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[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,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2231277790.jpg?w=1024″] Since Donald Trump assumed office again, Washington, D.C., has seen new gold-plated statues and UFC fights on the White House lawn. Up next: an IndyCar race involving high-performance machines whizzing around the capital at speeds up to 185 miles per hour from August 22-23. One part of a series of celebrations of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tim-reeve-pr-1080×400-1.jpg?w=1024″] English Heritage has appointed Tim Reeve as its new chief executive. He rejoins the organization after 13 years as deputy director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the organization announced Tuesday. Reeve will replace interim Geoff Parkin who took over after the abrupt resignation of Nick Merriman due to family…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/TangWingforAmericanDemocracy-76thStreet.jpg?w=1000″] Less than two months after opening its $175 million Tang Wing for American Democracy, the New York Historical has replaced 17 objects in its inaugural exhibition with reproductions. Another three objects have been removed entirely. The problem is natural light, reportedly. The new wing’s main exhibition gallery has large windows that flood…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/881cbffb-5bf1-4b77-9412-87376014aab4.jpg?w=1024″] In April, two Indian artists Srishti Gupta and Akriti Choudhary were arrested for protesting with factory workers in Greater Noida, an industrial and manufacturing city close to New Delhi, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday. Now, a Change.org petition is calling for their freedom along with six workers, who were also arrested on…