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Bella Maria Varela, Shark Bait ooh hahaha, 2021, installation view in “Soy de Tejas,” at the Cheech, Riverside California. Photo Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews 2025 has felt especially unrelenting. January brought devastating wildfires to Los Angeles, my hometown. Dozens of artists lost their homes and their work. Altadena, a creative hub of Black creativity for decades and, …

The Year in Latinx Art: At a Time When Art Seems Impossible, It Is Still Healing Read More »

An archaeology team from Texas Tech University, in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archaeologists, found the site in Jackson County, Texas, on a private ranch near the Presidio la Bahía and Fort St. Louis. Photo: Texas Tech University The long-lost mission of Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo, one of the earliest outposts of Europe’s colonial …

Lost Spanish Colonial Mission on Texas Frontier Is Rediscovered Read More »

The discovery site in the western Nile Delta. Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists working in the western Nile Delta of Egypt discovered remnants of an “extensive industrial complex” from as far back as the 5th century B.C.E. as well as a Roman cemetery that suggests the area was fertile ground for civilization …

2,000-Year-Old ‘Extensive Industrial Complex’ and Roman Cemetery Found in Egypt Read More »

The remains of the Nyuserra valley temple outside Cairo. Photo: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities / University of Turin Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a 4,500-year-old valley temple belonging to a sprawling solar complex built by Pharaoh Nyuserra, ruler of the 5th Dynasty. Announced earlier this month by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism …

Newly Unearthed Solar Temple in Egypt Reveals One of the Earliest Public Religious Calendars Read More »

Norman Rockwell, 1950. Bettmann Archive via Getty Images Norman Rockwell‘s art, with its quaint visions of small-town America, is today widely considered to be a force of conservatism, a call for things to remain the same even as everything changes. But according to the artist’s granddaughter, everyone has his art all wrong. “Norman Rockwell was …

Norman Rockwell Was ‘Antifa,’ Says the Artist’s Granddaughter Read More »

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to guests during a New Year’s Eve event at his Mar-a-Lago home on December 31, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. Getty Images President Donald Trump rang in the New Year with an amateur art auction at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, where a freshly painted portrait of Jesus Christ …

Trump Rings in 2026 at Mar-a-Lago With Auction of Jesus Painting for $2.75 M. Read More »

https://www.sfaaat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2198415413-1.jpg Sotheby’s last Saudi in February sale generated $17.3 million. Getty Images for Sotheby’s To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines DIGITAL NARCISSISM. The Art Newspaper opines that this year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach exposed a problem in contemporary digital art: its entrenched culture of narcissism. Nowhere was this apparently …

Digital Art’s Narcissism Problem, Sotheby’s to Host Second Saudi Auction, Smithsonian Returns 3 Statues to Cambodia: Morning Links for December 23, 2026 Read More »