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The India Art Fair is coming to Mumbai. Middle East Images/AFP via Getty To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TOUGH TRUTHS. A traveling German exhibition documenting the experience of refugees granted asylum in the country was removed soon after it was installed. The reason: because it reportedly …

India Art Fair in New Delhi Expands to Mumbai, Hauser & Wirth Appoints Mirella Roma as Its New CEO, and More: Morning Links for September 19, 2024 Read More »

Panoramic cityscape. Photo by Barry Iverson/Getty Images Thirty valuable paintings on loan from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran have vanished after “an unidentified entity outside the municipality with official documentation” for an exhibition that it appears never took place, according to a report from Artdependence. Tehran City Council member Nasser Amani disclosed the …

After 30 Paintings from Tehran Museum Disappear, Critics Call For Investigation Read More »

The entrance to the Armory Show. Courtesy of the Armory Show About three hours into prowling the aisles at the VIP preview of The Armory Show earlier this month, I began to feel déjà vu. It’s difficult to say what triggered it. Was it the sounds of The Dare, an indie sleaze pop revivalist whose …

School is Back in Session for the Art World, for Better or Worse Read More »

Cai Guo-Qiang, WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART, Act II: “WE ARE,” 2024. Realized at LA Memorial Coliseum. Photo by Kenryou Gu, courtesy Cai Studio Around 4,000 people filled the Los Angeles Coliseum on September 15 to witness the kickoff event for the Getty Museum’s $20 million PST ART: Art & Science Collide, in which …

Spent Fireworks and Rock-Like Debris Rain Down on Crowd at PST ART Event in LA with Several Injuries Reported Read More »

Philippe Rouyer, Jean-Christophe Simon, Setareh Maleki, Mohammad Rasoulof, Mahsa Rostami and Amin Sadraei attend the Seed of the Sacred Fig press conference at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival. Photo Cindy Ord/Getty Images A new report co-published by two legal U.S.-based advocacy groups calls on Iran to stop a years-long campaign to persecute artists, a …

Legal Advocacy Groups Call for Iran to End Campaign Targeting Dissident Artists Read More »

New merchandise at the Brooklyn Museum. Courtesy the Brooklyn Museum of Art Can a 200-year-old institution rebrand as cutting edge? The Brooklyn Museum is attempting to do just that with its new logo design. The new “visual identity” of the museum entails a sans serif font, new ligatures featuring an overlapping ‘o’ in Brooklyn and …

Brooklyn Museum Rebrands After 200 Years Read More »

Abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler in her studio in New York. Getty Images A New York Supreme Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation by one of its former board members, Frederick Iseman. In the dismissal, Judge Jennifer G. Schecter cited the plaintiff’s absence of standing. In a seperate motion, …

New York Supreme Court Throws Out Lawsuit Accusing Helen Frankenthaler Foundation of Exploiting the Late Artist’s Legacy Read More »

Artist Arthur Jafa presents the exhibition at the museum of Serralves, in Porto. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett Arthur Jafa, the filmmaker, artist, and cinematographer feted for his explorations of Blackness in America, has signed with Sprüth Magers. Jafa’s first exhibition with Sprüth Magers opens tomorrow in Los Angeles. He will continue to be represented by …

Arthur Jafa, Polymathic Chronicler of Black America, Joins Sprüth Magers Read More »

Installation shot of Sergio Miguel’s work at Deli Gallery Courtesy Deli Gallery Deli Gallery, a New York City outfit lauded for its keen eye for emerging talent, will close after eight years. With the announcement, Deli joins Denny Gallery, JTT Gallery, and Queer Thoughts on a lengthening list of veteran operations in New York to …

New York’s Deli Gallery, Champion of Emerging Talent, to Close Read More »

Cover of the monograph Frankenthaler by John Elderfield, published by Gagosian, in collaboration with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. Art: ©2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York An updated edition of John Elderfield’s Frankenthaler, originally published in 1989 and which many consider to be the definitive monograph on the artist, will be released this …

A New Edition of John Elderfield’s ‘Frankenthaler’ Shows an Artist with Real New York Chutzpah Read More »