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Fired Philadelphia Art Museum Head Says CEO Title Was Nearly Removed

01/13/2026

In her first extensive interview since her firing from her post as director and CEO of the Philadelphia Art Museum last year, Sasha Suda told Philadelphia Magazine that the board had attempted to strip her of the CEO portion of …

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Leslie Wexner Denies Being Jeffrey Epstein's 'Co-Conspirator'

12/26/2025

A recently released set of files related to Jeffrey Epstein implied that the convicted sex criminal’s ties to collector Leslie Wexner ran deeper than some previously thought, placing new scrutiny on the former Victoria’s Secret CEO. One email from an …

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China Launches Probe Into Alleged Art-Theft Scheme at Nanjing Museum

12/24/2025

Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly removed cultural treasures from the collection and sold them on the open market—claims that have gone viral on social media and drawn comparisons to …

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Jeffrey Epstein Files Reveal Artists Denounced Him 20 Years Ago

12/23/2025

Federal authorities, journalists, and Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have spent years scrutinizing the financier’s properties and possessions, piecing together an aesthetic world that often seemed to mirror the abuses he committed. Reporting by ARTnews, the New York Times, Artnet, and other …

Метки : эпштейнискусствоскандалтайныпреступленияобвинения

Trump Reappoints Mary Anne Carter, From His First Term, as NEA Chair

12/20/2025

The National Endowment for the Arts has a new chair: Mary Anne Carter, the same political operative who served in the post during Trump’s first term. The Senate voted this morning to confirm her along party lines, by a 53–43 …

Метки : искусствополитиканэйшнл эндовменттрампскандалобщество

'Fuss' After Artist's Pan-African Flags Replace Queen Elizabeth Photo

12/03/2025

At the end of November, British outlets raised a ruckus after a pan-African flag by British Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong replaced a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in the Foreign Office. This week, Achiampong responded to what he called a …

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Artists and Staffers Accuse London Gallery of Withholding Payment

11/27/2025

For the past three days, Los Angeles–based artist Brittany Fanning has posted the same picture to her Instagram grid. It shows two grinning men in double-breasted suits, complete with pocket squares. In her caption, she identifies them as brothers Jackson …

Метки : искусствоскандалхудожникизадолженностьгалереясобытия

Philadelphia Art Museum Sues Sacked Director Sasha Suda for Theft

11/26/2025

Philadelphia Art Museum Sues Sacked Director Sasha Suda for Theft ThePhiladelphia Art Museum(PhAM) has filed a civil suit against former director and CEOSasha Suda, accusing her of theft. The filing, which claims that Suda “misappropriated funds from the Museum and …

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GoFundMe Created Pages for Museums Without Telling the Museums

11/25/2025

Art museums and other nonprofits have whole departments devoted to fundraising that employ seasoned experts and deploy time-tested strategies to fill their coffers, and museum directors often spend a great deal of their time cultivating the kinds of major donors …

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Sasha Suda Was Investigated by Philadelphia Art Museum Prior to Ouster

11/10/2025

Sasha Suda has sued the Philadelphia Art Museum after being dismissed last week as director and CEO of the Pennsylvania institution, according to the New York Times. Per the Times, the suit alleges that Suda was accused by board members …

Метки : искусствоскандалмузейувольнениесудфиладельфия

Philadelphia Art Museum's Director Is Out Following Rebrand

11/05/2025

Sasha Suda, the director and CEO of the newly rebranded Philadelphia Art Museum, was dismissed on Tuesday, according to reports from the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Magazine. ARTnews has reached out to the institution for comment. The museum continues to …

Метки : филадельфийский художественный музейsasha sudaувольнениеребрендингискусствоскандал

Faked Artworks in Japan Linked to Forger Wolfgang Beltracchi

11/04/2025

A painting long hailed as a Moïse Kisling masterwork, held in the collection of a Japanese company, has been linked to notorious art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi—the latest in a wave of such discoveries shaking Japan’s fine art scene. For years, …

Метки : искусствоподделкаяпонияскандалkislingбельтраки

Embattled Director of Wexner Center for the Arts Resigns

10/31/2025

Gaëtane Verna, the embattled executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, will resign effective immediately. The news comes a week after the Columbus Dispatch reported that Wexner had accumulated a $1.1 million deficit in …

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Sotheby's Records Surrealist Records in Paris—and More Art News

10/27/2025

The Headlines SUSPECTED LOUVRE THIEVES ARRESTED. Two suspects have been detained in connection with the theft of jewels, including pieces once belonging to Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie, from the Louvre on October 19. French prosecutor Laure Beccuau said …

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