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John Lennon Drawings to be Animated, Pace Gallery Trims Artist Roster, and More: Morning Links for June 4, 2026

The Beatles Museum in Liverpool. Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images Good Morning! Pace Gallery is dropping some 50 artists from its roster and cutting about 50 staff. Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel Persepolis, has died at 56. A new study says the Bayeux Tapestry can safely travel …

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James Turrell to Open Largest Museum Skyspace in Denmark, Floating Art Hotel’s Maiden Voyage in Monaco, and More: Morning Links for June 5, 2026

The Floating Art Hotel, Monaco Edition, 2026. Courtesy Floating Art Hotel Good Morning! The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.  A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, “museum-grade” exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco. Abram Champanier’s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go …

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Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Talks About Making Music for Art Projects and Robot Life as Performance

Thomas Bangalter. Illustration by Stéphane Manel Thomas Bangalter made a name for himself as one half of the French electronic-music duo Daft Punk starting from the early 1990s through the group’s dissolution in 2021. A name but definitely not a face—he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, famously presented themselves as robots replete with all-concealing …

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Artists & Mothers Announces 2026 Recipients of Childcare Grants

Artist Nickola Pottinger. Courtesy the artist and Artists & Mothers. New York City nonprofit Artists & Mothers has named the 2026 recipients of its eponymous $25,000 grant for artists who identify as mothers. The landmark program provides funding to cover nine months of childcare and is open to emerging and mid-career artists raising a child …

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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 430 Miles From Northeast Scotland, New Study Argues

Stonehenge Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Once thought to have originated in Wales, like the rest of the 4,500-year-old monument’s bluestones, Stonehenge’s altar stone has recently been traced through geological fingerprinting to Scotland. The question of how the megalith made the 435-mile journey from there to Salsbury Plain in England is now the …

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Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Hit 900-Year-Old Crusader Castle in Lebanon

An Israeli flag flies over the medieval Beaufort Castle, known locally as Qalaat al-Shaqif or Shaqif Arnoun, as seen from the Marjayoun area of southern Lebanon on May 31, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress in Lebanon, was reportedly struck directly by Israeli airstrikes on May 27, according …

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Kulapat Yantrasast Named Artistic Director of Next Bukhara Biennial

Kulapat Yantrasast and Gayane Umerova photo courtesy of the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation Kulapat Yantrasast, the architect behind major museum projects for institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, has been named artistic director of the 2027 Bukhara Biennial in Uzbekistan. The appointment comes less than a year after the debut …

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High-End Art Market Not Exclusive Enough For You? Now There’s an Art Show Aboard a 236-Foot Yacht Featuring Marina Abramović and Shirin Neshat

Now a precious few can see art aboard a yacht, as God intended. Courtesy the Floating Hotel Monaco Edition 2026. If, unfortunate reader, you’re licking your wounds after being outbid on the $181.2 million Jackson Pollock at the New York auctions last month, take heart: you, too, can still buy access to art that will …

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Obama Presidential Center Unveiled, Newly Authenticated Lucian Freud Painting On View, and More: Morning Links for June 2, 2026

The Obama Presidential Center towers over Jackson Park on May 15, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Getty Images Good Morning! Experts say a painting Lucian Freud long denied ever making was, in fact, an early painting by the artist. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam denies obstructing provenance investigations of the Koenigs collection in its …

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Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Painting Sells for Over 10 Times High Estimate in Strong Week for Old Masters in New York

Hell by a Follower of Hieronymus Bosch, dated to the first half of the 16th century Sotheby’s A small painting of hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch led a string of surprise results during this week’s Old Masters sales in New York, selling for $537,600 at Sotheby’s against an estimate of $30,000 to $50,000. …

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