Rendering of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Courtesy Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the newly inaugurated institution spearheaded by collectors George Lucas and Mellody Hobson, may finally have opened to the press and founding members after $1 billion in costs and more than a decade of …
Maurizio Cattelan outside the Neue Nationalgalerie. Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Maurizio Cattelan, the provocateur sculptor famed for duct-taping a banana to a wall and calling it art, has returned with his latest exhibition, a much-hyped show at Berlin’s Neue Nationgalerie. It’s billed as a survey, but in typical form for Cattelan, who …
Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels seen from above. Copyright Atelier Kanal This past spring, an eclectic mix of journalists donned hard hats and dusty boots to join Kasia Redzisz, the artistic director of the Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, on a tour through the institution’s colossal former Citroën garage from the 1930s ahead of its long-awaited reopening. …
The buzzy courtyard at Basel Social Club 2025. Photo Lara Esqueda To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Hungary’s new government has nixed plans to build a SANAA-designed National Gallery in Budapest. Basel Social Club is launching Tokyo Jazz Club in November. Greece rejected a request from Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus Sculpture …
Installation view of David Hockney’s exhibition “A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting,” 2026, at Serpentine North Gallery in London, England. ©David Hockney. Courtesy Serpentine/David Hockney. Photo George Darrell. The David Hockney exhibition “A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting,” on view at Serpentine North in London from March …
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Cuauhtémoc Medina. Courtesy Fundación Paiz, Guatemala City Cuauhtémoc Medina, a Mexico City–based curator and art historian who has organized exhibitions around the world, has been appointed curator of the Bienal de Arte Paiz. The biennial takes place in Guatemala City and Antigua, about 25 miles west of the capital. It is organized by the Fundación …
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Kevin Carter/Getty Images In its latest attempt to bring the Smithsonian Institution to heel, the Trump administration is threatening to cut off discretionary grants and is accusing the organization of violating federal antidiscrimination law. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Vince Haley, assistant to the president for domestic policy, …
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Installation view of James Turrell’s Blue Sea Sky, 2026, at Superblue Miami. Courtesy Superblue. Photo Oriol Tarridas. Superblue Miami, an immersive art hub in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an installation by Light and Space artist James Turrell, Artnet News reports. The piece, titled Blue Sea Sky (2026), marks the artist’s latest installment …
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Leon Black. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art Leon Black, a billionaire investor who counts among the world’s top art collectors, has sued the House Oversight Committee, alleging that its subpoenas to testify in its investigation into the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were “invalid.” Epstein’s friendship with Black has been …
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Parthenon sculptures of Ancient Greece, fragments which are collectively known as the Parthenon Marbles aka Elgin Marbles at the British Museum on 25th March 2025 in London, United Kingdom. The Elgin Marbles are considered stolen goods by Greece, and has regularly demanded their return, while the Acropolis Museum, which houses the remaining sculptures, keeps an …
