Recipients of the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship Announced, Including Nicholas Galanin, Lorraine O’Grady, and More
A diverse group of 188 artists, scholars, and cultural creators were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Among the...
Well-Preserved Frescoes Uncovered in a ‘Black Room’ Banquet Hall at Pompeii
Preserved frescoes from the ancient Roman city Pompeii have been revealed as part of a recently excavated banquet hall on site, the archaeological park announced...
Using Secret Documents, an Antiquities Researcher Uncovers Looted Works at Christie’s
Four ancient Greek vases were pulled from an antiquities sale at Christie’s from the collection of Dr. Manfred Zimmermann after it was discovered that the...
SculptureCenter Receives $1 M. Endowment Gift for Acclaimed Commissioning Series
SculptureCenter, the nearly hundred-year-old, medium-focused arts center in Queens, has received a donation of $1 million to establish an endowment fund to be used for...
CLEARING Gallery Splits, Digital Basel Shutters, Christie’s Pulls Greek Vases Tied to Convicted Dealer, and More: Morning Links for April 11, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES CLEAR DIVIDE. CLEARING, the gallery which began in New York and expanded...
10 Shows to See in Venice During the Biennale, From a Pierre Huyghe Blockbuster to Art About Palestine
Italy’s Venice Biennale, the world’s biggest art festival, would be big enough if it were limited to merely its main venues, the Arsenale and the...
Madonna’s and Guy Ritchie’s Son Rocco Ritchie ‘Packs a Punch’ With Art Show
Rocco Ritchie wants to be taken seriously and he should. Resist the temptation to reduce him to his famous parents — Madonna and filmmaker Guy Ritchie, two...
Beleaguered NFT Website Digital Basel Shuts Down After Tumultuous Year
The NFT website digitalbasel.io, which launched last year and quickly provoked the ire of the world’s largest art fair conglomerate, Art Basel, has shut down. An email...
Patti Astor, Founder of Downtown New York’s Legendary Fun Gallery, Dies at 74
Patti Astor, a cofounder of Fun Gallery, the famed New York space that introduced a range of graffiti artists to the wider art world, has...
Dealer Gavin Brown Donates His Archive to Bard College’s Curatorial Studies Program
Gavin Brown, the dealer who helped make famous artists such as Arthur Jafa, Laura Owens, Peter Doig, and many more, has donated a range of...
Australian Museum’s Women-Only Exhibition Must Admit Men to Avoid ‘Discrimination,’ Judge Says
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) was ordered to stop turning away male visitors to its Ladies Lounge installation by a Tasmanian court yesterday....
Art Collective MSCHF Not So Secretly Replaced a Sink at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The art collective MSCHF secretly replaced an entire bathroom sink—the handles, water lines, and other parts—at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The latest stunt...
Employee Secretly Hangs His Own Art in German Museum, Spurring a Police Investigation
Visitors to Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne come for modernist treasures by Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Oskar Schlemmer, and the like. But this month, some visitors...
Yayoi Kusama Was the Top-Selling Contemporary Artist of 2023, Report Says
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist famed for her kaleidoscopic paintings and installations, made $80.9 million at auction last year, beating out David Hockney for the...