Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:06 Director Of Britain’s Tate Galleries To Step Down “Maria Balshaw is to (depart) in 2026, after a challenging nine-year tenure when she steered the organisation through the COVID-19 pandemic and had to deal with fluctuating attendance figures and financial instability.” – The GuardianSource: Visual Arts Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:31 Controversial New Designs For Notre Dame’s Stained Glass Windows Go On Display The designs for six new stained-glass windows for the cathedral of Notre Dame have gone on show at the Grand Palais in Paris, despite a number of protests against the project. – CNNSource: Visual Arts Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:01 The Louvre’s Security Cameras Caught The Entire Jewel Heist — But The Security Guards Couldn’t See It “(The museum’s) security control room was not equipped with enough screens to watch every camera simultaneously, so the break-in was not watched in real-time. By the time guards had manually switched to the relevant live feed, nearly eight minutes after the heist began, the robbers were already getting away.” – ArtnetSource: Visual Arts Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:06 Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum To Open Its First Satellite And no, it’s not in Abu Dhabi. It will be in the south of the Netherlands, in the high-tech hub of Eindhoven. The new museum, planned to cover more than 3,500 square meters (37,673 square feet) near the city’s central railway station, is scheduled to open in six to eight years. – APSource: Visual Arts Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:01 “The Sistine Chapel Of The New Deal” In Danger Of Demolition By Trump Administration The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. contains perhaps the most important New Deal-era murals in the city — works by Philip Guston and Seymour Vogel as well as Ben Shahn’s monumental The Meaning of Social Security. The Trump administration is currently soliciting bids for the building’s demolition. – The New RepublicSource: Visual Arts Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:31 A Historic Turner Prize Winner The judges praised Nnena Kalu’s brightly coloured sculptures – which are haphazardly wrapped in layers of ribbon, string, card and shiny VHS tape – and her drawings of swirling, tornado-like shapes. Kalu, 59, is an autistic, learning disabled artist with limited verbal communication. – BBCSource: Visual Arts Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:01 As Benin Bronzes Are Being Returned To Nigeria, There’s Nowhere Suitable Which Can Display Them When 100 of the restituted sculptures were exhibited last month in Benin City, there was no high-tech security and the labels were on paper stuck to the walls. Meanwhile, the flashy new Museum of West African Art, built to house the bronzes, isn’t permitted to have or show them. – The New York TimesSource: Visual Arts Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:00 2025 Turner Prize Goes To Nigerian-Scottish Artist Nnena Kalu “Kalu, an autistic artist with learning disabilities and limited verbal communication, … (won) for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the £25,000 ($33,300) prize.” – The GuardianSource: Visual Arts Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:44 Princeton’s New Museum Is An Important Building This extraordinarily rich design is certainly assertive throughout, but it is completely in synch with the nature of an institution that has been collecting for 255 years, one that inevitably reflects the sprawling curiosity and a worldliness—or lack thereof—among generations of Princetonians. – James RussellSource: Visual Arts Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:31 Louvre Leak Causes Water Damage To Art Work “Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as “Egyptology journals” and “scientific documentation” used by researchers. – The GuardianSource: Visual Arts Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:15 Solving An 800-Picture Art Heist In Slow Motion Some 800 paintings have been taken from the collection since 1945, in one of the most devastating spates of art theft in Germany’s postwar history. Canvas by canvas, however, they are being filled in as the artworks are returned from around the world through a marathon exercise in detective work and cultural diplomacy. – The Times […]Source: Visual Arts Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:31 Workers At Louvre Vote Unanimously To Strike “The museum is in ‘crisis,’ with insufficient resources and ‘increasingly deteriorated working conditions,’ said the unions’ strike notice to Culture Minister Rachida Dati.” – APSource: Visual Arts Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:59 Eight Matisse Prints Stolen In Brazil “In a daylight robbery on Sunday, two armed thieves stole eight prints by Henri Matisse and at least five engravings by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari from the Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo.” – ARTnewsSource: Visual Arts Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:21 Architecture Is Shifting From The “Lone Genius” Model To Collective Activism Architects are expanding their boundaries into other fields such as gastronomy, music, design, and the corporate world, applying spatial thinking to address challenges of various kinds. As social, environmental, and political crises deepen, the role of the architect continues to evolve from a solitary author to a mediator, activist, and collective agent of transformation. – […]Source: Visual Arts Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:04 Inside The Enormous New Grand Egyptian Museum Located on a desert plateau formed by the Nile thousands of years ago, the Museum’s geological setting was integral to the design. Beginning at a focal point outside of the entrance, the Museum structure radiates outward toward the pyramids along a visual axis that aligns directly with the positioning of the three pyramids. – ArchDailySource: Visual Arts Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:21 Another Big Departure At The George Lucas Museum “There are no immediate plans to replace Pilar’s role as Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial and Collections,” wrote interim Chief Executive Jim Gianopulos in an email obtained by The Times. “George Lucas will continue to oversee curatorial content and direction.” – Los Angeles TimesSource: Visual Arts Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:30 Four Art Basels, And What’s To Show For It? Hmmm: There’s “a supersaturation of the cultural calendar, and there’s only so much good art to go around.” – The New York TimesSource: Visual Arts Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:00 A Deep Dive Into The National Archives, Where Few Curators Have Survived The Purges “The archives … said that no curators of ‘The American Story’ were available to speak, citing staff departures that have left the institution with only two curators, neither of whom had a substantial role in the exhibition.” – The New York TimesSource: The World Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:32 Good Morning This week’s highlights: The entertainment landscape is undergoing tectonic shifts that make previous disruptions look like minor tremors. The headline grabber is Netflix, which proposes to swallow Warner Bros. whole. As The New Yorker notes, this feels existential—a move that could portend the end of mainstream moviegoing as we know it. While Ted Sarandos reportedly […]Source: Blogs Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:59 Allyssa Jones shares the importance of providing access to young people of diverse composers Allyssa Jones, Founder of Rising Tide Music, talks about the importance of providing access for young people to diverse composers.Source: