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The Centre Pompidou-Metz. Photo Becker & Bredel/ullstein bild via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of Kinetic Art and winner of the Venice Biennale Grand Prize, has died at 97 in Paris. Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, i.e. the duct-taped banana, was stolen from the Centre-Pompidou Metz. …

Julio Le Parc Dies, Cattelan’s Banana Stolen from French Museum, and More: Morning Links for June 1, 2026 Read More »

Robert Wyland’s Dallas mural depicted endangered whales and dolphins swimming in the ocean. Wyland Foundation When soccer fans converge on Dallas this month for World Cup games, the aesthetically inclined ones will encounter a city home to art museums, galleries, and public art. And yet, the city will be missing a major and longstanding public …

Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup Read More »

Sets of sumptuous jewelry, including crown, and large bodice bow of Empress Eugénie, on display at the Louvre Museum on October 21, 2023 in Paris, France. VCG via Getty Images It was inevitable: The audacious robbery of the Louvre, in which thieves broke into one of the world’s most well-attended museums in broad daylight and …

French Filmmaker Romain Gavras Is Turning the $102 M. Louvre Heist Into a Movie Read More »

Leonora Carrington, Villa Pilar, 1940. Courtesy Faro Santander/©2026 Estate of Leonora Carrington, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, and DACS, London On July 1, London museumgoers will get a first look at a painting by Leonora Carrington not seen in over 80 years. The 1940 painting, titled Villa Pillar, will appear in “The Symptomatic Surreal” …

Leonora Carrington Painting Made Inside Spanish Sanatorium Resurfaces After 80 Years Read More »

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, aka Jerry Gogosian. Dave Benett/Getty Artist and art world commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein was found dead on Sunday in São Paulo’s Rosewood Hotel, according to a report by Brazilian television network Globo. Helphenstein, better known by her pseudonym Jerry Gogosian, was found in her hotel room beside an empty vodka bottle, a …

Art World Commentator Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, Better Known as Jerry Gogosian, Found Dead in São Paulo Read More »

Paula Kamps. Courtesy Sans Titre Paula Kamps, a painter whose softly hued paintings showing flowers and blurring figures gained her recognition in Europe and the US, died at 36. Her Paris gallery, Sans Titre, confirmed her death on Tuesday, but did not state a cause. Kamps’s paintings frequently dealt with the fleetingness of memory. Using …

Paula Kamps, Painter of Tender Works About Memory, Dies at 36 Read More »

L-R: Princess Ariane of The Netherlands, Queen Maxima of The Netherlands, King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands, Princess Amalia of The Netherlands and Princess Alexia of The Netherlands pose for the media during the annual summer photosession in the Dutch Garden at Clingendael Estate on May 21, 2026 in The Hague, Netherlands. Getty Images Good Morning! …

Looted Colonial Artifacts in the Dutch Royal Family Collection, Exit Interview With Lonnie Bunch III, and More: Morning Links for May 29, 2026 Read More »

MIAMI BEACH, FL – DECEMBER 01: Julio Le Parc speaks onstage during the Art Basel Miami Beach Vernissage at the Miami Beach Convention Center on December 1, 2016 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Getty Images Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born artist whose shimmering mobiles, vibrating light installations, and participatory environments helped …

Julio Le Parc, Pioneer of Kinetic Art and Venice Biennale Prize Winner, Dies at 97 Read More »

Alan Saret installing one of his wire sculptures. Courtesy Karma Alan Saret, an unclassifiable artist whose wire sculptures and colored-pencil drawings helped define the “anti-form” tendency of the late 1960s and early ’70s, died on Tuesday at 81. His death was announced by Karma, the New York gallery that helped bring Saret increased attention with …

Alan Saret, ‘Anti-Form’ Artist Known for His Wire Sculptures, Dies at 81 Read More »

The proposed $250 bill. Screenshot Iain Alexander, a British painter who has exhibited in Palm Beach, Florida, designed a proposed $250 bill recently sent by the Trump Administration to the Treasury Department. In an interview with the Washington Post, Alexander said that Trump had reviewed his design and gave the okay for adding the colors …

British Painter Behind Proposed $250 Bill Says He Discussed Design With Trump Read More »