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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tesoro-4.jpg?w=1024″] Thieves ransacked Spain‘s Villena Museum, taking with them one of Europe’s most significant Bronze Age gold collections in a record four-minute heist on Thursday morning, the Guardian reported. The thieves stole items from the Treasure of Villena, one of the city’s treasured prehistoric artifacts that includes some 66 Bronze Age objects, among…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Merz_Akademie_Hochschule_fur_Gestaltung_Kunst_und_Medien.jpg?w=533″] The Merz Academy in Stuttgart, Germany, has filed for insolvency, the academy announced on Wednesday. Classes, however, are expected to continue at the university, which offers Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs at the intersection of design, art, media, and technology. Monopol reported that the university’s application was approved on Tuesday by the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2250184225.jpg?w=1024″] French filmmaker and screenwriter Claire Denis is the director of the 32nd installment of the Miu Miu Women’s Tales film series. The new short film, titled “Avec Kim,” will premiere September 5 during the upcoming edition of the Venice Film Festival. It will follow the screening of the previous episode “Discipline,” which was directed by Mona Fastvold…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MoMA_Mohammed-Khadda_Talisman-rouge_1969_2000px.jpg?w=1024″] The Museum of Modern Art in New York will stage a major exhibition examining mid-century modernism in Africa next year. Running May 2–August 14, 2027, the thematic exhibition, titled “Freedom and Futures: Emancipatory Art in Africa, 1956–1982,” will bring together around 250 objects, including 40 from MoMA’s collection. The exhibition is curated…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Frieze_Abu_Dhabi_2026.jpg?w=1024″] Frieze Abu Dhabi announced today the 84 exhibitors who will participate in its inaugural edition, scheduled to run November 19–22 at Manarat Al Saadiyat, in the city’s Saadiyat Cultural District. The fair will bring together galleries from 63 cities in 36 countries, including 36 galleries (around 43 percent) with locations in the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Yayoi-Kusama.jpg?w=1024″] Yayoi Kusama, whose obsessive repetitions of dots and nets became a means of expressing infinity, leaving an indelible mark on contemporary art worldwide, died on August 14 of multiple organ failure at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 97. Her death was reported on Thursday by Kyodo News and later confirmed by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WMAA88214_kimcontay0398.jpg-2.jpeg?w=1024″] The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has named Kim Conaty, the chief curator of the Whitney Museum in New York as its next director. She will begin in the role on October 27. Contay has spent nearly a decade at the Whitney, joining in 2017 as curator of drawings and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/‘Woman-carrying-tulips-in-Donetske-village-Kharkiv-region-April-2023-c-Mark-Neville-courtesy-Postcode-Ukraine-1.jpeg?w=1024″] Sir Stephen Fry, Sharon Stone, Prince Harry, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk are among the public figures taking on guest curator roles for “Postcode Ukraine: Diary of a Volunteer,” a fundraising exhibition of photographs by British, Kyiv-based artist Mark Neville. The show is slated to open on September 11 at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2269811778.jpg?w=1024″] A former employee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has filed a class action complaint against the institution over a 2025 data breach that he claims has compromised sensitive visitor and employee information, including Social Security numbers. The complaint accuses LACMA of acting negligently by waiting nearly a year to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2291488723.jpg?w=1024″] Big blonde hair, a pink outfit, and a toothy smile. Dolly Parton’s image appeared on cake mix boxes, film posters, magazine covers, and paintings. In the wake of the country music legend’s death on Tuesday, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, took to Instagram…