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Volunteers and river warriors collect trash at the mouth of a river leading to the sea with the Sungai Watch organization, June 6, 2025, in Bali, Indonesia. (Photo Victor LOCHON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines DEATH OF A PATRON. Matthew Christopher …

Museum of Plastic Pollution Opens, Clearing Gallerist Talks End of Business, and More: Morning Links for August 11, 2025 Read More »

One of the Smithsonian’s: The National Museum of Natural History. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The White House placed new pressure on the Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday, saying that it would make good on its promise to review 19 Smithsonian museums in a letter to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III. Those museums have already been targeted …

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Dan Nadel. Courtesy Whitney Museum Dan Nadel, a critic who has introduced mainstream audiences to off-kilter artists who long existed at the margins of American art history, has joined the curatorial team of the Whitney Museum in New York, where he will now serve as a curator in the drawings and prints department. His appointment …

Whitney Museum Names Dan Nadel Curator of Drawings and Prints Read More »

Installation view of the exhibition “The Sylvio Perlstein Collection: A Luta Continua,” 2019, at Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, China. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong, 2019. The legendary art collector, patron, and impresario, Sylvio Perlstein, died August 6. Hauser & Wirth confirmed the news with a post on Instagram, calling Perlstein “a visionary …

Legendary Art Collector Sylvio Perlstein Has Died Read More »

A still from Ralph Lauren’s ‘The Polo Bear Chronicles: Operation Black Tie.’ Courtesy of Ralph Lauren via the Hollywood Reporter Ralph Lauren’s fluffy mascot, Polo Bear, is now the star of his very own animated film. The fashion brand dropped a teaser trailer today for The Polo Bear Chronicles: Operation Black Tie, which marks Ralph Lauren’s first-ever animated …

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In a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, William the Conqueror (c.1027 – 1087) rescues the future King Harold II (c.1022 – 1066) from captivity in France and betrothes his daughter Aelfgifu to him, 1064. The tapestry is housed in the town of Bayeux in Normandy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images When the Bayeux …

France Tried to Get Rosetta Stone and Free Admission for French Citizens in Exchange for Bayeux Tapestry Read More »

An aerial view of Laodicea, Turkey, 2024. Photo Lokman Ilhan/Anadolu via Getty Images A well-preserved Roman council building has been identified by archaeologists in the ancient city Laodicea or present-day Denizli in southwestern Turkey, reported Anadolu Agency. The building is thought to have been the administrative and judicial center of Laodicea, where elders, youths, and …

Well-Preserved Ancient Roman Council Building Unearthed in Turkey Read More »

Price tower (left) in Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma. Getty Images/iStockphoto The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, which aims to preserve existing buildings by the famed American architect, recently announced it had acquired 11 original pieces by Wright that had been designed for the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. “While the Conservancy does not typically purchase …

Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Acquires Original Pieces from Oklahoma’s Price Tower Read More »

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – AUGUST 12: Kim Keon Hee (C), former first lady and the wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at a Seoul Central District Court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors on on August 12, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. A court …

South Korea’s ‘Art Loving’ Ex-First Lady Arrested, Queer Art in Crisis, Beloved Barbie Designers Killed in Car Crash: Morning Links for August 14, 2025 Read More »

A 2017 exhibition by Korakrit Arunanondchai at Clearing’s Brooklyn space. Courtesy Clearing Clearing, the New York–based gallery that provided early exposure to artists such as Korakrit Arunanondchai, Harold Ancart, and Marguerite Humeau, has closed, marking an end to a 14-year run. The gallery will close its spaces in both New York and Los Angeles. Clearing …

New York’s Clearing Gallery to Shutter After 14 Years Read More »