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,” …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
Amy Sherald attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Amy Sherald, the painter who canceled her exhibition “American Sublime” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in July due to censorship issues, has broken her silence in a MSNBC article. …
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Visitors to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Photo Sylvia Lederer/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images The Van Gogh Museum, the beloved Amsterdam home to many masterpieces by one of the 19th century’s most famous painters, said it could be forced to close if the Dutch government doesn’t appropriate more money to a much-needed renovation. …
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After posting her painting G for Genocide, Danielle SeeWalker’s Vail residency was canceled. Courtesy the artist The Colorado town of Vail has settled a lawsuit brought by Danielle SeeWalker, a Denver-based Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation whose residency was canceled last year after she posted a pro-Palestine painting to social media. …
