A campaign by airlines and their unions for federal money to keep paying airline workers is getting a boostBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines WriterAugust 5, 2020, 7:15 PM3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article A group of 16 Republican senators has endorsed giving more money to airlines to avoid layoffs right before the …
In a new lawsuit related to the ongoing saga surrounding Inigo Philbrick, who has been indicted on wire fraud and identity theft charges, two companies are fighting to take ownership of a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that once passed through the young art dealer’s hands. The lawsuit was filed in New York’s Southern District Court on …
WASHINGTON — A key Senate Republican said Tuesday that he supports an increase in the food stamp benefit as part of a huge coronavirus relief bill, adding that an agreement on that issue could lead to further overall progress on the legislation, which remains stalled despite days of Capitol negotiations. Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Pat …
Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC, has reported its net profit plummeted 96% in the second quarter of this year as lower interest rates combined with the downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic stunted business activityAugust 3, 2020, 5:42 AM2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleLONDON — Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC, said Monday that its …
Researchers at the University of Antwerp and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., have released a study supporting the restoration last year of the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Northern Renaissance painter Jan van Eyck. Critics of the restoration had called attention to work done on a central panel of the work depicting the …
President Donald Trump says he wants to take action as soon as Saturday to ban the popular Chinese-owned video app, TikTok, which has been a source of national security and censorship concernsBy ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail WriterAugust 1, 2020, 8:18 PM3 min readNEW YORK — President Donald Trump says he wants to take action to …
On Friday Google’s homepage pays tribute to the prolific Philippine artist and activist Pacita Abad, who on this day in 1984 became the first woman to receive the Philippines’s 10 Outstanding Young Men award. Her pioneering painting practice foregrounded overlooked women—Indigenous Filipina, domestic workers from Pakistan, Cambodian refugees. “I am a painter who paints from …
One influential pork company has received the vast majority of payments from an Iowa program designed to support farmers who euthanized their hogs after the coronavirus devastated their industryBy RYAN J. FOLEY Associated PressJuly 31, 2020, 4:25 PM4 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleIOWA CITY, Iowa — One influential pork company has received …
Spirit is the latest airline to warn about possible furloughs in October, when federal payroll-help money runs outBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines WriterJuly 29, 2020, 11:42 PM3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Spirit Airlines is warning employees that it could furlough up to 30% of its roughly 9,000 workers in October, when …
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. News A Rembrandt self-portrait sold for $18.8 million at a Sotheby’s sale in London on Tuesday, setting a record for the most expensive work of its kind ever sold at auction. But that painting was not the sale’s top lot: a $28.9 million …