Happy Friday, and Happy New Year, listeners! Welcome back to with our short-form Friday roundup of my favorite art history updates and interesting news tidbits. This is ArtCurious News this Week, and this gets you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history. Today is Friday, January 13, 2023.

New York Times: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.

New York Times: Opinion + Letters: Fired by a College for Showing a Painting of Muhammad

The Art Newspaper: New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman

The Art Newspaper: Genesis of Phil Collins’s collection of Alamo artefacts questioned ahead of museum opening

Financial Times: Marina Abramović on Anne Imhof

ARTnews: Viral TikTok Joke About the Mona Lisa Being Stolen Generates Mass Confusion

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