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The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Tate Modern’s exhibition “Frida: The Making of an Icon” examines how Frida Kahlo’s image and mythology were constructed and later reused, rather than presenting a large-scale survey of her paintings....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A Mixtec human skull decorated with turquoise, shell, jadeite, and quartz—displayed for more than 60 years at the Wereldmuseum in Leiden—was repatriated to Mexico in May 2025 and is now in the...
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Steven Nelson, a former senior executive at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., accused the museum of “soft censorship” after it relocated a symposium connected to an exhibition on race...
Hyperallergic
Hundreds of archaeological sites in Texas’s Big Bend region, including 6,000-year-old cave paintings, could be threatened by a Trump administration plan to expand the US–Mexico border barrier,...
Artnet News
Banco Santander Foundation will open Faro Santander, a new art museum and cultural hub on Spain’s northern coast, on September 8 in the bank’s former headquarters, the 231-year-old Pereda Building on...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s July art-books roundup highlights a comprehensive new volume on photographer Helen Levitt and a new biography of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. The book “Helen...
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Banco Santander Foundation set September 8, 2026, as the opening date for its new art center, Faro Santander, and announced three inaugural exhibitions, including a Leonora Carrington solo and...
Hyperallergic
An advocacy group, Defendamos la Colección Gelman (“Let’s Defend the Gelman Collection”), filed three lawsuits on June 29 and July 1 against Mexico’s National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Art Newspaper reports that Italy has returned 27 archaeological objects to Mexico after multiple investigations found they had been illegally imported, unlawfully sold, or held without...
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr.’s office announced the repatriation of three antiquities valued at $160,000 to Mexico, including one that had been seized from the Metropolitan Museum...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A citizen collective called Defence of the Gelman Collection filed legal action on 1 July against Mexican cultural authorities to challenge a long-term agreement governing the circulation of the...
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Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art announced “Painting Magic,” an exhibition of about 70 works by Spanish-born artist Remedios Varo, running from September 18, 2026, to January 10, 2027, before...
Hyperallergic
Two Chicago exhibitions—“Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present” at Wrightwood 659 and “Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall...
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A coalition called Defense of the Gelman Collection began legal proceedings against Banco Santander and Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) over the handling of the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube in March in California and New Mexico are raising concerns that legal strategies targeting “platform design” could affect online speech and the digital...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic published a Father’s Day roundup of 10 contemporary artists whose work addresses fatherhood through themes such as immigration, absence, adoption, and artistic inheritance. The article...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Mexico City’s Museo de Arte Textil de los Pueblos Indígenas y Afromexicanos (MUT) opened earlier this month near the Templo Mayor archaeological site, celebrating Indigenous and Afro-Mexican textile...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Mexico’s government urged Sotheby’s New York to withdraw two pre-Columbian objects from its Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas sale scheduled for 18 June, saying analyses by the National...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Ahead of the 2026 Fifa World Cup (11 June–19 July 2026) in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, artists from 10 of the 11 US host cities created downloadable posters opposing the presence of US...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Museo Dolores Olmedo in Xochimilco, Mexico City, reopened on 30 May after six years of closure and controversy over a proposed relocation. Founded by businesswoman Dolores Olmedo (1908–2002) in a...
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Mexico’s Ministry of Culture called for the suspension of an Artemis Fine Arts auction in Louisville, Colorado, scheduled for today, that includes 80 artifacts of Mexican origin. The items were...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A controversy at The Photography Show (Aipad) in April centered on gallerist James Danziger selling AI-generated “colourised” editions of Ansel Adams’s black-and-white photograph Moonrise, Hernandez,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Mexico’s Chichén Itzá reopened on 1 June after an unprecedented 13-day closure triggered by community opposition to relocating long-standing vendors into a new tourist complex. The dispute involves...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
An AI-generated “colourised” version of Ansel Adams’s Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) shown by New York gallery Danziger at the Aipad Photography Show in April sparked backlash among...
Hyperallergic
The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust criticized New York gallerist James Danziger for selling AI-colorized editions derived from Ansel Adams’s iconic photograph “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”...
Hyperallergic
The Guggenheim Museum in New York will screen Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s 2006 film “Zidane, a 21st century portrait” from June 11 to July 19. The two-channel work follows French soccer...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Guatemala’s cultural ministry has formally requested the repatriation from Mexico of a Maya limestone lintel that Mexico officially repatriated on 16 April after an unnamed US businessman brought it...
Hyperallergic
MoMA PS1 in New York City will present the first US survey of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles in fall 2026, Hyperallergic reports, bringing together works made over more than 30 years that address...
Artnet News
Sculptor Alma Allen discussed the backlash to his selection to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in an interview on the podcast “Time Sensitive,” recorded at his home in Mexico City...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A mass shooting at Mexico’s Teotihuacan archaeological site on Monday, April 20, left one Canadian woman dead and 13 people injured after a gunman opened fire shortly after 11:30am from atop the...
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Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, is donating more than 150,000 objects to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, significantly expanding the museum’s holdings and refocusing...
Hyperallergic
Sculptor and author Barbara Chase-Riboud told the Financial Times that she declined an invitation to represent the United States at the 61st Venice Biennale, saying “this was not the moment.”...
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Barbara Chase-Riboud said she declined an offer to represent the US at the 61st Venice Biennale because, as she told the Financial Times, “as a world citizen, this was not the moment,” according to...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, Diego Rivera’s grandson, has donated 157,300 objects from his private collection to Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli, significantly expanding the institution Rivera...
Hyperallergic
Mexico will reroute a planned $8 billion high-speed passenger train from Mexico City to Querétaro after archaeologists documented 16 pre-Hispanic artworks—paintings and petroglyphs—along the proposed...
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Artist Alma Allen’s selection to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale has prompted scrutiny of the US Pavilion’s selection process after the State Department replaced its...
Hyperallergic
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has launched a free online digital catalogue raisonné, Access O’Keeffe, allowing the public to browse more than 2,000 works by Georgia O’Keeffe,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Mérida, the capital of Mexico’s Yucatán state, will host the first Bienal de Yucatán from 26 November 2026 to 28 February 2027 to spotlight the region’s growing contemporary art scene. The biennial...
Artnet News
The provided excerpt for Artnet News’s “Inside the Fight to Keep a Trove of Frida Kahlo Works from Leaving Mexico,” dated 8 April 2026, contains only navigation and page header material and does not...
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Fundación Banco Santander in Spain said it will return the Gelman Collection to Mexico by 2028, following an open letter signed by more than 200 art professionals criticizing Mexican authorities for...
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An ARTnews article recounts how, during the New Deal era from 1933 to 1943, the US government treated art as a public resource and employed artists as part of broader economic relief during the Great...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Plans to extend the Mexico–US border wall through Val Verde County, Texas, have prompted warnings from archaeologists and local landowners that construction could damage prehistoric rock art in the...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
More than 350 cultural professionals in Mexico signed an open letter calling for greater transparency and compliance with heritage laws in the management of the Gelman Collection, a major trove of...
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ARTnews’s “Morning Links” for March 30, 2026 reports that three artworks—Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Les Poissons (The Fish)” (1917), Henri Matisse’s “Odalisque sur la terrasse (Odalisque on the...
Artnet News
An Artnet News report dated March 28, 2026 states that an exhibition by an Israeli artist in Mexico City closed after antisemitic harassment, including vandalism at the gallery. The article indicates...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Mexico’s Ministry of Culture urged eBay to halt the sale of 195 pre-Hispanic archaeological objects that it says are illegally being offered by a U.S.-based seller, according to The Art Newspaper....
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Portugal has returned looted antiquities to Mexico in what ARTnews described as a first for the country. The repatriation involved cultural objects identified as having been illicitly removed from...
Artnet News
The University of North Texas’s College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries in Denton canceled a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez after installation was completed,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
During Mexico City Art Week, the satellite fairs Feria Material and Salón Acme drew record crowds at VIP previews on 5 February 2026, with Material reporting its biggest opening-day attendance ever...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Galería Tianguis Neza, a pop-up gallery operating every Sunday inside Mexico City’s La Lagunilla street market, sells artworks directly from artists at “precios de tianguis” (street-market prices) to...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Mexico City is planning a large cultural programme to coincide with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in June at the recently renovated Estadio Azteca—its third World Cup opening match after...
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ARTnews reports that curator and writer Ekow Eshun has been selected to organize the next SITE Santa Fe International, the contemporary art institution’s recurring large-scale exhibition in Santa Fe,...
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ARTnews reported that archaeologists in Mexico have unearthed a Zapotec tomb that has been hailed as “the most significant” discovery of the last decade. The find is presented as a major contribution...