Russian Avant-Garde Paintings Suspected to be Stolen from Collector Seized by French Authorities
More than 100 avant-garde a workswere seized by French court bailiffs from an art laboratory in Paris in February, following suspicions that they had been...
Times Square’s Next Public Artwork is a 65-Foot-Long Hot Dog
Loud and lit day and night, Times Square teems with uncanny costumers, harried tourists, honking cars, and a few brave bicyclists, all of whom better...
Bienal de São Paulo Names 2025 Chief Curator, British Museum Investigated, Protestors Target Artemisia Gentileschi Exhibit, and More: Morning Links for April 2, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES GENTILESCHI PROTEST. Dramatic acts of protest in controversial Italian art exhibits...
Three Early Basquiat Paintings to Sell at Philips This Spring
Phillip’s auction will sell three paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat during its spring sales in New York and Hong Kong. The works, which were made between...
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Named Chief Curator of 2025 São Paulo Biennial
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, one of today’s most closely watched curators, will serve as the chief curator for the 2025 Bienal de São Paulo. Ndikung...
Quisqueya Henríquez, Conceptual Artist Who Produced ‘Perceptual Riddles,’ Dies at 58
Quisqueya Henríquez, whose perplexing installations and sculptures contained a humorous edge, died on Saturday in Santo Domingo at the age of 58. Henríquez’s cause of...
Late Medieval Helmet Discovered off the Coast of Abandoned Italian Island
Near the Italian island Vendicari, a late Medieval helmet was discovered by underwater archaeologists from the University of Naples, Heritage Daily reported Sunday. The small,...
British Museum Investigated Over Sacred Ethiopian Tablets Hidden From View
A regulatory office is investigating the British Museum over allegations the institution has been overly secretive about 11 Ethiopian artifacts in its collection that were...
‘Blasphemous’ Christ Painting Vandalized, Artist Attacked at Exhibition in Former Italian Church
Outrage over a painting on display as part of an exhibition in Modena, Italy, that seems to depict Jesus receiving oral sex erupted into violence...
Nelson-Atkins Museum to Sell $18 M. Monet Painting at Christie’s in May
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City will sell a Claude Monet that has been on view in its galleries for more than a...
Controversial Painting of Jesus Vandalized, Rosa de la Cruz’s Collection Heads to Christie’s, and More: Morning Links for April 1, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES JESUS PAINTING ATTACK. Outrage over a painting of Jesus that appears...
Christie’s Secures Sale of $30 M. de la Cruz Collection
The expansive collection of Cuban-born, Miami-based philanthropist and art collector Rosa de la Cruz will be sold at Christie’s over a series of auctions starting...
Christie’s Secures Sale of $30 M. de la Cruz Collection
The expansive collection of Cuban-born, Miami-based philanthropist and art collector Rosa de la Cruz will be sold at Christie’s over a series of auctions starting...
Marian Zazeela, Artist Behind Dizzying Drawings and Transcendent Light Shows, Dies at 83
Marian Zazeela, an artist whose abstract drawings and light installations envisioned dream states, died at her home in New York at 83 on Thursday. The...