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Small Danish Museum Acquires Gentileschi Painting, Red Hook Fire Sparks Gentrification Fears, and More: Morning Links for September 22, 2025

Red Hook, along the river, battled a large fire on Wednesday. Getty Images The Headlines AFTER THE FIRE. Over the past couple decades, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a once-industrial waterfront neighborhood, a collection of 19th-century warehouses has become a haven for artists. Then, last Wednesday, a massive fire ripped through one of those buildings, at 481 Van Brunt Street, burning …

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Ai Weiwei Accuses German Newspaper of ‘Vengeful Actions Stemming from Petty Censorship’

http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1236159105.jpg Ai Weiwei said Die Zeit‘s “vengeful actions stem from a narrow and petty form of censorship.” Photo Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images Chinese artist Ai Weiwei claimed that the German newspaper Die Zeit portrayed him in “a distorted and unjust manner” in an article it published this past Thursday. His claim follows another he made …

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Hong Kong Mega-Collector Adrian Cheng Pivots to Web3, Blockchain, and ‘Immersive Experiences’

Adrian Cheng. Photo Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images for Festival de Can One year after Adrian Cheng resigned as CEO of his family’s Hong Kong property firm, New World Development Co. (NWD), the mega-collector has announced his next venture: ALMAD Group. The details of the new business are predictably fuzzy. The announcement reads as if Cheng, who …

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Kerry James Marshall’s Royal Academy Exhibition Features New Paintings on African Collaboration in Transatlantic Slave Trade

Installation view of Kerry James Marshall: The Histories,” 2025–26, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, showing the “Africa Revisited” gallery. Photo: ©David Parry/ Royal Academy of Arts, London; Art: ©Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s leading painters, is debuting a new set of paintings that look at the involvement of Africans …

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Alleged Capital Jewish Museum Shooter Filmed His Crime with Bodycam

The Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images The man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May appears to have worn a bodycam and filmed the incident, according to federal investigators. Elias Rodriguez, the suspect, was indicted on hate …

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Painter Cynthia Hawkins Makes Her Own Rules Through Her Abstractions

Cynthia Hawkins in her studio in Poughkeepsie, New York, 2025. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle for ARTnews Throughout recent art history, grids have remained a constant. Prized by artists for their rigid orderliness, they have been painted, sculpted, and woven. Many critics have claimed that the grid is emotionless. Art historian Rosalind Krauss famously wrote that …

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Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt Win $250,000 Heinz Awards

Artist Jennifer Packer. Photo Joshua Franzos American artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt were named on Tuesday the winners of this year’s Heinz Awards for the Arts. Now in its 30th year, the awards are distributed by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation and each carries an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000. Six recipients are named annually, two in each of …

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Cuban Museum Won’t Lend Wifredo Lam Works to MoMA Due to U.S. Customs Laws

Wifredo Lam: The Jungle, 1942–43. ©Wifredo Lam Estate, ADAGP, Paris, and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Museum of Modern Art’s Wifredo Lam retrospective, “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” one of the more hotly anticipated fall exhibitions, will not feature artworks from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. According to a …

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