Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun seems to be enjoying the publicity that comes with buying a $6.2 million banana. AFP via Getty Images Justin Sun, the crypto billionaire who shot to art world notoriety after buying, and promptly eating, Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana, and has remained in the spotlight amid a legal dispute with collector David …
The 2024 Venice Biennale. Simone Padovani/Getty Images As President Donald Trump systematically guts the United States’ art programs and funding to roll out an aesthetic program of his own making, questions around the country’s participation in the forthcoming 2026 Venice Biennale loom large. In a new piece for Vanity Fair, culture correspondent Nate Freeman tried …
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Too right? Germany’s new culture minister is feeling the heat. ullstein bild via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TRUMP AXES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM BOARD MEMBERS. The Trump administration has fired US Holocaust Memorial Museum board members nominated by former president Joe Biden, including former second gentleman Doug …
RISD’s campus. Courtesy RISD. A group of ACLU-affiliated organizations filed a class-action lawsuit Friday in federal court in New Hampshire, seeking to reinstate the legal status of over 100 international students whose visas were abruptly revoked this year. The suit aims to protect students in New England and Puerto Rico who advocates say were stripped …
The 15-foot-tall pink granite false door at the tomb of Waserif Re in Saqqara, Egypt. Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The tomb of Prince Waserif Re, son of King Userkaf who founded ancient Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty and reigned from 2465 BCE to 2458 BCE, was excavated by archaeologists at the Saqqara necropolis, just southwest …
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Ho Tzu Nyen. Courtesy Singapore Art Museum The next Gwangju Biennale will be organized not by a world-renowned curator but by an artist whose profile is fast-rising. Ho Tzu Nyen will organize the 2026 edition of South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale, which is regarded as one of the top biennial-style shows in Asia. It’s not the …
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The Coțofenești helmet from 450 BCE had an estimated value of €4.3 million ($4.9 million). Courtesy the Dutch Police Dutch police recently arrested two more suspects in connection with the theft of Romanian artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands earlier this year in January. “These suspects are a 20-year-old man and an …
RICHMOND, VA – FEBRUARY 09: The Virginia State flag and the American flag fly near the Virginia State Capitol, February 9, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia state politics are in a state of upheaval, with Governor Ralph Northam, State Attorney General Mark Herring, both Democrats, and Republican Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment involved with past …
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Faith Ringgold. Photo Meron Menghistab/Courtesy the Anyone Can Fly Foundation and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York The estate of Faith Ringgold, an acclaimed artist known for works that directly and bracingly protest racism, has joined New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. Prior to her death in 2024, Ringgold had long been represented by ACA Galleries, which …
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KHERSON, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 19: Ihor works as he shows the robbed treasury in the Art Museum, Kherson, Ukraine where was robbed of most of its exhibits and appear in various Russian museums now, within the 2nd anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war on February 19, 2024. (Photo by Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via …
