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Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) this week announced the return of Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda to Nepal, acknowledging that the 12th-century sculpture was stolen from Guita Bahi in the Kathmandu Valley.  The decision follows new provenance research and collaboration …

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Rendering of the building for the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Courtesy Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. On Friday, famed film director George Lucas and businesswoman Mellody Hobson, co-founders of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, announced that director and CEO Sandra Jackson-Dumont will step down April 1. In the joint …

Lucas Museum Director and CEO Steps Down, with George Lucas to Lead ‘Content Direction’ Read More »

Jack Vettriano has passed away. David Levenson/Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BAYEUX TAPESTRY DISCOVERY. A fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry has been discovered in a northern German estate, reports the Australian Associated Press and Newcastle Herald. The nearly 230-foot long, 20-inch tall, 11th-century embroidered tapestry depicts …

Bayeux Tapestry Fragment Found in Germany, Trump Tariffs Spell Trouble for Art World, Jack Vettriano Dies: Morning Links for March 4, 2025 Read More »

The ‘Fearless Girl’ sculpture opposite the New York Stock Exchange by Kristen Visbal is in question. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NEA NIXES GRANT. In the latest anti-DEI news, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has cancelled its Challenge America arts grant program for 2026, reports Hyperallergic. …

National Endowment for the Arts Scraps Challenge America Grant Program, Future of NYSE’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Uncertain, Tatsumi Orimoto Dies: Morning Links for March 06, 2025 Read More »

Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, 2024. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Following President Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, the Art Museum of the Americas has cancelled two exhibitions. The exhibition “Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine” was set to be installed this week at the Art Museum of the Americas, which is …

Art Museum of the Americas Cancels Exhibitions by Black, Queer Artists Read More »

Jenna Segal Rita Carmo In the mid-1990s, film producer Jenna Segal‘s life changed during a European backpacking trip. All it took was a visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice with her best friend. “This was before smartphones,” Segal told ARTnews from her office on West 57th Street in Manhattan, which, not coincidentally, was once …

Theater Producer Jenna Segal Brings Peggy Guggenheim’s Vision To the Present with ’31 Women’ Exhibition Read More »

University of North Texas campus. via Google images. A Texas lawmaker urged university administrators to cancel a planned lecture, remove a student art exhibition, and review campus free speech policies, citing alleged antisemitism, according to NTdaily, the school’s news outlet. In a letter addressed to University President Harrison Keller and UNT System Chancellor Michael Williams, …

Texas Lawmakers Take Aim at Pro-Palestine Student Art Exhibition Read More »

The exterior of Bank’s New York outpost, at 127 Elizabeth Street. Courtesy Bank Shanghai’s Bank gallery, one of China’s leading art spaces, will open in New York as its leaders brave an uncertain global art market. From March 21 until mid-August, Bank will operate a “pilot” space at 127 Elizabeth Street, the current home of …

In an Uncertain Market, Shanghai’s Bank Gallery Looks to New York for Stability Read More »

Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa pose for a portrait in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images Good Morning! Amid an ongoing investigation into the mysterious death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, the actor’s less-famous art practice comes to light.  Artist Andil Gosine’s exhibition based on his book about queer theory …

Gene Hackman’s Paintings, Canceled Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for February 28, 2025 Read More »

Good bank? $TRUMP has shed billions. AFP via Getty Images The value of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency, a meme coin aptly called $TRUMP, has fallen off a cliff – and its investors have lost around $12 billion.   (A cryptocurrency is typically labeled a meme coin if it has no intrinsic function but originates from an internet …

Value of $TRUMP Cryptocurrency ‘Artwork’ Sinks, Investors Lose $12 B. Read More »