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The Smithsonian Museum has bowed to Trump’s executive order. Photo Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines SMITHSONIAN SUPPRESSION. On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution’s museums. He demanded the restoration of public monuments that have been removed since January 1, …

Trump Targets Smithsonian, Myanmar Cultural Heritage Damaged by Earthquake, and More: Morning Links for March 28, 2025 Read More »

The 2024 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong. Courtesy Art Basel To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HONG KONG TEMP CHECK. Ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong opening this week, in a piece for ARTnews, Ilaria Maria Sala analyzes the factors impacting the region’s art market. Despite “shaky” confidence in light of moderate …

High Hopes Ahead of Art Basel Hong Kong, UK Fines Art Businesses, and More: Morning Links for March 24, 2025 Read More »

Pablo Picasso, Femme au Béret Bleu Assise dans un Fauteuil Gris, Manches Rouges (Marie-Thérèse), 1937. Photo Sandra Pointet/©2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ Courtesy Gagosian Gagosian is set to close a chapter in its history, the end of its residence at its 980 Madison location in the Upper East Side, …

Gagosian Closes Storied 980 Madison Location with a Blockbuster Picasso Show Read More »

The former Marlborough Gallery space. Photo by Brown Harris Stevens The former home of one of New York’s most storied galleries is officially on the market. The first and second floors of the Chelsea Arts Tower, which once housed Marlborough Gallery, have been listed for $10.9 million. Jeffrey Zoldan and Roger Gillen of Brown Harris Stevens …

Marlborough Gallery’s Former Chelsea Home Hits the Market for $10.9M 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 A Texas county will not take legal action against the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for showing Sally Mann photographs that some labeled “child pornography,” according …

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Léon Spilliaert, Self Portrait, 1907. Courtesy David Levy Gallery. Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Since last week, in Maastricht, a Dutch university city about two hours outside Amsterdam, 266 galleries have been exhibiting at this year’s edition of TEFAF, one of two …

Sales Were Slow and Steady at TEFAF Maastricht—But Hidden Gems Gave the Fair Real Energy Read More »

Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt and Nelson Rockfeller, then President of MoMA in NY. Courtesy Sotheby’s On April 10, Sotheby’s Paris will hold a sale dedicated to Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, a Brazilian businesswoman and journalist and the founder of Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro. Bittencourt, who died in 2003, was a …

The Storied Collection of Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio’s Founder Heads to Auction at Sotheby’s Paris Read More »

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 …

Member of Crime Ring Involving Warhol and Pollock Thefts Gets Prison Time Read More »

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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