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Exterior view of Goldsmiths University College of Art, London. via Google Maps. Students at Goldsmiths University ended a months-long boycott of the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) after the gallery ended its relationship with donors Candida and Zak Gertler, whose names will be removed an exhibition space and the board. The Gertlers, who last …

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The nature of the crime at The Groucho Club has not yet been disclosed by the police. PA Images via Getty Images The Groucho Club, the iconic London members club that was bought by Artfarm in 2022, has closed temporarily as police investigate a “serious crime” on the premises. Artfarm, a hospitality company set up …

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The Yale Peabody Museum Courtesy Yale Peabody Museum The Yale Peabody Museum has flagged human remains and eight funerary objects in its collection for repatriation to Native American tribes of the Wabanaki Nations in Maine. These remains and objects were removed from burial sites and shell mounds in Maine and donated to the museum in …

Yale Peabody Museum to Repatriate Native American Remains and Artifacts to Maine Tribes Read More »

Nan Goldin speaking at the Neue Nationalgalerie on Friday night. Photo Fabian Sommer/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images After Nan Goldin gave an impassioned speech about Israel’s war in Gaza on Friday night, German politicians swiftly denounced the artist, who is currently the subject of a just-opened survey at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In a …

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The Berlinische Gallery. Universal Images Group via Getty Berlin’s plan to cut its cultural budget by €130 million, a reduction of around 13 percent, has sparked a wave of opposition from the city’s arts workers. More than 450 publicly funded institutions, including galleries, theaters and music venues are now protesting the budget cuts under the …

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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet as an artist in the UK. Corbis via Getty Images A new report released by the University of Glasgow highlights the economic plight of artists in the UK and the pay disparities across demographics. Titled the “UK Visual Artists’ Earnings and Contracts Report 2024,” it shows that …

A New Report Shows How Artists in the UK Are Earning 40% Less Compared to 2010 and Gender Pay Gap Disparity Read More »

The Etruscan necropolis of the Crocifisso del Tufo, Orvieto, Umbria, in Italy. Such burial grounds are illegal to excavate or steal from in Italy. De Agostini via Getty Images The illegal excavation of an Etruscan burial site in Umbria, in central Italy, has been seized by Italian authorities, Italy’s Minister of Culture announced on Tuesday. …

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Exterior view of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FROM BARN SALE TO AUCTION. After being picked up earlier this year at a barn sale in the Hamptons for just $50 dollars by an eagle-eyed art dealer, a …

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Inci Eviner, Harem (still), 2009. Courtesy the artist Inci Eviner, an artist whose work has appeared in biennials across the globe, from Venice to Sharjah, accused Qatar’s Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art of censorship after it removed one of her videos from an exhibition at the last minute. The video, titled Harem (2009), revisits …

Artist Inci Eviner Says Qatari Museum Censored Her Work About a 19th-Century Harem Read More »

Jen Liu, The Land at the Bottom of the Sea, 2023 (still). Courtesy the artist and Blindspot Gallery with generous support of the 2023 Taipei Biennial and Creative Capital Anonymous Was A Woman has revealed the 2024 recipients of its celebrated grants, which are awarded to women-identifying artists over the age of 40 in support …

Anonymous Was A Woman Reveals 2024 Grantees in Milestone Year for the Celebrated Program Read More »