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Trump’s ballroom plans slated. Courtesy the White House To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines POLITICAL MISSTEP? Berlin‘s Academy of Arts is pushing back against plans to cut the Berlin Art Prize’s prize money in half, calling it both a cultural and political misstep, Monopol reported. In a statement on Tuesday, …

Berlin Academy of Art Slams Art Prize Cuts, US President Called ‘Steward, Not Owner’ of White House Over Ballroom Plans: Morning Links for March 18, 2026 Read More »

Musée d’Orsay, Paris Sandrine Marty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines STREEP DIGS DEEP. Actor Meryl Streep has made a seven-figure donation to the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) in Washington D.C., reports Artnet News. As thanks, she gets her own, eponymous Educator Award in her …

Meryl Streep Makes Big Donation to National Women’s History Museum, Musée d’Orsay Receives Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Fan Paintings: Morning Links for March 19, 2026 Read More »

An installation view of the Royal Academy of Arts’s recent Kerry James Marshall exhibition. Photo: ©David Parry/ Royal Academy of Arts, London; Art: ©Kerry James Marshall/Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, London Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, …

Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts Read More »

Mikhail Shvydkoy, Russia’s delegate for international cultural exchanges and the country’s former culture minister, confirmed to ARTnews that the pavilion will open in May. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PAINTING OVER THE CRACKS: Amid ongoing fallout over sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, a …

San Francisco Mural of Cesar Chavez Painted Over, Venice Mayor Warns Russian Pavilion Against Peddling Propaganda: Morning Links for March 20, 2026 Read More »

Rosso Fiorentino Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, 1512/13. Private Collection/Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance. Layers of paint were removed during a recent conservation to reveal the figure …

Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari Read More »

Philip Guston, Reconstruction and Well-Being of the Family, 1942. Photo Charles Swaney/Living New Deal On Wednesday, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sent an open letter to Ed Forst, administrator of the General Services Administration questioning the organization’s management of its Fine Arts Program and the Fine Arts Collection. The GSA …

Senators Whitehouse and Schumer Call for ‘Proactive Measures’ to Protect Philip Guston and Ben Shahn Murals Read More »

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands on September 1, 2025. Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images At TEFAF Maastricht, the Van Gogh Museum acquired Virginie Demont-Breton’s L’homme est en mer, a painting from 1887–88 that now counts as only the third painting by a woman in the institution’s collection, according to Artnet News. …

Van Gogh Museum Acquires Only Third Painting by a Female Artist at TEFAF Read More »

A Frida Kahlo self-portrait from the Gelman collection in a 2021 show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Photo Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images More than 200 artists and art professionals in Mexico signed an open letter last week accusing the government of committing an “institutional blunder” after it allowed …

Artists and Art Professionals Denounce Mexico’s Handling of Resurfaced Art Collection: ‘An Institutional Blunder’ Read More »

Rosalía, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, previously said she could “differentiate” Picasso’s art from his life. Photo Zak Hussein/Billboard via Getty Images Rosalía, one of the world’s most popular singers, apologized after wading into an age-old debate surrounding Pablo Picasso, whose work she initially praised before admitting she didn’t know enough about his …

Pop Singer Rosalía Apologizes for Saying She Can ‘Differentiate’ Picasso’s Art from His Life Read More »

Detail from David Hockney’s “Self-Portrait.” Photo Jonathan Wilkinson/The National Portrait Gallery/PA To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HEAR, HEAR. The HEAR Act was adopted by the House of Representatives on Monday, and now heads to President Trump for approval, reported the New York Times. The bipartisan bill is designed to …

Congress Adopts HEAR Act, Hockney to Celebrate 90th Birthday at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall: Morning Links for March 17, 2026 Read More »