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David Chichkan. Via Instagram David Chichkan, an artist well-known in Ukraine for making explicitly political work that occasionally faced censorship, has died at 39. The Ukrainian culture ministry said that his heart stopped after he was wounded in battle against Russian troops. Chichkan made national headlines in Ukraine for mounting shows through the research initiative …

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Frick Collection, West Gallery, New York Joseph Coscia Jr. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines UCCA PAYCHECK? In Monday’s Breakfast Newsletter, ARTnews enlightened our loyal readers about the crisis facing China’s private art museums, including the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art. Corporate backers tightening their belts are reportedly to …

Frick Collection Enlists Steve Martin, China’s UCCA in Financial Trouble: Morning Links for August 7, 2025 Read More »

Frank Wang Yefeng, still from ‘Groundless Flower – ཨ’ (2025). Courtesy of the artist High Line Art, the art commissioning body of Manhattan’s beloved disused-railroad-turned-suspended walkway, is headed in a new direction, and it’s getting there in good company. Beginning this September, High Line Art and the Chanel Culture Fund will co-commission rising artists working …

High Line Art and Chanel Culture Fund Kick off Partnership with Rising Star Frank Wang Yefeng  Read More »

Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) at the Museum of Modern Art. Photo Robert Alexander/Getty Images New scholarship suggests that a pivotal Pablo Picasso painting—one that helped spur on modernism more broadly—may have been inspired by Medieval church frescoes in the Spanish Pyrenees rather than African art, as many art historians have previously suggested. The canvas in …

‘Art Detective’ Says Picasso’s ‘Demoiselles’ Was Inspired by Catalan Art, Not African Art Read More »

A restorer vacuums Romanesque art master pieces at the Catalonia National Art Museum (MNAC). Photo David Ramos/Getty Images A small protest broke out Monday morning outside the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) as Aragonese technicians arrived to inspect a set of contested 13th-century murals that were ordered to be returned to the Sijena Monastery by Spain’s …

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Thomas Kinkade, 2006. Photo Brad Barket/Getty Images The Thomas Kinkade Family Foundation has spoken out against a recent social media post by the Department of Homeland Security, saying that it did not authorize the usage of a painting by the artist that was paired alongside the phrase “Protect the Homeland.” The post, which appeared on …

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Police searching for gold coins stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum in 2022. dpa/picture alliance via Getty On Tuesday, three men were convicted for stealing 483 ancient Celtic gold coins from the Kelten Römer Museum in Manching, Germany, in November 2022. The coins were discovered during an excavation at an archaeological town near Manching in 1999. …

Three Men Convicted for Stealing 2,000-Year-Old Celtic Gold Coins from German Museum Read More »

http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-1277817928.jpg Mick Taylor, 1982. Photo Ross Marino/Getty Images A donation of 500 guitars to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this past May was perceived as a particularly exciting addition to the collection—so exciting, in fact, that the donation even announced via a long-form profile in The New Yorker. But that donation may include one object …

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Works by Tyrrell Wilson. Photo Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images Visual artist Tyrrell Winston, whose “signature use of found, deflated basketballs” has garnered him acclaim—and, he says, contracts with NBA owners—sued the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday for copyright infringement. Winston’s beef centers on Pelicans’ Instagram posts showing New Orleans players in front of deflated basketballs that Winston contends are “substantially …

Artist Tyrrell Winston Sues New Orleans Pelicans Over Instagram Posts Read More »