A “Wanted” campaign poster by the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans, featuring a circa 1760 to 1779 painting by Jean Siméon Chardin of Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, which was looted from the museum in 1940, during the Nazi invasion. Photo courtesy of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans Have you seen a middle-aged man sporting an 18th-century, …
View of the city of Quito from the bell tower of the San Francisco Church in Quito, Ecuador. At left is the bell tower of the Metropolitan Cathedral, with the domes of the Church of the Society of Jesus at center. (Photo by: Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images) VW …
Archie Rand, at work in his studio. Photo by Christopher Garcia Vale/ARTnews. For decades, Archie Rand‘s “Letter Paintings” series has been something of a cult favorite among painters and critics. Now, 44 of them are heading to an unlikely home: the corporate collection of Italy’s Modena FC. New York–based gallery Jarvis Art announced this week that the …
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The Louvre. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Good Morning! Jessica Morgan has been named director of the Tate museum network. The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery has reopened nine months after the infamous crown jewels heist exposed major security weaknesses. British artist Lucy Sparrow’s first US museum exhibition has transformed a 1980s supermarket into a felt-filled wonderland. The …
The Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse in New Haven, Connecticut. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons A Connecticut antiques dealer and auction house owner pleaded guilty to a federal money laundering charge Tuesday, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, which alleges that the theft totaled some $2.1 million. According to …
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Protesters in front of the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale on the opening day. Photo Felix Hörhager/picture alliance via Getty Images The Venice Biennale will not exclude Russia from its events due to political pressure, the foundation’s president said Thursday in a public address criticizing the European Union’s recent confirmation that it will …
Jessica Morgan will be the next director of Tate, beginning January 1. Photo Gabriela Herman After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027. In that new role, she will oversee one of …
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‘Maman’ (1999) by Louise Bourgeois in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. In Pictures via Getty Images Good Morning! Vanderbilt University to keep art at the heart of the former California College of the Arts campus after a $75 million gift from Jensen and Lori Huang. A new study argues that art-world inequality is shaped by institutional …
Man Ray in 1963. Photo by Joseph McKeown/Express/Getty Images As previews continue in advance of showtime upon its opening on September 22, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles—the starry institution conceived by director George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson—announced its inaugural film program at San Diego Comic Con. In a panel …
Jason Bard Yarmosky (fourth from left) with other 2026 CHANEL Tribeca Artist Awards Program contributing artists, June 8, 2026. Photo Jamie McCarthy/WireImage Life imitates art, sort of. Katie Holmes plays a New York–based photographer reconnecting with her high school flame in Happy Hours, a new film Holmes also wrote and directed. Happy Hours premiered at …
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