Robert Newland, Partner of Disgraced Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick, Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison
The British art dealer Robert Newland, who last year pleaded guilty for his part in a string of fraudulent art deals with one-time wunderkind Inigo...
Newfields, Still Reeling from Controversy, Names Indianapolis Museum Director After Lengthy Search
Newfields has appointed Belinda Tate as the next director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfield, concluding a nearly four-year hiring process and crisis...
For a Second Time, UNESCO Urges Against Plan to Build Tunnel Near Stonehenge
UNESCO has once again urged the UK government to “not proceed” with its controversial plan to build a two-mile tunnel close to Stonehenge. Because of that...
Erwin Olaf, Photographer Whose Unsettling Imagery Found a Wide Audience, Dies at 64
Erwin Olaf, a Dutch photographer whose softly lit images of people in surrealist situations were seen widely, in venues ranging from the pages of fashion...
Archaeologists Make New Discoveries at Ancient Temple in Sunken City off Egypt’s Coast
A team of underwater archaeologists has made new discoveries at a sunken temple in the ancient port city Thonis-Heracleion, which is now located off Egypt’s...
Man Vandalizes Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum, Charged With Hate Crime
A 76-year-old man was charged with a hate crime on Monday after he took a sledgehammer to the façade of Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum, smashing...
Russian Curator to Revise Texts for Berlin Show After Being Accused of Appropriating Ukrainian Poetry
A Russian-born curator said she would change her texts for a two-museum Berlin exhibition about art and persecution after online critics claimed that she had...
Boy Breaks Arm after Tripping on Ibrahim Mahama Installation at São Paulo Biennial
Public access was restricted to an installation by artist Ibrahim Mahama at Bienal de São Paulo after an “unsupervised child” tripped over the work, breaking...
Paris Will Recycle the Material from Christo and Jeanne Claude’s Wrapped Arc de Triomphe for the 2024 Olympics
Paris is recycling Christo and Jeanne Claude’s monumental installation Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (1961-2021) for future use, the city announced yesterday in a press release. “The...
Artist Ordered to Repay Museum After Submitting Empty Frames Instead of Commissioned Work
Danish conceptual artist Jens Haaning has been ordered by a Copenhagen court to repay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, northern Denmark, after...
At New York Fashion Week, Designers Tapped the Art World at the City’s Temples of Wealth
As the Armory Art Show wound down two weeks ago, creative types convened across the city to watch more than 90 US-based designers unveil their...
Record Set for Work by an Indian Artist at Auction, Architect Raymond Moriyama Dies at 93, and More: Morning Links for September 19, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PAYBACK TIME. The Danish artist who (from one vantage point) made off with...
Viking Fortresses, Burial Mounds in Mongolia, and Other Sites Added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee, a cultural body within the United Nations, has inscribed 13 sites of historical or artistic significance in countries including Ukraine, China,...
Meet the Newest Pokémon Battle Team Member: Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum
In what either came as a complete shock or made perfect sense, the official Pokémon YouTube channel announced last week that the Japanese media titan partially...