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People take part in a protest outside of New York Public Library organized in April. Organizers of the nationwide protest said the demonstrations were to denounce the “hostile government takeover” by the Trump administration. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images) Visual artist Dread Scott, playwright Lynn Nottage, and dozens of other leading cultural luminaries have invited …

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The Andy Warhol Museum. ©Abby Warhola To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Small and mid-size cultural organizations are banding together to weather federal funding cuts. A look at Hew Locke’s largest museum show yet, at the Yale Center for British Art. A dissident artwork briefly occupied the National Mall …

‘Democracy’ on Ice, Arts Funding at Risk, and More: Morning Links for October 16, 2025 Read More »

Paris (France): “musee Cognacq-Jay”, a museum located in the Donon Hotel Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Five out of seven valuable 18th-century snuffboxes stolen last year from Paris’s Cognacq-Jay Museum have been found. Paris Musées, an organization that manages several of Paris’s city museums, announced the return of the objects this week. “Thanks to …

Five 18th-Century Snuff Boxes Stolen from Paris’s Cognacq-Jay Museum Have Been Recovered Read More »

Acosia Red Elk’s performance on October 14, 2025, in front of ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emmanuel Leutze (1851). The painting reveals a hidden artwork by Flechas, titled ‘Landback’ when visitors use the “Encoded” app. Photos by Aaron Huey courtesy of Amplifier
 This week, for maybe the first time, an eagle beat its wings in …

An Indigenous Takeover of the Met Asks Who Should Be Writing Art History Read More »

Joan Weinstein speaking at the opening press conference for PST ART: “Art And Science Collide” at they Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, 2024. Photo Robin L Marshall/Getty Images The Getty appointed the Getty Foundation director Joan Weinstein to the newly created role of vice president for Getty-wide program planning today. Though her appointment is …

Joan Weinstein to Serve as Vice President for Getty-Wide Program Planning Read More »

Drew Struzan at the 80th Academy Awards Poster Signing, 2008. Photo Alexandra Wyman/WireImage via Getty Drew Struzan’s name might not be familiar to the wider art world, but his art certainly is. Struzan designed instantly recognizable posters for countless Hollywood movies, among them, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Hocus Pocus, The Goonies, Mallrats, and …

Artist Drew Struzan, Known for ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Harry Potter’ Movie Posters, Dies at 78 Read More »

U-Haul Gallery outside of Regents Park during Frieze London. Daniel Cassady On the VIP preview day for Frieze London, near the entrance to Regent’s Park, a dapper young man in a wide-lapeled brown tweed suit was selling T-shirts from a folding table set beside a very conspicuous box truck. He was also selling art. “We …

One Month After Armory Week Hit, U-Haul Gallery Crashes Frieze London with Bootleg Merch Read More »

Moai sculptures on Easter Island. Universal Images Group via Getty Images Many questions about the famous moai statues on Easter Island, Chile, have long eluded scholars—from their cultural significance to how they were made and transported. A recent study in the Journal of Archaeological Science by archaeologists Carl Lipo of Binghamton University and Terry Hunt …

Easter Island Moai Statues Were Once ‘Walked’ to Their Platforms, New Study Finds Read More »

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago. Wikimedia Commons The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago, the oldest public museum in the country dedicated to African American visual art, has responded to allegations of a retaliatory termination, following several years of high staff turnover.  Weekly newspaper the Chicago Crusader …

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William Monk, Sentinel’s End (2024-2025) © William Monk, courtesy Pace Gallery. When I arrived at William Monk’s cavernous Brooklyn studio last month, the British painter was putting the finishing touches on a series of paintings soon to be crated up and shipped for Pace’s solo presentation of his work at Frieze London. Formerly the studio …

How William Monk and Pace Are Betting on the Slow Burn at Frieze London Read More »