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Advocates Try to Save Brutalist Fountain in San Francisco, José Aparicio Painting Returns to Prado Museum: Morning Links for April 30, 2026

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Vaillancourt Fountain with prominent Closed sign on construction fence, San Francisco, California, November 20, 2025. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Gado via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BLIND BLISS. A new sculpture has popped up in London’s Waterloo Place, bearing the signature of the elusive Banksy, …

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Refik Anadol’s AI Art Museum DATALAND Will Open in Los Angeles in June

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Refik Anadol Studio, Machine Dreams: Rainforest, 2006, at Dataland, Los Angeles. Photo Refik Anadol Studio/Courtesy Dataland In 2026, a museum dedicated to AI art feels inevitable. And on June 20, one will open in Los Angeles. DATALAND—tag line: Where human imagination meets the creative potential of machines—was announced in the fall of 2024, and will …

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Seven-Foot-Tall Monument to Ramses II Discovered in Eastern Nile Delta Region

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The upper part of a statue of Ramses II, discovered in Tell El-Faraoun, Egypt. Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The top half of a large statue of the ancient Egyptian king Ramses II was discovered in northeastern Egypt at an archaeological site called Tell El-Faraoun. The fragment weights over 5 tons and is …

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Raphael Fonseca and Amanda Carneiro to Curate the 2027 Bienal de São Paulo

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Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca will curate the 2027 Bienal de São Paulo. ©Fe Avila/Courtesy Fundação Bienal de São Paulo The Bienal de São Paulo has announced the two chief curators for the 2027 edition of the Brazilian exhibition: Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca. The duo’s theme for the Bienal will be announced in the …

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Newly Excavated Egyptian Tomb Sheds Light on Greco-Roman Era

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Mummies discovered in a Roman-era tomb at Al-Bahnasa. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities A newly excavated Roman-era tomb found at Al-Bahnasa, site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, offers insights into Egyptian funerary practices during the Greek and Roman periods (332 BCE–641 CE). The find, announced by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry, was …

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Ai Weiwei to Reenact His Own Detention in 24-Hour Performance in Manchester

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Ai Weiwei will stage a 24-hour performance titled Sewing a Button in July in Manchester, England. Photo Michael Ostuni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images In the 15 years since his 81-day detention by China’s Ministry of Public Security, artist and dissident artist Ai Weiwei has explicitly addressed the harrowing experience in his work. This summer, he …

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Michael Jackson’s Signature Loafers Return to Auction as Biopic Hits Theaters

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A pair of black fedora loafers, worn by Michael Jackson for the September 2001 concerts at Madison Square Garden – and signed by the pop star are seen during a Entertainment Memorabilia sale photocall Bonhams in London. (Photo by Tim Ireland/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images GWS Auctions is set to auction a …

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Artists Sell More Than $1 M. in Art at Sotheby’s in Support of a Debt-Free Yale MFA Program

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Barkley L. Hendricks, Quarry Shortcut, 2008. Courtesy Sotheby’s Artists ranging from Mickalene Thomas to Tammy Nguyen are banding together to sell more than $1 million in art at Sotheby’s next month, with all the funds going toward Yale University’s MFA art program, among the most esteemed ones of its kind in the country. All of …

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