Website Posing as Van Gogh Museum Shut Down After Selling Fake Tickets
A website claiming to be affiliated with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was found to be harvesting credit card information from people who were...
Scammers Target Van Gogh Museum, Artifacts Stolen from UK Museum, AI Identifies Fake Art Online, and More: Morning Links for May 8, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES SNATCHED. Bronze Age gold artifacts were stolen from the UK’s Ely...
Controversial Demolition of Mary Miss Installation Reaches ‘Unsatisfying Status Quo’ After Court Ruling
The fate of an outdoor installation by artist Mary Miss installed at the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) is still undecided, even after a preliminary...
Artist and Protestors Tag Gustave Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’ with the Words ‘Me Too’
Gustave Courbet’s infamous nude painting L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World) was targeted over the weekend by protesters who tagged it with the words “Me...
Australian Museum Plans to Installs Toilet in Women-Only Exhibition to Circumvent Anti-Discrimination Ruling
An exhibition at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania, Australia by the American artist Kirsha Kaechele titled “Ladies Lounge” is installing...
Palais de Tokyo Patron Pulls Support Over Exhibition About Palestine
Sandra Hegedüs, a longtime patron of the Palais de Tokyo, said she would no longer provide financial support to Paris’s foremost contemporary art museum after...
Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’ Tagged, Stalemate in Mary Miss Land Art Dispute, Gaza Protest at the Met Gala, and More: Morning Links for May 7, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES PROTEST/ART. Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World (1866) and other...
Unmissable Looks from the Met Gala 2024
“Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking.” The infamous line so sarcastically delivered by Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada is...
Everything to Know about the 2024 Met Gala
A-list celebrities, fashion world icons, and the art world come together tonight at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala. The museum hosts the...
Newly Discovered Caravaggio will be Unveiled at the Prado in Madrid This Month
A painting that nearly sold at auction three years ago for $1,600 has been revealed to be a missing masterwork by the by the Italian...
Frank Stella Dies, Dozens Arrested at Pro-Palestine Encampment at Chicago’s Art Institute, and More: Morning Links for May 6, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Artist Frank Stella has died at 87. During the 1950s, the...
Dozens Arrested at Pro-Palestine Encampment at Art Institute of Chicago
Dozens of pro-Palestine protestors were arrested on Saturday at an encampment at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the nation’s most heavily attended museums....
Frank Stella, Trailblazing Artist Who Pushed Abstraction to Its Limits, Dies at 87
Frank Stella, an artist who brought abstraction into brave new directions, defining an era with his black paintings of the 1950s, died on Saturday at...
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids, Sphinx Close to Public for Tech Billionaire’s Lavish Wedding
Ancient Egyptian pyramids and the Great Sphinx in Giza were briefly shuttered to the public this week because of a tech billionaire’s wedding. That billionaire,...