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Vincent Namatjira with various portraits by him, including one of Gina Rinehart, third from left in the bottom row. ©Vincent Namatjira/Copyright Agency/Photo Iwantja Arts/Courtesy the artist and Iwantja Arts If you can’t beat them, join them—as the old saying goes—or, perhaps, give them something else to discuss. This seems to be the attitude of Australian …

Following Calls to Remove ‘Unflattering’ Portrait from Australia’s National Portrait Gallery, Billionaire Gifted a Different Portrait of Herself Read More »

Bernardo Bellotto: Marketplace at Pirna, ca. 18th century. Museum of Fine Arts Houston A United States appeals court has affirmed a prior ruling that the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Houston can keep an 18th-century painting contested in a lawsuit by the heirs of its original German Jewish owner. Bernardo Bellotto’s The Marketplace at Pirna (ca. 1764), …

MFA Houston Can Keep Contested Nazi-looted Bernardo Bellotto Painting: US Appeals Court Read More »

Bernardo Bellotto: Marketplace at Pirna, ca. 18th century. Museum of Fine Arts Houston To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES EMBEZZLEMENT CONVICTION. Douglas Chrismas, the 80-year-old, notorious founder of Los Angeles’s defunct blue-chip Ace Gallery, has been convicted of embezzlement by a jury. The May 31 ruling in …

Ace Gallery Founder Convicted, Court Settles Restitution Confusion with MFA Houston, El Museo del Barrio Reveals Details for Trienal, and More: Morning Links for June 4, 2024 Read More »

The elaborately decorated head of a Bodhisattva statue was found in a storage unit. Courtesy HSI New York The Manhattan District Attorney‘s office recently announced the return of 133 antiquities “collectively valued at $14 million” to Pakistan after being seized as part of multiple investigations of trafficking networks. The press release specifically mentioned Subhash Kapoor …

Investigation Leads to 133 Antiquities Worth $14 M. Returned to Pakistan Read More »

Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Celebration? Realife Revisited, 1972, installation view, 2016, Serpentine Galleries, London. Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Serpentine Galleries Marc Camille Chaimowicz, an artist whose unclassifiable installations trotted the line between art and design with aplomb, has died at 77. His death was announced on Thursday by Brussels’s WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, which do …

Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nonconformist Artist Who Merged Art and Design, Dies at 77 Read More »

20th-century mummies on display in the vault of the Panteon cemetery at Guanajuato on the summit of Trozado, Mexico. Photo George Pickow/Three Lions/Getty Images The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Mexico’s governing body for archaeological studies on the federal level, is up in arms after the mummified corpse of a body that was …

Mummy Dismembered During Museum Renovations in Mexico Read More »

The refurbished Grand Palais in Paris, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Art Basel Paris. Photo YOAN VALAT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Art Basel’s Paris fair will see several notable changes when it opens its third edition this coming October. First among them is the fair’s expected relocation to the Grand Palais, which had …

Art Basel Subtracts a Plus Sign for Its French Fair, Now Titled Art Basel Paris Read More »

Courtesy Cinefrance Studios, Cannes Film Festival. It is an ongoing mystery why so many artists’ biopics, though undoubtedly coming from a place of deep admiration, choose to ignore the very thing that makes their subjects extraordinary—their art—in favor of outlining the less extraordinary (however torrid) circumstances of their private lives and loves. The latest example: …

‘Niki’ Review: Charlotte Le Bon Stars in a Pretty but Flimsy Portrait of an Artist Minus Her Art Read More »

The signing ceremony. From left to right: Luo Yi, deputy director-general of Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism; Joan Valadou, consul general of France Consulate General in Shanghai; Gong Yan, director of Power Station of Art; Zong Ming, vice chairwoman of Standing Committee of Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress; Renaud Bailly, president of North Asia …

Chanel and Shanghai’s Power Station of Art Sign Long-term Partnership Read More »

The Main Building at CalArts. Photo: Scott Groller/Courtesy CalArts Citing an enrollment crisis that threatens to shutter its doors forever, the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in Montpelier has forged a partnership with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles that will allow its students to fulfill short-term residencies on the CalArts …

Facing Enrollment Crisis, Vermont College of Fine Arts Strikes Deal with CalArts to Share Campus Read More »