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Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Musuem and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana on May 12, 2024. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES ASPEN’S GRASP. Known for winter sports and other outdoor …

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A university student works with clay. (Photo by Damien MEYER / AFP) (Photo by DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via Getty Images) Art history, visual and performing Arts, and graphic design majors nationwide have the bleakest employment prospects across all college majors in the United States, according to data analyzed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York …

Art History and Performing Art Majors Face Highest Rates of Unemployment, New Study Finds Read More »

Robert Motherwell and Renate Ponsold at Greenwich Harbor in 1977. ©Dedalus Foundation The estate of Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell and photographer Renate Ponsold Motherwell, who died in 2023, will give $200,000 to Fine Arts Work Center, a residency program and arts education center in Provincetown, Massachusetts that Motherwell cofounded more than 50 years ago. The …

Motherwell Estate Gifts $200,000 to Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center and its Famed Residency Program Read More »

Daniel Arsham. Photo Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images for Art Saint Barth Artist Daniel Arsham has been accused of violating national labor laws, including firing an employee in retaliation for their union activities, in a complaint filed Tuesday by a Brooklyn regional director of the National Labor Relations Board. In November 2023, employees of the artist’s studio, …

In Legal Complaint, Artist Daniel Arsham Accused of Firing Employee for Union Support Read More »

Archeologists work around an ancient statue discovered at the Heraclea Sintica archeological site, near the city of Petrich, Bulgaria, 2024. Photo DOBRIN KASHAVELOV/AFP via Getty Images A marble statue of Greek god Hermes has been uncovered in an ancient Roman sewer in the Bulgarian village of Rupite. Standing nearly 7 feet tall, the well-preserved statue …

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People are silhouetted during dusk as they visit the Toyosu Gururi park in Tokyo’s Koto district on July 3, 2024. AFP via Getty Images Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in Breakfast With ARTnews, our daily newsletter about the art world. Sign up here to receive it every weekday. On Tuesday evening in Tokyo’s Roppongi district, under a sky that threatened downpour, …

Tokyo Gendai Gets Ready to Open as Japan’s Art Market Heats Up Read More »

Microsoft cofounders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, 1984. ©Doug Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the South Seattle steward of Paul G. Allen’s collection of vintage computers and internet technology, will officially never reopen following its closure during the 2020 Covid lockdown. But many of its wares will live on, possibly in …

Paul Allen’s Vintage Computer Museum Shutters, Sends Its Holdings to Auction Read More »