US Supreme Court Denies Petition to Block 29 Benin Bronzes Being Restituted to Nigeria, Artist Bjarne Melgaard Sues Patrons for ‘Stealing’ His Career: Morning Links for October 14, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PETITION TO BLOCK BRONZE RETURN DISMISSED. The US Supreme Court has...
After Two Years, Christine Macel Is No Longer Director of Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Christine Macel, a closely watched French curator who organized the 2017 Venice Biennale, will reportedly no longer be director of Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs...
Chicago’s Rhona Hoffman to Give Up West Town Space, Change Model
It’s the end of an era in Chicago: Rhona Hoffman, who has been a gallerist in the city for nearly five decades, will close her...
Collector’s Diary: Pamela J. Joyner Reflects on a Week of Firsts at the 2024 Venice Biennale
As I headed to Venice, I had high expectations about what I would see, learn, and experience there. In the lead-up to the opening, Adriano...
London’s Social Scene Lights Up for Frieze’s VIPs and Wannabe-VIPs
Art is secondary to partying for more people than you might think at Frieze London—as at any major art fair. Anyone who is—or wants to...
Frieze Sculpture Gets Sexy, Serious, and Playful in London’s Regent’s Park
I’m not usually one for sculptures. I’ve always found paintings, prints, and drawings to be far more approachable. Much more digestible, even if I can’t...
Brats, Poppers, and Art Pop: Charli xcx Spends a Day at Storm King
The title of Charli xcx’s Brat remix album, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, applies neatly to the pop-up listening party she...
Inside the Met’s Renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Which Is Set to Open May 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently offered a preview of its renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, taking journalists on a tour of the new space,...
Monet Restituted by Federal Authorities to Heirs of Jewish Owners
Legal title of a work by Claude Monet, seized by the Nazis from a Jewish couple who fled Vienna in 1938 to avoid persecution, has...
Lebanon’s Gallery Scene Grinds to a Halt Amid Israel’s Continued Airstrikes
Right now, Walid Raad is supposed to have two shows on view at Sfeir-Semler Gallery in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, the country where...
MFA Boston Receives $25 M. from the Wyss Foundation to Support Renovation of Modern Art Wing
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) as we know it will undergo a number of changes thanks in part to a $25 million gift...
Joe Bradley’s Galerie Sardine to Host Inaugural Pop-Up Exhibition in Paris Next Week
Galerie Sardine is having a moment in Paris and New York—for those lucky enough to catch it! The New York–based space and collaborative curatorial project...
Newsmakers: Tampa Museum of Art’s Executive Director on Preparing for Hurricane Milton and Sheltering at the Institution
Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. As Hurricane...
For More than Half a Century, Collector Joan Agajanian Quinn Has Been the Heart of LA’s Art Community
For nearly 50 years, Joan Agajanian Quinn has asked the questions that everyone wants to answer. A consummate journalist, she was the West Coast editor...