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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/762812763_3816494218507505_5268196287010157545_n.jpeg?w=1024″] A Russian drone has reduced to ashes a 1726-built church in Ukraine, which officials say was a rare surviving example of wooden Cossack architecture from that era. Over the weekend, a Russian drone struck the Holy Vvedenska [Presentation] Church in southern Ukraine’s Beryslav historic settlement, setting it on fire, reported local news…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Flavia_foto_28-6-17-002-1.jpg?w=1000″] Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), one of the world’s most closely observed museums in the art-rich biggest city in Brazil, promoted Flávia Almeida from vice-president to president, to direct the institution after 12 years of leadership by Heitor Martins. As reported by ArtReview, Almeida “comes from a business and management…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Headshot.-Rudy-Gerson.jpeg?w=1024″] This past May, on one of the first warm days of an unusually frigid spring in New York, two friends seized on the good weather and decided to have cocktails on the Whitney Museum’s eighth floor terrace. They chatted and laughed—and then were quickly interrupted by a woman in a white leotard…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Portrait-of-Tesfaye-Urgessa.jpg?w=1024″] White Cube, which has six gallery locations around the world, announced today that it will now represent artist Tesfaye Urgessa, who splits his time between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Nürtingen, Germany. The gallery will open its first solo show for the artist at its Hong Kong location on September 9, featuring new…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2277773890-e1785962759822.jpg?w=1024″] Late last month, the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists (WAPA) filed a complaint against Douglas J. Burgum, the US Secretary of the Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming. In the case, filed July 24, WAPA, a Wyoming-based nonprofit representing field archaeologists,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Foto-9.jpeg?w=1024″] The Australian Museum has returned 18 ancestral remains to the people of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island). The news was reported by the Art Newspaper following a July 27 announcement by Chile’s National Cultural Heritage Service. The repatriated human remains (known locally as Ivi Tupuna) include 17 skulls and one…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Wings.jpg?w=1024″] A major work by a lauded Renaissance artist, newly restored, has again taken up residence in the very church for which it was originally painted. Fra Angelico’s Fiesole Altarpiece (ca. 1420–1423) has been restored to the Church of San Domenico, just north of Florence, where the artist once was a Dominican friar.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Louvre_Hero_Image.jpg?w=1024″] The National Museum of Asian Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will play home to 26 works on loan from Paris during the run of “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,” an exhibition opening September 26 and continuing into January 2027. As reported by The Art Newspaper, “The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1281897288.jpg?w=1024″] Coarse skin, matchstick-thin, and oozing existential dread—the signature of Alberto Giacometti is unmistakable. Born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, in 1901, Giacometti captivated the interest and imagination of his artistic peers and patrons with a career of remarkable transformation: from his early Surrealist experiments to his explorations of ancient Egyptian-inspired forms, to the postwar…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SOTHEBYS2025_1118_065348-6367_ALIVE.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Paul Allen, S.I. Newhouse, Robert Mnuchin, Marian Goodman, Leonard Lauder, Barbara Gladstone: the list of collectors whose art has arrived at auction over the past two years reads like the society pages…