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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SHRIFTMAN-01_PQF_2018-06-07_r.jpg?w=1024″] The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation has announced a bequest of work by the artist from his late widow, Evelyn Pousette-Dart.   The gift will consist of all works by the artist that Evelyn owned at the time of her death in 2025. The foundation characterized the gift as “very substantial” and is still in the process of inventorying the extent of the planned donation, which includes paintings,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1204139693.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! UK culture ministry faces a series of challenges under new prime minister, Andy Burnham.  An artist who spent $100,000 of his own money making a statue of Charlie Kirk is struggling to sell and exhibit the work. How does artwork…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Christine-Borland-portrait.jpg?w=740″] Christine Borland, a Scottish artist whose research-intensive work delved into such subjects as forensic science, the history of medicine, and human genetics, died on Sunday at the age of 60. Her death was confirmed by Patricia Fleming Gallery in Glasgow, which represented Borland. Her death followed a battle with cancer. Borland was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/04_Credit_-Carmen-Alber.jpg?w=1024″] After the cancelation of two Viennese art fairs, an association of 35 of the city’s galleries has come together to launch a new fair: Astoria Artshow. Running September 10–13, Astoria Artshow will take place at the historic Astoria Garage, a six-story historic building dating to 1923 in Vienna’s 8th District that will…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AP20219511923229.jpg?w=1024″] The former head of academic programs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London resigned in late January after accusing the institution’s staff of “racist” and “culturally insensitive” behaviors, the Art Newspaper reported Monday. The accusations by Yuko Kikuchi came in a January 26 letter addressed to V&A director Tristram Hunt, as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-454742828.jpg?w=1024″] Two artists have sued Manhattan art gallery The Hole, alleging roughly $50,000 in unpaid proceeds from sales of their artwork. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on July 16, artists Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi say they provided multiple paintings and other artworks to The Hole for display and sale…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Zwirner-19th-Street.jpg?w=1024″] David Zwirner has closed its Upper East Side gallery, ending nearly a decade at the townhouse at 34 East 69th Street as the blue-chip dealer continues to concentrate its New York operations downtown. A spokesperson for the gallery told ARTNews that the move had been planned for a while. “It was always…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/necropoli-via-dei-pastai-gragnano-1.webp?w=1024″] Archeologists conducting preventative excavations ahead of an industrial expansion in southern Italy have discovered a well-preserved, 2,500-year-old necropolis. The news was first reported at a press conference held on July 15 by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan Area of Naples (Soprintendenza ABAP Napoli), which supervised the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/luis.jpg?w=599″] For nearly two weeks, nobody seemed to know where Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was. The Cuban artist and dissident, whose five-year prison sentence officially ended on July 9, had vanished after state security agents removed him from prison days before his scheduled release, prompting fellow artist Coco Fusco to publish an essay last…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-1912291979.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Flash flooding in New York City forced the New Museum to close over the weekend. A third person has died in New York City’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, with Legionella bacteria found in the Met and Guggenheim. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s…