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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GettyImages-492876144.jpg?w=1024″] “I was incredulous. Really?” That was Kim Sajet’s take when her former Smithsonian colleague, Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, was subjected to hostile questioning during a congressional hearing last week, according to a new interview with The New York Times. “I could see that it was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/albanyskyline.jpg?w=594″] The New York State Museum in Albany has been accused of misusing $597, 624 in federal grant funds between 2020 and 2022, the Times-Union reported Wednesday. The finding resulted from a recent investigation by the US Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General. The accompanying report, released in late May, found…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1188297142-e1785506550380.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! A new AI chatbot helps speed up provenance research for Nazi-looted artworks. The new Africa Cultural Initiative wants to build a collaborative arts infrastructure across the continent.  San Francisco’s Nexus: SF/Bay Area Black Art Week Returns September 30. The Headlines …

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Orlando-Portrait3.jpg?w=1024″] For nearly a decade, Manju Journal has been establishing a vital digital archive and storytelling platform celebrating contemporary African art, fashion, photography, and the creatives shaping its future. Founded in Ghana in 2017, it has since grown into a global community. However, for founder Richmond Orlando Mensah, documenting the continent’s thriving creative…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Asad-WEB.jpg?w=1024″] In March of this year, I flew to Los Angelesto see the literally groundbreaking exhibition “Monuments,” curated by Hamza Walker, Bennett Simpson, and Kara Walker and co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and the Brick. Because that show engaged many dialogues around the presence and removal of monuments, it had…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1955.4_Clark.jpg?w=1024″] A taut line of rope stretches across the upper register of Winslow Homer’s Saved (1889), an etching made during a period of experiments in printmaking he undertook in the second half of the 1880s. On view in an exhibition at Maine’s Portland Museum of Art (PMA) dedicated to this brief but significant…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Gilberto-Cardenas-photo.jpg?w=735″] Gilberto Cárdenas, one of the country’s top collectors of Latinx art and a leading scholar of Latino studies, died on July 26 at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 79 years old. With his wife Dolores Carrillo García, Cárdenas, a sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, built…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/modig.jpg?w=1024″] Just weeks after ordering billionaire art dealer David Nahmad to return a Nazi-looted Amedeo Modigliani painting, a New York judge has ruled that the painting’s rightful heirs are also entitled to prejudgment interest, a decision that could add millions in compensation to the case. In a decision issued Tuesday, Justice Joel M.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/lidar1.jpeg?w=1024″] Surveys of the Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas turned up evidence of pre-Colombian civilization that thrived in southwestern Amazonia. As reported by Heritage Daily, the new findings—published in the journal Nature—include signs of hundreds of earthworks that had not previously been identified. “The team conducted more than 4,400 kilometers of airborne…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/va-render.jpg?w=1024″] Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum‘s new V&A East Storehouse have voted unanimously to strike in a dispute over working conditions, just weeks after the East London facility became one of the museum world’s most closely watched new cultural attractions.  The ballot, organized by the trade union Prospect, covers collections access officers who staff…