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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-645744537.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of Kinetic Art and winner of the Venice Biennale Grand Prize, has died at 97 in Paris. Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, i.e. the duct-taped banana, was stolen from the Centre-Pompidou Metz. The British Museum says its decision to postpone…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/alb1558429-copy-1.jpg?w=1024″] MARILYN MONROE DEAD; PILLS NEAR read the front-page headline of the August 6, 1962, New York Times. Star’s Body Is Found in Bedroom of Her Home on Coast, the subheading continued. As an artist then sponging up ideas everywhere, from newspapers to the supermarket aisle, Pop artist Andy Warhol would have seen…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Adebisi-Fabunmi-Eko-Harbor-undated-linocut-15-x-18-in_Image-courtesy-of-ko-Lagos-copy.jpg?w=1024″] In Osogbo, a city in southwestern Nigeria, an unexpected art movement arose in the 1960s. Born out of experimental art workshops at a local theater complex, it gave young creatives room to start and explore their own art practices free from the burdens of everyday life. While European cultural figures helped facilitate…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2210330256.jpg?w=1024″] The British Museum was briefly evacuated Saturday after staff discovered what was described as a “suspicious device” inside a restroom, prompting a police response at one of the world’s most visited museums. The Metropolitan Police were called to the museum’s Bloomsbury headquarters around 2:50 p.m. local time after reports of a suspicious…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IC_Ver1.jpg?w=1024″] When Christopher Knight retired as theart critic at the Los Angeles Times at the end of 2025, he was the last of, arguably, the three most influential US critics of the postmodern (i.e., post-1975) era to depart their roles. Roberta Smith retired as co-chief critic at TheNew York Times in 2024, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-627025450.jpg?w=1024″] Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born artist whose shimmering mobiles, vibrating light installations, and participatory environments helped redefine the relationship between art and its audience, died on May 30 in Paris. He was 97. His son, Yamil Le Parc, confirmed the death to the Argentine newspaper La Nación. The artist had been hospitalized in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2271050885.jpg?w=1024″] A group of House Democrats will ntroduce legislation aimed at stopping President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, opening a new front in the growing battle over the administration’s efforts to reshape some of the nation’s most visible public monuments. Representatives Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Dina Titus (D-Nev.) announced this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/499664354.jpg?w=1024″] Anthony Haden-Guest says nearly 100 of his cartoons have spent the past 15 years hanging in a Hamptons mansion owned by socialite and collector Libbie Mugrabi. Now he wants them back. In a lawsuit filed this week in New York State Supreme Court, first reported by the New York Post, the veteran critic, cartoonist,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/leonoracarrington.jpeg?w=1024″] On July 1, London museumgoers will get a first look at a painting by Leonora Carrington not seen in over 80 years. The 1940 painting, titled Villa Pillar, will appear in “The Symptomatic Surreal” an exhibition at the Freud Museum tracing Carrington’s development from 1938 to 1941 through her sketchbook drawings and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-1231183033.jpg?w=1024″] The iconic aboveground space at the Lincoln Memorial is accompanied by lesser-known environs beneath—in the form of an “undercroft” being transformed into a 15,000-square-foot exhibition space scheduled to open next month with a show related to the memorial’s creation and the legacy of Abraham Lincoln himself. As reported by Artnet News, “A…