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Emma Capron, curator of early Netherlandish and German paintings at the National Gallery said the artwork is “full of iconographical oddities.” © The National Gallery, London To celebrate its bicentenary, London’s National Gallery has purchased a curious altarpiece for $20 million that it was eyeing for decades. Titled The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis …

London’s National Gallery Acquires Curious Altarpiece by Unknown Artist for $20 M. Read More »

Philipp Kaiser in 2017, at the Swiss Pavilion. Photo Awakening/Getty Images Philipp Kaiser has departed Marian Goodman Gallery, where he is president and one of the gallery’s five partners, after more than six years. His last day at the gallery will be on May 2 and he will serve “as a curatorial consultant to the …

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SCHEVENINGEN, NETHERLANDS – APRIL 30: Dutch Queen Beatrix attends her birthday celebrations on April 30, 2004 in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. Today marked also 25 years of reign of Queen Beatrix (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images) Getty Images In a bureaucratic blunder that is as funny as it is tragic, the Dutch municipality of Maashorst appears …

Dutch Municipality Accidentally Disposes of Andy Warhol Print During Town Hall Renovation Read More »

Too right? Germany’s new culture minister is feeling the heat. ullstein bild via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TRUMP AXES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM BOARD MEMBERS. The Trump administration has fired US Holocaust Memorial Museum board members nominated by former president Joe Biden, including former second gentleman Doug …

Trump Axes Holocaust Museum Board Members, San Fran’s Pier 29 to Become Exhibition Space, Germany’s New Culture Minister Slated: Morning Links for April 30, 2025 Read More »

Pro-Palestinian students occupy a central lawn on the Columbia University campus for the fifth day in New York on April 21, 2024. Photo Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Leaders from America’s top universities have formed a private collective in defense against the Trump administration‘s attacks on academic independence and research funding, the Wall Street Journal …

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Tony Bechara. Photo Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Tony Bechara, an artist who was beloved in New York for his intricately crafted grid paintings and for his patronage of El Museo del Barrio, died on Wednesday on his 83rd birthday. His death was confirmed by El Museo del Barrio, which did not state a …

Tony Bechara, Painter Who Wrangled Randomness, Dies at 83 Read More »

Photographer Sally Mann relaxes with her dog Honey in a meadow of tall grass on her farm near Lexington, Virginia. Photo Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Fort Worth police have returned artworks by photographer Sally Mann seized by its forces from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in January. The news was …

Fort Worth Police Return Photographs Seized from Sally Mann Exhibition Read More »

The Sistine Chapel frescoes at the Vatican Museums. Getty Images The Vatican Museums, which includes the Sistine Chapel, has been closed to the public as Vatican City prepares for the gathering of cardinals who will vote to elect a new pope following the death of Pope Francis on April 28. The Vatican has not announced …

Vatican Museums, Including Sistine Chapel, Closed Indefinitely for Conclave to Elect the Next Pope Read More »

Artist Arthur “Art” Green. Courtesy Garth Greenan Gallery, New York. Arthur “Art” Green, a key Imagist painter and original member of the Hairy Who?, Chicago’s electrifying answer to Pop Art, died at the age of 83 on April 14. The news was announced by Garth Greenan Gallery in New York, which represented him. Green broke …

Art Green, Founding Figure of Chicago’s Riotous Harry Who?, Has Died at 83 Read More »

Nonverbal Kalu was nominated for her installation presented as part of Manifesta 15 in Barcelona last year. Courtesy the artist The four nominees for this year’s Turner Prize have been announced. They include Scottish sculptor Nnena Kalu, who is nonverbal autistic, and Mohammed Sami, an Iraqi British painter born and raised under the dictatorship of …

This Year’s Turner Prize Shortlist Includes an Iraqi Refugee and the Youngest Nominee in Years Read More »