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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2245940271-v2.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Mamdani administration is expected to abandon city plans to replace Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden with housing.  NYC Culture Club has moved into New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal. The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music in New Jersey is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2231277683.jpg?w=1024″] The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums released a statement Tuesday pledging its “unwavering support” for the Smithsonian Institution, as it faces repeated assaults on its integrity and independence by the Trump administration. In the statement, ICOM-US said that it was speaking out in response to the recent…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/New-Talent-2026-Web-Banner_M.jpg?w=1000″] Mitchell Charbonneau’s studio is one of many among a warren of fabrication shops and ateliers at Permanent Maintenance, an artist-run space in the New York neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens. Upon entering, I moved to place my coat on a worn, half-open folding chair. Looking more closely, I reconsidered, recognizing it as a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1487574307.jpg?w=1024″] A “stunning” British collection of 318 Jurassic fossils has been sold to the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi in what some have described as a loss to the nation, the Guardian reports. The items were collected by UK fossil hunter Chris Moore on the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO world heritage site in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/san-diego.png?w=1024″] The San Diego Museum of Art laid off 11 employees on Wednesday, August 5, citing “rising operational costs,” the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The layoffs affected departments across the museum, including programs, development, and exhibitions, and leave the total staff count at 118. The news comes six months after the Balboa Park…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-1231759561.jpg?w=1024″] Just when it looked like the major auction houses had exhausted the supply of trophy consignments, another heavyweight collection has surfaced. Sotheby’s has secured the collection of the late Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, a group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces said to be worth around $450…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Eden-Gallery-New-York-exterior.jpg?w=1024″] New York’s Eden Fine Art filed a legal complaint in New Jersey district court last month, saying that collector Jacob Shochat hasn’t paid for some $822,390 worth of artworks he bought from the gallery. The gallery is accusing the collector, who has a background in medical technologies, of breach of contract. Eden…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/the_voyage_of_life_youth_1971.16.2.jpg?w=1024″] The Last Museum, an online search engine without any names or credits attached to it, now offers up images of some 6.3 million artworks held in museum collections around the world, searchable by “theme, style, subject, vibes, or any description you can imagine.” As reported by Colossal, many of the works are…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/irthi.jpg?w=1024″] The United Arab Emirates landscape is expanding once again, with Sharjah set for the region’s first contemporary crafts museum. The Irthi Museum will open in Sharjah’s Creative Quarter sometime in 2029 and house a permanent collection of contemporary crafts from across the Gulf, the Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council announced. More specifically, the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2231277790.jpg?w=1024″] A former senior executive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has accused the institution of “soft censorship” for relocating, without explanation, a symposium inspired by its exhibition on race in American and Mexican art last year. The symposium, titled “Color Lines Across the United States and Mexico,” was originally…