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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2160632201.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Financial Times has argued that billionaire wealth, not artistic value, is driving modern art’s astronomical prices. Ex-Pussy Riot member Rita Flores said Russia’s FSB tried to recruit her as an informant in 2023. A Kehinde Wiley painting has been removed from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-917389214.jpg?w=1024″] The US Embassy in the Dominican Republic is changing its artwork to reflect “American patriotism and the beauty of our great country,” US ambassador Leah Campos wrote in an Instagram post on August 11, that showed Kehinde Wiley’s Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2013) being swapped for an image of the American…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2189381596.jpg?w=1024″] Estonian artists are banding together and donating 124 artworks for a charity auction to raise emergency funds following a bank scam that defrauded the Estonian Artists’ Association (EKL) of nearly €700,000 (about $816,400), reports local media outlet ERR News. Artworks from the association’s own collection, which include pieces by established Estonian artists,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Egypt-repatriation-.jpg?w=1024″] The FBI repatriated some 48 illegally trafficked cultural artifacts to the Egyptian government at a ceremony last Friday in Los Angeles. Among the artifacts were carved figures, amulets, and tomb equipment; they date variously to the Pharaonic, Roman, and Coptic periods, thus spanning from 3,100 BCE to the 9th century CE. “These…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-163768774.jpg?w=1013″] A stolen Pablo Picasso etching has been returned to a Milwaukee art dealer eight years after its theft, the Associated Press reported. The artwork is one of 30 known Torero prints by Pablo Picasso dated to 1949, and belonged to Bill DeLind of DeLind Fine Art Appraisals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/wieselthier_Madchenkopf_300dpi-Press-Image-3000px-W-300dpi-jpg-e1787432235152.jpg?w=1024″] I’ll say that I did not expect the exhibition “Modernity and Opulence: Wiener Werkstätte Women,” at the Jewish Museum in New York, to open with work by two men. Nor did I anticipate the wall label lauding one Nazi, listed among the founding members described as “progressive thinkers.” But I’d been eagerly…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2241971037.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” soccer ball has sold for £2.5 million ($3.4 million) at auction. After scammers stole nearly €700,000 ($816,600) from Estonia’s Artists’ Association, artists donated 124 works to an emergency auction. Canada’s Indigenous Art Center says…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2281647751.jpg?w=1024″] The Kherson Regional Art Museum in Ukraine is the latest casualty in Russia‘s ongoing war with the country. A Russian strike last Thursday set off a fire at the institution, Reuters reports. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said that there were no casualties, but the museum’s building and artwork took a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289382461.jpg?w=1024″] President Donald Trump’s ambitions of building a luxury ballroom with an underground military complex beneath it is going forward. On Friday, the US Supreme Court gave the green light for construction of the White House ballroom to continue. The stay was issued by Chief Justice John Roberts and will remain until further…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/iac_gallery_1718805074285_eng.jpg?w=878″] A total of 111 Indigenous artworks are still missing from the Indigenous Art Centre’s (IAC) collection in Canada, almost two years after an internal audit revealed 132 unaccounted artworks, the Canadian Press reports. In November 2024, IAC conducted an internal audit of its collection that tracked its operations from April 2019 to August…