Philip Guston, Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family, 1942. Photo Charles Swaney/Living New Deal On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization’s management of its Fine Arts Program and the Fine Arts Collection. The GSA …
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 1, 2025. Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution’s collection, according to Artnet News. …
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A Frida Kahlo self-portrait from the Gelman collection in a 2021 show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photo Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images More than 200 artists and art professionals in Mexico signed an open letter last week accusing the government of committing an “institutional blunder” after it allowed …
Rosalía, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, previously said she could “differentiate” Picasso’s art from his life. Photo Zak Hussein/Billboard via Getty Images Rosalía, one of the world’s most popular singers, apologized after wading into an age-old debate surrounding Pablo Picasso, whose work she initially praised before admitting she didn’t know enough about his …
Detail from David Hockney’s “Self-Portrait.” Photo Jonathan Wilkinson/The National Portrait Gallery/PA To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HEAR, HEAR. The HEAR Act was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times. The bipartisan bill is designed to …
Aerial photo showing the fortification walls of Alexandria on the Tigris, Charax-Spasinou, Iraq. ©Charax Spasinou Project/Stuart Campbell, 2017 An international team of researchers has confirmed the discovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE–323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus …
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Luxembourg’s culture minister Éric Thill. Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Luxembourg’s pavilion for the upcoming Venice Biennale has sparked a political spat at home, after lawmakers questioned both the cost of the project and the nature of the work set to represent the country. At the center of the debate is La Merde, a project …
Keisha Scarville. Photo Ana Dias Keisha Scarville, a photographer known for her work about people in diaspora and identities in flux, is the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum‘s Uovo Prize, the institution announced on Thursday. Through the award, Scarville will take home $25,000 and receive a Brooklyn Museum commission. Her work will also be …
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The market is rebounding… just. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines SORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. Adam Schrader …
Nicholas R. Bell will be the next director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum. Courtesy Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has named Nicholas R. Bell as its next director and CEO. Bell, who was selected via an international search, will start in the role on July 6. He succeeds Josh …
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