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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2t13122owac4p1i.jpg?w=1024″] The controversy surrounding the renaming of the “Taiwan Pavilion” at the upcoming edition of the Gwangju Biennale, opening next month, has escalated to an international diplomacy dispute. The self-governed island’s culture ministry says it “strongly protests” the Korean biennial scrubbing the agreed-upon name from its presentation, vowing to take “necessary action” if…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MoMAPS1_Aerial-Building-Shot_Noel-Woodford.jpg?w=1024″] The restaurant space at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, will soon have a new tenant: Symone, by chef DeVonn Francis, will open in early October. The space’s menu will also be previewed during Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, running September 24–27. With daytime dining offered during the museum’s operating…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2264598068.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! A hidden gallery at London’s Natural History Museum will reopen to the public for the first time since 1943. Trump’s administration is escalating its campaign to reshape how the Smithsonian presents American history. A long-overlooked painting has been identified as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Armory-Show-2025-5.jpg?w=1024″] The Armory Show in New York has announced two museum acquisition prizes that will launch at its upcoming edition, slated to run September 24–27. The first is the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Acquisition Prize, which will allot $20,000 at each edition of the Armory Show toward acquisitions for the museum’s permanent…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/003_260812_Asad-Raza-Thigmotaxis-the-rat-show-Photo-Christopher-Garcia-Valle-ARTnews.jpg?w=1024″] One hot August afternoon on New York’s Lower East Side, artist Asad Raza led this reporter through his new, unconventional public art show. Without him, you and I certainly would never have noticed it, but then it’s not really for us. “I’ve made a lot of works for people, trying to create…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-83923656.jpg?w=1024″] France has endured record-breaking successions of heatwaves this summer, which have led to massive wildfires and a spike in the normal death rate, according to French public health services. Gardeners are also struggling with the scorching heat, including at one of the country’s most cherished landmarks: Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, Normandy.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/JCM.png?w=1024″] Jonathan Carver Moore says he cashed in his own retirement account to start his gallery on the edge of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood in 2023. He has mounted strong presentations at art fairs from Chicago to Miami. But artists, collectors and dealers say he has been guilty of chronic non-payment and withholding…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Chat-et-Chaton-executed-in-1934-by-Leonard-Tsuguharu-Foujita-1886–1968-estimated-at-30000-–-50000.jpg?w=1024″] The cat’s out of the bag. This September and October, Bonhams is selling items from one of the most extensive private collections of cat-related artworks, decorative objects, jewelry, and collectibles: the Sandy Lerner Cat Collection. In all, Sandy Lerner, co-founder of tech company Cisco Systems and founder of cosmetics label Urban Decay,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Speed-20250812-Art-Park-010-L-WEB.jpg?w=1024″] The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has surrendered 24 objects from its collection to their Native American communities of origin, the US Department of the Interior announced in May. The items in question are considered “sacred objects” or “objects of cultural patrimony,” according to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1364431030.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Industry Moves Connecticut’s Bruce Museum Names Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Experience: Kathy Fredrickson joined the Greenwich-based institution on August 3, after having served as a curatorial strategy consultant to the Bruce since October…