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[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…

[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…