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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Amelia-and-Dani.png?w=1024″] The shakeup at Pace Gallery isn’t over. Just two months after the gallery laid off roughly 50 employees in a sweeping restructuring, two of the executives who helped shape Pace during its years of rapid expansion are headed for the exit. Amelia Redgrift, the gallery’s chief communications officer, and Dani Forest Brandi,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/627a031_upload-1-vbao4xiigaka-traite-mystique.avif?w=1024″] For decades, the descendants of the Senegalese Muslim mystic, scholar, and military commander Omar Saïdou Tall have been trying to retrieve his stolen belongings, known as the “treasure of Ségou,” from the French state. The trove, spread across several French museums and the national library, includes nearly 500 manuscripts containing Tall’s writings…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/michael-e-msith-edited-17.jpg?w=1024″] When I learned of an opportunity to interview Michael E. Smith—an artist I’ve long admired—my brain boomeranged: I was excited to hear from an elusive artist who seldom speaks, but also stumped as to what exactly I might ask the man. I intuited that direct questions—of the what does this mean, why…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2026-08-11-at-5.23.45-PM.png?w=1024″] Finally! The real Michael Fried has stood up. A new collection of his life’s work reveals him to be a poet with a memory bestowed from the gods—one who weathered Peter Schjeldahl’s trumped-up charges of being a formalist, conservative fuddy-dud, one who emerges in our AI slop epoch as one of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/4740399-2026391780.jpg?w=670″] An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered three tombs from different historical periods at the Sheikh Sobi archaeological site in the Bahariya Oasis. The news was reported by several outlets, including Arab News, following an announcement by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The site, which lies about 225 miles southwest of Giza,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/city3_227c5f.png?w=1024″] Tulsa, Oklahoma-based digital artist Lily Belmira has made a new, free video game allowing anyone to virtually visit Michael Heizer’s mysterious and radically difficult-to-enter land artwork in the Nevada desert, titled City. Only six people a day who are willing to pay the regular admission fee of $150 are permitted to explore…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-514880378.jpg?w=1024″] The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project (JDCRP), an organization founded in Berlin in 2016, announced today that it has added AI capabilities to its provenance research tool, Legacy Explorer, which launched last year. Legacy Explorer is currently able to search five archives, including the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg archive at the Jeu de…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/bayeuxtapestry.jpg?w=1024″] The Bayeux Tapestry is set for its big moment at the British Museum this fall, but the New York Times is dishing on how the loan came to be. In a feature published Tuesday, reporter Alex Marshall reveals the many behind-the-scenes negotiations that brought the famed Romanesque-style textile artwork depicting the 1066 Norman invasion…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278616953.jpg?w=1024″] The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Thursday to close the center for renovations for a second time, while keeping a smaller, separate theater open. This week’s vote marked a dramatic escalation in the legal battle over the historic center: the Trump-allied board also moved to…