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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ChatGPT-Image-Aug-11-2026-at-11_11_15-AM.png?w=1024″] For decades, if you wanted to talk about Japanese prints, the conversation usually began and ended with Hokusai’s Great Wave. That may be starting to change. This September, Christie’s will begin selling more than 600 prints from the collection of Alan Medaugh, an American businessman who spent half a century chasing the finest…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/School-of-Visual-Arts.jpg?w=1024″] Amid a broad crisis in higher education in the US resulting from demographic trends and a combative Trump administration, enrollment at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) is down some 34 percent since 2019, and the school faces a $22 million structural budget deficit, “the largest in its nearly 80-year history,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2217311616-e1786467976604.jpg?w=1024″] Just weeks after workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s East Storehouse voted to strike over working conditions, the institution announced that it was changing its break policy, according to Museums Assocation, a nonprofit representing museum, gallery, and heritage professionals and organizations in the UK. The trade union Prospect, which represents collections…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/5.jpg?w=1024″] ARTS Southeast, an artist residency nonprofit based in Savannah, Georgia, will launch a new residency program on Ossabaw Island, the state’s third-largest barrier island. The Ossabaw Island Residency will host two week-long sessions, one in fall 2026 and one in spring 2027, with six artists for each session. The fellows will receive…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Jamil-Hellu-San-Francisco-Camerawork.jpeg?w=1024″] The Bay Area photography exhibition venue SF Camerawork is calling it quits after 52 years, the institution announced on its website yesterday. “This decision follows years of rising operating costs, declining public funding, and a changing philanthropic landscape,” said the institution. “SF Camerawork is not alone in facing these pressures; arts organizations…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/142a77fa-e87e-4e80-98ea-f29244620c0b.jpg?w=1024″] Life not only imitated art at an exhibition in Sicily this summer — it almost destroyed it. Stefano Cerio’s outdoor photography installation about the devastation wrecked by wildfires was nearly engulfed in a real wildfire on Saturday, reported Artribune. “A sad, surreal, involuntary performance,” wrote the artist in an Instagram post. Firemen…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2270571646.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership founded in 2016, will shutter this fall. Scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls, offering new clues about the people behind prehistoric art. Could the Bayeux Tapestry loan offer a model for using the Parthenon Marbles to boost British soft power…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/shipwreck.jpg?w=1024″] Divers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said that this is “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent…