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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1438115177.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Headlines WE THE LUCKY FEW? Billionaire Ken Griffin is officially the owner of the only two known surviving copies of the US Constitution in private hands, reports the New York Times . On Monday, Griffin announced that he had acquired an original print of the document via…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2184358.jpg?w=1024″]  A former BBC reporter is claiming that the U.K. broadcaster “buried” footage that he captured of Banksy at one of his mural sites in New York City. Nick Bryant, who previously served as the BBC’s New York correspondent, detailed his encounter with the anonymous British street artist and political activist in a recent post on his Substack.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274035240.jpg?w=1024″] Amy Sherald brought one of her most beloved paintings to life for tonight’s Met Gala, which was held to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. With the help of designer Thom Browne, Sherald dressed up as the little girl in her 2014 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), the work that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274519231.jpg?w=1024″] The annual Met Gala has become such a global pop-culture phenomenon that many probably forget—or maybe never knew!—that the event functions as a lucrative fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the branch of the museum dedicated to all things fashion. Last year’s event raised $31 million, and this year’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/1920x1070_cmsv2_fe97b511-e560-5c3b-8e5a-a62571c6f809-9737171.webp?w=1024″] In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of ash and hot gas sweeping through the Roman town of Pompei. The writer Pliny the Younger—whose uncle, Pliny the Elder, died in the eruption—watched the catastrophe unfold from a vantage point across the Bay of Naples, later describing how inhabitants had tied…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/16.-DisabledBody.jpg?w=1024″] Anyone who’s ever taken an art history course knows the drill: put two artworks side by side, and figure out where they intersect and diverge. The exercise involves IDing those objects, stating who made them and why, and accounting for formal innovations across time and cultural differences. Essentially, the discipline is predicated…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-04-at-2.19.58-PM.png?w=1024″] Using artificial intelligence, researchers may have identified the previously unknown subject of a sketch by Northern Renaissance artist Hans Holbein, and reidentified the sitter for a related Holbein drawing. The study, carried out by Karen L. Davies and Hassan Ugail, was published in the journal npj Heritage Science. Holbein was born in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2273935873.jpg?w=1024″] A gold-leafed statue of Donald Trump is now standing at his Trump National Doral golf club in Miami after a drawn-out payment dispute. The 15-foot bronze sculpture, which rises to about 22 feet with its pedestal, was finished with gold leaf after the artist, Ohio-based sculptor Alan Cottrill, proposed the upgrade. “It…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/christo.jpg?w=1024″] Gagosian gallery in London will present an artwork conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968 but never realized before the artists’ deaths—Jeanne-Claude in 2009 and Christo in 2020. The exhibition “Christo: Air,” opening May 21 and running through August 21, will feature rare works by Christo as well as Air Package on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2149131354.jpg?w=1024″] Iran has dropped out of the Venice Biennale, the world’s most important recurring art exhibition, as the United States and Israel’s war continues on. “Regarding the National Participations at the 61st International Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh (9 May – 22 November 2026), La Biennale has been informed that the Islamic…