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The Vancouver Art Gallery scrapped plans for a new building after investing C$60 million. Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery. Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GIVING TIME. A few notable museums have just announced landmark donations to their permanent collections. The …

Vancouver Art Gallery and Modern Art Museum in Paris Receive Major Gift, Rare Illuminated Jewish Prayer Book Heads to Auction, and More: Morning Links for December 11, 2025 Read More »

Several race cars at the the Salon Privé Concours 2024 at Blenheim Palace. The palace frequently plays hosts to major events in the UK. Getty Images Conservators currently at work restoring paintings in Blenheim Palace said they found the names of 11 people written in the ceiling decades ago, with the oldest dated to 1843. …

Blenheim Palace Conservators Search For Writers of Century-Old Graffiti in Ceiling Read More »

Pantone’s Cloud Dancer. Courtesy Pantone Pantone has been taken to task by some media outlets, and more critics on social media, for choosing “Cloud Dancer” — a version of white — for the 2026 Color of the Year. Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, was unavailable for an interview Monday about the pushback, nor were other …

Pantone Color Institute Executive Addresses ‘Cloud Dancer’ Controversy Read More »

Jasper Johns, Between the Clock and the Bed, 1981. © 2025 Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York Courtesy Gagosian Half a century after Jasper Johns first unveiled his crosshatched paintings at Leo Castelli Gallery, the series is returning …

Gagosian to Stage Survey of Jasper Johns’s Crosshatch Paintings in New York Read More »

The 11th UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report is out now. Getty Images The eleventh Billionaire Ambitions Report from Swiss bank UBS provides a sliver of hope in a shaky moment for dealers of art and antiques—if they manage to get access to that coveted demographic. Global billionaire wealth reached an all-time high in 2025, says the …

UBS Report Provides a Sliver of Hope for Dealers: Many Billionaires Aim To Spend More on Art and Antiques Read More »

A Brazilian police car in front of the Mario de Andrade Public Library in São Paulo. Eight prints by French artist Henri Matisse and five by Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari—part of an exhibition at the library—were stolen by armed thieves on December 7 Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images. Updated December 9, 2025 In a …

Brazilian Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Matisse Prints from São Paulo Library Read More »

Zohran Mamdani visiting his favorite New York museum, the subway. Photo Andrew LichtensteinCorbis via Getty Images New York has one of the richest art museum ecosystems in the world, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum all located within the same borough—and that’s to say nothing of …

Zohran Mamdani’s Favorite Museum in New York Is ‘Our Subway System’ Read More »

Zineb Sedira. Photo Alexandra de Saint Blanquat/©Zineb Sedira/Courtesy Mennour, Paris; Goodman Gallery, London; and Selma Feriani, Tunis Tate, the UK museum network, announced Monday that Zineb Sedira will take on the next Tate Britain Commission, which is staged in that institution’s neoclassical Duveen Galleries. The commission, the artist’s largest to date, will run May 2026 …

Artist Zineb Sedira Picked for Next Tate Britain Commission Read More »