A sign marks the location of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) headquarters building on January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. Getty Images Good Morning! A majority of workers at the General Services Administration, which maintains and preserves public artworks, were put on sudden leave pending terminations. An anonymous donor has gifted the Museum of …
Demolition of Pennsylvania Station during renovation of Madison Square Garden, 1966. Photo Al Fenn/Getty Images A new proposal for the renovation of Pennsylvania Station is officially on the table, and it includes returning to the train station to its pre-demolition Beaux Arts style and relocating the Madison Square Garden (MSG) arena. The historic Penn Station …
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Ricardo Scofidio. Photo Andrew Toth/Getty Images for MoMA Ricardo Scofidio, an architect who helped reshape the museum landscape in the US, died on Thursday at 89. His death was announced by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the firm he founded with his wife Elizabeth Diller in 1997. Working alongside Diller and firm partner Charles Renfro, Scofidio …
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Jeff Bezos lost billions in just two days on the stock market. Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for The New York Times ARTnews Top 200 collectors Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Alice Walton lost billions on March 7 and March 10 after stock market sell-offs motivated by investor concerns about the new Trump tariffs and …
Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario Courtesy, Art Recovery International LLC A 16th-century painting stolen from an Italian museum more than half a century ago has resurfaced—not in a grand gallery or a private collection, but at the center of a bitter dispute between an English widow and a small-town museum in northern Italy. The work …
Is the de Young Museum about to cut staff and slash opening hours? Hearst Newspapers via Getty Imag To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ACLU SUES NEA OVER GENDER CLAUSE. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), claiming that its new …
Rashid Johnson in Gabriela Hearst’s ready-to-wear fall 2025 line at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, 2025. Giovanni Giannoni/WWD This week, fashion designer Gabriela Hearst debuted her latest ready-to-wear fall 2025 line at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris as part of the city’s fashion week. Those in the crowd may have noticed some familiar …
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Basquiat’s 1984 picture Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night) Christie’s Images Ltd. 2025 A punchy hot pink and maroon painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will be the top lot at Christie’s upcoming 20th/21st century evening sale in Hong Kong on March 28. Titled Sabado por la Noche (Saturday Night), the 6.5 foot by 7.5 foot work was …
The Temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt, 2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists have discovered a collection of jewelry dating back to the early 26th Dynasty during excavation work in the northwestern part of the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. The Temple of Karnak is one of Egypt’s most significant complexes, boasting as many as 20 …
Pritzker Prize winner Liu Jiakun’s West Village complex. photo courtesy of Chen Chen Liu Jiakun, a Chengdu-based architect known for his sensitive, place-driven approach to design, has been awarded the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious honor in architecture. Liu, who has spent decades crafting a body of work rooted in the traditions and materials of …
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