The Modern Wing of the Art Institute Of Chicago, 2013. Photo Raymond Boyd/Getty Images A New York judge has ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to return a 1916 Egon Schiele drawing to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian Jewish art collector persecuted during the second world war. In the ruling, Judge Althea Drysdale …
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RISD’s campus. Courtesy RISD. A group of ACLU-affiliated organizations filed a class-action lawsuit Friday in federal court in New Hampshire, seeking to reinstate the legal status of over 100 international students whose visas were abruptly revoked this year. The suit aims to protect students in New England and Puerto Rico who advocates say were stripped …
Ho Tzu Nyen. Courtesy Singapore Art Museum The next Gwangju Biennale will be organized not by a world-renowned curator but by an artist whose profile is fast-rising. Ho Tzu Nyen will organize the 2026 edition of South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale, which is regarded as one of the top biennial-style shows in Asia. It’s not the …
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The Coțofenești helmet from 450 BCE had an estimated value of €4.3 million ($4.9 million). Courtesy the Dutch Police Dutch police recently arrested two more suspects in connection with the theft of Romanian artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands earlier this year in January. “These suspects are a 20-year-old man and an …
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. De Agostini via Getty Images The director and the secretary of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., met with representatives from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a report published Friday evening by Kriston Capps in Bloomberg CityLab. The Trump administration has …
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The 15-foot-tall pink granite false door at the tomb of Waserif Re in Saqqara, Egypt. Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The tomb of Prince Waserif Re, son of King Userkaf who founded ancient Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty and reigned from 2465 BCE to 2458 BCE, was excavated by archaeologists at the Saqqara necropolis, just southwest …
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RICHMOND, VA – FEBRUARY 09: The Virginia State flag and the American flag fly near the Virginia State Capitol, February 9, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia state politics are in a state of upheaval, with Governor Ralph Northam, State Attorney General Mark Herring, both Democrats, and Republican Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment involved with past …
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Pope Francis waves to thousands of followers as he arrives at the Manila Cathedral on January 16, 2015 in Manila, Philippines. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines A SOMBER DAY. Pope Francis died Easter Monday at his home in Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican announced in a statement on social …
Archaeological excavations at the Al Ain necropolis in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Photo DCT Abu Dhabi The first major Iron Age cemetery in the United Arab Emirates has been unearthed in the Al Ain region of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT Abu Dhabi) recently revealed. The 3,000-year-old necropolis is believed to …
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Matthew Barney, SECONDARY, 2023. © Matthew Barney. Production still: Julieta Cervantes. Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Regen Projects, and Galerie Max Hetzler Since 2022, there has been near-constant talk of a soft art market, with the latest UBS Art Basel Report finding that global art sales contracted for the second consecutive …
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