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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Tom Seymour |Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian
A climate activist who smeared red and black paint on the pedestal and enclosure of an Edgar Degas ballerina sculpture in 2023 was found guilty on Tuesday (8 April) of “conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States” by a federal jury.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers
A coalition of 21 state attorneys general is suing the administration of US President Donald Trump for attempting to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and several other agencies through executive orders and actions that, the group says in its legal filing, "are illegal several times over".
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Torey Akers
Following US President Donald Trump's executive order of 27 March, in which he attacked the Smithsonian Institution for organising exhibitions and programmes tainted by “divisive, race-centered ideology” that “degrade shared American values”, scholars have defended the institution, as has the Smithsonian’s leader. In an internal memo to staff, sent the day after Trump issued his executive order, Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Riah Pryor
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office returned two Khmer artefacts to representatives of the Cambodian government on 26 March. The two stone sculptures were recovered as part of a larger criminal investigation into trafficking networks specialised in Cambodian antiquities, including those tied to the smuggler and disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor, whose dealings in artefacts from South and Southeast Asia led to his arrest by the DA's Antiquities Trafficking Unit in 2012.
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4 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Victoria Stapley-Brown |Benjamin Sutton |Nancy Kenney
An official portrait of Donald Trump has been removed from the Colorado Capitol building following social media complaints from the president claiming his likeness had been “purposefully distorted”. The General Assembly’s bipartisan executive committee signed a directive empowering staff to take the painting down on the evening of 24 March, according to the Denver Post . The portrait, completed by the Colorado Springs-based artist Sarah Boardman in 2019, was commissioned during Trump’s first term.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Ben Luke |Julia Michalska |Aimee Dawson
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston has launched a $100,000 prize for women visual artists and named the internationally-acclaimed and Boston-born installation artist Sarah Sze as its inaugural recipient. The Meraki Artist Award is funded by Fotene Demoulas—whose family owns the New England supermarket chain Market Basket—and celebrates the achievements of women artists across genres. Sze will receive the award at the ICA Boston’s annual women’s luncheon on 5 May.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Torey Akers
Less than a week after signing an executive order seeking to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the only US federal agency that provides funding to museums and libraries, President Donald Trump has named Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith E. Sonderling to lead the agency. Sonderling was sworn in as IMLS’s acting director on Thursday (20 March), the agency announced.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Helen Stoilas |Torey Akers |Lee Cheshire |Tom Seymour
For art museums, building bigger is not necessarily better, and offering free admission may actually make the most financial sense. This is according to a new report by Remuseum, an independent research project organised by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The project aims to help museums think outside the institutional box.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Carlie Porterfield |Torey Akers |Kabir Jhala
Lisa Schiff, once a fixture of the New York art scene and an adviser to Hollywood stars and wealthy collectors, will spend two-and-a-half years in prison for defrauding around millions from clients of her art advisory. She was also ordered to pay forfeiture of $6.4m and $9m in restitution to her victims.
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1 month ago | 
artnewspaper.fr | Torey Akers
Alors que l’administration du président américain Donald Trump poursuit sa réduction drastique des effectifs fédéraux, l’avenir de plus de 26 000 œuvres d’art appartenant au gouvernement est en péril.
