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Miffy with a Pearl Earring at Tokyo press conference on Thursday. Via Gilles Beschoor Plug/X You’ve heard of Johannes Vermeer‘s ca. 1665 painting Girl with a Pearl Earring, long housed at the Mauritshuis in the Hague and soon to visit Japan this summer. Now, prepare for the latest art history–inspired sensation. Call it Miffy with …

This ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Miffy Toy Is Officially an Internet Celebrity Read More »

In 2016, art detectives Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce from the BBC’s “Fake or Fortune” found that a painting of a man in a black cravat is one of the first pictures ever painted by Lucian Freud. Courtesy, BBC A portrait Lucian Freud spent years insisting was not his will go on public display for …

Lucian Freud Painting He Spent Decades Denying Will Go on Public View for the First Time Read More »

Kickstarter co-founder Yancy Strickler unveils the “Artist Corporation” economic model at TED2025, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 7, 2025 On June 2, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 133, a bill that creates a new type of limited liability company (LLC) called an Artist Company, or A-Corp, report the Art Newspaper and the Colorado Sun. …

Colorado Governor Signs Artist Corporation Bill into State Law Read More »

The British Museum. Photo Leon Neal/Getty Images The British Museum pushed back a planned lecture called “The Ancient History of Israel and Judah,” claiming that a “significant proportion” of the people expected to attend wanted to protest the event. The London museum announced the postponement on Thursday, in a release that noted that the event …

British Museum Reschedules Postponed Israel Lecture to June Following Fears of Protests Read More »

The Centre Pompidou-Metz. Photo Becker & Bredel/ullstein bild via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of Kinetic Art and winner of the Venice Biennale Grand Prize, has died at 97 in Paris. Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, i.e. the duct-taped banana, was stolen from the Centre-Pompidou Metz. …

Julio Le Parc Dies, Cattelan’s Banana Stolen from French Museum, and More: Morning Links for June 1, 2026 Read More »

Robert Wyland’s Dallas mural depicted endangered whales and dolphins swimming in the ocean. Wyland Foundation When soccer fans converge on Dallas this month for World Cup games, the aesthetically inclined ones will encounter a city home to art museums, galleries, and public art. And yet, the city will be missing a major and longstanding public …

Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup Read More »

Sets of sumptuous jewelry, including crown, and large bodice bow of Empress Eugénie, on display at the Louvre Museum on October 21, 2023 in Paris, France. VCG via Getty Images It was inevitable: The audacious robbery of the Louvre, in which thieves broke into one of the world’s most well-attended museums in broad daylight and …

French Filmmaker Romain Gavras Is Turning the $102 M. Louvre Heist Into a Movie Read More »

Leonora Carrington, Villa Pilar, 1940. Courtesy Faro Santander/©2026 Estate of Leonora Carrington, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, and DACS, London On July 1, London museumgoers will get a first look at a painting by Leonora Carrington not seen in over 80 years. The 1940 painting, titled Villa Pillar, will appear in “The Symptomatic Surreal” …

Leonora Carrington Painting Made Inside Spanish Sanatorium Resurfaces After 80 Years Read More »

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, aka Jerry Gogosian. Dave Benett/Getty Artist and art world commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein was found dead on Sunday in São Paulo’s Rosewood Hotel, according to a report by Brazilian television network Globo. Helphenstein, better known by her pseudonym Jerry Gogosian, was found in her hotel room beside an empty vodka bottle, a …

Art World Commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, Better Known as Jerry Gogosian, Found Dead in São Paulo Read More »

Paula Kamps. Courtesy Sans Titre Paula Kamps, a painter whose softly hued paintings showing flowers and blurring figures gained her recognition in Europe and the US, died at 36. Her Paris gallery, Sans Titre, confirmed her death on Tuesday, but did not state a cause. Kamps’s paintings frequently dealt with the fleetingness of memory. Using …

Paula Kamps, Painter of Tender Works About Memory, Dies at 36 Read More »