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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/11_Helen-Frankenthaler-Venetian-Story-1974-1.jpg?w=1024″] The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has announced a group of new acquisitions, both gifts and purchases, across its curatorial departments. The artworks range from a 17th-century wall hanging depicting courtly life in India to recent animatronic sculptures by contemporary artist Anicka Yi. In statement, MFAH director Gary Tinterow said of this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ART394484-copy.jpg?w=1024″] If there’s a single adjective that sums up Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), it would have to be protean, though prolific fits as well. Estimated to number some 10,000 works, Rauschenberg’s oeuvre was driven by an expansive sensibility that saw possibilities for art everywhere and a generosity of spirit reflected in his cooperation with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Kopie-von-Igor-Grubic_Photo-Christian-Kain_2.jpg?w=1024″] A small German city unearthed a large chunk of history this past May. Urban construction in the Black Forest municipality of Pforzheim uncovered an undetonated World War II bomb, forcing an evacuation of surrounding areas before its eventual defusing. Other ghosts are not so easily exorcised. This past spring, a teen disco…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Hoor_Al_Qasimi.jpg?w=1024″] Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation and a member of the Sharjawi royal family, has been appointed as president of the Sharjah Museums Authority. In her post, she will oversee 16 museums across Sharjah with purviews including Islamic art and culture, archaeology, heritage, science, marine life,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2284728404.jpg?w=1024″] Edi Rama, an artist who also happens to serve as Albania’s Prime Minster, has defended plans to stage a Kanye West concert in a recently built stadium outside Tirana, even as some Jewish groups continued to accuse the rapper of antisemitism. West, who previously denied the Holocaust and posted about his intentions…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/u4.webp?w=1024″] Egyptian archeologists have found 18 previously unknown Ptolomeic and Roman tombs, as well as a stone sarcophagus and rare grave goods, at the Marina el-Alamein archeological site near Alexandria. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily on July 4, following an announcement by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.   The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/409549-Jonathan-Yeo-HM-King-Charles-III-Study-I-2023.jpg?w=1024″] A large oil study for King Charles III’s polarizing first official portrait, unveiled a year after his coronation in May 2023, is now on view at Buckingham Palace, part of a major transformation of the Picture Gallery, one of the palace’s most popular semi-public spaces. The gallery now showcases 120 paintings, nearly…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/vase-met.png?w=1024″] Fifty-nine antiquities looted from Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia, including 45 seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, have been returned to their countries of origin, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday. Among the objects seized from the Met and returned to Italy was a terracotta vase used for chilling and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DavidOdo-3.jpg?w=1024″] The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) in Hawai‘i has named David Odo as its next director and chief executive. He will start in the role on September 1.  He succeeds Halona Norton-Westbrook, who left in July 2025 to lead the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas. Odo is currently director…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-1246531689.jpg?w=1024″] On Saturday, July 4, the Trump Administration released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian‘s National Museum of American History of “institutional capture by a radical, activist ideology.” On Tuesday, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III finally responded. In an email to staff obtained by the Washington Post and published Wednesday evening,…