Pål Enger, Who Famously Stole Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ Dies at 57
Pål Enger, a former Norwegian soccer player turned notorious art thief, has died at 57. Enger, who gained fame for his 1994 theft of Edvard...
British Museum Should Charge Visitors £20 Entry Fee, Says Former Director
The former director of the British Museum, one of the many London institutions that offers free admission, recently suggested that foreign tourists should pay an...
LACMA Hires Closely Watched Curator Diana Nawi for Contemporary Art Department
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has hired Diana Nawi as a curator of contemporary art, beginning this month. Nawi, who has worked independently...
June Leaf, Influential Artist Whose Work Explored the Possibilities of Figuration, Dies at 94
June Leaf, a beloved artist whose beguiling, unclassifiable works explored the limits of the human body, died on Monday in New York at 94. The...
Banksy Migrant Boat Decried as ‘Vile,’ Louvre Accused of Copying Dance Program, St. Louis Art Center Shutters Pro-Palestinian Exhibition, and More: Morning Links for July 2, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES BANKSY UNDER SCRUTINY. British home secretary James Cleverly has said that a new Banksy artwork...
Audrey Flack, Photorealist Who Painted with Exacting Detail, Dies at 93
Audrey Flack, a Photorealist artist whose work reproduced tchotchkes, trinkets, photographs, and more in painstaking detail, has died on June 28 in Southampton, New York....
Ancient Stingray Sculpture Proposes New Timeline of Human Artistic Expression
Researchers have identified what they believe is an ancient sand sculpture of a stingray, challenging the established timeline of human artistic expression, according to a...
London’s V&A Museum Is Set to Open Taylor Swift Exhibition
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)in London has announced a exhibition of all things Taylor Swift—from dresses and cowboy boots to awards and unseen tidbits...
John Gerrard Is Helping Restore Ireland’s Rainforest with Generative Art
A generative art series by Irish artist John Gerrard is helping restore Ireland’s temperate rainforest. Hosted by Feral File, an online platform for digital art...
Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s Surrealist Film ‘Un Chien Andalou’ Guest Stars on ‘The Bear’
Many things get sliced in full view of the camera on The Bear, an FX TV series set at a Chicago restaurant, but the newly...
Jacqueline de Jong, Painter Who Expanded the Possibilities of Her Medium, Dies at 85
Jacqueline de Jong, a Dutch painter who for six decades remained committed to figuration, even when the art establishment did not value it highly, died...
New Jersey Pulls Funding for Centre Pompidou Satellite, Stonewall Monument Unveiled, Teddy Roosevelt’s Stolen Pocket Watch Returned, and More: Morning Links for July 1, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES SCRAPPED POMPIDOU X JERSEY MUSEUM. On Saturday New Jersey politicians pulled...
Art Consultancy CulturVator Is Merging the Ancient with the Contemporary to Put Egyptian Art on the Map
Later this month, the Acropolis Museum and The Lemon Tree & Co. Athens-Riviera will host a unique exhibition, “A Tale of Two Cities.” The exhibition,...
New Jersey Defunds Centre Pompidou’s Jersey City Museum, Saying Project Is ‘No Longer Viable’
The Centre Pompidou‘s planned Jersey City museum was thrown into jeopardy on Saturday after New Jersey politicians pulled funding from the institution, saying that it...