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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-534260902.jpg?w=1024″] Museum staffers in Ireland are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain a career in the field over unstable contracts, low pay and toxic working environments, according to Dr. Emma McAlister, who wrote a blog post on the issue for the International Council of Museums on Monday. As McAlister recounted, she has only…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/image-e1786391054184.png?w=1023″] Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley has filled its senior curatorial vacancy after over a year and half. First reported by Artnet, Anne Reeve will lead the sculpture park’s curatorial program as senior curator from November 1.  Reeve is no stranger to sculpture. She heads to Storm King from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288641006.jpg?w=1024″] A sacred “talking drum” known as the Djidji Ayôkwé, looted from Côte d’Ivoire by French colonial troops over a century ago, returned this month to the place where it was made. According to the Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA), the drum arrived on August 7 at its home village of Adjame, where the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2233888692.jpg?w=1024″] Banksy‘s guerrilla artworks have generated millions of dollars in auction sales and drawn crowds wherever they appear. They’ve also left British taxpayers footing a growing cleanup bill. Public authorities across London have spent nearly $203,000 removing, protecting, and managing three of the anonymous street artist’s works since 2024, according to figures obtained by the BBC through Freedom of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/leadimagesize.webp?w=892″] The University of Bonn in Germany announced last week that numerous fossils and other exhibits have been stolen from its Goldfuß Museum. The university is now appealing to the public for information on items put up for sale or found on display, in order to secure their recovery. The university said it is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bernardo-Paz.jpg?w=1024″] Brazil’s Minas Gerais will soon see another museum thanks to mining magnate Bernardo Paz, the megacollector behind the Inhotim museum and nature complex. The Museu Bernardo Paz will turn 311 acres of countryside into a new landscape for “art, nature and community.” The first phase will open in September 2027.  “Museu Bernardo…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/1_jpg.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s entrance fee. Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning and security fees. David Hockney’s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/New-Talent-2026-Web-Banner_JK.jpg?w=1000″] In Joeun Kim Aatchim’s paintings—butshe calls them drawings—everything is so vivid, yet so elusive. Her line feels definitive, yet the images they convey seem to fade away into sheer luminosity.  Her works are typically painted using mineral pigment in shellac—sometimes with watercolor, pastel, or other materials—on layers of silk that, stretched across…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Maurice-Amon-Tracey-Amon.jpg?w=1024″] New York’s Tracey Amon filed a request on July 25 in the US District Court for the District of Southern New York to subpoena art advisor Sanford “Sandy” Heller. She wants him to turn over documents for use in her lawsuits in Switzerland over the disposition of the assets of her late…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/1785313610848_WhatsApp_Image__at_.avif?w=806″] On July 28, a group of 10 people ransacked the headquarters of the Italian fuel distribution company, Lilli Petroli, in L’Aquila, located in Italy’s Abruzzo region, spending as long as eight hours on the premises before making off with over £4 million ($4.63 million) of art, first reported local outlet Il Centro.…