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Above: Thumbs up to Ma’a Nonu, who will wear the #23 jersey for the Sharks against the All Blacks on Wednesday at 5.00am at Durban.  Monday morning edition (updates expected): It’s school finals week in Wellington, with the schoolgirls finals at Porirua Park on Wednesday evening, Premier 2 and lower grade boys college finals at...

A Pablo Picasso etching stolen from Milwuakee’s DeLind Art Appraisals in 2018 was handed over to the city’s plice department on Thursday, according to a press release . The etching and aquatint printed in ink on paper, titled Torero , is the ninth in an edition of 30. When it was stolen in 2018, Bill DeLind told news organizations that it was worth between $35,000 and $50,000. “It was like, ‘Oh my God,” DeLind told local news station 12 News on Thursday. “I never thought I’d see this again. And there it was.” In 2018, DeLind described the work as having “walked off the wall,” telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he did not see anyone in the business on the day the work disappeared, and that the office did not have security cameras. At one point, police offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the work’s whereabouts, but that offer expired in 2019. Police broug...

The federal government has conditionally sold ten CC-130H Hercules aircraft to Coulson Aviation (Canada) Ltd. of Port Alberni, British Columbia, giving the retired military transports a second life as aerial firefighting platforms. The deal Stephen Fuhr, Secretary of State (Defence Procurement), announced the sale today on behalf of Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement. Coulson plans to convert, maintain and operate the aircraft for wildfire response once they clear Transport Canada certification for civil use. The ten aircraft come from a fleet of 12 CC-130H Hercules the Royal Canadian Air Force retired in January 2026. The remaining two will go on public display at bases and museums across the country instead of returning to service. The sale runs through GCMil, the Public Services and Procurement Canada group that handles surplus military asset sales on National Defence’s behalf. It remains conditional on complete...

A new megalithic funerary monument, one of the many so-called “Giants’ Tombs” scattered around Sardinia, has been uncovered in the central part of the Italian island. The Bronze Age tomb was discovered at Carrarzu Iddia, an archaeological site near the town of Macomer, as reported in Finestra Sull’Arte . The excavation was overseen by two local archaeology and fine art organizations, who were already working in the area. This tomb, and others in Sardinia, was built as a collective burial site around 1800 BCE by the Nuragic people. It was previously unknown due to thick vegetation and other debris concealing the structure, made up of a burial chamber and a semicircular exedra, or an area by the entrance, where members of the  Nuragic civilization would gather to worship their ancestors. Over time, this element would become a recognizable feature of Nuragic funerary architecture. One particular detail stood out to the archaeologists overseeing this e...

Dealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner’s Los Angeles outpost.  “I genuinely wish Liz the best,” Kreps told ARTnews . “It’s a big life decision, and I’m supportive. She made a huge contribution to the gallery and I’m forever grateful.” Founded in 1993, Zwirner’s gallery empire expanded to Los Angeles in 2023, when he opened a 15,000-square-foot showroom in East Hollywood and a 30,000-square-foot Melrose Hill flagship, adding to its portfolio of galleries in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. He joined Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and Pace with outposts in LA.  Asked to recall some of her proudest accomplishments at Kreps, Mulholland, in an email, said, “It’s difficult to single out just a few moments or milestones. Spending two decades with a gallery has given me ...

To receive  Morning Links  in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our  Breakfast with ARTnews  newsletter . Good Morning! As budgets tighten, museums are joining forces to buy expensive artworks they could not afford on their own. A UK tech firm is using AI and knowledge graphs to strengthen art authentication.  Collectors are increasingly using freeports to defer taxes, protect valuable artworks, and manage sales more strategically. The Headlines TEAMWORK, DREAMWORK.  Museums are increasingly joining forces to buy expensive artworks they could not afford alone, a reflection of rising prices, tighter acquisition budgets, and growing pressure to diversify collections,  Artnet News  reported . Shared ownership allows institutions to split costs, rotate works between venues, and broaden public access while reducing financial risk. These partnerships also strengthen relationships between museums and can attract additional philant...