CryptoKitties, released in 2017 as one of the earliest experiments with NFTs, aren’t just digital trading cards. They’re the output of code that randomizes their cartoon appearances, and potential input for future generations of kitties. […]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired Rashid Johnson’s 2019 mixed-media work The Broken Five, which debuted at the artist’s solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York that same year. The piece has […]

A floral still life painting by Chinese-French modernist Sanyu from the 1950s will be offered at Christie’s in a modern and contemporary art auction in Hong Kong on May 24. Titled Potted Chrysanthemums, the work […]

For the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the reckoning followed a field trip gone awry. In the spring of 2019, a group of middle schoolers, all students of color from the Helen Y. Davis Leadership […]

After Tate Modern in London suspended him for his comments on the delay of a Philip Guston retrospective, senior curator Mark Godfrey will depart the museum for good, the Art Newspaper reports. Tate said in […]

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TODAY MARKS THE 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE FUKUSHIMA nuclear disaster in Japan following an earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 15,000. “It […]

Xiaoyu Weng, who has worked as associate curator of the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation at the Guggenheim Museum in New York since 2015, will join the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto as […]

Christie’s closely watched sale of digital artist Beeple’s The First 5,000 Days has resulted in an unprecedented $69.3 million sale. Following Christie’s announcement of their plans to auction off their first NFT (non-fungible token) by […]

The twelfth edition of the Taipei Biennial, “You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet,” co-organized by French philosopher Bruno Latour and Paris-based curator Martin Guinard, reflects the fracturing of our global imaginary in […]