Over 600 Protest at RISD In Support of Workers’ Strike Amid Wage Negotiations
Over 600 students, faculty, and Providence locals joined a walkout at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design (RISD) last week in support of...
3,200-Year-Old Necropolis Filled with Tombs for the Elite Found in Egypt
About 20 miles from Cairo, in Saqqara, Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 3,200-year-old necropolis that once served as the final resting place for the aristocracy...
Irma Blank, Artist Whose Text-Based Abstractions Brought Her Late-Career Fame, Dies at 88
Irma Blank, an unclassifiable artist whose experiments with the aesthetics of text went largely under-recognized outside Italy until the past decade, died on April 14...
New York Museum Censors Images of Prophet Muhammad in Online Tour, Sparking Debate
Scholars took issue with the Asia Society’s handling of images of the Prophet Muhammad after some pictures were blurred in an online campaign related to...
HK Arts Council Nixed Funding Over Security Law Issues, Critics Debate Australian Museum Field, and More: Morning Links for April 17, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FIGHTS DOWN UNDER. On Friday, art critic Christopher Allen wrote a column for the Australian arguing that...
Expo Chicago Awards Prizes to Museums for Acquisitions of Work by Under-Recognized Artists
The Expo Chicago art fair has revealed the four institutions set to acquire works being sold there via prizes, as well as the curators set...
Billionaire Art Collector Mitchell Rales and Josh Harris to Buy Washington Commanders
Josh Harris has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the Washington Commanders for $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Harris and Commanders owner Dan Snyder are...
Paintings Returned from Musée d’Orsay to Heirs to be Auctioned in New York
This past February, after a decade-long legal dispute, a French court ordered the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to return a group of Impressionist paintings that...
Controversial Painting at Palais de Tokyo Doesn’t Harm Children, French State Council Says
A Miriam Cahn painting at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo that incited outrage in France after many claimed it represented pedophilia can stay on view, France’s...
Fashion Designer Mary Quant Dies at 93, New Steve McQueen Film Will Be at Cannes, and More: Morning Links for April 14, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HUMAN RESOURCES. President Biden appointed two dozen luminaries to the President’s Committee on the Arts...
Aria Dean Guides Us to the Killing Floor in Chicago Exhibition
Aria Dean’s exhibition at the Renaissance Society in Chicago consists of one work: Abattoir, USA!, a 10-minute film engineered using 3D graphics that’s set in...
Former Art Institute of Chicago Employee Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $2 M. from Museum
A former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago plead guilty in federal court this week after he was indicted in January on several fraud...
Wolfgang Tillmans, Simone Leigh, and El Anatsui Make Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ List
Time magazine has released its 2023 list of the 100 “Most Influential” people, which this year features art-world stars Simone Leigh, Wolfgang Tillmans, and El...
Art or Porn? A Closer Look at Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ the Sculpture Behind the Florida Charter School Controversy
A charter school in Tallahassee, Florida, recently made the news after parents complained about the inclusion of a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo in...