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The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford has agreed to repatriate 39 pieces of human remains—primarily skulls—to the Indigenous Naga people, with the transfer to Nagaland, India, planned by...
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Frieze Abu Dhabi announced 84 exhibitors for its inaugural fair, running November 19–22 at Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District. The lineup spans galleries from 63 cities in...
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Hyperallergic reported from the 104th Santa Fe Indian Market, hosted by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) on August 15–16, which featured more than 1,000 Native artists from over...
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The BlackStar Film Festival marked its 15th anniversary in Philadelphia from August 6 to 9 with a lineup of 91 films centered on its theme of “a cinema for liberation.” Among highlighted works were...
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The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has boarded up certain structures and adjusted installations ahead of an IndyCar race later this month tied to President Trump’s “Freedom 250”...
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Hyperallergic links New York City’s Pearl Street to the Lenape shell middens that once marked the original 17th-century East River shoreline, noting that such oyster-shell piles were common...
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Seven Smithsonian buildings in Washington, DC, closed abruptly on 6 August after a mechanical failure disrupted chilled water needed for cooling systems and humidity controls. The affected sites...
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Two Indian artists, Srishti Gupta and Akriti Choudhary, were arrested in April after protesting alongside factory workers in Greater Noida near New Delhi, according to a report referenced from the...
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The Musée du Louvre will lend 26 works from its Islamic art collection to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC, for the exhibition From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic...
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Srishti Gupta, a 28-year-old Indian visual artist, has remained in jail since being detained on 11 April after attending a large factory workers’ protest in Noida near Delhi calling for fair wages...
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Artist Terran Last Gun (Piikani), who grew up on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, uses antique accounting ledgers—many sourced from Montana—as the basis for geometric drawings that engage the...
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The Trump administration issued executive proclamations under the Antiquities Act reducing Utah’s Grand Staircase–Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments by about 90% each, prompting criticism...
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The Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum network announced its 2027 exhibition programme across three sites in London and Dundee. At the new V&A East Museum in Stratford (opened April 2026), “South Asia...
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British authorities have charged a suspect following a “high-value burglary” at the Bristol Museum in the UK that involved more than 600 objects, ARTnews reported, citing the BBC. Dean Hall, 41, of...
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Superblue, the immersive-art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, opened its first India presentation at Mumbai’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre...
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Scholar Simona Supekar’s book “Stock Photo” (2026), published in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, examines how stock photography has helped perpetuate racism and sexism and how those biases now...
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A 162-page White House Domestic Policy Council report titled “Saving America’s Story,” published online on July 4, accused the Smithsonian Institution of promoting “anti-white” ideology, focusing...
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Artnet News published a Pride Month roundup titled “5 Queer Artists From the Artnet Gallery Network to Celebrate This Pride Month,” highlighting queer artists available through the Artnet Gallery...
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Turner Prize–winning artist Helen Cammock has withdrawn her 40-minute film Persistence from London’s National Portrait Gallery after complaints about its criticism of Winston Churchill. The work, on...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” offering strategies for artists facing canceled exhibitions, demands to...
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The Art Newspaper reported that the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) released a new resource, “The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom,” advising artists on how to respond when...
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Helen Cammock’s 40-minute video Persistence (2025), shown at London’s National Portrait Gallery for nine months, has drawn criticism for a line comparing Oliver Cromwell’s actions in Ireland to the...
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Christie’s first London sale of South Asian modern and contemporary art in seven years totaled £18.9 million ($23.9 million), with all 93 lots from a single private collection selling above presale...
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The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi will stage a month-long, free, non-selling exhibition at Christie’s London headquarters in St James’s titled “The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg announced that it returned 657 looted antiquities valued at nearly $14 million to India at a ceremony at India’s consulate in New York City....
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London’s Wellcome Collection announced plans to transfer 2,000 Jain manuscripts to the Jain community, with the materials moving to the University of Birmingham’s Dharmanath Network in Jain Studies...
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On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the repatriation of 657 trafficked antiquities to India, valued at nearly $14 million, following investigations by the D.A.’s...
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Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karolina Bankowska of Lawrence, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on April 28 in federal court in Brooklyn to a five-year scheme that sold more than 200 counterfeit artworks...
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Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karoline Bankowska of New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn on April 28 to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American-produced goods...
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Artnet News reported on April 27, 2026, that Art Basel has introduced a “Basel Exclusive” initiative to curb PDF pre-fair sales by encouraging galleries to hold back works from previews and...
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ARTnews reports that “Said in Stone,” at the Peabody Essex Museum, is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to late 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Indigenous artist. The...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is using its forthcoming David Geffen Galleries to advance a curatorial strategy championed by CEO and director Michael Govan that breaks down traditional...
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Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation, which manages the modern and Arab art collection assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum, scheduled to open in January...
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After two years of conservation, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, has put a 37-foot-long early 19th-century Indian work known as the “Lucknow scroll” on public view for the...
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Artnet News reports that Aicon Art in New York has mounted “Courtly Visions: Indian Miniature Painting,” the gallery’s first exhibition devoted entirely to Indian miniature painting, featuring works...
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Raja Ravi Varma’s Yashoda and Krishna (ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 million at Saffronart in Delhi on April 1, setting a new auction record for an Indian artist. The sale surpassed the previous...
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Raja Ravi Varma’s oil painting “Yashoda and Krishna” (1890s) set a new auction record for a South Asian painting when it hammered at $15 million ($17.9 million with fees, or 1,672 million Indian...
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ARTnews profiles Native American artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) in connection with his site-specific installation “Red Metal Dust” at the Barnes Foundation in...
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Artist Shahzia Sikander’s new hand-drawn animated film, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles, is being screened on the digital façade of Hong Kong’s M+ museum through 21 June. The work uses the historical shift in...
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Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool since 2018, has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and will begin in June, overseeing exhibitions, the collection, and...
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ARTnews reported that a 350-year-old Vrindavani Vastra tapestry will return to India on loan from the British Museum. The textile, associated with Vrindavan and devotional narratives, is being lent...
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The British Museum and the government of Assam agreed to a six-month loan of the 17th-century Vrindavani Vastra, a nine-metre-long tapestry depicting scenes from the life of Krishna, to begin in...
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On 23 February 2026, The New York Historical (NYH) in Manhattan announced it has acquired a gift of 150 works of contemporary Native art from Agnes Hsu-Tang, chair of the museum’s board of trustees,...
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An Artnet News roundup reports that a major new contemporary art center is being planned in Manila, alongside updates from across Asia’s art scene. The article also surveys recent art fairs in Qatar,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 10 February 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, announced it will deaccession and return three bronze Hindu sculptures to India after a provenance review...
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On 2 February 2026, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi appointed Manuel Rabaté as its first chief executive and director, marking his move from the Louvre Abu Dhabi, where he has been...
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has returned three sculptures to India after determining they were looted. The repatriation is part of ongoing efforts by museums to address gaps in...