The lintel on view at the Mexican Consulate in New York on Apr. Courtesy Instagram/Mexican Consulate in New York The cultural minister of Guatemala has begun the process to reclaim a 1,200-year-old stone lintel that was repatriated from the United States to Mexico in mid-April, according to a report in the Art Newspaper. The object …
The Reina Sofía, Madrid Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press via Getty Images. Spain’s government is turning up the pressure on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory, with lawmakers threatening consequences that could ultimately cost museum director Manuel Segade his job. A parliamentary oversight committee in Spain recently passed a resolution demanding …
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People viewing the Bayeux Tapestry, which is making a rare journey back to England in 2026. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images The upcoming presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long embroidered cloth depicting the Norman invasion of 1066, figures to be the blockbuster exhibition of the year for the British Museum. The institution is pricing …
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The Hispanic Society of America building in Washington Heights. Photo: Asaavedra32/Wikipedia Commons. When Sotheby’s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum. Now, Sotheby’s is leaning into that history in earnest, …
TOPSHOT – French photographer and street artist JR, poses in his Paris studio on November 26, 2025, presenting “The Cave of the Pont Neuf,” the artwork he will create as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, transforming the Pont Neuf forty years after the wrapping of Paris’s oldest bridge. This work will be on display …
A statue of d’Artagnan and the other three musketeers in front of a church in southwestern France. Photo Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Good Morning! Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D’Artagnan. Congress rejected a bill to …
The Palm Springs Art Museum. Photo Lance Gerber/Courtesy Palm Springs Art Museum The Palm Springs Art Museum in California has released a three-page statement saying that an investigation conducted in response to a whistleblower complaint alleging mismanagement and fraud found no wrongdoing by the museum. The museum declined to provide ARTnews a copy of the …
A maquette for one of Claire Tabouret’s windows for Notre-Dame. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images A Paris judge has rejected a request to halt the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are to be replaced by government-commissioned contemporary works, dealing a blow to the preservationist campaign …
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Centre Pompidou in Paris. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images Paris’s Centre Pompidou has announced another five-year partnership, this time with the iconic fashion house Chanel. (Last week, the Pompidou and M+ in Hong Kong announced their plan to lend artworks and collaborate on research projects and exhibitions.) Despite being closed until 2030 while …
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Howard and Cindy Rachofsky. Getty Images for amfAr The Dallas home of art collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky remains available for sale, and for deep-pocked prospective buyers, there’s some good news: The property is now available at a discount. That’s also bad news for the Rachofskys, whose Richard Meier–designed home has been on the market …
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