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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GettyImages-2297905501.jpg?w=1024″] Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum removed an ancient Egyptian mummified head from view because there was no “informed consent from the deceased individual,” the museum said. The move has upset some conservative politicians in Scotland, with one alleging that it is a sign of “woke madness.” According to the Times of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_1560.jpg?w=1024″] Scott Mescudi, the rapper known as Kid Cudi, announced on Instagram that he is working on a biopic about the oft-mythologized New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film, titled JEAN, will be written and directed by Cudi, who will also star as the titular artist. Cudi shared an image of the first…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Helena-Newman-Sothebys-Chairman-Sothebys-Chairman-Europe-and-Chairman-Impressionist-and-Modern-Art-Worldwide-fields-bids-in-Sothebys-Magnum-Opus-Evening-Auction.jpg?w=1024″] An ancient fragment of a statue of a Roman emperor sold last night at Sotheby’s for $34.3 million, a sum that the house has deemed an auction record for a Roman antiquity. The three-and-a-half-foot-tall marble fragment depicts only the emperor’s torso, adorned in an elegant bronze cuirass. According to Sotheby’s, it once…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABP26__General_impressions__Avant_Premier_HiRes-2.jpg?w=1024″] Ahead of planned protests, Art Basel Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and other museums and art events in the French capital are planning to close for part or all of Saturday. In the case of Art Basel, the fair is also shuttering on Sunday, meaning that the event will end midway through…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_5833.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Ahead of planned protests in Paris and calls to demonstrate at the Grand Palais, where Art Basel is held, the fair would not confirm at this stage whether it will have to shutter…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ULAE_KikiSmith_2000_PoolOfTearsII.jpg?w=1024″] Thanks to the generosity of a sibling, the New York Public Library (NYPL) is now the owner of some 250 prints by Kiki Smith. They come as the gift of her sister, fellow artist Seton Smith, who has pledged to give all future prints she receives by Kiki to the institution. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/IMG_5833.jpg?w=1024″] Across some 200 booths at Art Basel Paris this year, there is a lot to take in. As the Swiss company’s French fair matures, galleries have begun to bring more and more top-tier, high-priced works, which in turn has made it less a place to discover something new than a place for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Print_approx_21_x_14_cm_ABP26__Public_Program__Public_Interaction_HiRes.jpg?w=1024″] A monumental sculpture by artist Alicja Kwade will be removed early from public display in Paris, where it was installed part of the public program of the Art Basel Paris fair. The piece is situated on the Avenue Winston Churchill, on the doorstep of the Grand Palais, where the fair is taking…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2217311632.jpg?w=1024″] Unionized staff across all four branches of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London announced their intention to strike on October 29 and 30, citing stalled negotiations and allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions at the newly opened V&A East Storehouse. The announcement follows two planned strikes in September at three V&A museums…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/7.png?w=1024″] Among Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s favorite activities since he took office is pooh-poohing climate change initiatives while, almost surreptitiously, working to conserve swathes of the state he represents. Now, a group of environmental activists has found a way to make him sweat. A life-size statue of the Republican governor was unveiled in…