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El Greco, The Reedemer, c. 1590–95 Courtesy Vatican Museum The Vatican has announced the discovery of a newly identified painting by Mannerist painter El Greco, Artnet News reports. Titled The Redeemer and dating to the late 1500s, the piece was uncovered by restorers Alessandra Zarelli and Paolo Violini. While conserving the work, they realized that an …

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Kamel Mennour. Archives Mennour. The baton is being passed from an elder generation of French art dealer to a younger one, with the purchase of Galerie Malingue by dealer Kamel Mennour, who will take over Malingue’s 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. “Located in a space with a long history in …

Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue, Founded Over Five Decades Ago  Read More »

Supporters gather at Sebastian Street and A1A in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the site of the Pride crosswalk, for a “We Won’t Be Erased” Rally on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025. The protest is in response to the state of Florida’s directive to erase the rainbow crosswalks in Fort Lauderdale Beach, and to show support for …

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Trevor Paglen. Photo Michael Avedon/©Trevor Paglen/Courtesy the artist, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, and Pace Gallery, New York Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the LG Guggenheim Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the …

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Alexander Gardner, Lincoln’s Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865. National Gallery of Art, Gift of Funds from Ronald M. Costell, M.D. and the Estate of Marsha E. Swiss, 2025.44.20 The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., announced today the acquisition of nearly 600 works to its permanent collection, spanning from the 17th century to today. …

National Gallery of Art Acquires Hundreds of Works, from Civil War Photographs to a Salman Toor Painting Read More »

Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sandrine Marty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines STREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her …

Meryl Streep Makes Big Donation to National Women’s History Museum, Musée d’Orsay Receives Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fan Paintings: Morning Links for March 19, 2026 Read More »

Thomas J Price in front of his sculpture A Place Beyond at the entrance to the V&A East in London. Photo David Parry/PA Media Assignments When the Victoria and Albert Museum’s newest branch, known as the V&A East, opens in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London next month, visitors will be greeted by a …

Thomas J Price, Artist Behind Viral Times Square Sculpture, Unveils New Bronze in London Read More »

Detail from David Hockney’s “Self-Portrait.” Photo Jonathan Wilkinson/The National Portrait Gallery/PA To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HEAR, HEAR. The HEAR Act was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times. The bipartisan bill is designed to …

Congress Adopts HEAR Act, Hockney to Celebrate 90th Birthday at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall: Morning Links for March 17, 2026 Read More »

Trump’s ballroom plans slated. Courtesy the White House To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines POLITICAL MISSTEP? Berlin‘s Academy of Arts is pushing back against plans to cut the Berlin Art Prize’s prize money in half, calling it both a cultural and political misstep, Monopol reported. In a statement on Tuesday, …

Berlin Academy of Art Slams Art Prize Cuts, US President Called ‘Steward, Not Owner’ of White House Over Ballroom Plans: Morning Links for March 18, 2026 Read More »

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 1, 2025. Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution’s collection, according to Artnet News. …

Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by a Female Artist at TEFAF Read More »