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Police Arrest Network of Louvre Ticket Fraudsters, London’s National Gallery to Cut Jobs Amid Growing Deficit: Morning Links for February 13, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines ARTFUL DODGERS. The Louvrehas had a rough season since the brazen daylight theft of France’s crown jewels from its gilded halls last October. Now, French police have arrested nine people in connection with an extensive network of fraudsters who sold fake tickets via read more
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Four Major Works by Bacon, Freud, and Kossoff from Lewis Collection to Hit Auction Block at Sotheby’s London in March
Sotheby’s will offer four major works from the Lewis Collection next month, spearheaded by a 1972 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, in what the auction house described as a markedly stronger market than a year ago. The group, which includes two portraits by Lucian Freud and a rare swimming pool scene by Leon Kossoff, will be read more
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The Commissioner We Need
Daily Newsletter Who should lead arts and culture in NYC, Valentine’s Day tips, and the sad state of Artforum. It’s impossible to imagine New York City without art, or contemporary art without New York City. This is where you come to see the best of the best, or to take part in making it. This read more
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At 88, peter campus Swaps Youthful Ego for Late-Style Modesty
A death stare greets me as I enter peter campus’s exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. A man looks right at me, dead on—or at the camera, really. His harsh eyebrows, thick yet articulated, add to the intensity. I check the video’s title and learn that it’s a death stare of a different read more
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NYC Deserves a Culture Commissioner Who Cares
Opinion The city is in a deep affordability crisis that is reshaping who can live and work here, and which institutions can survive. Culture in Crisis rally at City Hall, March 2024. Organized by NY4CA and the New York City Council to push back against Mayor Adams’s proposed budget cuts to the culture and arts read more
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Your Guide to a Sexy, Artsy, Non-Boring Valentine’s Day in NYC
Although our sugary contemporary Valentine’s Day traditions are a far cry from its brutal origins in Ancient Roman sacrifice and martyrdom, it’s not uncommon for February 14 to inspire a little pain. It’s an occasion to reflect on romantic love, and with that comes the pressure to externalize such musings, from planning the perfect date read more
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Art Basel Hong Kong Reveals Program Details for 2026 Fair, from an Ayoung Kim Film to an Elemental Curatorial Vision
Art Basel returns to Hong Kong this March with 240 galleries and an expanded program, including a reimagined Encounters section and the Asia debut of the digital-focused Zero 10. Following its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach in December, Zero 10’s first Hong Kong outing will feature 14 exhibitors with a program that includes digital read more
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Trump Administration Removes Pride Flag from Stonewall Monument, Elected Officials Reinstated It on Their Own
Earlier this week, news broke that the Trump administration had quietly removed the Pride flag that once waved over the Stonewall National Monument in New York’s West Village. Several New York City and State elected officials condemned the flag’s removal, and many gathered to reinstate it on Thursday afternoon. Gay City News first reported on read more
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Szilveszter Makó's Surreal Photographs Reconstruct the Boundaries of Portraiture
Szilveszter Makó’s enigmatic photographs carry layers of mystery and introspection. Standing inside curious block-like backdrops and lain against two-dimensional fields of color and texture, his subjects seamlessly meld into stories in which every detail carries intention. Taking inspiration from art history, the Milan-based artist references Surrealism and grotesque art through his use of chiaroscuro effects read more
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Sotheby’s Will Sell Works by El Anatsui, Sean Scully, and Others to Benefit Royal Academy of Art
Next month, during the spring sales in London, Sotheby’s will auction off ten works to raise money for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which has been in a financial crisis since the pandemic. The works have all been donated by living or honorary Royal Academicians, in the hopes of raising enough funds to read more
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Bonhams Unveils 57th Street Flagship With Cuban Art, Brancusi, and Boxing Legends
Bonhams has a new front door in New York, and it is not subtle. This week, the 232-year-old auction house opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street, inside the restored Steinway Hall and beneath the pencil-thin tower that now looms over Billionaires’ Row. The move shifts Bonhams from its longtime Madison Avenue read more
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12,000-Year-Old Clothing Made of Animal Hide Discovered in Ice Age Caves in Oregon
A team of 13 archaeologists and scientists from universities in Oregon and Nevada have successfully dated a cache of animal hide clothing to the Late Pleistocene era, making it the oldest known sewn clothing in the world. The stitched-together hides were originally excavated, along with other materials (braided cords, knotted bark, and other fiber objects), read more
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New York’s High Line Art Announces 2026 Commissions, with Works by Katherine Bernhardt, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Derek Fordjour
High Line Art, the Cecilia Alemani–curated enterprise the programs and commissions public artworks for the reimagined elevated-train-track park in New York, announced its next season, to start in the spring and continue (in most cases) for around a year. In March, the High Line Billboard—a working billboard rising from the ground on 18th Street—will be read more
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A Belgian Museum Holds Colonial-Era Records About the Congo—A Minerals Company Wants Access
A museum devoted to Belgium’s colonial history in Africa has found itself involved in a dispute over access to documents pertaining to rich mineral deposits in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly colonized by the European country. The Congolese government and KoBold Metals, a mining and artificial intelligence company backed by billionaires read more
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Henry Moore Sculpture Worth £15 M. to Headline Christie’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London this Spring
A sculpture by English artist Henry Moore that’s fresh to the auction block is headlining Christie’s 20th/21st Century evening sale in London on March 5. Titled King and Queen (1952-53), the 64-inch-tall bronze has a £15 million ($20.5 million) high estimate. Katherine Arnold, Christie’s vice chairman of 20th/21st century art and head of post-war and read more
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Joe Frazier Statue Will Officially Replace Beloved Rocky at Bottom of Philadelphia Museum Steps
With a beloved statue of Rocky Balboa being moved from the bottom of the Philadelphia Museum of Art‘s steps to its top, the Philadelphia Art Commission has officially selected a replacement artwork: a monument to Joe Frazier, an actual Philadelphian boxer (unlike Rocky, who is fictional). The Frazier statue is currently exhibited outside the Sports read more
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Gagosian Plans Lichtenstein ‘Brushstroke’ Show, Following Last Year’s $150 M. Auction Run and Ahead of Whitney Retrospective
This spring, Gagosian will open its 14th exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein. Titled “Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes,” the exhibition draws exclusively from the Lichtenstein family collection and will feature paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and works on paper from the 1970s and ’80s. Opening March 19 at the gallery’s 541 West 24th Street space, the show lands read more
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Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2026 Artists in Residence, First Cohort in New Building
The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced the participants for its 2026 Artist-in-Residence program. They are Derriann Pharr,Simonette Quamina, andTaylor Simmons. The cohort will be the first to be in residence in the museum’s new building, which opened last fall. For the building’s inauguration, the Studio Museum mounted an exhibition titled “From the Studio: Fifty-Eight read more
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Ethereal Kites by Hai-Wen Lin Transform into Elegant Garments and Sculptures
In works that merge sculpture, fashion, and kite-making, Hai-Wen Lin traverses the thresholds that connect one’s physical self, the mind, and the elements. The artist describes their practice as “an act of reorienting: looking back, looking forward, looking in, looking up.” Using a wide range of materials, Lin creates vibrant, abstract compositions in textile often read more
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Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey Museum Is Officially Canceled After Jersey City Mayor Pulls Support
A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday. On Thursday, a Centre Pompidou spokesperson confirmed that the museum was no longer pursuing the project. The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the read more
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