Kwame Brathwaite, Influential Photographer Who Proclaimed ‘Black Is Beautiful,’ Dies at 85
Kwame Brathwaite, a photographer and activist whose stylish images forced many to see Black beauty anew, inspiring generations of artists who came after him, died...
Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Dies at 71, New York’s Jewish Museum Plans Chloé Show, and More: Morning Links for April 2, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, the genre-crossing Japanese musician and composer who was a member...
Contestants on MTV and the Hirshhorn’s Artist Competition TV Series Look Backward to Move into the Future
(Spoiler alert: this article contains information and plot points from the fifth episode of The Exhibit, a docuseries created by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...
Manhattan DA’s Office Returns 11th Century Antiquity to Cambodia
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is currently in the news for indicting former President Donald Trump, but it also continues to repatriates looted and stolen...
Russian-Owned Phillips Is Facing ‘Significant Doubt’ Over Its Finances, According to Records
The Russian-owned auction house Phillips is in an uncertain financial position, according to audit records that were reviewed by the Guardian. A recent audit carried...
Munich Museum Takes Down Picasso Portrait Amid Ownership Dispute
A museum in Munich has taken down a Picasso portrait after a recent intervention from the German culture minister over its disputed ownership. “I expressly...
$25 M. Statue Seized from the Met as Restitution Efforts Continue to Target the Museum
A bronze statue that held court over the Greek and Roman galleries at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for over a decade has been...
Michigan College Cuts Ties with Florida Charter School After Principal Resigns Over ‘David’ Sculpture
A Michigan college has ended its relationship with the Florida charter school whose principal was pressured to resign after parents complained that her Renaissance art syllabus, which...
Notre-Dame May Have Been the First Gothic Cathedral to Widely Rely on Iron Staples in Its Stonework
Large iron staples have been found in Notre-Dame Cathedral’s stonework among the walls, columns, and tribunes. A recent study in the peer-reviewed journal Plos One...
Mexico Alleges That New York Gallery Auctioned Hundreds of Illegally Obtained Pre-Columbian Artifacts
It was the morning of July 11, 2022, when the Consul General of Mexico in New York City, Jorge Islas López, appeared at Arte Primitivo-Howard...
$61.9 M. Joshua Reynolds Painting to Be Jointly Acquired by LA’s Getty Museum and London’s National Portrait Gallery
London’s art scene will likely soon be able to rejoice: a valuable portrait by Joshua Reynolds, one of England’s most famous artists, seems sure to...
By Connecting to Its Local Audience, India’s Newest Museum Wants to Prove That Museums Are More Relevant Than Ever
Across from one of Bangalore’s largest green spaces, a box-shaped structure enveloped in embossed stainless-steel panels has recently risen up in the southern Indian city’s...
Berlin’s Gropius Bau Gets New Director, Loaned Roman Statue Seized at Met, and More: Morning Links for March 31, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HUMAN RESOURCES. Curator Jenny Schlenzka, who brought new energy to Performance Space New York while...
MoMA Alters Wall Text for Video Installation After Being Accused of Promoting ‘Garbage Putinist Discourse’
New York’s Museum of Modern Art changed the wall text for a work in a sizable survey of video art after some social media users...