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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287639764.jpg?w=1024″] A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to build a $400 million ballroom at the White House without congressional approval. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with historic preservationists who sued to halt construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-07-at-2.07.03-PM.png?w=1024″] Christie’s is taking Miranda Priestly’s closet to the auction block. Again. Twenty years after costumes from the original The Devil Wears Prada were sold on eBay, clothes and accessories from the sequel are getting a somewhat grander treatment. Christie’s will offer pieces worn by Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simone Ashley…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Picasso-e1786119959372.webp?w=768″] A Pablo Picasso etching stolen from Milwuakee’s DeLind Art Appraisals in 2018 was handed over to the city’s plice department on Thursday, according to a press release. The etching and aquatint printed in ink on paper, titled Torero, is the ninth in an edition of 30. When it was stolen in 2018,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/103350.jpg?w=1024″] “Why have there been no great women artists?” Maybe because too many of their masterpieces were dismissively shoved into storage for not having been painted by a more famous man. That, at least, seems to be what befell a still life by the 17th-century Flemish painter Clara Peeters. Still Life with Small…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/bunker.jpg?w=1024″] After a study to map its sprawling network of rooms commenced in 2022, a nuclear bunker in northern Italy will transform into a Cold War museum scheduled to open in part next year. As reported in The Art Newspaper, the bunker—built between 1960 and 1966 in the town of Affi near Verona—was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/LEAD-IVAN_CHENG_16_Show_Baranova-818.jpg?w=1024″] Aspen, Colorado, stands at an elevation of just under 8,000 feet, enough to wonder what the atmosphere there might do differently to the eye, the ear, and all the rest of the bodily apparatus that we marshal throughout the day. Certainly the question was high in mind when the Aspen Art Museum…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-535533351.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Robert Rauschenberg hosted lively parties in the late 1960s at his New York townhouse. Artists and engineers bunked in, the artist’s turtle Rocky charmed visitors, and Rauschenberg created some key works in his studio there. That property may soon give way to luxury rentals and boutique condominiums.  The five-story, 92,000-square-foot NoHo…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-National-Gallery-London.-Photo-Edmund-Sumner_View-of-National-Gallery-Sainsbury-Wing_011.jpg?w=1024″] An initiative by London’s National Gallery to convene a panel of randomly selected UK citizens to advise on its future has drawn criticism from art-world figures and conservative MPs. For the assembly, called NG Citizens, the National Gallery brought together a demographically representative group of the UK population, including some who may…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-117284483.jpg?w=1024″] French museums can’t seem to catch a break. Between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the Musée du Président Jacques Chirac in the central French town of Sarran was robbed for the third time in less than a year, a French public prosecutor told local media outlet Ici Limousin. Thieves reportedly broke…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/bayeuxtapestry.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The UK government has promised to help the country’s struggling local museums. A forgotten still life in Norway’s National Museum has been reattributed to Flemish master Clara Peeters. Meet the masterminds behind the painstaking transport of the Bayeux Tapestry to…