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Bon Iver’s 22, A Million (10th Anniversary Edition) with artwork by Eric Timothy Carlson. Courtesy Jajaguwar Bon Iver, whose music has evolved over time from sparse acoustic folk to a synthesized sound suggestive of intricate worldbuilding, will release a deluxe 10th-annivesary edition an album that counted as a Gesamtkunstwerk when it helped reposition the band …

Bon Iver to Release 10th-Anniversary Edition of Album with Elaborate Artwork Elucidated Read More »

New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij at Materials for the Arts. Photo Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews New York will increase its direct support to artists, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Cultural Affairs commissioner Diya Vij announced today. Rising from $5,000 to up to $10,000, the increase doubles the funds given to artists and represents the …

As New York City Doubles Grants for Individual Artists to $10,000, Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij Discusses Vision for City Agency Read More »

Jeff Koons for Hublot. Courtesy of Hublot To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Jeff Koons is quietly selling about $100 million of his art collection at Christie’s. Damien Hirst makes his case for art as “anything done well,” ahead of a new …

Jeff Koons Cashes in $100 M. Art Collection to Christie’s, Damien Hirst Makes Case for Wearable Art Ahead of New Barrie Cashmere Collection, and More: Morning Links for October 5, 2026 Read More »

A Stolperstein commemorating Nazi victim Paul Gröger is embedded in the sidewalk in front of City Hall in Saxony, Heidenau, 2026. Photo Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Puerto Rican musician-turned-artist Rafael Ferrer has died at …

Puerto Rican Musician-turned-Artist Rafael Ferrer Has Died, Preliminary Trial Opens Against Museum and City Officials for Alleged Negligence Leading to Villena Treasure Theft, and More: Morning Links for September 30, 2026 Read More »

The spiral minaret of the ancient Abu Dulaf Mosque near the city of Samarra, 2026. The mosque forms part of the Samarra Archaeological City, which was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007. Photo AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP via Getty Images Two prominent Iraqi archaeologists were arrested this month, the Art Newspaper (TAN) …

Iraqi Archaeologists Arrested Amid Growing Concerns Over State Corruption Read More »

The Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., where the repatriation ceremony took place. Photo Valerie Plesch/picture alliance via Getty Images In advance of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to the White House last month, the United States quietly repatriated 58 cultural objects and artifacts to China in a ceremony that took place at the Chinese …

Buddhas and Dinosaur Bones Among Dozens of Smuggled Artifacts Repatriated to China Read More »

From the Institute of Illegal Images, Gorby (ca. 1988). A new triennial focusing on Northern California will include a show closely linked to the psychedelic counterculture often identified with the Bay Area: it will display the art that is printed on the sheets of card stock on which LSD is usually distributed. The artifacts come …

A Storied Collection of Blotter Acid Art Will Help Launch Northern California’s Inaugural ‘Further’ Triennial Read More »

French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on October 19, 2025. Robbers broke in to the Louvre and fled with jewelery on October 19, 2025 morning, a source close to the case said, adding that its value was still …

Louvre President Discusses New ‘Culture of Security,’ Spain’s Royal Paintings Museum at El Escorial Reopens After Decade, and More: Morning Links for October 1, 2026 Read More »

One piece of memorabilia among the 415 letters, documents, and manuscripts connected to Admiral Horatio Nelson that Sotheby’s will soon auction in a single-lot, sealed-bid sale with a high estimate of £6 million ($8 million). Courtesy Sotheby’s After selling Napoleon Bonaparte’s worn stockings and other “deeply personal relics that reflected the inner world” of the …

After Selling Napoleon Memorabilia, Sotheby’s Turns to His Enemy, Horatio Nelson, for $8 M. Auction Read More »

Researchers say the child in the newly attributed drawing may be the same model as the young girl at left in Edouard Manet’s The Old Musician, 1862). Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A drawing that has spent decades in an Italian collection is now believed to be a previously unknown work …

Long-Lost Drawing May Be a Previously Unknown Manet Read More »