VENICE, ITALY – NOVEMBER 22: Italian artist Fabrizio Plessi attends his exhibition opening of “Getting Lost In A Glass Of Water” at Palazzo Barovier & Toso on November 22, 2025 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Roberto Serra – Iguana Press/Getty Images) Getty Images Fabrizio Plessi, a pioneer of video art, died on August 23 in …
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Murujuga is home to thousands of ancient petroglyphs. Photo Fuzz Digital Ancient rock art at Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia, has seen much larger damage than previously anticipated due to industrial pollutants found in air emissions. About 932 miles north of Perth, Murujuga contains one of the world’s most significant and dense …
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Claire Denis attends the red carpet during day Eight of the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival, Morocco, 2025. Photo Aurore Marechal/Getty Images French filmmaker and screenwriter Claire Denis is the director of the 32nd installment of the Miu Miu Women’s Tales film series. The new short film, titled “Avec Kim,” will premiere September 5 during the upcoming edition of …
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Exterior view of the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, 2016. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! An employee from Ireland’s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex. Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for “slandering …
The Natural History Museum in London. Photo Alex Segre/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! A hidden gallery at London’s Natural History Museum will reopen to the public for the first time since 1943. Trump’s administration is escalating its campaign to reshape how the …
Matthew Barney, ZONE DEFENSE: Old Snowmass Parallax, 2026. Photo Lance Gerber/©Matthew Barney/Courtesy the Artist and Aspen Art Museum Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this …
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Jüri Arrak’s “Discussion on Nature Conservation,” (1976) will be available for auction from the Estonian Artists’ Association collection. Photo courtesy of the Estonian Artists’ Association (EKL). Photo courtesy of the Estonian Artists’ Association (EKL). Estonian artists are banding together and donating 124 artworks for a charity auction to raise emergency funds following a bank scam …
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Brett Littman will be the next director of the MCA San Diego. Photo Don Stahl The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced that its next director and chief executive will be Brett Littman. He will begin in the role in October. The fifth director in the institution’s 85-year history, Littman succeeds Kathryn Kanjo, …
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MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. Photo Noel Woodford/Courtesy MoMA PS1 The restaurant space at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, will soon have a new tenant: Symone, by chef DeVonn Francis, will open in early October. The space’s menu will also be previewed during Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, running September 24–27. …
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Norval Morrisseau in a photo from 1977. Graham Bezant/Toronto Star via Getty Images New information has been released by a little-known Canadian federal agency about its staffers’ years-long effort to contribute to a police investigation into fraudsters selling faked paintings supposedly by Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau. CityNews Toronto reports that the largest art fraud …
