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Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by a Female Artist at TEFAF

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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 1, 2025. Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution’s collection, according to Artnet News. …

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Pop Singer Rosalía Apologizes for Saying She Can ‘Differentiate’ Picasso’s Art from His Life

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Rosalía, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, previously said she could “differentiate” Picasso’s art from his life. Photo Zak Hussein/Billboard via Getty Images Rosalía, one of the world’s most popular singers, apologized after wading into an age-old debate surrounding Pablo Picasso, whose work she initially praised before admitting she didn’t know enough about his …

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Researchers Confirm Location of Lost City of Alexandria on the Tigris

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Aerial photo showing the fortification walls of Alexandria on the Tigris, Charax-Spasinou, Iraq. ©Charax Spasinou Project/Stuart Campbell, 2017 An international team of researchers has confirmed the discovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE–323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus …

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Former MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Says Leon Black Is a ‘Solid Trustee’ Amid Epstein Controversy

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Leon Black. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art While collector Leon Black continues to face controversy over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he has found a defender in Glenn Lowry, a former director of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York institution where Black is currently a …

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Senators Whitehouse and Schumer Call for ‘Proactive Measures’ to Protect Philip Guston and Ben Shahn Murals

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Philip Guston, Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family, 1942. Photo Charles Swaney/Living New Deal On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization’s management of its Fine Arts Program and the Fine Arts Collection. The GSA …

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Artists and Art Professionals Denounce Mexico’s Handling of Resurfaced Art Collection: ‘An Institutional Blunder’

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A Frida Kahlo self-portrait from the Gelman collection in a 2021 show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photo Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images More than 200 artists and art professionals in Mexico signed an open letter last week accusing the government of committing an “institutional blunder” after it allowed …

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Beeple’s Pooping Robot “Dogs” Are Heading to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie

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People looking at phones, looking at Beeple’s humanoid pig-dogs at Art Basel Miami Beach Daniel Cassady Beeple’s robotic beasties—first unveiled as a questionably crowd-drawing spectacle at Art Basel Miami Beach last December—are heading to a museum. The installation, Regular Animals (2025), will be presented at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin from April 29 to May 10, coinciding with Gallery Weekend …

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Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists

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The 2026 Biennale of Sydney. Photo Felicity Jenkins/©Art Gallery of New South Wales The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some members of Australia’s Jewish community repeatedly claimed that curator Hoor Al Qasimi had selected for participants with anti-Zionist politics. One prominent Jewish …

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Smiljan Radic Wins the Pritzker Prize, ‘Men Retire But Women Get Fired From Museum Leadership’ Says Anne Pasternak: Morning Links for March 13, 2026

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This aerial view shows the Bio-Bio Theater, designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radic. AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HOUSE OF CARDS. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has won the famed Pritzker Prize, the industry’s top accolade, which was delayed because of Tom Pritzker’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein, …

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