A 6,000-Year-Old Slab of Carved Wood Predating Stonehenge Has Been Found in Berkshire, England
A crew of builders in Boxford, Berkshire, England stumbled upon a large chunk of carved oak over 6,000 years old while digging foundation trenches for...
White Cube Heads to Seoul, Canada’s National Gallery Gets New Director, and More: Morning Links for June 8, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines ON THE PENINSULA. In recent years, galleries from the United States and...
National Gallery of Australia Postpones Major Exhibition of Aboriginal Art amid Ongoing Investigation of Provenance
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) has officially postponed a major exhibition of Aboriginal artwork currently undergoing review after allegations of interference from white studio...
Egypt Bans Dutch Archaeologists from Excavations in Response to Museum’s ‘Afrocentric’ Egyptian Exhibition
Archaeologists from the Leiden National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands have been barred from carrying out future excavations in the necropolis Saqqara after Egyptian...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Painting Restituted to the Heirs of a Jewish Banker Fleeing Nazi Persecution and Repurchased by a German City
A landscape painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir was restituted to heirs of its original Jewish owner and then repurchased by the northern German city of Hagen,...
Brookfield Properties Is Betting Art Will Draw Workers Back to the Office
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Earlier this week, Brookfield, by...
Art World Grifter Anna Delvey Owes Her Immigration Lawyer $150K, Lawsuit Says
A lawyer hired by art world grifter Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey, to fight her deportation and appeal her conviction in a $270,000 fraud case, has sued...
Gagosian to Represent Photographer Francesca Woodman
Gagosian, the world’s largest gallery, will now represent the estate of enigmatic photographer Francesca Woodman, who before her death, at 22, helped define a style...
Reina Sofía Gets New Director, J. Paul Getty Trust Gets New Board Chair, and More: Morning Links for June 7, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines THE TOP JOB. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid has a...
Sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud Heads to Hauser & Wirth After Acclaimed Survey Exhibitions
Barbara Chase-Riboud, a sculptor who has seen a new level of interest following two survey exhibitions and a memoir last year, has joined Hauser &...
Climate Protesters Assemble Outside MoMA Party, Calling on Museum to Drop Its Board Chair
As the sky above Manhattan turned a murky yellow from smoke carried down from wildfires in Canada, climate protesters set up signs, banners, and a...
Germany Returns 14 Stolen Artifacts to Italy, Including Ancient Gold Coins Stolen from Archaeology Museum
Germany recently returned 14 artifacts to Italy after they had been stolen from Italian museums or illegal excavations. The items included a Corinthian bronze helmet...
Four New Nazca Lines Identified by Artificial Intelligence in Peru
Using a form of artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered four new Nazca geoglyphs in Peru, according to a new study recently published in the Journal...
Françoise Gilot, Artist Who Fearlessly Chronicled Her Relationship with Picasso, Dies at 101
Françoise Gilot, a painter who wrote a famed 1964 memoir detailing her tumultuous decade-long relationship with Pablo Picasso, has died at 101. The New York...