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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 …

Empress Eugénie’s Crown to be Restored After Louvre Heist, Rembrandt Drawing Breaks Auction Record: Morning Links for February 5, 2026 Read More »

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 …

Victoria Helena on Why Artists Need to Take Control of Their Money Read More »

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 …

‘Risking Your Life is Unbelievably Inspiring’: Minneapolis Artists Put Their Bodies on the Line Against ICE Read More »

The theatre corridor viewed in Pompeii. Photo T. Crognier/Courtesy Pompeii Archaeological Park Researchers at the Pompeii Archaeological Park have utilized cutting-edge imaging technology to decipher centuries-old graffiti—both textual and figurative, some of it quite spicy!—written on the walls of a theater district corridor in the ancient city. The project, called Bruits de coulous (Rumors) was …

New Imaging Technology Revels Spicy, 2,000-Year-Old Graffiti Along Pompeii Passageway Read More »

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Raymond Boyd/Getty Images. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will close Friday, January 23, during the Day of Truth and Freedom protest, a state-wide action organized in response to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in Minnesota communities. Organizers of the action, led by local labor unions and community …

Walker Art Center Will Close Tomorrow in Support of Minneapolis ICE Protest Read More »

Auctioneer Oliver Barker just before he strikes his gavel to sell Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Elisabeth Lederer. Julian Cassady Photography/Courtesy Sotheby’s The art market is heading into 2026 in a better mood than it’s been in years, according to a new Global Art Market Outlook report from research firm ArtTactic. After a long hangover following the 2022 …

Art Market Sentiment Is Up for 2026, But the Recovery Has a Very Specific Shape Read More »