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Rendering of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Courtesy Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles The forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has laid off 15 full-time employees, representing 14 percent of its full-time staff. An additional seven part-time employees also had their roles eliminated, according to the Los Angeles Times, …

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Jean Siméon Chardin, The Cut Melon, 1760. Courtesy Christie’s Jean Siméon Chardin’s 1760 painting The Cut Melon is officially headed to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, after a failed attempt to win it at auction. Last June, the Chardin painting set a new record for the artist when it sold for $30.3 …

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Four of the ten glass spearheads being returned by the Fowler Museum. Courtesy of the Fowler Museum, UCLA The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) recently returned 11 objects to an Aboriginal community in Northern Australia. A kangaroo tooth headband and 10 glass spearheads, some of which are more than 100 …

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Marlene Dumas’s Miss January (1997) set a new world record for the most expensive artwork by a woman sold at auction, going for $13.6 million. Courtesy Christie’s To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines WOMEN SHINE AT CHRISTIE’S SALE. Marlene Dumas’s Miss January (1997) has set a new auction record …

Christie’s in New York Sees Records for Female Artists, The Met Is Gifted 6,500 Artworks, Paris Cultural Center Shortchanged Over Migrant Occupation: Morning Links for May 15, 2025 Read More »

Ukraine’s Skovoroda Museum is one of many Ukrainian cultural institutions hit by Russian bombs. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty In the wake of calls for Russia to be ejected from the International Council of Museums (ICOM) for violating the organization’s code of ethics, ICOM Russia president Vasilij Pankratov slammed the move as “political libel.” ICOM is …

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Portrait of Susan Rothenberg, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2012. Photo: Annie Leibovitz © Annie Leibovitz Before her death in 2020, Susan Rothenberg said that she had not expected to receive “a lot of applause,” during the post-Minimal movement for her formally explorative, psychologically nuanced artwork, perhaps given its subject matter: big horses and, later, disembodied heads, …

Estate of Susan Rothenberg, Who Fused Symbolism with Abstraction, Joins Hauser & Wirth Read More »

Ancient and famous burial chambers of Hegra, carved into sand stone in Al Ula, in Saudi Arabia Getty Images The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) has signed a partnership agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Royal Commission for AlUla, expanding a quiet but strategic collaboration that’s been underway behind the scenes for two years. According …

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Koyo Kouoh. ©Mehdi Benkler Koyo Kouoh, the celebrated Cameroonian-born curator behind some of the most significant exhibitions of African contemporary art in recent decades, has died unexpectedly at the age of 57. The New York Times reported on Sunday that she died the day before in a hospital in Basel, Switzerland, and that the cause …

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The Official Edition of the Final Text of the Constitution. Ardon Bar-Hama Citadel CEO and billionaire collector Ken Griffin has announced plans to lend his copy of the U.S. Constitution to the National Constitution Center (NCC) for public display through 2026. The loan accompanies a $15 million gift from Griffin to the NCC, the single …

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The Magna Carta in London. Photo Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A Magna Carta classified by Harvard as an unofficial copy for almost 80 years has been declared as an original issued by Edward I from 1300, the university has announced. The discovery means that there are now seven surviving copies of the first document to effectively …

Harvard’s Magna Carta, Listed as ‘Unofficial’ for 80 Years, Turns Out to Be Real Read More »