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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2280456460-e1785860672944.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The National Gallery has been criticized after spending £250,000 on its NG Citizens program. Royal Museums Greenwich staff have voted for industrial action over pay, conditions, and workplace reforms. London‘s mayor has defended free entry to the capital’s national museums,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/fcc-lubov-2.jpg?w=800″] Francisco Correa Cordero, the founder of New York gallery Lubov, died on August 2. The news was announced in a post on the gallery’s Instagram account, which did not provide a cause or age. “He accomplished and lived for his dream through the gallery of a safe and meaningful community for artists…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2180799439.jpg?w=1024″] Clara Wu Tsai and Joseph Tsai, the billionaire art collectors and owners of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Liberty, are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage, the New York Post reported Friday. The couple, who married in New York in 1996, were named jointly to ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list in 2018 and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/leonardo-at-the-met-wide.jpg?w=1024″] Get ready for Leonardo da Vinci fever at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the curators, without so much as a press release, hung a painting this spring by the Renaissance master. On a Monday visit, the work wasn’t gaining any particularly high level of attention as it hung in gallery…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GettyImages-695673242.jpg?w=1024″] Gagosian has closed its small space in London’s Burlington Arcade and will soon close up its space in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Newspaper reports. Both spaces started as pop-ups, and as long as the rents were good, it made sense for founder Larry Gagosian to keep up those spaces, a source familiar…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-108287701.jpg?w=1024″] Before announcing John Galliano as the subject of its starry Costume Institute exhibition opening next spring, the Metropolitan Museum of Art met with influential rabbis and Jewish leaders to discuss the selection of a figure “as famous for his antisemitic rant in 2011 as he is for his fashion,” according to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP20275523726813.jpg?w=1024″] In 2021, British artist Sacha Jafri auctioned what was then the world’s largest canvas painting, The Journey of Humanity, for a total of £45 million ($62 million at the time) in support of children’s charities. The proceeds from the sale made in Dubai were supposed to be split between UNICEF, UNESCO, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/newsmakers-banner.jpg?w=1024″] The Old Stone Mill in Newport, Rhode Island, is an odd little building. Eight thick stone legs support a circular tower pierced by arched openings. There aren’t exactly windows, nor is there a roof. Stand in the middle and look up and all you see is sky. The structure, which sits in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/New-Talent-2026-Web-Banner.jpg?w=1000″] Medieval art continues to resurface asa foil for the art of subsequent generations. In the quattrocento, Vasari coined the term “gothic” to decry the “barbarousness” of such pre-Renaissance styles. By the mid-19th century, however, revivalists looked to it for inspiration, an egress from the calcified obsequiousness of neoclassicism and the depredations of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/FCIDLY_2026_One-little-room-on-fire_60854.jpg?w=1024″] Taryn Simon’s upcoming solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York will mark a number of firsts for the institution. Opening September 18, the show will mark “the first time the Guggenheim has dedicated the entire rotunda to a new body of work and to a single artist working in photography…