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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-2170792148.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CHINA’S RED PEN. The Victoria and Albert Museum censored maps and images in its catalogues following objections from its Chinese printer and state authorities over content deemed sensitive to Beijing, the Guardian reports. The museum agreed to remove material from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2218663020.jpg?w=1024″] Sotheby’s has been sued for allegedly failing to pay a $10.2 million commission tied to the $510 million sale of its former New York headquarters, according to a report by Artnet News.  The lawsuit, filed April 9 in New York State Supreme Court by the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield, centers on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2236162060-e1776205314637.jpg?w=1024″] Brady Lum, the former chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to a federal theft charge stemming from allegations that he misappropriated museum funds. In February, news broke that Lum, 59, had resigned from his position in December after an internal investigation at the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/LaHavanaMadrid_2019_8622_by-Joel-Maisonet.jpg?w=1024″] The Chicago-based Joyce Foundation will relaunch its Joyce Awards, which have supported artists working in the Great Lakes region since 2004. The foundation will do so under a new funding model, having taken a year-long pause following its 2024 awards cycle. The awards will pivot from a project-based grant of $100,000 to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DiceFig1revised.jpg?w=1024″] Native Americans were using dice for gaming long before Bronze Age societies in the Old World, according to a new Colorado State University study. Research published in the journal American Antiquity by Robert J. Madden, a PhD student at CSU, presents evidence that dice were made by hunter-gatherers on the western Great…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/fd9f8b65-89bc-4f10-b740-015687c6e1b0.png?w=1024″] The Pavilion of the Holy See at this year’s Venice Biennale will focusing on listening by way of commissioned sound works by artists and musicians including Brian Eno, FKA Twigs, Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith, Devonté Hynes, Laraaji, Kali Malone, Caterina Barbieri, and Terry Riley. The work in the pavilion will take the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/6.-GOODW.Y.N.-Ghost-of-Myself-and-You_-Mothers-of-the-Disappeared-2022.-Photo-by-Bjorn-Bolinder.-Courtesy-of-the-artist.jpg?w=1024″] “I don’t think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever,” artist and Chloë Bass told ARTnews in a recent interview about Social Practice CUNY, the initiative she has co-directed for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1196865363.jpg?w=1024″] Hampshire College, a liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, will close after 51 years in operation, becoming the latest school of its kind to shutter amid financial difficulties. Though small in scale, the college has had an outsize effect on the art world, with its art department graduating a number of painters,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Somalia.jpg?w=1024″] Each Venice Biennale brings with it the debut pavilions of nations who’ve never before shown at the world’s biggest art exhibition, and these are typically causes for celebration. But in the run-up to the show’s opening in May, the inaugural Somali Pavilion has instead become a source of controversy, with artists from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AASoG_Install10.jpeg?w=1024″] The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced this week the 223 scholars and artists who received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most coveted honors in the arts. This is the foundation’s 101st class of fellows. The class spans 55 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, with fellows chosen from a pool of nearly…