UNESCO Warns Against the Looting and Trafficking of Artifacts from Sudan
UNESCO has called on the art market to refrain from buying artifacts from Sudan following reports of the looting of museums in the Sudanese capital,...
Art in America Celebrates 2024 “New Talent” Issue in New York
Last week Art in America celebrated the release of the fourth annual ”New Talent” issue with a cocktail party at the W Union Square, a...
Photographer Stephen Shore Walks Out Mid-Lecture Over Audience Smartphone Use
American contemporary photographer Stephen Shore walked out of a lecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing last week after he noticed...
ARTnews Launches New International Edition, ARTnews Asia in Hong Kong
ARTnews has announced that it will launch a new ARTnews Asia edition next year, by way of a partnership with Luxetech Ventures, a global venture builder concentrated...
The UK’s Newly Appointed Culture Secretary Eyes Repatriation of Cultural Artifacts at British Institutions
Violent indifference. Vandalism. Those were just two of the words newly appointed UK culture minister Lisa Nandy used to describe how the freshly ousted Conservative...
Iranian Composer Pardoned for Writing Song Adopted by Protestors, Sicilian Town Looking for New Museum Director, and More: Morning Links for September 24, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IRANIAN COMPOSER PARDONED. Iran has pardoned musician Shervin Hajipour, whose song “Baraye”...
New NEA Pilot Program Aimed at Expanding Arts Access Names $12.4 M. in Grants to 112 Nonprofits
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the 112 nonprofit organizations that will receive a total of $12.4 million in grants as part of...
Archaeologists Solve Mystery Behind Black Tombstone Found in Jamestown Carrying an English Knight
Archaeologists have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the oldest known tombstone in the United States carrying an English knight, illuminating in the process the complexities...
Fanny Hauser Named Director of Kunsthalle Zürich
Vienna-born curator Fanny Hauser has been named the next director of the Kunsthalle Zürich, taking the place of Daniel Baumann, who will be leaving the...
2,700-Year-Old Shields and Helmet Found at Ancient Castle in Turkey
Three bronze shields and one bronze helmet dating back 2,700 years were found by archaeologists excavating an ancient castle in Turkey, the country’s minister of...
Oscar Wilde Monument Panned by the Playwright’s Grandson: ‘Absolutely Hideous’
A large sculpture of Oscar Wilde’s head that’s slated to be unveiled in a public garden in southwest London has been panned by the late...
Czech Man Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture, The Netherlands Returns 288 Artifacts to Indonesia, and More: Morning Links for September 23, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PHOTO FINISH. A man pushed over and shattered a porcelain sculpture...
Can Sotheby’s CEO Charles Stewart Get the 280-Year-Old Auction House in Order?
To the outside world, the biggest news to come out of Sotheby’s auction house recently was the Stegosaurus fossil that sold this past July for...
Ai Weiwei Sculpture Purposefully Broken During Exhibition Opening in Italy
A man destroyed a porcelain sculpture by Ai Weiwei seemingly on purpose during the opening reception of an exhibition dedicated to the Chinese dissident artist...