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Marc Spiegler. Photo Arturo Holmes/Getty Images Since the early 2000s, there has been a significant growth in education around the art world, and specifically in the art market, with courses at universities and programs at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Marc Spiegler, the former director of Art Basel, the world’s most important fair for modern and contemporary …

Former Art Basel Director to Teach Course on ‘Understanding Today’s Art World’ Read More »

Fires in California are being fanned by strong winds. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LA ARTIST HOMES AND CULTURAL LANDMARKS BURNED. The spreading fires in Los Angeles continue to wreak havoc, including ravaging artists and cultural centers. Karen K. Ho has written about museum …

LA Artist Homes and Cultural Landmarks Burned, Warhol Museum Names New Director, and more: Morning Links for January 9, 2025 Read More »

Jeff Koons. Photo Tristar Media/Getty Images These days, it seems that just about everybody is making use of AI—and not just tech-oriented artists, but world-famous painters, too, from David Salle to Takashi Murakami. One artist who won’t join their ranks, at least for now, is the sculptor Jeff Koons, who told the Guardian this week …

Jeff Koons Says He Won’t Work with AI Anytime Soon: ‘I’m Very Embedded at This Moment in Biology’ Read More »

A work similar to The Air up There titled Spinner Forest was on view at MCA Chicago’s “Nick Cave: Forothermore.” Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago. A kinetic sculpture by Nick Cave formerly installed at the Kansas City International Airport’s new terminal may be permanently grounded after its spinner broke off and fell to the …

Nick Cave’s $1 M. Airport Art Grounded Over Safety Concerns After Part Falls to the Floor Read More »

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2010. Photo Imagno/Getty Images Several photographs by Sally Mann have been removed from a group show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas, Glasstire reports. Earlier this week, locals and politicians railed against the content of images, which they characterized as “child porn.” The Dallas Express …

Sally Mann Photographs Removed from Texas Museum Exhibition after Outcry Read More »

Jimmy Carter on the presidential campaign trail for the 1976 election. Bettmann Archive On Sunday, the Carter Center in Atlanta announced that Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died at 100 years old. While Carter was best known as a tireless advocate for human rights and world peace, he also leaves …

President Jimmy Carter, Tireless Supporter of the Arts, Dies at 100 Read More »

The Kunstverein Hamburg. Getty Image The Kunstverein in Hamburg, a contemporary art museum in Germany, said on Friday that part of an installation by artist Phoebe Collings-James that references Palestine was vandalized in what the institution described as a “politically targeted” act. The site-specific work, red earth, blood earth, blood brother earth [kick dirt] (2024), …

German Museum Says Visitor Damaged Installation Referencing Palestine Read More »

The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu waves to worshippers and tourists at the Tashilhunpo Monastery. Photo Li Lin/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images A 15th-century monastery in Tibet is still intact after a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northern foothills of Mount Everest. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit near Shigatse, one of Tibet’s …

Centuries-Old Monastery Unharmed by Powerful Earthquake in Tibet Read More »

An elderly man reacts at the Babyn Yar memorial on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the mass execution of civilians, mainly Jewish people by the Nazis during the World War II, in Kyiv on September 29, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP …

UNESCO Grants Enhanced Protections to Ukrainian Heritage Sites Read More »

Pippa Garner. Courtesy the artist Pippa Garner, an artist who poked fun at consumerism in sculptures and performances that gained a cult following, died at 82 in Los Angeles on December 30, 2024. She had been battling leukemia. The news was announced via Instagram in Garner’s name that is run by friends of the artist, …

Pippa Garner, Inventive Artist Who Satirized Consumerism, Dies at 82 Read More »