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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-14-at-11.08.26-AM.png?w=1024″] “The legendary actress visits Christie’s galleries at Rockefeller Center and finds herself captivated by the gilded sculpture.”  Thus trumpets the tagline for Nicole Kidman’s assignation with Constantin Brancusi’s bronze and gold leaf Danaïde (1913), circulated online this past spring in advance of the work’s auction.  The “cinematic short film” produced by Christie’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/LACOMBE_20013_MARY_HEILMANN_91NN_10_A.jpg?w=1024″] Mary Heilmann, an influential abstract painter who received her first solo exhibition in a New York museum in her 60s, died at 86 on Friday in Riverhead, New York. Her studio announced the news in an Instagram posting, adding that she died “due to complications from a fall.” Heilmann was a pioneering…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289923409.jpg?w=1024″] Brazilian authorities have recovered eight prints from Henri Matisse’s iconic “Jazz” series (1947), the New York Times reports.   Two armed men stole the works on December 7 from the Mário de Andrade Library in São Paulo during public hours at the city’s largest library. In addition to the recovered Matisse works,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2181757198.jpg?w=1024″] A Pablo Picasso painting stolen while on loan from the Guggenheim Museum more than six decades ago has resurfaced, and the museum has gone to court to get it back. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation filed suit in New York State Supreme Court this week, according to Hyperallergic, against Massachusetts residents Lawrence Jay…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/DP137336.jpg?w=1024″] Likely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned the oldest preserved fragment of The Odyssey to one of its galleries, where it can be seen and appreciated after a long time out of view. The relic is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.12.03.jpg?w=1024″] As workers race against the 72-hour, so-called golden window to rescue survivors from collapsed buildings following Monday’s devastating 7.4 earthquake in northern Colombia, the region’s museums are also in serious jeopardy. On Monday evening, Alejandro Garces, a curator at the Museo de Arte de Pereira, posted photos on Instagram of the damage…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288677688.jpg?w=1024″] When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Damascus in early July, he pledged to support the country’s rebuilding efforts in the wake of former President Basher al-Assad’s overthrow 18 months prior. While the main focus of the visit was economic—Macron discussed reviving Syria’s banking sector and returning more than $50 million that had…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/italy-artwork-recovered-800×600-1.jpg?w=800″] If 2025 was the year of the museum robbery, perhaps 2026 will be the year of the recovery. On Friday, Italian police announced that they had recovered three artworks stolen in March from the Fondazione Magnani Rocca near Parma in Northern Italy, according to Reuters. The recovered paintings are Paul Cezanne’s Still…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/fitzgerald-e1786727082439.png?w=1024″] Kit Fitzgerald, a visionary video artist with a sense for the music and motion of painting, died on August 3 at 73. The news was announced by her husband and longtime creative partner, Peter Gordon, on Instagram. He wrote that she “fought a rare and aggressive cancer, but always maintained a sense…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AY_In-Love-With-The-World_Tate-Modern_2021.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Police in Italy and Brazil have recovered nearly a dozen paintings stolen over the last year. London’s cultural sector is facing growing scrutiny over salaries that fall short of the expertise demanded. A new museum in Slovenia is turning Balkan…