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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2287540807.jpg?w=1024″] The four massive bronze statues that make up the “Arts of War” and “Arts of Peace” statues on roads leading to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., were looking a little long in the tooth, according to President Trump. In April, the Department of the Interior engaged a studio in Maryland to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/nasher.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. Happy Thursday! Here’s who’s moving and shaking in the art world this week: Art Critic Zachary Fine Joins the New Yorker as Contributing Writer: Fine, a postdoctoral fellow at Wesleyan University and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-549527937.jpg?w=1024″] German authorities have revealed new details about the January cyberattack on the Dresden State Art Collections, suggesting the incident was more severe than previously understood. Monopol reports that the Saxon Ministry of Justice confirmed the perpetrators remain unidentified and that investigators found the attack itself lasted several days, from January 17 to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-729067747.jpg?w=1024″] Avedon, Oscar winner Ron Howard’s documentary feature about the life and work of legendary photographer Richard Avedon, has been acquired by Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The film, which had its world premiere at May’s Cannes Film Festival and was met with raves, will be released worldwide on the streaming platform later this year, and will receive an awards…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2284698745-e1785426684486.jpg?w=1024″] On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search at Dane Fine Art, a gallery based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. While the FBI did not say what the search was for, a spokesperson told CBS Philadelphia that it was conducting a “court-authorized law enforcement activity.” Victor Fiorillo, a senior reporter at Philadelphia magazine, was on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/unnamed-4.jpg?w=1000″] The late sculptor Thaddeus Mosley came to art world fame in 2018, following his inclusion in that year’s Carnegie International. At the time, the self-taught artist was in his early 90s, having spent the past seven decades working diligently, and mostly alone, on monumental freestanding totems in his Pittsburgh studio. He died…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Aspen-Art-Fair.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. Ask around at the tony Hotel Jerome, in Aspen, Colorado, and you’ll soon hear about the stories of ghosts—or, as some prefer to call them, friendly spirits. Local dealer Sam Harvey, of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/bayeux-3.jpg?w=1024″] For almost a millennium, a spectacular visual chronicle of British history has remained on the far side of the English Channel, in Normandy. The Bayeux Tapestry—a Romanesque-style textile artwork that is 230 feet long and populated with 58 scenes, 626 characters, and 202 horses—is a masterwork long studied by scholars and even…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Alan_Michelson_The_Oyster_2026_01.jpg?w=1024″] Before New York became a sprawling metropolis, its rolling hills, deep valleys, and tidal salt marshes were part of a larger estuarine ecosystem that was home to countless flora and fauna. This included fresh bodies of water like Collect Pond in Lower Manhattan and massive oyster beds along the harbor’s more than…