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UK Police Seek Suspects in “High-Value Burglary” at Bristol Museum

A CCTV image released by the UK police showing the suspected thieves leaving the Bristol Museum. Courtesy Avon and Somerset Police More than 600 artifacts have been stolen from the Bristol Museum’s British Empire and Commonwealth collection, in what UK police describe as a “high-value burglary.” On Thursday, authorities released CCTV footage of the suspects …

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Vancouver Art Gallery and Modern Art Museum in Paris Receive Major Gift, Rare Illuminated Jewish Prayer Book Heads to Auction, and More: Morning Links for December 11, 2025

http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Vancouver-Art-Gallery-exterior-view-Spring-2023-Photography-courtesy-Vancouver-Art-Gallery-2.jpg The Vancouver Art Gallery scrapped plans for a new building after investing C$60 million. Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery. Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GIVING TIME. A few notable museums have just announced landmark donations to their permanent collections. …

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Franco Vaccari, Artist Who Expanded Photography’s Possibilities, Dies at 89

Franco Vaccari at the 1972 Venice Biennale with his piece Esposizione in tempo reale n. 4. Lascia sulle pareti una traccia fotografica del tuo passaggio. Courtesy the artist and P420 Franco Vaccari, an Italian conceptual artist whose experiments with photography expanded the medium’s possibilities, has died at 89. His death was announced by his gallery, …

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Blenheim Palace Conservators Search For Writers of Century-Old Graffiti in Ceiling

Several race cars at the the Salon Privé Concours 2024 at Blenheim Palace. The palace frequently plays hosts to major events in the UK. Getty Images Conservators currently at work restoring paintings in Blenheim Palace said they found the names of 11 people written in the ceiling decades ago, with the oldest dated to 1843. …

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Immersive Studio Ghibli Exhibition Travels to Abu Dhabi in May 2026

“The World of Studio Ghibli” at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore, 2024. Photo Then Chih Wey/Xinhua via Getty Images “The World of Studio Ghibli”, a long-running immersive exhibition dedicated to the wildly popular Japanese animation studio, will next set up shop at Manarat Al Saadiyat, an arts and culture center in Abu Dhabi, the National …

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A Knockout Sale: Warhol’s Ali Fetches $18 M. in the Building Where the Legend Was Born

Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali (1977) Robert McKeever One of the most recognizable faces in American culture returned to the site of his making on Wednesday, when Lévy Gorvy Dayan sold Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali (1977) for $18 million during the VIP Preview of Art Basel Miami Beach. The painting—autographed on the reverse by Ali and once …

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Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Gifts Totaling $7 M. for Caribbean Cultural Institute

CCI fellow Celia Irina González (left) and CCI curatorial associate Iberia Pérez González. Photo Lazaro Llanes During a week when all eyes (art world ones, at least) are on Miami, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has announced a pair of substantial gifts in support of the museum’s Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI). The Mellon Foundation …

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Hauser & Wirth to Open in Palermo, Lucas Museum Chief Curator Out, and More: Morning Links for December 5, 2025

Aerial view of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art under construction, September 2025. Photo Pedro Ramirez/©2025 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, All Rights Reserved/Courtesy Hathaway Dinwiddie To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Hauser & Wirth to open Sicily branch in historic Palazzo Forcella De Seta. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art …

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Neolithic Pits Near Stonehenge Might Have Channeled the Underworld, Archaeologists Argue

Aerial view of the Durrington Walls and Woodhenge in 2022. Getty Images An enormous pit circle near Stonehenge was created by Neolithic-era humans who might have conceived it as a portal to the underworld, according to archaeologists behind a newly published paper. “The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they …

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