Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Collection to Travel from Brooklyn Museum to Atlanta’s High Museum of Art
After premiering at the Brooklyn Museum earlier this year, the art collection of Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys and Kasseem Dean, the Grammy-winning rapper and producer known as Swizz...
Human Rights Groups Condemn Six-Year Prison Sentence of Iranian Artist Atena Farghadani
Iranian artist and activist Atena Farghadani has been sentenced to six years in her home country of Iran, a ruling that has been denounced by...
SFMOMA Acquires Yayoi Kusama ‘Infinity Mirror Room’ Featured at David Zwirner
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art recently announced it had acquired one of Yayoi Kusama‘s immensely popular “Infinity Mirror Rooms.” The reflective installation Dreaming...
H&M Collaborates with Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate for New Clothing Line
Clothing store H&M recently launched a new line of garments done in collaboration with the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and rising fashion label Who Decides...
Art World Luminaries Remember Legendary Dealer Barbara Gladstone
When news broke on Monday that legendary art dealer Barbara Gladstone had died, it felt like something the end of an era for the New...
German Artist Receives Death Threats After Center-Right Politicians Denounce Work About Children
Artist Sophia Süßmilch told the German media that she had received death threats after her exhibition at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück became the subject of controversy...
Climate Activists Target Stonehenge, Justine Trudeau Urges Pope to Return Indigenous Artifacts, German Politicians Call for Boycott of Exhibition, and More: Morning Links for June 20, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES STONEHENGE VANDALISM. Two Just Stop Oil climate activists sprayed orange powder paint on Stonehenge on...
Climate Change Protestors Arrested After Spraying Stonehenge with Orange Paint
Two protestors with Just Stop Oil sprayed Stonehenge in England with orange powder paint on Wednesday, according to a video posted by the activist group...
Restitution Suit Over Guggenheim’s ‘Woman Ironing’ by Picasso Dismissed
Pablo Picasso’s 1904 painting Woman Ironing, which has been at the center of a restitution lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, will remain with the Guggenheim Foundation....
12th Century Pilaster Returned by the Art Institute of Chicago to Thailand’s Phanom Rung Temple
A fragment of a pilaster with the Hindu diety Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana is being returned to Thailand by the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)....
Carrie Mae Weems Returns to ‘Kitchen Table Series,’ This Time with A$AP Rocky, for Bottega Veneta
Photographer Carrie Mae Weems has revisited one of her most famous series, this time as a Bottega Veneta ad campaign that stars the rapper A$AP...
Dealer Barbara Gladstone Dies, New York’s Merces Gallery Indicted for Ivory Trade, FBI Charges Three with NFT Fraud Scheme, and More: Morning Links for June 18, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES IN MEMORIAM. The art world is mourning the loss of Barbara Gladstone,...
At Basel’s First Digital Art Fair, Collectors and Artists Debate Whether the Traditional Art World Matters
While collectors arrived at Art Basel last week dressed to the nines and ready to splash millions on everything from a Joan Mitchell diptych ($18...
Artist Tracey Rose Accuses Swiss Museum of Censoring Video Referring to ‘Muslim Holocaust’
South African artist Tracey Rose accused the Kunstmuseum Bern of having a censored an artwork mentioning a “Muslim Holocaust” from her current retrospective there, claiming...