The Smithsonian Institution. Photo David Ake/Getty Images On Thursday night, the White House appeared to denounce a range of artworks, shows, and objects on view at the Smithsonian Institution, continuing President Donald Trump‘s protest against the museum network. Published on the White House website as an article called “President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian,” …
Just a phalacy? Experts can’t agree on how many penises are depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Almost 50,000 people have signed a petition to stop the Bayeux Tapestry being loaned to London’s British Museum. The appeal, which was launched in July by the French art historian Didier Rykner, cites warnings from textile …
Madagascar’s Minister of Culture Volamiranty Donna Mara (L) offers a gift to her France’s contrepart Rachida Dati flanked by France’s Delegate Minister for Francophonie and International Partnerships Thani Mohamed Soilihi during a ceremony for the restitution of three Sakalava skulls to Madagascar, at the Culture Ministry in Paris, on August 26, 2025. France returns three …
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After posting her painting G for Genocide, Danielle SeeWalker’s Vail residency was canceled. Courtesy the artist The Colorado town of Vail has settled a lawsuit brought by Danielle SeeWalker, a Denver-based Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation whose residency was canceled last year after she posted a pro-Palestine painting to social media. …
The remains of a pre-Islamic monastery on Sir Bani Yas Island, United Arab Emirates, 2014. Photo KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images A Christian cross was unearthed by archaeologists during an excavation on Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Sir Bani Yas Island was part of a cluster of churches and monasteries …
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People visit the Frieze Seoul 2022 art fair in Seoul on September 2, 2022. AFP via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GÖRING, GÖRING, GÖRING, GONE! Earlier this week, Breakfast with ARTnews informed our loyal readers about a long-lost, Nazi-looted painting that had been spotted in a house in Argentina …
Jeff Koons in his studio, New York, 2024. Courtesy Gagosian and the artist Gagosian will once again represent Jeff Koons, the star sculptor who left the mega-gallery to join Pace’s roster in 2021. Wednesday’s announcement completes a return that began in May with a solo presentation held by Gagosian at the Frieze New York fair. …
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A Roman mosaic in the archaeological site of Sabratha, picturing ancient sandals ‘flip flops’ similar to the ones seen at Villa Romana del Casale. March 19, 2007. (Photo by Edoardo Fornaciari/Getty Images) Getty Images For seven decades, archaeologists at the Villa Romana del Casale in south-central Sicily have been uncovering mosaics that blur the line …
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Martin Beck, equilibrium: Dawn/Dusk in the Okefenokee Swamp (detail), 2023. Photo Manuel Carreon Lopez If you like the idea of zoning out and luxuriating in the sounds of a “Psychologically Ultimate Seashore” or an “Optimum Aviary,” you are not alone—and in fact are part of a lineage that traces back to a series of mind-altering …
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The tomb of an ancient Thracian warrior found in Bulgaria Courtesy Topolovgrad Municipality Archaeologists from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) have uncovered a 2nd century BCE tomb near the Bulgarian village Kapitan Petko Voivoda in the Topolovgrad region, which they are calling the richest-known Hellenistic-era burial found in the country, according to Heritage Daily. …
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