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The market is rebounding… just. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines SORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Adam Schrader …

Private Messages Reveal Lead Up to Canceled Anti-ICE Show at North Texas Uni, Art Market Edges Back to Growth: Morning Links for March 12, 2026 Read More »

Jonas Wood. © Wood Kusaka Studios Jonas Wood has been watching sports his whole life, and the habit has followed him into the studio. “I played tons of sports when I was a kid and I was obsessed with following them,” Wood said, speaking with me by Zoom from his Los Angeles studio. “I used …

Jonas Wood Turns Tennis Courts into Color Experiments in New Gagosian Show Read More »

Alma Allen Luis Garvan/Courtesy Perrotin Alma Allen, the sculptor chosen to represent the United States at this year’s edition of the Venice Biennale, has joined Galerie Perrotin, a blue-chip French gallery with locations in Paris, London, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, and Los Angeles. As ARTnews’s Maximilíano Durón and Sarah Douglas reported upon …

Alma Allen, Artist Representing US at 2026 Venice Biennale, Joins Perrotin Read More »

The “KING OF THE WORLD” sculpture by The Secret Handshake in Washington, D.C. Courtesy The Secret Handshake The anonymous artists behind The Secret Handshake, the guerrilla public art statue of President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, are at it again. On Tuesday, the group emailed ARTnews with photos of a new statue placed in Washington, …

Artists Behind Removed Trump-Epstein Statue Have Placed A New One in Washington, D.C. Read More »

Thaddeus Mosley. Nate Guidry Photography Thaddeus Mosley, a sculptor whose abstractions formed from reused wood earned him a significant, fervent following in the late stages of his career, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Friday at 99. His family announced his passing, with his son, Pittsburgh City Councilman Khari Mosley, calling him “a dedicated family man, …

Thaddeus Mosley, Sculptor Who Wielded Heavy Wood with a Light Touch, Dies at 99 Read More »

Spell 117, from the Book of the Dead of Ramose, showing alterations made to the figure of the jackal. ©The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge The ancient Egyptians used an early version of correction fluid to fix errors on artworks and documents, researchers have found. The news was first reported by the Times of London. …

Ancient Egyptians Used Correction Fluid to Fix Errors on Papyri, Researchers Discover Read More »

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown), from 1983, will head to sale at Sotheby’s with an estimate “in excess of $45 million,” the house said. Courtesy Sotheby’s A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will head to auction at Sotheby’s this May with an estimate “in excess of $45 million,” the house announced on Monday, poising it …

$45 M. Basquiat Painting, ‘A Storied Masterpiece,’ Heads to Auction at Sotheby’s Read More »

An installation view of “Doron Langberg: Landscapes” at Jeffrey Deitch. © Doron Langberg Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, and Jeffrey Deitch, New York; Photo Genevieve Hanson On Friday, Doron Langberg, one of the most successful and well-known Israeli artists working today, will open his first New York exhibition in seven years at Jeffrey Deitch’s Tribeca …

Prominent Israeli Painter Doron Langberg Addresses ‘Atrocities’ in Gaza Read More »

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbeck in the Bekaa valley on October 31, 2024. Photo by Nidal SOLH / AFP) (Photo by NIDAL SOLH/AFP via Getty Images) Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has appealed to UNESCO to provide additional …

Lebanese Ministry of Culture Urges UNESCO to Grant Enhanced Protections to Cultural Property Read More »

The closed pavilion of Russia pictured at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Photo James Arthur Gekiere/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images The forthcoming Venice Biennale will see the first Russian Pavilion since the onset of the nation’s war in Ukraine in 2022, and few outside Russia seem happy about it. Ukraine itself issued a blistering statement about …

Venice Biennale Faces Mass Outcry Over Return of Russian Pavilion: ‘Normalizing What Cannot Be Normalized’ Read More »