Norman Rockwell, 1950. Bettmann Archive via Getty Images Norman Rockwell‘s art, with its quaint visions of small-town America, is today widely considered to be a force of conservatism, a call for things to remain the same even as everything changes. But according to the artist’s granddaughter, everyone has his art all wrong. “Norman Rockwell was …
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to guests during a New Year’s Eve event at his Mar-a-Lago home on December 31, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. Getty Images President Donald Trump rang in the New Year with an amateur art auction at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, where a freshly painted portrait of Jesus Christ …
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A view of Angelina Jolie’s Atelier Jolie clothing store in the East Village of New York City. Gotham/GC Images When actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie took over a Manhattan studio building in 2023 with a plan to offer clothes shopping, Turkish coffee, and Syrian mini pies, and workshops for under-represented tailors and artisans from around …
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Arnulf Rainer in 2019. © Javier Gutierrez Arnulf Rainer, the Austrian artist whose relentless drive for experimentation made him a key figure of Europe’s postwar scene, died on December 18 at 96 at his home in Austria. His death was confirmed by his gallery Thaddaeus Ropac. Born in Baden, Austria, in 1929, Rainer spent more …
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https://www.sfaaat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2198415413-1.jpg Sotheby’s last Saudi in February sale generated $17.3 million. Getty Images for Sotheby’s To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines DIGITAL NARCISSISM. The Art Newspaper opines that this year’s edition of Art Basel Miami Beach exposed a problem in contemporary digital art: its entrenched culture of narcissism. Nowhere was this apparently …
The British Museum. Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines REEL GENIUS. The filmmaker Amos Poe, a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY films helped define New York’s punk scene in the mid- and late ’70s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with cancer, Reuters reports. His …
Exterior view of the Las Vegas Museum of Art, showing the plaza and canopy. ©Kéré Architecture/Courtesy Las Vegas Museum of Art The Last Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has released renderings of its new museum building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré. Kéré’s design for the 60,000-square-foot building is inspired by the nearby Mojave …
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Epstein abuse survivor Teresa Helm speaks during a news conference with lawmakers on the Epstein Files Transparency Act outside the U.S. Capitol on November 18, 2025. Photo Heather Deahl/Getty Images Federal authorities, journalists, and Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have spent years scrutinizing the financier’s properties and possessions, piecing together an aesthetic world that often seemed to …
One of the terracotta relief fragments returned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Courtesy Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Reflecting growing pressure by New York prosecutors on museums and private collectors, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and an American collector have returned dozens of looted antiquities to Turkey. …
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Mary Anne Carter. © MOSHE ZUSMAN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO The National Endowment for the Arts has a new chair: Mary Anne Carter, the same political operative who served in the post during Trump’s first term. The Senate voted this morning to confirm her along party lines, by a 53–43 margin. In keeping with his tendency to …
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