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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2281647751.jpg?w=1024″] The Kherson Regional Art Museum in Ukraine is the latest casualty in Russia‘s ongoing war with the country. A Russian strike last Thursday set off a fire at the institution, Reuters reports. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said that there were no casualties, but the museum’s building and artwork took a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289382461.jpg?w=1024″] President Donald Trump’s ambitions of building a luxury ballroom with an underground military complex beneath it is going forward. On Friday, the US Supreme Court gave the green light for construction of the White House ballroom to continue. The stay was issued by Chief Justice John Roberts and will remain until further…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/iac_gallery_1718805074285_eng.jpg?w=878″] A total of 111 Indigenous artworks are still missing from the Indigenous Art Centre’s (IAC) collection in Canada, almost two years after an internal audit revealed 132 unaccounted artworks, the Canadian Press reports. In November 2024, IAC conducted an internal audit of its collection that tracked its operations from April 2019 to August…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288694842.jpg?w=1024″] The soccer ball used in the 1986 World Cup match in which Diego Maradona scored his infamous “Hand of God” goal sold for $3.35 million at Heritage Auctions in Texas. The price, however, came in well below the lot’s presale estimate of $10 million. Mike Provenzale, an auctioneer at Heritage, told Reuters before the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/mucem.jpg?w=1024″] A scathing report by French government investigators accuses Pierre-Olivier Costa, the recently suspended president of Marseille’s Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), of sexual and moral harassment, breaching rules for granting public contracts, and putting the southern French city’s only national museum “at risk,” according to a Le…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-909361884.jpg?w=1024″] New information has been released by a little-known Canadian federal agency about its staffers’ years-long effort to contribute to a police investigation into fraudsters selling faked paintings supposedly by Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau. CityNews Toronto reports that the largest art fraud case in the history of Canada took at least 1,000…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MB-Zone-Defense-9-Lance-Gerber.jpg?w=1024″] Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this year, with a related sculptural installation on a nearby tract of open land. The performance,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289824681.jpg?w=1024″] A federal court received an emergency appeal Thursday seeking to block the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from restoring President Donald Trump’s name to the building.  The Kennedy Center board, led by Trump and largely composed of his allies, voted earlier this month to engrave the president’s name beneath…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Smithsonian-arts-industries-building.jpg?w=1024″] The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Latino may make its home in the Arts and Industries Building, which the organization already owns, rather than in a purpose-built one, reports the New York Times, which says the decision may be made at a board meeting to take place August 31. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/bernini.jpg?w=1024″] When the exhibition “Bernini—Painter and Sculptor” opens at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum on Dec. 2, a painting newly attributed to the prolific Baroque master will be the star of the show. Until recently, Portrait of an Old Man, previously credited to an unknown artist, sat in a storeroom at the museum, reports The…