A promotional image for rafa esparza and Beatriz Cortez’s exhibition at Museo Anahuacalli. Photo Max Knight, Ruben Díaz/Courtesy Museo Anahuacalli Throughout the year, the museums and galleries across Mexico City (renamed from the DF to CDMX in 2016) mount an expansive set of exhibitions. But during Mexico City Art Week each February, alongside fairs like …
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy (ca. 1625) is the first Artemisa Gentileschi painting acquired by the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art An Artemisia Gentileschi painting entered the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., marking the first work by the artist to join the museum’s holdings. The painting, titled Mary …
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Yuko Mohri, a fast-rising Japanese sculptor, won the Calder Prize. Photo Lorenzo Palmi Yuko Mohri, a Japanese sculptor whose assemblages of fruit and found objects are in high demand on the international art circuit, has won yet another accolade: the Calder Prize, which is awarded by the namesake artist’s foundation and comes with $50,000. Mohri …
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http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2241882739.jpg French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, Paris, France, on October 19, 2025. Photo DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES FALLEN CROWN. For the first time since the brazen …
Victoria Helena, founder of Artist Money Matters. Photo by Diana Ghetau Victoria Helena has built a career most artists could never imagine for themselves. Before founding Artist Money Matters, a new artist-first financial consultancy launching this month, she spent two decades working in finance and studio administration while maintaining her own sculptural practice. The result …
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Esther Bell will be the next director of the Clark Art Institute. Courtesy Clark Art Institute The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has promoted Esther Bell, its deputy director and chief curator, to serve as the museum’s sixth director. She begins in the post on July 1. Bell is the first woman to hold …
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Protesters in Minneapolis carry a banner printed by a press devised by local artist Piotr Szyhalski Piotr Szyhalski When U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents subdued, disarmed, and then killed nurse Alex Pretti on January 24, it was on the doorstep of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and just a few blocks …
Artist Martial Raysse currently has on view recent work at Galerie Templon in Paris. ©Laurent Edeline When you get to the chance to meet a giant of the art world, it’s an opportunity you don’t pass up. Martial Raysse, 89, is one of those giants. The reclusive artist seldom grants interviews, but he welcomed me …
Rachel Harrison’s book Hold Still, Henry! (2025) is published by Rookie Books. Rookie Books Rachel Harrison’s recent show “The Friedmann Equations,” at New York’s Greene Naftali gallery, was a highlight of 2025. To try to break it down briefly, it was classic Harrison: brainy, oblique, and funny. The show’s title alluded to mathematical formulas relating …
Artist Briony Godivala shows off her QR code tattoo for “The Inked Link.” Courtesy Briony Godivala In 1974, Marina Abramovic placed an assortment of items on a table. A rose, a gun, a knife, a feather, a pot of honey, a whip, and so on. Objects that could bring pleasure or pain. The audience was …
