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  • Citing George Orwell, Federal Judge Orders Reinstatement of Slavery Display at George Washington’s Presidential House

    Comparing the Trump administration’s efforts to control historical documentation to George Orwell’s 1984, a federal judge ordered the return of displays that acknowledge George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people to a monument in Philadelphia. Last month, the National Park Service removed the signs from the President’s House Site, the presidential residence for Washington and John read more

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  • Macron Adviser Anne-Claire Legendre Tapped to Head Institut du Monde Arabe

    Anne-Claire Legendre, a senior diplomat and one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s closest advisers on North Africa and the Middle East, has been chosen to lead the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, according toLe Monde,marking a turning point for the institution after weeks of turmoil. Legendre, 46, was selected by the institute’s board on read more

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  • University of North Texas Faculty Calls on School to Disclose Reason for Cancelation of Victor Quiñonez Exhibition

    Members of the faculty of College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) at the University of North Texas (UNT) released an open letter on Friday objecting to the cancelation of a solo exhibition of artist Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. In the letter, which was addressed to the “Office of the President and University Leadership, University of read more

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  • Ocean Vuong Is a Legitimately Good Photographer

    Art Review One might assume that his photography is the nepo baby of his writing, but this is genuinely a great show. Ocean Vuong, “Nicky and Ocean in bed” (2025) (©Ocean Vuong; courtesy the Center for Photography at Woodstock; all other photos Julia Curl/Hyperallergic) KINGSTON, NY — Being really, really good at something is a read more

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  • British Museum Contests Report on Removal of ‘Palestinian’ from Some Wall Texts

    The British Museum contested a Telegraph report from this weekend, saying that it had not entirely stripped the word “Palestinian” from its wall texts in response to pressure from a pro-Israel group. The Telegraph report stated that UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) had written to British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan, claiming that using the word read more

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  • Giant Crocheted 'Dumb Phones' by Nicole Nikolich Tap into Millennial Nostalgia

    For all of the “progress” associated with advancing technologies and the purported conveniences of having tiny, powerful computers at our fingertips, there are certainly some drawbacks. Smartphones today—and their millions of apps—are data-collecting devices as much as they are portals to search engines, maps, social media, the news, and anything else on the internet. And read more

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  • Paul Slocum, One of Digital Art’s First Champions, on Building a Sustainable Digital Ecosystem

    This past week, Paul Slocum celebrated 20 years of And/Or gallery, a pioneering space for the exhibition of new media art. Founded in 2006 with a show featuring works by Tom Moody and Saskia Jorda, Slocum’s ad hoc gallery became a home for outsider artists exploring the cutting edge of art made with computers and read more

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  • Judge Orders Return of Slavery Exhibit at President’s House, Barbican Director Devyani Saltzman Departs: Morning Links for February 17, 2026

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines GEORGE ORWELL-IAN. On Monday, a judge ruled the Trump administration cannot alter historical facts and must temporarily rehang an exhibition about slavery at a monument toGeorge Washington and JohnAdams’home in Philadelphia, while a lawsuit proceeds, reports the New York Times. Last month, the read more

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  • Why Wall Labels Matter

    Daily Newsletter Plus, Sarah E. Bond on polychromy in ancient art, a Miami artist’s ode to queerness through water, and a sculptor’s shapeshifting art. Wall labels are not always the first thing that grabs my attention when I’m in a museum: there’s the art surrounding me, the commotion and conversation in the galleries. But I read more

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  • Museo Reina Sofía Calls for Investigation into Incident Involving Visitors with Israeli Flags

    The Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, one of Spain’s top art museums, said on Monday that it was seeking an investigation into a widely publicized incident involving visitors who came to the museum with Stars of David and Israeli flags. Video of the incident went viral after being published by Okdiario, a conservative Spanish publication. read more

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  • The Sticky Politics of Wall Texts

    In 2024, I made a vow to never base my art criticism on wall labels. My decision came after reading reactions to that year’s Whitney Biennial. “If every label in ‘Even Better Than the Real Thing,’ the 81st installment of the Whitney Biennial, were peeled off the walls and tossed into the Hudson, what would read more

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  • The Price of Everything: The Art of Alvarro Naddeo – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Their presence is implied. They’ve built gravity-defying structures from shopping carts, stacked newspapers, and plywood. They’ve hung laundry and left crushed beer cans scattered across surfaces, and yet the real subjects of Alvaro Naddeo’s paintings are never seen. In the unsteady piling of trash (rendered in meticulous detail) there is an implication of adaptability, of read more

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  • How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color

    In the autumn of 2022, Max and I walked up the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to visit Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color. As the young son of a professional classicist, and a burgeoning one himself, my museum partner already knew about the ancient history of painted statues read more

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  • John Altoon’s Fever Dream Drawings

    Art Review After a stint in 1950s New York, the LA-based artist abandoned abstraction and painting in favor of dreamlike, sexually charged drawings. John Yau February 16, 2026 — 3 min read John Altoon, “Untitled (ABS-52)” (1965), airbrush, pastel, and ink on board (all images courtesy Franklin Parrasch Gallery) I first saw John Altoon’s paintings read more

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  • Plunging Into Bex McCharen’s Trans Queer Atlantic

    MIAMI — The first time Bex McCharen tried to photograph their extended biological family in the mountains of Virginia, something felt off. The camera created a distance rather than a connection; the intimacy wasn’t there. But in Miami, waist-deep in the Atlantic Ocean with their queer and trans friends, the opposite happens: Images arrive with read more

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  • The Shapeshifting Sculpture of Diane Simpson

    CHICAGO — Seeing a sculpture by Diane Simpson is nothing like seeing a sculpture by any other artist. Chicagoans can currently experience this in person on the rooftop terrace of the Art Institute of Chicago, where her first three outdoor sculptures ever are on display, and at the gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey, which features two read more

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  • David Hockney to Unveil 32-Foot-Long Window Installation for Turner Contemporary in Margate

    This spring, David Hockney will unveil a major new work at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th-anniversary celebrations. The piece, a massive 22-by-32-foot installation, will transform the museum’s floor-to-ceiling window in the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s beaches and the North Sea. Running from April 1 to November 1, the window read more

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  • Wassily Kandinsky Painting Estimated at $21.3 M. to Headline Christie’s 20/21 Spring Evening Sale in London Alongside Henry Moore Work

    Wassily Kandinsky’s Le Rond Rouge (1939) will headline Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on March 5. The house put a £15.5 million high estimate, or about $21.3 million, on the Russian modernist heavyweight’s painting, which measures 35 inches by 45.7 inches. It was painted when Kandinsky lived in Paris with his wife Nina read more

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  • Sculptor Henrike Naumann Dies at 41, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota Fires Director: Morning Links for February 16, 2026

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines MAMBO SACKING. Italian curator Eugenio Violahas been fired from his position as artistic director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota (MAMBO), which he held since 2019,reports The Art Newspaper. In a statement, Viola said he was abruptly dismissed following his “decision read more

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  • Queer Arab Art in Manhattan

    Daily Newsletter A Texas university shutters a show critiquing ICE, a medievalist’s ode to a 15th-century Black angel, and “Ponyo” arrives in LA. Winking mother-of-pearl and exuberant paintings dot the walls of a show in Manhattan celebrating work by queer Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Egyptian artists — aptly titled after the Arabic preposition meaning “of read more

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    Queer Arab Art in Manhattan