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PUNE, INDIA NOVEMBER 11: Cyrus Poonawalla, Chairman of Serum Institute of India Limited on November 11, 2007 in Pune, India. (Photo by Madhu Kapparath/Mint via Getty Images) Hindustan Times via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with …

Pharmaceuticals Billionaire Buys Record-Breaking Indian Painting, Venice Biennale Faces Artist Protest: Morning Links for April 2, 2026 Read More »

An installation view of “Samurai” at the British Museum. Courtesy Trustees of the British Museum The myth of the samurai gained prominence outside Japan in the early 20th century through films, TV shows, art, and literature. This widespread interest contributed to various misconceptions about them. However, a new exhibition at the British Museum, simply titled …

A New Exhibition at the British Museum Dismantles the Popular Understanding of Samurai Read More »

Gisela Colón working in Los Angeles studio. Photo Marten Elder Gisela Colón didn’t plan to become an artist. “I studied law because I thought it would protect me,” she told ARTnews, looking back on a childhood in Puerto Rico shaped as much by instability as it was by the farm in the outskirts of Bayamón …

Gisela Colón on Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny, and the Power Beneath the Island Read More »

The Louvre Museum in Paris. Getty Images Some 200 million visitors streamed through the 100 top-attended museums around the world in 2025, according to the latest attendance ranking by the Art Newspaper. That figure is still down a bit from the 230 million who punched their tickets in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic …

The Louvre Remains the World’s Most-Visited Museum, with Competition Coming from the Middle East and Asia in 2025 Read More »

Teresinha Soares with her work Camas (1970). ©Atelier Teresinha Soares/Courtesy the artist’s estate and Gomide & Co. Teresinha Soares, the Brazilian artist whose paintings and installations from the 1960s and ’70s challenged gendered-conventions of how women were both treated in Brazilian society and depicted throughout art history, died on March 31 in Belo Horizonte. She …

Teresinha Soares, Brazilian Artist Behind Erotic-Inflected Works That Slyly Defied Taboos, Dies at 99 Read More »

Bruno Bich. Photo Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images The heirs of the Bic family fortune filed suit in March for the return of a painting by Fra Angelico that sold at Christie’s for $5.4 million in 2018. That sale was only possible, the heirs allege, because a chauffeur for the family had stolen the work, …

Bic Family Heirs File Lawsuit for Return of Fra Angelico Painting ‘Stolen’ by Chauffeur Read More »

German carnival artist Jacques Tilly poses for photographers in front of one of his art works, a carnival float mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin, during the annual Rose Monday parade on February 16, 2026 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Getty Images German sculptor and illustrator Jacques Tilly was convicted on charges of spreading false information about the …

German Provocateur Artist Sentenced to 8.5 Years in Prison in Russia After Mocking Putin Read More »

The Alte Pinakothek (Old Picture Gallery) in Munich, Germany. Photo by Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images The Pinakotheken in Munich will return a painting by the German painter Lesser Ury that was auctioned under duress during the Nazi regime in Bavaria. First reported by Monopol, the news signals a renewed push for restitution within Bavaria’s museum sector, long …

Pinakothek in Munich Returns Nazi-Looted Painting by Lesser Ury to Jewish Heirs Read More »

US President Donald Trump holds a rendering of the East Wing modernization as he speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on March 29, 2026. Mandel NGAN / AFP In an opinion filed March 31,  a US District Court judge for the District of Columbia has rejected the …

With 18 Exclamation Marks, a DC Judge Orders a Stop to Trump’s Ballroom Project: ‘Please!’ Read More »

Mariasole Cecchi, Hofit Golan and Maxim Sapozhnikov attend the Les Petits Joueurs Dinner at Galleria Uffizi on September 20, 2016 in Florence, Italy. Ernesto S. Ruscio Good Morning! Artist Henry Guimond, from Sagkeeng First Nation, designed a patch worn by Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis II mission to the Moon. The Uffizi Galleries …

Manitoba Anishinaabe Artist’s Design Heads to the Moon, Uffizi Cyberattacked, and More: Morning Links for April 3, 2026 Read More »