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Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Courtesy AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NOTRE DAME PARAGLIDER. Last week, a man managed to slip by security and climb to the top of Paris’s newly renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral. Once on the medieval monument’s uppermost scaffolding around the spire, he jumped …

Man Paraglides Off Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Experts Say Megalith Auctioned in London Is Fake, and More: Morning Links for March 25, 2025 Read More »

The Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where two of the thefts took place. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons A man who was part of a crime ring which stole paintings by Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock as well as artifacts and memorabilities across two decades was recently sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Thomas Trotta was …

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Dorgham Quraiqi. Courtesy Hope and Play Artist Dorgham Quraiqi was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on March 18, according to Hope and Play, a UK charity that had supported his work in Palestinian refugee camps. The Art Newspaper reported on Thursday that he was 28. Hope and Play said that Quraiqi’s family was …

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Installation View, “Reinstatement Works: Dave Chow,” 2025, at Square Street Gallery, Hong Kong. Courtesy the artist and Square Street Curator Aaditya Sathish recently recalled returning to Hong Kong from New York in 2020, at the height of the pandemic. It was, he said, a fascinating time. “From what I could understand, Hong Kong was very …

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President Donald Trump is making moves. Getty Images President Trump signed an executive order Friday to dismantle seven federal agencies, including the one overseeing Voice of America (VOA) and other government-funded media outlets. The order demands that agency heads eliminate all non-mandatory functions and scale back required ones to the legal minimum. Among the targets is the Institute …

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Lisa Schiff. Photo Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Lisa Schiff, once a sought-after art adviser with a clientele that included Hollywood A-listers like Leonardo DiCaprio, has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme that unraveled in 2023. She is due to surrender on July 1 and is subject …

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How much to fix the Louvre? One billion euros, apparently. Photo Graham Denholm/Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FREE AND SMALLER MUSEUMS MAKE SENSE. A new study by think tank Remuseum, argues museum admission should be free for smaller institutions, because it drives greater attendance without raising …

Italian Village Wants Louvre to Return Church Carving, Trump Appoints New Head of IMLS After Ordering it Dismantled: Morning Links for March 21, 2025 Read More »

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., 1971. Photo Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images Vice President JD Vance was booed while attending a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Thursday evening, the New York Times reported. It was Vance’s first time there …

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Maurizio Cattelan’s America (2016) is a golden toilet that was first shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS Three men have been convicted for stealing and selling Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet from Blenheim Palace in England in 2019, according to a press release from Crown Prosecution Service today. The working 227 pound, 18-karat gold toilet titled America (2016) …

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One of the hundreds of cuneiform tablets discovered at the Sumerian site Girsu in present-day Tello, Iraq. Photo Alberto Giannese © The Girsu Project. More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in …

Hundreds of 4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets and Seals Unearthed in Iraq Read More »