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Angelina Jolie’s New York Studio Space Runs Into a Legal Challenge

A view of Angelina Jolie’s Atelier Jolie clothing store in the East Village of New York City. Gotham/GC Images When actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie took over a Manhattan studio building in 2023 with a plan to offer clothes shopping, Turkish coffee, and Syrian mini pies, and workshops for under-represented tailors and artisans from around …

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Arnulf Rainer, Austrian Artist Known for His ‘Overpaintings,’ Dies at 96

Arnulf Rainer in 2019. © Javier Gutierrez Arnulf Rainer, the Austrian artist whose relentless drive for experimentation made him a key figure of Europe’s postwar scene, died on December 18 at 96 at his home in Austria. His death was confirmed by his gallery Thaddaeus Ropac. Born in Baden, Austria, in 1929, Rainer spent more …

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Digital Art’s Narcissism Problem, Sotheby’s to Host Second Saudi Auction, Smithsonian Returns 3 Statues to Cambodia: Morning Links for December 23, 2026

https://www.sfaaat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2198415413-1.jpg Sotheby’s last Saudi in February sale generated $17.3 million. Getty Images for Sotheby’s To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines DIGITAL NARCISSISM. The Art Newspaper opines that this year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach exposed a problem in contemporary digital art: its entrenched culture of narcissism. Nowhere was this apparently …

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Filmmaker Amos Poe Dies at 76, ‘Red, White, and Blue’ British Museum Ball Invites Controversy, and: Morning Links for December 26, 2026

The British Museum. Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines REEL GENIUS. The filmmaker Amos Poe, a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY films helped define New York’s punk scene in the mid- and late ’70s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with cancer, Reuters reports. His …

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Check Out the New Francis Kéré-Designed Las Vegas Museum of Art, Opening in 2029

Exterior view of the Las Vegas Museum of Art, showing the plaza and canopy. ©Kéré Architecture/Courtesy Las Vegas Museum of Art The Last Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has released renderings of its new museum building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré. Kéré’s design for the 60,000-square-foot building is inspired by the nearby Mojave …

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Artists Denounced Jeffrey Epstein’s Behavior Nearly 20 Years Ago—and Other Art-Related Reveals from the Newly Released Files

Epstein abuse survivor Teresa Helm speaks during a news conference with lawmakers on the Epstein Files Transparency Act outside the U.S. Capitol on November 18, 2025. Photo Heather Deahl/Getty Images Federal authorities, journalists, and Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have spent years scrutinizing the financier’s properties and possessions, piecing together an aesthetic world that often seemed to …

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In Repatriation Ceremony in New York, 43 Antiquities Are Returned to Turkey

One of the terracotta relief fragments returned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Courtesy Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Reflecting growing pressure by New York prosecutors on museums and private collectors, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and an American collector have returned dozens of looted antiquities to Turkey. …

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Trump Reappoints Mary Anne Carter, a Familiar Figure From First Term, as NEA Chair

Mary Anne Carter. © MOSHE ZUSMAN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO The National Endowment for the Arts has a new chair: Mary Anne Carter, the same political operative who served in the post during Trump’s first term. The Senate voted this morning to confirm her along party lines, by a 53–43 margin. In keeping with his tendency to …

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Uruguay’s Only Art Fair Wagers That It Can Create a New Regional Market Force

The entrance to Este Arte. Courtesy Este Arte “There’s a before and after Este Arte,” Uruguay’s first and only art fair, according to its founder, Laura Bardier.  The professionalization of Uruguay’s art market could read as Bardier’s biography—the curator who, through sheer insistence, converted a quixotic dream into a promising market machine—but that would misinterpret …

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China Launches Probe Into Alleged Art-Theft Scheme at Nanjing Museum Involving a Former Director

View of the Nanjing Museum on International Museum Day 2024. Courtesy Nanjing Museum Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly removed cultural treasures from the collection and sold them on the open market—claims that have gone viral on social media and drawn comparisons to the recent …

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