Rembrandt’s ‘Oath of the Batavians,’ circa 1661. The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Reframing Rembrandt, one of the Dutch Golden Age’s greats, is no small feat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art seems poised to pull it off, with an exhibition next year that will bring several …
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The Louvre. Photo Antoine Boureau/AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The Louvre has closed due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students blocking its glass pyramid entrance, in the latest sign of what appears to be abating …
Gustave Fayet painting a piece of furniture (ca. 1920) by an unknown photographer shows the collector was also an artist in his own right. AF © MAGFF/Courtesy Archives familiales Gustave Fayet Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, January 1889 emerges like a vaguely familiar, climactic apparition about a third of the way …
Ella Myers (Diné [Navajo Nation]), ‘Navajo Dye Chart, ca. 1980s. Collection of the Ford Foundation Image Courtesy of Poster House Through next February, New York’s Poster House is home to “Designed to Be Red,” a milestone survey of Native graphic arts. By institutional convention, such a show would unfold chronologically; but as its curator, the …
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A rendering of Centre Pompidou Paraná. ©Solano Benítez, Gabinete de Arquitectura/Courtesy Centre Pompidou A Brazilian outpost of Paris’s hallowed Centre Pompidou initially planned to open next year has been pushed back 2029, according to a report in the Art Newspaper. Construction on Centre Pompidou Paraná, in the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, has …
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. Photo Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives via Getty Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West home in Scottsdale, Arizona, is temporarily closing after a man died on the property on Friday during a walking tour, reported local news channel AZ Family. The individual was identified to be Rogério Renato Mateucci, rector of the …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
