Edward Church, Peter Hujar, Looted Art
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 Repatriates Three Antiquities to Mexico
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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...
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Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?
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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Bacteria Linked to Legionnaires’ Disease Detected at Metropolitan Museum of Art
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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...
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Why The Met Returned a Roman Bust
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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Meet the Doyennes of Ecosexuality
Hyperallergic
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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A Convicted Antiquities Dealer’s Web
Hyperallergic
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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Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?
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 it was seized by the Manhattan District...
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New York Investigators Return 59 Looted Antiquities to Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia
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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...
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When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers
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,...
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Artist Erna Rosenstein, whose work about memory and loss resonates today, celebrated with major Vienna exhibition
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 Mayor Zohran Mamdani Announces a Record $323.8 M. in Culture Funding
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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...
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Value of Looted Objects at Met Museum Tops $95M After New Seizures
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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Manhattan DA’s Office Seized Dozens of Antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum in June, Bringing Total to $95 M.
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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...
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The Met and the Art Smuggler
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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Canadian Museum for Human Rights show on Palestinian displacement offers nuanced, empathetic perspective amid uproar
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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,...
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Inside the Mind of an Antiquities Looter
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...
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What’s Going on With the Met’s Odd New Giacometti Show?
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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Leonardo Drew Joins Hauser & Wirth for Worldwide Representation
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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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Cleveland Museum of Art Plans $600 M. Fundraising Campaign to Sustain Museum’s Long-Term Health
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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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Metropolitan Museum of Art Repatriates Two Khmer Sculptures to Cambodia
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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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See Never-Before-Shown Martin Wong Works, Now On View in a Show Of His Chinatown Paintings
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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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The Trade in Looted Antiquities Endures for One Reason: Demand
Artnet News
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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Alma Allen Doubles Down on Accusations Against Publicist David Resnicow of Working Against His Venice Biennale Pavilion
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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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Kulapat Yantrasast Named Artistic Director of Next Bukhara Biennial
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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...
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The True Crime Story of a Notorious Looter
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...
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The Looter Who Built Your Favorite Museum
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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Citing Epstein Ties, Wexner Union Demands Leslie Wexner’s Name be Dropped from Art Center
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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...
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New York’s Neue Galerie will merge with the Metropolitan Museum
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...
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The Met and Neue Galerie Embark on Historic Merger
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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Authorship Dispute Erupts Over ‘Hair Dress’ at the Met’s Costume Institute
Artnet News
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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For Fashion Iconoclast Iris van Herpen, ‘Nature Is the Best Artist’
Artnet News
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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The Met’s Costume Institute Needs an Art History Lesson
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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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Overlooked Artist Louisa Chase Returns to the Spotlight
Artnet News
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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The Multibillion-Dollar Maneuvers Behind the Met’s Raphael Show
Artnet News
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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Amid Epstein Blowback, Bard President Leon Botstein Talks About Succession Plan But With No Timeline: Report
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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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Turkey Notches Another Successful Restitution After Denver Art Museum Returns 1500-Year-Old Marble Head
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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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Met Museum to Stage Giacometti Show in Temple of Dendur This Summer
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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 Met is Finally Treating Lee Krasner as Pollock’s Equal—Will the Market Follow?
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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...
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“Boycott the Bezos Met Gala” Posters Emerge Across NYC
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...
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A new Istanbul gallery is offering an outlet for Iran’s artists
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,...
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Salvador Dalí’s Sublime Faith
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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Internet Goes Wild for The Met’s Newly Acquired Mannerist Painting
Hyperallergic
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 Met’s blockbuster Raphael exhibition looks beyond the artist’s idealised Madonnas
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
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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Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari
ARTnews.com
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”...
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The Surprisingly Sexual Side of Medieval Christian Art
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 File Suit in French Court Regarding Met’s Ownership of Pissarro Painting
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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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How the Met Opera Turned Beloved Murals Into Financial Tools
Artnet News
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...