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The Palace of Westminster in London. Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A new parliamentary report says the UK government lacks leadership and has a “hands-off” approach to how it funds and cares for national museums. The German conceptual artist and painter …

Parliamentary Report Accuses UK Government of Leaderless Approach to Caring for Museums and More: Morning Links for June 30, 2026 Read More »

Marble head of a veiled man, Roman, 1st half of 1st century CE, restituted in June 2026 Metropolitan Museum of Art. Investigators from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum in June, reports the New York Times. According to an inventory produced by the office, this brings …

Manhattan DA’s Office Seized Dozens of Antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum in June, Bringing Total to $95 M. Read More »

Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THEY SHOOK ON IT. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York’s City Council have approved $323.8 million in funding for culture, reports Hyperallergic. That’s a record amount of yearly funding. Specifically, the $323.8 …

León Ferrari Exhibition Nixed by Chile’s Far-Right Government, NYC Gets Record Arts Budget: Morning Links for July 2, 2026 Read More »

Work by Selma Selman in a 2024 show at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Munich. Norbert Miguletz Skulptur Projekte Münster, the storied exhibition that takes place once every decade in the titular German town, has revealed some of the first details of its 2027 edition—the first staged without the leadership of its founder, the lauded curator …

2027 Skulptur Projekte Münster Will Include ‘Communal Cooking,’ Examinations of Power Read More »

An art class meets on a deck at Black Mountain College, an art and design school in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Today the former school is a museum and art center. (Photo by Genevieve Naylor/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, World …

World Monuments Fund Adds Black Mountain College Building to U.S. Preservation Watch List Read More »

Frank Feltens will be the next chief curator of the Seattle Art Museum. Photo Jeremy Norwood The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) has appointed Frank Feltens as its next chief curator. He succeeds José Carlos Diaz, who departed the institution last October to be the chief curator of the Peréz Art Museum Miami. Feltens will start …

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View of the Temple of Artemis, with the Acropolis behind, the Pactolus River in the foreground, and Bin Tepe in upper left. ©Archaeo. Exploration of Sardis/ President and Fellows of Harvard College The Iron Age city of Sardis in western Turkey has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, marking a milestone in one of …

Ancient City of Sardis Earns UNESCO World Heritage Status After Nearly 70 Years of Excavation Read More »

A container for herbs and medicine. It depicts the divine messenger Ofoe without a torso. Source: Kathrin Leuenberger Three Swiss museums have returned 18 royal and religious artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria, marking another significant repatriation of the so-called Benin Bronzes. A handover ceremony took place today at the University of Zurich …

Three Swiss Museums Return Trove of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria Read More »

Rune Mields at her exhibition “Die Zahlen sind die Drogen,” September 4–18. 2016, presented at the Fuhrwerkwaage Kunstraum Köln, Germany, in conjunction with the Zonta Cologne Art Award Ullstein Bild via Getty Images. Self-taught German conceptual artist Rune Mields died on June 27 in Cologne, Germany, at the age of 91. Her death was first …

Rune Mields, Self-Taught German Conceptual Artist, Dies at 91 Read More »

Jordyn Brooks’s lucky Tux Clutch Mini bag. Screenshot/Instagram Tired of winning yet? The Guggenheim in New York isn’t. Earlier this week, the museum announced that a “courtside icon” from the New York Knicks’s NBA Finals run is coming its way. Fashion designer Jordyn Brooks, who is also the fiancée of Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns, made …

A ‘Lucky’ Orange Handbag Designed by Fiancée of Knicks Star Karl Anthony-Towns Heads to the Guggenheim Read More »