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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2291737202.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Lisa Havilah, CEO of Sydney’s Powerhouse Parramatta, has stepped down ten weeks before its opening. A €4 million ($4.7 million) diamond necklace has been stolen from the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.  A £71 million ($96.4 million) Rembrandt portrait…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/11-Vue-de-lexposition-Mythologies-Alexandra-Vaquero.jpg?w=1024″] Nicknamed the “Little Louvre,” a hidden gem of European masterpieces in France’s Basque Country was given a new lease on life last fall. Founded in 1891, the Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne is home to some 7,000 artworks spanning antiquity to the early 20th century, and it reopened after 14 years of renovations…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Hasnaine-Yavarhoussen-portrait.-Courtesy-Hakanto-Contemporary.jpg?w=1024″] In 2019, just four nations mounted their debut pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Madagascar was one of them, and Hasnaine Yavarhoussen’s sponsorship was largely what made it possible. The year before, the Malagasy art collector and entrepreneur met with artist Joël Andrianomearisoa to discuss the country’s participation and his support. At the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Surrealist_p209.jpg?w=1024″] Starfish, scorpions, swallows, and sheep—once you look, animals are everywhere in Surrealist paintings. These and many other creatures are the focus of Desmond Morris’sThe Surrealist Menagerie: Strange Beasts & Fantastic Visions, a new book that combines Morris’s longtime study of zoology (he had a doctorate from Oxford) with his own participation in the Surrealist…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Vivian-Zavataro-photo-by-Kacy-Meinecke.jpg?w=1024″] The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) in California has named Vivian Zavataro as its next executive director. She will begin in the role on October 1. Zavataro succeeds Drew Oberjuerge, who served in the top job for more than 13 years and left in June 2025. “The Riverside Art Museum has grown from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Vuslat.png?w=1024″] For nearly two decades, Vuslat Doğan Sabancı lived two lives. By day, she was one of the most powerful figures in Turkish media, serving as chief executive of Hürriyet, the country’s largest newspaper. At night—after work, dinner, and putting her children to bed—she went to her studio and made art. “Sometimes I would…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Chambers_Trilogy.jpg?w=1024″] Chiffon Thomas discovered pretty quickly that New York wasn’t going to work. An artist and sculptor who moved to the city after three years in Los Angeles, Thomas needed a studio with room to weld metal and a parking spot for his van. New York real estate was prohibitively expensive and he…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1203443679.jpg?w=1024″] An arts complex in Tbilisi, Georgia, is being razed despite protests from its architects and some members of the local community. Following approval by Tbilisi’s city government in June, demolition work on the Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall—colloquially known as Rike Tubes—began at the end of July and is scheduled…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/512384-96F9648CDB5BB2AC46E7467160B50B57F7E39184-0.jpeg?w=1000″] An 11,000-year-old statue depicting a person on the back of a leopard was unearthed by archaeologists at a Stone Age site in southern Turkey, the country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced in a statement on August 25. The find from the Neolithic site Karahan Tepe measures about 28 inches tall and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Peter_Marino_Foundation_2026-M.Yllera-036.jpg?w=1024″] The Peter Marino Art Foundation occupies the former Rogers Memorial Library, a charming historic building in Southampton, New York, that its namesake has transformed into something much stranger inside.  This summer, the iconoclastic architect and collector has placed portraits by Robert Nava alongside those by Y.Z. Kami; abstractions by Betty Parsons and…