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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1486085701.webp?w=768″] Once thought to have originated in Wales, like the rest of the 4,500-year-old monument’s bluestones, Stonehenge’s altar stone has recently been traced through geological fingerprinting to Scotland. The question of how the megalith made the 435-mile journey from there to Salsbury Plain in England is now the focus of a study by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ARTnews-The-Floating-Art-Hotel-Monaco-Edition-20263.png?w=1024″] If, unfortunate reader, you’re licking your wounds after being outbid on the $181.2 million Jackson Pollock at the New York auctions last month, take heart: you, too, can still buy access to art that will be seen only by the world’s precious few wealthiest. That’s because now there is a hyper-exclusive, “museum-grade”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Duchamp_002_PRESS_2000px.jpg?w=1024″] The first rooms of MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp retrospective almost dare the visitor to find in his early paintings some hint of the artist’s future travesty of those mediums. The picture with which the show opens—a placid scene of the artist’s two older brothers, Gaston (Jacques Villon) and Raymond, engrossed in a game…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1015487486.jpg?w=1024″] The Trump administration has diverted at least $90 million in entry fees collected at national parks, including Yellowstone and Yosemite, to projects in Washington, D.C., according to National Park Service documents reviewed by the Washington Post. The funds have reportedly been earmarked for a range of projects tied to the 250th anniversary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HAYDEN_TUTTON-new-school-picket-line.jpg?w=1024″] Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to around 15 percent of its employees. The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, affect…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/download.jpg?w=746″] The 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry will head to the UK in July to go on display at the British Museum. A new report, presented by the French Culture Ministry on Wednesday, expresses confidence that the fragile piece will not be threatened by the move, reports Le Monde. Dating to the 11th century, the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-948921290.jpg?w=1024″] Later this month, Pope Leo XIV will visit Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia to inaugurate and bless the Tower of Jesus Christ, the final tower of the long-gestating church. The tower was completed in February, wrapping up 144 years of construction on the notoriously complex and intricate design. The famed church was designed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/156539896-e1780597355969.jpg?w=1024″] Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director whose landmark animated feature Persepolis earned a Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nomination and made her one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema, has died. She was 56. “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Philippe-Vergne-Credit-Joaquim-Norte-de-Sousa.jpg?w=1024″] Longtime museum director and curator Philippe Vergne is assuming a newly created position at Miami’s Bass Museum of Art, joining the institution on October 1 as artistic director and chief curator. Since 2019 he has led Portugal’s Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, in Porto. “Philippe Vergne brings a remarkable depth of curatorial…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1235597145.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Pace Gallery is dropping some 50 artists from its roster and cutting about 50 staff. Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel Persepolis, has died at 56. A new study says the Bayeux Tapestry can safely travel to London’s British Museum from Normandy. The Headlines SLOWING THE…