Hank Willis Thomas Joins Pace Gallery
Pace Gallery has taken on Hank Willis Thomas as his Martin Luther King, Jr. monument is unveiled in Boston.| ARTnews.com
Pace Gallery has taken on Hank Willis Thomas as his Martin Luther King, Jr. monument is unveiled in Boston.| ARTnews.com
A For Freedoms billboard featuring a MAGA slogan overlaid on an image of a Selma march has been removed in Montgomery amid an outcry.| ARTnews.com
It may also have misled the public about who is responsible for the fountain's overall disrepair.| ARTnews.com
Brandon Stanton’s Dear New York turns Grand Central into a vast public art installation celebrating the city’s people and stories.| ARTnews.com
The art market’s future audience doesn’t see a boundary between a Takashi Murakami print and a pair of limited-edition Nike Dunks; both are cultural signifiers with value that is at once emotional, social, and economic.| ARTnews.com
The return will reportedly follow a “church-to-church” model.| ARTnews.com
While dealers said a VVIP event failed to meeting expectations, the fair's real opening day did not.| ARTnews.com
Barbara Hepworth’s "The Family of Man (Figure 9, The Bride)" (1970) was the night’s highest-selling lot, going for £3.9 million ($5.2 million).| ARTnews.com
Jeffers long ago stopped worrying about the divide between fine art and children’s books. “I used to care,” he said. “Then I stopped.”| ARTnews.com
Some 100 investigators are still trying to identify those responsible for stealing eight of France's crown jewels.| ARTnews.com
Here's what we're reading this morning.| ARTnews.com
After bitter protests last year, Martinique's relations with France remain strained.| ARTnews.com
Proceeds from the £2,000-a-ticket fundraising event will go toward “securing vital funding for [our] international partnerships,” the museum said.| ARTnews.com
They were valued at $102 million by a Paris Prosecutor| ARTnews.com
The organization will use the grant to grow its photography-focused programming.| ARTnews.com
Together, the Rubin Art Prize and Research and Art Projects Grants provide $230,000 in support of artists and researchers in the Himalayan region.| ARTnews.com
Together, Anonymous Was A Woman and The New York Foundation for the Arts awarded $521,125 to 29 projects.| ARTnews.com
Since its founding in 2017 the AACHAF has raised over $140 million for the preservation of Black historic places.| ARTnews.com
The Andy Warhol and Helen Frankenthaler Foundations will grant $800,000 to arts organizations targeted by Trump budget slashes.| ARTnews.com
With support from Mellon Foundation, Open Restitution Africa aims to change conversations on restitution via microgrants and an open data platform.| ARTnews.com
Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026.| ARTnews.com
"Before the Americas" is an art historical survey tracing the work of Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists.| ARTnews.com
Phillips layered mundane images of consumer culture and mass entertainment into his vibrantly colored paintings, often with a playful twist.| ARTnews.com
Phillips layered mundane images of consumer culture and mass entertainment into his vibrantly colored paintings, often with a playful twist.| ARTnews.com
In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist was at the forefront of Moroccan post-colonial art| ARTnews.com
Milton Esterow, a former publisher of ARTnews who investigatory journalism altered the art world, has died at 97.| ARTnews.com
Tom Wesselmann's studio has found life after death, Frieze Masters's new director talks, and more global art news.| ARTnews.com
Dr. Shelly Lowe was nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate in February 2022.| ARTnews.com
LACMA's expansion, a 'living' Dred Scott history museum, and more received NEH grants.| ARTnews.com
The entire staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on leave, leaving its future hanging in the balance.| ARTnews.com
The court determined that the new policy, which would have been in effect while reviewing grant applicants, was a violation of the US Constitution.| ARTnews.com
The reporters ask the US State Department questions that remain unanswered in a film of found footage by Alex Reynolds and Robert M. Ochshorn.| ARTnews.com
Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas acquires an Agnes Northrop–designed Tiffany Studios window that had been in a San Antonio church since 1931.| ARTnews.com
Collector interest in sculptures by French artists François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne continues to grow at auction.| ARTnews.com
While Surrealism carried much of the sale, one of the night’s clearest signals of collector demand came from François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne.| ARTnews.com
The Japanese museum's consignment with Christie's includes works by Marc Chagall, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, Pierre-August Renoir, and Henri Matisse.| ARTnews.com
The life-size bronze, brass and leather sculpture sold for the second-highest amount for the French artist at auction.| ARTnews.com
Two modest fairs—Esther II and Conductor—stand out during New York Art Week by spotlighting intimacy, fabrication, and artists from the Global South.| ARTnews.com
A five-alarm fire gutted a 19th-century Red Hook warehouse, collapsing the roof and destroying dozens of artist studios and small businesses.| ARTnews.com
Conductor, a new fair centering the Global Majority, launches it's first full edition at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn in April 2026 with over 50 exhibitors.| ARTnews.com
Andy Friend's new book Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism, 1933–1943 tells the story of the Artists International Association (AIA).| ARTnews.com
The new book, out from MACK, includes photographs he shot at age 13.| ARTnews.com
Cryptocurrency platform founder Justin Sun is suing Bloomberg News to prevent it from publishing details of his financial assets.| ARTnews.com
In a letter sent to clients Thursday, Sotheby's announced that the auction house was ditching the overhauled fee structure announced in February.| ARTnews.com
The school's parent company, BrandEd, denies that its “Heightened Cash Monitoring Status” is indicative of greater financial issues.| ARTnews.com
Sotheby's attempt to overhaul its fee structure last year upset a lot of important people at the auction house.| ARTnews.com
However, research suggests socioeconomic factors and Brexit are also to blame.| ARTnews.com
The opening will coincide with a blockbuster exhibition of modern and contemporary art.| ARTnews.com
They want to inject more purpose, perspective, and patronage into collecting, which they say has become “too transactional.”| ARTnews.com
The Khatib's son, Prince Castro Ben Leon, argues that they are worth $323 million.| ARTnews.com
As high-end art sales continue to stagnate, auction houses are increasingly leaning on luxury categories to meet their revenue targets.| ARTnews.com
The strike ignited a large fire in the Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue in Odessa.| ARTnews.com
UNESCO has added 26 sites to its World Heritage List, including four new sites located on the African continent and the Murujuga Aboriginal lands.| ARTnews.com
Zelenskyy gifted Pope Leo an image of the Madonna and child painted on a panel of wood from an artillery crate.| ARTnews.com
The decision to leave UNESCO was announced by the State Department on Tuesday and will take effect at the end of 2026.| ARTnews.com
For Ukraine, For Their Freedom and Ours! has accused Russia of the “systematic, widespread, and organized” looting of Ukrainian cultural heritage.| ARTnews.com
Australian politicians are protesting UNESCO's concerns over ancient rock art in Murujuga near the proposed Woodside gas project.| ARTnews.com
A new report by a German research group has found that fossil fuels projects are occurring on UNESCO protected heritage sites.| ARTnews.com
The EU has also sanctioned the director of the “Tauric Chersonese” State Museum-Preserve.| ARTnews.com
Veteran art dealer Tim Blum is closing his LA and Tokyo galleries, citing a system that, for him, 'hasn’t worked in years.'| ARTnews.com
Here's what we're reading this morning July 30, 2025.| ARTnews.com
Veteran dealer Matt Bangser joins Art Intelligence Global as Senior Director, bringing decades of gallery and auction experience to the advisory firm.| ARTnews.com
How AI has transformed a charred papyrus scroll from Herculaneum into 'a literary book from the ancient world'—and what it could mean moving forward.| ARTnews.com
Archaeologists find a lavish 2nd-century BC Thracian warrior tomb in Bulgaria, complete with war horse and gold-adorned grave goods.| ARTnews.com
Sotheby’s modern sale brought in $186.4M as a Giacometti bust failed to sell and a Frank Lloyd Wright lamp broke auction records at $7.5M.| ARTnews.com
The gallerist's close relationships with artists included Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Antoni Tàpies, and Francis Bacon.| ARTnews.com
Sotheby's Modern Evening sale will include works by Alberto Giacometti, Franz Marc, and Paul Gaugin.| ARTnews.com
Sotheby’s will auction a hand-painted bronze Alberto Giacometti sculpture this May with an estimate exceeding $70 million.| ARTnews.com
A 1955 bronze bust by Alberto Giacometti failed to sell at Sotheby's modern evening sale on May 13.| ARTnews.com
Prices for works by Tiffany Studios, Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Francois-Xavier Lalanne and other artists continue to rise.| ARTnews.com
Art figures heavily into the project, with public funds paying for the memorial in London's St James’s Park.| ARTnews.com
A Douglas Coupland canoe sculpture in Toronto was destroyed in a possible arson attack.| ARTnews.com
President Trump's National Garden of American Heroes will feature 250 life-sized statues.| ARTnews.com
The Mellon Foundation will donate $15 million to US's 56 state and jurisdiction councils for the humanities after the NEH cut funding by $65 million.| ARTnews.com
Funding set aside by the Biden administration is still available, but there's only 12 months left to mount an exhibition.| ARTnews.com
The lawsuit was filed due to the termination of millions in committed grants from Congressional funds.| ARTnews.com
The Trump administration laid off about 100 employees at the NEH, with fewer than 60 staff members thought to be remaining.| ARTnews.com
The NEA began canceling grants not long after Trump proposed to eliminate the agency in his 2026 budget.| ARTnews.com
Black arts institutions are facing a difficult future after NEA funding was slashed by Donald Trump.| ARTnews.com
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' includes $40 million for the National Garden of Heroes, partially funded by canceled federal grants.| ARTnews.com
A statue of a Confederate general toppled and burned in Washington, D.C., in 2020 will be reinstalled.| ARTnews.com
Perlstein's collection included works by Max Ernst, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Dora Maar, Donald Judd, and Keith Haring.| ARTnews.com
