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Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Donates 186 Artworks to Five Museums Ahead of Artist’s Centennial

ART  NEWS – The receiving institutions are the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in...

World’s Oldest-Known Plans for Hunting Traps Identified in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, New Study Reports

ART NEWS – The world’s oldest-known architectural plans, dating back more than 9,000 years, have been discovered by archaeologists in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, according...

Ownership of the Benin Bronzes is Transferred from the Nigerian Government to Oba of Benin

ART NEWS – “By the announced law, all artefacts must be delivered to the Oba of Benin who exercises the rights of original owner. This...

A New Exhibition Explores the Competing Visions at the Center of Africa’s Tumultuous 1960s

ART NEWS – 1960 was dubbed “the Year of Africa” by media and politicians at the time due to the fact that 17 African nations...

Native American Activists Prevent Auction of 600-Year-Old Indigenous Skull in North Carolina

ART NEWS – Crystal Cavalier-Keck, an Indigenous advocate of the Occaneechi band of the Saponi tribe, uploaded several TikTok videos about the Mebane Antique Auction...

In Case You Missed It – A Group Show in England Connects Caribbean Carnival and European Merry-Making

ART NEWS – “Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso” at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, England, wove joyful threads between Caribbean Carnival and the conventions of...

Top 200 Collectors Travel with ARTnews Art in America home artnews news Seattle Artist Who Falsely Claimed Native American Ancestry Sentenced to 18 Months of Probation

ART NEWS – In March, Van Dyke, who has no tribal enrollment or heritage, pleaded guilty to violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act—a federal...

Manet’s ‘Olympia’ Will Travel to the United States for the First Time This Fall

ART NEWS – “Manet and Degas produced some of the most provocative and admired images in Western art,” Met director Max Hollein said in a...

With Messages of Healing and Hope, Daniel Lind-Ramos’s Poignant Sculptures Filter the Personal Yet Communal Experiences of the Last Few Years

ART NEWS – “I remember my first experience with an ambulance. I was so little that I thought I was in the belly of a...

In Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum’s 20-Year Makeover Ends on a Subtle Note

ART NEWS – In the grand scheme of big-budget, Southern California museum transformations—on the order of Peter Zumthor’s forthcoming LACMA building, for example, or Annabelle...

In Case You Missed It – President Biden Designates Two New National Monuments in Land Home to Ancient Indigenous Art

ART NEWS – The designation covers over half million acres of land in Nevada that includes Spirit Mountain, or Avi Kwa Ame in the Mojave...

In Case You Missed It – Carrie Mae Weems Makes History as First Black Woman to Win Hasselblad Photography Prize

ART NEWS – Named after Swedish camera inventor Victor Hasselblad, the annual award acknowledges “significant achievement” in photography and is endowed with SEK 2,000,000 (about...