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This post was originally published on artnews.com Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in our special Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter for Art Basel Hong Kong. Sign up here to receive it every day of the fair. The first auction held by Christie’s at its new Asia headquarters in The Henderson building in Hong Kong last September was a buoyant affair, carried… Continue reading Christie’s 20th/21st-Century Evening Sale in Hong Kong Totals $73.3 M.

This post was originally published on artnews.com Since 1968, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo has commanded attention on the city’s bustling Avenida Paulista for its iconic modernist building, a red-pillar, suspended structure designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi. After more than six years of planning and construction, a new 14-floor building with an… Continue reading Sao Paulo’s MASP Opens Much-Awaited, $43.5 M. Expansion with Exhibitions Mining Its Institutional History

This post was originally published on artnews.com Serop Simonian, the alleged leader of an Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring, mysteriously left Paris for Hamburg during his jail sentence in January. The now 83-year-old dealer is believed to be behind the sale of allegedly smuggled Egyptian antiquities to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and… Continue reading Alleged Leader of Egyptian Antiquities Trafficking Ring Returns to Germany with French Court Summons

This post was originally published on artnews.com After three years of climate activism, the British protest group Just Stop Oil announced on Thursday that it would end demonstrations directly targeting museums and public spaces in the country. The group has become known for high-profile demonstrations that have involved throwing food at paintings by artists like… Continue reading Just Stop Oil to End Protests as UK Adopts New Climate Policy

This post was originally published on artnews.com The Museum of Modern Art in New York has named Christophe Cherix as its next director, succeeding Glenn Lowry, who has led the institution for three decades. The New York Times first reported the news on Friday afternoon. Cherix begins in his new position this September. He has… Continue reading MoMA Picks Christophe Cherix as Next Director

This post was originally published on artnews.com A painting that for short while was referred to as a lost Caravaggio is now at the center of a major fraud investigation in Spain. The artwork, Ecce Homo with Two Executioners, was sold by Herennia Trillo, a Spanish art dealer, for nearly $300,000 in early 2023. But, according… Continue reading Spanish Art Dealer Under Investigation for Fraud over Painting Marketed as Lost Caravaggio

This post was originally published on artnews.com Lucy Dacus’s newly released album Forever Is A Feeling has been widely anticipated among music aficionados, with the 29-year-old singer even getting a full-length profile in the New Yorker last week. But it turns out that the art world has a reason to pay attention to the album,… Continue reading Amedeo Modigliani Gets a Shoutout on Lucy Dacus’s New Album

This post was originally published on artnews.com President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on Thursday directing the Smithsonian, a federal consortium of cultural and research institutions, to eliminate “divisive” and “anti-American” content from its exhibitions and restore “monuments, memorials, statues, markers” that have been removed from public spaces since 2020. The “Restoring Truth… Continue reading Trump Executive Order Targets ‘Anti-American’ Content at Smithsonian

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 SMITHSONIAN SUPPRESSION. On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution’s museums. He demanded the restoration of public monuments that have been removed since January 1, 2020, many of which represented Confederate leaders, according… Continue reading Trump Targets Smithsonian, Myanmar Cultural Heritage Damaged by Earthquake, and More: Morning Links for March 28, 2025

This post was originally published on artnews.com I can’t think of a more relevant and necessary exhibition right now than Wafaa Bilal’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It isn’t only that the exhibition is topical—though, sadly, its critiques of Islamophobia and the ways technology sanitizes warfare and distances us from its… Continue reading Wafaa Bilal Still Has Hope for Humanity