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MF Husain’s portrayals of naked women continue to enrage hardline Hindus. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HISTORIC MODERN IDIAN ART SALE. M.F. Husain’s 1954 painting Untitled (Gram Yatra) became the most expensive work of modern Indian art ever publicly auctioned, when it sold yesterday for $13.8 …

M.F. Husain Painting Makes Auction History, SF Art Institute Renovation Takes Shape, Marina Abramovic Announces NFT Project: Morning Links for March 20, 2025 Read More »

Installation view of 2024 Vortic digital exhibition “Vampire:Mother.” Courtesy Vortic Art. Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. When former Christie’s co-chairman Loic Gouzer launched his auction app Fair Warning in 2020 as pandemic lockdowns halted art sales, it was an experiment. Last …

Pandemic-Era Art Tech Startups Are Here to Stay—But No Thanks to VC Funding Read More »

Rashid Diab, from the “Out of Focus” series, 2021. Courtesy Dara Art Gallery Rashid Diab, one of Sudan’s most prolific painters and art historians, sits next to his son, Yafil Mubarak, an artist, curator, and his father’s studio manager, for a video call from their current studio in Madrid. They are discussing the past, present, …

Exiled Sudanese Artists Reflect on Their Country’s Art Scene, Devastated by an Ongoing Civil War Read More »

The Statue of Liberty is seen in June 2021. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) TNS To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LOST AND FOUND RENAISSANCE PAINTING. Researchers in Pompeii have revealed that a painting initially thought to be a copy, hanging in a …

Trump Told to ‘Give Back’ Statue of Liberty, Renaissance Painting Discovered in Church, Lee Bul Heads to Hauser & Wirth: Morning Links for March 19, 2025 Read More »

Works by Christoforos Katsadiotis were pulled from the wall and thrown to the floor at Greece’s National Gallery. Courtesy National Gallery Greek authorities arrested Nikos Papadopoulos, a far-right MP with the Niki party, after artworks in Athens’s National Gallery were vandalized. Papadopoulos has been released from custody since his arrest on March 10, according to …

Far-Right Greek Politician Detained After Vandalism of ‘Sacrilegious’ Artworks in Athens Read More »

A 2016 exhibition of Hilma af Klint’s work at London’s Serpentine Galleries. Photo David M. Benett/Getty Images The plot has thickened in a power struggle over Hilma af Klint‘s legacy, with her great-grandnephew, the chair of the late artist’s eponymous foundation, now seeking to keep her paintings in a private temple accessible only to spiritual …

Hilma af Klint Descendant Seeks to Make Her Paintings Accessible Only via Private Temple Read More »

Reconstructed mid-3rd century CE Roman Mithraeum beneath Bloomberg’s European headquarters, 2017, London, England. Photo Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images The London Museum has received a donation of more than 14,000 Roman artifacts from the site of a 3rd century CE temple. The trove was unearthed between 2012–14, during the construction of …

Bloomberg Donates 14,000 Artifacts Unearthed in Renovation to London Museum Read More »

Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th Street, Washington, D.C., 2021. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images On Monday, construction crews began dismantling the Black Lives Matter (BLM) mural in Washington, D.C., just down the street from President Donald Trump‘s official residence. The large, yellow mural, which was part of a larger plaza, was painted by the city …

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Our list of the best artworks of the 21st century features 100 pieces and 15,000 words of copy, but for the editors of ARTnews and Art in America, it was still not enough. Left on the cutting room floor were many, many pieces we still cared a lot about. Some didn’t end up making the …

Defending Works Left on the Cutting Room Floor of Our ‘Best Artworks of the 21st Century’ List Read More »

Pace Gallery in New York. Courtesy Pace Gallery Sotheby’s and Pace Gallery are currently negotiating over a deal that would see the auction house make a significant investment in the mega-gallery. While nothing has been inked yet, and the details appear to be very much in flux, a source close to the negotiations told ARTnews …

Sotheby’s and Pace Gallery In Talks For Significant Partnership: ‘A New Model’ Read More »