Erarta Museum in St. Petersburg. COURTESY ERARTA MUSEUM St. Petersburg’s Erarta Museum – which holds the largest private collection of contemporary art in Russia – is staring down a raft of administrative charges after exhibiting a painting that Russian authorities say contains “Nazi symbols.” The case was brought on July 12 before the Vasilevsky District …
The complaint adds to a long list of artworks sought by the US Department of Justice. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images The US Justice Department has reached an agreement with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, the former general counsel of Malaysia’s sovereign investment development fund (1MDB), to recover a $1.27 million drawing by Pablo Picasso that …
Jessie Homer French, Ghosts, 2012. ©Jessie Homer French/Courtesy Gagosian Actor and activist Jane Fonda has once again partnered with Gagosian gallery to present a second exhibition aimed at protecting neighborhoods from toxic oil drilling. In April, Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s partnered on a two-part benefit that was aimed at combatting a voter referendum on the …
The ancient neolithic monument of Stonehenge. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images UNESCO has postponed a decision to add Stonehenge to its “World Heritage in Danger” by 18 months, according to the Art Newspaper. The organization considered adding Stonehenge to that list because the UK government is planning to build a divided highway tunnel near the ancient …
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The Paris Olympics’s opening ceremony. Photo François-Xavier Marit – Pool/Getty Images The Headlines EPIC, UNIQUE, OLYMPIC. After giving his blood, sweat, and tears for 18 months, Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of Paris’s Olympics opening ceremony, the first one not to take place in a closed stadium, can be proud. His intention was to capture France in …
IV Chan, Ritual rehearsal : the Sacred and the Profane, 2020–24, installation view, in “Cantando Bajito: Incantations,” 2024, at Ford Foundation Gallery, New York. Photo Sebastian Bach/Courtesy Ford Foundation Gallery For 605 days, the Nicaraguan activist and historian Dora María Téllez Argüello was incarcerated for her political opposition to the country’s presidency turned dictatorship. While …
A still from video included in the ‘Turn and See Back’, depicting Trans Pride marches. Photo: Jiyan Andiç Turkish authorities have banned an exhibition that explores the art and history of the country’s transgender community, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday. Authorities shut down the exhibition, titled “Turn and See Back: Revisiting Trans Revolutions in Turkey,” …
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The immersive exhibition ‘Tintin, L’aventure Immersive’ at the ‘Atelier des Lumieres’ on October 20, 2022 in Paris, France. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES PEEKABOO. A self-portrait of the coal miner artist Norman Cornish has been rediscovered on the reverse of one of his crowded …
Dominick Di Meo. Courtesy Corbett vs. Dempsey Dominick Di Meo, an artist who shook up Chicago’s art scene in the 1960s with surreal paintings and collages, only to gain a following far beyond the city late in his career, has died at 97. His death was announced on Sunday by his Chicago gallery, Corbett vs. …
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The Paris Olympics have unexpectedly closed galleries in the Saint Germain des Près area. Photo Chesnot/Getty Images Many galleries in Paris’s Saint Germain des Près area, one of the city’s major art hubs, were unexpectedly forced to close on Thursday, due to security measures put in place for the upcoming Olympic Games’s opening ceremony taking …
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