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Detail from David Hockney’s “Self-Portrait.” Photo Jonathan Wilkinson/The National Portrait Gallery/PA To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HEAR, HEAR. The HEAR Act was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times. The bipartisan bill is designed to …

Congress Adopts HEAR Act, Hockney to Celebrate 90th Birthday at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall: Morning Links for March 17, 2026 Read More »

Trump’s ballroom plans slated. Courtesy the White House To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines POLITICAL MISSTEP? Berlin‘s Academy of Arts is pushing back against plans to cut the Berlin Art Prize’s prize money in half, calling it both a cultural and political misstep, Monopol reported. In a statement on Tuesday, …

Berlin Academy of Art Slams Art Prize Cuts, US President Called ‘Steward, Not Owner’ of White House Over Ballroom Plans: Morning Links for March 18, 2026 Read More »

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 1, 2025. Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution’s collection, according to Artnet News. …

Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by a Female Artist at TEFAF Read More »

Rosalía, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, previously said she could “differentiate” Picasso’s art from his life. Photo Zak Hussein/Billboard via Getty Images Rosalía, one of the world’s most popular singers, apologized after wading into an age-old debate surrounding Pablo Picasso, whose work she initially praised before admitting she didn’t know enough about his …

Pop Singer Rosalía Apologizes for Saying She Can ‘Differentiate’ Picasso’s Art from His Life Read More »

Aerial photo showing the fortification walls of Alexandria on the Tigris, Charax-Spasinou, Iraq. ©Charax Spasinou Project/Stuart Campbell, 2017 An international team of researchers has confirmed the discovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE–323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus …

Researchers Confirm Location of Lost City of Alexandria on the Tigris Read More »

Leon Black. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art While collector Leon Black continues to face controversy over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he has found a defender in Glenn Lowry, a former director of the Museum of Modern Art, the New York institution where Black is currently a …

Former MoMA Director Glenn Lowry Says Leon Black Is a ‘Solid Trustee’ Amid Epstein Controversy Read More »

Philip Guston, Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family, 1942. Photo Charles Swaney/Living New Deal On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization’s management of its Fine Arts Program and the Fine Arts Collection. The GSA …

Senators Whitehouse and Schumer Call for ‘Proactive Measures’ to Protect Philip Guston and Ben Shahn Murals Read More »

A Frida Kahlo self-portrait from the Gelman collection in a 2021 show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photo Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images More than 200 artists and art professionals in Mexico signed an open letter last week accusing the government of committing an “institutional blunder” after it allowed …

Artists and Art Professionals Denounce Mexico’s Handling of Resurfaced Art Collection: ‘An Institutional Blunder’ Read More »

People looking at phones, looking at Beeple’s humanoid pig-dogs at Art Basel Miami Beach Daniel Cassady Beeple’s robotic beasties—first unveiled as a questionably crowd-drawing spectacle at Art Basel Miami Beach last December—are heading to a museum. The installation, Regular Animals (2025), will be presented at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin from April 29 to May 10, coinciding with Gallery Weekend …

Beeple’s Pooping Robot “Dogs” Are Heading to Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie Read More »

The 2026 Biennale of Sydney. Photo Felicity Jenkins/©Art Gallery of New South Wales The Biennale of Sydney, the most important biennial in the Pacific region, denied discrimination in its current edition after some members of Australia’s Jewish community repeatedly claimed that curator Hoor Al Qasimi had selected for participants with anti-Zionist politics. One prominent Jewish …

Biennale of Sydney Denies Discrimination as Jewish Group Denounces Pro-Palestine Artists Read More »