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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Atlanta-Art-Fair.jpg?w=1024″] The third edition of the Atlanta Art Fair (October 1–4) will feature upwards of 67 galleries, convening at Pullman Yards, a 27-acre former rail works in the Kirkwood district. The fair is organized by AMP (Art Market Productions), which also organizes the Seattle Art Fair, Art on Paper, and the San Francisco…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1288673455.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town has appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. Sotheby’s has landed a $450 million tranche of works from the collection of Argentine industrialists Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier. An anonymous group has launched a search engine called The Last Museum,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Elvira-Dyangani-Ose.-Photo-by-Ramiie-G-courtesy-of-Zeitz-MOCAA.jpg?w=1024″] The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, announced Wednesday Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. She will begin in the post on October 1. In leading the museum’s curatorial program, Dyangani Ose succeeds Koyo Kouoh, who served as executive director and chief curator of Zeitz…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Big-Deal-Steph-McGovern.jpeg?w=910″] The art market is a tough place to survive these days, with even megagalleries like Gagosian and Pace shuttering locations and cutting loose artists, and every day seeming to bring news of another art gallery calling it quits.  So maybe, counterintuitively, this is the perfect moment for the BBC to launch a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-10-at-10.12.31-AM-1.jpg?w=1024″] Archaeologists working near the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu have identified more than 1.5 miles of pre-Hispanic roads, as well as what researchers think could be agricultural terraces and platforms, hidden in the Andean cloud forest. The news was first reported by Heritage Daily, following an August 10 announcement by Peru’s Ministry…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sid-Motion-at-SMG-2026_Credit-Luke-Fullalove.png?w=1024″] London dealer Sid Motion will close her eponymous gallery in London’s South Bermondsey district when its fall exhibition closes. She opened the gallery a decade ago. “As I look ahead to the future, I can see that the gallery is not in the financial position to fully honor the extraordinary potential of…