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Lucian Freud, ‘Sleeping by the Lion Carpet’, 1995–1996. Courtesy Sotheby’s The subject of an auction-bound Lucian Freud nude portrait may be asleep, but the painter’s market is wide awake and keenly watching the rare lot. Titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, the painting could fetch between £25 million and £35 million ($33.4 million to $46.8 …

A Prized Lucian Freud Nude, Estimated at $47 M., is Poised to Break Records at Sotheby’s Read More »

Protesters outside New York’s New School in December. Hayden Tutton Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to 87 of its employees. The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of …

New School Lays Off 87 Staff and Faculty As It Attemps to Plug $48 M. Deficit Read More »

In a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, William the Conqueror (c.1027 – 1087) rescues the future King Harold II (c.1022 – 1066) from captivity in France and betrothes his daughter Aelfgifu to him, 1064. The tapestry is housed in the town of Bayeux in Normandy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Last July, French …

French Supreme Court Tears Up Lawsuit Aiming to Halt Bayeux Tapestry Loan to the British Museum Read More »

René Magritte, The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959). Gali Tibbon/AFP via Getty Images René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a …

Boy Punctures Magritte’s ‘The Castle of the Pyrenees’ With a Pinecone at the Israel Museum Read More »

Two of David Haskell’s pieces from “Boom Beach” at Donzella Ltd. Photo by Eric McNatt David Haskell spends his days running New York Magazine. Twice a week, he goes to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and throws clay. The editor in chief of one of the country’s most influential magazines has spent the last dozen years quietly building …

Twice a Week, David Haskell Leaves New York Magazine To Throw Clay Read More »

The Beatles Museum in Liverpool. Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images Good Morning! Pace Gallery is dropping some 50 artists from its roster and cutting about 50 staff. Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel Persepolis, has died at 56. A new study says the Bayeux Tapestry can safely travel …

John Lennon Drawings to be Animated, Pace Gallery Trims Artist Roster, and More: Morning Links for June 4, 2026 Read More »

The Floating Art Hotel, Monaco Edition, 2026. Courtesy Floating Art Hotel Good Morning! The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.  A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, “museum-grade” exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco. Abram Champanier’s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go …

James Turrell to Open Largest Museum Skyspace in Denmark, Floating Art Hotel’s Maiden Voyage in Monaco, and More: Morning Links for June 5, 2026 Read More »

Thomas Bangalter. Illustration by Stéphane Manel Thomas Bangalter made a name for himself as one half of the French electronic-music duo Daft Punk starting from the early 1990s through the group’s dissolution in 2021. A name but definitely not a face—he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, famously presented themselves as robots replete with all-concealing …

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Talks About Making Music for Art Projects and Robot Life as Performance Read More »

Artist Nickola Pottinger. Courtesy the artist and Artists & Mothers. New York City nonprofit Artists & Mothers has named the 2026 recipients of its eponymous $25,000 grant for artists who identify as mothers. The landmark program provides funding to cover nine months of childcare and is open to emerging and mid-career artists raising a child …

Artists & Mothers Announces 2026 Recipients of Childcare Grants Read More »

Stonehenge Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Once thought to have originated in Wales, like the rest of the 4,500-year-old monument’s bluestones, Stonehenge’s altar stone has recently been traced through geological fingerprinting to Scotland. The question of how the megalith made the 435-mile journey from there to Salsbury Plain in England is now the …

Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 430 Miles From Northeast Scotland, New Study Argues Read More »