To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines IN A SURPRISE MOVE, BILLIONAIRE COLLECTOR LEON BLACK has stepped down as chairman and CEO of the Apollo Global Management investment firm, citing health issues that […]

Jean-Michel Basquiat has long reigned as one of the top-grossing artists in marquee New York auctions, and the legendary artist’s market presence remained strong at a sale in Hong Kong, where his 1982 painting Warrior […]

Monday, March 22 Leah Dickerman Named Director of Research Programs at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art in New York has appointed Leah Dickerman as its director of research programs, a position that will see her reenvision the institution’s […]

In a surprise move, the Humboldt Forum, a new Berlin museum home to a vast collection of non-European artworks, will not show its prized Benin Bronzes, which many have alleged were looted from West Africa […]

When collectors form deep friendships with artists, they typically have access to purchasing important examples from those artist’s output. Such is the case with  late Los Angeles philanthropists Morris and Rita Pynoos, whose collection will […]

During their lifetimes, the Bay Area–based collectors Mary Margaret “Moo” and Harry “Hunk” Anderson cultivated holdings of works by major American artists including Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford […]

Most of us take for granted the ability to pick up a pair of scissors and cut. But the fine-motor skills needed to use scissors are learned through practice, and often children need extra support […]

Making my way through “Meditations on Melancholia,” Eric Fischl’s latest exhibition at Skarstedt, I remembered that there are still people who get a kick out of seeing the word “American” somewhere in an artwork’s title. […]

Questions about who will next lead Montpellier Contemporain, a museum in southern France that is home to cutting-edge contemporary art exhibitions, are starting to swirl after revelations that its current director, Nicolas Bourriaud, may not […]

The late German businessman and collector Hans Rudolf Gerstenmaier, who lived much of his life in Spain and died in January, was known for his storied holdings of Flemish paintings. Following a last-minute modification to […]