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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/New-Museum_New-Humans_0326_0278.jpg?w=1024″] When I picture cyborgs, I can’t help but picture the ones I know—all of them are disabled. Insulin pumps, cochlear implants, and pacemakers make human-machine hybrids out of people every day. So when I saw that New York’s New Museum was reopening with a cyborg-centric show, “New Humans: Memories of the Future,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2231277759.jpg?w=1024″] The Smithsonian Institution on Thursday closed seven buildings on the National Mall, citing a failure of the temperature-control system. Visitors were turned away today from a swath of Smithsonian museums and facilities on the south side of the National Mall between Jefferson Drive and Independence Avenue SW, including the Smithsonian Castle, the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Palazzo-Pitti-Sala-di-Saturno-Test-Luci_02.jpg?w=1024″] Yesterday, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, revealed the extent of ongoing €50 million renovation plans spread across the museum. The revamp includes dozens of projects in the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, the nearby Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, some of which have already begun, while others are scheduled to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2262633167.jpg?w=1024″] A new megalithic funerary monument, one of the many so-called “Giants’ Tombs” scattered around Sardinia, has been uncovered in the central part of the Italian island. The Bronze Age tomb was discovered at Carrarzu Iddia, an archaeological site near the town of Macomer, as reported in Finestra Sull’Arte. The excavation was overseen…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MAC-Cosmetics-Basquiat.webp?w=681″] MAC Cosmetics has joined forces with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s family and estate for its latest limited-edition collaboration, inspired by the late artist’s creative signatures. Debuting direct-to-consumer and in select MAC stores on Thursday, the six-piece collection ranges in price from $29 for loose powder pigments in three shimmering gold, taupe and white shades to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/IDavis_Confessions-of-Fire_02.jpg?w=1000″] Isaiah Davis’s Midtown Manhattan studiowas once Christian Louboutin’s atelier, and it still has red carpeting that evokes the lacquered undersides of the designer’s signature stilettos. When I visited Davis’s studio this past winter, that red peeked out from under heaps of black and brown leather the artist was working with. Leather appeared…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/liz-mulholland.jpg?w=1024″] Dealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner’s Los Angeles outpost.  “I genuinely wish Liz the best,” Kreps told ARTnews. “It’s a big life decision,…