Van Gogh Show Break Musée d’Orsay Attendance Records, Bonhams CEO Departs, and More: Morning Links for February 12, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines SIKKEMA MURDER INVESTIGATION. Alejandro Prevez, the man suspected of killing New...
Cleveland’s Front Triennial Folds, Citing an Inability to Produce Another Show with ‘the Same High Standards’
After just two editions, Cleveland’s Front International will cease operations, with a planned one for 2025 abruptly canceled midway through its planning. The exhibition, officially...
Climate Protestors Throw Soup at Monet Painting at French Museum
Two climate protestors threw soup at a Claude Monet painting at the Musee de Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France, on Saturday afternoon. The target of the...
Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn Museum
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, hundreds of people gathered inside the Museum of Modern Art and outside of the Brooklyn Museum on...
UK Public Art Database Will Digitally Record More Than 5,000 Murals, Including Works By Banksy
Approximately 5,000 murals across the UK will be recorded, photographed, and added to a free public database as part of a three-year-initiative by the art...
Behind Netflix’s Sensational Truman Capote Show is the Collector Who Quietly Built MoMA
William Paley, the mogul who transformed American television, plays a secondary role in Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans”, but his impact...
Seth Rogen is Co-Hosting a New Pottery ‘Throw Down’ Reality TV Show
A new reality competition television show starring pottery and ceramics, hosted and produced by Seth Rogen, debuted yesterday on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Titled...
Italy Gifts ‘Bull of Nimrud’ Replica to Iraq’s Basrah Museum
Iraq has been given a replica of the famous Assyrian “Bull of Nimrud” statue that stood in the Roman Colosseum in Rome and at the...
Italy Donates ‘Bull of Nimrud’ Replica to Iraq, Christie’s Cancels Tattoo Charity Auction, and More: Morning Links for February 9, 2024
The Headlines ITALIAN SOFT POWER. Italy has donated a 3D-printed reproduction of the Assyrian Bull of Nimrud statue to Iraq, where it was place at the entrance of the Basrah...
After Three Years, Unionized Faculty at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
After three years of negotiating, unionized faculty at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts (UArts) announced on Instagram Sunday that they have reached a tentative contract...
Ai Weiwei Says Western Censorship Is ‘More Concealed’ and Poses a Greater Threat
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei—whose gallery delayed his show after he tweeted about the Israel-Hamas war—said recently that censorship in the West poses a...
Stolen Van Gogh Back at Dutch Museum After Being Anonymously Returned
The 1884 painting by a young Vincent van Gogh that was stolen during a dramatic late-night smash-and-grab from a Netherlands museum will go on public...
Climate Change Threatens African American Heritage Sites, Stolen Van Gogh Displayed After Ikea-bag Return, and More: Morning Links for February 8, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines BLACK HISTORICAL SITES AT RISK. A group of African American museums...
Rauschenberg Foundation Names Yale’s Courtney J. Martin as New Executive Director
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in New York announced Thursday that it has appointed Courtney J. Martin as its new Executive Director. Martin, who currently serves...