Voice of Space: UFOs and Paranormal Phenomena at the Drawing Center has ambitious goals. The wall text asks: “What role do UFOs and paranormal phenomena play in shaping our understanding of the universe, and how do they challenge or expand our beliefs about humanity’s...
Stealing art from a museum is usually a bone-headed thing to do; even the least scrupulous collectors know better than to buy goods that are so recognizably hot. Many museum heists are committed by career criminals who are far better at figuring out how to defeat...
A California antiquities dealer has surrendered to New York prosecutors a 2,000-year-old bronze statue of a Roman emperor believed to have been looted from an archaeological site in Turkey, as first reported in the New York Times. Aaron Mendelsohn, 74, a Santa Monica...
Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) announced that representative artist Li Yi-Fan and the TFAM team have invited Raphael Fonseca, the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum (DAM), to serve as the curator of Taiwan’s representative...
The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced that its director, Christina Vassallo, will leave the museum, effective January 2, 2026. She will join the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, a grant-making organization in Philadelphia, on January 5. “It...
A show of French painter Claire Tabouret’s designs for six new stained-glass windows for the Notre-Dame cathedral will open to the public tomorrow, reports the Art Newspaper. The Los Angeles–based artist’s full-scale, ink-on-paper maquettes for the windows will be...
A Stockholm court on Monday acquitted six activists who smeared red paint on the display cade protecting a Claude Monet painting, ruling that they had not intended to damage the work. The painting, The Artist’s Garden at Giverny (1900), was on loan from the Musée...
Napoleon Jones-Henderson, a member of the AfriCOBRA collective who made art for the age of Black Power, died in Boston on December 6 at 82. Wonderland, a Boston-based art publication, reported that Jones-Henderson had been battling cancer. Jones-Henderson was one of...
Pantone has been taken to task by some media outlets, and more critics on social media, for choosing “Cloud Dancer” — a version of white — for the 2026 Color of the Year. Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, was unavailable for an...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Claire Tabouret’s designs for the Notre-Dame de Paris stained-glass windows goes on public display tomorrow. A Swedish court said climate activists...