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Jack Vettriano has passed away. David Levenson/Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BAYEUX TAPESTRY DISCOVERY. A fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry has been discovered in a northern German estate, reports the Australian Associated Press and Newcastle Herald. The nearly 230-foot long, 20-inch tall, 11th-century embroidered tapestry depicts …

Bayeux Tapestry Fragment Found in Germany, Trump Tariffs Spell Trouble for Art World, Jack Vettriano Dies: Morning Links for March 4, 2025 Read More »

The ‘Fearless Girl’ sculpture opposite the New York Stock Exchange by Kristen Visbal is in question. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NEA NIXES GRANT. In the latest anti-DEI news, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has cancelled its Challenge America arts grant program for 2026, reports Hyperallergic. …

National Endowment for the Arts Scraps Challenge America Grant Program, Future of NYSE’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Uncertain, Tatsumi Orimoto Dies: Morning Links for March 06, 2025 Read More »

Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, 2024. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Following President Trump’s crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, the Art Museum of the Americas has cancelled two exhibitions. The exhibition “Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine” was set to be installed this week at the Art Museum of the Americas, which is …

Art Museum of the Americas Cancels Exhibitions by Black, Queer Artists Read More »

Jenna Segal Rita Carmo In the mid-1990s, film producer Jenna Segal‘s life changed during a European backpacking trip. All it took was a visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice with her best friend. “This was before smartphones,” Segal told ARTnews from her office on West 57th Street in Manhattan, which, not coincidentally, was once …

Theater Producer Jenna Segal Brings Peggy Guggenheim’s Vision To the Present with ’31 Women’ Exhibition Read More »

University of North Texas campus. via Google images. A Texas lawmaker urged university administrators to cancel a planned lecture, remove a student art exhibition, and review campus free speech policies, citing alleged antisemitism, according to NTdaily, the school’s news outlet. In a letter addressed to University President Harrison Keller and UNT System Chancellor Michael Williams, …

Texas Lawmakers Take Aim at Pro-Palestine Student Art Exhibition Read More »

The exterior of Bank’s New York outpost, at 127 Elizabeth Street. Courtesy Bank Shanghai’s Bank gallery, one of China’s leading art spaces, will open in New York as its leaders brave an uncertain global art market. From March 21 until mid-August, Bank will operate a “pilot” space at 127 Elizabeth Street, the current home of …

In an Uncertain Market, Shanghai’s Bank Gallery Looks to New York for Stability Read More »

Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa pose for a portrait in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images Good Morning! Amid an ongoing investigation into the mysterious death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, the actor’s less-famous art practice comes to light.  Artist Andil Gosine’s exhibition based on his book about queer theory …

Gene Hackman’s Paintings, Canceled Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for February 28, 2025 Read More »

Good bank? $TRUMP has shed billions. AFP via Getty Images The value of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency, a meme coin aptly called $TRUMP, has fallen off a cliff – and its investors have lost around $12 billion.   (A cryptocurrency is typically labeled a meme coin if it has no intrinsic function but originates from an internet …

Value of $TRUMP Cryptocurrency ‘Artwork’ Sinks, Investors Lose $12 B. Read More »

Views of the Elizabeth Street Garden on a crowded Sunday afternoon on September 9, 2024 in the Soho. Corbis via Getty Images A nonprofit overseeing Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden is suing New York City, arguing that the coveted public space qualifies for legal protection art under the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) of 1990. The …

Manhattan Nonprofit Sues City to Halt Destruction of ‘Social Sculpture’ Garden Read More »

Beachgoers crowd the shore of Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria during the hot summer season on August 29, 2024. AFP via Getty Images Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt’s absorption into Greco-Roman culture. …

Alexandria: A Guide to Egypt’s Ever-Changing City Read More »