Dakar’s Response to the Postponement of Africa’s Largest Biennial Was Vivacious
This past April, just weeks before the opening of Dak’Art, Africa’s largest and longest-running biennial, the Senegalese Minister of Culture abruptly postponed the event citing...
California Man Receives Three-Month Sentence for Smuggling Ancient Mosaic Looted from Syria
A California man was sentenced to three months in federal prison today for illegally importing a 2,000-pound ancient floor mosaic from Syria to the US....
Caitlin Berry Named Inaugural Director of Johns Hopkins’s New Frary Gallery in D.C.
Caitlin Berry has been named the inaugural director of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, a new university art gallery that is part of the...
Restitution Firm Settles Legal Dispute Over Painting Returned by MoMA
A long-running legal dispute over a Marc Chagall painting that was returned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to relatives of its...
Marco Anelli Goes Beyond Documentary Photography in New Show at Magazzino Italian Art
Italian photographer Marco Anelli spent ten years capturing the construction activity at Magazzino Italian Art, building upon his decades of prior experience to go beyond...
The Overwhelming Majority of NFTs Are ‘Dead,’ Report Says
A report published earlier this month by NFTevening said that the market for NFTs has been in such a dramatic downturn since 2023 that 95 percent...
Former Frieze Fair Director Picked to Lead London’s National Portrait Gallery
Victoria Siddall, a former executive at the global fair company Frieze, has been tapped to lead the National Portrait Gallery in London. She was chosen...
Will AI Change Art History Forever?
It’s not often that the work of authenticating art makes mainstream news, but that’s exactly what happened last year when a team of researchers in...
What Do J.D. Vance, Dimes Square, and the Art World Have in Common? More than You Think
Last week, Reuters reported that Rockbridge Network, a right-wing Silicon Valley-backed donor organization cofounded by vice-presidential hopeful J.D. Vance in 2019, is working to influence...
California College of the Arts Faces $20 M. Budget Deficit, Russian Artist Recounts ‘Grim’ Prison Stay, Butter Fine Art Fair Returns, and More: Morning Links for August 29, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES VACANT HOWSE. The California College of the Arts (CCA) is grappling...
National Park Service Awards $3 M. To 13 Tribes and 21 Museums To Aid Return of Native American Remains And Sacred Objects
The National Park Service recently announced $3 million in grants to 13 Tribes and 21 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation, and repatriation of...
The Little-Known Business of Traveling Exhibitions Is Booming
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. Last month, in a Wisconsin...
Prints of Hokusai’s ‘A Great Wave’ Head to Auction in September Amid a Hot Market for the Work
Two prints of Katsushika Hokusai‘s iconic woodblock print will be auctioned by Bonhams and Christie’s during Asia Week New York‘s autumn edition for 2024. The...
Inquisitive Boy Destroys 3,500-Year-Old Ancient Jar at Israeli Museum
A curious four-year-old boy visiting the Hecht Museum in Israel with his family inadvertently smashed a jar that predates the time of Biblical main characters...