Thomas Kinkade, 2006. Photo Brad Barket/Getty Images The Thomas Kinkade Family Foundation has spoken out against a recent social media post by the Department of Homeland Security, saying that it did not authorize the usage of a painting by the artist that was paired alongside the phrase “Protect the Homeland.” The post, which appeared on …
Mick Taylor, 1982. Photo Ross Marino/Getty Images A donation of 500 guitars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this past May was perceived as a particularly exciting addition to the collection—so exciting, in fact, that the donation even announced via a long-form profile in The New Yorker. But that donation may include one object that …
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View of the Doha skyline in July. Photo KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines A GULF OF SOFT POWER. Politico reports that Qatar has “cemented its soft power” in the art world, with the country launching an edition of Art Basel in Doha next February. The move, Politico’sCarlo Martuscelli writes, “reflects the …
George Lucas at Comic-Con International 2025. Photo Eric Charbonneau/The Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art via Getty Images History was made at Comic-Con’s famed Hall H on Sunday as George Lucas made his long-awaited Comic-Con debut. Lucas wasn’t there to discuss his acclaimed Star Wars trilogies, the Indiana Jones franchise, the cult classic, American Graffiti, or …
The Whitney Museum. UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images An unidentified 34-year-old man died after jumping from the Whitney Museum on Wednesday evening, shortly before the museum closed, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. While the museum has not commented publicly, Whitney director Scott Rothkopf informed staff of the event via email …
Amy Sherald’s Trans Forming Liberty (2024) on the cover of the New Yorker, August 11, 2025, issue. Courtesy the New Yorker Amy Sherald‘s portrait of a Black transgender Statue of Liberty has now officially graced the cover of the New Yorker after she said in July that National Portrait Gallery leadership objected to it, leading …
A restorer vacuums Romanesque art master pieces at the Catalonia National Art Museum (MNAC). Photo David Ramos/Getty Images A small protest broke out Monday morning outside the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) as Aragonese technicians arrived to inspect a set of contested 13th-century murals that were ordered to be returned to the Sijena Monastery by Spain’s …
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Police searching for gold coins stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum in 2022. dpa/picture alliance via Getty On Tuesday, three men were convicted for stealing 483 ancient Celtic gold coins from the Kelten Römer Museum in Manching, Germany, in November 2022. The coins were discovered during an excavation at an archaeological town near Manching in 1999. …
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Works by Tyrrell Wilson. Photo Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images Visual artist Tyrrell Winston, whose “signature use of found, deflated basketballs” has garnered him acclaim—and, he says, contracts with NBA owners—sued the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday for copyright infringement. Winston’s beef centers on Pelicans’ Instagram posts showing New Orleans players in front of deflated basketballs that Winston contends are “substantially …
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Hotel Jerome, the venue of the Aspen Art Fair. Courtesy Aspen Art Fair Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. By late July, Aspen’s social calendar runs on high-altitude overdrive. The Food & Wine Classic has come and gone; the Aspen Ideas …
