Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth, 1842. Courtesy the National Gallery of Art The Last Museum, an online search engine without any names or credits attached to it, now offers up images of some 6.3 million artworks held in museum collections around the world, searchable by “theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you …
A general view of the three-story central Collections Hall inside the new V&A East Storehouse on May 27, 2025 in London, England. Getty Images Tristram Hunt, director of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), is on the receiving end of criticism from the two unions, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and Prospect, which have …
Dani Forest, left, and Amelia Redgrift, both of whom have resigned from senior positions at Pace Gallery. The shakeup at Pace Gallery isn’t over. Just two months after the gallery laid off roughly 50 employees in a sweeping restructuring, two of the executives who helped shape Pace during its years of rapid expansion are headed …
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A rendering of the Irthi Museum. Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council The United Arab Emirates landscape is expanding once again, with Sharjah set for the region’s first contemporary crafts museum. The Irthi Museum will open in Sharjah’s Creative Quarter sometime in 2029 and house a permanent collection of contemporary crafts from across the Gulf, the Irthi …
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Sabyasachi cuffs inspired by artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Courtesy Sabyasachi The distinguished Indian fashion brand Sabyasachi has partnered with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for a new line of jewelry inspired by the institution’s vast collection. Sabyasachi, which was founded by designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, will unveil the jewelry line on September …
Excerpt from a mystical treatise by Omar Saïdou Tall, held in the manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France [National Library of France], in Paris. Photo courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Photo courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. For decades, the descendants of the Senegalese Muslim mystic, scholar, and military commander …
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Photo J. David Ake/Getty Images A former senior executive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has accused the institution of “soft censorship” for relocating, without explanation, a symposium inspired by its exhibition on race in American and Mexican art last year. The symposium, titled …
Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden. Photo Barry Williams for New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Mamdani administration is expected to abandon city plans to replace Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden with housing. NYC Culture Club has moved into New York’s Port …
The first tomb contains a square shaft about 3 meters deep, leading to two burial chambers Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered three tombs from different historical periods at the Sheikh Sobi archaeological site in the Bahariya Oasis. The news was reported by several outlets, including Arab News, following an …
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Jack Leigh, Lone Tree at Sunset, Ossabaw, 2001. ©Jack Leigh Collection/Courtesy Laney Contemporary ARTS Southeast, an artist residency nonprofit based in Savannah, Georgia, will launch a new residency program on Ossabaw Island, the state’s third-largest barrier island. The Ossabaw Island Residency will host two week-long sessions, one in fall 2026 and one in spring 2027, …
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