From the Institute of Illegal Images, Gorby (ca. 1988). A new triennial focusing on Northern California will include a show closely linked to the psychedelic counterculture often identified with the Bay Area: it will display the art that is printed on the sheets of card stock on which LSD is usually distributed. The artifacts come …
French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on October 19, 2025. Robbers broke in to the Louvre and fled with jewelery on October 19, 2025 morning, a source close to the case said, adding that its value was still …
One piece of memorabilia among the 415 letters, documents, and manuscripts connected to Admiral Horatio Nelson that Sotheby’s will soon auction in a single-lot, sealed-bid sale with a high estimate of £6 million ($8 million). Courtesy Sotheby’s After selling Napoleon Bonaparte’s worn stockings and other “deeply personal relics that reflected the inner world” of the …
Researchers say the child in the newly attributed drawing may be the same model as the young girl at left in Edouard Manet’s The Old Musician, 1862). Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A drawing that has spent decades in an Italian collection is now believed to be a previously unknown work …
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Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Inhotim is nestled in the lush landscape of Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, where works like Doug Aitken’s Sonic Pavilion are installed. Photo Bruno Figueiredo / Área de Serv Twenty years after it opened to the public, Inhotim is going through one of the most decisive transitions in its history. The …
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (R) meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) at Al-Ittihadiya Palace in eastern Cairo, Egypt, on September 1, 2026. Photo Egyptian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Cairo removed a mural …
From left: Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, and Vincent Valdez. ©John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (3) The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 20 recipients of its annual MacArthur Fellowships, colloquially called “Genius Grants,” which comes with $800,000 in unrestricted funds. This year’s cohort includes four artists: Christine Sun …
The depot of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. (Photo by Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images) Stephanie Rosenthal, the former director of Gropius Bau, has been named artistic director of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. She will take up the post in spring 2027. Rosenthal currently serves as project director of the …
A fragment of ancient Roman statuary found at Saint-Martin-au Val sanctuary, Chartres, France, 2026 ©Ville de Chartres – Chartres Archéologie. A new archeological excavation at the Saint-Martin-au Val sanctuary in Chartres, France, has unearthed a collection of fragments of Roman stone statues and sculpted reliefs, reports Heritage Daily. Archaeologists also found evidence of a water …
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Kathleen V. Jameson will be the next director of the Speed Art Museum. Photo Alex Brumley The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has named Kathleen V. Jameson as its next director. She officially began in the role on Tuesday. She replaces Raphaela Platow, who stepped down last year at the end of a four-year contract. …
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