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This post was originally published on artnews.com The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is seeking to deaccession a 9th-century stone Buddha to allow for its repatriation it to Nepal. UMMA said it had “determined that deaccessioning and repatriating the statue is appropriate in this instance because the statue’s provenance has been credibly challenged,”… Continue reading University of Michigan Museum of Art Seeks To Deaccession 9th Century Buddha Statue to Nepal

This post was originally published on artnews.com The Frick Collection announced the appointment of Axel Rüger as the museum’s next Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen director. He begins the new post in early 2025, when the museum reopens. Rüger has served as secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London since May… Continue reading Frick Collection Hires Axel Rüger as New Director Ahead of Scheduled Reopening Next Spring

This post was originally published on artnews.com Rock art located in present-day South Africa might be the key to discovering an extinct animal species from more than 200 million years ago, according to a recent study published in Plos One journal. The animal in question would have gone extinct long before humans came on the… Continue reading South African Cave Art May Depict Extinct Animal from 250 M. Years Ago, New Study Finds

This post was originally published on artnews.com First Dancing With The Stars, now internet icon and comedian Ziwe Fumudoh: Anna Delvey is apparently on a press tour. The 33-year-old Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin, appeared in an extended interview with Ziwe, published to YouTube on Tuesday, to talk about her many scams. Delvey… Continue reading Art World Scammer Anna Delvey Was Interviewed by Internet Icon Ziwe, With Predictably Outrageous Results

This post was originally published on artnews.com New Delhi’s India Art Fair will launch a new expo in Mumbai next year, according to a press release Thursday. The new event in India’s second largest city will be called India Art Fair Contemporary (IAFC) and will see up to 70, mostly Indian, galleries set up shop… Continue reading India Art Fair Will Launch Offshoot in Mumbai Next Year But Art Mumbai Fair Is Unhappy About the Overlapping Dates 

This post was originally published on artnews.com The Art Institute of Chicago has named Paulina Pobocha as Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, just a year after Pobocha took up a curator position at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. In the new role at AIC, she’ll oversee the department’s acquisitions and exhibitions.… Continue reading Paulina Pobocha Joins AIC as Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

This post was originally published on artnews.com On first glance, one might be forgiven for wondering how the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art,” fits into PST ART. For the 2024 edition of the recurring initiative, over 70 cultural institutions, supported by… Continue reading Getty’s PST ART Exhibitions Take an Expansive View of Science to Center Indigenous Knowledge

This post was originally published on artnews.com To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TOUGH TRUTHS. A traveling German exhibition documenting the experience of refugees granted asylum in the country was removed soon after it was installed. The reason: because it reportedly “polarized” visitors and employees at the… Continue reading India Art Fair in New Delhi Expands to Mumbai, Hauser & Wirth Appoints Mirella Roma as Its New CEO, and More: Morning Links for September 19, 2024

This post was originally published on artnews.com Thirty valuable paintings on loan from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran have vanished after “an unidentified entity outside the municipality with official documentation” for an exhibition that it appears never took place, according to a report from Artdependence. Tehran City Council member Nasser Amani disclosed the… Continue reading After 30 Paintings from Tehran Museum Disappear, Critics Call For Investigation

This post was originally published on artnews.com Hauser & Wirth has appointed gallery veteran Mirella Roma as its new chief executive officer, the gallery announced in a press release Thursday. Roma has been with Hauser & Wirth for 27 years. In the late ’90s and early aughts, she worked as an executive assistant to current… Continue reading Hauser & Wirth Names Gallery Veteran Mirella Roma as CEO