Belgian Art Foundation Buys $6 M. T. Rex Skeleton
A Belgian arts foundation bought a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the Koller Auction house in Zurich last week for $6 million. The skeleton sold...
FDA Approves Biogen’s Drug for Rare Form of ALS
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized the first drug for a rare genetic form of the neurological disorder A.L.S., despite uncertainty about the...
Japanese Moon Lander Most Likely Crashed, Ispace Says
A Japanese company has lost contact with a small robotic spacecraft it was sending to the moon. Analysis of data from the vehicle suggests it...
Brussels Royal Museum Director Resigns After Allegations of Racism, Sexism, and Intimidation
A little over four months ago, employees at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels accused Michel Draguet, that museum’s director, of intimidation, racism,...
Landmark Acquisition of Reynolds Portrait by LA’s Getty Museum and London’s National Portrait Gallery Is Finalized
It’s official: a Joshua Reynolds portrait will be able to stay in the UK some of the time, thanks to a collaborative acquisition between Los...
Curator of Acclaimed Great Migration Exhibition Joins Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Ryan N. Dennis, the curator of a critically lauded show of art made in response to the Great Migration, has been named senior curator and...
Untangling Rosalind Franklin’s Role in DNA Discovery, 70 Years On
On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published a landmark paper in Nature, proposing the double helix as the long elusive structure of...
Embattled Belgian Museum Director to Depart, $30 M. Louise Bourgeois Spider Could Smash Records, and More: Morning Links for April 25, 2023
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NEW MANAGEMENT. The director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Michel Draguet, is...
G.M.’s Profits Fell 18.5% in the First Quarter
General Motors on Tuesday reported an 18.5 percent drop in profits in the first quarter, mainly because of the cost of job cuts and slowing...
As Carlson and Lemon Exit, a Chapter Closes on Cable’s Trump War
They were on very different networks and did very different things to draw very different ratings. But the synchronous exits of Tucker Carlson and Don...
Can Africa Get Close to Vaccine Independence? Here’s What It Will Take.
Just 3 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered in 2021 went to Africa, home to a fifth of the world’s population, according to the...
For Many Young Voters, Biden’s Support of Drilling in Alaska Casts Pall
WASHINGTON — In the past three weeks, President Biden’s administration has proposed regulations to speed the transition to electric vehicles, committed $1 billion to help...
2,000-Year-Old Graves Found Near Notre Dame During Excavation for Train Station Expansion
Preventative excavations have uncovered a tranche of graves over two thousand years old on Paris’s Ile de la Cite, the current home of Notre Dame Cathedral, El...
Ron Perelman Pledges $25 M. to Brown University to Build Arts District
The Perelman Family Foundation, headed by cosmetics mogul and art collector Ronald Perelman, has pledged $25 million to Brown University to build an arts district...