Warhol Portrait of Debbie Harry Resurfaces, French Artist to Spend 10 Days in a Bottle, Student Buys a ‘Chagall’ for $2, and More: Morning Links for July 31, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES GENIUS IN A BOTTLE. French artist Abraham Poincheval (b. 1972), who...
LA’s Fowler Museum Returns 20 Artifacts to Warumungu People of Australia
The University of California, Los Angeles’s Fowler Museum returned 20 objects “of significant cultural importance” to the Warumungu community of Australia’s Northern Territory on July...
Stonehenge Tunnel Project Binned by New Labour Government as It Tries to Fill $2.5 Billion Fiscal Black Hole
The UK’s newly formed Labour government has wasted no time in trashing plans laid down by the Conservatives in 2020 to build a two-mile tunnel...
Brancusi’s ‘Endless Column,’ a Modernist Icon, Joins UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Five iconic sculptures by Constantin Brancusi that are located in the Romanian town of Targu Jiu have joined UNESCO‘s World Heritage list, a distinction that...
New Aspen Art Fair Opens, the World’s Best Art Destinations, Paris Olympics Fail to Reconcile France, and More: Morning Links for July 30, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES HITS DON’T LIE. If the Olympics opening ceremony, which tended to...
New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery Sues Art Collector, Claiming He Owes Nearly $300,000
New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery has sued collector James R. Hedges IV, alleging that he owes nearly $300,000 for the sales of 19 artworks that...
UNESCO Adds Historic Monastery in Gaza to List of Endangered Sites
UNESCO has added the ancient Saint Hilarion Monastery, also known as Tell Umm Amer, in Gaza to its endangered sites list as a result of...
Drag Queen Performance at Paris Olympics Draws Comparisons to ‘Last Supper’
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games sparked controversy, with the Catholic Church and conservative politicians accusing the scene of mocking Christianity. Central to the debate...
‘Mona Lisa’ Was Not Stolen from Italy, Leonardo da Vinci Expert Says: ‘We Need to Get the History Right’
After a prominent archaeologist said he would launch a campaign to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy, one of the foremost Leonardo da Vinci...
Paris Olympics Start with a Bang, Bernini’s Dark Side Revealed, and More: Morning Links for July 29, 2024
The Headlines EPIC, UNIQUE, OLYMPIC. After giving his blood, sweat, and tears for 18 months, Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of Paris’s Olympics opening ceremony, the first...
At the Ford Foundation Gallery, an Exhibition Imagines the Possibilities of Femme-Centered Knowledge
For 605 days, the Nicaraguan activist and historian Dora María Téllez Argüello was incarcerated for her political opposition to the country’s presidency turned dictatorship. While...
Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get Prison Time
Two activists from the protest group Just Stop Oil have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh‘s Sunflowers....
To Celebrate 60 Years of Andy Warhol’s Silent Film ‘Empire’, MoMA will Screen it from the Empire State Building
On the night of July 25, 1964, Andy Warhol and filmmaker Jonas Mekas stood on the forty-fourth floor of the Time-Life Building and for six...
Climate Activists Slam Toyota’s Role in 2024 Paris Olympics with Guerrilla Art Campaign
The eco-resistance is alive and well in Paris, where the Summer Olympic Games begin today. Activists have condemned Toyota‘s sponsorship of the upcoming Olympic Games...