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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/RP-T-2025-120_06.jpg?w=1024″] A book of immaculate drawings that has been stewarded by the Van Eeghen family in the Netherlands for more than three centuries has been donated to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where it will go on view starting August 19. In a press release, the museum said, “The Van Eeghen Drawing Book can…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/DP_Lucas.jpg?w=1024″] Pat Oleszko, a 79-year-old performance artist who makes brash inflatables, began the year in obscurity and greeted the spring as a rock star. In January, she filled the entirety of SculptureCenter in New York with a retrospective that centered her blow-up sculptures—including one resembling a woman’s spread legs. Two months later, across…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/reynolds.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Headlines MAI, OH MAI. Joshua Reynolds’s monumental 18th-century portrait of Mai, a young Tahitian man who arrived in London with Captain Cook in 1774, will soon make its West Coast debut, the Los Angeles Times reports. After a joint acquisition, for more than $61…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/lawrenceabuhamdan-waterfalls.png?w=1024″] Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. At the Palazzo Diedo, you can find a typically Venetian pleasure: seeing the sleek edge of contemporary art set against the backdrop of a fading fresco.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/773339230_1471767171651491_5127549593154917757_n.jpg?w=1024″] Researchers working at Tel Abu Saify, an archaeological site in Qantara East, near the eastern bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt, have uncovered new evidence linking the site to a lost city known as “Masen.” Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the finds on August 15, and the news was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Brett_Littman_Photography-by-Don-Stahl.jpg?w=1024″] The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced that its next director and chief executive will be Brett Littman. He will begin in the role in October. The fifth director in the institution’s 85-year history, Littman succeeds Kathryn Kanjo, who departed the MCA San Diego after 15 years in January to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/estrucan.jpg?w=1024″] Archaeologists working in northern Italy excavated “remarkably well-preserved” bronze artifacts from a well dating back to the ancient Etruscan city of Kainua. As reported by Heritage Daily, “Bronze figures buried at the bottom of an ancient well for nearly two and a half millennia are now emerging with their metallic lustre still…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Alison-Jacques.jpg?w=1024″] Two Swedish-American buyers are suing London’s Alison Jacques gallery, accusing breach of contract over the sale of three works by the Swedish-born artist Monica Sjöö, whose estate Jacques represents. The estate and the gallery say that Marie St. Germain, the adviser to Yoed and Natasha Anise, misrepresented the couple ahead of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-132701197.jpg?w=1024″] Thieves have dealt a Sicilian museum a harrowing loss, stealing three of the five surviving devotional panels painted by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina. The assailants broke into the Regional Museum of Messina, also known as MuMem, on Saturday evening, as the port city celebrated the Ferragosto national holiday. Evading the museum’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BJLHeadshot-2026-Cropped-1.jpg?w=1024″] The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) has named two senior leadership appointments: Bryan Joseph Lee as deputy commissioner and Ryan Max as chief of staff. Their appointments, according to a release, “will help guide the agency as it rolls out ambitious new programs to deliver on the Mamdani administration’s…