Courtesy Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, a museum-without-walls whose stated mission is to center women’s history on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has launched a new augmented reality project called “Unhidden Heroines.” Starting on June 18, anyone with a smartphone (or a computer) will be able to conjure …
Connie H. Choi will be the next chief curator of the Barnes Foundation. Photo Claudia Lucia The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia has named Connie H. Choi as chief curator and vice president for art and education, the latter being a newly created position. She succeeds Nancy Ireson, who held the title of chief curator and …
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Ho Tzu Nyen, T for Time: Timepieces, 2023–present. Installation view at LUMA Arles, Arles, 2025. Courtesy New Museum, New York Though separated by roughly 6,000 miles, the New Museum and Korea’s Ulsan Art Museum have never been closer. The two institutions today announced a multi-year partnership as part of the Hyundai Translocal Series, an initiative …
Umoja Art Gallery in Kampala, Uganda. Courtesy Umoja Art Gallery Arts workers affiliated with Umoja Art Gallery, based in Kampala, Uganda, were denied Swiss entry visas the week before the Africa Basel art fair opened on June 17. The Art Newspaper reported the news, noting that the gallery’s empty booth featured a sign explaining that …
An illustration of what summer solstice celebrations at Bulford may have looked like 5,000 years ago Wessex Archaeology/PA. Archaeologists from Wessex Research, a British archaeological firm, have found a structure that may have been a prototype for Stonehenge. The company announced the find just days before June 21, when thousands of visitors will converge on …
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Jan van Kessel the Elder and Abraham Willemsens, Interior of a Collector’s Cabinet: An Allegory of Sight, ca. 1660. Courtesy Art Loss Register The London-based Art Loss Register said Tuesday that it had recovered a 17th-century Flemish painting that had been stolen in September 2020 from a private residence in Canada. The missing painting was …
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Ibrahim Mahama’s site-specific commission on the Münsterplatz for Art Basel 2026. Courtesy Art Basel To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Art Basel opens this week in Switzerland, and dealers say they’re cautiously optimistic after several challenging years. Ibrahim Mahama unveils a major Münsterplatz commission as he recovers from a …
Demonstrators gather near Arlington Memorial Bridge to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot “Triumphal Arch” on May 26, 2026, in Washington, DC. Organizers from Third Act DMV say the planned structure is disrespectful to the solemn character of Arlington National Cemetery. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A group of 19 attorneys general have moved …
Helen Cammock in 2019. Photo Stuart Wilson/Getty Images for Turner Contemporary A video work by Helen Cammock that has been on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London for nine months has recently sparked controversy for its claim about former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine of 1943. In the …
Brice Marden, Only, (2009–11) © Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Maris Hutchinson, courtesy the Gagosian Gallery Three years after Brice Marden‘s death, his daughters found themselves looking at nearly every painting he had ever made. The occasion was the completion of Brice Marden: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, 1961–2023, a project the artist …
