The ancient site of Myrmekion in Crimea. Photo by: PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has suspended all archaeological expeditions in annexed Crimea as the Kremlin declares a state of emergency amid a severe fuel shortage and continued Ukrainian attacks, according to the Moscow Times. “The expeditions are …
Musee des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranee and Fort Saint-Jean. Dukas/Universal Images Group via Good Morning! The Manhattan District Attorney’s office seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total value of looted objects recovered from the New York institution to $95 million. Christie’s Old Masters …
Diego Rivera, Landscape with Cacti, 1931. ©2026 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./VEGAP As controversy has continued to swirl around a mass of important Mexican artworks that were partially rediscovered in the holdings of Spain’s Banco Santander earlier this year, the bank spoke at length about the matter, saying it …
The British Museum. Photo Leon Neal/Getty Images The United Kingdom’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has come under fire from a cross-party parliamentary committee, which says the government has done too little to help the country’s national museums navigate increasing financial and security challenges. The report, according to the Art Newspaper, also shows that the …
Getty Images’ logo. Photo Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Getty Images and Shutterstock, two of the top photo, video, and stock image marketplaces, called off a $3.7 billion merger after hitting a regulatory roadblock in the United Kingdom. Getty, led by CEO Craig Peters, said on Tuesday that its board of directors unanimously decided to scuttle …
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Zohran Mamdani. Stephani Spindel/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the speaker of the city council have announced their first budget, totaling $125.8 billion. That will include some $323.8 million for the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), its highest-ever appropriation, as part of the city’s 2027 fiscal year budget, per a …
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The Palace of Westminster in London. Photo by Michael Nguyen/NurPhoto via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A new parliamentary report says the UK government lacks leadership and has a “hands-off” approach to how it funds and cares for national museums. The German conceptual artist and painter …
Marble head of a veiled man, Roman, 1st half of 1st century CE, restituted in June 2026 Metropolitan Museum of Art. Investigators from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office seized dozens of ancient artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum in June, reports the New York Times. According to an inventory produced by the office, this brings …
Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THEY SHOOK ON IT. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York’s City Council have approved $323.8 million in funding for culture, reports Hyperallergic. That’s a record amount of yearly funding. Specifically, the $323.8 …
Work by Selma Selman in a 2024 show at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Munich. Norbert Miguletz Skulptur Projekte Münster, the storied exhibition that takes place once every decade in the titular German town, has revealed some of the first details of its 2027 edition—the first staged without the leadership of its founder, the lauded curator …
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