Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline Lang in 2006. Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images Former French culture minister Jack Lang and his daughter, film producer Caroline Lang, are the latest art world figures revealed to have had ties with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. Correspondence between Epstein and the Langs appears in …
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy (ca. 1625) is the first Artemisa Gentileschi painting acquired by the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art An Artemisia Gentileschi painting entered the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., marking the first work by the artist to join the museum’s holdings. The painting, titled Mary …
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French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, Paris, France, on October 19, 2025. Photo DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES FALLEN CROWN. For the first time since the brazen theft …
The threshold to the burial chamber. Luis Gerardo Peña Torres INAH Archaeologists in southern Mexico have unearthed a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb bearing intricate carvings, a discovery hailed by experts as “the most significant” of the last decade. The tomb was discovered in San Pablo Huitzo, Oaxaca, and dates to around the year 600 CE, according …
Ekow Eshun will curate the 13th edition of the SITE Santa Fe International, opening summer 2027. Photo Zeinab Batchelor SITE Santa Fe has appointed independent curator Ekow Eshun as the organizer of the next SITE Santa Fe International. The exhibition’s 13th edition is scheduled to open in summer 2027. London-based Eshun, a former director of …
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Katherine Larson. simply time photography The Walters Art Museum has named Katherine Larson as its chief collections and curatorial affairs officer, a newly created position, and senior curator of Ancient Art. She will oversee curatorial operations, collections, conservation and research at the Baltimore institution and will take up her new role March 30, managing the …
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Epstein abuse survivor Lisa Phillips speaks during a news conference with lawmakers on the Epstein Files Transparency Act outside the U.S. Capitol on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Getty Images On Friday, the US Department of Justice publicly released over three million additional documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender. Tucked …
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A close up view of a sign for ‘The Trump Kennedy Center’ with black tape covering “Trump.” Photo Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he would close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which has been facing an existential crisis for the past year, for up …
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M HKA in Antwerp will not become a cultural center after all. Photo Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images The government of Belgium’s Flanders region has backpedaled on its plan to close down the M HKA in Antwerp and convert it into a new cultural center, temporarily ending a months-long controversy over …
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This 1991 Porsche 911 Reimagined by Singer Vehicle Design, sold for $1,073,750 at RM Sotheby’s Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week last year. Sotheby’s This week Sotheby’s Financial Services (SFS) announced that it had priced a $900 million securitization backed by loans secured against artworks and, for the first time, collectible cars, according to the company. The deal is scheduled …
