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To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Headlines<\/strong><\/p>\n SORRY, NOT SORRY.<\/strong> Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT)<\/strong> leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor \u201cMarka27\u201d Qui\u00f1onez. Adam Schrader reports for Urgent Matter<\/em> that the communications, obtained through a public records request, show school president Harrison Keller and provost Michael McPherson initially believed they could manage \u201cany barking from Austin\u201d over the show\u2019s cancellation and at first considered removing only a selection of works. Instead, they ultimately opted to pull the exhibition entirely from the university\u2019s College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD)<\/strong>, a move that sparked student protests and accusations of censorship. ARTnews<\/em> previously reported on leaked transcripts from a faculty meeting suggesting the decision was an \u201cinstitutional directive,\u201d driven by concerns the university could become a target for elected officials. In one particularly cold calculation, CVAD dean Karen Hutzel advised gallery director Stefanie Dlugosz-Action on how to break the news to the artist, recommending a \u201cpersonalized greeting that does not express regret or an apology.\u201d<\/p>\n BILLIONS IN MODEST SALES.<\/strong> The annual Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report<\/strong> is out, and the market appears to be clawing its way back, with signs of modest growth, reports ARTnews\u2019<\/em>Daniel Cassady<\/strong>. Global sales in 2025 reached a not-so-modest $59.6 billion, according to figures compiled by economist Clare McAndrew<\/strong> of Art Economics<\/strong>. That marks a 4 percent increase from the previous year, though the market still hasn\u2019t recovered to its 2022 peak. Auctions staged a strong rebound, while galleries continued to lag. Much of the growth was driven by a small number of trophy sales by historically established artists, particularly in New York. The news was less encouraging for living artists: the Postwar and Contemporary category fell 2 percent, while Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art jumped 47 percent and Old Masters rose 30 percent.<\/p>\n The Digest<\/strong><\/p>\n A lost page of the medieval manuscript including the writings of Greek mathematician Archimedes<\/strong> has been discovered in France\u2019s Museum of Fine Arts in Blois<\/strong>. \u00a0[Scientific American]<\/p>\n \n\tMPs and scholars say it is unethical and sacrilegious for UK Museums to hold human remains in their collections. [ARTnews]<\/p>\n \n\tArtist Lauren Halsey <\/strong>hasopened a monumental sculpture park in South-Central LA, titled \u201csister dreamer lauren halsey\u2019s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles,\u201d on the corner of Western Ave. and 76th<\/sup> Street. [The Los Angeles Times]<\/p>\n \n\tVancouver real-estate developer and philanthropist Bob Rennie<\/strong> and his family have donated 24 works by four artists to the National Gallery of Canada (NGC)<\/strong>. They include Kerry James Marshall, Christopher Williams, Brian Jungen<\/strong>, and Jin-me Yoon<\/strong>. [press release]<\/p>\n \n\tThe Gem\u00e4ldegalerie Alte Meister<\/strong> in Dresden has won this year\u2019s Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund (TMRF)<\/strong>, for its work restoring The Boar Hunt<\/em> (1616-18) by Peter Paul Rubens<\/strong>. [The Art Newspaper]<\/p>\n The Kicker<\/strong><\/p>\n NEXT OF COIN. <\/strong>Who inherits an artist\u2019s estate when there\u2019s no will, an estranged family, or the institutions and advocates who helped shepherd the work into art history? The New York Times tells the story of American photographer Mike Disfarmer<\/strong>, who renounced his family during his lifetime (1884-1959). Decades later, beginning in the 1970s, his stark portraits drew critical acclaim, and with it, significant market value. That\u2019s when distant relatives stepped in, suing the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts<\/strong> to reclaim much of his life\u2019s work. The museum argued it had spent \u201chundreds of thousands of dollars\u201d restoring and preserving the fragile negatives, many of which were already deteriorating. In the end, the courts sided with Disfarmer\u2019s cousins, awarding them rights to the archive, copyright, and the artist\u2019s legacy. How they will care for it\u2014and what Disfarmer himself might have thought\u2014remains an open question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/private-messages-reveal-lead-up-to-canceled-anti-ice-show-at-north-texas-uni-art-market-edges-back-to-growth-morning-links-for-march-12-2026-1234777199\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ABMB-2025-aerial.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. The Headlines SORRY, NOT SORRY. Newly revealed text messages and emails shed more light on what happened before University of North Texas (UNT) leaders decided to cancel an anti-ICE exhibition by Victor \u201cMarka27\u201d Qui\u00f1onez. 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