To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TROUBLE IN PARIS. On Sunday, a Miriam Cahn painting that has been the subject of right-wing vitriol was vandalized in her current show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Alex Greenberger reports in ARTnews. The alleged vandal sprayed purple paint onto the piece, which depictsContinue Reading
Hauser & Wirth’s Los Angeles location has named The House of AWT Project (Artists Working Together) as its 2023 Charitable Partner of the Year. As part of the initiative, Hauser & Wirth will give The House of AWT Project a $10,000 grant that will aid in the organization’s goal ofContinue Reading
An ancient idol of Lord Shiva, one of the Hindu religion’s most recognized deities, was found to have been replaced by a replica in the Korukkai Veerateeswarar temple in the Mayiladuthurai district of Tamil Nadu, India. The replica idol was discovered after “elaborate” investigations by the Idol Wing of the Tamil Nadu PoliceContinue Reading
An Italian art researcher says “he had no doubt” about which bridge had been painted into the background of the Mona Lisa, the iconic Leonardo da Vinci painting hanging behind glass in the Louvre museum in Paris. The researcher Silvano Vincenti said the bridge was the Romito di Laterina, anContinue Reading
Local and national news outlets have been charmed by Sherman Bynum, the Camas high school junior who arrived in a World War II light armored vehicle—in other words, a tank—to his junior prom which was hosted by the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. Procuring a tank isn’t as easy as renting a limo. However, accordingContinue Reading
Jeffrey Epstein’s art-world connections have been well-documented ever since he was convicted on sex trafficking charges in 2019, the same year he died by suicide while in jail. But intrigue surrounding his social network has only deepened since then, and a Wall Street Journal investigation published Wednesday revealed that heContinue Reading
Drake Carr, whose painting Antisocial Headwear (2019–2021) features on the cover of the Summer 2023 issue of Art in America, learned how to draw from superhero comics and has trained his eye as a chronicler of queer assembly of different kinds. Taking inspiration from Happyfun Hideaway, a self-identified “queer tikiContinue Reading
Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana sculpture is making headlines once again, this time in South Korea, where much of the piece was devoured by a student who said he was staging a performance of his own. Comedian (2019) had been on view at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, whichContinue Reading
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has pushed the boundaries of Native American art since the 1970s with her expansive practice, activism, and advocacy. Her just-opened show “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map” at the Whitney Museum of American Art is the first retrospective for an Indigenous artist that the institution has ever organized.Continue Reading
Karin Hindsbo, the director of Oslo’s National Museum, will be the next director of Tate Modern, making her the second woman in a row—and the second one ever—to lead the London institution. Hindsbo succeeds Frances Morris, who became the first woman to lead Tate Modern in 2016. Morris’s term atContinue Reading
