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The British Museum, London Mike Kemp/Pictures via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Pakistan’s Karachi Biennale has cancelled its fifth edition due to “war conditions prevailing in the region.” A 300-year-old Jingdezhen porcelain bowl and box mysteriously shattered inside a …

Karachi Biennale Cancelled, Shattered British Museum Porcelain Sparks Debate in China, and More: Morning Links for October 14, 2026 Read More »

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on September 08, 2026. Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images The long list of grievous failures related to the ill-fated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has grown longer after a Washington Post exposé based on an inspection report obtained by the paper. The report, issued internally on August 6 after having been …

Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Botched Beyond Previously Reported Read More »

Andy Warhol photographed in 1973. Photo Jack Mitchell/Getty Images A Miami art dealer received a 46-month federal prison sentence on Thursday in a long-running case centered around his efforts to sell fake Andy Warhol works. Leslie Roberts is now facing his second prison sentence since he opened his Miami Fine Art Gallery in 1997. In …

Miami Art Dealer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Prison for Selling Fake Warhols Read More »

View of Le Large – Centre d’art de la Pointe des Arts on Île Seguin. Photo Nicolas Trouillard/©RCR Arquitectes et CALQ To get to France’s newest contemporary art center, the journey is part of the experience. To reach Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the western suburbs of Paris, you must first go to Pont de …

A Long-Awaited Art Museum in a Former Renault Factory Finally Arrives on Paris’s Idyllic Île Seguin Read More »

Photo Matteo De Fina At age 90, collector François Pinault, founder of the Kering luxury conglomerate and the investment holding company Artémis, isn’t getting any younger. So it’s hard not to wonder how that may have factored into his latest announcement in a rare interview with Le Monde, stating he plans to mount a first …

French Collector François Pinault Plans Permanent Hang in Venice Museum Read More »

Tom House in Los Angeles, until recently the home of the Tom of Finland Foundation. Jamison Rockmore It has been a long road to recognition for the artist known as Tom of Finland, who started out in the queer erotica underground, submitting his drawings of gay men with eye-popping physiques, often dressed in leather fetish …

Strife at Tom of Finland Foundation as Cofounder Levels Accusations and the Board Claims Harassment Read More »

Rosé attends the 2026 Met Gala Celebrating “Costume Art” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. Photo by TheStewartofNY/Getty Images K-pop star Rosé will perform at LACMA’s upcoming Art+Film Gala on November 7. The Blackpink vocalist joins the museum’s 15th annual fundraiser, which will honor Latvian American artist Vija …

Blackpink Superstar Rosé Tapped for LACMA’s Art+Film Gala Read More »

Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Peace Unknown, 2026. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Boesky Gallery/Photo ©Tate (Sonal Bakrania and Matt Greenwood) Each year at Frieze London, Tate gets to buy works on view at the fair through a dedicated fund, and this time around, the museum purchased just two pieces: an abstraction by Michaela Yearwood-Dan and …

Tate Scoops Up Works by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Luis Fernando Zapata at Frieze London Read More »

Inside the church of San Pablo in Valladolid. Photo by Joaquin Gomez Sastre/NurPhoto Spanish police have recovered three religious artworks stolen from churches in Valladolid over the summer, bringing the case one step closer to a miraculously happy ending. A suspect is in custody, though investigators are still looking for a fourth missing sculpture. The …

Police Recover Three Religious Artworks Stolen From Spanish Churches Read More »

Daniel Weiss. Photo Hannah Yoon Daniel Weiss had a part-time job as a stock clerk in the gift shop at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., while in school at George Washington University studying psychology and art history. When his boss was fired for substantial revenue losses, Weiss told the people in charge at the …

Can Daniel Weiss Fix the Philadelphia Museum of Art? Read More »