News on The Arts

April 19th - April 25th, 2025

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Saturday/Sunday - April 19th - 20th

• Guy Ullens, Belgian Billionaire Who Built a First-Class Collection of Chinese Art, Dies at 90

• In pictures: World Press Photo 2025 winners

• SHOW OPENING: “Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors” at Denver Art Museum April 20, 2025–August 17, 2025

Monday - April 21st

• National Gallery of Art Director Meets with Elon Musk’s DOGE

• In His US Retrospective, Ai Weiwei Takes Old Ideas to New Extremes

• Singer-Songwriter Lucy Dacus Talks Art and Museums at the Barnes Foundation

• Isaac Julien Gets an Electrifying US Retrospective at Long Last

• A Magritte Drawing Found on eBay for Less Than $2,000 Heads to Auction for Over $100,000

• San Francisco Art Fair brings attention to Bay Area scene and sales for exhibitors from near and far

• Nova Contemporary gallery taps into Thailand’s burgeoning market

• Hong Kong needs more museums, talent to promote art trading

• Remembering art collector and philanthropist Guy Ullens, who died aged 90

• The Life of Pope Francis, in Photos

• Hong Kong’s Yuen Long Shap Pat Heung Tin Hau Festival Procession

• SHOW OPENING: “Sargent and Paris” at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York April 21, 2025–August 3, 2025

Tuesday - April 22nd

• Photographing the Beauty of the North

• What to Read to Wrap Your Head Around the Climate Crisis

• A Look Inside the Past and Future of Saudi Arabia’s Art Scene, with the Founder of One of its Buzziest Galleries

• Christie’s to Auction $60 M. in Art from Anne and Sid Bass’s Fort Worth Home

• Georgian-Russian Artist Zurab Tsereteli Has Died

• Israel May Be Unable to Participate in the 2026 Venice Biennale

• Roberto Lugo’s Ceramics Are the Artifacts of a Future Past

• Leading Parisian Gallery Withdraws from Art Basel’s Swiss Edition Due to Booth Placement

• Sotheby’s Secures $70 M. Giacometti Bust for May Auction

• 3,000-Year-Old Necropolis Unearthed in Abu Dhabi

• Hard Choices: Should You Try Marina Abramovic’s Longevity Method?

• Forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago Taps Two Artists for Major Commissions

• MFA Boston to Rescind Promised Gift of Benin Bronzes, Close Dedicated Gallery

• Artist Ho Tzu Nyen to Curate Gwangju Biennale, One of Asia’s Top Biennials

• Why the inaugural Art Week Riyadh was a fair in everything but name

• Expo Chicago connects the Midwest to the global art market

• New John Singer Sargent exhibition charts the star portraitist’s rise

• Georgian-Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, known for his gigantic and controversial work, dies at 91

Wednesday - April 23rd

• Transforming Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour into a floating art gallery

• relics from ancient Qin, Han dynasties on display in Hong Kong

• Black churches back embattled Smithsonian African American history museum after Trump’s order

• How a Protest, an Exhibition, and a Faculty Labor Dispute Rocked the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• Who Was Tamara de Lempicka, and Why Was She Important?

• Mauritshuis Reveals Three Rembrandt Paintings from Its Collection Are Copies

• Photos of the Week: Holy Week, death of Pope Francis

• LA Man Indicted for Allegedly Conspiring to Sell Stolen Warhol Print of Lenin Worth $175,000

• Ancient Egyptian Prince’s Tomb Discovered at Saqqara

• This Year’s Turner Prize Shortlist Includes an Iraqi Refugee and the Youngest Nominee in Years

• Yuga Labs Seeks Access to Crypto Wallets to Enforce Judgment in Bored Apes Lawsuit

• In London, a 30-Year-Old Blue-Chip Gallery Expands Amid Stark Drop in Profits

• Banksy balloon heart mural back on view in New York ahead of charity auction

• Barbra Kruger to Unveil New Installation on Ukrainian Passenger Train

• Tony Bechara, Painter Who Wrangled Randomness, Dies at 83

• Billionaire Art Collector Ken Griffin Says US Is ‘Eroding’ Its Brand

Thursday - April 24th

• Rare, tiny 'left-handed' seashell found at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

• As the Famed ‘October’ Journal Turns 50, This Reading List Charts Its Legacy

• In His Show “Walking Into,” Ronen Zien Dreams About Crossing Borders

• Agustina Ferreyra Named Mexico City’s OMR New Director As Her Gallery Closes

• Ei Arakawa-Nash to Create Installation on Queer Parenting for Japan’s 2026 Venice Biennale Pavilion

• Chicago History Museum Accused of Retaliating Against Employees for Forming a Union

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Max Hollein Says Trump Anti-DEI Push ‘Doesn’t Apply to Us’

• Texas School District Scrubs Virginia Flag Over Nudity Rules

• Two New Arrests in Drents Museum Heist, But Ancient Romanian Gold Artifacts Remain Missing

• Judge Orders Art Institute of Chicago to Return Schiele Drawing to Heirs

• Leading Indian artist Anita Dube accused of ‘intellectual theft’ after using protest poem in Delhi gallery show

• Former Sotheby's chairman recounts the birth of the London art market as we know it

• Comment | Trims to Sotheby's African Modern and contemporary art department are just one unwelcome sign for this previously healthy market

• The US has quietly gotten into another war in the Middle East

• Switzerland’s Bührle Foundation Reaches Settlement with Heirs of Jewish Collector Who Owned Prized Manet

• SHOW OPENING:“Kandis Williams: A Surface” at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis April 24, 2025–August 24, 2025

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Friday - April 25th

• Kennedy Center’s events scheduled for LGBTQ+ pride celebration canceled, organizers say

• CalArts, Chanel Launch Center for Artists and Tech With AI Focus

• Sotheby’s to Sell $12 M. of Art from Barbara Gladstone’s Personal Collection

• Fort Worth Police Return Photographs Seized from Sally Mann Exhibition

• Rare Early Basquiat to Lead Sotheby’s Contemporary Auctions in New York with $10 M. to $15 M. Estimate

• Art Green, Founding Figure of Chicago’s Riotous Harry Who?, Has Died at 83

• The Best Booths at Expo Chicago, From a Crocheted Locker Room to Metal Panties

• Philipp Kaiser Exits Marian Goodman Gallery as Partner and President

• NEH Seeks Artists for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Funded With Cancelled Grants

• Gallery sharing event Constellations Warsaw brings international flavour to a quickly developing art scene

• Activity and optimism at Expo Chicago attest to the city's 'fearless' community of collectors and patrons

• Gen Z is finding religion. Why?

• Bob Flanagan Showed How Sex and Disability Turn the Body Inside Out

• Artsy Survey Shows Art Market in Transition, With Dealers Unsure How to Meet New Collector Needs

• SHOW OPENING: “Edi Hila | Thea Djordjadze” at Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany April 25, 2025–October 5, 2025