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Life’s a beach: the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort will form the backdrop of the auctions. Courtesy sotheby’s. Sotheby’s will stage its first series of luxury marquee auctions in Abu Dhabi this December. Dubbed Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week, the sales will run from December 3 to 5 and span cars, watches, jewelry, and real estate, …

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One of the Smithsonian’s: The National Museum of Natural History. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Good Morning! The White House has denounced a range of artworks, shows, and objects on view at the Smithsonian Institution.  Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum experienced major challenges after it began offering free admission earlier this year.  Chanel teams up with the Pinacoteca …

White House Denounces Artworks and Shows at Smithsonian, Free Admission at Rockbund Art Museum and More: Morning Links for August 22, 2025 Read More »

DeepTime Collective (Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer): Embodying the River (stream)” 2022, performance art with custom T-shirts and an installation with plastic, projections, and sound. Photo Allyn Griffin Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have named this year’s recipients of the AWAW Environmental Art Grants program. …

Anonymous Was A Woman and the New York Foundation for the Arts Award Over $500,000 in Environmental Art Grants Read More »

A deleted real estate listing for a home in Argentina appeared to have featured a Nazi-looted painting by Giuseppe Ghislandi. Courtesy Robles Casas & Campos A Dutch newspaper said this week that it discovered a Nazi-looted painting from the Baroque era in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina. Not long afterward, the …

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The Smithsonian Institution. Photo David Ake/Getty Images On Thursday night, the White House appeared to denounce a range of artworks, shows, and objects on view at the Smithsonian Institution, continuing President Donald Trump‘s protest against the museum network. Published on the White House website as an article called “President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian,” …

White House Targets Specific Artworks at Smithsonian, Including Painting of Refugees and Fauci Portrait Read More »

A Roman mausoleum discovered in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, France. Photo Julien Bourreau, Musée Gallo-Romain A well-preserved Roman mausoleum, modeled after the famous Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, was discovered by archaeologists in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, near Lyon, France. Constructed around 50 CE, the interior of the structure measures more than 50 feet in diameter and is thought to have had …

A Well-Preserved Nearly 2,000-Year-Old Roman Mausoleum Unearthed in France Read More »

The remains of a pre-Islamic monastery on Sir Bani Yas Island, United Arab Emirates, 2014. Photo KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images A Christian cross was unearthed by archaeologists during an excavation on Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Sir Bani Yas Island was part of a cluster of churches and monasteries …

Christian Cross Unearthed at Monastic Site in Abu Dhabi Read More »

Just a phalacy? Experts can’t agree on how many penises are depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Almost 50,000 people have signed a petition to stop the Bayeux Tapestry being loaned to London’s British Museum. The appeal, which was launched in July by the French art historian Didier Rykner, cites warnings from textile …

Petition to Block Loan of Bayeux Tapestry to London’s British Museum Garners 50,000 Signatures Read More »

Madagascar’s Minister of Culture Volamiranty Donna Mara (L) offers a gift to her France’s contrepart Rachida Dati flanked by France’s Delegate Minister for Francophonie and International Partnerships Thani Mohamed Soilihi during a ceremony for the restitution of three Sakalava skulls to Madagascar, at the Culture Ministry in Paris, on August 26, 2025. France returns three …

France Returns Colonial-Era Human Remains to Madagascar Read More »

People visit the Frieze Seoul 2022 art fair in Seoul on September 2, 2022. AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GÖRING, GÖRING, GÖRING, GONE! Earlier this week, Breakfast with ARTnews informed our loyal readers about a long-lost, Nazi-looted painting that had been spotted in a house in Argentina …

An Insider’s Guide to Frieze Seoul, Newly Found Nazi-Loot Goes Missing, a Look at the New National Museum of Uzbekistan, and More: Morning Links for August 28, 2025 Read More »