$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...
Met to Send Artifacts Linked to Dealer Subhash Kapoor Back to India
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return a group of 15 antiquities to India, the New York institution announced on Thursday. The group of terracotta...
A 7,000-Year-Old Stone Structure in Saudi Arabia Sheds Light on Neolithic Cult Rituals, New Study Finds
A 7,000-year-old stone structure excavated in AIUIa in Saudi Arabia is shedding light on connections between the rituals and culture of Neolithic-era civilizations in the...
500-Year-Old Brueghel Painting Discovered in French Family’s TV Room
A 500-year-old painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger was discovered in the TV room of a family’s new home in Northern France after they invited...
Native American Activists Prevent Auction of 600-Year-Old Indigenous Skull in North Carolina
Advocates for the preservation of Native American heritage successfully prevented the sale of an Indigenous skull at an auction house in North Carolina last week....
Nazi-Looted Courbet Painting Currently in Cambridge Museum Will Be Returned
An idyllic forest scene by Gustave Courbet that was looted from a Paris apartment in 1941 will be returned to the family of its original...
Documenta Kicks Off Search for Artistic Director of 2027 Edition
Still reeling from bitter controversy over last year’s show, Documenta, one of the world’s biggest recurring art exhibitions, has officially begun the search for the...