Part of the “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation” exhibit at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, prior to its removal last week. Photo Michael Yanow/NurPhoto via Getty Images Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro filed an amicus brief on Tuesday in support of the City of Philadelphia’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s …
Centre Pompidou in Paris. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BRUSSELS’ KANAL SPROUTS. The long-anticipated Kanal–Centre Pompidou, Brussels’s new hub for modern and contemporary art, will open on November 28 with an ambitious launch program of 10 exhibitions, positioning it alongside Europe’s …
Bombs reign down on Gaza. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ART FOR GAZA. A group of 21 artists have donated works to “Seeds of Solidarity,” an art auction supporting medical professionals in Gaza, the Art Newspaper reports. Organized by Health Workers 4 Palestine, the sale will take place on February …
Lexa Gates’s The Wheel (2026) was an “unauthorized derivative” of Miles Greenberg’s Oysterknife, Jeffrey Deitch said. Photo Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images New York’s Jeffrey Deitch apologized to artist Miles Greenberg after an ascendant rapper staged an event at the gallery that appeared to draw upon a performance done in the same location in 2021. The musician, …
The Bonhams auction galleries in the Chelsea area of London in 1961. Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Bonhams ended 2025 with $970 million in global sales, a headline number that, in another year, might have been received as unambiguously good news. Instead, it arrives trailing a thicket of context: a widely circulated Financial Times report on a £213 million …
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Jasper Johns, Between the Clock and the Bed, 1981. © 2025 Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Jamie Stukenberg, Professional Graphics, Rockford, Ill. © The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc., New York, 2025 Courtesy Gagosian Why did Larry Gagosian want to stage a just-opened blockbuster exhibition of Jasper Johns‘s paintings at …
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Alfred Jacob Miller’s The Buffalo Hunt (ca. 1850), from Christie’s “Visions of the West” sale on January 20, set a world record for the artist when it sold for $4.7 million. Christie’s Images Ltd. Christie’s record-breaking sale of works from William I. Koch’s Western art collection may look like a one-off, but recent data suggest …
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Sally Tallant. Photo Thierry Bal/Courtesy Hayward Gallery The Southbank Centre has named Sally Tallant the new director of the Hayward Gallery, a role she will begin in July. She is replacing the Hayward’s longtime director Ralph Rugoff, who recently announced his resignation after 20 years at the helm. As part of her new position, Tallant …
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Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939 Schalkwijk/Art Resource, New York. Artwork copyright © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico City/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Collection Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno,Mexico City. Curators at Tate Modern are finding that Frida Kahlo’s global popularity now comes with a practical drawback: it has …
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The Albertinum Museum of the Dresden State Art Collections in Germany. Photo Robert Michael/AFP via Getty Images A cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections was detected on Wednesday, with the museums remaining open but certain operations put on pause as a result. Among the latter are the museum network’s online shop and visitor services. …
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