Papyrus fragment with lines from Homer’s Odyssey, ca. 285–250 BCE. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art Likely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned the oldest preserved fragment of The Odyssey to one of its galleries, where it can be …
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A page from the Van Eeghen Drawing Book. Courtesy Rijksmuseum A book of immaculate drawings that has been stewarded by the Van Eeghen family in the Netherlands for more than three centuries has been donated to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where it will go on view starting August 19. In a press release, the museum …
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Jonathan Carver Moore Photo by Kari Orvic Jonathan Carver Moore says he cashed in his own retirement account to start his gallery on the edge of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood in 2023. He has mounted strong presentations at art fairs from Chicago to Miami. But artists, collectors and dealers say he has been guilty of …
Artist Kit Fitzgerald (1953-2026). Courtesy Peter Gordon Kit Fitzgerald, a visionary video artist with a sense for the music and motion of painting, died on August 3 at 73. The news was announced by her husband and longtime creative partner, Peter Gordon, on Instagram. He wrote that she “fought a rare and aggressive cancer, but …
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Mary Heilmann, 2020. Photo Brigitte Lacombe/Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and 303 Gallery, New York Mary Heilmann, an influential abstract painter who received her first solo exhibition in a New York museum in her 60s, died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York. Her studio announced the news in an Instagram posting, adding …
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View of the Hermitage from the square with the Alexander Column, at dawn. St. Petersburg, Russia. Getty Images The prosecutor’s office of the republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol is investigating two unnamed researchers, one of them associated with the Hermitage, for war crimes. The prosecutors say they participated in illegal archaeological expeditions …
An ammonite fossil at Lyme Regis in Dorset, England. Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A “stunning” British collection of 318 Jurassic fossils has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi in what some have described as a loss to the nation, the Guardian reports. The items were collected by UK fossil …
Anicka Yi’s Turbine Hall installation at the Tate Modern in 2021-2022. Anicka Yi / Photography by Will Burrard-Lucas / Courtesy Tate Modern To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Police in Italy and Brazil have recovered nearly a dozen paintings stolen over the last year. London’s cultural sector is facing …
Italy, Sicily, Messina, Regional Museum, inv. 548. Mondadori Portfolio Thieves have dealt a Sicilian museum a harrowing loss, stealing three of the five surviving devotional panels painted by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina. The assailants broke into the Regional Museum of Messina, also known as MuMem, on Saturday evening, as the port city celebrated the …
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San Diego Museum of Art. Wikimedia Commons The San Diego Museum of Art laid off 11 employees on Wednesday, August 5, citing “rising operational costs,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The layoffs affected departments across the museum, including programs, development, and exhibitions, and leave the total staff count at 118. The news comes six months …
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