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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reached an agreement with Nigeria for a 25-year long-term loan of three major artworks that will go on display this month in the museum’s remodeled Michael C....
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ARTnews reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired 38 works by Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien, spanning studies from his time at the Dunhuang Buddhist cave complex in the 1940s and...
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Chinese artist Liu Wei has installed a group of mixed-media sculptures on the facade of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, unveiled Thursday as part of a commission titled “Speculation / Λ...
Hyperallergic
Beijing-based artist Liu Wei has returned to New York with Speculation (2026), a new series commissioned for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Genesis Facade Commission and installed at the museum’s...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has selected Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to design an expansion built beneath the adjacent Plaza Perú that will double the museum’s...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York broke ground Tuesday on the Tang Wing, a new modern and contemporary art wing named for emeritus trustee Oscar L. Tang and his wife H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang....
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, 15 September, for its Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art, a five-storey, 126,000-square-foot addition scheduled to...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art broke ground on September 15 for its Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art, designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo. At a ceremony in the museum’s European...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Paris prosecutors have asked that Giuliano Ruffini be sent to trial on charges of commercial deception and money laundering in connection with an alleged Old Master forgery network, and they also...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and British fashion designer John Galliano canceled a planned Costume Institute exhibition honoring Galliano after backlash over his past antisemitic...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
A Hamburg criminal court convicted two children of German dealer Serop Simonian—alleged to have led a trafficking ring specializing in Egyptian antiquities—of money laundering on 24 August, ordering...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic publishes an editor’s note introducing artist and writer Lia Strasser’s personal essay responding to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition Krasner and Pollock: Past...
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Pace Gallery founder Arne Glimcher is among politicians and public figures criticizing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s planned John Galliano exhibition, according to a New York Times report...
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Two people were convicted in a Hamburg court on Monday for money laundering in a case that ARTnews said closely matches the investigation into German dealer Serop Simonian’s alleged Egyptian...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Yoed and Natasha Anise are suing London’s Alison Jacques gallery for breach of contract after the gallery cancelled the sale of three Monica Sjöö (1938–2005) paintings following objections from the...
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Kit Fitzgerald, a pioneering American video artist known for bringing a painterly sensibility to electronic media, died on August 3 at age 73, according to an announcement by her husband and longtime...
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An anonymous online search engine called The Last Museum has launched with a database of about 6.3 million artwork images from museum collections worldwide, searchable by descriptive prompts such as...
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London’s National Gallery has faced criticism for NG Citizens, a £250,000 citizens’ assembly made up of randomly selected, demographically representative UK residents convened to advise on the...
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Less than two months after opening its $175 million Tang Wing for American Democracy, the New York Historical replaced 17 objects in its inaugural exhibition “Democracy Matters,” which opened June...
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art recorded a $10 million deficit for fiscal year 2025–2026, which ended June 30, on a $76.5 million budget, according to preliminary documents reviewed by the...
Hyperallergic
A Hyperallergic editor’s note by Hakim Bishara highlights recent coverage, including Erin L. Thompson’s investigation into a convicted antiquities dealer whose objects are held by dozens of US...
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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...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after the work was linked to Phoenix Ancient...
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New York health officials announced that traces of Legionella bacteria linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were detected at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently repatriated a marble Roman portrait bust dated to the 2nd century CE after it was traced to Phoenix Ancient Art, a gallery...
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Hyperallergic profiled artists and filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens in San Luis Obispo, California, where they presented a sneak preview of their new film Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual...
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Hyperallergic reported that the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned a Roman marble portrait bust to Turkey in February after questions about its provenance and its purchase from Phoenix Ancient Art,...
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Hyperallergic reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated a 2nd-century CE marble Roman portrait bust to the Republic of Türkiye in February after it was seized by the Manhattan District...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday that 59 looted antiquities from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia have been returned to their countries of origin, including 45 objects seized...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
New York’s Neue Galerie will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the Met set to fully take over in 2028 and rename the institution the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie. The Neue Galerie,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
The Belvedere in Vienna is presenting a major survey of Polish artist Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004) titled “On the Other Side of Silence,” examining her painting, poetry, and assemblage work shaped by...
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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council speaker announced a $125.8 billion budget that includes a record $323.8 million appropriation for the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in...
Hyperallergic
After several antiquities were removed from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in June, the total valuation of looted artifacts surrendered by the museum has reached about $95 million,...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg removed dozens of antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, bringing the total taken from the museum since 2017 to more than...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic features an interview by art-crime scholar Erin L. Thompson with journalist Matthew Campbell about Campbell’s book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which chronicles British antiquities...
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg opens “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” to the public on 27 June, despite opposition from some members of Canada’s Jewish community,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic interviewed Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Matthew Campbell about his book The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy, which examines the...
Artnet News
Artnet reviewed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur,” which places a group of Alberto Giacometti’s female figures (in plaster and bronze) around the...
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Sculptor Leonardo Drew has joined Hauser & Wirth for worldwide representation, the gallery announced on Monday, and it will debut his new work Number 451 at Art Basel this week. Drew’s first solo...
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The Cleveland Museum of Art announced a $600 million fundraising campaign titled “For the Benefit of All the People,” aimed at supporting the museum’s long-term financial health and sustaining...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art repatriated two Khmer sandstone sculptures to Cambodia: an Angkor-period guardian deity (rākṣasa) dating to c. 921–945 and a mid-7th-century lintel carved with an...
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ARTnews highlighted “Martin Wong: Chinatown USA,” a monographic exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago featuring over 100 works by New York artist Martin Wong, including 11 never-before-exhibited...
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An Artnet News report traces how looted Cambodian antiquities from the 10th-century Koh Ker temple complex entered the international art market, arguing that ongoing demand sustains the trade. It...
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Artist Alma Allen renewed accusations that art publicist David Resnicow discouraged support for Allen’s controversial U.S. Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, writing in an Instagram post published...
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Architect Kulapat Yantrasast, founder and creative director of WHY Architecture and a designer of major museum projects including work for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, has been...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic highlights Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which details how British dealer Douglas Latchford trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large scale...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic reviews Matthew Campbell’s 2026 book The Man Who Stole the Gods, which traces how British dealer Douglas Latchford allegedly trafficked looted Cambodian (Khmer) antiquities on a large...
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The union representing workers at the Wexner Center for the Arts has asked Ohio State University leadership to remove Leslie Wexner’s name from the institution, citing his documented ties to Jeffrey...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
New York’s Neue Galerie, founded by philanthropist Ronald S. Lauder in 2001 and known for Austrian and German Modernism, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028. The Neue Galerie is...
Artnet News
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York’s Neue Galerie will merge in 2028, with the Met taking ownership of the Neue Galerie’s Beaux-Arts mansion and renaming it the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue...
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British artist Anouska Samms says the Metropolitan Museum of Art wrongly credited New York-based Israeli designer Yoav Hadari as the sole author of Corpus Nervina 0.0 (2023–24), a hair-based dress...
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Artnet News reports that the Brooklyn Museum is presenting “Sculpting the Senses,” a retrospective of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen spanning roughly two decades and featuring more than 140...
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ARTnews criticizes “Costume Art,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring Costume Institute exhibition, for what it calls weak art-historical comparisons between fashion and artworks displayed side...
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Artnet News reports that Berry Campbell in New York is presenting “Louisa Chase: The Eighties,” the largest and most comprehensive Louisa Chase (1951–2016) solo show in New York in more than two...
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Artnet News reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” assembles what experts estimate to be art worth billions of dollars, a feat New York dealer Robert Simon...
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ARTnews reports that Bard College president Leon Botstein, 79, has discussed a succession plan in which he would retire from the presidency after a successor is found, but with no timeline, amid...
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The Denver Art Museum has returned to Turkey a marble head of a bearded man that was stolen from the ancient city of Smyrna (present-day Izmir), an object Turkey says was unearthed in the city’s...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art will stage “Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur” beginning June 12, placing 17 sculptures by Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti in and around the Temple of Dendur, an...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” opening in October, will present Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner as a “story of equals,” bringing together...
Hyperallergic
Posters reading “Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” have been wheatpasted across New York City ahead of the 2026 Met Gala, targeting lead sponsors and honorary co-chairs Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. The...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
Shiva Zahed Gallery, a new space dedicated to Iranian contemporary art, opened on 28 February in Istanbul’s Pera district to provide a rare physical platform for artists affected by sanctions,...
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic’s roundup, introduced by senior editor Valentina Di Liscia, spotlights Ed Simon’s essay on Salvador Dalí’s religious paintings and his “nuclear mysticism,” which fused quantum physics...
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Hyperallergic reports that online commenters reacted intensely to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newly acquired “Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist” (1512–13), recently identified as...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is mounting “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” described as the Met’s and America’s first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael (1483–1520). The show assembles 237...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Thursday that it has acquired a rediscovered Renaissance painting now identified as Rosso Fiorentino’s “Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist”...
Artnet News
In an Artnet News article published on 2026-02-14, writers discuss how medieval Christian art sometimes depicted Christ’s side wound in crucifixion imagery as resembling a vulva, arguing the...
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Jewish heirs filed a lawsuit in a French court challenging the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ownership of a painting by Camille Pissarro, according to ARTnews. The case seeks to contest the work’s...
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Artnet News reported on January 30, 2026, that the Metropolitan Opera has explored monetizing two monumental Marc Chagall murals—The Sources of Music and The Triumphs of Music—installed at Lincoln...