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  • Obscure Canadian Government Agency Secretly Helped Convict Art Fraudsters

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    [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…

  • Matthew Barney Talks About His Sculpture on a Ranch in Colorado

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    [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,…

  • Federal Court Asked to Keep Trump’s Name Off Kennedy Center

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    [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…

  • The Smithsonian May Put its Latino Museum in Building it Already Owns

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    [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…

  • Newly Attributed Bernini Portrait Will be in View in Vienna

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    [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…

  • Björk’s Hometown Museum Gives Her Exhibition After Reviled MoMA Show

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bjork.-Nerve-Bloom-2026-3.jpg?w=1024″] “When you listen to a song for the first time, it is like swallowing a whale.” So reads the wall text in an exhibition by Björk, a pop star whose relationship to music has long been unique, to say the least. She adds, in the same handwritten scrawl, “I don’t think of…

  • Telfair Museums Names Caitlín Doherty as Next Director

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-930099580.jpg?w=1024″] The Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, has announced that Caitlín Doherty as its new executive director. She will assume the post in October. Doherty is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in Florida. She joined the institution joined the instiuttion in 2017, following a tenure as chief curator at…

  • Walker Art Center Visitors See Digital Artwork, Brand It AI Slop

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Olekan-Jeyifous-Walker-Art-Center-light.jpg?w=1024″] Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center and the artist Olalekan Jeyifous are refuting accusations by some museum visitors that his work was made using generative AI, reports MPR News. Jeyifous, born in Nigeria and living in New York, is also an architect and designer, and uses some of the digital tools that are often…

  • Amateur Artist Charged in $80K Minneapolis Art Theft

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-108192273-1.jpg?w=1024″] Minneapolis police have identified one of two people they believe stole roughly $80,000 worth of artwork from the studio of 80-year-old artist Leon Hushcha, in a burglary that involved a UPS vest, a handcart, and, apparently, another artist. Ricardo Andres Bassat, 56, has been charged with felony burglary and is due in…

  • Gagosian to Show New Jordan Wolfson Works at Gallery Show in New York

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-515099398.jpg?w=1024″] Gagosian sent out a decidedly sparse press release about Jordan Wolfson’s first show with the gallery in New York, set to open September 18 at its 555 West 24th Street space in Chelsea. The description of the new work to be shown reads, in its entirety: “A selection of new uniformly scaled…