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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2181399793.jpg?w=1024″] Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has appealed to UNESCO to provide additional protection for the nation’s cultural heritage as the U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict spills into its southern borders. According to a ministry statement on Wednesday, Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé spoke by phone with Khaled El-Enany, director-general of UNESCO, urging the United Nations agency to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-06-at-18.13.36.png?w=1024″] This week has shown that there’s still a lot of money sloshing around London’s art market; Christie’s three-pronged 21st/20th century evening sale on Thursday took £197.5 million ($265 million), one day after Sotheby’s modern and contemporary auction brought £131 million ($175 million). The result marked a 52 percent increase on the house’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2264210124.jpg?w=1024″] Two buildings that are part a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the White City of Tel Aviv were damaged this week during the ongoing missile strikes between Iran and the US and Israel. The Times of Israel first reported on the damage of one of these buildings. The White City is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bona-III-ISGM-Boston-2019-1.jpg?w=1024″] Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 (approximately $218,000). As part of the award, Muholi will receive a solo exhibition at the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-1137874350.jpg?w=1024″] A senior archaeologist at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has been arrested in Poland at the request of Ukrainian authorities, according to The Art Newspaper, who are seeking his extradition over alleged illegal excavations carried out in Crimea. Alexander Butyagin, who heads the Hermitage’s department focused on ancient archaeology of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2264166810.jpg?w=1024″] A marble bust in a Roman basilica was attributed to Michelangelo nearly 200 years after it was last associated with the Renaissance master. The sculpture of Jesus Christ in the Basilica of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura had been attributed to Michelangelo until the early 19th century, after which its origins were thought…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1502014084.jpg?w=1024″] In a complaint filed February 20 in San Francisco Superior Court, a security guard at the De Young Museum in San Francisco alleges sexual harassment and retaliation.  The complaint names the city and county of San Francisco, the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (which operates the De Young and the Legion…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2264385014.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HERITAGE STRIKES. Amid the escalating Middle East war, UNESCO World Heritage buildings in Tel Aviv’s White City district have been damaged by Iranian missile strikes, which killed one woman and injured many, reports the Art Newspaper. The buildings were built between…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2264298291.jpg?w=1024″] Jony Ive is arguably the world’s most well-known product designer, famed for all the iMacs, iPods, iPhones, and Apple Watches he conceived during his nearly three-decade tenure with Apple Inc. Now, he can claim one major contribution to the art world as well. Christie’s tapped LoveFrom, the design collective Ive founded with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/uk-protest.jpg?w=1024″] Just days after the US Supreme Court said it would not reconsider whether art generated by artificial intelligence can receive copyright protection, the UK has looked set to make its own major decision on AI and copyright. For the past two months, the UK government has been consulting on a legal overhaul…