeared for a quarter-century, who, he s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/muralist-robert-wyland-files-25-m-lawsuit-over-dallas-whale-mural-destroyed-for-worldcup/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/muralist-robert-wyland-files-25-m-lawsuit-over-dallas-whale-mural-destroyed-for-worldcup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucian Freud Painting He Spent Decades Denying Will Go on Public View for the First Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[A portrait Lucian Freud spent years insisting was not his will go on public display for the first time this summer after researchers uncovered evidence that appears to prove he painted it after all.The work,&nbsp;Man in a Black Scarf, will be shown in&nbsp;&ldquo;Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint&rdquo;&nbsp;at London&rsquo;s Garden Museum, according to&nbsp;The Guardian.&nbsp;Freud painted the portrait in 1939 while studying at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Hadleig]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucian-freud-painting-he-spent-decades-denying-will-go-on-public-view-for-the-firsttime/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucian-freud-painting-he-spent-decades-denying-will-go-on-public-view-for-the-firsttime/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Koyoltzintli’s Clay Instruments Channel Sounds from Distant Pasts]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;I feel like I am in constant conversation with the past and we are discussing what we&rsquo;re going to do with the future,&rdquo; said Koyoltzintli, surrounded by dozens of flutes, whistles, drums, and other handmade instruments scattered around her studio in upstate New York. She was talking about her connection to the Pacific coast of Ecuador, home to some of the oldest ceramic practices and ceramic instruments in the Americas. But she was adamant about her roots in the present&mdash;&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/koyoltzintlis-clay-instruments-channel-sounds-from-distantpasts/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/koyoltzintlis-clay-instruments-channel-sounds-from-distantpasts/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obama Presidential Center Unveiled, Newly Authenticated Lucian Freud Painting On View, and More: Morning Links for June 2, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Experts say a painting Lucian Freud long denied ever making was, in fact, an early painting by the artist.The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam denies obstructing provenance investigations of the Koenigs collection in its holdings.Feminist, self-taught French artist Raymonde Arcier has died at 86.The Headlines	FREUDIAN FEUD. The late artist&nbsp;Lucian Freud&nbsp;long maintained he never made the striking portrait titled&nbsp;Man in a Black Scarf, despite much speculation t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obama-presidential-center-unveiled-newly-authenticated-lucian-freud-painting-on-view-and-more-morning-links-for-june-22026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/obama-presidential-center-unveiled-newly-authenticated-lucian-freud-painting-on-view-and-more-morning-links-for-june-22026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tickets to See the Bayeux Tapestry Will Cost As Much As $45 A Piece]]></title><description><![CDATA[The upcoming presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long embroidered cloth depicting the Norman invasion of 1066, figures to be the blockbuster exhibition of the year for the British Museum. The institution is pricing tickets like it is.On Thursday, the museum said that tickets to see the tapestry, which goes on view September 10 through July 11, 2027, will cost &pound;33 for a standard adult ticket, or about $45. That&rsquo;s the high end, for &ldquo;peak&rdquo; times. During off-peak]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tickets-to-see-the-bayeux-tapestry-will-cost-as-much-as-45-apiece/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tickets-to-see-the-bayeux-tapestry-will-cost-as-much-as-45-apiece/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ansel Adams Trust Slams Gallery for AI-Generated Work at AIPAD Photography Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York&rsquo;s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer&rsquo;s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April.The artwork, which still appears on Danziger&rsquo;s website, does not contain a title but is headlined A.I. GENERATED, From the prompt: Make a realistic color version of Ansel Adams&rsquo; iconic &ldquo;Moonrise Over Her]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ansel-adams-trust-slams-gallery-for-ai-generated-work-at-aipad-photographyshow/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ansel-adams-trust-slams-gallery-for-ai-generated-work-at-aipad-photographyshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jury Convicts Daniel Sikkema in Killing of New York Dealer Brent Sikkema]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Sikkema, the estranged husband of murdered New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, was found guilty Friday in a Manhattan federal court, according to the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal. Daniel Sikkema faced charges tied to a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors said led to the dealer&rsquo;s killing at his vacation home in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.&nbsp;The case has gripped the art world since Brent Sikkema, the founder of the Chelsea gallery then known as Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co.,&nbsp;was found st]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jury-convicts-daniel-sikkema-in-killing-of-new-york-dealer-brentsikkema/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jury-convicts-daniel-sikkema-in-killing-of-new-york-dealer-brentsikkema/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically Accurate Replica of 4500-Year-Old Building to Open at Stonehenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, aims to help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge&rsquo;s prehistoric builders.The hall is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more than]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historically-accurate-replica-of-4500-year-old-building-to-open-atstonehenge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/historically-accurate-replica-of-4500-year-old-building-to-open-atstonehenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Historically Accurate Replica of a 4500-Year-Old Community Hall to Open at Stonehenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[English Heritage, a charity that manages over 400 historic sites across England, unveiled their reconstruction of a 4,500-year-old building at Stonehenge on Friday. The $1.34 million, 23-foot-high Kusuma Neolithic Hall, which will open this summer, will help visitors imagine the lives of Stonehenge&rsquo;s prehistoric builders.The structure is based on the footprint of a long-vanished building at the nearby Neolithic archaeological site Durrington Walls and was built over nine months by more tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-historically-accurate-replica-of-a-4500-year-old-community-hall-to-open-atstonehenge/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 22:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-historically-accurate-replica-of-a-4500-year-old-community-hall-to-open-atstonehenge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commission of Fine Arts Approves Trump’s Controversial Triumphal Arch Celebrating ‘Greatness, Freedom, and Posterity’]]></title><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Paris&rsquo;s Arc de Triomphe, at a holiday party last December. At the time, he said that planning and construction of the proposed arch should be domestic policy chief Vince Haley&rsquo;s &ldquo;primary thing.&rdquo;The project&rsquo;s architect, Nicolas Leo Charbonneau, a principal at the firm Harrison Design and leader of its &ldquo;Sacred Architecture Studio,&rdquo; told the New York Times that &ldquo;the int]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/commission-of-fine-arts-approves-trumps-controversial-triumphal-arch-celebrating-greatness-freedom-andposterity/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 20:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/commission-of-fine-arts-approves-trumps-controversial-triumphal-arch-celebrating-greatness-freedom-andposterity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Kiran Nadar Exhibition Is the Latest Indicator of the South Asian Art Market’s Growing Importance]]></title><description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is taking its collection to Christie&rsquo;s London this summer, though don&rsquo;t expect any of its artworks to be for sale.	From July 16 to August 21, the New Delhi institution will stage &ldquo;The Meeting Ground,&rdquo; a non-selling survey of works from its 16,000-work collection at the auction house. The show will place Indian modernists like M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, K.G. Subramanyan, and F.N. Souza, alongside contemporary South Asian artists, practi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-kiran-nadar-exhibition-is-the-latest-indicator-of-the-south-asian-art-markets-growingimportance/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-kiran-nadar-exhibition-is-the-latest-indicator-of-the-south-asian-art-markets-growingimportance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White Stripes Frontman Jack White Is Showing Art at Damien Hirst’s Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jack White, who growled and grinded as the singer/guitarist of the White Stripes and has since positioned himself as a primal rock god on his own, is showing a new side as a sculptor with a show opening in a London gallery run by none other than Damien Hirst.As chronicled in the Financial Times, he two artists first met in 2021, when White was readying a new outpost of his Nashville-based Third Man Records store in Soho, across the street from Hirst&rsquo;s studio. White played a show from Hirst]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-stripes-frontman-jack-white-is-showing-art-at-damien-hirstsgallery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/white-stripes-frontman-jack-white-is-showing-art-at-damien-hirstsgallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elle Pérez Gets Personal with the Next-Gen Collectors Changing the Art World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where are all the Gen Z collectors these days? Last Thursday, May 14th 2026, they were at the Guggenheim celebrating the 30th anniversary of the YCC (Young Collectors Council).&nbsp;I became aware of the YCC when they brought my work into the Guggenheim collection this year, and I grew very curious about the organization and how it worked.&nbsp;YCC is often one of the first groups that many young (21 to about 40 to be exact) hopeful future trustees and supporters of the arts join. $1,750 gets yo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elle-prez-gets-personal-with-the-next-gen-collectors-changing-the-artworld/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elle-prez-gets-personal-with-the-next-gen-collectors-changing-the-artworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elle Peréz Gets Personal with the Next-Gen Collectors Changing the Art World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where are all the Gen Z collectors these days? Last Thursday, May 14th 2026, they were at the Guggenheim celebrating the 30th anniversary of the YCC (Young Collectors Council).&nbsp;I became aware of the YCC when they brought my work into the Guggenheim collection this year, and I grew very curious about the organization and how it worked.&nbsp;YCC is often one of the first groups that many young (21 to about 40 to be exact) hopeful future trustees and supporters of the arts join. $1,750 gets yo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elle-perz-gets-personal-with-the-next-gen-collectors-changing-the-artworld/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/elle-perz-gets-personal-with-the-next-gen-collectors-changing-the-artworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muriel Hasbun, Artist Whose Work Poignantly Recounted the Salvadoran Diaspora and the Fraughtness of Memory, Dies at 64]]></title><description><![CDATA[Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice poignantly recounted the effects of El Salvador&rsquo;s civil war and the migration and exile of its diaspora, died on May 13 from ovarian cancer in Silver Springs, Maryland. She was 64 years old. The news was confirmed by art historian Tatiana Flores.&ldquo;A beloved member of the DC art scene and a leading advocate for Salvadoran and Central American artists in the diaspora, Muriel&rsquo;s loss cuts deeply across many communities,&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/muriel-hasbun-artist-whose-work-poignantly-recounted-the-salvadoran-diaspora-and-the-fraughtness-of-memory-dies-at64/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/muriel-hasbun-artist-whose-work-poignantly-recounted-the-salvadoran-diaspora-and-the-fraughtness-of-memory-dies-at64/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologist Who May Have Found D’Artagnan’s Skeleton Was Arrested, Congress Nixes Museum Bill, and More: Morning Links for May 22, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D&rsquo;Artagnan.Congress rejected a bill to build a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to women.The Commission of Fine Arts approved plans to build Trump&rsquo;s 250-foot triumphal arch.The Headlines	ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL?&nbsp;The Dutch archaeologist involved in the recent discovery of what many hope are the remains of the 17th-century]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologist-who-may-have-found-dartagnans-skeleton-was-arrested-congress-nixes-museum-bill-and-more-morning-links-for-may-222026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologist-who-may-have-found-dartagnans-skeleton-was-arrested-congress-nixes-museum-bill-and-more-morning-links-for-may-222026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of Modernism’s Lesbian Icons Get the Novel Treatment]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Paris&rsquo;s 20th arrondissement, there is a park, of sorts, where the city&rsquo;s greatest revolutionaries go to rot. Some are the real deal: On May 28, 1871, over a hundred Communards were shot dead right here as dreams of a Socialist utopia crumbled around them. Other legends were made not on barricades, but on the stage&mdash;or the page. Oscar Wilde, for example, reposes beneath a hulking deity whose iconoclastic castration, back in 1961, did little to restrain pilgrims seeking to smea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-modernisms-lesbian-icons-get-the-noveltreatment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-modernisms-lesbian-icons-get-the-noveltreatment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is criticism a moral good? In 1968, the question was unavoidable. Now we've forgotten to ask.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is criticism a moral good? In 1968, the question was unavoidable. Now we've forgotten to ask.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-criticism-a-moral-good-in-1968-the-question-was-unavoidable-now-weve-forgotten-to-ask/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 02:08:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-criticism-a-moral-good-in-1968-the-question-was-unavoidable-now-weve-forgotten-to-ask/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno: How recondite mid-century thinkers became villains in America's culture wars]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno: How recondite mid-century thinkers became villains in America's culture wars]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gramsci-marcuse-adorno-how-recondite-mid-century-thinkers-became-villains-in-americas-culture-wars/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 02:08:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gramsci-marcuse-adorno-how-recondite-mid-century-thinkers-became-villains-in-americas-culture-wars/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Em dashes, bad metaphors, and not-X-but-Y sentence constructions. Did Granta award a prize to an entirely AI-written short story?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Em dashes, bad metaphors, and not-X-but-Y sentence constructions. Did Granta award a prize to an entirely AI-written short story?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/em-dashes-bad-metaphors-and-not-x-but-y-sentence-constructions-did-granta-award-a-prize-to-an-entirely-ai-written-short-story/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 02:08:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/em-dashes-bad-metaphors-and-not-x-but-y-sentence-constructions-did-granta-award-a-prize-to-an-entirely-ai-written-short-story/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel Renews Financial Support of Centre Pompidou During Long-Term Renovation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paris&rsquo;s Centre Pompidou has announced another five-year partnership, this time with the iconic fashion house Chanel. (Last week, the Pompidou and M+ in Hong Kong announced their plan to lend artworks and collaborate on research projects and exhibitions.) Despite being closed until 2030 while undergoing an over $500 million renovation, the Pompidou has kept busy with new collaborations and satellite museums, including those in Seoul, Foz do Igua&ccedil;u, Brazil, and Brussels.The Pompidou a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-renews-financial-support-of-centre-pompidou-during-long-termrenovation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-renews-financial-support-of-centre-pompidou-during-long-termrenovation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Flame, Burning for 1,200 Years, Survives Blaze at Buddhist Hall in Japan]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sacred Buddhist hall on the top of Mount Misen in Japan was destroyed by fire&mdash;but an &ldquo;eternal flame&rdquo; said to have been burning for more than a millennium was rescued and moved to another site, where it continues to glow.As reported in the New York Times, Reikado Hall, in the south of Japan, &ldquo;was reduced to a charred skeleton after a fire tore through the building, engulfing its wooden prayer rooms.&rdquo; No one was injured, fortunately, and the flame that had been burn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eternal-flame-burning-for-1200-years-survives-blaze-at-buddhist-hall-injapan/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eternal-flame-burning-for-1200-years-survives-blaze-at-buddhist-hall-injapan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain Threatens to Oust Reina Sofía Director Over Missing Artworks and Finances]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spain&rsquo;s government is turning up the pressure on the&nbsp;Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof&iacute;a&nbsp;over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory, with lawmakers threatening consequences that could ultimately cost museum director&nbsp;Manuel Segade&nbsp;his job.A parliamentary oversight committee in Spain recently passed a resolution demanding that the museum complete a full and updated inventory of its holdings by December 31, 2026, according to&nbsp;Le Journal d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spain-threatens-to-oust-reina-sofa-director-over-missing-artworks-andfinances/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/spain-threatens-to-oust-reina-sofa-director-over-missing-artworks-andfinances/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citing Epstein Ties, Wexner Union Demands Leslie Wexner’s Name be Dropped from Art Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[Members of the Wexner Center for the Arts union have called on university leadership to rename the institution, citing Leslie Wexner&rsquo;s documented ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Wexner Workers United announced on social media yesterday that it had sent a formal letter to Ohio State University president, provost, and board of trustees demanding that they remove the Wexner name from the building&rsquo;s facade and begin the process of renaming the Wexner Center for the Arts.&l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/citing-epstein-ties-wexner-union-demands-leslie-wexners-name-be-dropped-from-artcenter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/citing-epstein-ties-wexner-union-demands-leslie-wexners-name-be-dropped-from-artcenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Officials Cite a Century-Old Report As Congressional Approval for 250-Foot DC Arch, in a Move Called ‘Tortured’ and ‘Laughable’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump does not need Congressional approval to build a proposed 250-foot arch on Washington, DC&rsquo;s Memorial Circle, on Columbia Island, officials are arguing, because a century-old report once called for a pair of 166-foot columns there, reports the Washington Post.Memorial Circle is managed by the National Parks Service and is classified as protected land, meaning Congress must authorize the construction of monuments there. The Post&rsquo;s sources say that the Trump administration has no p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-officials-cite-a-century-old-report-as-congressional-approval-for-250-foot-dc-arch-in-a-move-called-tortured-andlaughable/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-officials-cite-a-century-old-report-as-congressional-approval-for-250-foot-dc-arch-in-a-move-called-tortured-andlaughable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Residency Aims to Give Indigenous Artists the Tools to Make Art in Neon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Making art in a new medium can pose a challenge for any artist, especially one as technically complex as neon. Now a new residency aims to alleviate those growing pains.The Walker Youngbird Foundation, a Native-led nonprofit focused on supporting Indigenous artists, has launched a new residency program in collaboration with Lite Brite Neon Studio in Kingston, New York. For the program, a Native artist who has never created work in neon will work with Lite Brite to fabricate a new piece in the me]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-residency-aims-to-give-indigenous-artists-the-tools-to-make-art-inneon/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-new-residency-aims-to-give-indigenous-artists-the-tools-to-make-art-inneon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zohran Mamdani Visited MoMA PS1’s Greater New York—and Loved It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Greater New York, MoMA PS1&rsquo;s recurring survey of artists based in the city, has managed to lure one of New York&rsquo;s most high-profile sensations: Mayor Zohran Mamdani.On her Instagram, PS1 director Connie Butler posted news that Mamdani had personally visited Greater New York alongside Claire Valdez, a New York State Representative who is currently running for a seat in the House of Representatives. Valdez, like Mamdani, is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America; Mamdani]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zohran-mamdani-visited-moma-ps1s-greater-new-yorkand-lovedit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zohran-mamdani-visited-moma-ps1s-greater-new-yorkand-lovedit/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Woman Impressionist’ No More: A New Catalogue Raisonné Restores Eva Gonzalès’s Legacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French painter Eva Gonzal&egrave;s, much like her&nbsp;mentor, &Eacute;douard Manet,&nbsp;did not personally identify as&nbsp;an Impressionist, nor did she&nbsp;participate&nbsp;in the group&rsquo;s&nbsp;exhibitions.&nbsp;Her&nbsp;velvety&nbsp;brushstrokes were&nbsp;faithful&nbsp;to the human form,&nbsp;indulged no illusion of perspective, and stated a belief that&nbsp;the&nbsp;female&nbsp;mind was a&nbsp;landscape in its own right&mdash;wild,&nbsp;deep, and worthy of veneration.&nbsp;In her]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/woman-impressionist-no-more-a-new-catalogue-raisonn-restores-eva-gonzalss-legacy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/woman-impressionist-no-more-a-new-catalogue-raisonn-restores-eva-gonzalss-legacy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Summer Guide: 20 Art World Highlights Not to Miss]]></title><description><![CDATA[As surveyed in the latest issue of Art in America, see a highly discerning list of things to experience in the art world in the coming months.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-summer-guide-20-art-world-highlights-not-tomiss/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-summer-guide-20-art-world-highlights-not-tomiss/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[JR Talks His Homage to Christo, Christie’s Sells $162.7 M. In Tepid Postwar and Contemporary Auction, and More: Morning Links for May 21, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Christie&rsquo;s sold $162.7 million in postwar and contemporary art across three auctions yesterday, barely meeting expectations.Spain&rsquo;s parliament has threatened to fire the director of the Reina Sofia museum if the institution doesn&rsquo;t straighten out its fragmented inventory and the question of missing artworks.A Buddhist temple in Japan that ho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jr-talks-his-homage-tochristo-christies-sells-1627-m-in-tepid-postwar-and-contemporary-auction-and-more-morning-links-for-may-212026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jr-talks-his-homage-tochristo-christies-sells-1627-m-in-tepid-postwar-and-contemporary-auction-and-more-morning-links-for-may-212026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Former Fashion Designer Emma Safir Turns Fabric into Beguiling Paintings]]></title><description><![CDATA[What might it take to tackle the en-slick-ification of the art object? Emma Safir&rsquo;s answer to this question arises from her embrace of the sensory capacities inherent in textiles and an eagerness to place oppositional strategies and gestures into new formations and dependencies. The results are works of great mystery and manipulation, each one a reflection on the elusive and ambiguous correspondences between the handcrafted and the digitally (re)produced.&nbsp;A former fashion designer and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-former-fashion-designer-emma-safir-turns-fabric-into-beguilingpaintings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-former-fashion-designer-emma-safir-turns-fabric-into-beguilingpaintings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marian Goodman’s $35.1 M. Richter ‘Candle’ Leads Christie’s Tepid $162.7 M. Trio of Postwar and Contemporary Sales]]></title><description><![CDATA[Led by a $35.1 million Gerhard Richter canvas, Christie&rsquo;s New York notched a $162.7 million across a trio of evening sales of postwar and contemporary art that just barely meet expectations at its crowded Rockefeller Center salesroom on Wednesday night.	The auction was expected to bring in between $129 million and $191 million on 42 lots (after a Kerry James Marshall was withdrawn); the hammer total, before the house&rsquo;s fees, came to $133.6 million, just a few million above the low es]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marian-goodmans-351-m-richter-candle-leads-christies-tepid-1627-m-trio-of-postwar-and-contemporarysales/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marian-goodmans-351-m-richter-candle-leads-christies-tepid-1627-m-trio-of-postwar-and-contemporarysales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gerhard Richter ‘Candle’ From Estate of Revered Dealer Marian Goodman Falls Short of a Record at $35.1 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Gerhard Richter painting from the estate of the late dealer Marian Goodman sold at Christie&rsquo;s Wednesday evening for $35.1 million (with fees). The sale fell well below Richter&rsquo;s record of $46.3 million, which was set over a decade ago.The lot, Kerze (Candle), from 1982, came to auction with an estimate of $35 million to $50 million, with the high being around $3.7 million higher than his current record. Ahead of the bidding, auctioneer Y&uuml;-Ge Wang described the work as being fr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gerhard-richter-candle-from-estate-of-revered-dealer-marian-goodman-falls-short-of-a-record-at-351m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 02:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gerhard-richter-candle-from-estate-of-revered-dealer-marian-goodman-falls-short-of-a-record-at-351m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakes’ tails and the kookaburra’s cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives]]></title><description><![CDATA[The naturalist John Cade studied things like snakes&rsquo; tails and the kookaburra&rsquo;s cry. Then he started giving lithium to manic-depressives]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-naturalist-john-cade-studied-things-like-snakes-tails-and-the-kookaburras-cry-then-he-started-giving-lithium-to-manic-depressives/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 01:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-naturalist-john-cade-studied-things-like-snakes-tails-and-the-kookaburras-cry-then-he-started-giving-lithium-to-manic-depressives/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Show don't tell." "Kill your darlings." Writers love rules, even when rules can't solve their problems]]></title><description><![CDATA["Show don't tell." "Kill your darlings." Writers love rules, even when rules can't solve their problems]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/show-dont-tell-kill-your-darlings-writers-love-rules-even-when-rules-cant-solve-their-problems/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 01:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/show-dont-tell-kill-your-darlings-writers-love-rules-even-when-rules-cant-solve-their-problems/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Homer and the mummy. Why was a fragment of the Iliad buried with a body more than 2,000 years ago?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/homer-and-the-mummy-why-was-a-fragment-of-the-iliad-buried-with-a-body-more-than-2000-years-ago/</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 01:56:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/homer-and-the-mummy-why-was-a-fragment-of-the-iliad-buried-with-a-body-more-than-2000-years-ago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Announces a Major Gift of Nearly 2000 Photographs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic arts. The gift comprises works spanning the 19th century and the present day by more than 450 artists.The gift comes from the holdings of financier and former Dreyfus Corporation chief Howard Stein (1926&ndash;2011), who began collecting photography in the 1980s. A notable underwriter of photography exhibitions and books, Stein start]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-announces-a-major-gift-of-nearly-2000photographs/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-announces-a-major-gift-of-nearly-2000photographs/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind Christie’s $1 B. Blockbuster Result, the Market Still Looks Uneven]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Before this week, the last time more than $1 billion worth of art ripped through an auction house in one night was back in 2022, when Christie&rsquo;s New York unloaded the Paul G. Allen collection. The sale brought in a staggering $1.5 billion, still one of the biggest single-night hauls the market ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/behind-christies-1-b-blockbuster-result-the-market-still-looksuneven-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/behind-christies-1-b-blockbuster-result-the-market-still-looksuneven-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind Christie’s $1 B. Blockbuster Result the Market Still Looks Uneven]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Before this week, the last time more than $1 billion worth of art ripped through an auction house in one night was back in 2022, when Christie&rsquo;s New York unloaded the Paul G. Allen collection. The sale brought in a staggering $1.5 billion, still one of the biggest single-night hauls the market ha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/behind-christies-1-b-blockbuster-result-the-market-still-looksuneven/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/behind-christies-1-b-blockbuster-result-the-market-still-looksuneven/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yinka Shonibare Joins Mennour, a Fake Fake Monet, and More: Industry Moves for May 20, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Hope you are enjoying the New York sales this week. Here&rsquo;s a round-up of the art trade&rsquo;s comings and goings:Tina Kim Gallery to Represent Estate of Kim Lim: The gallery will show work by the Singaporean British sculptor and printmaker at Art Basel in June, ahead of a 2027 solo show&mdash;the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yinka-shonibare-joins-mennour-a-fake-fake-monet-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-202026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yinka-shonibare-joins-mennour-a-fake-fake-monet-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paris Judge Rejects Bid to Suspend the Replacement of Notre-Dame’s Windows]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Paris judge has rejected a request to halt the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eug&egrave;ne Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are to be replaced by government-commissioned contemporary works, dealing a blow to the preservationist campaign opposing the project.According to the Paris Administrative Court, the administrative judge reasoned that because the new windows by artist Claire Tabouret and glassmakers Simon-Marq could conceivably be removed in the futur]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-judge-rejects-bid-to-suspend-the-replacement-of-notre-dames-windows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/paris-judge-rejects-bid-to-suspend-the-replacement-of-notre-dames-windows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harald Metzkes, Postwar German Painter of ‘World Theater,’ Dies at 97]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harald Metzkes, the so-called &ldquo;C&eacute;zannist of Prenzlauer Berg&rdquo; who made classically indebted and symbolically rich paintings following Germany&rsquo;s surrender in World War II, died last Thursday in Brandenburg at the age of 97. His death was confirmed to the German Press Agency by his son, the sculptor Robert Metzkes.&ldquo;Metzkes became particularly well-known in East Germany because he had no interest in socialist realism,&rdquo; wrote Monopol, which asserted that he create]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harald-metzkes-postwar-german-painter-of-world-theater-dies-at97/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harald-metzkes-postwar-german-painter-of-world-theater-dies-at97/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whitney Gala Honors Julie Mehretu, Benefactor of Museum’s ‘Free Under 25’ Initiative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last night, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted its annual gala, honoring artist Julie Mehretu&mdash;who in 2024 donated $2.25 million to the museum to ensure that visitors aged 25 and younger can visit the museum for free&mdash;alongside Whitney Board Chair Fern Kaye Tessler, and former Whitney Museum director Adam D. Weinberg.Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1970, Mehretu&rsquo;s painting, drawing, and printmaking practice examines the nature of contemporary existence through the relati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-gala-honors-julie-mehretu-benefactor-of-museums-free-under-25initiative/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whitney-gala-honors-julie-mehretu-benefactor-of-museums-free-under-25initiative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Qatar Taps Former Mathaf Director Wassan Al-Khudhairi to Shape 2027 Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art Basel has named Iraqi curator Wassan Al-Khudhairi artistic director of the 2027 edition of&nbsp;Art Basel Qatar, the second chapter in what is quickly becoming one of the art market&rsquo;s most closely-watched experiments.The appointment comes after the fair&rsquo;s debut earlier this year in Doha, where Art Basel tried something noticeably different from the sensory overload of Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, or Paris. Instead of endless aisles and trophy-hunting chaos, the Qatari edition l]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-qatar-taps-former-mathaf-director-wassan-al-khudhairi-to-shape-2027fair/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-qatar-taps-former-mathaf-director-wassan-al-khudhairi-to-shape-2027fair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bharti Kher Commissioned by Powerhouse Parramatta, Australia’s New Cultural Center Opening Later This Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Powerhouse Parramatta, the enormous new cultural center opening in the city of Parramatta west of Sydney, Australia, opens later this year, a new commission by the British-Indian sculptor Bharti Kher will welcome visitors as the entrance. Art Asia Pacific reported the news.The sculpture, titled Tree of Life, will be monumental in scale and will be made up of four stacked bronze and clay heads. Tree of Life is part of Kher&rsquo;s ongoing &ldquo;Intermediaries&rdquo; series, which she began]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bharti-kher-commissioned-by-powerhouse-parramatta-australias-new-cultural-center-opening-later-thisyear/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bharti-kher-commissioned-by-powerhouse-parramatta-australias-new-cultural-center-opening-later-thisyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tilda Swinton to Perform at Guggenheim Bilbao in June]]></title><description><![CDATA[Actress and sometime performance artist Tilda Swinton will stage a performance at the Guggenheim Bilbao next month.Titled House of Gestures, the work is a collaboration between Swinton and fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard. Commissioned by Dom P&eacute;rignon this year, the piece is being billed as &ldquo;an original work conceived around gesture, presence, and transformation&rdquo; with special attention to its setting in the museum&rsquo;s atrium. The performance will be open to t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tilda-swinton-to-perform-at-guggenheim-bilbao-injune/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tilda-swinton-to-perform-at-guggenheim-bilbao-injune/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National Trust Names America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, Including Sites Targeted by Trump Administration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., has released its annual list of &ldquo;America&rsquo;s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places,&rdquo; which includes sites that have been targeted by the second Trump administration.Published each year since 1988, this year&rsquo;s list was framed around the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States and &ldquo;our nation&rsquo;s founding and the self-evident truth that&nbsp;all people are create]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-trust-names-americas-11-most-endangered-historic-places-including-sites-targeted-by-trumpadministration/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/national-trust-names-americas-11-most-endangered-historic-places-including-sites-targeted-by-trumpadministration/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel Qatar Names Artistic Director, Sotheby’s Nets $303.9 M. In Modern Art, and More: Morning Links for May 20, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.The Headlines	AUCTION ACTION.&nbsp;Sotheby&rsquo;s&nbsp;in New York sold $303.9 million-worth of modern art yesterday evening, while&nbsp;Phillips&nbsp;netted $115.2 million from their modern and contemporary sale held just beforehand. But as&nbsp;ARTnews&rsquo;&nbsp;Daniel Cassady reports, there is still a sense of caution from buyers who are showing demand]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-qatar-names-artistic-director-sothebys-nets-3039-m-in-modern-art-and-more-morning-links-for-may-202026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basel-qatar-names-artistic-director-sothebys-nets-3039-m-in-modern-art-and-more-morning-links-for-may-202026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malo Chapuy Reimagines Medieval Art on the Cover of our New Talent Issue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Malo Chapuy, whose Virgin with Codex (2025) appears on the cover of this issue of Art in America, finds the lexicon of medieval painting well suited for our times of apocalyptic anxieties as we face ecological collapse and rehash the Crusades. From his studio in Paris, he told us about the painting.Virgin with Codex is your usual Flemish virgin&mdash;a loose copy of a 16th-century painting by an anonymous artist in the Courtauld Gallery&rsquo;s collection. I&rsquo;m always translating medieval]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malo-chapuy-reimagines-medieval-art-on-the-cover-of-our-new-talentissue/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malo-chapuy-reimagines-medieval-art-on-the-cover-of-our-new-talentissue/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby’s Pulls In $303.9 M. in a Solid but Subdued Modern Evening Sale Led by $48 M. Matisse]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few minutes into Sotheby&rsquo;s Modern Evening Auction on Tuesday night, the pauses between bids began telling their own story. Collectors still showed up for the museum-quality material, particularly blue-chip works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and Vincent van Gogh, but the atmosphere inside the Breuer building often felt cautious rather than euphoric, as buyers weighed estimates carefully and bidding wars appeared only intermittently.By the end of the evening, Sotheb]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-pulls-in-3039-m-in-a-solid-but-subdued-modern-evening-sale-led-by-48-mmatisse/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 06:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebys-pulls-in-3039-m-in-a-solid-but-subdued-modern-evening-sale-led-by-48-mmatisse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phillips Modern &amp; Contemporary Sale Nets &nbsp;$115.2 M., With Strong Results for Women&nbsp;Artists]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Phillips team appeared joyous with the results of its modern and contemporary art evening sale, which got underway at the respectable time of 5pm on Tuesday. The auction house achieved $115.2 million against an estimate of $84.2 million&mdash;its highest presale estimate since the frothy days of 2022. All 40 lots found buyers, with 2 works, by Richard Prince and Albert Oehlen, withdrawn before the sale.	This sale total was almost double November&rsquo;s $61.2 million for 31 lots (not includi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-modern-amp-contemporary-sale-nets-nbsp1152-m-with-strong-results-for-womennbspartists/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:55:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/phillips-modern-amp-contemporary-sale-nets-nbsp1152-m-with-strong-results-for-womennbspartists/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was imprisoned by the Nazis; she was sent to a sanitorium. For Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, love was not a luxury they could afford]]></title><description><![CDATA[He was imprisoned by the Nazis; she was sent to a sanitorium. For Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, love was not a luxury they could afford]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-was-imprisoned-by-the-nazis-she-was-sent-to-a-sanitorium-for-leonora-carrington-and-max-ernst-love-was-not-a-luxury-they-could-afford/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:03:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-was-imprisoned-by-the-nazis-she-was-sent-to-a-sanitorium-for-leonora-carrington-and-max-ernst-love-was-not-a-luxury-they-could-afford/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Stanford, undergraduates faking perfection are thrown ungodly sums of money. But what’s it all for?]]></title><description><![CDATA[At Stanford, undergraduates faking perfection are thrown ungodly sums of money. But what&rsquo;s it all for?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-stanford-undergraduates-faking-perfection-are-thrown-ungodly-sums-of-money-but-whats-it-all-for/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:03:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-stanford-undergraduates-faking-perfection-are-thrown-ungodly-sums-of-money-but-whats-it-all-for/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.S. Hamrah's film criticism elides the distinction between comic prose-poetry and reflexive contrarianism]]></title><description><![CDATA[A.S. Hamrah's film criticism elides the distinction between comic prose-poetry and reflexive contrarianism]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-hamrahs-film-criticism-elides-the-distinction-between-comic-prose-poetry-and-reflexive-contrarianism/</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:03:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-hamrahs-film-criticism-elides-the-distinction-between-comic-prose-poetry-and-reflexive-contrarianism/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1,200-Year-Old Limestone Lintel was Inadvertently Repatriated to Mexico Instead of to Guatemala]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cultural minister of Guatemala has begun the process to reclaim a 1,200-year-old stone lintel that was repatriated from the United States to Mexico in mid-April, according to a report in the Art Newspaper.	The object was initially brought to the Mexican consulate in New York by an unidentified American businessman, who presumably realized that it had been illegally removed from its country of origin at some point before he or she acquired it.The lintel depicts ritual acts involving the sun g]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/1200-year-old-limestone-lintel-was-inadvertently-repatriated-to-mexico-instead-of-toguatemala/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/1200-year-old-limestone-lintel-was-inadvertently-repatriated-to-mexico-instead-of-toguatemala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian Museum of Human Rights Threatened With Legal Action Over Palestinian Nakba Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[The&nbsp;Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg&nbsp;has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli organization over an exhibition about the Nakba, with the group arguing that the presentation &ldquo;politicizes&rdquo; history, according to local media reports.&nbsp;&nbsp;Shurat HaDin &ndash; Israel Law Center&nbsp;announced this week that it had sent a formal legal demand to the museum&rsquo;s board of trustees and senior leadership protesting &ldquo;Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/canadian-museum-of-human-rights-threatened-with-legal-action-over-palestinian-nakbashow/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 22:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/canadian-museum-of-human-rights-threatened-with-legal-action-over-palestinian-nakbashow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hamburg Culture Prize Renamed After Namesake’s Nazi Ties Emerge]]></title><description><![CDATA[A culture prize that has been awarded in Germany for nearly five decades will be renamed due to the Nazi ties of the man who was the prize&rsquo;s namesake when it was founded. The Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal will now be called the Medal for Art and Culture in Hamburg.The change comes after a 2024 article published Die Welt am Sonntag, the Sunday magazine of the German newspaper Die Welt. In it historian Helmut Stubbe da Luz provided proof that Hans Harder Biermann-Ratjen, who would eventually]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hamburg-culture-prize-renamed-after-namesakes-nazi-tiesemerge/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hamburg-culture-prize-renamed-after-namesakes-nazi-tiesemerge/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Performance Series, Artists Tackle the Nature of Images, and Reality, in the Face of AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every time a tech company promotes an emerging technology like AI or the metaverse, the pitch sounds the same: a promise to &ldquo;unleash&rdquo; the imagination, or a new &ldquo;immersive world.&rdquo;When Facebook rebranded as Meta in 2021, its ad showed four people looking at Henri Rousseau&rsquo;s Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo, as it sprung to life and a portal opened before them. Four years later, when Meta debuted its Ray&ndash;Ban Meta smartglasses, the company touted its in-lens di]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-performance-series-artists-tackle-the-nature-of-images-and-reality-in-the-face-ofai/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-performance-series-artists-tackle-the-nature-of-images-and-reality-in-the-face-ofai/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Lender Accuses Maddox Gallery of Inflating Value of Art Used as Collateral—’Bizarre and Irrational’ Claim, Says Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maddox Gallery, which has spaces in London and Dubai, has been accused of inflating the value of artworks used as collateral for loans. The claim was leveled against the gallery by Luxury Asset Capital (LAC), a lender that provides loans secured against high-value assets, according to a civil complaint filed last August in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.According to the complaint, LAC alleges that Maddox provided knowingly false &ldquo;good faith estimates&rdquo; of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-lender-accuses-maddox-gallery-of-inflating-value-of-art-used-as-collateralbizarre-and-irrational-claim-saysgallery/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-lender-accuses-maddox-gallery-of-inflating-value-of-art-used-as-collateralbizarre-and-irrational-claim-saysgallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sotheby&rsquo;s Launches Museum Partnership Series, Starting with Exhibition by New York&rsquo;s Hispanic Society Museum &amp;&nbsp;Library]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Sotheby&rsquo;s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum.Now, Sotheby&rsquo;s is leaning into that history in earnest, and with more than its usual&nbsp;blockbuster, star-studded evening sales.&nbsp;The auction house announced this week that it will launch a new exhibition initiative called &ldquo;In Residence.&rdquo; The first of these will be pres]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebyrsquos-launches-museum-partnership-series-starting-with-exhibition-by-new-yorkrsquos-hispanic-society-museum-ampnbsplibrary/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sothebyrsquos-launches-museum-partnership-series-starting-with-exhibition-by-new-yorkrsquos-hispanic-society-museum-ampnbsplibrary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Whistleblower Complaint, Palm Springs Art Museum Declines to Release Report on Allegations of Fraud and Theft, Claims They Are ‘Not Substantiated’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Palm Springs Art Museum in California has released a three-page statement saying that an investigation conducted in response to a whistleblower complaint alleging mismanagement and fraud found no wrongdoing by the museum. The museum declined to provide ARTnews a copy of the resulting report, which will not be publicly released.The whistleblower complaint made numerous detailed allegations. Among them are claims that the museum improperly reclassified funds in its endowment to meet cash crunc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-whistleblower-complaint-palm-springs-art-museum-declines-to-release-report-on-allegations-of-fraud-and-theft-claims-they-are-not-substantiated/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-whistleblower-complaint-palm-springs-art-museum-declines-to-release-report-on-allegations-of-fraud-and-theft-claims-they-are-not-substantiated/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cindy and Howard Rachofsky’s Dallas Home Could Be Yours at a Discount, for $17.5 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dallas home of art collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky remains available for sale, and for deep-pocked prospective buyers, there&rsquo;s some good news: The property is now available at a discount. That&rsquo;s also bad news for the Rachofskys, whose Richard Meier&ndash;designed home has been on the market for months now.When the famed Rachofsky House first hit the market in October of last year, it was being sold for $23 million. But as the Dallas Business Journal noted this week, it&rsqu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cindy-and-howard-rachofskys-dallas-home-could-be-yours-at-a-discount-for-175m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cindy-and-howard-rachofskys-dallas-home-could-be-yours-at-a-discount-for-175m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art in America’s Summer “New Talent” Issue Names 20 Artists to Watch]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews&rsquo;s sister publication, features profiles of 20 &ldquo;New Talent&rdquo; honorees selected by the editors as artists to watch. The list includes artists from all over the world and who work in different mediums, all of them emerging in their own ways.The Summer 2026 issue of Art in America revisits the magazine&rsquo;s long-running &ldquo;New Talent&rdquo; designation, which was initiated in 1954 and ran regularly in the magazine until 1966. The magaz]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-summer-new-talent-issue-names-20-artists-towatch/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-summer-new-talent-issue-names-20-artists-towatch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edgar Calel Wins $75,000 Sam Gilliam Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation have named Edgar Calel as the winner of the 2026 Sam Gilliam Award, which comes with $75,000 as well as a public program at a Dia-managed site in the fall.Calel is an artist and poet of Maya Kaqchikel heritage who is based in Chi Xot (San Juan Comalapa), Guatemala, where he was born in 1987. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance, Calel draws on the &ldquo;ancestral knowledge systems, ritual practices, and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edgar-calel-wins-75000-sam-gilliamaward/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edgar-calel-wins-75000-sam-gilliamaward/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s $1.1 B. Double-Header Shows Growing US Market Strength, Basque Government Snubbed Reina Sofía in ‘Guernica’ Loan Request, and More: Morning Links for May 19, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!Christie&rsquo;s blockbuster evening sales on Monday point to a bullish market for historic works.Reina Sof&iacute;a&rsquo;s director says Basque leaders never asked the museum for a&nbsp;Guernica&nbsp;loan, and Spanish politicians technically have no authority in the matter.The UK&rsquo;s culture secretary has been urged to investigate allegatio]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-11-b-double-header-shows-growing-us-market-strength-basque-government-snubbed-reina-sofa-in-guernica-loan-request-and-more-morning-links-for-may-192026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-11-b-double-header-shows-growing-us-market-strength-basque-government-snubbed-reina-sofa-in-guernica-loan-request-and-more-morning-links-for-may-192026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 Van Gogh Masterpieces that Set Auction Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1990 Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s&nbsp;Portrait of Dr. Gachet&nbsp;stunned the art world when it soared to $82.5 million at Christie&rsquo;s New York, setting a new record for any painting at auction at the time. It was one of several headline-grabbing sales that cemented Van Gogh as one of the market&rsquo;s most coveted names. From swirling fields and blazing cypresses painted in Saint-R&eacute;my to delicate still lifes and portraits from Arles and Auvers-sur-l&rsquo;Oise, Van Gogh&rsquo;s wor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/15-van-gogh-masterpieces-that-set-auctionrecords/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/15-van-gogh-masterpieces-that-set-auctionrecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art in America’s Summer Issue Features 20 “New Talent” Artists, Juicy Art Heist Stories, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[There has been much discussion over the past decade or so about the role of the artist during our tumultuous political times. Looking at the latest crop of Art in America&rsquo;s &ldquo;New Talent&rdquo; artists, I can&rsquo;t help but think that one of artists&rsquo; primary functions during such times is to remind us that few things in this world are truly immutable, and instead that the world is in constant flux and things are perhaps as likely to get better over time as they are to get worse]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-summer-issue-features-20-new-talent-artists-juicy-art-heist-stories-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-in-americas-summer-issue-features-20-new-talent-artists-juicy-art-heist-stories-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s Double-Header Totals $1.1 B., With Several Trophy Works Notching New Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of the headlines from Christie&rsquo;s blockbuster evening sales of the S.I. Newhouse collection and 20th-century art on Monday will likely focus on the 8- and 9-figure prices: the $181.2 million Pollock, the $107.6 million Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i, and the $98.4 million Rothko. Those are mind-blowing sums, to be sure, but those works were always going to do well. The sale actually revealed more about the market below $20 million, which experienced a depth of bidding that has been missing from t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-double-header-totals-11-b-with-several-trophy-works-notching-newrecords/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-double-header-totals-11-b-with-several-trophy-works-notching-newrecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Rothko Painting Agnes Gund Hung in Her Living Room Sells for $98 M., Setting a Record]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Mark Rothko painting formerly owned by art patron and longtime Museum of Modern Art president emerita&nbsp;Agnes Gund sold at Christie&rsquo;s on Monday night for a hammer price of $85 million. With fees, the total came to $98.4 million, handily breaking the Abstract Expressionist&rsquo;s auction record.The work started with a $60 million bid and received about a dozen bids from buyers represented by several Christie&rsquo;s specialists, before hammering to strong round of applause to a buyer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mark-rothko-painting-agnes-gund-hung-in-her-living-room-sells-for-98-m-setting-arecord/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mark-rothko-painting-agnes-gund-hung-in-her-living-room-sells-for-98-m-setting-arecord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christie’s S. I. Newhouse Sale Totals $630.8 M., Bringing Cumulative Total to $1 B.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s kicked off its marquee evening auctions this May, with a 16-lot sale of works from the collection of media magnate S .I. Newhouse.The sale, which featured top works by Constantin Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso, totaled a whopping $630.8 million with fees. It also re-set several records.The sale brings the cumulative total of works sold from Newhouse&rsquo;s collection to over $1 billion, after sales in 2018 for one work at $21]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-s-i-newhouse-sale-totals-6308-m-bringing-cumulative-total-to-1b/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/christies-s-i-newhouse-sale-totals-6308-m-bringing-cumulative-total-to-1b/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 16 Most Expensive Artworks Ever Sold at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Auction records make for great headlines, like Tuesday&rsquo;s banner sale of Gustav Klimt&rsquo;s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer&nbsp;(1914&ndash;16), which topped $236.4 million at Sotheby&rsquo;s. There&rsquo;s a thrill in watching numbers climb into the stratosphere, each sale another reminder that, in the art market, money has a way of bending reality. But the price of a painting has never been the most interesting thing about it.Look at the list of the most expensive artworks ever sold at a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-16-most-expensive-artworks-ever-sold-atauction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-16-most-expensive-artworks-ever-sold-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional anchors]]></title><description><![CDATA[The canine gaze. Dogs in Western art are surrogate viewers and compositional anchors]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-canine-gaze-dogs-in-western-art-are-surrogate-viewers-and-compositional-anchors/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:24:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-canine-gaze-dogs-in-western-art-are-surrogate-viewers-and-compositional-anchors/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That presidential biography, narrative of a shipwreck, or forgotten war story? “The days when dad books reigned supreme are gone” ]]></title><description><![CDATA[That presidential biography, narrative of a shipwreck, or forgotten war story? &ldquo;The days when dad books reigned supreme are gone&rdquo;&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/that-presidential-biography-narrative-of-a-shipwreck-or-forgotten-war-story-the-days-when-dad-books-reigned-supreme-are-gone/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:24:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/that-presidential-biography-narrative-of-a-shipwreck-or-forgotten-war-story-the-days-when-dad-books-reigned-supreme-are-gone/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Substack, young “writers” jockey for status, but virtually none are writing about anything other than the world of writers itself]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Substack, young &ldquo;writers&rdquo; jockey for status, but virtually none are writing about anything other than the world of writers itself]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-substack-young-writers-jockey-for-status-but-virtually-none-are-writing-about-anything-other-than-the-world-of-writers-itself/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:24:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/on-substack-young-writers-jockey-for-status-but-virtually-none-are-writing-about-anything-other-than-the-world-of-writers-itself/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[S.I. Newhouse’s 11-Foot-Wide Jackson Pollock Drip Painting Sells for Record-Breaking $181.2 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Jackson Pollock painting formerly owned by media magnate S. I. Newhouse, once one of the world&rsquo;s most formidable art collectors, sold at Christie&rsquo;s on Monday night for a hammer price of $157 million, breaking the Abstract Expressionist artist&rsquo;s auction record. With fees, the total was brought to $181.2 million.That number officially makes the Pollock one of the most expensive artworks ever auctioned.The work started with a $82 million bid and recieved over 60 bids, from bidde]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/si-newhouses-11-foot-wide-jackson-pollock-drip-painting-sells-for-record-breaking-1812m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 01:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/si-newhouses-11-foot-wide-jackson-pollock-drip-painting-sells-for-record-breaking-1812m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[S.I. Newhouse’s Brâncuși Sells at Christie’s for Record-Breaking $107.6 M.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Constantin Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i sculpture formerly owned by S. I. Newhouse, a media magnate who was at one time among the world&rsquo;s top art collectors, sold at Christie&rsquo;s on Monday night for a hammer price of $93 million, breaking the modernist sculptor&rsquo;s auction record. With fees, the total came to $107.6 millionThe work started with a $82 million bid and recieved half a dozen bids before selling to a buyer represented by Maria Los, deputy chairman, head of client advisory Amer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/si-newhouses-brncui-sells-at-christies-for-record-breaking-1076m/</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/si-newhouses-brncui-sells-at-christies-for-record-breaking-1076m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architects Behind Frick Renovation Tapped for Louvre’s ‘New Renaissance’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French government announced Monday morning the team of architects who have been selected to overhaul the Louvre in Paris, concluding a protracted selection process marked by staff strikes and the lingering investigation into the jewel heist.&nbsp;The Paris office of STUDIOS Architecture will lead the project, which includes the creation of new galleries and a new lobby. The firm, an international collective founded in 1985 with offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/architects-behind-frick-renovation-tapped-for-louvres-new-renaissance/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/architects-behind-frick-renovation-tapped-for-louvres-new-renaissance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Felix Art Fair Founder Mills Morán Steps Back From Gallery Duties]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mor&aacute;n Mor&aacute;n&nbsp;cofounder Mills Mor&aacute;n is stepping away from the day-to-day operations of the Los Angeles gallery he started with his brother, Al Mor&aacute;n.Mills Mor&aacute;n said he will instead focus his attention on&nbsp;Felix Art Fair, the fair he cofounded with Al and collector Dean Valentine in 2018, running alongside Frieze Los Angeles and one of the main stops during the city&rsquo;s fair week each February. Located at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel since its launc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/felix-art-fair-founder-mills-morn-steps-back-from-galleryduties/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/felix-art-fair-founder-mills-morn-steps-back-from-galleryduties/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Nine-Month Journey that Led to Nathaniel Mary Quinn Designing the Rolling Stones’ New Album Cover]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Mary Quinn still sounds a little stunned by the whole affair: Last fall, the painter was in the kitchen of his Brooklyn brownstone when he got on a three-way call with Mick Jagger and producer Andrew Watt. By the end of it, he had agreed to make the cover art for&nbsp;Foreign Tongues, the Rolling Stones&rsquo; new album, due out July 10.&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;m standing in my kitchen talking to Mick Jagger,&rdquo; Quinn told me last week over the phone, &ldquo;It was surreal.&rdquo;The r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-wild-nine-month-journey-that-led-to-nathaniel-mary-quinn-designing-the-rolling-stones-new-albumcover/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-wild-nine-month-journey-that-led-to-nathaniel-mary-quinn-designing-the-rolling-stones-new-albumcover/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met&rsquo;s Frida &amp; Diego Opera Imagines Feminist Revenge from Beyond the&nbsp;Grave]]></title><description><![CDATA[She is the subject of a current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and an upcoming one at the Tate Modern. Netflix is planning an adaptation of her life. Her unibrowed face stares out from tote bags, murals, notebooks, enamel pins, refrigerator magnets, and dorm-room posters across the globe. A recent auction of The Dream (The Bed), 1940, helped send her market value into yet a higher strata. I speak, of course, of Frida Kahlo.Add to the list a new opera. El &Uacute;ltimo Sue&ntilde;o de Fri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-metrsquos-frida-amp-diego-opera-imagines-feminist-revenge-from-beyond-thenbspgrave/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-metrsquos-frida-amp-diego-opera-imagines-feminist-revenge-from-beyond-thenbspgrave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[M+ in Hong Kong and Centre Pompidou in Paris Plan New Five-Year Partnership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two high-profile museums&mdash;Hong Kong&rsquo;s M+, a contemporary art museum that opened in 2021 in a building designed by Herzog &amp; de Meuron facing Victoria Harbor, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris&rsquo;s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, which closed last year for a long-planned renovation of its Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers building&mdash;have announced a five-year partnership, beginning next year.The plan was announced at M+ on May 15 and reported by the South China Morn]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/m-in-hong-kong-and-centre-pompidou-in-paris-plan-new-five-yearpartnership/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/m-in-hong-kong-and-centre-pompidou-in-paris-plan-new-five-yearpartnership/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rene Matić Awarded 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rene Mati&#263; was named the winner of the Deutsche B&ouml;rse Photography Foundation Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. They received the &pound;30,000 ($40,250) prize for their exhibition &ldquo;AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH,&rdquo; which closed at CCA Berlin in February.Mati&#263;, who is based in London, works across photography, sculpture, sound, poetry, and film to examine social dynamics of race, gender, and intimacy through the lens of national symbols (flags are a recurr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rene-matiawarded-2026-deutsche-brse-photography-foundationprize/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rene-matiawarded-2026-deutsche-brse-photography-foundationprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pace Gallery Takes Representation of Brâncuși Estate Ahead of $100 M. Sculpture Coming to Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hours before a $100 million sculpture by Constantin Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i is to come to auction, Pace Gallery announced that it had taken global representation of the Romanian modernist&rsquo;s estate.Pace, one of the biggest galleries in the world, added Br&acirc;ncu&#537;i to its roster as a retrospective for the artist continues to travel the world. Organized by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which debuted the exhibition in 2024, the retrospective is currently on view at the Neue Nationalgalerie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-gallery-takes-representation-of-brncui-estate-ahead-of-100-m-sculpture-coming-toauction/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pace-gallery-takes-representation-of-brncui-estate-ahead-of-100-m-sculpture-coming-toauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Outraged After His Conservationist Mural in Dallas Is Painted Over to Allow for FIFA Promo]]></title><description><![CDATA[A giant mural by conservationist artist Robert Wyland has been painted over in Dallas to make way for a mural promoting FIFA, the international soccer federation.&nbsp;The destroyed piece was one of 100 &ldquo;whaling wall&rdquo; murals that the artist has painted from Osaka to Detroit, and from Sydney to New York. Whaling Wall 1 appears alongside the Pacific Coast Highway and was dedicated in 1981; number 100 was painted outside Wyland&rsquo;s own studio building in 1996.The Dallas mural, Ocean]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-outraged-after-his-conservationist-mural-in-dallas-is-painted-over-to-allow-for-fifapromo/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-outraged-after-his-conservationist-mural-in-dallas-is-painted-over-to-allow-for-fifapromo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaire Collector Fred Eychaner Sued Over Chicago Museum Expansion]]></title><description><![CDATA[A legal fight over sunlight, skyline views, and one of Chicago&rsquo;s richest art patrons is now playing out in one of the largest court systems in the United States.Fred Eychaner, the billionaire philanthropist and founder of the private exhibition space Wrightwood 659, is facing a lawsuit from a Lincoln Park condo owner who says the museum&rsquo;s planned expansion will loom over her home and destroy the light and views she spent years renovating around.&nbsp;Lisa Berron, who has lived in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-collector-fred-eychaner-sued-over-chicago-museumexpansion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-collector-fred-eychaner-sued-over-chicago-museumexpansion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Picks Park for Planned Sculpture Garden in D.C.]]></title><description><![CDATA[On Friday President Donald Trump said his administration had selected West Potomac Park as the site for his proposed &ldquo;National Garden of American Heroes,&rdquo;&nbsp;an outdoor sculpture park meant to play home to statues of 250 Americans of note.As reported by the Washington Post, the announcement raised questions as to whether congressional approval would be required. &ldquo;West Potomac Park, which sits along the Potomac River near the Jefferson Memorial and the Martin Luther King Jr. M]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-picks-park-for-planned-sculpture-garden-indc/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-picks-park-for-planned-sculpture-garden-indc/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funding for Ballroom Security Shot Down by Senate Authority, Art Dubai Stages Scaled-Back Edition Delayed by War, and More: Morning Links for May 18, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE LOUVRE&rsquo;S NEW LEASE ON LIFE. France&rsquo;s minister of culture has announced the winners of an architecture competition to renovate the&nbsp;Louvre&nbsp;and build a new room to house the&nbsp;Mona Lisa, reports&nbsp;Le Figaro. The winning designer of the project, known as the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance, is&nbsp;STUDIOS Architecture, a firm that was founded in San Francisco and is now based in Paris. The firm is joined by New York&ndash;based architect&nbsp;Annabelle Selldorf, who will]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/funding-for-ballroom-security-shot-down-by-senate-authority-art-dubai-stages-scaled-back-edition-delayed-by-war-and-more-morning-links-for-may-182026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/funding-for-ballroom-security-shot-down-by-senate-authority-art-dubai-stages-scaled-back-edition-delayed-by-war-and-more-morning-links-for-may-182026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universities preach AI literacy. On campus, the reality looks more like cognitive surrender]]></title><description><![CDATA[Universities preach AI literacy. On campus, the reality looks more like cognitive surrender]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/universities-preach-ai-literacy-on-campus-the-reality-looks-more-like-cognitive-surrender/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:13:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/universities-preach-ai-literacy-on-campus-the-reality-looks-more-like-cognitive-surrender/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Translating Kafka. Borges found freedom in his labyrinths. For Primo Levi, it was like recovering from an illness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Translating Kafka. Borges found freedom in his labyrinths. For Primo Levi, it was like recovering from an illness]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/translating-kafka-borges-found-freedom-in-his-labyrinths-for-primo-levi-it-was-like-recovering-from-an-illness/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:13:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/translating-kafka-borges-found-freedom-in-his-labyrinths-for-primo-levi-it-was-like-recovering-from-an-illness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe was the world's most photographed woman, and among its loneliest. To be wanted is not to be loved]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe was the world's most photographed woman, and among its loneliest. To be wanted is not to be loved]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marilyn-monroe-was-the-worlds-most-photographed-woman-and-among-its-loneliest-to-be-wanted-is-not-to-be-loved/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:13:34 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/marilyn-monroe-was-the-worlds-most-photographed-woman-and-among-its-loneliest-to-be-wanted-is-not-to-be-loved/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TEFAF New York Opened to Crowded Aisles, Bullish Collectors, and Strong Booths]]></title><description><![CDATA[By 4 p.m. on Thursday, the aisles of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory should have started thinning out. Instead, dealers were still pinned into conversations, collectors crowded around vitrines, and the low roar that had echoed though the building since the doors opened for its VIP day at 11 a.m. had barely let up.&ldquo;This is probably the best TEFAF I&rsquo;ve seen for a long time,&rdquo; dealer Sean Kelly said after making several laps around the fair. &ldquo;People are really, reall]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tefaf-new-york-opened-to-crowded-aisles-bullish-collectors-and-strongbooths/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 22:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tefaf-new-york-opened-to-crowded-aisles-bullish-collectors-and-strongbooths/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rare Blue-Green Diamond Ring Sold for Over $17 M. At Christie’s Geneva]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, a 5.5-carat diamond ring sold for over $17 million dollars during Christie&rsquo;s Magnificent Jewels auction in Zurich. The triangular-cut stone, known as Ocean Dream, thanks to its blue-green color, had an estimate of about $9-12 million. It is set into an 18-karat white gold band and surrounded by pink and white diamonds.Fortune magazine reported that the buyer was an unnamed private client and that the ring took 20 minute to sell.Max Fawcett, Global Head of Christie&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-blue-green-diamond-ring-sold-for-over-17-m-at-christiesgeneva/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-rare-blue-green-diamond-ring-sold-for-over-17-m-at-christiesgeneva/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catalonia Sues Aragón for €791,000 for Repayment Over Restitution of 56 Artworks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Catalan government in Spain sent a formal demand to the Aragonese government asking for &euro;791,000 (around $920,000) to recoup costs related to the value and upkeep of artworks from the Royal Monastery of Santa Mar&iacute;a de Sigena it was ordered to return in 2017, according to a report in El Pa&iacute;s.Of the 56 works, 12 had been kept at the National Art Museum of Catalonia and 44 at the Diocesan Museum of Lleida. The works were removed from the monastery in 1936 to protect them from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/catalonia-sues-aragn-for-791000-for-repayment-over-restitution-of-56artworks/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/catalonia-sues-aragn-for-791000-for-repayment-over-restitution-of-56artworks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Than 100 Seattle Art Museum Workers Plan to Unionize]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than 100 Seattle Art Museum employees announced plans this week to unionize, joining the nationwide labor movement that&rsquo;s swept through art institutions in the last six years.&nbsp;The union, called&nbsp;the Seattle Art Museum Workers United, will represent workers in over 20 front- and back-end departments. The union told SAM director and CEO Scott Stulen of its formation in a letter, writing: &ldquo;Our solidarity is a movement to improve working conditions in alignment with SAM&rsq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-than-100-seattle-art-museum-workers-plan-tounionize/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/more-than-100-seattle-art-museum-workers-plan-tounionize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London’s Wellcome Collection to Transfer 2,000 Manuscripts to Jain Community, But They Will Stay in UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wellcome Collection in London announced Friday its plans to return 2,000 manuscripts to the Jain community.In an unusual move, however, they will not be returned to Pakistan, where many of the manuscripts were purchased a century ago, or to India, where the majority of Jains live today. Instead, they will head to the University of Birmingham&rsquo;s Dharmanath Network in Jain Studies, which was established in 2023 and is wholly financed by Jain communities living in the UK, the US, and India]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-wellcome-collection-to-transfer-2000-manuscripts-to-jain-community-but-they-will-stay-inuk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/londons-wellcome-collection-to-transfer-2000-manuscripts-to-jain-community-but-they-will-stay-inuk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egypt Unveils a Hidden Tomb of 3,500-Year-Old Coffins at Luxor’s Abu el-Naga]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archeological mission has made several new discoveries this season while excavating at the Abu El-Naga necropolis near Luxor. The announcement was made by Egypt&rsquo;s Supreme Council of Antiquities.Among the most important finds of the season was a cache of ten well preserved, painted wooden coffins that had been hidden in the shaft of the courtyard of the tomb of Baki. The coffins, featuring brightly painted scenes and hieroglyphic inscriptions, were likely moved from their origin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egypt-unveils-a-hidden-tomb-of-3500-year-old-coffins-at-luxors-abuel-naga/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egypt-unveils-a-hidden-tomb-of-3500-year-old-coffins-at-luxors-abuel-naga/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egypt Unearths a Hidden Cache of 3,500-Year-Old Coffins at Luxor’s Abu el-Naga]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Egyptian archeological mission has made several new discoveries this season while excavating at the Abu El-Naga necropolis near Luxor. The announcement was made by Egypt&rsquo;s Supreme Council of Antiquities.Among the most important finds of the season was a cache of ten well preserved, painted wooden coffins that had been hidden in the shaft of the courtyard of the tomb of Baki. The coffins, featuring brightly painted scenes and hieroglyphic inscriptions, were likely moved from their origin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egypt-unearths-a-hidden-cache-of-3500-year-old-coffins-at-luxors-abuel-naga/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/egypt-unearths-a-hidden-cache-of-3500-year-old-coffins-at-luxors-abuel-naga/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Megadealer Larry Gagosian Is the Subject of Unauthorized Documentary In the Works from Director Barry Avrich]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York art dealer Larry Gagosian is the stuff of legend, a self-made man who rose from selling posters on the streets of LA to hobnobbing with celebrities, bidding on artworks for hundreds of millions of dollars, and occasionally even dating artists decades his junior. Art world insiders devoured Patrick Radden Keefe&rsquo;s sprawling, 17,000-word profile of the dealer, &ldquo;How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World,&rdquo; in the New Yorker in 2023, but he&rsquo;s the kind of art dealer who]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/megadealer-larry-gagosian-is-the-subject-of-unauthorized-documentary-in-the-works-from-director-barryavrich/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/megadealer-larry-gagosian-is-the-subject-of-unauthorized-documentary-in-the-works-from-director-barryavrich/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Planned Miami Presidential Library Faces New Lawsuit Over Land Transfer]]></title><description><![CDATA[A group of Miami residents and a local nonprofit have sued President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Miami Dade College, and members of the Florida Cabinet over plans for Trump&rsquo;s future presidential library, arguing that the transfer of a prime stretch of downtown waterfront land violates the U.S. Constitution.&nbsp;According to the&nbsp;Associated Press,&nbsp;the lawsuit centers on a 2.63-acre parcel next to Miami&rsquo;s historic Freedom Tower that was transferred from Miami Dad]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-planned-miami-presidential-library-faces-new-lawsuit-over-landtransfer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-planned-miami-presidential-library-faces-new-lawsuit-over-landtransfer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Expensive Jean-Michel Basquiat Works Ever Sold at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[The years 1981 to 1984 were a brief period of intense artistic output that cemented Jean-Michel Basquiat&rsquo;s place within the canon of art history. Initially working under the moniker SAMO, Basquiat, a friend of artist Keith Haring and actress Patti Astor, became an integral member of the social circle around the Mudd Club, the night club&ndash;gallery hybrid that defined downtown that decade. In 1981, Mudd Club cofounder Diego Cortez put the 21-year-old Basquiat&mdash;then known mainly as a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-expensive-jean-michel-basquiat-works-ever-sold-atauction/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-most-expensive-jean-michel-basquiat-works-ever-sold-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photographer and Activist Claudia Andujar, Known for Documenting Yanomami People of Brazil, Is the Subject of a New Biopic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oscar-Nominated Sentimental Value star&nbsp;Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas&nbsp;will join The Secret Agent lead&nbsp;Wagner Moura&nbsp;on Brazilian film The Outsider, where Ibsdotter Lilleaas will have the central role. &nbsp;Bringing together stars of the two biggest non-English language movies at this year&rsquo;s Academy Awards, The Outsider (A Estrangeira) is produced by S&atilde;o Paulo&rsquo;s&nbsp;Maria Farinha Filmes&nbsp;and written and directed by Brazilian filmmaker&nbsp;Sandra Delgado&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photographer-and-activist-claudia-andujar-known-for-documenting-yanomami-people-of-brazil-is-the-subject-of-a-newbiopic/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/photographer-and-activist-claudia-andujar-known-for-documenting-yanomami-people-of-brazil-is-the-subject-of-a-newbiopic/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rothko Leads Sotheby’s $433.1 M. Contemporary Art Sale, UK Returns Artifacts to Ethiopia, and More: Morning Links for May 15, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Sotheby&rsquo;s kicked off the May marquee auction season with a $433.1 million result at its modern and contemporary art evening sales.Australia&rsquo;s Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal people say a $107 million payout from a recent land title compensation ruling, which recognized damage to their cultural heritage sites, is not enough.The King&rsquo;s Own Royal Regiment Museum Trust in the UK has returned artifacts to Ethiopia that were taken during the Anglo-Indian Expedition of 186]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-leads-sothebys-4331-m-contemporary-art-sale-uk-returns-artifacts-to-ethiopia-and-more-morning-links-for-may-152026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-leads-sothebys-4331-m-contemporary-art-sale-uk-returns-artifacts-to-ethiopia-and-more-morning-links-for-may-152026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Erased Vermeer, Two Books, and No Consensus]]></title><description><![CDATA[A room sits empty, save for a lone chair and a shaft of golden light. Yet in the details&mdash;a patterned marble floor, blue Delft tiles, a stained-glass window pane&mdash;the setting for George Deem&rsquo;s painting Extended Vermeer (2000) is unmistakably a 17th-century Dutch home. What other period&rsquo;s interiors have become so immediately legible, and psychologically captivating, to contemporary viewers? Thanks to the work of Johannes Vermeer, the quiet simplicity of a world four centurie]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/one-erased-vermeer-two-books-and-noconsensus/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/one-erased-vermeer-two-books-and-noconsensus/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rothko from Robert Mnuchin’s Estate Sells for $85.8 M., Leading Sotheby’s New York’s $433.1 M. Contemporary Art Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[At its Madison Avenue headquarters, Sotheby&rsquo;s kicked off the May auction season early, smack in the middle of the opening of art fairs all around Manhattan, with a solid if unexciting $433.1 million sale of modern and contemporary art, led by an $85.8 million canvas by Mark Rothko. Major auctions at Christie&rsquo;s and Phillips will follow next week. The equivalent sale last year tallied just $186.1 million.&ldquo;The sale was robust, and it felt authentic,&rdquo; said New York adviser La]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-from-robert-mnuchins-estate-sells-for-858-m-leading-sothebys-new-yorks-4331-m-contemporary-artsale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 03:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-from-robert-mnuchins-estate-sells-for-858-m-leading-sothebys-new-yorks-4331-m-contemporary-artsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rothko from Robert Mnuchin’s Estate Sells for $85.8 M., Leading Sotheby’s New York’s $389.3 M. Contemporary Art Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[At its Madison Avenue headquarters, Sotheby&rsquo;s kicked off the May auction season early, smack in the middle of the opening of art fairs all around Manhattan, with a solid if unexciting $389.3 million sale of modern and contemporary art, led by an $85.8 million canvas by Mark Rothko. Major auctions at Christie&rsquo;s and Phillips will follow next week. The equivalent sale last year tallied just $186.1 million.&ldquo;The sale was robust, and it felt authentic,&rdquo; said New York adviser La]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-from-robert-mnuchins-estate-sells-for-858-m-leading-sothebys-new-yorks-3893-m-contemporary-artsale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 03:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rothko-from-robert-mnuchins-estate-sells-for-858-m-leading-sothebys-new-yorks-3893-m-contemporary-artsale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Debuts and Inspired Duos Define the Can’t-Miss Booths at Independent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Far from the hubbub of Frieze&rsquo;s monster midtown affair sits Independent, newly relocated to Pier 36, a 70,000-square-foot venue on Manhattan&rsquo;s Lower East Side. It remains the most refined offering in New York Art Week&rsquo;s buffet of fairs, though the term &ldquo;boutique&rdquo; may soon feel strained: the new location is more than double the size of the fair&rsquo;s former home at Spring Studios, accommodating an expanded roster of exhibitors and ambitions. (The venue&rsquo;s arch]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-debuts-and-inspired-duos-define-the-cant-miss-booths-atindependent/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 01:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-debuts-and-inspired-duos-define-the-cant-miss-booths-atindependent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Mnuchin’s Rothko Sells at Sotheby’s for $85.8 M., Narrowly Missing a Record]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Mark Rothko painting formerly owned by the influential art dealer Robert Mnuchin sold at Sotheby&rsquo;s on Thursday night for $85.8 million, just barely failing to re-set the Abstract Expressionist&rsquo;s auction record. Still, the painting is officially the second-most expensive Rothko ever sold at auction.Rothko&rsquo;s Color Field paintings of the postwar era regularly sell for vast sums at auction. But few have sold for quite as much as Brown and Blacks in Reds, the 1957 abstraction that]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-mnuchins-rothko-sells-at-sothebys-for-858-m-narrowly-missing-arecord/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-mnuchins-rothko-sells-at-sothebys-for-858-m-narrowly-missing-arecord/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valie Export, Groundbreaking Feminist Artist Who Questioned the Nature of Art, Dies at 85]]></title><description><![CDATA[Valie Export, whose groundbreaking work questioned the very nature of art and cinema, all through an explicitly feminist lens, has died at 85. The news was confirmed by Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, which represents her. Her death on May 14 came three days before her 86th birthday, according to AFP.&ldquo;VALIE was one of the most visionary feminist artists to emerge in Europe in the second half of the 20th century,&rdquo; dealer Thaddaeus Ropac said in a statement. &ldquo;Her passing marks the loss]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valie-export-groundbreaking-feminist-artist-who-questioned-the-nature-of-art-dies-at85/</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/valie-export-groundbreaking-feminist-artist-who-questioned-the-nature-of-art-dies-at85/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Doig, Tracey Emin, and More Sign Letter Defending Southbank Centre Chair]]></title><description><![CDATA[A letter signed by such luminaries as environmental activist Greta Thunberg and artists Tracy Emin and Peter Doig is presently circulating in support of Misan Harriman, chair of the London-based arts organization Southbank Centre, reports the Guardian newspaper.	The letter asserts that Harriman is the victim of what it calls a &ldquo;dishonest smear campaign&rdquo; by British newspaper the Telegraph and other right-wing news outlets, which accuse him of promoting conspiracies and comparing the B]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-doig-tracey-emin-and-more-sign-letter-defending-southbank-centrechair/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 23:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/peter-doig-tracey-emin-and-more-sign-letter-defending-southbank-centrechair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[T.M. Scanlon’s 1982 essay “Contractualism and Utilitarianism” heralded the emergence of a new ethical theory]]></title><description><![CDATA[T.M. Scanlon&rsquo;s 1982 essay &ldquo;Contractualism and Utilitarianism&rdquo; heralded the emergence of a new ethical theory]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tm-scanlons-1982-essay-contractualism-and-utilitarianism-heralded-the-emergence-of-a-new-ethical-theory/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:39:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tm-scanlons-1982-essay-contractualism-and-utilitarianism-heralded-the-emergence-of-a-new-ethical-theory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud, naïve, ham fisted, needy. The American tourist used to be regarded as the most obnoxious creature in the world]]></title><description><![CDATA[Loud, na&iuml;ve, ham fisted, needy. The American tourist used to be regarded as the most obnoxious creature in the world]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loud-nave-ham-fisted-needy-the-american-tourist-used-to-be-regarded-as-the-most-obnoxious-creature-in-the-world/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:39:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loud-nave-ham-fisted-needy-the-american-tourist-used-to-be-regarded-as-the-most-obnoxious-creature-in-the-world/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life]]></title><description><![CDATA[He was a spy, a Zen priest, a fisherman, and a Bigfoot obsessive: Peter Matthiessen never had just one life]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-was-a-spy-a-zen-priest-a-fisherman-and-a-bigfoot-obsessive-peter-matthiessen-never-had-just-one-life/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:39:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-was-a-spy-a-zen-priest-a-fisherman-and-a-bigfoot-obsessive-peter-matthiessen-never-had-just-one-life/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at NADA New York, From Quietly Ominous Ceramics to Ecstatic Jazz Paintings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New Art Dealers Alliance opened the 12th edition of NADA New York on Wednesday, coinciding again with the start of Frieze just five blocks north.Those who made the trip to Chelsea&rsquo;s Starrett-Lehigh building on West 26th Street and 11th Avenue were greeted by not just NADA, but also 1-54, which hosts its New York fair on the first floor. Two floors up, NADA occupied most of the third floor, flooded on either end with bright natural light from banks of floor-to-ceiling windows.This year&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-nada-new-york-from-quietly-ominous-ceramics-to-ecstatic-jazzpaintings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-nada-new-york-from-quietly-ominous-ceramics-to-ecstatic-jazzpaintings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, From Surrealist Fantasias to Afro-Brazilian Imaginings]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is back at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea&mdash;just a few blocks from Frieze New York and in the same building at NADA&mdash;with more than 20 galleries from the continent and other ports of call for the &ldquo;ever-expanding narratives of the African diaspora,&rdquo; as fair director Touria El Glaoui&nbsp;described it. Spirits were high during the opening preview on Wednesday, when an international roster of galleries&mdash;including first-time f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-from-surrealist-fantasias-to-afro-brazilianimaginings/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-1-54-contemporary-african-art-fair-from-surrealist-fantasias-to-afro-brazilianimaginings/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frick Inks Three-Year Partnership with Louis Vuitton, with Support for Exhibitions and Free Fridays]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Frick Collection in New York has announced a three-year partnership with Louis Vuitton that will see the fashion house sponsor a number of initiatives at the museum.Louis Vuitton will be the lead sponsor of three of the Frick&rsquo;s upcoming exhibitions: &ldquo;Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450&ndash;1500,&rdquo; which will look at the Italian city as an epicenter for innovation in bronze during the Renaissance, opening this fall; &ldquo;Painting with Fire: Susanne de Court and the Art of Enam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frick-inks-three-year-partnership-with-louis-vuitton-with-support-for-exhibitions-and-freefridays/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frick-inks-three-year-partnership-with-louis-vuitton-with-support-for-exhibitions-and-freefridays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch Designer Iris van Herpen’s High-Tech Garments Are On View in a Mid-Career Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2010,&nbsp;Iris van Herpen, only three years after establishing her eponymous couture brand, sent the first 3D-printed garment down the runway as part of her &ldquo;Crystallization&rdquo; collection. A top evoking the skeletal structure of a snake with its ivory-colored coils of 3D-printed polyamide, the piece was a collaboration with British architect Daniel Widrig.&ldquo;It was a big moment,&rdquo; says van Herpen, 41, as she contemplates the look on a form in the Brooklyn Museum galleries.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dutch-designer-iris-van-herpens-high-tech-garments-are-on-view-in-a-mid-career-retrospective-at-the-brooklynmuseum/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dutch-designer-iris-van-herpens-high-tech-garments-are-on-view-in-a-mid-career-retrospective-at-the-brooklynmuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is Nicole Kidman Doing in a Christie’s Video Promoting the Upcoming S.I. Newhouse Sale?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Five days before a trove of 16 masterpieces from the late media magnate S.I. Newhouse is set to hit the block as part of Christie&rsquo;s New York evening sales, the auction house has released a two-minute video promoting one particular sculpture in the sale.	The short film, as Christie&rsquo;s refers to it, was filmed in early May and features none other than Academy Award&ndash;winning actress Nicole Kidman starring alongside Constantin Brancusi&rsquo;s bronze sculpture&nbsp;Dana&iuml;de&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-nicole-kidman-doing-in-a-christies-video-promoting-the-upcoming-si-newhousesale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-is-nicole-kidman-doing-in-a-christies-video-promoting-the-upcoming-si-newhousesale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspect Is Taken into Custody in Decade-Long Louvre Ticketing Scam]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Louvre employee was indicted and detained on Wednesday on charges including organized gang fraud as part of an investigation into a scheme to defraud the Paris museum of ticket fees for thousands of visitors. Six others had been placed in custody &ldquo;because of the communications they may have had with the first defendants,&rdquo; the public prosecutor said, per Le Monde.&nbsp;The indicted employee also faces charges of use of forgery, assistance in the entry and circulation of a foreigner]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/suspect-is-taken-into-custody-in-decade-long-louvre-ticketingscam/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/suspect-is-taken-into-custody-in-decade-long-louvre-ticketingscam/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[J.M.W. Turner’s Most Famous Self-Portrait Might Not Actually Be by the Artist at All]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of J.M.W. Turner&rsquo;s most self-portraits, which appears on the &pound;20 note, may not be by the artist at all.Art historian James Hamilton, who has written widely on Turner, curated exhibitions on the artist, and authored the 1997 biography Turner&mdash;A Life, told the Guardian this week that he believes the painting has been misattributed to Turner. While the painting, dated to ca. 1799, does depict the English Romantic painter, he said, he believes it to have been painted by John Opi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jmw-turners-most-famous-self-portrait-might-not-actually-be-by-the-artist-atall/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jmw-turners-most-famous-self-portrait-might-not-actually-be-by-the-artist-atall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Installation at the British Museum Recreates the Bayeux Tapestry’s Landscape]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the run-up to the British Museum&rsquo;s historic presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the institution will open &ldquo;Tapestry of Trees,&rdquo; an outdoor installation by garden designer Andy Sturgeon. Meant to evoke a medieval woodland, the installation will be composed of plants and trees typically found in East Sussex, where the Battle of Hastings&mdash;the primary subject of the tapestry&mdash;was fought in 1066 CE. &nbsp;Visitors approaching the museum&rsquo;s doors will pass under a c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-installation-at-the-british-museum-recreates-the-bayeux-tapestryslandscape/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-installation-at-the-british-museum-recreates-the-bayeux-tapestryslandscape/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Independent, Joel Mesler’s ‘Death Wish’ Is Part Art Exhibit, Part Market Experiment]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a coffee shop in Little Italy late last month, Joel Mesler leaned back in his chair and started explaining how he used to sell art in New York. Back when he was running galleries in the Lower East Side in the late 2000s and early 2010s, he said, deals often came together late at night, after too many drinks, as he mingled with people who he thought were far above his station.&ldquo;I would want to be at the table, but I wasn&rsquo;t invited,&rdquo; Mesler said, pausing to sip an iced coffee.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-independent-joel-meslers-death-wish-is-part-art-exhibit-part-marketexperiment/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-independent-joel-meslers-death-wish-is-part-art-exhibit-part-marketexperiment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trial Begins in Brent Sikkema Murder-For-Hire Case]]></title><description><![CDATA[Opening statements and witness testimony were heard in a Manhattan court on Tuesday in the murder-for-hire trial following the 2024 killing of New York art dealer Brent Sikkeman.Sikkema was found brutally murdered in January 2024 in his Rio de Janeiro apartment. Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just days later, and claimed that the dealer&rsquo;s ex-husband, Daniel Carrera Sikkema, had offered him $200,000 to carry out the crime. Carrera Sikkema was arrested tw]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trial-begins-in-brent-sikkema-murder-for-hirecase/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trial-begins-in-brent-sikkema-murder-for-hirecase/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York’s Neue Galerie to Merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in Major Expansion]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York&rsquo;s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution&rsquo;s modern art offerings.The New York Times reports that the merger will take place in 2028 and that the Neue Galerie will now be known as the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, or the Met Neue for short. (The latter institution is located in a townhouse at the corner of Fifth Ave]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-neue-galerie-to-merge-with-metropolitan-museum-of-art-in-majorexpansion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-yorks-neue-galerie-to-merge-with-metropolitan-museum-of-art-in-majorexpansion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met Teams Up with Band-Aid on Art-Themed Adhesive Bandages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following the success of their 2025 collaboration, BAND-AID&reg; Brand and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have reunited to produce a new lineup of art-themed adhesive bandages. This year, the band-aids feature details from three flower paintings in the Met&rsquo;s collection: Impressionist painter Claude Monet&rsquo;s Water Lilies (1919), Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh&rsquo;s Irises (1890), and Symbolist artist Odilon Redon&rsquo;s Bouquet of Flowers (ca. 1900&ndash;1905).The 2026 Band-Aid]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-teams-up-with-band-aid-on-art-themed-adhesivebandages/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-met-teams-up-with-band-aid-on-art-themed-adhesivebandages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hungary’s New Minister of Culture Vows to Restore Artistic Freedom, Turner’s Famous ‘Self-Portrait’ Called Into Doubt, and More: Morning Links for May 14, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!An expert claims the iconic image of&nbsp;JMW Turner&nbsp;printed on British banknotes was never his self-portrait.Hungary&rsquo;s new minister of culture,&nbsp;Zolt&aacute;n Tarr,&nbsp;shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene.The&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;administration is charging ahead with the building of a contested&nbsp;Triumphal Arch&nbsp;and a&nbsp;White House&nbsp;ballroom.The Headlines	AN ABOUT-TURNER. Most will immediately recognize the f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hungarys-new-minister-of-culture-vows-to-restore-artistic-freedom-turners-famous-self-portrait-called-into-doubt-and-more-morning-links-for-may-142026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hungarys-new-minister-of-culture-vows-to-restore-artistic-freedom-turners-famous-self-portrait-called-into-doubt-and-more-morning-links-for-may-142026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coco Fusco and Jeffrey Gibson’s Public Lectures, Free Admission at MCA Denver, and More: Industry Moves for May 13, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry Moves	Coco Fusco and Jeffrey Gibson Named Speakers for Johns Hopkins&rsquo;s Sam Gilliam Lecture Series:&nbsp;The artists will each deliver a free talk at the university&rsquo;s Bloomberg Cente]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/coco-fusco-and-jeffrey-gibsons-public-lectures-free-admission-at-mca-denver-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-132026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 01:03:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/coco-fusco-and-jeffrey-gibsons-public-lectures-free-admission-at-mca-denver-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieze New York Kicks Off with Seven-Figure Sales and High Energy: ‘It’s a Fiesta’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.A high level of energy was palpable at the preview day of the Frieze New York art fair on Wednesday. Many attendees at the Shed, on Manhattan&rsquo;s West Side, were fresh off a return trip from Italy, where the Venice Biennale opened to the public on Saturday, and many were still comparing notes on bes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-new-york-kicks-off-with-seven-figure-sales-and-high-energy-its-afiesta/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/frieze-new-york-kicks-off-with-seven-figure-sales-and-high-energy-its-afiesta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Abstract Painter Who Refused to Conform, Dies at 84]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Lovelace O&rsquo;Neal, whose gestural abstractions consistently ran against the grain, defying the demands placed upon Black painters by critics and artists alike, died on Sunday in M&eacute;rida, Mexico. She was 84. Her galleries, Jenkins Johnson and Marianne Boesky, announced her passing on Wednesday.Lovelace O&rsquo;Neal produced sprawling paints defined by tangles of drippy, roiled strokes. This was a style that placed her outside the orthodoxy of Minimalism, the dominant movement when]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mary-lovelace-oneal-abstract-painter-who-refused-to-conform-dies-at84/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/mary-lovelace-oneal-abstract-painter-who-refused-to-conform-dies-at84/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nicholas Christakis was at the center of Yale's Halloween controversy. He wants to move on. The culture war has other ideas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nicholas Christakis was at the center of Yale's Halloween controversy. He wants to move on. The culture war has other ideas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nicholas-christakis-was-at-the-center-of-yales-halloween-controversy-he-wants-to-move-on-the-culture-war-has-other-ideas/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:37:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nicholas-christakis-was-at-the-center-of-yales-halloween-controversy-he-wants-to-move-on-the-culture-war-has-other-ideas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in Berlin during World War II was like dancing on a volcano — full of raucous parties between the bombing raids]]></title><description><![CDATA[Living in Berlin during World War II was like dancing on a volcano &mdash; full of raucous parties between the bombing raids]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/living-in-berlin-during-world-war-ii-was-like-dancing-on-a-volcano-full-of-raucous-parties-between-the-bombing-raids/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:37:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/living-in-berlin-during-world-war-ii-was-like-dancing-on-a-volcano-full-of-raucous-parties-between-the-bombing-raids/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberal democracy and liberal education fell together. To save the first, we must resurrect the second]]></title><description><![CDATA[Liberal democracy and liberal education fell together. To save the first, we must resurrect the second]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liberal-democracy-and-liberal-education-fell-together-to-save-the-first-we-must-resurrect-the-second/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:37:37 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/liberal-democracy-and-liberal-education-fell-together-to-save-the-first-we-must-resurrect-the-second/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best Booths at Frieze New York, From Cindy Sherman’s Newest Photos to UFOs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cashing in typically comes before supporting artists at art fairs, and Frieze New York is no different from the rest in that regard. The main priority for dealers is to make money, and the point for attendees is to spend it, if not on art, then at least on overpriced coffees and sandwiches. Which is to say little of the entrance fee, which can reach $200, a sum I was fortunate not to have paid as an industry professional. There are, in any case, plenty of better places to see art in New York tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-frieze-new-york-from-cindy-shermans-newest-photos-toufos/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-best-booths-at-frieze-new-york-from-cindy-shermans-newest-photos-toufos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Advances Bill Granting Sweeping Civilian Authority over West Bank Archaeological Sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel advanced a bill on Tuesday that would expand Israeli civilian authority sweeping authority over antiquities and archaeology in the occupied West Bank, a move that human rights groups warned would lead to the annexation of the Palestinian territory.As first reported by Haaretz, the Likud-backed bill would empower a new government body under the purview of the Israeli heritage minister to purchase and expropriate land. The proposed &ldquo;Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority&rdquo;&mdash;us]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-advances-bill-granting-sweeping-civilian-authority-over-west-bank-archaeologicalsites/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 22:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-advances-bill-granting-sweeping-civilian-authority-over-west-bank-archaeologicalsites/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Alleges Hair Dress in the Met’s ‘Costume Art’ Show Copies Her Design]]></title><description><![CDATA[An artist has accused Andrew Bolton, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute&rsquo;s spring 2026 exhibition, of displaying and collecting what she has described as a &ldquo;counterfeit&rdquo; of her work, without credit or compensation.In a series of now-viral Instagram posts, the first of which was published on May 11, the London-based sculptor, textile designer, and filmmaker Anouska Samms claimed joint-authorship of Corpus Nervina 0.0, a garment included in the recently op]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-alleges-hair-dress-in-the-mets-costume-art-show-copies-herdesign/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 22:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-alleges-hair-dress-in-the-mets-costume-art-show-copies-herdesign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[French Parliament Accuses Louvre of Prioritizing ‘Prestige And Influence’ Over Security Prior to Jewel Heist]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alexis Corbi&egrave;re and Alexandre Portier, the French MPs overseeing the government commission investigating the shocking October 19, 2025, Louvre jewel heist, have accused the museum of deprioritizing security at the museum.The full parliamentary report was released today and also casts doubt on French president Emmanuel Macron&rsquo;s nearly $1 billion plan to revamp the Louvre, which he announced in January 2025 (nine months before the heist) and referred to as a &ldquo;new renaissance&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-parliament-accuses-louvre-of-prioritizing-prestige-and-influence-over-security-prior-to-jewelheist/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/french-parliament-accuses-louvre-of-prioritizing-prestige-and-influence-over-security-prior-to-jewelheist/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran Pushes Back on Venice Biennale Withdrawal Reports: ‘We’re Still Coming’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, the Venice Biennale announced that Iran had dropped out of the exhibition. Now, it appears, that report was incorrect.On Tuesday, Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani, the director-general of visual arts at the Iranian ministry of culture and Islamic guidance told the Iran Students News Agency that it still plans to participate.&ldquo;Iran never withdrew from participating in the Venice Biennale,&rdquo; Tehrani said, as translated by Google Translate. &ldquo;Incidentally, we had the initial agree]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iran-pushes-back-on-venice-biennale-withdrawal-reports-were-stillcoming/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iran-pushes-back-on-venice-biennale-withdrawal-reports-were-stillcoming/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Announces 314 New Acquisitions During 50th Anniversary Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian&rsquo;s&nbsp;Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden&nbsp;used its 50th anniversary year to dramatically expand its collection, announcing 314 new acquisitions in 2025 that reflect a broader push into photography, mixed-media work, and artists shaping contemporary American visual culture.&nbsp;The acquisitions range from large-scale mixed-media works by&nbsp;Lorna Simpson,&nbsp;Sarah Sze, and&nbsp;Mickalene Thomas&nbsp;to documentary photography by&nbsp;Danny Lyon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Gra]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-gardenannounces-314-new-acquisitions-during-50th-anniversaryyear/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-gardenannounces-314-new-acquisitions-during-50th-anniversaryyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Announces 312 New Acquisitions During 50th Anniversary Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian&rsquo;s&nbsp;Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden&nbsp;used its 50th anniversary year to dramatically expand its collection, announcing 312 new acquisitions in 2025 that reflect a broader push into photography, mixed-media work, and artists shaping contemporary American visual culture.&nbsp;The acquisitions range from large-scale mixed-media works by&nbsp;Lorna Simpson and&nbsp;Mickalene Thomas&nbsp;to documentary photography by&nbsp;Danny Lyon&nbsp;and&nbsp;Graciela Iturbide, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-gardenannounces-312-new-acquisitions-during-50th-anniversaryyear/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-gardenannounces-312-new-acquisitions-during-50th-anniversaryyear/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Controversies Continue, French Parliament Report Finds Flaws in Museum Security, and More: Morning Links for May 13, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!Iran denies ever withdrawing from the&nbsp;Venice Biennale, and the&nbsp;Somalia Pavilion&nbsp;sparks controversy.A new report led by&nbsp;France&lsquo;s parliament has revealed wide-ranging flaws in the country&rsquo;s museum security management.US Interior Department&nbsp;staff are concerned that&nbsp;Trump&lsquo;s&nbsp;Lincoln Memorial&nbsp;Reflecting Pool repairs are behind schedule and of poor quality.The Headlines	VEXED IN VENICE. News from this year&rsquo;s politically mired&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-controversies-continue-french-parliament-report-finds-flaws-in-museum-security-and-more-morning-links-for-may-132026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-controversies-continue-french-parliament-report-finds-flaws-in-museum-security-and-more-morning-links-for-may-132026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodies, Bodies, Bodies: Artists Revisit the Nude in Shows Across New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[This spring in New York, it&rsquo;s bodies, bodies, bodies, with artists across the city reveling in the pleasures of the flesh and the horror of harm done upon it. These are themes that are core to at least one major museum show on view in the city&mdash;the New Museum&rsquo;s exquisite &ldquo;New Humans: Memories of the Future&rdquo;&mdash;and that may be one reason we&rsquo;re seeing so much body-oriented art right now. But more than simply meditating on all matters corporeal, a smattering of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bodies-bodies-bodies-artists-revisit-the-nude-in-shows-across-newyork/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bodies-bodies-bodies-artists-revisit-the-nude-in-shows-across-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weirdness of quantum matter. A seemingly simple question — what is the world made of? — might have a surprising answer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The weirdness of quantum matter. A seemingly simple question &mdash; what is the world made of? &mdash; might have a surprising answer]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-weirdness-of-quantum-matter-a-seemingly-simple-question-what-is-the-world-made-of-might-have-a-surprising-answer/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:28:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-weirdness-of-quantum-matter-a-seemingly-simple-question-what-is-the-world-made-of-might-have-a-surprising-answer/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s been over a decade, and scholars of the new history of capitalism have no more sense of a system now than when they began. What went wrong?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s been over a decade, and scholars of the new history of capitalism have no more sense of a system now than when they began. What went wrong?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/its-been-over-a-decade-and-scholars-of-the-new-history-of-capitalism-have-no-more-sense-of-a-system-now-than-when-they-began-what-went-wrong/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:28:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/its-been-over-a-decade-and-scholars-of-the-new-history-of-capitalism-have-no-more-sense-of-a-system-now-than-when-they-began-what-went-wrong/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“If you’re in a household where the currency is stories, it’s an environment which is conducive to learning those tricks”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re in a household where the currency is stories, it&rsquo;s an environment which is conducive to learning those tricks&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/if-youre-in-a-household-where-the-currency-is-stories-its-an-environment-which-is-conducive-to-learning-those-tricks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:28:42 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/if-youre-in-a-household-where-the-currency-is-stories-its-an-environment-which-is-conducive-to-learning-those-tricks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Administration Sued Over Wildly Over-Budget Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Changes]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington-area nonprofit focused on historic preservation, has sued the Trump administration over its controversial makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, arguing that federal officials failed to follow legally required review procedures before coating the basin in a bright blue surface.&nbsp;Filed Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., the lawsuit seeks to halt work on the project through a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunct]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-sued-over-wildly-over-budget-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-poolchanges/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-administration-sued-over-wildly-over-budget-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-poolchanges/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leading French Gallery Air de Paris Is Declaring Bankruptcy and Closing After 36 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Air de Paris, a leading French gallery, will close its doors and declare bankruptcy after 36 years in business, the gallery&rsquo;s cofounders, Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, tell Cultured.&nbsp;Bonnefous says the gallery owes money only to the landlord and the bank, not her artists. The gallery is closing, per Cultured, due to its &ldquo;fragile&rdquo; finances as well as the founders&rsquo; health (Bonnefous suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Mennino also has unspe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leading-french-gallery-air-de-paris-is-declaring-bankruptcy-and-closing-after-36years/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/leading-french-gallery-air-de-paris-is-declaring-bankruptcy-and-closing-after-36years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothing Brand Hurley Is Collaborating with Keith Haring Estate on Capsule Collection]]></title><description><![CDATA[The streetwear brand Hurley, which is known for surf and swim apparel, has released a capsule collection inspired by Keith Haring, one of the most recognizable and oft-licensed American artists.The collection includes cotton T-shirts, board shirts, bucket and trucker hats, bathing suits, and sweatshirts for men and women, with prices ranging from $28 (a black mesh trucker hat featuring one of Haring&rsquo;s blue dancing figures astride a two-legged figure that looks like some kind of dolphin/hum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/clothing-brand-hurley-is-collaborating-with-keith-haring-estate-on-capsulecollection/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/clothing-brand-hurley-is-collaborating-with-keith-haring-estate-on-capsulecollection/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across Venice, Artists Defy Censorship to Mourn and Memorialize Gaza]]></title><description><![CDATA[Entering the main exhibition of the 2026 Venice Biennale, &ldquo;In Minor Keys,&rdquo; from the Arsenale, the first artwork one encounters is a poem. &ldquo;If I must die / you must live / to tell my story,&rdquo; the poem by Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer begins. Those lines became a rallying cry for the pro-Palestine movement after Alareer was killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike in December 2023, and have since achieved a ubiquity that once seemed all but impossible for a poe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/across-venice-artists-defy-censorship-to-mourn-and-memorializegaza/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/across-venice-artists-defy-censorship-to-mourn-and-memorializegaza/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cigarette Taxes Have Funneled $270 M. Toward Arts and Culture in Cleveland Since 2007]]></title><description><![CDATA[Museums and other arts institutions in Cleveland, Ohio, have a financial support structure that might surprise you. Some of the biggest visual arts presenters, as well as much smaller organizations, get money each time someone in Cuyahoga County, of which Cleveland is the county seat, buys a pack of cigarettes.	According to the New York Times, Cleveland &ldquo;is thought to be the only place in the country&rdquo; where such a tax supports arts organizations, and the paper reports that via the no]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cigarette-taxes-have-funneled-270-m-toward-arts-and-culture-in-cleveland-since2007/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cigarette-taxes-have-funneled-270-m-toward-arts-and-culture-in-cleveland-since2007/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and Cultural Engagement Can Slow the Pace of Aging: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new study published in the journal Innovation in Aging suggests that engaging with art and culture can help slow down the biological clock and improve overall health.As reported in the Guardian, the UK-based study&rsquo;s &ldquo;results demonstrate the health impact of the arts at a biological level.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s according to Daisy Fancourt, lead author of the study and the head of the social biobehavioral research group at University College London, who added: &ldquo;They provide evide]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-and-cultural-engagement-can-slow-the-pace-of-agingreport/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-and-cultural-engagement-can-slow-the-pace-of-agingreport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion and Pussy Riot Spar Over Usage of Protest Footage]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Russian Pavilion, already a focal point for pro-Ukrainian protests at the 2026 Venice Biennale, has drawn fresh controversy after an Instagram post accusing the anti-Putin band and art collective, Pussy Riot, of censorship and self-censorship.&nbsp;&ldquo;Pussy Riot asked us to remove the footage featuring them from the documentary film about the project,&rdquo; the Russian Pavilion wrote in an Instagram caption beneath an image, posted on Monday, bearing the words &ldquo;Censored on request]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-russian-pavilion-and-pussy-riot-spar-over-usage-of-protestfootage/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-russian-pavilion-and-pussy-riot-spar-over-usage-of-protestfootage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Arrested for Allegedly Planning Terrorist Attack at Louvre]]></title><description><![CDATA[French authorities arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian man last Thursday for allegedly planning a terrorist attack at the Louvre in Paris. The news was confirmed by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor&rsquo;s Office (PNAT) and first reported by Le Monde.The arrest was made as part of an investigation into the man&rsquo;s &ldquo;participation in a terrorist conspiracy in preparation for crimes against persons&rdquo; and that he planned &ldquo;an action inspired by jihadist ideology,&rdquo; PNAT to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-arrested-for-allegedly-planning-terrorist-attack-atlouvre/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/man-arrested-for-allegedly-planning-terrorist-attack-atlouvre/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study Says Enjoying Art Makes You Younger, Nonprofit Sues Trump Administration Over Changes to Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and More: Morning Links for May 12, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!A new study says enjoying art regularly makes people younger.A nonprofit is suing the Trump Administration for painting D.C.&rsquo;s Reflecting Pool blue.France&rsquo;s president says new law for restituting art looted during colonialism is &ldquo;unstoppable.&rdquo;The Headlines	AN ARTWORK A DAY KEEPS &hellip; YOU YOUNGER? A new study has found]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/study-says-enjoying-art-makes-you-younger-nonprofit-sues-trump-administration-over-changes-to-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-and-more-morning-links-for-may-122026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/study-says-enjoying-art-makes-you-younger-nonprofit-sues-trump-administration-over-changes-to-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-and-more-morning-links-for-may-122026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gozo Yoshimasu Wins £200,000 Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[The inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize will go to Tokyo-based artist Gozo Yoshimasu, who will receive &pound;200,000 (about $272,000), as well as exhibitions in London and New York as part of the prize.Yoshimasu is better known as a poet who first emerged in the avant-garde scene of 1960s Tokyo. Over the course of his career, he has merged his poetry with various forms of art-making, including performance, photography, audio recordings, and moving image.&ldquo;My work has always mo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gozo-yoshimasu-wins-200000-serpentine-x-flag-art-foundationprize/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gozo-yoshimasu-wins-200000-serpentine-x-flag-art-foundationprize/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Museums Take on Performative Masculinity, Looksmaxxing, Incels, and Other Macho Buzzwords That Don’t Belong There.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The title is a ploy and the Stedelijk knows it.&ldquo;Beyond the Manosphere: Masculinities Today&rdquo; is a clickbait thirst-trap trend-driven symptom of everything wrong with museums entering the attention-economy game. The veneer of urgency and cultural relevance feels forced and already dated. It&rsquo;s the tweedy teacher saying &ldquo;No cap&rdquo; two years too late&mdash;while also using it slightly wrong. I believe the kids call this &ldquo;cringe.&rdquo;And the institution is aware of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-museums-take-on-performative-masculinity-looksmaxxing-incels-and-other-macho-buzzwords-that-dont-belongthere/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-museums-take-on-performative-masculinity-looksmaxxing-incels-and-other-macho-buzzwords-that-dont-belongthere/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a Powerful Carnegie International, Solidarity Is a Means of Survival]]></title><description><![CDATA[By my count, there are at least three flying people included in Pittsburgh&rsquo;s recently opened Carnegie International. One can be found in Khalil Rabah&rsquo;s video Critical Interrogations: Renewed Belief (1997), in which one man is launched by another over an olive tree, a symbol of resilience in the artist&rsquo;s native Palestine. Another can be found&mdash;sort of&mdash;in Shala Miller&rsquo;s video installation Flight (2026), a murky abstraction projected onto sinuous screens hung from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-a-powerful-carnegie-international-solidarity-is-a-means-ofsurvival/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-a-powerful-carnegie-international-solidarity-is-a-means-ofsurvival/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Trevor Paglen Will Curate the Swiss Edition of Art Basel’s Digital Art Sector]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen, the New York&ndash;based artist known for his incisive engagement with knotty technological issues including surveillance and AI, will curate the third edition of &ldquo;Zero 10,&rdquo; Art Basel&rsquo;s new sector dedicated to the art of the digital era, the first to take place at the fair&rsquo;s Swiss edition (June 17&ndash;21).	Major international galleries, including Marian Goodman, Hauser and Wirth, and Almine Rech, will present work by widely known contemporary artists such]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-trevor-paglen-will-curate-the-swiss-edition-of-art-basels-digital-artsector/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-trevor-paglen-will-curate-the-swiss-edition-of-art-basels-digital-artsector/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Trevor Paglen Will Curate the Swiss Edition of Art Basel’s Digital Art Initiative]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen, the New York&ndash;based artist known for his incisive engagement with knotty technological issues including surveillance and AI, will curate the third edition of &ldquo;Zero 10,&rdquo; Art Basel&rsquo;s new initiative dedicated to the art of the digital era, the first to take place at the fair&rsquo;s Swiss edition (June 17&ndash;21).Major international galleries, including Marian Goodman, Hauser and Wirth, and Almine Rech, will present work by widely known contemporary artists s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-trevor-paglen-will-curate-the-swiss-edition-of-art-basels-digital-artinitiative/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-trevor-paglen-will-curate-the-swiss-edition-of-art-basels-digital-artinitiative/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with a literary culture of images is that images have an exceptionally short shelf life. People soon grow bored with them]]></title><description><![CDATA[The problem with a literary culture of images is that images have an exceptionally short shelf life. People soon grow bored with them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-problem-with-a-literary-culture-of-images-is-that-images-have-an-exceptionally-short-shelf-life-people-soon-grow-bored-with-them/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 01:06:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-problem-with-a-literary-culture-of-images-is-that-images-have-an-exceptionally-short-shelf-life-people-soon-grow-bored-with-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The caricature of Camus as an absurdist and existentialist is a convenient fiction. But fiction nonetheless]]></title><description><![CDATA[The caricature of Camus as an absurdist and existentialist is a convenient fiction. But fiction nonetheless]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-caricature-of-camus-as-an-absurdist-and-existentialist-is-a-convenient-fiction-but-fiction-nonetheless/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 01:06:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-caricature-of-camus-as-an-absurdist-and-existentialist-is-a-convenient-fiction-but-fiction-nonetheless/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Cultural Marxism" means whatever you need it to mean. Which is why it never goes away.&nbsp;]]></title><description><![CDATA["Cultural Marxism" means whatever you need it to mean. Which is why it never goes away.&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cultural-marxism-means-whatever-you-need-it-to-mean-which-is-why-it-never-goes-awaynbsp/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 01:06:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cultural-marxism-means-whatever-you-need-it-to-mean-which-is-why-it-never-goes-awaynbsp/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archeologists Find Ancient Roman Country Estate Near Shopping Mall in Croatia]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient Roman residential and agricultural complex has been unearthed across from a shopping mall near Split, Coatia, according to Croatia Week. The news was first reported by Slobodna Dalmacija.Led by archaeologist Eduard Viskovi&#263;, a team from the consulting company Kantharos discovered the complex during excavations at the Mostine archeological site near Split. The team had been checking for ruins around the Bauhaus retail center before further commercial development proceeded in the a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archeologists-find-ancient-roman-country-estate-near-shopping-mall-incroatia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 23:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archeologists-find-ancient-roman-country-estate-near-shopping-mall-incroatia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Find Ancient Roman Country Estate Near Shopping Mall in Croatia]]></title><description><![CDATA[An ancient Roman residential and agricultural complex has been unearthed across from a shopping mall in Coatia, according to Croatia Week. The news was first reported by Slobodna Dalmacija.Led by archaeologist Eduard Viskovi&#263;, a team from the consulting company Kantharos discovered the complex during excavations at the Mostine archeological site near Split. The team had been checking for ruins around the Bauhaus retail center before further commercial development proceeded in the area, cont]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-find-ancient-roman-country-estate-near-shopping-mall-incroatia/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 23:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-find-ancient-roman-country-estate-near-shopping-mall-incroatia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Found in Alexandria]]></title><description><![CDATA[An excavation in Moharam Bek, a neighborhood in central Alexandria, has uncovered a trove of archaeological findings dating from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods. The news was announced by Egypt&rsquo;s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities earlier this month and reported by Greek City Times.The items range from Greek and Roman statues to smaller objects like coins, lamps, and ceramic vessels. Also uncovered were architectural structures like a public bathhouse, decorative mosaics from a Ro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-greek-and-roman-statues-found-inalexandria/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ancient-greek-and-roman-statues-found-inalexandria/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delayed by War in Iran, Paul Klee Painting from Israel Finally Joins New York Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[An exhibition of Swiss German artist Paul Klee, at New York&rsquo;s Jewish Museum, is now complete, thanks to the arrival of a long-delayed loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.Angelus Novus (1920) has now taken its place in &ldquo;Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,&rdquo; which opened March 20 and focuses on work from the last decade of the artist&rsquo;s life. The piece, measuring just 12 inches high, was previously stuck in Israel as a result of the war that country and the US are waging i]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/delayed-by-war-in-iran-paul-klee-painting-from-israel-finally-joins-new-yorkshow/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/delayed-by-war-in-iran-paul-klee-painting-from-israel-finally-joins-new-yorkshow/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lucas Cranach the Elder Masterpiece Once Hung in Hitler’s Munich Apartment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lucas Cranach the Elder&rsquo;s Cupid complaining to Venus&nbsp;(1526&ndash;27) once hung in the Munich apartment of Adolf Hitler, the Art Newspaper reports.Now owned by the National Gallery in London, the painting, showing Roman god Cupid complaining to his mother Venus about being stung by bees, can be seen in the center of a blurry, black-and-white photograph dating to the 1940s that was published in a 1978 furniture catalog.That image was most recently republished in 2023 in the journal Kuns]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-lucas-cranach-the-elder-masterpiece-once-hung-in-hitlers-munichapartment/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-lucas-cranach-the-elder-masterpiece-once-hung-in-hitlers-munichapartment/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nazi-Looted Portrait Surfaces in Home of Descendants of Dutch SS Leader]]></title><description><![CDATA[A painting stolen by the Nazis from the Goudstikker collection has surfaced in the home of descendants of a Dutch SS collaborator, according to an art detective.Portrait of a Young Girl, by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, was allegedly displayed for decades by the family of Hendrik Seyffardt, a general who aided the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands before being killed by the Dutch resistance. As previously reported, a man claiming to be a descendant of Seyffardt contacted the detective]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nazi-looted-portrait-surfaces-in-home-of-descendants-of-dutch-ssleader/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nazi-looted-portrait-surfaces-in-home-of-descendants-of-dutch-ssleader/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Rooftop Made Famous By Surprise Beatles Concert Will Open as a Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[The rooftop where the Beatles played a concert to a curious cast of freaked-out Londoners in 1969 will open as part of a museum next year.As reported in the New York Times, the sacred space at 3 Savile Row&mdash;a townhouse on a street even more famous for its sophisticated tailors&mdash;will be transformed by the Beatles&rsquo; company Apple Corps into a seven-floor display of archival materials and exhibitions as well as a recreation of the studio where the band recorded its album Let It Be. A]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-rooftop-made-famous-by-surprise-beatles-concert-will-open-as-amuseum/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 20:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-rooftop-made-famous-by-surprise-beatles-concert-will-open-as-amuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Installation Featuring Trump Iran War Video Game Appears on National Mall]]></title><description><![CDATA[A video game critiquing the Trump administration&rsquo;s efforts to continue the US and Israel&rsquo;s war in Iran has popped up on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., making it the latest anti-Trump artwork to appear in a public space in the nation&rsquo;s capital.As was the case with many of those other artworks, the creator of this one is the Secret Handshake, a group of anonymous artists who have previously produced objects alluding to Trump&rsquo;s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, among other to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-installation-featuring-trump-iran-war-video-game-appears-on-nationalmall/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-installation-featuring-trump-iran-war-video-game-appears-on-nationalmall/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelical Pastor Says Comparing 22-Foot Gold Trump Statue to ‘Golden Calf’ Is ‘Blasphemy’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Trump National Doral golf course in Miami got a new resident: a 15-foot bronze sculpture of President Trump, finished with gold leaf. The statue, which rises to 22 feet with its pedestal, cost around $360,000, Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill told the Columbus Dispatch.If there was any worry that the golden effigy dubbed the &ldquo;Don Colossus&rdquo; was just a bit too on the nose, have no fear: Pastor Mark Burns, who was involved in getting the statue erected, said at]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/evangelical-pastor-says-comparing-22-foot-gold-trump-statue-to-golden-calf-is-blasphemy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/evangelical-pastor-says-comparing-22-foot-gold-trump-statue-to-golden-calf-is-blasphemy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin ‘Won’ the Venice Biennale, Quips Italian Culture Minister]]></title><description><![CDATA[This year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale may not have its traditional Golden Lion awards, but Italian cultural minster Alessandro Giuli has revealed the person he thought won this year&rsquo;s edition: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose nation made its Biennale return to this year to great controversy.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no doubt about it. Putin won at the Biennale,&rdquo; Giuli, who repeatedly denounced Russia&rsquo;s presence at the event, told the Italian publication Corriere della Sera last w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/putin-won-the-venice-biennale-quips-italian-cultureminister/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/putin-won-the-venice-biennale-quips-italian-cultureminister/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Founders of Open Restitution Africa (ORA) on Their New Open Data Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[On March 31, the research initiative Open Restitution Africa (ORA) launched the ORA Open Data Platform, a database that provides information on the restitution of African artifacts and ancestral remains. Developed over six years by ORA&rsquo;s all-woman, pan-African team, the site uses case histories and AI-powered tools to offer practical insights into the return process. This resource, available in French and English, allows users to explore past restitution efforts and their outcomes, helping]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-founders-of-open-restitution-africa-ora-on-their-new-open-dataplatform/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-founders-of-open-restitution-africa-ora-on-their-new-open-dataplatform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Detective Discovers Nazi-Looted Painting in SS Collaborator’s Family Home, Bruno Bischofberger Dies, and More: Morning Links for May 11, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesIN MEMORIAM. The legendary Swiss dealer&nbsp;Bruno Bischofberger&nbsp;has died at 86, reports&nbsp;ARTnews. Through his eponymous gallery, founded in 1963, he brought artists famed America to audiences in Europe&mdash;and befriended many of them along the way. &ldquo;I have been involved with Andy Warhol for a large part of my life as an art dealer, collector and friend,&rdquo; Bischofberger wrote in 2001. He produced Warhol&rsquo;s film&nbsp;L&rsquo;amour, is credited with the idea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-detective-discovers-nazi-looted-painting-in-ss-collaborators-family-home-bruno-bischofberger-dies-and-more-morning-links-for-may-112026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-detective-discovers-nazi-looted-painting-in-ss-collaborators-family-home-bruno-bischofberger-dies-and-more-morning-links-for-may-112026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Painter Akira Ikezoe Became This Spring’s Breakout Star in New York]]></title><description><![CDATA[Akira Ikezoe has recently been thinking a lot about all that can be done with milk. It can be obtained from a cow, packaged, sold, and consumed, yes. But what if you could paint with it, or bathe in it, or even become resurrected by drinking it?These are all scenarios that appear in a new painting by Ikezoe that features an array of naked figures (and some skeletons) who are roped into a dairy-centric system that happens to involve a pit of fire and a large mural. In typical Ikezoe fashion, ever]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-painter-akira-ikezoe-became-this-springs-breakout-star-in-newyork/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-painter-akira-ikezoe-became-this-springs-breakout-star-in-newyork/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bruno Bischofberger, Art Dealer of Stars Like Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dies at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bruno Bischofberger, a legendary dealer who grew so close to the artists he loved that he became something like a collaborator to them, shaping art history along the way, has died at 86. His Zurich-based gallery announced his death on Saturday.Through his eponymous gallery, Bischofberger helped bring a range of American art stars to Europe, becoming a significant force in the market along the way. Founded in 1963, that gallery is still considered one of the most important ones in Switzerland, a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bruno-bischofberger-art-dealer-of-stars-like-andy-warhol-and-jean-michel-basquiat-dies-at86/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 01:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bruno-bischofberger-art-dealer-of-stars-like-andy-warhol-and-jean-michel-basquiat-dies-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Diary Day 3: Offsite Highlights Include Fleshy Films and Vegetarian Videos]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;How do you say &lsquo;bad luck&rsquo; professionally in English?&rdquo; a naked CGI human with a Barbie crotch asks ChatGPT, speaking into their phone. Their body is covered in a messy layer of white paint, and their pupils have been erased, leaving them looking like a demented marble statue. &ldquo;Inauspicious,&rdquo; the phone replies, as our protagonist charmingly stumbles through pronouncing it. They&rsquo;re asking because they want to deliver the bad news gently: &ldquo;It is inaus]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-3-offsite-highlights-include-fleshy-films-and-vegetarianvideos/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 22:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-3-offsite-highlights-include-fleshy-films-and-vegetarianvideos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Artists Decline Consideration for Golden Lions Chosen by Public Vote]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly half of the artists in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale said they did not want to be considered for the show&rsquo;s top honors this year, marking yet another unprecedented development in an edition roiled by controversies of all kinds.Fifty-two artists&mdash;just under half of the artists in the Koyo Kouoh&ndash;curated &ldquo;In Minor Keys&rdquo;&mdash;signed the statement published by e-flux on Saturday, which noted that they had done so &ldquo;in solidarity with the resignat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-artists-decline-consideration-for-golden-lions-chosen-by-publicvote/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 15:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-artists-decline-consideration-for-golden-lions-chosen-by-publicvote/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoom out and it becomes clear that the defenders of humanistic liberalism have been decisively losing the battle over ideals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoom out and it becomes clear that the defenders of humanistic liberalism have been decisively losing the battle over ideals]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zoom-out-and-it-becomes-clear-that-the-defenders-of-humanistic-liberalism-have-been-decisively-losing-the-battle-over-ideals/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:18:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zoom-out-and-it-becomes-clear-that-the-defenders-of-humanistic-liberalism-have-been-decisively-losing-the-battle-over-ideals/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He warned against idleness, then stopped doing anything at all. The compelling contradictions of Samuel Johnson]]></title><description><![CDATA[He warned against idleness, then stopped doing anything at all. The compelling contradictions of Samuel Johnson]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-warned-against-idleness-then-stopped-doing-anything-at-all-the-compelling-contradictions-of-samuel-johnson/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:18:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/he-warned-against-idleness-then-stopped-doing-anything-at-all-the-compelling-contradictions-of-samuel-johnson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Narrative history moves us., which is exactly the problem. We mistake emotion for understanding]]></title><description><![CDATA[Narrative history moves us., which is exactly the problem. We mistake emotion for understanding]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/narrative-history-moves-us-which-is-exactly-the-problem-we-mistake-emotion-for-understanding/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:06:19 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/narrative-history-moves-us-which-is-exactly-the-problem-we-mistake-emotion-for-understanding/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Panel Considers Plan to Paint Granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building White]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump wants to paint the granite exterior of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., white. Yesterday, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) met to review the administration&rsquo;s proposal. The plans were also submitted on April 16 to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which approved the idea on the condition of successful &ldquo;testing of the proposed exterior paint.&rdquo;Originally known as the State, War, and Navy Building, the massive edifice was bui]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-panel-considers-plan-to-paint-granite-eisenhower-executive-office-buildingwhite/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-panel-considers-plan-to-paint-granite-eisenhower-executive-office-buildingwhite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Panel Considers Plan to Paint Granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building in D.C. White]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump wants to paint the exterior of the granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., white. Yesterday, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) met to review the administration&rsquo;s proposal. The plans were also submitted on April 16 to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which approved the idea on the condition of successful &ldquo;testing of the proposed exterior paint.&rdquo;Originally known as the State, War, and Navy Building, the massive granite edifice]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-panel-considers-plan-to-paint-granite-eisenhower-executive-office-building-in-dcwhite/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/federal-panel-considers-plan-to-paint-granite-eisenhower-executive-office-building-in-dcwhite/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numerous Venice Biennale Pavilions and Artists Go on Strike in Protest over Israel’s Participation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of demonstrators marched in the streets of Venice on the eve of the public opening of the Venice Biennale on Saturday in protest of Israel&rsquo;s presence in the show. The protest was organized by Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), an international group of artists, curators, writers, and cultural workers.By the afternoon, the organizers had secured a lengthy list of national pavilions that would be shut down completely or in part for a 24-hour strike, including Austria, Belgium, Cypru]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/numerous-venice-biennale-pavilions-and-artists-go-on-strike-in-protest-over-israelsparticipation/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/numerous-venice-biennale-pavilions-and-artists-go-on-strike-in-protest-over-israelsparticipation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare Unlooted Grave Among 44 Roman Graves Uncovered in Eastern Croatia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Archaeologists excavating the site of a future farmers&rsquo; market in the eastern Croatian city of Vinkovci have discovered a rare intact grave amid the ancient Roman necropolis. The news was first reported by Croatia Week.When the initial discovery of the necropolis was announced in March, Josip Romi&#263;, the mayor of Vinkovci, said the graves are believed to be from the 2nd or 3rd centuries CE. Vinkovci was known as Colonia Aurelia Cibalae when it was part of the Roman Empire, and the area]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-unlooted-grave-among-44-roman-graves-uncovered-in-easterncroatia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/rare-unlooted-grave-among-44-roman-graves-uncovered-in-easterncroatia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DOGE Cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities Were Unconstitutional, Court Rules]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge ruled that cancellations to more than 1,400 grants approved by the National Endowment for the Humanities by the Elon Musk-led Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) were unconstitutional.Judge Colleen McMahon of Federal District Court in Manhattan ordered DOGE to rescind the cancellations in a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs in two lawsuits contending that the cuts &ldquo;violated the First Amendment and, by singling out work relating to particular groups, the equal prote]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/doge-cuts-to-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-were-unconstitutional-courtrules/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 18:49:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/doge-cuts-to-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-were-unconstitutional-courtrules/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Owns the Megayachts Docked Outside the Venice Biennale?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the Venice Biennale opened for previews that were hardly limited to journalists and curators, as is perhaps only to be expected&mdash;judging by the numerous megayachts moored nearby, at least. (Not to mention all the well-dressed collectors sipping Aperol spritzes on palazzo balconies visible from the Grand Canal.)If you, like me this week, were stuck hoofing it down the long walk along the Riva of the Seven Martyrs to the Giardini, the yachts were hard to miss. Most were doc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-owns-the-megayachts-docked-outside-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/who-owns-the-megayachts-docked-outside-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Korean Prosecutor Convicted in Alleged Lee Ufan Painting Bribery Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[A former South Korean prosecutor who allegedly tried to buy political influence with a painting by&nbsp;Lee Ufan&nbsp;has now been convicted on appeal, in a case that adds disputed authenticity claims surrounding a $95,000 artwork to a conventional bribery scandal involving the former first lady of Korea.The Seoul High Court this week overturned an earlier acquittal of former senior prosecutor Kim Sang-min, finding him guilty of violating South Korea&rsquo;s anti-corruption law after prosecutors]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-korean-prosecutor-convicted-in-alleged-lee-ufan-painting-briberyscheme/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/former-korean-prosecutor-convicted-in-alleged-lee-ufan-painting-briberyscheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Venice, Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince Ask: What Is Appropriate to Appropriate?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is appropriate to appropriate? That question is the one that animates practices of Richard Prince and Arthur Jafa, who are currently showing their work together at the Fondazione Prada in Venice. &nbsp;At first glance, the pairing might seem like an unconventional one, even though both artists are well known for appropriating others&rsquo; images. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m surprised that people are surprised,&rdquo; Jafa told me in a video interview ahead of the exhibition. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-arthur-jafa-and-richard-prince-ask-what-is-appropriate-toappropriate/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-arthur-jafa-and-richard-prince-ask-what-is-appropriate-toappropriate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Kader Attia Will Organize 2027 Edition of India’s Top Biennial]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kader Attia, an acclaimed artist whose work is currently included in Koyo Kouoh&rsquo;s main exhibition of the Venice Biennale, has been selected to curate the 2027 edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India&rsquo;s top biennial.Attia, a winner of France&rsquo;s Prix Marcel Duchamp, may be best known for his sculptures and installations that seek to rectify the violence of colonialism in North Africa, but the Berlin- and Paris-based artist has curated at least one notable biennial previously.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-kader-attia-will-organize-2027-edition-of-indias-topbiennial/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-kader-attia-will-organize-2027-edition-of-indias-topbiennial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Jeffrey Epstein’s Copy of a Modernist Painting Available for Sale on eBay?]]></title><description><![CDATA[An eBay seller claimed to have Jeffrey Epstein&rsquo;s reproduction of a painting by Kees van Dongen, a Dutch painter who became a part of the Fauvist movement in France during the early 20th century.The work in question, it should be noted, was not a bona fide van Dongen. It was a print based on a ca. 1905 painting called Femme Fatale, which sold at Christie&rsquo;s in 2004 for $5.94 million.At the time, Christie&rsquo;s touted the work for demonstrating &ldquo;in uncompromising fashion the art]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/was-jeffrey-epsteins-copy-of-a-modernist-painting-available-for-sale-onebay/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/was-jeffrey-epsteins-copy-of-a-modernist-painting-available-for-sale-onebay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Her Venice Biennale Opens, Koyo Kouoh Foundation Launches in Memory of Late Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the 2026 Venice Biennale wrapping up its professional previews and officially opening to the public on Saturday, a new foundation dedicated to Koyo Kouoh&mdash;the curator of the Biennale&rsquo;s main exhibition who passed away a year ago&mdash;has been announced.Based in Basel, Switzerland, where Kouoh lived for part of her life, the Koyo Kouoh Foundation &ldquo;continues and structures the work initiated by Koyo Kouoh&rdquo; with the goal of keeping &ldquo;a tradition alive, rather than t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-her-venice-biennale-opens-koyo-kouoh-foundation-launches-in-memory-of-latecurator/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 16:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/as-her-venice-biennale-opens-koyo-kouoh-foundation-launches-in-memory-of-latecurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Schuyler, the most neglected poet of the New York school, may now be its most necessary]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Schuyler, the most neglected poet of the New York school, may now be its most necessary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-schuyler-the-most-neglected-poet-of-the-new-york-school-may-now-be-its-most-necessary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-schuyler-the-most-neglected-poet-of-the-new-york-school-may-now-be-its-most-necessary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant"]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-current-climate-where-poet-is-activist-or-vice-versa-the-poems-also-start-to-look-a-lot-like-cant-2/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-current-climate-where-poet-is-activist-or-vice-versa-the-poems-also-start-to-look-a-lot-like-cant-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Chalmers was wrong. There is no “hard problem” of consciousness, and the supposed “explanatory gap” is nonsensical]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Chalmers was wrong. There is no &ldquo;hard problem&rdquo; of consciousness, and the supposed &ldquo;explanatory gap&rdquo; is nonsensical]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-chalmers-was-wrong-there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness-and-the-supposed-explanatory-gap-is-nonsensical/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:52:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-chalmers-was-wrong-there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness-and-the-supposed-explanatory-gap-is-nonsensical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversial Painter Georg Baselitz Knew His Venice Show Would Be His Last. He Went Out Quietly.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six days after the death of Georg Baselitz, his longtime dealer Thaddeaus Ropac opened an exhibition in Venice this week that the artist had already accepted would be his last.&nbsp;At the&nbsp;Fondazione&nbsp;Giorgio&nbsp;Cini&nbsp;on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, &ldquo;Eroi d&rsquo;Oro&rdquo;&nbsp;(&ldquo;Heroes of Gold&rdquo;) brings together the final paintings Baselitz made in his lifetime. He died in April at 88, and in a prerecorded film made for the show, he refers to the works wi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/controversial-painter-georg-baselitz-knew-his-venice-show-would-be-his-last-he-went-outquietly/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/controversial-painter-georg-baselitz-knew-his-venice-show-would-be-his-last-he-went-outquietly/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France Passes Historic Law for Restituting Colonial-Era Art, American Folk Art Museum Workers Protest, and More: Morning Links for May 8, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesIN THE DOGEHOUSE. A federal judge slammed the US&nbsp;DOGE Service, ruling on Thursday that the&nbsp;Elon Musk&ndash;led department made unconstitutional and discriminatory cuts to&nbsp;National Endowment for the Humanities&nbsp;grants worth over $100 million, according to the&nbsp;Washington Post.&nbsp;US District Judge&nbsp;Colleen McMahon&nbsp;said DOGE violated the First and Fifth Amendments when it used ChatGPT to determine which grants to cancel based on whether they mentioned]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/france-passes-historic-law-for-restituting-colonial-era-art-american-folk-art-museum-workers-protest-and-more-morning-links-for-may-82026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/france-passes-historic-law-for-restituting-colonial-era-art-american-folk-art-museum-workers-protest-and-more-morning-links-for-may-82026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Video: Natasha Tontey Unveils New Immersive Installation Exploring Indigenous Resistance During Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fresh off her first institutional exhibition, artist Natasha Toney is set to unveil an ambitious immersive installation during the Venice Biennale at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, a 16th-century building in San Marco.Jointly commissioned by Berlin&rsquo;s LAS Art Foundation and Helsinki&rsquo;s Amos Rex contemporary art museum, The Phantom Combatants and the Metabolism of Disobedient Organs, as the installation is called, combines video, sound, light, and sculptural elements to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/video-natasha-tontey-unveils-new-immersive-installation-exploring-indigenous-resistance-during-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/video-natasha-tontey-unveils-new-immersive-installation-exploring-indigenous-resistance-during-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Schuyler, the New York school's most neglected poet, may now be its most necessary]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Schuyler, the New York school's most neglected poet, may now be its most necessary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-schuyler-the-new-york-schools-most-neglected-poet-may-now-be-its-most-necessary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:33:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/james-schuyler-the-new-york-schools-most-neglected-poet-may-now-be-its-most-necessary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice-versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant"]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the current climate where poet is activist (or vice-versa), the poems also start to look a lot like cant"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-current-climate-where-poet-is-activist-or-vice-versa-the-poems-also-start-to-look-a-lot-like-cant/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:33:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-the-current-climate-where-poet-is-activist-or-vice-versa-the-poems-also-start-to-look-a-lot-like-cant/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Chalmers was wrong. There is no “hard problem” of consciousness, and the supposed “explanatory gap” it treats is nonsensical]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Chalmers was wrong. There is no &ldquo;hard problem&rdquo; of consciousness, and the supposed &ldquo;explanatory gap&rdquo; it treats is nonsensical]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-chalmers-was-wrong-there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness-and-the-supposed-explanatory-gap-it-treats-is-nonsensical/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:33:39 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/david-chalmers-was-wrong-there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness-and-the-supposed-explanatory-gap-it-treats-is-nonsensical/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dian Suci Wins the 2025–27 Max Mara Art Prize for Women]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indonesian-born artist Dian Suci has been awarded the 2025&ndash;27 Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Cecilia Alemani, curator of the prize and chair of the jury, along with representatives from the Museum MACAN, the Collezione Maramotti, and the family that founded the fashion brand Max Mara made the announcement today at the opening of the Venice Biennale.The award, established in 2005 to support mid-career women artists, gives Suci a six-month traveling residency in Italy customized to her winnin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dian-suci-wins-the-202527-max-mara-art-prize-forwomen/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dian-suci-wins-the-202527-max-mara-art-prize-forwomen/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drained, Drowning, and Decay: The Best National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sense of ruin permeates this Venice Biennale, though we already knew that it would going in. And pointedly, several standout national pavilions in the show are steeped in decay&mdash;bodily, infrastructural, archaeological. They&rsquo;re about the broken, bloody political machines pumping the present full of its own reek.Rubble and stone line the Slovenian Pavilion, where the Nonument Group repurposes materials from previous Biennales into a ruin of a mosque built for Bosnian Muslim soldiers d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/drained-drowning-and-decay-the-best-national-pavilions-at-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 01:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/drained-drowning-and-decay-the-best-national-pavilions-at-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Radiohead Spectacle in Brooklyn Teems with World-Building Paintings, Sculpture, and Film]]></title><description><![CDATA[Even after the recent addition of a Wegmans and Wells Fargo gave the entrance the sanitized shine of a suburban shopping center, it would be hard to overstate the strangeness and surreality of the inner parts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The post-industrial buildings at eye-popping scales hiss and wheeze, and everything in the expansive grounds covered with toppled cobblestones and disused train tracks has the air of a haunted sanctum. (Think &ldquo;The Zone&rdquo; in Andrei Tarkovsky&rsquo;s Stal]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/radiohead-spectacle-in-brooklyn-teems-with-world-building-paintings-sculpture-andfilm/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/radiohead-spectacle-in-brooklyn-teems-with-world-building-paintings-sculpture-andfilm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Pavilions Stage Pro-Ukraine Procession During Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three Baltic pavilions at the 2026 Venice Biennale&mdash;Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia&mdash;organized a walk in solidarity with Ukraine on May 6, one of the exhibition&rsquo;s preview days.A statement from the Lithuanian Pavilion explains that the procession was dedicated to cultural workers from Ukraine &ldquo;who continue to create and represent their country in conditions of war, as well as to those who have lost their lives because of ongoing violence.&rdquo; Ukraine has its own pavilion a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lithuanian-latvian-and-estonian-pavilions-stage-pro-ukraine-procession-during-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lithuanian-latvian-and-estonian-pavilions-stage-pro-ukraine-procession-during-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aspen Art Fair Names More Than 35 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition at Hotel Jerome]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Aspen Art Fair will return to the Hotel Jerome from July 29 through August 1 with more than 35 exhibitors for its third edition, as the boutique fair continues to carve out a distinct presence during Aspen Art Week.&nbsp;The 2026 edition will be the first under director Kelly Cornell, who joined earlier this year while continuing to lead the Dallas Art Fair. Her appointment signaled a broader effort to connect collector communities across the two fairs while maintaining Aspen&rsquo;s smaller]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspen-art-fair-names-more-than-35-exhibitors-for-2026-edition-at-hoteljerome/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 19:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspen-art-fair-names-more-than-35-exhibitors-for-2026-edition-at-hoteljerome/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel’s Artist Reportedly Pressured Venice Biennale Before Jury’s Resignation]]></title><description><![CDATA[According to multiple media reports, artist Belu-Simion Fainaru, Israel&rsquo;s representative at the recently opened Venice Biennale, put pressure on the exhibition&rsquo;s organizers before the show&rsquo;s jury abruptly resigned last week.When that five-person jury quit, it did not state its reason for doing so. But prior to departing the Biennale, the jury, which been charged with selecting the winners of the Biennale&rsquo;s Golden Lions, said that it would not consider nations who were cha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israels-artist-reportedly-pressured-venice-biennale-before-jurysresignation/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israels-artist-reportedly-pressured-venice-biennale-before-jurysresignation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite his reputation as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mansfield’s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite his reputation as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mansfield&rsquo;s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-reputation-as-a-conservative-ogre-harvey-mansfields-latest-book-is-immensely-clever-subtle-and-thought-provoking/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:48:33 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-reputation-as-a-conservative-ogre-harvey-mansfields-latest-book-is-immensely-clever-subtle-and-thought-provoking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here’s Why the Venice Biennale Main Show Lost One Artist During the Planning Stages]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the Venice Biennale first announced the artist list for Koyo Kouoh&rsquo;s main exhibition in February, the show included 111 participants. But when you visit the Biennale&rsquo;s website now, you&rsquo;ll find that Kouoh&rsquo;s exhibition, titled &ldquo;In Minor Keys,&rdquo; now features 110 artists.ARTnews can reveal that the artist who was struck from the list was Bodys Isek Kingelez, a Congolese artist known for his vast, colorful cardboard sculptures of opulent cities. Kingelez, who t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heres-why-the-venice-biennale-main-show-lost-one-artist-during-the-planningstages/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/heres-why-the-venice-biennale-main-show-lost-one-artist-during-the-planningstages/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America’s Museums Have a Building Problem]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most American museums have a problem that visitors rarely see until it&rsquo;s too late: their buildings are falling apart.A new report from the Government Accountability Office analyzed by&nbsp;The Art Newspaper&nbsp;finds that roughly 85 percent of museums across the country are dealing with deferred maintenance or major repair needs. Even more concerning, about 77 percent say they have at least one structural issue that could put their collections at risk.&nbsp;The scope of the problem cuts a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americas-museums-have-a-buildingproblem/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/americas-museums-have-a-buildingproblem/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s New Art Island Made a Sunny Splash in a Rainy Venice Vernissage Week]]></title><description><![CDATA[The international art world visiting Venice for the preview week of the Biennale woke up Thursday with great relief to a sunny forecast after two days of rain. For some, the day got even better with a visit to the island of San Giacomo, in the Northern Lagoon, where ARTnews Top 200 collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo today inaugurated a new art site that will serve as a home for exhibitions, performances, and residencies.&nbsp;San Giacomo is the newest exhibition venue for the Sandretto R]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fondazione-sandretto-re-rebaudengos-new-art-island-made-a-sunny-splash-in-a-rainy-venice-vernissageweek/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fondazione-sandretto-re-rebaudengos-new-art-island-made-a-sunny-splash-in-a-rainy-venice-vernissageweek/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loïc Gouzer’s Auction Platform Fair Warning to Sell Major Banksy at Tiffany’s Flagship Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lo&iuml;c Gouzer doesn&rsquo;t think the art world understands Banksy. In fact, he thinks it&rsquo;s scared of him.On May 20, Gouzer&rsquo;s auction platform Fair Warning will sell&nbsp;Girl and Balloon on Found Landscape, a painting from Banksy&rsquo;s&nbsp;&ldquo;Crude Oils&rdquo;&nbsp;series, in an invitation-only live auction staged inside Tiffany &amp; Co.&rsquo;s Fifth Avenue flagship. The work, which modifies a thrifted landscape painting with the artist&rsquo;s signature red, heart-shape]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loc-gouzers-auction-platform-fair-warning-to-sell-major-banksy-at-tiffanys-flagshipstore/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/loc-gouzers-auction-platform-fair-warning-to-sell-major-banksy-at-tiffanys-flagshipstore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legal Dispute Threatens Auction of Titanic Artifacts, Vaillancourt Fountain Catches Fire During Demolition, and More: Morning Links for May 7, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesI&rsquo;ll NEVER LET GO?&nbsp;Jack, from the 1997 film&nbsp;Titanic,&nbsp;famously heard those words from his beloved Rose before he sank into the icy ocean. But now, the company that owns salvage rights to the&nbsp;Titanic&nbsp;shipwreck wants to let go of&mdash;or, rather, auction&mdash;nearly 100 artifacts recovered in 1987. The sale has now sparked new legal controversy, reports the&nbsp;New York Times. At the heart of the issue is that the&nbsp;R.M.S. Titanic, a private company]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/legal-dispute-threatens-auction-of-titanic-artifacts-vaillancourt-fountain-catches-fire-during-demolition-and-more-morning-links-for-may-72026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/legal-dispute-threatens-auction-of-titanic-artifacts-vaillancourt-fountain-catches-fire-during-demolition-and-more-morning-links-for-may-72026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Diary Day 2: “In Minor Keys” Is a Major Statement on Perseverance and Play]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;In Minor Keys&rdquo; is the only biennial in memory that&rsquo;s made me find a dark corner to cry in.The Arsenale opens with a poem on the wall by Refaat Alareer, written before he was killed by the Israeli military in Gaza in 2023. &ldquo;If I must die / you must live,&rdquo; he writes, &ldquo;to tell my story / to sell my things / to buy a piece of cloth and some strings,&rdquo; to assemble a white kite that might serve as a symbol of hope for a child somewhere in Gaza, floating in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-2-in-minor-keys-is-a-major-statement-on-perseverance-andplay/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-2-in-minor-keys-is-a-major-statement-on-perseverance-andplay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Venice Biennale, Koyo Kouoh’s ‘In Minor Keys’ Looks Deeply at Lush Gardens and a Scarred Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[To say that just one aspect of this Venice Biennale is unprecedented would be to understate all that circumstance has dealt this edition of the international art festival. While controversies surrounding several national pavilions&mdash;Israel, Russia, the US, South Africa, and Australia, to name a few&mdash;loom large, the unexpected death of the central exhibition&rsquo;s curator, Koyo Kouoh, one year ago looms largest. Before her death, Kouoh had defined the exhibition, titled &ldquo;In Minor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-venice-biennale-koyo-kouohs-in-minor-keys-looks-deeply-at-lush-gardens-and-a-scarredearth/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 11:29:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-the-venice-biennale-koyo-kouohs-in-minor-keys-looks-deeply-at-lush-gardens-and-a-scarredearth/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bahamian Pavilion Brings Junkanoo to Venice in a Biennale Standout]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a thirteen-year hiatus, the Bahamian Pavilion has returned to Venice with a proposition that is as much educational as representational: that the Caribbean nation can be reintroduced to the world through its contemporary artistic inheritance.To do so, the pavilion turns to the late master John Beadle and his former student Lavar Munroe, framing their work through one of the Bahamas&rsquo; defining cultural touchstones &mdash; Junkanoo &mdash; the whistling, crepe-costumed procession that f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-bahamian-pavilion-brings-junkanoo-to-venice-in-a-biennalestandout/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-bahamian-pavilion-brings-junkanoo-to-venice-in-a-biennalestandout/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian for David Zwirner, Olney Gleason Now Represents Jill Magid, and More: Industry Moves for May 6, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Venice Week and for all of you at the Biennale, stay dry. Here&rsquo;s a round-up of the art trade&rsquo;s comings and goings.Industry Moves<br />
&bull; Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian for David Zwirner: The late sculptor&rsquo;s work was recently surveyed by the Broad museum in Los Angeles.<br />
&bu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-for-david-zwirner-olney-gleason-now-represents-jill-magid-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-62026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-for-david-zwirner-olney-gleason-now-represents-jill-magid-and-more-industry-moves-for-may-62026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manhattan D.A.’s Office Returns More Than 650 Looted Artifacts to India]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney&nbsp;Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 657 trafficked antiquities to the people of India. The items, valued at nearly $14 million, were recovered in the course of ongoing investigations by the D.A.&rsquo;s Antiquities Trafficking Unit and Homeland Security investigations.The items were formally returned at a ceremony in New York, which was attended by representatives from the D.A.&rsquo;s office and the Consulate General of India. &ldquo;The sc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-das-office-returns-more-than-650-looted-artifacts-toindia/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/manhattan-das-office-returns-more-than-650-looted-artifacts-toindia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift’s last joke. His epitaph is, it turns out, an elaborate way of haunting an enemy from the grave]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift&rsquo;s last joke.&nbsp;His epitaph is, it turns out, an elaborate way of haunting an enemy from the grave]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-swifts-last-jokehis-epitaph-is-it-turns-out-an-elaborate-way-of-haunting-an-enemy-from-the-grave/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jonathan-swifts-last-jokehis-epitaph-is-it-turns-out-an-elaborate-way-of-haunting-an-enemy-from-the-grave/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ibram X. Kendi’s “Great Replacement” theory encompasses so many disparate examples that it loses its explanatory power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ibram X. Kendi&rsquo;s &ldquo;Great Replacement&rdquo; theory encompasses so many disparate examples that it loses its explanatory power]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ibram-x-kendis-great-replacement-theory-encompasses-so-many-disparate-examples-that-it-loses-its-explanatory-power/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ibram-x-kendis-great-replacement-theory-encompasses-so-many-disparate-examples-that-it-loses-its-explanatory-power/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite his reputation as a as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mans?field’s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Despite his reputation as a as a conservative ogre, Harvey Mans?field&rsquo;s latest book is immensely clever, subtle, and thought-provoking]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-reputation-as-a-as-a-conservative-ogre-harvey-mansfields-latest-book-is-immensely-clever-subtle-and-thought-provoking/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:19:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/despite-his-reputation-as-a-as-a-conservative-ogre-harvey-mansfields-latest-book-is-immensely-clever-subtle-and-thought-provoking/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Biennale Isn’t a Court. Tell That to the Protesters.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The head of the Venice Biennale has a simple defense for one of the most contentious decisions of this year&rsquo;s exhibition:&nbsp;it&rsquo;s not a courtroom.Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the Biennale&rsquo;s president, made the remark on Wednesday this week as backlash mounted over the return of Russia to the Giardini. The country is reopening its pavilion for the first time since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a move that has drawn criticism from European officials and triggered threats to pull rou]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-biennale-isnt-a-court-tell-that-to-theprotesters/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-biennale-isnt-a-court-tell-that-to-theprotesters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Indigenous Land Art in Arizona]]></title><description><![CDATA[Construction crews building a barrier between the United States and Mexico damaged a 200-foot-long etching of a fish embedded in the land that is thought to be 1,000 years old, according to a report in the Washington Post.As part of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s contentious $46.5 billion border-wall project, workers destroyed a 60-to-70-foot portion of the artwork known as an intaglio, according to Richard Martynec, a retired archaeologist who currently surveys the area as a volunteer. As the P]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-border-wall-construction-damages-1000-year-old-indigenous-land-art-inarizona/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 19:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/us-border-wall-construction-damages-1000-year-old-indigenous-land-art-inarizona/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Monet’s Market Triumph: 12 Record‑Smashing Paintings That Define an Era]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2019 Claude Monet&rsquo;s Meules (Haystacks) (1890) stunned the art world when it soared to $110.7 million at Sotheby&rsquo;s New York, setting a new auction record for an Impressionist painting. It was the latest in a series of headline-making results that have seen the painter&rsquo;s serene yet radical visions dominate the market. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental Nymph&eacute;as (Water Lilies) canvases and ethereal Venetian cityscapes, Monet&rs]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claude-monets-market-triumph-12-recordsmashing-paintings-that-define-anera/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claude-monets-market-triumph-12-recordsmashing-paintings-that-define-anera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aneta Grzeszykowska Shoots Poetic Portraits in a Mask of Herself at Age 14]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aneta Grzeszykowska is a Polish artist who has turned her sense of self inside-out and back again in two photo series currently having a moment in New York: &ldquo;Mama&rdquo; (2018), for which she made an uncannily life-like doll of herself that she asked her young daughter to play with, and &ldquo;Daughter&rdquo; (2025), for which she donned a similarly disquieting mask of her younger self at age 14 and posed with members of her family, including her now-teenage daugther.&ldquo;Mama&rdquo; fea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aneta-grzeszykowska-shoots-poetic-portraits-in-a-mask-of-herself-at-age14/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aneta-grzeszykowska-shoots-poetic-portraits-in-a-mask-of-herself-at-age14/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malaysia Showcases Recovered 1MDB Artworks, From Picasso to Miró]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four artworks recovered from the 1MDB scandal have gone on public view in Malaysia for the first time, offering a modest but pointed reminder of one of the largest financial frauds in modern history.The works&mdash;by Picasso, Mir&oacute;, Balthus and Maurice Utrillo&mdash;were unveiled Wednesday at the headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in Putrajaya, according to the&nbsp;South China Morning Post. They had been repatriated from New York last month after being traced throug]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malaysia-showcases-recovered-1mdb-artworks-from-picasso-tomir/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malaysia-showcases-recovered-1mdb-artworks-from-picasso-tomir/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceramics Are Everywhere, in Museums, Galleries, and Fairs—Has the Market Caught Up?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lately, art fans in the three biggest cities in the US (and no doubt elsewhere) have found themselves surrounded by ceramics. At museums, galleries, and fairs, artists working in this ancient medium are showing work ranging from classic forms like cups and vases to figurative and abstract sculpture.Allow us to start with a litany of such shows, in no particular order.&nbsp;In New York, Kathy Butterly&rsquo;s diminutive pieces sold out at James Cohan at $45,000 each. Nicole Cherubini&rsquo;s show]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ceramics-are-everywhere-in-museums-galleries-and-fairshas-the-market-caughtup/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ceramics-are-everywhere-in-museums-galleries-and-fairshas-the-market-caughtup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK’s Palestinian Ambassador Calls on Government to Have British Museum Reinstate the Word ‘Palestinian’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has called on the government to aid in getting the British Museum to reinstate the word &ldquo;Palestinian&rdquo; in its wall texts.Husam Zomlot, the ambassador, raised his complaint to the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office, a ministry of foreign affairs, according to the Guardian. In that Guardian report, Zomlot called the removal of &ldquo;Palestinian&rdquo; from the labels a form of &ldquo;erasure.&rdquo;In February, the Telegraph reported that the group U]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uks-palestinian-ambassador-calls-on-government-to-have-british-museum-reinstate-the-word-palestinian/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/uks-palestinian-ambassador-calls-on-government-to-have-british-museum-reinstate-the-word-palestinian/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Protest of Israeli Pavilion, Activists and Unions Plan Strike on Venice Biennale’s Opening Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) has escalated its ongoing opposition to the Israel Pavilion, announcing a 24-hour strike and rally on May 8, the day before the much-hyped and highly contentious 2026 Venice Biennale opens to the public on Saturday.ANGA was formed in objection to Israel&rsquo;s inclusion in the 2024 Biennale, and began referring to this year&rsquo;s presentation, which features an exhibition by Haifa-based artist Belu-Simion Fainaru, as the &ldquo;Genocide Pavilion&rdquo; as]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-protest-of-israeli-pavilion-activists-and-unions-plan-strike-on-venice-biennales-openingday/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-protest-of-israeli-pavilion-activists-and-unions-plan-strike-on-venice-biennales-openingday/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian After Nearly Three Decades and Joins David Zwirner]]></title><description><![CDATA[After nearly three decades of showing with Gagosian, the Robert Therrien estate has left the mega-gallery and joined the roster of David Zwirner, one of Gagosian&rsquo;s competitors.The move came shortly after an acclaimed survey of Therrien&rsquo;s work closed at the Broad museum in Los Angeles. With 120 works included, the exhibition was billed as the biggest one to date for the sculptor, who died in 2019.Therrien is most famous for his sculptures that raise domestic items to monumental propor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-after-nearly-three-decades-and-joins-davidzwirner/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-after-nearly-three-decades-and-joins-davidzwirner/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guadalupe Rosales Brings East LA to Venice for the Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2015, Los Angeles&ndash;based artist Guadalupe Rosales launched the Instagram account @veteranas_and_rucas as a way to share images from her personal archive of Chicana life in Southern California in the 1990s. In the decade since, the account has shared thousands of images and amassed over 273,000 followers, many of whom have submitted their own images of the community celebrated by the account. Rosales has described the project as a necessary one for combating racist stereotypes of Latinx p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guadalupe-rosales-brings-east-la-to-venice-for-thebiennale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/guadalupe-rosales-brings-east-la-to-venice-for-thebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LACMA Responds to Anger Over Pedro Reyes Sculpture, New Louvre President Reveals His Plans, and More: Morning Links for May 6, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesROUND TWO.&nbsp;A sculpture at the new&nbsp;David Geffen Galleries&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Los Angeles County Museum of Art&nbsp;(LACMA) is once again igniting controversy.&nbsp;Tlali&nbsp;(2026), a large stone work by&nbsp;Pedro Reyes, is similar to another piece by the artist from a 2021 project to replace a Christopher Columbus statue in Mexico City that ended up being canceled. In&nbsp;that instance, Reyes&rsquo;s sculpture depicting an Indigenous woman was rejected because the artist]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lacma-responds-to-anger-over-pedro-reyes-sculpture-new-louvre-president-reveals-his-plans-and-more-morning-links-for-may-62026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lacma-responds-to-anger-over-pedro-reyes-sculpture-new-louvre-president-reveals-his-plans-and-more-morning-links-for-may-62026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gabrielle Goliath Discusses Her Canceled South African Pavilion as She Shows New Work in a Venice Church]]></title><description><![CDATA[The South Africa Pavilion in the Giardini will sit empty for the entirety of this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale, the result of a decision by culture minister Gayton McKenzie to cancel a planned pavilion by artist Gabrielle Goliath for being &ldquo;highly divisive.&rdquo; But while the building will remain closed, Biennale attendees can see the planned installation just half a mile away at the Chiesa di Sant&rsquo;Antonin. The show appears stronger for the move.Inside the 12th-century church, Goli]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gabrielle-goliath-discusses-her-canceled-south-african-pavilion-as-she-shows-new-work-in-a-venicechurch/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gabrielle-goliath-discusses-her-canceled-south-african-pavilion-as-she-shows-new-work-in-a-venicechurch/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbas Akhavan Transforms the Canada Pavilion Into a Greenhouse, Daring Viewers to Leave Behind Their Preconceptions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Step through the glass door of the Canada Pavilion&mdash;particularly amid Tuesday&rsquo;s persistent rain&mdash;and you are likely to be taken aback by the humidity that greets you. That blast of warm air is just the first indication of the many adaptations made by artist Abbas Akhavan to transform the glass-and-brick structure into a literal greenhouse for &ldquo;Entre chien et loup,&rdquo; his presentation for this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale.Among the alterations to the structure are a seri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/abbas-akhavan-transforms-the-canada-pavilion-into-a-greenhouse-daring-viewers-to-leave-behind-theirpreconceptions/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 13:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/abbas-akhavan-transforms-the-canada-pavilion-into-a-greenhouse-daring-viewers-to-leave-behind-theirpreconceptions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pussy Riot and FEMEN Join Forces in Punk Protest in Venice: ‘Russia Kills! Biennale Exhibits!’]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Russia kills! Biennale exhibits!&rdquo;&ldquo;Disobey! Disobey! Disobey!&rdquo;&ldquo;Art for show, graves below!&rdquo;&ldquo;Blood is Russia&rsquo;s art!&rdquo;&ldquo;Slava Ukraini!&rdquo;Those were some of the chants from a few dozen protesters, some clad in pink balaclavas, some with bared breasts, floral crowns, and messages scrawled across their bodies, outside the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale on Wednesday morning. Like clockwork at 11 a.m., under light rain in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pussy-riot-and-femen-join-forces-in-punk-protest-in-venice-russia-kills-biennaleexhibits/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pussy-riot-and-femen-join-forces-in-punk-protest-in-venice-russia-kills-biennaleexhibits/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alma Allen’s US Pavilion Is One of the Emptiest Shows at the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States is in a sad state of affairs. That wouldn&rsquo;t come as a surprise to anyone who reads or watches the news, or even just scrolls social media and skims the headlines. But you would also know it if you happened to walk by the US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, where the American representative this year, Alma Allen, has installed five extremely unremarkable sculptures in front of the building, along with some 20 works inside.It&rsquo;s a sharp turn from how the US Pavili]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alma-allens-us-pavilion-is-one-of-the-emptiest-shows-at-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/alma-allens-us-pavilion-is-one-of-the-emptiest-shows-at-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens when a Catholic, Oxford-trained mind intersects with a jaunty midcentury American voice? Wilfrid Sheed]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens when a Catholic, Oxford-trained mind intersects with a jaunty midcentury American voice? Wilfrid Sheed]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-happens-when-a-catholic-oxford-trained-mind-intersects-with-a-jaunty-midcentury-american-voice-wilfrid-sheed/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:45:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-happens-when-a-catholic-oxford-trained-mind-intersects-with-a-jaunty-midcentury-american-voice-wilfrid-sheed/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hid out in a hotel, and accumulated experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[To get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hid out in a hotel, and accumulated experience]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-get-through-world-war-ii-the-novelist-wolfgang-koeppen-faked-his-own-death-hid-out-in-a-hotel-and-accumulated-experience/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:45:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/to-get-through-world-war-ii-the-novelist-wolfgang-koeppen-faked-his-own-death-hid-out-in-a-hotel-and-accumulated-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Of all the defects of American gerontocracy today, one of the worst is our failure to face mortality and embrace old age”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Of all the defects of American gerontocracy today, one of the worst is our failure to face mortality and embrace old age&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/of-all-the-defects-of-american-gerontocracy-today-one-of-the-worst-is-our-failure-to-face-mortality-and-embrace-old-age/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:45:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/of-all-the-defects-of-american-gerontocracy-today-one-of-the-worst-is-our-failure-to-face-mortality-and-embrace-old-age/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissidence is not a political stance, career, or personality type. It occurs when the distance between beliefs and actions becomes intolerable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dissidence is not a political stance, career, or personality type. It occurs when the distance between beliefs and actions becomes intolerable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dissidence-is-not-a-political-stance-career-or-personality-type-it-occurs-when-the-distance-between-beliefs-and-actions-becomes-intolerable/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:45:21 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dissidence-is-not-a-political-stance-career-or-personality-type-it-occurs-when-the-distance-between-beliefs-and-actions-becomes-intolerable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Well Do the Met Gala’s Attendees Know Their Art History? We Critique Looks by Madonna, Hunter Schafer, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[Though the Met Gala is held each year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the glitzy event is known less for its engagement with art and more for tapping the fashion industry. That changed this year, in large part because the Met Gala made a concerted effort to show off connections between fashion and art.Taking place in tandem with the Costume Institute&rsquo;s newly unveiled Met exhibition &ldquo;Costume Art,&rdquo; last night&rsquo;s Met Gala carried the theme &ldquo;Fashion Is Art,&rdquo; a d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-well-do-the-met-galas-attendees-know-their-art-history-we-critique-looks-by-madonna-hunter-schafer-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-well-do-the-met-galas-attendees-know-their-art-history-we-critique-looks-by-madonna-hunter-schafer-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barry X Ball’s Wild Sculptures Are Perfectly at Home at Venice’s Grand Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Carmelo Grasso, director and curator at the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, saw New York&ndash;based artist Barry X Ball&rsquo;s sculpture Pope Saint John Paul II (2012&ndash;24), he knew he wanted to mount a show at the sublime church where he works. The resulting exhibition, &ldquo;The Shape of Time,&rdquo; organized by curator Bob Nickas, includes 23 pieces, many shown publicly for the first time, and is centered on this incredibly elaborate work, depicting the pontiff who becam]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/barry-x-balls-wild-sculptures-are-perfectly-at-home-at-venices-grand-basilica-of-san-giorgiomaggiore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/barry-x-balls-wild-sculptures-are-perfectly-at-home-at-venices-grand-basilica-of-san-giorgiomaggiore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Diary Day 1: At the Giardini, Artists Refuse to Make Fascism Cozy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The worst thing you could do to the German Pavilion, Henrike Naumann decided, per a wall text, would be to &ldquo;make it cozy.&rdquo; Adorning the windows of the space&mdash;which was remodeled by the Nazis in 1938 in an overtly fascist style that it still maintains&mdash;she added holes to domestic-feeling curtains, fabric in denim and gingham. But cozy they are not. Some have violent rips; others have holes fixed neatly with grommets. None, as far as I can tell, are patched over seamlessly.Th]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-1-at-the-giardini-artists-refuse-to-make-fascismcozy/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-diary-day-1-at-the-giardini-artists-refuse-to-make-fascismcozy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Billionaire Collector Ken Griffin Buys Second Rare Constitution Printing]]></title><description><![CDATA[ARTnews Top 200 collector Ken Griffin has quietly acquired another rare first printing of the US Constitution, bringing the total in his collection to two&mdash;the only copies still held in private hands, according to&nbsp;the New York Times.&nbsp;The billionaire Citadel founder first made headlines in 2021 when he paid&nbsp;$43.2 million at Sotheby&rsquo;s for a copy of the 1787 document, outbidding the cryptocurrency collective Constitution DAO in one of the stranger bidding battles in recent]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-collector-ken-griffin-buys-second-rare-constitutionprinting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/billionaire-collector-ken-griffin-buys-second-rare-constitutionprinting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of ‘Piss Bottles’ Left at the Met Gala in Protest of Jeff Bezos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of bottles of &ldquo;what appeared to be urine&rdquo; were found in the Met last night, according to the New York Post&mdash;which noted that the museum&rsquo;s starry Met Gala was &ldquo;soaked in controversy.&rdquo;&ldquo;The shocking stunt&mdash;tied to allegations that Amazon warehouse workers feel forced to pee in bottles, rather than take bathroom breaks&mdash;comes as backlash over the billionaire&rsquo;s involvement in the glitzy fundraiser has reached a fever pitch across New Y]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hundreds-of-piss-bottles-left-at-the-met-gala-in-protest-of-jeffbezos/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hundreds-of-piss-bottles-left-at-the-met-gala-in-protest-of-jeffbezos/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nahmad Seeks to Reopen Modigliani Restitution Case With New Witnesses]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Nahmad&rsquo;s lawyers are asking a New York court to revisit its recent decision in the long-running dispute over Amedeo Modigliani&rsquo;s&nbsp;Seated Man with a Cane&nbsp;(1918), citing what they say is new eyewitness testimony that could reopen the case.In a motion filed after the court&rsquo;s April 3 decision, which awarded the painting to the estate of dealer Oscar Stettiner, Nahmad&rsquo;s legal team argues that the work at the center of the claim may have been misidentified from t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nahmad-seeks-to-reopen-modigliani-restitution-case-with-newwitnesses/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nahmad-seeks-to-reopen-modigliani-restitution-case-with-newwitnesses/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dozens of Venice Biennale Artists Stage ‘Drone’ Perfomance in Protest of Israel’s Participation]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale opened for its professional pre-opening on Tuesday, and artists participating in the exhibition wasted no time making their voices heard. At noon, around 60 artists and a few dozen other participants gathered for an action protesting Israel&rsquo;s participation in the event and protested in support of Palestine.For the action, titled &ldquo;Solidarity Drone Chorus,&rdquo; the artists gathered at the entrance to the Giardini and hummed &ldquo;Drone Song,&rdquo; a viral song c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dozens-of-venice-biennale-artists-stage-drone-perfomance-in-protest-of-israelsparticipation/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dozens-of-venice-biennale-artists-stage-drone-perfomance-in-protest-of-israelsparticipation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale’s fierce pussy Group Says City Censored Posters About Queer and Trans People]]></title><description><![CDATA[fierce pussy, a collective of lesbian artists, said that its Venice Biennale contribution was censored by the Italian city ahead of the opening of the exhibition today.The collective designed posters for the Biennale that address queer people and trans people. The phrase &ldquo;Welcome queers and trans people&rdquo; appears in both English and Italian on one poster that features the beloved Lion of Venice sculpture, which the group rendered as a cat.Another poster features the words &ldquo;we ar]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-fierce-pussy-group-says-city-censored-posters-about-queer-and-transpeople/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-fierce-pussy-group-says-city-censored-posters-about-queer-and-transpeople/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Nearly 30,000 Clay Earth Bricks, Dana Awartani Remakes History in the Saudi Arabia Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you enter the Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the first thing you&rsquo;re struck by is the scale of the project: tens of thousands of clay bricks slotted together to replicate the forms in traditional mosaics, spread across the floor with walkways between them. If you&rsquo;re thinking that this cannot possibly be the work of one person, you&rsquo;d be correct.Although Dana Awartani, a Jeddah- and New York&ndash;based artist of mixed Palestinian, Saudi, Jordanian, and Syrian]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-nearly-30000-clay-earth-bricks-dana-awartani-remakes-history-in-the-saudi-arabiapavilion/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/with-nearly-30000-clay-earth-bricks-dana-awartani-remakes-history-in-the-saudi-arabiapavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anish Kapoor Says the US Should Be Barred from the Venice Biennale over Trump’s ‘Politics of Hate’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artist Anish Kapoor called for the United States to be banned from the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale while also applauding the jury&rsquo;s recent decision to resign en masse.In an interview with the Guardian, Kapoor called the jury&rsquo;s decision &ldquo;courageous&rdquo; and further criticized the US. &ldquo;I would hope that [the jury] might have also excluded the United States for its abhorrent politics of hate and its incessant warmongering,&rdquo; he said.While the jury did not expl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anish-kapoor-says-the-us-should-be-barred-from-the-venice-biennale-over-trumps-politics-ofhate/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anish-kapoor-says-the-us-should-be-barred-from-the-venice-biennale-over-trumps-politics-ofhate/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ken Griffin Acquires Another Copy of the US Constitution, Union Files Charges Against Kennedy Center for Layoffs, and More: Morning Links for May 5, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesWE THE LUCKY FEW?&nbsp;Billionaire&nbsp;Ken Griffin&nbsp;is officially the owner of the only two known surviving copies of the&nbsp;US Constitution&nbsp;in&nbsp;private hands, reports the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;. On Monday, Griffin announced that he had acquired an original print of the document via a private sale for an undisclosed amount, and that he would exhibit it in New York for the country&rsquo;s 250th&nbsp;anniversary. Griffin famously paid $43.2 million in 2021 for anoth]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ken-griffin-acquires-another-copy-of-the-us-constitution-union-files-charges-against-kennedy-center-for-layoffs-and-more-morning-links-for-may-52026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ken-griffin-acquires-another-copy-of-the-us-constitution-union-files-charges-against-kennedy-center-for-layoffs-and-more-morning-links-for-may-52026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BBC ‘Buried’ Footage of Banksy at NYC Mural Site, Former Reporter Claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;A former&nbsp;BBC&nbsp;reporter is claiming that the U.K. broadcaster &ldquo;buried&rdquo; footage that he captured of&nbsp;Banksy&nbsp;at one of his mural sites in New York City.Nick Bryant, who previously served as the BBC&rsquo;s New York correspondent, detailed his encounter with the anonymous British street artist and political activist in a recent post on his&nbsp;Substack.After establishing a relationship with Banksy&rsquo;s team while covering the artist&rsquo;s residency in NYC in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bbc-buried-footage-of-banksy-at-nyc-mural-site-former-reporterclaims/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 11:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bbc-buried-footage-of-banksy-at-nyc-mural-site-former-reporterclaims/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amy Sherald Dresses As Her Own Award-Winning Painting for Met Gala]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amy Sherald brought one of her most beloved paintings to life for tonight&rsquo;s Met Gala, which was held to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s Costume Institute.With the help of designer Thom Browne, Sherald dressed up as the little girl in her 2014 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), the work that won the artist the National Portrait Gallery&rsquo;s Outwin Boochever Prize and appeared on a New Yorker cover last year.The painting, which is featured in a traveling S]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amy-sherald-dresses-as-her-own-award-winning-painting-for-metgala/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 03:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amy-sherald-dresses-as-her-own-award-winning-painting-for-metgala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Some of the Most Outrageous, Stylish Looks at the 2026 Met Gala]]></title><description><![CDATA[The annual Met Gala has become such a global pop-culture phenomenon that many probably forget&mdash;or maybe never knew!&mdash;that the event functions as a lucrative fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s Costume Institute, the branch of the museum dedicated to all things fashion.	Last year&rsquo;s event raised $31 million, and this year&rsquo;s raised $42 million, Met director Max Hollien announced on Monday morning. Controversially, the Met named Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and h]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-some-of-the-most-outrageous-stylish-looks-at-the-2026-metgala/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 03:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/see-some-of-the-most-outrageous-stylish-looks-at-the-2026-metgala/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hoarded tinned fish, and accumulated experience]]></title><description><![CDATA[The get through World War II, the novelist Wolfgang Koeppen faked his own death, hoarded tinned fish, and accumulated experience]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-get-through-world-war-ii-the-novelist-wolfgang-koeppen-faked-his-own-death-hoarded-tinned-fish-and-accumulated-experience/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:59:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-get-through-world-war-ii-the-novelist-wolfgang-koeppen-faked-his-own-death-hoarded-tinned-fish-and-accumulated-experience/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kimberlé Crenshaw, coiner of “intersectionality” and “critical race theory,” is genuinely puzzled by the controversy her ideas have aroused]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kimberl&eacute; Crenshaw, coiner of &ldquo;intersectionality&rdquo; and &ldquo;critical race theory,&rdquo; is genuinely puzzled by the controversy her ideas have aroused]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kimberl-crenshaw-coiner-of-intersectionality-and-critical-race-theory-is-genuinely-puzzled-by-the-controversy-her-ideas-have-aroused/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:59:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kimberl-crenshaw-coiner-of-intersectionality-and-critical-race-theory-is-genuinely-puzzled-by-the-controversy-her-ideas-have-aroused/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adapting Messiah for the screen is an odd midlife crisis. For Jack Kevorkian it made sense]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adapting Messiah for the screen is an odd midlife crisis. For Jack Kevorkian it made sense]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adapting-messiah-for-the-screen-is-an-odd-midlife-crisis-for-jack-kevorkian-it-made-sense/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:59:32 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/adapting-messiah-for-the-screen-is-an-odd-midlife-crisis-for-jack-kevorkian-it-made-sense/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using AI, Pompeii Archaeological Park Recreates the Final Moments of a Man Who Died in the Vesuvius Eruption 2,000 Years Ago]]></title><description><![CDATA[In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of ash and hot gas sweeping through the Roman town of Pompei. The writer Pliny the Younger&mdash;whose uncle, Pliny the Elder, died in the eruption&mdash;watched the catastrophe unfold from a vantage point across the Bay of Naples, later describing how inhabitants had tied pillows over their heads to protect themselves from falling debris and carried torches to find their way through the darkness.In 2024, archeologists discovered the skeletons of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/using-ai-pompeii-archaeological-park-recreates-the-final-moments-of-a-man-who-died-in-the-vesuvius-eruption-2000-yearsago/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/using-ai-pompeii-archaeological-park-recreates-the-final-moments-of-a-man-who-died-in-the-vesuvius-eruption-2000-yearsago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pompeii Archaeological Park Uses AI to Recreate Final Moments of Man Who Died in the Vesuvius Eruption 2,000 Years Ago]]></title><description><![CDATA[In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of ash and hot gas sweeping through the ancient Roman town of Pompei. The writer Pliny the Younger&mdash;whose uncle, Pliny the Elder, died in the eruption&mdash;watched the catastrophe unfold from a vantage point across the Bay of Naples, later describing how inhabitants had tied pillows over their heads to protect themselves from falling debris and carried torches to find their way through the darkness.In 2024, archeologists discovered the skel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pompeii-archaeological-park-uses-ai-to-recreate-final-moments-of-man-who-died-in-the-vesuvius-eruption-2000-yearsago/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pompeii-archaeological-park-uses-ai-to-recreate-final-moments-of-man-who-died-in-the-vesuvius-eruption-2000-yearsago/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Met’s Costume Institute Needs an Art History Lesson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anyone who&rsquo;s ever taken an art history course knows the drill: put two artworks side by side, and figure out where they intersect and diverge. The exercise involves IDing those objects, stating who made them and why, and accounting for formal innovations across time and cultural differences. Essentially, the discipline is predicated upon a gussied-up game of compare-and-contrast.&ldquo;Costume Art,&rdquo; the Metropolitan Museum of Art&rsquo;s big Costume Institute show for the spring seas]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-mets-costume-institute-needs-an-art-historylesson/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:02:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-mets-costume-institute-needs-an-art-historylesson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI Helps UK Researchers Identify Unknown Subject in Hans Holbein Drawing as Anne Boleyn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using artificial intelligence, researchers may have identified the previously unknown subject of a sketch by Northern Renaissance artist Hans Holbein, and reidentified the sitter for a related Holbein drawing. The study, carried out by Karen L. Davies and Hassan Ugail, was published in the journal npj Heritage Science.Holbein was born in Germany but moved to England to escape the European Reformation, initially under the patronage of Oliver Cromwell and Henry VIII&rsquo;s ill-fated second wife,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-helps-uk-researchers-identify-unknown-subject-in-hans-holbein-drawing-as-anneboleyn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 22:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-helps-uk-researchers-identify-unknown-subject-in-hans-holbein-drawing-as-anneboleyn/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump’s Gold Statue Arrives at Doral After Artist Withheld It Over Crypto Dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[A gold-leafed statue of Donald Trump is now standing at his Trump National Doral golf club in Miami after a drawn-out payment dispute.The 15-foot bronze sculpture, which rises to about 22 feet with its pedestal, was finished with gold leaf after the artist, Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill, proposed the upgrade to Trump&rsquo;s team. &ldquo;It [was] like pitching ice water to a man dying of thirst,&rdquo; Cottrill told the&nbsp;Daily Beast.&nbsp;The addition helped push the cost of the project,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-gold-statue-arrives-at-doral-after-artist-withheld-it-over-cryptodispute/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trumps-gold-statue-arrives-at-doral-after-artist-withheld-it-over-cryptodispute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold Statue of Trump Arrives at Doral After Artist Withheld It Over Money Dispute]]></title><description><![CDATA[A gold-leafed statue of Donald Trump is now standing at his Trump National Doral golf club in Miami after a drawn-out payment dispute.The 15-foot bronze sculpture, which rises to about 22 feet with its pedestal, was finished with gold leaf after the artist, Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill, proposed the upgrade. &ldquo;It [was] like pitching ice water to a man dying of thirst,&rdquo; Cottrill told the&nbsp;Daily Beast.&nbsp;The addition helped push the cost of the project, commissioned by a gro]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gold-statue-of-trump-arrives-at-doral-after-artist-withheld-it-over-moneydispute/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gold-statue-of-trump-arrives-at-doral-after-artist-withheld-it-over-moneydispute/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unrealized Artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude Will Take Over Gagosian in London]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gagosian gallery in London will present an artwork conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968 but never realized before the artists&rsquo; deaths&mdash;Jeanne-Claude in 2009 and Christo in 2020.The exhibition &ldquo;Christo: Air,&rdquo; opening May 21 and running through August 21, will feature rare works by Christo as well as Air Package on a Ceiling, a work that Christo and Jeanne-Claude planned for the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia but never mounted due to technical limita]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unrealized-artwork-by-christo-and-jeanne-claude-will-take-over-gagosian-inlondon/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/unrealized-artwork-by-christo-and-jeanne-claude-will-take-over-gagosian-inlondon/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran Abruptly Drops Out of Venice Biennale as US and Israel’s War Continues]]></title><description><![CDATA[Iran has dropped out of the Venice Biennale, the world&rsquo;s most important recurring art exhibition, as the United States and Israel&rsquo;s war continues on.&ldquo;Regarding the National Participations at the 61st International Art Exhibition,&nbsp;In Minor Keys&nbsp;by Koyo Kouoh (9 May &ndash; 22 November 2026), La Biennale has been informed that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not participate,&rdquo; the Biennale said in a statement, noting that there are now an even 100 countries with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iran-abruptly-drops-out-of-venice-biennale-as-us-and-israels-warcontinues/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:28:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/iran-abruptly-drops-out-of-venice-biennale-as-us-and-israels-warcontinues/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chanel and Guggenheim Launch Transatlantic Curatorial Fellowship]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chanel is teaming up with the&nbsp;Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation&nbsp;on a new curatorial fellowship that will move between New York and Venice, tying one of the art world&rsquo;s biggest institutions more closely to one of its busiest international stages&mdash;and to a growing network of cultural initiatives backed by the fashion house. The announcement will come at the very start of the&nbsp;Venice Biennale.Launching in fall 2026, the Chanel Culture Fund Fellowship will be a one-year progr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-and-guggenheim-launch-transatlantic-curatorialfellowship/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:24:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/chanel-and-guggenheim-launch-transatlantic-curatorialfellowship/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Henrike Naumann Stared Down a Divided Germany’s Past While Eyeing Our Troubled Present]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henrike Naumann found expressions of power, personal desire, and political will in the objects of our lives. She was an avid collector of the secondhand&mdash;in the sense of used furniture, which features prominently in almost all her work, but also in how rhetoric and belief appear in the design of things we consume, and which we in turn use to represent ourselves.I doubt I could ever fully follow Henrike&rsquo;s extended scavenger hunt for the intricacies of political extremism in her home of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/henrike-naumann-stared-down-a-divided-germanys-past-while-eyeing-our-troubledpresent/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/henrike-naumann-stared-down-a-divided-germanys-past-while-eyeing-our-troubledpresent/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bard President Leon Botstein (Finally) Resigns, Following Epstein Revelations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leon Botstein, who has led Bard College since 1975 and shaped it into one of the art world&rsquo;s most influential liberal arts institutions, announced Friday that he will retire, after an independent report found he had not been &ldquo;fully accurate&rdquo; in his public accounts of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the New York Times reported.The review, conducted by the law firm WilmerHale and commissioned by Bard&rsquo;s board of trustees, was released Friday alo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bard-president-leon-botstein-finally-resigns-following-epsteinrevelations/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/bard-president-leon-botstein-finally-resigns-following-epsteinrevelations/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sellers at the May Marquee Auctions Revealed, Bogotá’s MAMBO Museum Loses Its Director, and More: Morning Links for May 4, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[MAY MARQUEE MASS. The spring auction season is an upon us, and ARTnews has done some sleuthing into who&rsquo;s selling what. For one, there&rsquo;s Jean-Michel Basquiat&rsquo;s monumental panting Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), from 1983, set for Sotheby&rsquo;s contemporary art sale on May 14, estimated at $45 million. According to sources, the consignor is Joahn Sayegh-Belchatowski. And if you&rsquo;re wondering who&rsquo;s behind the mystery collection dubbed &ldquo;A Matter of Seeing:]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sellers-at-the-may-marquee-auctions-revealed-bogots-mambo-museum-loses-its-director-and-more-morning-links-for-may-42026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 13:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sellers-at-the-may-marquee-auctions-revealed-bogots-mambo-museum-loses-its-director-and-more-morning-links-for-may-42026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Shows Around Venice Not to Miss During the Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every two years, Venice is activated with more art than is possible to see in a week. While much attention this year will be on &ldquo;In Minor Keys,&rdquo; the central show curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, as well as a slew of intriguing&mdash;and controversial&mdash;pavilions in the Arsenale and Giardini, Venice will also have on view a number of exhibitions elsewhere in the city that are worth checking out. Some will be held at the city&rsquo;s main art institutions, like the San Marco Art Cen]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/10-shows-around-venice-not-to-miss-during-thebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/10-shows-around-venice-not-to-miss-during-thebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trippy Film by British-Ethiopian Artist Theo Eshetu Hits the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theo Eshetu has made mesmeric films for cinema, television, and exhibitions for more than four decades, often with an eye to the multiple ways films can be shown. In Brave New World (1999), the viewer is presented with a mirror box with a continuous loop of bisymmetrical clips. In the 2015 video installation The Slave Ship (The Law of the Sea), the film unfolds in an ovoid frame. His 2017 commission for Documenta 14 includes two versions of the film Atlas Fractured, one projected on a cave wall]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trippy-film-by-british-ethiopian-artist-theo-eshetu-hits-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trippy-film-by-british-ethiopian-artist-theo-eshetu-hits-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What It Takes to Build the Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month, Faustin Linyekula stood at the edge of the lagoon beside the Arsenale, looking out over the water. He bent down and ran his hand along the moss that clings to the concrete docks, then began to sing. His voice carried across the basin, past the bell towers and into the empty military warehouses, the sound echoing through spaces that, in a matter of weeks, would be filled with art and people.For now, though, Venice was quiet. Three weeks before the Venice Biennale opens to press and in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-it-takes-to-build-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-it-takes-to-build-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does It Take to Build a Show During the Venice Biennale?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last month, Faustin Linyekula stood at the edge of the lagoon beside the Arsenale, looking out over the water. He bent down and ran his hand along the moss that clings to the concrete docks, then began to sing. His voice carried across the basin, past the bell towers and into the empty military warehouses, the sound echoing through spaces that, in a matter of weeks, would be filled with art and people.For now, though, Venice was quiet. Three weeks before the Venice Biennale opens to press and in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-it-take-to-build-a-show-during-the-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-it-take-to-build-a-show-during-the-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Derrick Adams to Install Monumental Portrait of Koyo Kouoh in Venice During the Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[The untimely passing of curator Koyo Kouoh, the artistic director of the 2026 Venice Biennale, has been deeply felt throughout the art world for the past year. Now, artist Derrick Adams will pay tribute to Kouoh via a monumental installation in Venice this week.A banner version of his collage Heavy is the head that wears the crown&nbsp;(2026) will be installed on the facade of the Palazzetto dello sport Giobatta Gianquinto,&nbsp;facing the Rio della Tana, near the Arsenale, one of the Biennale&r]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/derrick-adams-to-install-monumental-portrait-of-koyo-kouoh-in-venice-during-thebiennale/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:14:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/derrick-adams-to-install-monumental-portrait-of-koyo-kouoh-in-venice-during-thebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $35 M. Warhol, a $45 M. Basquiat, and More: Who’s Selling The Top Works in the May Sales?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s springtime in the art world, and that can mean only one thing. Not the Venice Biennale, though that is no doubt where many dealers, collectors, and artists are this week. No, we&rsquo;re talking about the May marquee sales.This year&rsquo;s sales arrive, as always, at something of an inflection point for the market. Following two years of sales declines, the global art market returned to modest growth of 4 percent last year, according to the most recent Art Basel &amp; UBS Art Market]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-35-m-warhol-a-45-m-basquiat-and-more-whos-selling-the-top-works-in-the-maysales/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 01:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-35-m-warhol-a-45-m-basquiat-and-more-whos-selling-the-top-works-in-the-maysales/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lévy Gorvy Dayan Bets on Urgency With New LGD Hammer Sales Platform]]></title><description><![CDATA[L&eacute;vy Gorvy Dayan is rolling out a new way to sell high-value art, though gallery cofounder Brett Gorvy is quick to lower the temperature on the idea. The gallery&rsquo;s new platform, LGD Hammer, isn&rsquo;t meant to remake the market. &ldquo;We aren&rsquo;t inventing a new paradigm, but it&nbsp;is&nbsp;a development,&rdquo; he said.The platform, he said is informed by recent changed in the market. Private sales have slowed. Collectors want time to look, think, and negotiate. Deals stretc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lvy-gorvy-dayan-bets-on-urgency-with-new-lgd-hammer-salesplatform/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lvy-gorvy-dayan-bets-on-urgency-with-new-lgd-hammer-salesplatform/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've seen crows picking at roadkill. Disgusting? Those birds are doing us a favor]]></title><description><![CDATA[You've seen crows picking at roadkill. Disgusting? Those birds are doing us a favor]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/youve-seen-crows-picking-at-roadkill-disgusting-those-birds-are-doing-us-a-favor/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/youve-seen-crows-picking-at-roadkill-disgusting-those-birds-are-doing-us-a-favor/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's "annoying Socratic gadfly," spent decades championing lost causes. At 94, he's suddenly winning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's "annoying Socratic gadfly," spent decades championing lost causes. At 94, he's suddenly winning]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harvey-mansfield-harvards-annoying-socratic-gadfly-spent-decades-championing-lost-causes-at-94-hes-suddenly-winning/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/harvey-mansfield-harvards-annoying-socratic-gadfly-spent-decades-championing-lost-causes-at-94-hes-suddenly-winning/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI anxiety predates AI. The fear that machine writing will replace human writing has a long history]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI anxiety predates AI. The fear that machine writing will replace human writing has a long history]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-anxiety-predates-ai-the-fear-that-machine-writing-will-replace-human-writing-has-a-long-history/</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:12:43 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-anxiety-predates-ai-the-fear-that-machine-writing-will-replace-human-writing-has-a-long-history/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conductor Launches in Brooklyn With Venice Biennale-Bound Artists and Immersive Projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Conductor, a new art fair hosted by Powerhouse Arts opened in Brooklyn on Wednesday night with a crowd size expected from a biennial preview, rather than a typical fair opening. Within hours, more than 800 people had passed through Powerhouse Arts, drifting between booths that offered the unexpected.There were 28 galleries and 20 special projects spread across the building, with installations that often spilled out of traditional stands and into shared space.&nbsp;This is the first full edition]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/conductor-launches-in-brooklyn-with-venice-biennale-bound-artists-and-immersiveprojects/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/conductor-launches-in-brooklyn-with-venice-biennale-bound-artists-and-immersiveprojects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Venice to Install Work for the Biennale, Artist Guadalupe Maravilla Alleges Racial Profiling by Police]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York&ndash;based artist Guadalupe Maravilla had traveled to Venice last weekend to finalize the installation of his work at the 2026 Venice Biennale, a crowning achievement for any artist. But that situation, which he first posted about on Instagram, soured Thursday evening after he had left the Arsenale, one of the Biennale&rsquo;s main venues, when two police officers approached him.&ldquo;After completing the installation of my work at the Venice Biennale, I was racially profiled by polic]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-to-install-work-for-the-biennale-artist-guadalupe-maravilla-alleges-racial-profiling-bypolice/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/in-venice-to-install-work-for-the-biennale-artist-guadalupe-maravilla-alleges-racial-profiling-bypolice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Botticelli Painting Banned from Export Will Stay in the UK]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Botticelli painting placed under an export ban in an effort to keep it in the UK was acquired by the Klesch Collection and will stay in England by way of a three-year loan to the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford.As reported by The Art Newspaper, the work&mdash;titled The Virgin and Child Enthroned and dated to the 1470s&mdash;had been valued last May at &pound;10.2 million (around $13.9 million). Previously it had sold at Sotheby&rsquo;s in London for &pound;9.7 million ($13.2 mill]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/botticelli-painting-banned-from-export-will-stay-in-theuk/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 19:16:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/botticelli-painting-banned-from-export-will-stay-in-theuk/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artist Foundations’ Net Worth Has Nearly Tripled to $9 B., Led by Cy Twombly Foundation’s $1.5 B. in Art and Assets]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since the 1990s, a small network of artist-endowed foundations has expanded dramatically, now controlling roughly $9 billion in assets, according to new research collected by the Aspen Institute&rsquo;s Artist-Endowed Foundation Initiative (AEFI), a center that studies philanthropy in the U.S.	The researchers tracked how, as the country&rsquo;s economy has grown, a few hundred artists in the U.S. established nonprofits and endowed foundations before their deaths in the U.S., creating legal and f]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-foundations-net-worth-has-nearly-tripled-to-9-b-led-by-cy-twombly-foundations-15-b-in-art-andassets/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artist-foundations-net-worth-has-nearly-tripled-to-9-b-led-by-cy-twombly-foundations-15-b-in-art-andassets/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London Dealer Stephen Friedman Owes $10.6 M. to Dozens of Creditors, Including Artists Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley]]></title><description><![CDATA[London-based gallery Stephen Friedman is in debt to the tune of some $10.6 million, according to official documents. Its creditors include a real estate owner, a bank, and an art logistics company as well as several well-known artists. The debts are indicated in an official filing by its administrators on Companies House, reported earlier by the Art Newspaper.&nbsp;&ldquo;A proposal to deal with the financial fallout from the London- and New York-based gallery&rsquo;s closure in February was sub]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-dealer-stephen-friedman-owes-106-m-to-dozens-of-creditors-including-artists-deborah-roberts-and-kehindewiley/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/london-dealer-stephen-friedman-owes-106-m-to-dozens-of-creditors-including-artists-deborah-roberts-and-kehindewiley/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces $23M. Gift from Top 200 Collectors Jennifer Rubio and Stewart Butterfield]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just two months after becoming a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jennifer Rubio, along with her husband, Stewart Butterfield, have pledged $23 million to the New York museum. Rubio is an entrepreneur who founded the ubiquitous travel brand Away, and Butterfield, who is on the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Dia Art Foundation, is a software executive who co-founded Flickr and Slack.The gift is earmarked for the Met&rsquo;s internship program and will be used to en]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-announces-23m-gift-from-top-200-collectors-jennifer-rubio-and-stewartbutterfield/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/metropolitan-museum-of-art-announces-23m-gift-from-top-200-collectors-jennifer-rubio-and-stewartbutterfield/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Complete Guide to the 2026 Venice Biennale National Pavilions]]></title><description><![CDATA[The central attraction at the Venice Biennale is its main exhibition, a curated show meant to pinpoint a dominant theme in art as it stands right now. But all around it are pavilions staged by countries, with each nation selecting one or more artists to mount their own show or installation. These national pavilions have contributed to the common conception of the Biennale as the art world&rsquo;s Olympics: a place where stars are born and nations flex their might.	The national pavilions often te]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-complete-guide-to-the-2026-venice-biennale-nationalpavilions/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 17:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-complete-guide-to-the-2026-venice-biennale-nationalpavilions/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 20 Most Expensive Artworks Hitting the Auction Block This Season]]></title><description><![CDATA[April showers may bring May flowers, but in the art world, the early signs of spring also mean that the auction houses are gearing up for the first of their marquee New York sales. Typically, these auctions, from Christie&rsquo;s, Sotheby&rsquo;s, and Phillips, occur over the course of a week, but 2026&rsquo;s calendar is a bit more fickle, owing to the Venice Biennale opening next week, followed by Frieze New York the following week. Sotheby&rsquo;s is likely looking to capitalize on the collec]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-20-most-expensive-artworks-hitting-the-auction-block-thisseason/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 15:58:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-20-most-expensive-artworks-hitting-the-auction-block-thisseason/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zoe Leonard Departs Hauser &amp; Wirth for New York&rsquo;s Maxwell Graham&nbsp;Gallery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Zoe Leonard, a celebrated artist whose work is headed to the Venice Biennale next week, has departed one of the world&rsquo;s biggest art galleries and joined the roster of a much smaller one based only in New York.Until earlier this year, Leonard was represented by Hauser &amp; Wirth, a gallery with 14 locations worldwide. She has now departed that gallery and joined Maxwell Graham, a much less blue-chip space that is known for its spare presentations of conceptual art. Maxwell Graham will repr]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zoe-leonard-departs-hauser-amp-wirth-for-new-yorkrsquos-maxwell-grahamnbspgallery/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zoe-leonard-departs-hauser-amp-wirth-for-new-yorkrsquos-maxwell-grahamnbspgallery/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trevor Paglen’s New Book Says AI Is Rewriting What Images Do]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s no shortage of speculation about what generative AI portends for culture: Visions range from a &ldquo;dead internet,&rdquo; in which bots produce the majority of online content, to utopic redistribution scenarios, in which universal basic income grants humans unprecedented creative leisure. But for more than a decade&mdash;before many people had ever heard of a large language model (LLM)&mdash;artist Trevor Paglen has been making work about what generative AI is already doing to cu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trevor-paglens-new-book-says-ai-is-rewriting-what-imagesdo/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trevor-paglens-new-book-says-ai-is-rewriting-what-imagesdo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After His Untimely Death, Rutherford Chang’s Survey Rewrites What a Square Can Do]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art history has been punctuated by debates over what a square can mean or do. For Kazimir Malevich, the black square was, in a sense, painting&rsquo;s building block&mdash;a way to strip art down to its most fundamental form. For Ad Reinhardt, it marked an endpoint: He described his black canvases as the last paintings that could be made, as though abstraction had reached its logical conclusion. Of course, his was not the final word. Josef Albers continued the inquiry, nesting colorful quadrilat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-untimely-death-rutherford-changs-survey-rewrites-what-a-square-cando/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/after-his-untimely-death-rutherford-changs-survey-rewrites-what-a-square-cando/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wittgenstein finished the Tractatus certain all philosophical problems were solved. Then spent his life disagreeing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wittgenstein finished the Tractatus certain all philosophical problems were solved. Then spent his life disagreeing.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wittgenstein-finished-the-tractatus-certain-all-philosophical-problems-were-solved-then-spent-his-life-disagreeing/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:44:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/wittgenstein-finished-the-tractatus-certain-all-philosophical-problems-were-solved-then-spent-his-life-disagreeing/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will human-written fiction become artisanal cheese, a luxury for the wealthy few while others eat Velveeta?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Will human-written fiction become artisanal cheese, a luxury for the wealthy few while others eat Velveeta?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/will-human-written-fiction-become-artisanal-cheese-a-luxury-for-the-wealthy-few-while-others-eat-velveeta/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:44:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/will-human-written-fiction-become-artisanal-cheese-a-luxury-for-the-wealthy-few-while-others-eat-velveeta/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How two filmmakers, a borrowed camera, and a Judas Priest concert led to an immortal documentary]]></title><description><![CDATA[How two filmmakers, a borrowed camera, and a Judas Priest concert led to an immortal documentary]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-two-filmmakers-a-borrowed-camera-and-a-judas-priest-concert-led-to-an-immortal-documentary/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:44:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-two-filmmakers-a-borrowed-camera-and-a-judas-priest-concert-led-to-an-immortal-documentary/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auctioneer Kimberly Pirtle Leaves Sotheby’s to Launch Hybrid Art-Philanthropy Advisory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kimberly Pirtle, a fast-rising auctioneer at&nbsp;Sotheby&rsquo;s, has left the company to start her own firm, Gabriel Advisory Group, a practice that aims to bridge art advisory and cultural philanthropy.Pirtle, who worked in Sotheby&rsquo;s collectors group and quickly moved into auctioneering, said the idea grew out of a gap she kept running into with clients. At the auction house, the focus was clear: transactions. But many of the collectors she worked with were thinking more broadly&mdash;a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auctioneer-kimberly-pirtle-leaves-sothebys-to-launch-hybrid-art-philanthropy-advisory/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auctioneer-kimberly-pirtle-leaves-sothebys-to-launch-hybrid-art-philanthropy-advisory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philadelphia Is Rich With Museums and Galleries. ‘Elsewhere’ Aims to Find Out If It Can Support an Art Fair]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philadelphia is rich with art, being home to numerous museums, from the encyclopedic Philadelphia Museum of Art to the collector-specific taste of the Barnes Foundation, from the historical Rodin Museum to those dedicated to the art of the now, like the Institute of Contemporary Art. It&rsquo;s got longstanding art galleries, too, like Fleisher/Ollman, Locks, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid.&nbsp;But is the City of Brotherly Love ready for an art fair? One dealer, Megan Galardi, who in 2023 founded t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/philadelphia-is-rich-with-museums-and-galleries-elsewhere-aims-to-find-out-if-it-can-support-an-artfair/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:39:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/philadelphia-is-rich-with-museums-and-galleries-elsewhere-aims-to-find-out-if-it-can-support-an-artfair/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georg Baselitz, Pioneering German Postwar Painter, Dies at 88]]></title><description><![CDATA[Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death was first announced in a press release by Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represented the artist.&nbsp;Baselitz exploded into the German art consciousness in the 1960s with a formal grit matched by tormented subject matter: his breakout &ldquo;Heroes&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/georg-baselitz-pioneering-german-postwar-painter-dies-at88/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/georg-baselitz-pioneering-german-postwar-painter-dies-at88/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas Man Who Orchestrated $20 M. Crypto Scam Based on Fictitious Van Gogh and Picasso Masterpieces Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Houston man has been sentenced to a lengthy prison stay after robbing investors of millions in savings through a bogus cryptocurrency that was supposedly backed by a collection of works by Salvador Dal&iacute;, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and other famed artists. Nearly 1,000 victims were cheated out of more than $20 million, with many losing their entire savings.&nbsp;A federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois convicted Robert Dunlap, 55, on mail fraud charges in 2025. Earlier t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/texas-man-who-orchestrated-20-m-crypto-scam-based-on-fictitious-van-gogh-and-picasso-masterpieces-sentenced-to-23-years-inprison/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/texas-man-who-orchestrated-20-m-crypto-scam-based-on-fictitious-van-gogh-and-picasso-masterpieces-sentenced-to-23-years-inprison/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timm Ulrichs, Pioneering Conceptual Artist, is Dead at 86]]></title><description><![CDATA[German conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs has died at the age of 86. His death on April 29 in Berlin was announced by the art association Kunstverein Hannover, of which he was the oldest member.Born in Berlin in 1940, Ulrichs studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover from 1959&ndash;1966. In 1961, inspired by the &ldquo;Merzkunst&rdquo; (Merz art) of Hanoverian artist Kurt Schwitters, he declared himself a &ldquo;total artist,&rdquo; renaming his living space and studio the Werbeze]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/timm-ulrichs-pioneering-conceptual-artist-is-dead-at86/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/timm-ulrichs-pioneering-conceptual-artist-is-dead-at86/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Calls on King Charles to Return Treasured Diamond to India]]></title><description><![CDATA[During the much-ballyhooed visit of King Charles and Queen Camilla to New York City on Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on the King to use his power to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond to India.As reported by Reuters, at a press conference before a ceremony to commemorate the victims of &#8203;the September 11 attack, Mamdani said, &ldquo;If I were to &zwnj;speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond.&rdquo;The two leaders did in fac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-calls-on-king-charles-to-return-treasured-diamond-toindia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-calls-on-king-charles-to-return-treasured-diamond-toindia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family of Nonagenarian Sculptor Is Fighting to Halt Demolition of Iconic Brutalist Fountain in Downtown San Francisco]]></title><description><![CDATA[The family of 96-year-old Quebecois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt is not giving up the fight to save the 710-ton concrete landmark known as Qu&eacute;bec Libre! or the Vaillancourt Fountain. The public artwork has been an iconic, if controversial, part of the landscape of San Francisco&rsquo;s Embarcadero Plaza since it was constructed in 1971.However, last summer, San Francisco&rsquo;s arts commission, which owns the work, was asked if would &ldquo;deaccession&rdquo; the sculpture in order to ac]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/family-of-nonagenarian-sculptor-is-fighting-to-halt-demolition-of-iconic-brutalist-fountain-in-downtown-sanfrancisco/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:38:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/family-of-nonagenarian-sculptor-is-fighting-to-halt-demolition-of-iconic-brutalist-fountain-in-downtown-sanfrancisco/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picasso Painting That Cost S. I. Newhouse a MoMA Board Position Heads to Christie’s for $55 M. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christie&rsquo;s New York is offering 16 top-notch works by titans of the 20th and 21st centuries next month, all from the holdings of the late publishing magnate S. I. (aka Si) Newhouse, head of Conde Nast, who died in 2017. At a packed Rockefeller Center salesroom on May 18, masterpieces by artists including Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol will come to the block. The group is expected to ring up collectively for about $450 million, an e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/picasso-painting-that-cost-s-i-newhouse-a-moma-board-position-heads-to-christies-for-55m/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:57:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/picasso-painting-that-cost-s-i-newhouse-a-moma-board-position-heads-to-christies-for-55m/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Appoints Essence Harden as Senior Curator]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco has named Essence Harden as senior curator. She will begin in the role on May 18.Harden currently serves as curator of the Expo Chicago art fair. Since 2024, they have also organized the Focus section of Frieze Los Angeles. They will continue in those roles with YBCA&rsquo;s support. As an independent curator, Harden most recently co-curated the 2025 edition of the Made in L.A. biennial at the Hammer Museum.They previously served as vis]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-appoints-essence-harden-as-seniorcurator/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-appoints-essence-harden-as-seniorcurator/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montclair Art Museum Hires Esteemed Curator Kate Kraczon After Layoffs at Brown University]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Montclair Art Museum has a new chief curator. The New Jersey institution hired Kate Kraczon, who lost her job as director of exhibitions and chief curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, late last year amid a wave of layoffs; she had served in that office since 2019.Kraczon takes over the role from Gail Stavitsky, who had held the post since 1994, and takes up her new position June 15. Before the Bell, Kraczon was associate curator at the In]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/montclair-art-museum-hires-esteemed-curator-kate-kraczon-after-layoffs-at-brownuniversity/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:54:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/montclair-art-museum-hires-esteemed-curator-kate-kraczon-after-layoffs-at-brownuniversity/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian Culture Minister Launches Inspection of Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Only days before the opening of the 61st Venice Biennale, Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli has launched his long-teased investigation into the Russian Pavilion. Italian media reported today that an inspector sent by the minister to Venice has set up an office in Ca&rsquo; Giustinian, a palazzo on the Grand Canal in San Marco, and has demanded full access to all records related to Moscow&rsquo;s presence at the exhibition.&nbsp;According to La Stampa, the investigation is focused on any]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-culture-minister-launches-inspection-of-venice-biennales-russianpavilion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:52:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-culture-minister-launches-inspection-of-venice-biennales-russianpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Jury Resigns En Masse]]></title><description><![CDATA[The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale, which awards the exhibition&rsquo;s top prizes, announced Thursday that it had resigned.The news was posted to the Instagram account of journal e-flux, providing no reasoning for the decision. The statement, in full, reads: &ldquo;As of 30 April 2026, we, the international jury selected by Koyo Kouoh, Artistic Director of the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys, have resigned. We do so in acknowledgment of our Statement of Intention issued]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-enmasse/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-enmasse/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Jury Resigns En Masse, Organizers to Award “Visitors’ Lions” in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale, which awards the exhibition&rsquo;s top prizes, announced Thursday that it had resigned.The news was posted to the Instagram account of the journal e-flux, providing no reasoning for the decision. The statement, in full, reads: &ldquo;As of 30 April 2026, we, the international jury selected by Koyo Kouoh, Artistic Director of the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys, have resigned. We do so in acknowledgment of our Statement of Intention iss]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-en-masse-organizers-to-award-visitors-lions-innovember-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-en-masse-organizers-to-award-visitors-lions-innovember-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Jury Resigns En Masse, Organizers to Award ‘Visitors’ Lions’ in November]]></title><description><![CDATA[The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale, which awards the exhibition&rsquo;s top prizes, announced Thursday that it had resigned.The news was posted to the Instagram account of journal e-flux, providing no reasoning for the decision. The statement, in full, reads: &ldquo;As of 30 April 2026, we, the international jury selected by Koyo Kouoh, Artistic Director of the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia In Minor Keys, have resigned. We do so in acknowledgment of our Statement of Intention issued]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-en-masse-organizers-to-award-visitors-lions-innovember/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-resigns-en-masse-organizers-to-award-visitors-lions-innovember/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucas Museum Reveals First Set of Exhibitions Curated by Founder George Lucas]]></title><description><![CDATA[With just under five months to go before its September opening, the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has announced a selection of exhibitions that will inaugurate the new institution, all of which are curated by cofounder George Lucas.The initial hang of the Lucas Museum will feature around 12,000 objects, drawn from the museum&rsquo;s holdings of more than 40,000 objects, that Lucas began collecting over 50 years ago. They will be spread across 30 galleries in the museum]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-reveals-first-set-of-exhibitions-curated-by-founder-georgelucas/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/lucas-museum-reveals-first-set-of-exhibitions-curated-by-founder-georgelucas/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music critic Michael Steinberg, finding his profession “an irritant and a depressant,” went to work for orchestras]]></title><description><![CDATA[The music critic Michael Steinberg, finding&nbsp;his profession &ldquo;an irritant and a depressant,&rdquo; went to work for orchestras]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-music-critic-michael-steinberg-findinghis-profession-an-irritant-and-a-depressant-went-to-work-for-orchestras/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:44:44 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-music-critic-michael-steinberg-findinghis-profession-an-irritant-and-a-depressant-went-to-work-for-orchestras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advocates Try to Save Brutalist Fountain in San Francisco, José Aparicio Painting Returns to Prado Museum: Morning Links for April 30, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.The Headlines	BLIND BLISS. A new sculpture has popped up in London&rsquo;s Waterloo Place, bearing the signature of the elusive Banksy, reports the&nbsp;BBC. In Banksy&rsquo;s style, the sculpture offers pointed political commentary on the state of the world. A man in a suit is seen marching confidently, right off a plinth, while holding a flag that completel]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/advocates-try-to-save-brutalist-fountain-in-san-francisco-jos-aparicio-painting-returns-to-prado-museum-morning-links-for-april-302026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/advocates-try-to-save-brutalist-fountain-in-san-francisco-jos-aparicio-painting-returns-to-prado-museum-morning-links-for-april-302026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of Picasso’s lovers committed suicide; another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two of&nbsp;Picasso&rsquo;s lovers committed suicide; another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-ofpicassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:08:36 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-ofpicassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music critic Michael Steinberg thought his profession “an irritant and a depressant,” and so he went to work for orchestras]]></title><description><![CDATA[The music critic Michael Steinberg thought his profession &ldquo;an irritant and a depressant,&rdquo; and so he went to work for orchestras]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-music-critic-michael-steinberg-thought-his-profession-an-irritant-and-a-depressant-and-so-he-went-to-work-for-orchestras/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:15:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-music-critic-michael-steinberg-thought-his-profession-an-irritant-and-a-depressant-and-so-he-went-to-work-for-orchestras/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kierkegaard vs. Copenhagen's tabloid press. "Twenty-five signatures make the most frightful stupidity into an opinion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kierkegaard vs. Copenhagen's tabloid press. "Twenty-five signatures make the most frightful stupidity into an opinion"]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kierkegaard-vs-copenhagens-tabloid-press-twenty-five-signatures-make-the-most-frightful-stupidity-into-an-opinion/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:15:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/kierkegaard-vs-copenhagens-tabloid-press-twenty-five-signatures-make-the-most-frightful-stupidity-into-an-opinion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Bacon's "sound houses" to the Star Wars cantina: Why does science fiction sound like that?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Bacon's "sound houses" to the Star Wars cantina: Why does science fiction sound like that?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-bacons-sound-houses-to-the-star-wars-cantina-why-does-science-fiction-sound-like-that/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:15:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/from-bacons-sound-houses-to-the-star-wars-cantina-why-does-science-fiction-sound-like-that/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anna Zemánková Estate Joins Gladstone Gallery, Sándra Vasquez de la Horra Joins Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and More: Industry Moves for April 29, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry MovesGladstone Takes&nbsp;on&nbsp;the Estate of Anna Zem&aacute;nkov&aacute;:&nbsp;The gallery, which staged an exhibition&nbsp;of her work last spring, will present a solo booth of the artist&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-zemnkov-estate-joins-gladstone-gallery-sndra-vasquez-de-la-horra-joins-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-292026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-zemnkov-estate-joins-gladstone-gallery-sndra-vasquez-de-la-horra-joins-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anna Zemánková Estate Joins Gladstone Gallery, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra Joins Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and More: Industry Moves for April 29, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.Happy Wednesday! Here&rsquo;s a round-up of who&rsquo;s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.Industry MovesGladstone Takes&nbsp;on&nbsp;the Estate of Anna Zem&aacute;nkov&aacute;:&nbsp;The gallery, which staged an exhibition&nbsp;of her work last spring, will present a solo booth of the artist&]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-zemnkov-estate-joins-gladstone-gallery-sandra-vsquez-de-la-horra-joins-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-292026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/anna-zemnkov-estate-joins-gladstone-gallery-sandra-vsquez-de-la-horra-joins-tanya-bonakdar-gallery-and-more-industry-moves-for-april-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Will the Venice Biennale Impact Alma Allen’s Market?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Controversy has swirled around the artist&nbsp;Alma Allen&nbsp;since he was announced as America&rsquo;s representative at this year&rsquo;s Venice Biennale, which opens to art professionals and press next week. The conversation&nbsp;has tended to highlight the compromised selection&nbsp;process under President Trump, with much of the scrutiny centered around the fact that a museum didn&rsquo;t commission&nbsp;the pavilion, as is common. Instead, the commissioner this time is a newly created bod]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-will-the-venice-biennale-impact-alma-allensmarket/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-will-the-venice-biennale-impact-alma-allensmarket/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portland’s Converge 45 Reveals Theme and Artists, Including Trisha Baga, Rose Salane, and Srijon Chowdhury]]></title><description><![CDATA[Converge 45, a citywide triennial in Portland, Oregon, has announced the theme and the 28 participating artists for the exhibition&rsquo;s upcoming edition, launching August 27.New York&ndash;based curator Lumi Tan has titled this iteration of the art festival &ldquo;Here, To you, Now,&rdquo; borrowing a phrase from Ursula K. Le Guin&rsquo;s 1985 science-fiction novel Always Coming Home. The novel focuses on the Kesh people, who have survived an ecological disaster and &ldquo;prioritize the impe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/portlands-converge-45-reveals-theme-and-artists-including-trisha-baga-rose-salane-and-srijonchowdhury/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/portlands-converge-45-reveals-theme-and-artists-including-trisha-baga-rose-salane-and-srijonchowdhury/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ittai Gradel, Danish Gems Expert Who Uncovered British Museum Thefts, Has Died at 61]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ittai Gradel, the Danish gems specialist and art dealer who uncovered that some 2,000 objects had been stolen from the British Museum&rsquo;s collection, died on April 28 at age 61. BBC News reported that he died of renal cancer shortly after receiving a medal from the museum in honor of what its director, Nicholas Cullinan, called his &ldquo;very significant contribution.&rdquo;Initially dismissed by the museum, Gradel&rsquo;s investigation made international headlines and ultimately led to the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ittai-gradel-danish-gems-expert-who-uncovered-british-museum-thefts-has-died-at61/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ittai-gradel-danish-gems-expert-who-uncovered-british-museum-thefts-has-died-at61/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hermitage Museum Director and Putin Ally Mikhail Piotrovsky Sanctioned by European Union]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Council of the European Union announced on April 23 that it is formally sanctioning Mikhail Piotrovsky, the long-time director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The reasons given are that Piotrovsky is &ldquo;a close associate of Vladimir Putin&rdquo; and that &ldquo;he has actively supported and justified Russia&rsquo;s war of aggression against Ukraine.&rdquo; The news was first reported by The Art Newspaper.According to the Hermitage Development Foundation, Piotrovsky succe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hermitage-museum-director-and-putin-ally-mikhail-piotrovsky-sanctioned-by-europeanunion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:10:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hermitage-museum-director-and-putin-ally-mikhail-piotrovsky-sanctioned-by-europeanunion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of his Picasso’s lovers committed suicide; another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two of his Picasso&rsquo;s lovers committed suicide; another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-his-picassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them-2/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:08:12 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-his-picassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After Seven Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram.&ldquo;I have always believed in hoping for the best while preparing for the unexpected,&rdquo; Zollinger said in a statement. &ldquo;A few months ago, I wrote to you about resilience and flexibility. At the start of this year, I was prepared to once again invest the time, energy, and conviction required to push the gallery forward. I wanted to believe in a recovering market and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurichs-galerie-philipp-zollinger-closes-after-sevenyears/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurichs-galerie-philipp-zollinger-closes-after-sevenyears/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years]]></title><description><![CDATA[After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram.&ldquo;I have always believed in hoping for the best while preparing for the unexpected,&rdquo; Zollinger said in a statement. &ldquo;A few months ago, I wrote to you about resilience and flexibility. At the start of this year, I was prepared to once again invest the time, energy, and conviction required to push the gallery forward. I wanted to believe in a recovering market and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurichs-galerie-philipp-zollinger-closes-after-7years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/zurichs-galerie-philipp-zollinger-closes-after-7years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[7 Books We’re Looking Forward to in May]]></title><description><![CDATA[Happy park-reading (or porch-reading) season to those who celebrate! Whether you&rsquo;re grabbing a book for you flight to the Venice Biennale or to bask on a picnic blanket in the glorious sun elsewhere in the world, we&rsquo;ve got the latest and greatest art books for you below.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/7-books-were-looking-forward-to-inmay/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/7-books-were-looking-forward-to-inmay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence Painting Appears on Trump’s New US Passports]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alongside Donald Trump&rsquo;s face, you can expect to soon see a piece of American art history on your US passport.As reported yesterday by Fox News, Trump&rsquo;s State Department has revealed a limited-edition passport for the nation&rsquo;s 250th anniversary that will feature John Trumbull&rsquo;s 1817 painting Declaration of Independence.Contrary to popular belief, the 18-foot-long painting does not depict the signing of its titular document but merely the presentation of a draft of it Cong]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-trumbulls-declaration-of-independence-painting-appears-on-trumps-new-uspassports/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/john-trumbulls-declaration-of-independence-painting-appears-on-trumps-new-uspassports/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giorno Poetry Systems Gives Grants to 12 Artists Including Jacolby Satterwhite, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and the Late Agosto Machado]]></title><description><![CDATA[Giorno Poetry Systems, a nonprofit organization founded by the artist and downtown New York scenemaker John Giorno in 1965, has launched a new need-based grant program inspired by a decade-long AIDS Treatment Project that Giorno oversaw in the 1980s and &rsquo;90s.The new Treat a Stranger Grant awards $4,545 each to a group of 12 artists: Samiya Bashir, Malcolm-X Betts, Pe Ferreira, Mercy Kelly, Agosto Machado, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Gavil&aacute;n Rayna Russom, Jacolby Sat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giorno-poetry-systems-gives-grants-to-12-artists-including-jacolby-satterwhite-puppies-puppies-jade-guanaro-kuriki-olivo-and-the-late-agostomachado/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/giorno-poetry-systems-gives-grants-to-12-artists-including-jacolby-satterwhite-puppies-puppies-jade-guanaro-kuriki-olivo-and-the-late-agostomachado/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buffalo AKG Art Museum Director Janne Sirén to Depart After 13 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Janne Sir&eacute;n, the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Upstate New York, will depart his post in October after more than a decade, opening up yet another top role at a US art institution.Sir&eacute;n oversaw the museum as it expanded dramatically in 2023, adding another building to its campus that doubled the AKG&rsquo;s square footage. The expansion, which cost $230 million, was well-received, both within the art press and by locals, who flocked to the museum. The AKG reported that,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/buffalo-akg-art-museum-director-janne-sirn-to-depart-after-13years/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/buffalo-akg-art-museum-director-janne-sirn-to-depart-after-13years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Misconduct at Palm Springs Art Museum, Where an Ex-Trustee Describes a ‘Shattered Moral Compass’]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anonymous whistleblower has raised allegations of misconduct by leadership at California&rsquo;s Palm Springs Art Museum, claiming violations of the law and institutional best practices.&nbsp;The whistleblower claims that the museum improperly moved funds between various accounts in order to meet severe cash crunches. The whistleblower alleged that a former director was forced out based on trumped-up staff complaints, and that the museum failed to even interview two qualified candidates to re]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whistleblower-complaint-alleges-misconduct-at-palm-springs-art-museum-where-an-ex-trustee-describes-a-shattered-moralcompass/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/whistleblower-complaint-alleges-misconduct-at-palm-springs-art-museum-where-an-ex-trustee-describes-a-shattered-moralcompass/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Inside Look at Realizing Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale Exhibition and More: Morning Links for April 29, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!An inside look at the realization of Koyo Kouoh&rsquo;s Venice Biennale.A Chicago judge has sentenced a man to 23 years for an art-backed cryptocurrency scam.&nbsp;A Renoir painting once owned by the Duchess of Alba will return to Spain.The Headlines	THE SHOW MUST GO ON.&nbsp;Ahead of the opening of the 2026&nbsp;Venice Biennale&nbsp;next week, t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-inside-look-at-realizing-koyo-kouohs-venice-biennale-exhibition-and-more-morning-links-for-april-292026/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-inside-look-at-realizing-koyo-kouohs-venice-biennale-exhibition-and-more-morning-links-for-april-292026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natasha Tontey to Unveil Major New Immersive Installation Exploring Indigenous Resistance During Venice Biennale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fresh off her first institutional exhibition, artist Natasha Toney is set to unveil an ambitious immersive installation during the Venice Biennale at the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, a 16th-century building in San Marco.Jointly commissioned by Berlin&rsquo;s LAS Art Foundation and Helsinki&rsquo;s Amos Rex contemporary art museum, The Phantom Combatants and the Metabolism of Disobedient Organs, as the installation is called, combines video, sound, light, and sculptural elements to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/natasha-tontey-to-unveil-major-new-immersive-installation-exploring-indigenous-resistance-during-venicebiennale/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/natasha-tontey-to-unveil-major-new-immersive-installation-exploring-indigenous-resistance-during-venicebiennale/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Theatre Group of Exiled Belarusian Artists Arrive in Venice, With an Exhibition That Shows What Repression Feels Like]]></title><description><![CDATA[While much attention&mdash;and controversy&mdash;has been generated in recent months over the return of Russia to the Venice Biennale, another outcast nation will also have its first presence at the global art exhibition in six years, albeit in an unofficial capacity: Belarus.For the first time, the Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group, will stage an official collateral exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale. The show, titled &ldquo;Official. Unofficial. Belarus.,&rdquo; is set to]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-theatre-group-of-exiled-belarusian-artists-arrive-in-venice-with-an-exhibition-that-shows-what-repression-feelslike/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-theatre-group-of-exiled-belarusian-artists-arrive-in-venice-with-an-exhibition-that-shows-what-repression-feelslike/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your sous vide wand. Your car. Your search results. All enshittified, all on purpose, all at once. Cory Doctorow explains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your sous vide wand. Your car. Your search results. All enshittified, all on purpose, all at once. Cory Doctorow explains]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-sous-vide-wand-your-car-your-search-results-all-enshittified-all-on-purpose-all-at-once-cory-doctorow-explains/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:09:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/your-sous-vide-wand-your-car-your-search-results-all-enshittified-all-on-purpose-all-at-once-cory-doctorow-explains/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of his Picasso’s lovers committed suicide, another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two of his Picasso&rsquo;s lovers committed suicide, another had a psychological breakdown. But the worst thing he ever did to women was paint them]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-his-picassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:09:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/two-of-his-picassos-lovers-committed-suicide-another-had-a-psychological-breakdown-but-the-worst-thing-he-ever-did-to-women-was-paint-them/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney took Dante, not Yeats, as his model &mdash; and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney took Dante, not Yeats, as his model &mdash; and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seamus-heaney-took-dante-not-yeats-as-his-model-mdash-and-transformed-northern-irelands-troubles-into-purgatory/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:09:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seamus-heaney-took-dante-not-yeats-as-his-model-mdash-and-transformed-northern-irelands-troubles-into-purgatory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great writers do not reveal to us the admirable depth of their minds: they guide us in cultivating the depth of our own]]></title><description><![CDATA[Great writers do not reveal to us the admirable depth of their minds: they guide us in cultivating the depth of our own]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/great-writers-do-not-reveal-to-us-the-admirable-depth-of-their-minds-they-guide-us-in-cultivating-the-depth-of-our-own/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:09:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/great-writers-do-not-reveal-to-us-the-admirable-depth-of-their-minds-they-guide-us-in-cultivating-the-depth-of-our-own/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raphael Fonseca and Amanda Carneiro to Curate the 2027 Bienal de São Paulo]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bienal de S&atilde;o Paulo has announced the two chief curators for the 2027 edition of the Brazilian exhibition: Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca. The duo&rsquo;s theme for the Bienal will be announced in the coming months.	Held in Oscar Niemeyer&ndash;design Pavilh&atilde;o Ciccillo Matarazzo in Ibirapuera Park, the exhibition is the largest of its kind in Latin America.&ldquo;The selection of Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca for the 37th edition is part of this evolving history,&rdq]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raphael-fonseca-and-amanda-carneiro-to-curate-the-2027-bienal-de-sopaulo/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/raphael-fonseca-and-amanda-carneiro-to-curate-the-2027-bienal-de-sopaulo/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Jersey Father and Daughter Plead Guilty to $2 M. Counterfeit Art Scheme]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two New Jersey residents pleaded guilty to running a years-long counterfeit art scheme that funneled fake works into the legitimate market, defrauding buyers of at least $2 million.Erwin Bankowski, 50, and Karolina Bankowska, 26,&nbsp;admitted in federal court&nbsp;in Brooklyn to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American&ndash;produced goods, according to the U.S. Attorney&rsquo;s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The pair, a father and daughter, now face up to 20 year]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-jersey-father-and-daughter-plead-guilty-to-2-m-counterfeit-artscheme/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:19:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/new-jersey-father-and-daughter-plead-guilty-to-2-m-counterfeit-artscheme/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Orders Prado to Hold Disputed Velázquez Painting in Divorce Case]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Spanish judge has ordered the&nbsp;Museo del Prado in Madrid&nbsp;to hold onto a painting attributed to&nbsp;Diego Vel&aacute;zquez&nbsp;at the center of a divorce dispute between steel magnate Jos&eacute; Mar&iacute;a Aristrain and his ex-wife Gema Navarro, according to&nbsp;El Pa&iacute;s.&nbsp;The painting ended up at the Prado through a chain of state intervention. After Navarro filed a complaint alleging the work had been wrongly kept from her, a Madrid judge, acting with the support of p]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-orders-prado-to-hold-disputed-velzquez-painting-in-divorcecase/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judge-orders-prado-to-hold-disputed-velzquez-painting-in-divorcecase/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does Damien Hirst Have to Do With This Giant McDonald’s Ball Pit in Milan?]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;What does Damien Hirst have to do with McDonald&rsquo;s? Nothing.&rdquo; So begins a perplexing Instagram video introducing an installation organized by Nicolas Ballario, founder of a Milan-based communications agency, that was on view as part of Milan Design Week.The immersive installation, &ldquo;POOL. Ti sblocco un ricordo&rdquo; (&ldquo;Pool: I&rsquo;ll Unlock a Memory for You&rdquo;), is part of a series of offsite exhibitions collectively called Tortona Rocks, in the Tortona neighbo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-damien-hirst-have-to-do-with-this-giant-mcdonalds-ball-pit-inmilan/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-does-damien-hirst-have-to-do-with-this-giant-mcdonalds-ball-pit-inmilan/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans Push $400 M. White House Ballroom After Gala Attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Republicans in Congress are moving to fast-track funding for Donald Trump&rsquo;s planned White House ballroom, using the weekend attack at a Washington press gala to argue that current venues are too vulnerable.According to the&nbsp;New York Times, Senator Lindsey Graham said Monday that he wants lawmakers to approve roughly $400 million for the project, which would include not just an event space but secure facilities beneath it. The goal, he said, is to keep large, high-profile gatherings on]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/republicans-push-400-m-white-house-ballroom-after-galaattack/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/republicans-push-400-m-white-house-ballroom-after-galaattack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aspen AIR Festival to Feature Lucy Raven, Camille Henrot, Los Thuthanaka, Morgan Bassichis, and More]]></title><description><![CDATA[After an inaugural edition last year, the AIR festival will return to Aspen, Colorado, in July with a program of performances, exhibitions, talks, and other events in the high-flying mountain town. The second edition, slated for July 27-31, will feature some artists who participated last time and others presenting work in Aspen for the first time, all under the theme &ldquo;Figures in a Landscape.&rdquo;Adri&aacute;n Villar Rojas, who last year featured in a talk with novelist &Aacute;lvaro Enri]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspen-air-festival-to-feature-lucy-raven-camille-henrot-los-thuthanaka-morgan-bassichis-andmore/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/aspen-air-festival-to-feature-lucy-raven-camille-henrot-los-thuthanaka-morgan-bassichis-andmore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art Gets $490 M. from Powerful Real Estate Firm]]></title><description><![CDATA[The forthcoming Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art has received a $490 million construction grant from Diriyah Company, a real estate juggernaut that has previously thrown its support behind an array of resorts, a digital art institution, and a shopping district in the country.Designed by Godwin Austen Johnson, a Dubai-based architecture firm that previously conceived the Sharjah Art Foundation, the museum will span 883,000 square feet, poising it to cover more ground than the Louvre in Par]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saudi-arabia-museum-of-contemporary-art-gets-490-m-from-powerful-real-estatefirm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saudi-arabia-museum-of-contemporary-art-gets-490-m-from-powerful-real-estatefirm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Pavilion Will Be Closed to the Public During Venice Biennale: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Russian Pavilion will be accessible to the public only during the Venice Biennale&rsquo;s pre-opening vernissage (May 5&ndash;8), Italian news outlets report, as the European Union threatens to withdraw funding from the prestigious exhibition amid mounting sanctions on Moscow.For weeks, voices across Europe&rsquo;s cultural and political spheres&mdash;including Italy&rsquo;s culture minister&mdash;have urged Venice Biennale organizers to shutter the Russian Pavilion, as the country&rsquo;s w]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-pavilion-will-be-closed-to-the-public-during-venice-biennalereport/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/russian-pavilion-will-be-closed-to-the-public-during-venice-biennalereport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[$60 M. Lichtenstein Comes to the Block at Christie’s, Potentially Joining His Priciest Works at Auction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 1960s canvas by Pop master Roy Lichtenstein, coming from the collection of a legendary New York collector-dealer who famously patronized the Pop artists, could become one of the artist&rsquo;s top works to sell at auction.	Anxious Girl (1964) bears an estimate of between $40 million and $60 million. If it achieves its high estimate, it will be his second-priciest work at any public sale. The painting, which will lead the house&rsquo;s marquee 20th-century art evening sale on May 18, comes from]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/60-m-lichtenstein-comes-to-the-block-at-christies-potentially-joining-his-priciest-works-atauction/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/60-m-lichtenstein-comes-to-the-block-at-christies-potentially-joining-his-priciest-works-atauction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emails Suggest Venice Biennale Organizers Planned for Limited Russian Participation, SF Appoints First Arts and Culture Director, and More: Morning Links for April 28, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.Good morning!Emails between Venice Biennale organizers and the Russian Pavilion commissioner reveal plans to close the latter pavilion to the public after the vernissage.Matthew Goudeau has become San Francisco&rsquo;s first executive director of arts and culture.&nbsp;Republicans argue the attack at the press gala on Saturday justifies President Trump&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emails-suggest-venice-biennale-organizers-planned-for-limited-russian-participation-sf-appoints-first-arts-and-culture-director-and-more-morning-links-for-april-282026/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/emails-suggest-venice-biennale-organizers-planned-for-limited-russian-participation-sf-appoints-first-arts-and-culture-director-and-more-morning-links-for-april-282026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney took Dante as his model, not Yeats &mdash; and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney took Dante as his model, not Yeats &mdash; and transformed Northern Ireland's Troubles into purgatory]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seamus-heaney-took-dante-as-his-model-not-yeats-mdash-and-transformed-northern-irelands-troubles-into-purgatory/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:48:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seamus-heaney-took-dante-as-his-model-not-yeats-mdash-and-transformed-northern-irelands-troubles-into-purgatory/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwight Garner: “The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dwight Garner: &ldquo;The thin crust of American intellectual life, long flaking, has begun to show bald patches&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-garner-the-thin-crust-of-american-intellectual-life-long-flaking-has-begun-to-show-bald-patches/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:48:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dwight-garner-the-thin-crust-of-american-intellectual-life-long-flaking-has-begun-to-show-bald-patches/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writing experiment reveals AI's likely future: individual productivity rises; collective intelligence decays]]></title><description><![CDATA[A writing experiment reveals AI's likely future: individual productivity rises; collective intelligence decays]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-writing-experiment-reveals-ais-likely-future-individual-productivity-rises-collective-intelligence-decays/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:48:20 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-writing-experiment-reveals-ais-likely-future-individual-productivity-rises-collective-intelligence-decays/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newly Excavated Egyptian Tomb Sheds Light on Greco-Roman Era]]></title><description><![CDATA[A newly excavated Roman-era tomb found at Al-Bahnasa, site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, offers insights into Egyptian funerary practices during the Greek and Roman periods (332 BCE&ndash;641 CE). The find, announced by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry, was made by a team of Egyptian and Spanish researchers led by archeologists Esther Pons of Spain&rsquo;s National Archaeological Museum and Maite Mascort of the University of Barcelona. &nbsp;Among the contents of the tomb were]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-excavated-egyptian-tomb-sheds-light-on-greco-romanera/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newly-excavated-egyptian-tomb-sheds-light-on-greco-romanera/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Choices: Should You Donate to Institutions Getting Gutted by Trump?]]></title><description><![CDATA[With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen &amp; Lampert deliver a quiz full of&nbsp;hard choices&nbsp;for&nbsp;Art in America&nbsp;readers from far and wide.They say that culture should be free for all, yet we&rsquo;ve long been relying on our government to foot the bill in the form of grants and pork barrel spending. From the WPA to the NEA, America has underwritten the top tier of high culture for decades on end. The current president and]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-choices-should-you-donate-to-institutions-getting-gutted-bytrump/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/hard-choices-should-you-donate-to-institutions-getting-gutted-bytrump/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven-Foot-Tall Monument to Ramses II Discovered in Eastern Nile Delta Region]]></title><description><![CDATA[The top half of a large statue of the ancient Egyptian king Ramses II was discovered in northeastern Egypt at an archaeological site called Tell El-Faraoun. The fragment weights over 5 tons and is about 7 feet tall.Ahram Online reported that the monument was likely part of a group of three statues that once adorned a temple, though likely not the one at Tell El-Faraoun, where it was uncovered. Rather, it is believed to have initially been carved for a temple in Per-Ramesses, an ancient capital c]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seven-foot-tall-monument-to-ramses-ii-discovered-in-eastern-nile-deltaregion/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:08:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/seven-foot-tall-monument-to-ramses-ii-discovered-in-eastern-nile-deltaregion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Show in London Canceled Over Allegations of Antisemitism from Pro-Israel Group]]></title><description><![CDATA[An exhibition at Delta House Gallery in London was cancelled after the group UK Lawyers for Israel raised concerns over drawings described by the Telegraph newspaper as &ldquo;dripping with Jew-hate.&rdquo;That appraisal ran in a review of a previous version of the show in Margate, where the artist Matthew Collings showed his work in an exhibition titled &ldquo;Drawings Against Genocide.&rdquo;As reported by the Jerusalem Post, &ldquo;The drawings in the collection are graphic. One depicts the o]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-show-in-london-canceled-over-allegations-of-antisemitism-from-pro-israelgroup/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-show-in-london-canceled-over-allegations-of-antisemitism-from-pro-israelgroup/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newsmakers: Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Entering the cavernous Magazzini del Sale in Venice, viewers encounter Nalini Malani&rsquo;s animations, which are projected directly onto the uneven brick walls of the former salt warehouse. Her images flicker, dissolve, and reappear as they are cast across architecture shaped by centuries of trade. The installation feels both contemporary and archaic: moving images that seem less like digital projections than pigment placed on stone, recalling cave paintings set in motion.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
This tension]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newsmakers-nalini-malani-lets-the-walls-speak-with-a-new-installation-invenice/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/newsmakers-nalini-malani-lets-the-walls-speak-with-a-new-installation-invenice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At 77, Painter Archie Rand Is Still Telling New Stories]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do you know when a painting is finished? It&rsquo;s a question asked of so many painters, many of whom struggle to come up with an answer. When I posed it to Archie Rand during a conversation in his Brooklyn studio, he stood up from his lounge chair and walked toward an easel on which sat a half-finished work. In it, a dapper street vendor sells ceramics from a wooden board balanced on his head. Two children watch him from behind while, in one sliver of the background on the top left side of]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-77-painter-archie-rand-is-still-telling-newstories/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/at-77-painter-archie-rand-is-still-telling-newstories/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharjah Biennial Lines Up 109 Artists for 2027 Edition, Titled ‘What Remains, Sits Restive’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the title, curatorial framework, and artist list for the 17th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from January 21, through June 13, 2027.Titled &ldquo;What remains, sits restive,&rdquo; the exhibition will bring together 109 artists across sites in the emirate, including Sharjah City, Al Dhaid, Khorfakkan, and the Kalba Ice Factory.The edition is co-curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento, who have structured the project around themes of unrealized so]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharjah-biennial-lines-up-109-artists-for-2027-edition-titled-what-remains-sitsrestive/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/sharjah-biennial-lines-up-109-artists-for-2027-edition-titled-what-remains-sitsrestive/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Art Pioneer Nancy Burson Collapses the Border Between Mysticism and Quantum Physics]]></title><description><![CDATA[At first glance, Nancy Burson&rsquo;s &ldquo;Quantum Entanglement&rdquo; paintings appear simply as white dots washing over black canvases in clusters and waves. Some dots resemble pairs of eyes; others appear as overlapping roundish figures. But when viewed as the 78-year-old artist intends&mdash;through a phone camera&mdash;the forms appear to jitter like static. Faint washes of color and a new sense of depth emerge. To Burson, the paintings&mdash;on view in the solo exhibition &ldquo;Light Ma]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/digital-art-pioneer-nancy-burson-collapses-the-border-between-mysticism-and-quantumphysics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:21:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/digital-art-pioneer-nancy-burson-collapses-the-border-between-mysticism-and-quantumphysics/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Long-Running Case Centering on Alleged Robert Indiana Forgeries Is Resolved with a $102 M. Settlement]]></title><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit claiming copyright infringement and forgery of the work of major American Pop artist Robert Indiana has come to a conclusion after eight long years.	A New York jury found that art publisher Michael McKenzie had created unauthorized and altered versions of Indiana&rsquo;s work, reports the New York Times. The suit included some versions of Indiana&rsquo;s trademark work, LOVE, which depicts the word love in lively serif characters, the LO situated atop the VE, with the O placed at an an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-long-running-case-centering-on-alleged-robert-indiana-forgeries-is-resolved-with-a-102-msettlement/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:53:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-long-running-case-centering-on-alleged-robert-indiana-forgeries-is-resolved-with-a-102-msettlement/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italian Culture Minister Will Not Attend Venice Biennale Opening in Protest of Russia’s Participation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli will not attend the opening of the Venice Biennale as a protest against the Russian Pavilion, which marks the country&rsquo;s return to the exhibition following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.&nbsp;The news was announced in a statement from the Ministry of Culture, which noted that Giuli will neither travel to Venice for the preview of the exhibition nor attend its opening ceremony on May 9.&nbsp;Russia&rsquo;s reopening of its national pavilion&mdash;with]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-culture-minister-will-not-attend-venice-biennale-opening-in-protest-of-russiasparticipation/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/italian-culture-minister-will-not-attend-venice-biennale-opening-in-protest-of-russiasparticipation/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Carolina Artist Aldwyth Dies, The Box Closes in LA, and More: Morning Links for April 27, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The HeadlinesLOVE ACTUALLY. After eight years of legal disputes, a New York federal jury has awarded the&nbsp;Morgan Art Foundation&nbsp;$102.2 million in damages, contending that art publisher&nbsp;Michael McKenzie&nbsp;isolated artist&nbsp;Robert Indiana&nbsp;near the end of his life and created unauthorized versions of his work, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;&nbsp;reports. Indiana is famous for his large sculpture depicting the word &ldquo;love&rdquo; in caps, with the L and O sitting atop the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-carolina-artist-aldwyth-dies-the-box-closes-in-la-and-more-morning-links-for-april-272026/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:09:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/south-carolina-artist-aldwyth-dies-the-box-closes-in-la-and-more-morning-links-for-april-272026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Primary Structures” Turns 60]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 28, 1966, The New York Times ran a review of the Jewish Museum&rsquo;s &ldquo;Primary Structures&rdquo; exhibition by Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art. That contempt was amply displayed in his views on the show: &ldquo;Here are 42 American and British artists,&rdquo; Kramer observed, &ldquo;who care nothing for the personal touch, the subjective inflection, the private vocabulary&mdash;the whole panoply of individual expressive devices]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/primary-structures-turns60-2/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/primary-structures-turns60-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Primary Structures,” Turns 60]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 28, 1966, The New York Times ran a review of the Jewish Museum&rsquo;s &ldquo;Primary Structures&rdquo; exhibition by Hilton Kramer, a conservative critic notorious for his disdain for contemporary art. That contempt was amply displayed in his views on the show: &ldquo;Here are 42 American and British artists,&rdquo; Kramer observed, &ldquo;who care nothing for the personal touch, the subjective inflection, the private vocabulary&mdash;the whole panoply of individual expressive devices]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/primary-structures-turns60/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/primary-structures-turns60/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Addresses Venice Biennale Jury’s ‘Boycott’ of Pavilion: ‘A Contamination of the Art World’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Israel has responded to a statement released by the Venice Biennale jury, in which its five curators said last week that they would not consider any pavilions by countries who are charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.Calling that move a &ldquo;boycott,&rdquo; Israel&rsquo;s foreign ministry denounced the jury in a statement on X this morning that accused the group of aiding in &ldquo;a contamination of the art world.&rdquo;&ldquo;The political jury has transfo]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-addresses-venice-biennale-jurys-boycott-of-pavilion-a-contamination-of-the-artworld/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/israel-addresses-venice-biennale-jurys-boycott-of-pavilion-a-contamination-of-the-artworld/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists Sell More Than $1 M. in Art at Sotheby’s in Support of a Debt-Free Yale MFA Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artists ranging from Mickalene Thomas to Tammy Nguyen are banding together to sell more than $1 million in art at Sotheby&rsquo;s next month, with all the funds going toward Yale University&rsquo;s MFA art program, among the most esteemed ones of its kind in the country. All of the works will appear in a contemporary art day sale during the marquee auctions.	The most expensive piece of the bunch, a 2005 Richard Prince photograph of a clothed, adult Brooke Shields from his &ldquo;Spiritual Americ]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-sell-more-than-1-m-in-art-at-sothebys-in-support-of-a-debt-free-yale-mfaprogram/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/artists-sell-more-than-1-m-in-art-at-sothebys-in-support-of-a-debt-free-yale-mfaprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is A Random Unknown Artist More Valuable Than Picasso? AI Thinks So.]]></title><description><![CDATA[What&rsquo;s worth more&mdash;a Picasso or a painting by a street artist no one has heard of? According to the AI model we built, the answer is the latter.That surprising result came out of an experiment I ran with a data scientist and an AI expert from Silicon Valley. Our goal was to see whether artificial intelligence could bring more transparency&mdash;and, perhaps, greater fairness&mdash;to the art market.The timing is urgent. The art world has been in a recession for 15 years, galleries are]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-a-random-unknown-artist-more-valuable-than-picasso-ai-thinksso/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:18:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/is-a-random-unknown-artist-more-valuable-than-picasso-ai-thinksso/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upward Bound, a novel by a profoundly autistic author, raises an awful but unavoidable question: Who actually wrote it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Upward Bound, a novel by a profoundly autistic author, raises an awful but unavoidable question: Who actually wrote it?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/upward-bound-a-novel-by-a-profoundly-autistic-author-raises-an-awful-but-unavoidable-question-who-actually-wrote-it/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:42:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/upward-bound-a-novel-by-a-profoundly-autistic-author-raises-an-awful-but-unavoidable-question-who-actually-wrote-it/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Turning gold into gold." What's it like to translate the Bard into Bengali, and Lear&rsquo;s verdict on Cordelia into Chinese?]]></title><description><![CDATA["Turning gold into gold." What's it like to translate the Bard into Bengali, and Lear&rsquo;s verdict on Cordelia into Chinese?]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/turning-gold-into-gold-whats-it-like-to-translate-the-bard-into-bengali-and-learrsquos-verdict-on-cordelia-into-chinese/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:42:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/turning-gold-into-gold-whats-it-like-to-translate-the-bard-into-bengali-and-learrsquos-verdict-on-cordelia-into-chinese/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here’s what the art world of the 1990s looked like]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York art critic Jerry Saltz recently unearthed 40,000 slides: Here&rsquo;s what the art world of the 1990s looked like]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-york-art-critic-jerry-saltz-recently-unearthed-40000-slides-heres-what-the-art-world-of-the-1990s-looked-like/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:42:40 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-new-york-art-critic-jerry-saltz-recently-unearthed-40000-slides-heres-what-the-art-world-of-the-1990s-looked-like/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Smaller Art Brussels Represents a Shift in the Fair Ecosystem Toward a ‘Quality-First’ Approach]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the press conference for the 42nd edition Art Brussels fair (April 23&ndash;26), director Nele Verhaeren was refreshingly straightforward. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not going to hide it,&rdquo; she said, referring to the event&rsquo;s smaller numbers: 138 participating galleries, or 26 fewer than last year. The downsizing has meant a shift toward a &ldquo;quality-first&rdquo; approach, per organizers, who framed the current edition as an opportunity to create a different kind of art-fair experience]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-smaller-art-brussels-represents-a-shift-in-the-fair-ecosystem-toward-a-quality-first-approach/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-smaller-art-brussels-represents-a-shift-in-the-fair-ecosystem-toward-a-quality-first-approach/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Art Historian’s Riotous Novel Melds Medieval Art with Monica Lewinsky]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you turned on cable news in the summer of 1998, you were all but guaranteed to see the face of then 24-year-old Monica Lewinsky. Earlier that year, in January, news of her relationship with President Bill Clinton broke, and for the months following, Lewinsky endured a shame-spinning spectacle of puritanism, contempt, and blame&mdash;much of it hurled at her first by Ken Starr in a hotel room at the Ritz Carlton in Pentagon City, where she was questioned for twelve hours, then later by members]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-art-historians-riotous-novel-melds-medieval-art-with-monicalewinsky/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-art-historians-riotous-novel-melds-medieval-art-with-monicalewinsky/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LA’s The Box Gallery to Close After 19 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Box in Los Angeles announced this weekend that it would close after 19 years in business.Its final show was a two-venue collaboration with Parker Gallery for the late California artist Wally Hedrick, which ran through April 4. The gallery said they would mark the closure with a fashion show for Johanna Went, done in collaboration with artist and playwright Asher Hartman on June 6.&ldquo;While this decision has been brewing for some time, it has landed with urgency, shaped by a set of circums]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-the-box-gallery-to-close-after-19years/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/las-the-box-gallery-to-close-after-19years/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How an Artist and Museum Conspired to Give a Delivery Worker What the Apps Won’t: PTO]]></title><description><![CDATA[fields harrington was biking through the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn one day when a delivery worker sped past him, only to be clipped by a car. The worker&rsquo;s groceries flew everywhere as he fell, and harrington, wanting to help, asked if they could call his boss. &ldquo;That was a realization for me,&rdquo; harrington told me. &ldquo;There is no boss to call. You&rsquo;re working for an algorithm.&rdquo;harrington, an artist and cyclist, had been on a somewhat more leisurely bike]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-an-artist-and-museum-conspired-to-give-a-delivery-worker-what-the-apps-wontpto/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/how-an-artist-and-museum-conspired-to-give-a-delivery-worker-what-the-apps-wontpto/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archaeologists Discover Secret Chambers in one of Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using non-invasive technologies, researchers from Cairo University and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have located two air-filled spaces within Giza&rsquo;s Menkaure pyramid that hint at a possible secret entrance. Their findings were published in the academic journal&nbsp;NDT &amp; E International.The Menkaure pyramid is the smallest of the three main pyramids on Cairo&rsquo;s Giza plateau. Built for the Fourth Dynasty ruler Menkaure, it was completed in the 26th century BC. It was ex]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-discover-secret-chambers-in-one-of-egypts-pyramids-ofgiza/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/archaeologists-discover-secret-chambers-in-one-of-egypts-pyramids-ofgiza/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gagosian Opens a New Ground-Floor Flagship at 980 Madison Avenue with Duchamp-Rauschenberg Double Header]]></title><description><![CDATA[This weekend Gagosian is opening a new flagship at 980 Madison Avenue&rsquo;s ground floor with shows by Marcel Duchamp and early works by Robert Rauschenberg.The new space, designed by Caplan Colaku Architects (CCA), moves the gallery from its former upper-floor perch in the same building to street level, consolidating three former storefronts into a continuous, two-level layout totaling more than 12,000 square feet. Floor-to-ceiling steel doors align with the facade, creating what feels like a]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-opens-a-new-ground-floor-flagship-at-980-madison-avenue-with-duchamp-rauschenberg-doubleheader/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gagosian-opens-a-new-ground-floor-flagship-at-980-madison-avenue-with-duchamp-rauschenberg-doubleheader/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Julia Stoschek Closes Down Berlin Exhibition Venue After 10 Years In Favor of International Projects]]></title><description><![CDATA[Julia Stoschek, one of the world&rsquo;s top art collectors, is closing down the Berlin venue where she has displayed her extensive holdings of time-based art for the past decade.	Since 2016, the 3,000-square-meter exhibition space in the former Czech Cultural Center has hosted some 22 exhibitions and numerous public programs, as well as welcomed some 450,000 visitors. It will close its doors at the end of October 2026. The Stoschek Foundation will retain its D&uuml;sseldorf venue, which has bee]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-julia-stoschek-closes-down-berlin-exhibition-venue-after-10-years-in-favor-of-internationalprojects/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-julia-stoschek-closes-down-berlin-exhibition-venue-after-10-years-in-favor-of-internationalprojects/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judd Foundation Taps Copper Hewitt Curator as New Director of Design]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Judd Foundation has named Alexandra Cunningham Cameron as director of design, a newly created role. She will begin in the position on April 27.As director of design, Cameron will oversee the nonprofit foundation&rsquo;s Donald Judd Furniture LLC, a company established to fabricate Donald Judd&rsquo;s furniture designs to his original specifications. Currently, Judd Furniture produces more than 70 designs, which are available for custom order.According to a press release, Cameron will guide J]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judd-foundation-taps-copper-hewitt-curator-as-new-director-ofdesign/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judd-foundation-taps-copper-hewitt-curator-as-new-director-ofdesign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judd Foundation Taps Cooper Hewitt Curator as New Director of Design]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Judd Foundation has named Alexandra Cunningham Cameron as director of design, a newly created role. She will begin in the position on April 27.As director of design, Cameron will oversee the nonprofit foundation&rsquo;s Donald Judd Furniture LLC, a company established to fabricate Donald Judd&rsquo;s furniture designs to his original specifications. Currently, Judd Furniture produces more than 70 designs, which are available for custom order.According to a press release, Cameron will guide J]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judd-foundation-taps-cooper-hewitt-curator-as-new-director-ofdesign/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:35:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/judd-foundation-taps-cooper-hewitt-curator-as-new-director-ofdesign/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, a New Sort of Street Artist, Rises from Art History’s Margins]]></title><description><![CDATA[After decades on the margins of art history,&nbsp;Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani&mdash;a collagist of singular, inimitable vision&mdash;is finally having his story told, though not in any linear fashion.&nbsp;The late artist is currently the subject of a solo exhibition on view through June at the Spencer Museum of Art in Kansas City&mdash;among the first serious institutional examinations of his practice. Co-curators Maki Kaneko and Kris Imants&nbsp;Ercums&nbsp;have organized the exhibition thematica]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jimmy-tsutomu-mirikitani-a-new-sort-of-street-artist-rises-from-art-historysmargins/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:25:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/jimmy-tsutomu-mirikitani-a-new-sort-of-street-artist-rises-from-art-historysmargins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refik Anadol’s AI Art Museum DATALAND Will Open in Los Angeles in June]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2026, a museum dedicated to AI art feels inevitable. And on June 20, one will open in Los Angeles. DATALAND&mdash;tag line: Where human imagination meets the creative potential of machines&mdash;was announced in the fall of 2024, and will open in the Grand LA, a mixed-use complex in downtown Los Angeles designed by Frank Gehry.DATALAND was co-founded by Refik Anadol, the digital art pioneer who came to fame in 2022 thanks to his wildly popular generative art installation Underpervised in the]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/refik-anadols-ai-art-museum-dataland-will-open-in-los-angeles-injune/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/refik-anadols-ai-art-museum-dataland-will-open-in-los-angeles-injune/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold Trove Linked to Famed Aegina Treasure Discovered on Greek Isle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Excavations at Kolona, an archaeological site on the Greek island of Aegina, have uncovered a trove of gold jewelry dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The discovery was made inside a large stone building near a defensive wall built during the ancient settlement&rsquo;s expansion, just outside what is generally considered the site&rsquo;s inner area.The site, located near Aegina&rsquo;s modern northwest harbor, was under continuous excavation last year, with the jewelry hoard marking one of the sea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gold-trove-linked-to-famed-aegina-treasure-discovered-on-greekisle/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gold-trove-linked-to-famed-aegina-treasure-discovered-on-greekisle/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson’s Signature Loafers Return to Auction as Biopic Hits Theaters]]></title><description><![CDATA[GWS Auctions is set to&nbsp;auction&nbsp;a pair of Michael Jackson&rsquo;s&nbsp;loafers&nbsp;on May 2, a&nbsp;Florsheim&nbsp;Imperial pair that were worn and signed by the musician. The minimum bid is set at $7,500.Jackson was known for wearing a distinctive combination of black loafers and white socks, typically with cropped pants. His loafers are associated with his signature moonwalk and &ldquo;Billie Jean&rdquo; performances. Antoine Fuqua&rsquo;s Michael Jackson biopic &ldquo;Michael&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michael-jacksons-signature-loafers-return-to-auction-as-biopic-hitstheaters/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/michael-jacksons-signature-loafers-return-to-auction-as-biopic-hitstheaters/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Max Mara Will Stage Its Resort 2027 Show at Shanghai’s Long Museum West Bund]]></title><description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI&nbsp;BOUND:&nbsp;Max Mara&nbsp;has zeroed in on the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai as the location of its next show.As reported, the Italian brand is planning to hold its&nbsp;resort&nbsp;2027 show in the Chinese city on June 16. The event will coincide with the opening of an exhibition at the same space to mark the brand&rsquo;s 75th anniversary. Curated by Olivier Saillard, the showcase will be titled &ldquo;The Max!&rdquo; and will be open to the public from June 17 to 28.The venu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/max-mara-will-stage-its-resort-2027-show-atshanghais-long-museum-westbund/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/max-mara-will-stage-its-resort-2027-show-atshanghais-long-museum-westbund/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid Epstein Blowback, Bard President Leon Botstein Talks About Succession Plan But With No Timeline: Report]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leon Botstein, whose leadership of Bard College has been questioned after connections with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed, has talked about retiring and moving into another role at the school after a successor is found, according to a report in the Times Union. But no timeline has been set, and the 79-year-old &ldquo;appears to have no plans of leaving soon,&rdquo; according to the newspaper.Botstein has met numerous times with Bard students and workers since his relationship with Epstein was rev]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-epstein-blowback-bard-president-leon-botstein-talks-about-succession-plan-but-with-no-timelinereport/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:41:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/amid-epstein-blowback-bard-president-leon-botstein-talks-about-succession-plan-but-with-no-timelinereport/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudis Renege on Met Opera Financial Aid, Berlin’s Culture Senator Resigns, and More: Morning Links for April 24, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good Morning!The Metropolitan Opera says Saudi Arabia has backed out of a deal that would have provided the cash-strapped institution with millions over eight years.Berlin culture senator Sarah Wedl-Wilson has resigned amid a scandal related to funding projects supposed to combat antisemitism.&nbsp;President Trump now wants to renovate the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.The Headlines	DIRE STRAITS OF HORMUZ. The&nbsp;Saudi Arabian government&nbsp;has formally backed out of a deal with the&nbsp;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saudis-renege-on-met-opera-financial-aid-berlins-culture-senator-resigns-and-more-morning-links-for-april-242026/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:34:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/saudis-renege-on-met-opera-financial-aid-berlins-culture-senator-resigns-and-more-morning-links-for-april-242026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tantrums, tears, and meltdowns. The history of chess grandmasters is replete with tragic stories of lives undone by delusion and paranoia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tantrums, tears, and meltdowns. The history of chess grandmasters is replete with tragic stories of lives undone by delusion and paranoia]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tantrums-tears-and-meltdowns-the-history-of-chess-grandmasters-is-replete-with-tragic-stories-of-lives-undone-by-delusion-and-paranoia/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:53:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tantrums-tears-and-meltdowns-the-history-of-chess-grandmasters-is-replete-with-tragic-stories-of-lives-undone-by-delusion-and-paranoia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Slavery has been such a widespread practice throughout human history that it has rarely needed a particular racial ideology in order to take root”]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Slavery has been such a widespread practice throughout human history that it has rarely needed a particular racial ideology in order to take root&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/slavery-has-been-such-a-widespread-practice-throughout-human-history-that-it-has-rarely-needed-a-particular-racial-ideology-in-order-to-take-root/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:53:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/slavery-has-been-such-a-widespread-practice-throughout-human-history-that-it-has-rarely-needed-a-particular-racial-ideology-in-order-to-take-root/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malcolm Cowley, who rescued Faulkner, launched Kerouac, and shaped the canon, is a forgotten man who made others unforgettable]]></title><description><![CDATA[Malcolm Cowley, who rescued Faulkner, launched Kerouac, and shaped the canon, is a forgotten man who made others unforgettable]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malcolm-cowley-who-rescued-faulkner-launched-kerouac-and-shaped-the-canon-is-a-forgotten-man-who-made-others-unforgettable/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:53:47 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/malcolm-cowley-who-rescued-faulkner-launched-kerouac-and-shaped-the-canon-is-a-forgotten-man-who-made-others-unforgettable/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taiwan Revokes National Art Prize from Sakuliu Pavavaljung After Sexual Assault Conviction]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a landmark move, Taiwan&rsquo;s National Culture and Arts Foundation has revoked the National Award for Arts given to artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung in 2018 and instructed him to return the NTD 1 million ($32,000) prize following his conviction on sexual assault charges, Art Asia Pacific reports.Established in 1997 and administered by the Taiwanese government, the award is one of the nation&rsquo;s most prestigious honors bestowed to artists. Sakuliu was one of seven artists recognized in the awa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taiwan-revokes-national-art-prize-from-sakuliu-pavavaljung-after-sexual-assaultconviction/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/taiwan-revokes-national-art-prize-from-sakuliu-pavavaljung-after-sexual-assaultconviction/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Justin Sun Sues Trump’s Memecoin Company, World Liberty Financial ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collector Justin Sun is suing World Liberty Financial, the Trump family&rsquo;s memecoin company, claiming that the company illegally froze his holdings of tokens, reports NBC News.In July 2025, Hong Kong&ndash;based Sun bought $100 million worth of the coin, $TRUMP, which would soon thereafter be traded on TRON, the blockchain Sun founded in 2017. Sun had already, as of May, sunk $75 million into World Liberty Financial coins, $WFI.	At the same time, Sun was being sued by the Securities and Exc]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-justin-sun-sues-trumps-memecoin-company-world-libertyfinancial/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-justin-sun-sues-trumps-memecoin-company-world-libertyfinancial/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Press Photo of the Year Depicts a Family Torn Apart by ICE]]></title><description><![CDATA[The World Press Photo foundation has awarded its top honor to Separated by ICE, a harrowing image of two young girls clinging futilely to their father&rsquo;s shirt as he is detained. Taken by independent photojournalist Carol Guzy in a hallway of New York&rsquo;s Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, one of the few U.S. federal buildings where photography is permitted, the photograph has come to symbolize the human cost of President Trump&rsquo;s immigration crackdown.The annual contest recognizes]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/world-press-photo-of-the-year-depicts-a-family-torn-apart-byice/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/world-press-photo-of-the-year-depicts-a-family-torn-apart-byice/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edvard Munch Paintings for a Chocolate Factory Go on View in Norway]]></title><description><![CDATA[Art aficionados who have not visited a certain Norwegian chocolate factory will be able to see a series of paintings by Edvard Munch for the first time starting in May, when the Munch Museum in Oslo opens a show focused on the artist&rsquo;s little-known public works from 1923. &nbsp;An exhibition titled &ldquo;Edvard Munch and the Chocolate Factory&rdquo; will feature large-scale paintings temporarily relocated to the museum from a manufacturing center for Freia chocolate, for which Munch creat]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edvard-munch-paintings-for-a-chocolate-factory-go-on-view-innorway/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/edvard-munch-paintings-for-a-chocolate-factory-go-on-view-innorway/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei to Reenact His Own Detention in 24-Hour Performance in Manchester]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the 15 years since his 81-day detention by China&rsquo;s Ministry of Public Security, artist and dissident artist Ai Weiwei has explicitly addressed the harrowing experience in his work. This summer, he will do so again, in what will likely be the most demanding presentation to date.As part of his site-specific exhibition called &ldquo;Button Up!&rdquo; at Factory International&rsquo;s Aviva Studios in Manchester, England, Ai will present Sewing a Button, a 24-hour performance piece in which]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-weiwei-to-reenact-his-own-detention-in-24-hour-performance-inmanchester/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/ai-weiwei-to-reenact-his-own-detention-in-24-hour-performance-inmanchester/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dartmouth Students Turn to Moldy Beef Jerky Installation in Renewed Bid to Remove Leon Black’s Name from Arts Center]]></title><description><![CDATA[The removal of a controversial artwork in the exhibition &ldquo;Storage Room,&rdquo; which was curated by art students Erik Siegel and Angeles Juarez-Ruiz, is causing quite the stir beyond the walls of Dartmouth College&rsquo;s Black Family Visual Arts Center (BFVAC). The art center opened on Dartmouth&rsquo;s campus in 2012, thanks to a $48 million gift from billionaire financier and art collector&mdash;and 1973 Dartmouth alum&mdash;Leon Black and his wife Debra, whose friendship and business d]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dartmouth-students-turn-to-moldy-beef-jerky-installation-in-renewed-bid-to-remove-leon-blacks-name-from-artscenter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:40:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dartmouth-students-turn-to-moldy-beef-jerky-installation-in-renewed-bid-to-remove-leon-blacks-name-from-artscenter/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin Modern Museum Delayed Again as Moisture Damage Pushes Opening to 2030]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another day, another setback for Berlin&rsquo;s long awaited Berlin Modern, as moisture damage in the building&rsquo;s shell and microbial contamination in other parts of the structure have forced the postponement of the museum to 2030.The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announced the delay earlier this week, according to Monopol, after the Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Corporation broke the story on the issues.	The latest delay adds approximately eight months to the construction timelin]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-modern-museum-delayed-again-as-moisture-damage-pushes-opening-to2030/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:45:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-modern-museum-delayed-again-as-moisture-damage-pushes-opening-to2030/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Turner Prize Has Revealed Its 2026 Nominees—and Already Courted Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Turner Prize, the esteemed Tate-run award for British artists, has revealed this year&rsquo;s nominees, and in typical Turner Prize fashion, they&rsquo;ve already polarized critics.Simon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku are the four nominees for this year&rsquo;s award, which once again comes with a &pound;25,000 ($33,800) award for the winner. Facilitated by Tate Britain in London, the Turner Prize will this year stage a show of the nominees&rsquo; work at Teeside]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-turner-prize-has-revealed-its-2026-nomineesand-already-courtedcontroversy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:01:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-turner-prize-has-revealed-its-2026-nomineesand-already-courtedcontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering Napoleon Jones-Henderson, an AfriCOBRA Founding Member Who Imbued Art and Life with Exuberant Energy]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Do the work&rdquo; was Napoleon Jones-Henderson&rsquo;s mantra. He believed that beautiful things grow wherever people invest themselves in the labor of collective empowerment.&nbsp;Born in Chicago in 1943, Jones-Henderson grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago&rsquo;s South Side and attended George Washington Carver High School, where he was introduced to weaving by an influential art teacher. This teacher &ldquo;threw the doors open,&rdquo; as Jones-Henderson remembered, con]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/remembering-napoleon-jones-henderson-an-africobra-founding-member-who-imbued-art-and-life-with-exuberantenergy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/remembering-napoleon-jones-henderson-an-africobra-founding-member-who-imbued-art-and-life-with-exuberantenergy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas's experiment in disconnectedness]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas's experiment in disconnectedness]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-is-a-cost-to-being-unreachable-but-the-cost-of-being-available-is-far-higher-jerusalem-demsass-experiment-in-disconnectedness-2/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:12:51 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-is-a-cost-to-being-unreachable-but-the-cost-of-being-available-is-far-higher-jerusalem-demsass-experiment-in-disconnectedness-2/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gladstone Gallery to Relocate in Seoul, Doubling Exhibition Space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gladstone Gallery will move its Seoul location to the city&rsquo;s Hannam-dong neighborhood later this year.Designed by Minsuk Cho of Seoul-based firm Mass Studies, Gladstone&rsquo;s new outpost will take over two floors of the 739-28 Hannam Building at Yongsan. Across the street is Pace Gallery&rsquo;s Seoul location and down the street is the Leeum Museum of Art.The space is scheduled to open in the late summer, ahead of Frieze Seoul in September. A solo exhibition for Ed Atkins, his first in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gladstone-gallery-to-relocate-in-seoul-doubling-exhibitionspace/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/gladstone-gallery-to-relocate-in-seoul-doubling-exhibitionspace/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art Basel’s Swiss Fair Will Include a New Initiative Where Galleries Will Withhold Works from Their PDF Previews]]></title><description><![CDATA[With only two months before its marquee Swiss edition opens, Art Basel is hoping that a new initiative will help ensure that people make the trek to the Messeplatz to see art in-person.&ldquo;Basel Exclusive,&rdquo; as the fair is calling it, has a relatively simple premise: galleries will withhold at least one work, but up to their entire booth, from the PDF previews that they send out to clients ahead of the fair. Per a release, the initiative is meant to lean into one of the Swiss fair&rsquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basels-swiss-fair-will-include-a-new-initiative-where-galleries-will-withhold-works-from-their-pdfpreviews/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/art-basels-swiss-fair-will-include-a-new-initiative-where-galleries-will-withhold-works-from-their-pdfpreviews/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump Fires Top Collector John Phelan, Looted Helmet Heads Home to Romania: Morning Links for April 23, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[To receive&nbsp;Morning Links&nbsp;in your inbox every weekday,&nbsp;sign&nbsp;up&nbsp;for our&nbsp;Breakfast with ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter.The Headlines	DIARY OF ORPHAN ART. Nazi-looted artworks known as &ldquo;orphaned&rdquo; or &ldquo;heirless,&rdquo; brought back to the Netherlands from Germany after World War II, should be managed by a new Jewish foundation rather than the Dutch government, a panel has announced, reports The New York Times. The collection, worth millions, comprises some 1,50]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-fires-top-collector-john-phelan-looted-helmet-heads-home-to-romania-morning-links-for-april-232026/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:43:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-fires-top-collector-john-phelan-looted-helmet-heads-home-to-romania-morning-links-for-april-232026/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale Jury Says It Won’t Consider Countries Charged with Crimes Against Humanity, Including Israel and Russia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale&rsquo;s jury said on Thursday that it would not consider nations whose leaders have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court&mdash;a move that effectively tosses Israel and Russia out of the running for the top honors at the world&rsquo;s greatest art exhibition.Issued the day after the jury was announced by the Biennale, the statement spoke of &ldquo;a responsibility towards the historical role of the Biennale as a platform that connects]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-says-it-wont-consider-countries-charged-with-crimes-against-humanity-including-israel-andrussia/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennale-jury-says-it-wont-consider-countries-charged-with-crimes-against-humanity-including-israel-andrussia/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Sales Are Surging as Auction Houses Lean into Exclusive, Experience-Led Selling]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editor&rsquo;s Note:&nbsp;This story originally appeared in&nbsp;On Balance,&nbsp;the ARTnews&nbsp;newsletter about the art market and beyond.&nbsp;Sign up here&nbsp;to receive it every Wednesday.In mid-March, just before Sotheby&rsquo;s modern and contemporary evening sale in London, the house&rsquo;s co-heads of UK private sales, James Francis Fox&nbsp;and&nbsp;David Rothschild&nbsp;, ushered me into a stately backroom for a look at its invitation-only selling exhibition, &ldquo;The Apartment.]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/private-sales-are-surging-as-auction-houses-lean-into-exclusive-experience-ledselling/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/private-sales-are-surging-as-auction-houses-lean-into-exclusive-experience-ledselling/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top Collector John Phelan Fired as Navy Secretary, After Reports of Pentagon Infighting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, who has appeared on multiple editions of ARTnews&rsquo;s Top 200 Collectors list, is stepping down from his position. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become acting secretary, according to a short post on X by Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson.While Parnell&rsquo;s statement contained little information about Phelan&rsquo;s departure, the New York Times characterized it as a &ldquo;firing,&rdquo; saying that it followed months of disagreements with senior m]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-collector-john-phelan-fired-as-navy-secretary-after-reports-of-pentagoninfighting/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-collector-john-phelan-fired-as-navy-secretary-after-reports-of-pentagoninfighting/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Auction Without Bidding: Loïc Gouzer’s Latest Bet on How to Sell Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lo&iuml;c Gouzer has a new idea for how to sell art. It&rsquo;s untested, but for him that&rsquo;s part of the appeal.On April 23, his auction app&nbsp;Fair Warning&nbsp;will roll out a new format called &ldquo;No Warning.&rdquo; The premise is simple and a little unnerving if you are used to buying via fine art auctions, but perhaps not if you&rsquo;ve spent any time on eBay or Poshmark. To start, a work will appear for sale (with a price). You can either hit &ldquo;purchase now&rdquo; or submi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-auction-without-bidding-loc-gouzers-latest-bet-on-how-to-sellart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-auction-without-bidding-loc-gouzers-latest-bet-on-how-to-sellart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While many critics have recognized JG Ballard's talent, few could describe it. He's always been too anarchic and too unsettling for general acceptance]]></title><description><![CDATA[While many critics have recognized JG Ballard's talent, few could describe it. He's always been too anarchic and too unsettling for general acceptance]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/while-many-critics-have-recognized-jg-ballards-talent-few-could-describe-it-hes-always-been-too-anarchic-and-too-unsettling-for-general-acceptance/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:17:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/while-many-critics-have-recognized-jg-ballards-talent-few-could-describe-it-hes-always-been-too-anarchic-and-too-unsettling-for-general-acceptance/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas’s experiment in disconnectedness]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas&rsquo;s experiment in disconnectedness]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-is-a-cost-to-being-unreachable-but-the-cost-of-being-available-is-far-higher-jerusalem-demsass-experiment-in-disconnectedness/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:17:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/there-is-a-cost-to-being-unreachable-but-the-cost-of-being-available-is-far-higher-jerusalem-demsass-experiment-in-disconnectedness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to changes in the DSM, it’s now difficult to be diagnosed with hypochondria. And yet the disease persists as a character type]]></title><description><![CDATA[Due to changes in the DSM, it&rsquo;s now difficult to be diagnosed with hypochondria. And yet the disease persists as a character type]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/due-to-changes-in-the-dsm-its-now-difficult-to-be-diagnosed-with-hypochondria-and-yet-the-disease-persists-as-a-character-type/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:17:35 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/due-to-changes-in-the-dsm-its-now-difficult-to-be-diagnosed-with-hypochondria-and-yet-the-disease-persists-as-a-character-type/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architectural Competition for Louvre ‘New Renaissance’ Project Reportedly Set to Relaunch in May]]></title><description><![CDATA[Originally delayed earlier this year, reportedly amid staff unrest, and later postponed until after the French municipal elections, the jury tasked with selecting the architects for the Louvre Museum renovation is now set to convene in mid-May, Le Figaro reports. Its members will assess five shortlisted architectural proposals, formally launching the $778 million renovation plan spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron.Quoting sources close to the project, the French newspaper reports tha]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/architectural-competition-for-louvre-new-renaissance-project-reportedly-set-to-relaunch-inmay/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/architectural-competition-for-louvre-new-renaissance-project-reportedly-set-to-relaunch-inmay/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump White House Ballroom Contract Allowed Anonymous Donors, Limited Oversight]]></title><description><![CDATA[A previously undisclosed contract governing the fundraising for President Donald Trump&rsquo;s planned White House ballroom shields donor identities and omits key conflict-of-interest protections, according to documents obtained by&nbsp;the Washington Post&nbsp;after a court order forced their release.&nbsp;The agreement, signed in early October between the White House, the National Park Service, and the Trust for the National Mall, sets the legal framework for what Trump has described as a roug]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-white-house-ballroom-contract-allowed-anonymous-donors-limitedoversight/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/trump-white-house-ballroom-contract-allowed-anonymous-donors-limitedoversight/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dutch Commission Recommends New Guardianship for ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art]]></title><description><![CDATA[A committee appointed by the Dutch government has come up with a plan for a state-owned collection&rsquo;s controversial holdings, reports the New York Times.The Netherlands Art Property Collection (known as the NK Collection) comprises thousands of priceless objects, including paintings worth millions by Dutch Golden Age masters, repatriated by the Allies from Germany to the Netherlands after World War II. Most of these objects were looted from Jews who were killed, deported, or forced to sell]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dutch-commission-recommends-new-guardianship-for-orphaned-nazi-lootedart/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/dutch-commission-recommends-new-guardianship-for-orphaned-nazi-lootedart/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venice Biennale’s 2026 Golden Lion Jury to Be Led by Videobrasil Founder]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale has revealed the members of the five-person jury that will decide the Golden Lions for the 2026 edition. The president of the jury is Solange Oliveira Farkas, who will be joined by Zoe Butt, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Marta Kuzma, and Giovanna Zapperi.Farkas founded the Videobrasil Biennial in S&atilde;o Paulo in 1983, serving as its artistic director until 2004. Farkas is currently the founder and artistic director of Associa&ccedil;&atilde;o Cultural Videobrasil, which supports t]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-2026-golden-lion-jury-to-be-led-by-videobrasilfounder/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:23:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/venice-biennales-2026-golden-lion-jury-to-be-led-by-videobrasilfounder/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 200 Collector Mitchell Rales Gifts $116 M. to National Gallery of Art for Lending Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., launched Across the Nation last spring, it wasn&rsquo;t clear how long the initiative to lend artworks from its collection to regional American museums would last. At the time, the NGA&mdash;with financial support from billionaire art collector and museum trustee Mitchell Rales&mdash;committed to lend up to ten artworks to ten partner institutions in in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, and Wa]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collector-mitchell-rales-gifts-116-m-to-national-gallery-of-art-for-lendingprogram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collector-mitchell-rales-gifts-116-m-to-national-gallery-of-art-for-lendingprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 200 Collector Mitchell Rales Gifts $116 M. to National Gallery if Art for Lending Program]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., launched Art Across the Nation last spring, it wasn&rsquo;t clear how long the initiative to lend artworks from its collection to regional American museums would last. At the time, the NGA&mdash;with financial support from billionaire art collector and museum trustee Mitchell Rales&mdash;committed to lend up to ten artworks to ten partner institutions in in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Utah, an]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collector-mitchell-rales-gifts-116-m-to-national-gallery-if-art-for-lendingprogram/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:36:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/top-200-collector-mitchell-rales-gifts-116-m-to-national-gallery-if-art-for-lendingprogram/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Claude Lalanne Mirror Ensemble Sells for $33.5 M., Breaking Design Auction Records]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bespoke ensemble of 15 mirrors by Claude Lalanne sold at Sotheby&rsquo;s New York today for $33.5 million, breaking the artist&rsquo;s secondary-market record and becoming the most valuable design work ever to leave the auction block.&nbsp;&nbsp;Collectively titled Important and Unique Ensemble of Fifteen Mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berg&eacute;, the piece sold for more than double its pre-sale high estimate ($10 million&ndash;15 million), surpassing a functioning bar in the shap]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claude-lalanne-mirror-ensemble-sells-for-335-m-breaking-design-auctionrecords/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/claude-lalanne-mirror-ensemble-sells-for-335-m-breaking-design-auctionrecords/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berlin Museum Oversees Digital Resurrection of Hundreds of Paintings Destroyed During World War II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of paintings lost to the ravages of war&mdash;including multiple works by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Caravaggio&mdash;will soon be viewable online courtesy of a digitization initiative by Berlin&rsquo;s Gem&auml;ldegalerie.The museum&rsquo;s formidable collection of Old Master paintings was damaged by two fires around the end of World War II. But as reported by the Art Newspaper, digital renderings made from high-resolution glass negatives from a photo-docu]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-museum-oversees-digital-resurrection-of-hundreds-of-paintings-destroyed-during-world-warii/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/berlin-museum-oversees-digital-resurrection-of-hundreds-of-paintings-destroyed-during-world-warii/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Shows Off New Public Art Projects in Advance of NFL Draft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The three-day NFL draft, hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, kicks off in the Steel City on Thursday. The main events will take place downtown: at Acrisure Stadium on the North Shore and Point State Park, where Pittsburgh&rsquo;s famous three rivers meet. The city is expecting hundreds of thousands of visitors&mdash;by some estimates, far more than the population of the city itself. The draft is taking over the city to such a degree that roads downtown have preemptively closed and the public scho]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pittsburgh-shows-off-new-public-art-projects-in-advance-of-nfldraft/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/pittsburgh-shows-off-new-public-art-projects-in-advance-of-nfldraft/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraenkel Gallery Partners with New York’s Metrograph for Artist-Curated Series]]></title><description><![CDATA[San Francisco&ndash;based Fraenkel Gallery has partnered with Metrograph to have six of the artists it represents select one film each that will screen at the theater from May 8&ndash;17, with select encore screenings to follow.The collaboration will open with Weems&rsquo;s selection, No Country for Old Men (2007). In addition to choosing the film, which a release describes as pointing to the artist&rsquo;s &ldquo;sustained engagement with power, violence, and the shaping of American mythologies]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fraenkel-gallery-partners-with-new-yorks-metrograph-for-artist-curatedseries/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:22:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/fraenkel-gallery-partners-with-new-yorks-metrograph-for-artist-curatedseries/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What You Need to Know About the Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion Controversy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venice Biennale always brings with it a flurry of controversies, many of them centered on the national pavilions. For that reason, most observers and attendees expect there to be some degree of scandal built into each each edition of the world&rsquo;s greatest art festival.But this year&rsquo;s Biennale, opening in May, has already proven more controversial than most. Artists have repeatedly protested Israel&rsquo;s presence, continuing calls for the nation&rsquo;s removal that began in 2024]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-venice-biennales-russian-pavilioncontroversy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-venice-biennales-russian-pavilioncontroversy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Think Tank and a Foundation Team Up On $1 M. in Accelerator Grants for Museum and Performing Arts Leaders—Timothée Chalamet Be Damned]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was the dismissal heard around the performing arts world when Timoth&eacute;e Chalamet said, in a February conversation with fellow-actor Matthew McConaughey, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it&rsquo;s like, &lsquo;Hey, keep this thing alive, even though, like, no one cares about this anymore.&rsquo;&rdquo;Even if ticket sales soared at some venues after the ill-considered remark, Chalamet had certainly put his finger on a real problem, as generati]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-think-tank-and-a-foundation-team-up-on-1-m-in-accelerator-grants-for-museum-and-performing-arts-leaderstimothe-chalamet-bedamned/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:12:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/a-think-tank-and-a-foundation-team-up-on-1-m-in-accelerator-grants-for-museum-and-performing-arts-leaderstimothe-chalamet-bedamned/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EU Says It ‘Intends’ to Cut Funding to Venice Biennale Because of Russian Pavilion]]></title><description><![CDATA[In its most forceful condemnation yet of the world&rsquo;s greatest art exhibition, the European Union said it planned to cut funding to the Venice Biennale, which will host this year host Russia&rsquo;s first pavilion since the nation&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.The pavilion has faced a bitter, negative response from European leaders and artists alike. Even participants in the main exhibition have called for the exclusion of Russia, with dozens of artists in that portion of the Biennale]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-says-it-intends-to-cut-funding-to-venice-biennale-because-of-russianpavilion/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/eu-says-it-intends-to-cut-funding-to-venice-biennale-because-of-russianpavilion/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Alexander Calder Retrospective in Paris Underscores His Inventiveness]]></title><description><![CDATA[Few artists have altered the course of modern sculpture as profoundly as Alexander Calder (1898&ndash;1976). From the late 1920s onward, he worked both in the United States and France, creating a new sculptural language grounded in movement and chance. It was in Paris that he introduced his first &ldquo;mobiles,&rdquo; setting in motion a practice that would unfold over more than five decades and ensure him global acclaim.Calder&rsquo;s current exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-alexander-calder-retrospective-in-paris-underscores-hisinventiveness/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/an-alexander-calder-retrospective-in-paris-underscores-hisinventiveness/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all]]></title><description><![CDATA[What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to &ldquo;culture,&rdquo; a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-causes-x-for-lazy-social-scientists-everything-can-be-attributed-to-culture-a-point-so-vague-that-it-effectively-argues-nothing-at-all/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:27:14 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/what-causes-x-for-lazy-social-scientists-everything-can-be-attributed-to-culture-a-point-so-vague-that-it-effectively-argues-nothing-at-all/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophets used to be executed for being wrong. While the penalties are less severe, the lure of prediction remains the same]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prophets used to be executed for being wrong. While the penalties are less severe, the lure of prediction remains the same]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prophets-used-to-be-executed-for-being-wrong-while-the-penalties-are-less-severe-the-lure-of-prediction-remains-the-same/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:01:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/prophets-used-to-be-executed-for-being-wrong-while-the-penalties-are-less-severe-the-lure-of-prediction-remains-the-same/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein: “To attribute social terribleness to liberalism is reckless. Liberalism isn’t a force in history. It’s not Voldemort”]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein: &ldquo;To attribute social terribleness to liberalism is reckless. Liberalism isn&rsquo;t a force in history. It&rsquo;s not Voldemort&rdquo;]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cass-sunstein-to-attribute-social-terribleness-to-liberalism-is-reckless-liberalism-isnt-a-force-in-history-its-not-voldemort/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:01:45 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/cass-sunstein-to-attribute-social-terribleness-to-liberalism-is-reckless-liberalism-isnt-a-force-in-history-its-not-voldemort/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos’s NEON to Conclude After ‘Having Fulfilled Its Mission’]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEON, the Athens-based initiative founded by leading collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos, will conclude its activities later this year, &ldquo;after 14 years of activity, having fulfilled its cultural and social mission,&rdquo; according to a release.NEON&rsquo;s final project began last year when the first of three exhibitions by Chicago-based artist Michael Rakowitz opened at the Acropolis Museum in May, while the second exhibition opened last October.The trilogy of exhibitions, collectively titl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-dimitris-daskalopouloss-neon-to-conclude-after-having-fulfilled-itsmission/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/collector-dimitris-daskalopouloss-neon-to-conclude-after-having-fulfilled-itsmission/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiffany Window From Connecticut Church Could Fetch $2 M. at Christie’s]]></title><description><![CDATA[A late 19th-century stained-glass window by Tiffany Studios, which hung in a Connecticut church for more than a century, is headed to auction this June and expected to bring in up to $2 million.The Boyd Family Memorial Window (The Falls), from 1898, will headline a design sale at Christie&rsquo;s New York, according to&nbsp;Artnet News.&nbsp;The two-panel composition, installed in 1899 at the Second Congregational Church in Winsted, shows a lush landscape at sunset, with a cascading waterfall in]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tiffany-window-from-connecticut-church-could-fetch-2-m-atchristies/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/tiffany-window-from-connecticut-church-could-fetch-2-m-atchristies/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iran War Is Already Tanking Luxury Sales in the Gulf—Could Art Be Next?]]></title><description><![CDATA[By the end of last year, 2026 seemed poised to be the year of the Gulf for the art market. In December 2025, Sotheby&rsquo;s held the first edition of Abu Dhabi Collectors&rsquo; Week, netting $133 million in the process. This past February, Art Basel held the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar. And, in November, Frieze is set to host the first edition of its newly rebranded fair Frieze Abu Dhabi.&nbsp;But then, after weeks of saber rattling, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. The Isl]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-iran-war-is-already-tanking-luxury-sales-in-the-gulfcould-art-benext/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:17:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/the-iran-war-is-already-tanking-luxury-sales-in-the-gulfcould-art-benext/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diego Rivera’s Grandson Donates 150,000 Objects to Major Mexico City Museum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mexico City&rsquo;s Museo Anahuacalli is set to receive more than 150,000 objects from Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, in a donation that significantly expands the museum&rsquo;s holdings and renews attention on the artist&rsquo;s original vision for the site.As first reported by&nbsp;The Art Newspaper, the gift spans centuries, from 16th-century ceramics to textiles, photographs, wooden objects, prints, and archival material tied to Rivera and his circle. The works wil]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/diego-riveras-grandson-donates-150000-objects-to-major-mexico-citymuseum/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/diego-riveras-grandson-donates-150000-objects-to-major-mexico-citymuseum/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Auction of Diane Keaton’s Collection Includes Art, Fashion, and Personal Treasures from Decades on Film]]></title><description><![CDATA[The personal treasures of Diane Keaton, the commanding actress who established a significant sartorial presence and wore hats as well as a milliner could ever dream, are the subject of an in-person auction in New York and three online sales courtesy of Bonhams. Exhibitions of the lots on offer will be mounted in Los Angeles, starting May 5, and New York, beginning May 29.&ldquo;Diane Keaton: The Architecture of an Icon&rdquo; is the main event, at Bonhams US flagship on West 57th Street on the e]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auction-of-diane-keatons-collection-includes-art-fashion-and-personal-treasures-from-decades-onfilm/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-us/news/arts/auction-of-diane-keatons-collection-includes-art-fashion-and-personal-treasures-from-decades-onfilm/</guid></item></channel></rss>