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Artists and galleries are bracing themselves for Trump’s presidency. Photo Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Major art collectors Warren Stephens, Ken Griffin, and Paul Singer, as well as Charles and Helen Schwab were among the top individual donors to President Donald Trump’s inauguration fundraising committee. The top individual donor to President Trump’s 2025 inauguration was Stephens, who …

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Dara Birnbaum. Photo Francesca D’Amico Dara Birnbaum, a video artist who forever changed her medium with works that rebelled against the mainstream media, has died on Friday at 78. A spokesperson for Marian Goodman Gallery, her longtime representative, confirmed her death but did not specify a cause. Hosts of video artists working today owe a …

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Accademia di belle arti. Florence. (Photo by: Giovanni Mereghetti/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Education Images/Universal Image Life models in Florence are threatening court action against the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in a bid to improve working conditions. They have also said they might protest naked in public. Nude models at the …

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A mural depicting Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna by artist Mr Brainwash, 2025, Los Angeles, California. Photo Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Luka Dončić may be new to Los Angeles, but he’s already acting like a local. The Lakers’ newest star stepped in to cover the full cost of restoring a mural of Kobe and Gigi …

Los Angeles Lakers Player Luka Dončić Quietly Funds Restoration of Vandalized Kobe and Gigi Bryant Mural Read More »

Emma Capron, curator of early Netherlandish and German paintings at the National Gallery said the artwork is “full of iconographical oddities.” © The National Gallery, London To celebrate its bicentenary, London’s National Gallery has purchased a curious altarpiece for $20 million that it was eyeing for decades. Titled The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis …

London’s National Gallery Acquires Curious Altarpiece by Unknown Artist for $20 M. Read More »

Philipp Kaiser in 2017, at the Swiss Pavilion. Photo Awakening/Getty Images Philipp Kaiser has departed Marian Goodman Gallery, where he is president and one of the gallery’s five partners, after more than six years. His last day at the gallery will be on May 2 and he will serve “as a curatorial consultant to the …

Philipp Kaiser Exits Marian Goodman Gallery as Partner and President Read More »

SCHEVENINGEN, NETHERLANDS – APRIL 30: Dutch Queen Beatrix attends her birthday celebrations on April 30, 2004 in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. Today marked also 25 years of reign of Queen Beatrix (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images) Getty Images In a bureaucratic blunder that is as funny as it is tragic, the Dutch municipality of Maashorst appears …

Dutch Municipality Accidentally Disposes of Andy Warhol Print During Town Hall Renovation Read More »

Too right? Germany’s new culture minister is feeling the heat. ullstein bild via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TRUMP AXES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM BOARD MEMBERS. The Trump administration has fired US Holocaust Memorial Museum board members nominated by former president Joe Biden, including former second gentleman Doug …

Trump Axes Holocaust Museum Board Members, San Fran’s Pier 29 to Become Exhibition Space, Germany’s New Culture Minister Slated: Morning Links for April 30, 2025 Read More »

Pro-Palestinian students occupy a central lawn on the Columbia University campus for the fifth day in New York on April 21, 2024. Photo Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Leaders from America’s top universities have formed a private collective in defense against the Trump administration‘s attacks on academic independence and research funding, the Wall Street Journal …

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Tony Bechara. Photo Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Tony Bechara, an artist who was beloved in New York for his intricately crafted grid paintings and for his patronage of El Museo del Barrio, died on Wednesday on his 83rd birthday. His death was confirmed by El Museo del Barrio, which did not state a …

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