Liz Munsell will be the new vice president of curatorial and arts programs at Powerhouse Arts. Photo Xavier Petromelis/Courtesy Powerhouse Arts Powerhouse Arts, a nonprofit creative production center in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood, announced that curator Liz Munsell to the role of vice president of curatorial and arts programs. Munsell will replace Diya Vij, who was …
An installation view of the Royal Academy of Arts’s recent Kerry James Marshall exhibition. Photo: ©David Parry/ Royal Academy of Arts, London; Art: ©Kerry James Marshall/Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, London Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, …
Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts Read More »
Rosso Fiorentino Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, 1512/13. Private Collection/Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance. Layers of paint were removed during a recent conservation to reveal the figure …
Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari Read More »
El Greco, The Reedemer, c. 1590–95 Courtesy Vatican Museum The Vatican has announced the discovery of a newly identified painting by Mannerist painter El Greco, Artnet News reports. Titled The Redeemer and dating to the late 1500s, the piece was uncovered by restorers Alessandra Zarelli and Paolo Violini. While conserving the work, they realized that an …
Painting in the Vatican’s Collection Is Newly Identified as an El Greco Read More »
Kamel Mennour. Archives Mennour. The baton is being passed from an elder generation of French art dealer to a younger one, with the purchase of Galerie Malingue by dealer Kamel Mennour, who will take over Malingue’s 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. “Located in a space with a long history in …
Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue, Founded Over Five Decades Ago Read More »
Supporters gather at Sebastian Street and A1A in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the site of the Pride crosswalk, for a “We Won’t Be Erased” Rally on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025. The protest is in response to the state of Florida’s directive to erase the rainbow crosswalks in Fort Lauderdale Beach, and to show support for …
Trevor Paglen. Photo Michael Avedon/©Trevor Paglen/Courtesy the artist, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, and Pace Gallery, New York Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the LG Guggenheim Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the …
Trevor Paglen Wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award for Art and Technology Read More »
Alexander Gardner, Lincoln’s Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865. National Gallery of Art, Gift of Funds from Ronald M. Costell, M.D. and the Estate of Marsha E. Swiss, 2025.44.20 The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., announced today the acquisition of nearly 600 works to its permanent collection, spanning from the 17th century to today. …
Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sandrine Marty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines STREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her …
Thomas J Price in front of his sculpture A Place Beyond at the entrance to the V&A East in London. Photo David Parry/PA Media Assignments When the Victoria and Albert Museum’s newest branch, known as the V&A East, opens in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London next month, visitors will be greeted by a …
Thomas J Price, Artist Behind Viral Times Square Sculpture, Unveils New Bronze in London Read More »
