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The ancient neolithic monument of Stonehenge. Photo Matt Cardy/Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES PRICE OF GOLD. It cost the UK more than $315 million of tax payers’ hard-earned cash to prepare its athletes for the Paris Olympics. Team GB won 64 medals, which equates …

Stonehenge’s Origins Questioned, UK’s Olympic and Cultural Budget Compared, Art Collective Calls Out Polluters and More: Morning Links for August 16, 2024 Read More »

circa 1945: A portrait of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ infielder Jackie Robinson in uniform. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images A new statue memorializing baseball legend Jackie Robinson was unveiled by officials in a Wichita, Kansas park on Monday as a replacement to one that had been stolen and damaged earlier this year, CNN reported. …

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Banksy’s eighth animal mural to appear in London over the last week. PA Images via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES PAIN IN THE ASSET. Italy’s public debt is mounting. How to tackle it? Auctioning off a 16th-century castle that once belonged to Charles V, …

Italy’s Auctioning Its Castles, Ninth Banksy Mural Found, a Museum for Instagram Enthusiasts, and More: Morning Links for August 13, 2024 Read More »

Taylor Swift fans also traded bracelets with museum employees. Courtesy of The Albertina Thousands of Taylor Swift fans flooded museums in Vienna over the weekend after multiple institutions waived entry fees after three of the singer’s concerts were cancelled due to security threats. “We weren’t really sure what to expect,” Haus der Musik managing director …

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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 …

Museum in St. Petersburg Facing Fine for Showing ‘Nazi Propaganda’ Painting by Belarusian Artist Read More »

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 …

US Feds Recovers $1.2 M. Picasso Drawing Allegedly Bought with 1MDB Funds from Christie’s Auction Read More »

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 …

Jane Fonda Partners with Gagosian for Second Art Benefit Against Toxic Drilling: ‘I’ll Be Fighting the Oil Companies Until the Day I Die’ Read More »

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 …

Paris Olympics Start with a Bang, Bernini’s Dark Side Revealed, and More: Morning Links for July 29, 2024 Read More »

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 …

At the Ford Foundation Gallery, an Exhibition Imagines the Possibilities of Femme-Centered Knowledge Read More »