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Morning Links for June 5, 2026

Morning Links for June 5, 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

Good Morning! The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum.  A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, “museum-grade” exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco. Abram Champanier’s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go on view at the Museum of the City of New York. The Headlines SEEING (AND PAINTING) THE LIGHT. James Turrell is debuting his largest Skyspace to date in a museum setting, at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, opening June 19, according to the Financial Times. “I always wanted people to value light,” said the American artist, who uses light and color as his media, often shifting the viewer’s sense of orientation. “In art, people — particularly collectors — are always looking for treasure. That’s why painting still holds force, though we’ve gone forward in the world. And I paint with light. I use light to work the medium of perception,” he said. Turrell has been making Skyspaces — rooms with a hole cut into the ceiling, exposing the sky — since 1974. This latest, …

John Lennon Drawings to be Animated: Morning Links

John Lennon Drawings to be Animated: Morning Links

Published by Jenni Sidey

Good Morning! Pace Gallery is dropping some 50 artists from its roster and cutting about 50 staff. Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel Persepolis, has died at 56. A new study says the Bayeux Tapestry can safely travel to London’s British Museum from Normandy. The Headlines SLOWING THE PACE. The mega Pace Gallery, with seven locations worldwide, is laying off some 50 staff and dropping about 50 artists, per last night’s New York Times. However, sources at Pace told ARTnews that the Times story ran before the gallery had conducted the layoffs, leading to confusion amongst gallery staff. A town hall is planned for 9 a.m. Thursday morning. “The whole art gallery art system became too big, too commercial, too impersonal, and too corporate,” gallery CEO Marc Glimcher said. “We all know it’s true. But you actually have to do something to adapt to it. You have to make some substantial changes.” This would certainly qualify. According to the NYT, the gallery, which celebrated its 65th anniversary last year, has buckled under the expenses of operating so many spaces, attending multiple …

Makeda Best to Lead MoMA Photography: Morning Links

Makeda Best to Lead MoMA Photography: Morning Links

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Headlines BRINGING OUT THE BEST. The Museum of Modern Art in New York finally has a new chief curator of photography: Makeda Best, who has served as deputy director at the Oakland Museum of California since 2023, reports the New York Times. The plum position “has influenced, implicitly or explicitly, so much of how we understand the medium,” said Best, who starts in September. It has also been vacant for almost four years. “I’m someone who’s very much committed to big stories from the collection,” added Best, offering by way of example the legacy of historic MoMA photo curator Edward Steichen, who spearheaded deep acquisitions from the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. Best is also a photographer who studied at CalArts and earned a doctorate in art history at Harvard. She served as photography curator at Harvard Art Museums. Best told the Times she wants to “expand the kinds of photography that we see,” and that it’s a medium “that’s always been in crisis, that’s always questioning itself.” With audiences increasingly looking for different experiences and connections, “it doesn’t work anymore just to hang things on …

I Used To Wake Up Feeling Sick Every Morning. This Auto-Empty Shark Vacuum Healed My Summer Allergies

I Used To Wake Up Feeling Sick Every Morning. This Auto-Empty Shark Vacuum Healed My Summer Allergies

Published by Sam Flores

I could not believe how much extra dust the vacuum picked up. We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. For years I have struggled with allergies, whether that be hay fever or dust, there’s always something making me feel a little bit off. I would wake up in the mornings thinking I had a cold, it’s so bad. I knew I had to change something up a little bit as it was becoming pretty unbearable. My flat is quite large and is all wooden floors, which is a total dust trap. So I realised recently that the time had come to get a new vacuum cleaner. The one that I had was old, didn’t really suck things up properly and would …

Strictly Come Dancing 2026 line-up rumours, from This Morning star to EastEnders favourite

Strictly Come Dancing 2026 line-up rumours, from This Morning star to EastEnders favourite

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In a matter of months, the contestants for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing will start being announced. Seven months after Former England footballer Karen Carney and her professional dance partner Carlos Gu lifted the Glitterball trophy, the rumour mill surrounding the BBC’s popular dancing competition has been kicked into overdrive ahead of its 24th series. The professional dancers set to participate in the 2026 series have already been revealed – with five former stars leaving the series outright, and Johannes Radebe now promoted to one of three new hosts, alongside Emma Willis and Josh Widdicombe. But who will they be partnered with? According to reports, the celebrities set to grace the dance floor will include Jeff Brazier, EastEnders star Lacey Turner and Dani Dyer. Jeff Brazier and Dani Dyer are rumoured for ‘Strictly’ 2026 (Getty Images) Dyer’s name might not be …

Morning Links for May 28, 2026

Morning Links for May 28, 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

Good Morning! Controversy has erupted in Spain over the appointment of a high school art teacher as director of the Galician Center for Contemporary Art. President Trump’s no-bid contract to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue and stop leaks granted an inflated profit to the construction company on the job. The $102 million Louvre heist is set to be adapted into a film by French filmmaker Romain Gavras. The Headlines TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT. Spain’s Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC) is in open revolt after the regional government appointed Eva López Tarrío—a high school art teacher and civil servant with no significant curatorial or international art world experience—to lead the prestigious Santiago de Compostela institution, El Pais reports. (It should be noted that she does have a PhD in Fine Arts.) The move drew immediate and widespread condemnation from more than 1,400 artists, critics, gallery owners, and academics across Spain, who signed an open letter warning that limiting the directorship to civil servants would “impoverish and politicize” the center. Among those speaking out is Susana Cendán, a PhD curator and lecturer …

Morning Links for May 26, 2026

Morning Links for May 26, 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Russia attacked Kyiv on Sunday, killing four, injuring about 100, and damaging cultural sites. Romania’s culture minister has stepped down following an outcry over a leaked recording. One of the oldest manuscripts to tell the tale of King Arthur is heading to auction. The Headlines KYIV CULTURE ATTACKED. Early Sunday morning, Russia struck Kyiv and nearby towns with its largest attack on the Ukrainian capital city since 2024; a rare Oreshnik ballistic missile and drones killed four, injured about 100, and hit cultural institutions, according to reports. Among the approximately 40 damaged sites are the National Chernobyl museum and the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), per the Kyiv Post. An estimated 40 percent of the Chernobyl museum was reportedly destroyed, while the NAMU’s landmark building was damaged by a blast wave. No artworks were harmed in the NAMU, which was recently restored and reopened in the summer of 2023. On May 21, it debuted a “performance-exhibition” by Holyi/Kostiantyn Mishukov and Oleh Tistol, about art as a form of therapy during …

Archaeologist Who Found D’Artagnan’s Skeleton Arrested: Morning Links

Archaeologist Who Found D’Artagnan’s Skeleton Arrested: Morning Links

Published by José Betancourt

Good Morning! Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D’Artagnan. Congress rejected a bill to build a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to women. The Commission of Fine Arts approved plans to build Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch. The Headlines ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL? The Dutch archaeologist involved in the recent discovery of what many hope are the remains of the 17th-century musketeer D’Artagnan—found beneath the floor of a church in Maastricht—was arrested and released after retaining some of the excavated skeletal remains, Le Figaro reports. The archaeologist, Wim Dijkman, remains the subject of a police investigation. When the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul parish in Maastricht’s Wolder neighborhood announced that stones on its church floor had unexpectedly sunk and a skeleton had been found beneath them, hopes ran high that the remains were those of D’Artagnan—born Charles de Batz de Castelmore, the real-life inspiration for Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 novel The Three Musketeers—who died near the site in the Battle of Maastricht in 1673.But Dijkman told Le Figaro that no stones sank by …

How a GQ Editor Styles His Hair Every Morning

How a GQ Editor Styles His Hair Every Morning

Published by Jenni Sidey

Despite not being a morning person, I’ve developed enough of a solid routine to make it somewhat more bearable so that I can go about my day. At least two things give me some semblance of joy when my morning cortisol is spiking: a hot cup of coffee and the five-ish minutes I get to zone out and style my hair for the day. I’ve been blessed with a thick, luscious, full head of hair, and for years, I’ve cycled through various hairstyles—fringes, side parts, slick backs, etc. These days, I’ve settled on a bit of a longer cut, pushed back, up, and off of my face with longer slicked back sides and just a tad of wispiness at the nape of the neck. Not quite a mullet, but if I were to enlist, those stragglers surely wouldn’t fly. Keeping all of those strands in place is heavy work, especially considering the weight and density of my hair. A product that’s too light will make my hair go flat, and anything that’s too heavy will …

JR Talks His Homage to Christo: Morning Links

JR Talks His Homage to Christo: Morning Links

Published by José Betancourt

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Christie’s sold $162.7 million in postwar and contemporary art across three auctions yesterday, barely meeting expectations. Spain’s parliament has threatened to fire the director of the Reina Sofia museum if the institution doesn’t straighten out its fragmented inventory and the question of missing artworks. A Buddhist temple in Japan that housed the “eternal flame,” believed to have been lit for over 1,200 years, has burned down. THE HEADLINES LESS THAN GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Christie’s New York brought in $162.7 million for a trio of postwar and contemporary art auctions yesterday evening, led by a $35.1 million Gerhard Richter Kerze (Candle) painting from the late Marian Goodman estate. Yet these results, an improvement from last year, “barely meet expectations,” and “tepid” sales regularly closed on lower estimates, writes ARTnews’ Brian Boucher. Wednesday’s auction, with nearly a week left in the May auction season, was expected to bring between $129 million and $191 million from 42 lots. The hammer total before the house’s fees came to $133.6 million. Dealer Marian Goodman’s collection was also estimated …