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Helen Cammock in 2019. Photo Stuart Wilson/Getty Images for Turner Contemporary To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Helen Cammock removed her video claiming Churchill starved Indians during the Bengal famine from London’s National Portrait Gallery. Charles Hinman, known for his three-dimensional sculpted canvases, has died at age 93. The …

Artist Helen Cammock Removes Controversial Video Referring to Churchill from London’s National Portrait Gallery: Morning Links for June 23, 2026 Read More »

President John Dramani Mahama (left) minister of foreign affairs Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa at the Next Steps conference in Accra, June 2026. Photo Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to return 2,000 culturally significant artifacts to Ghana, which were taken from the country during the colonial era. The announcement was made at Next …

The Netherlands and Germany Agree to Return 2,000 Artifacts to Ghana Read More »

The American Museum of Natural History in New York is set to receive $2 million as part of the Manhattan Borough President’s decision. Photo Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal announced Tuesday that he will dedicate $50 million, the entirety of his discretionary budget for the next fiscal year, toward the …

Manhattan Borough President Plans to Use His $50 M. Budget Toward the Arts, as Rebuff to the Trump Administration Read More »

Brent Leggs will be the next president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Courtesy the National Trust for Historic Preservation The board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Congressionally chartered nonprofit involved in lawsuits against Donald Trump’s plans for a new White House ballroom and a reimagined John F. Kennedy Center for …

National Trust, Mid-Fight with Trump over White House Ballroom and Kennedy Center, Elects New President Read More »

A LiDAR scan of Minanbé INAH. A joint Slovenian-Mexican archeological team has discovered an undisturbed Mayan city in a remote area of Campeche, Mexico. Located deep within the jungles of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, the city—which the researchers have named “Minanbé,” a Maya Yucatec phrase meaning “there is no road”—had been hidden by vegetation for …

Mayan City, Hidden for More Than 1,000 Years, Is Discovered Intact in Mexico Read More »

Austrian artist Florentina Holzinger performs at the Austrian Pavilion, titled ‘Seaworld Venice’, during the 61st Venice Biennale in May. Photo by Giuseppe Cottini/Getty Images Ring the alarm—the most striking performance of this year’s Venice Biennale is going on tour. An adapted version of Florentina Holzinger’s Seaworld Venice, created for the Austrian Pavilion, will be presented at …

After Splashy Venice Debut, Florentina Holzinger’s ‘Seaworld’ is Coming to Berlin, Brooklyn Read More »

JW3 in London, home of the Jewish Museum London’s temporary exhibition program Two Rooms. Photo Hufton + Crow/View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The Jewish Museum in London, an almost century-old institution that closed in 2023 amid ongoing financial and organizational challenges, is reopening on June 17. The temporary exhibition space is called Two …

London’s Jewish Museum Reopens in Temporary Location After Three Years Read More »

Entrance to a tunnel discovered this month under New Hall School in Essex, England Henry Godfrey-Evans/BBC. Tunnels dating to Henry VIII’s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month. Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to …

Tunnels From Henry VIII’s Palace of Beaulieu Found Beneath an English Boarding School Read More »

Soyoung Yoon will be the next director of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. Photo Bryan Derballa The Whitney Museum in New York has named Soyoung Yoon as the next director of its Independent Study Program (ISP). She will start in her role on June 16. Yoon will be only the third director in ISP’s …

Soyoung Yoon to Lead Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program Read More »

Christie’s corporate headquarters in Rockefeller Center. Photo by Spencer Platt/Newsmakers Christie’s is planning to open a boutique wine shop at its headquarters in Rockefeller Center, thanks in part to assistance from New York state legislators who passed a law allowing the auction house to get around a regulation dating back more than a century. As …

Christie’s to Open Wine Shop at Rockefeller Center in New York Read More »