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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 »

Tate Modern, London, England. Courtesy Getty Images/iStockphoto The Tate museum network will dramatically slim its workforce as institutions and galleries worldwide seek to reduce costs amid forecasts of a far-reaching financial recession. The Financial Times reports that around 40 roles, or 7 percent of its staff, are expected to be eliminated through voluntary departures and …

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A copy of the New Yorker. Photo Robert Alexander/Getty Images The New Yorker’s art critic since 2023, Jackson Arn, has been let go following complaints of “inappropriate overtures” at the magazine’s 100th anniversary party last month, according to the New York Times.  Two people who were at the event, which was held at Jean’s on Lafayette Street …

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View of the new David Zwirner gallery, located at 533 West 19th Street, looking northeast. Rendering by Selldorf Architects David Zwirner will open its newest space in Chelsea on May 8 with a solo show for Michael Armitage. Located at 533 West 19th Street, the new, two-story location is adjacent to Zwirner’s two connected 19th …

David Zwirner Announces Opening Date for Its Latest Chelsea Space Read More »

Aerial view of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. Getty Images/iStockphoto Good Morning! The Tate has cut 7 percent of staff via voluntary departures and a hiring freeze, due to a post-pandemic deficit.  Raymond Pettibon has gifted his archive to the Getty museum in Los Angeles. JD Vance was booed at Kennedy Center …

Getty Acquires Raymond Pettibon Archive, Google Gives $1.5 M. to Ruth Asawa Exhibit, and More: Morning Links for March 14, 2025 Read More »

A view of the Metropolitan Museum of Art building in New York City, United States on July 15, 2024. NurPhoto via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LOST AND FOUND KLIMT. A rediscovered portrait by Gustav Klimt of an Osu prince from modern-day Ghana, is for sale at TEFAF Maastricht, …

When Banksy Pranked the Met,  Mickey Rooney’s Collection Set to Sell, Paris Police Remove Migrant Squatters from Art Center: Morning Links for March 18, 2025 Read More »

MF Husain’s portrayals of naked women continue to enrage hardline Hindus. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HISTORIC MODERN IDIAN ART SALE. M.F. Husain’s 1954 painting Untitled (Gram Yatra) became the most expensive work of modern Indian art ever publicly auctioned, when it sold yesterday for $13.8 …

M.F. Husain Painting Makes Auction History, SF Art Institute Renovation Takes Shape, Marina Abramovic Announces NFT Project: Morning Links for March 20, 2025 Read More »

Installation view of 2024 Vortic digital exhibition “Vampire:Mother.” Courtesy Vortic Art. 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. When former Christie’s co-chairman Loic Gouzer launched his auction app Fair Warning in 2020 as pandemic lockdowns halted art sales, it was an experiment. Last …

Pandemic-Era Art Tech Startups Are Here to Stay—But No Thanks to VC Funding Read More »

Rashid Diab, from the “Out of Focus” series, 2021. Courtesy Dara Art Gallery Rashid Diab, one of Sudan’s most prolific painters and art historians, sits next to his son, Yafil Mubarak, an artist, curator, and his father’s studio manager, for a video call from their current studio in Madrid. They are discussing the past, present, …

Exiled Sudanese Artists Reflect on Their Country’s Art Scene, Devastated by an Ongoing Civil War Read More »

The Statue of Liberty is seen in June 2021. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) TNS To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LOST AND FOUND RENAISSANCE PAINTING. Researchers in Pompeii have revealed that a painting initially thought to be a copy, hanging in a …

Trump Told to ‘Give Back’ Statue of Liberty, Renaissance Painting Discovered in Church, Lee Bul Heads to Hauser & Wirth: Morning Links for March 19, 2025 Read More »