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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Newmakers_BANNERS_.jpg?w=1024″] Over the past five years, as auction sales faltered and interest rates climbed, collectors became reluctant to sell prized works into an uncertain market. The result? Loans secured by art became one of the fastest-growing corners of the art market. Banks have expanded their offerings, auction houses have grown their lending divisions, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/nagasakimuseum.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! The American Alliance of Museums has slammed the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian Institution. Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum has been accused of whitewashing the country’s wartime past. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will finally open its doors on December 11. The Headlines PUSHBACK. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/AN_30-Top-Museums_07-08-2026_186b90.png?w=1000″] There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/subway-takes-upscaled-1200px.png?w=1024″] Dustin Yellin has a hot take: “Religion should be a product of art, not art a product of religion!” Um, sure! The multidisciplinary artist and Pioneer Works founder made the comment in a recent appearance on SubwayTakes, the internet talk show hosted by Kareem Rahma. In the episode, posted to Instagram Tuesday, a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/national-gallery-london.jpg?w=1024″] Two activists affiliated with Youth Demand, a group calling for the British government to end economic trade with Israel as well as the cessation of new licenses for fossil fuels, were found guilty of criminal damage after covering a Picasso painting with an image of a mother and child in Gaza. Jai…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/basquiat-portrait.jpg?w=1024″] There is a new development in an ongoing fraud lawsuit against the leader of the collapsed Vancouver-based developer Coromandel Properties, whose chief executive allegedly misappropriated funds to acquire an art collection, reports The Vancouver Sun. In 2023, Junchao Mo, a Chinese seed investor and part-owner of Coromandel Properties, and his two sons,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1397793851-e1785264694192.jpg?w=957″] Betye Saar died on July 26, four days before her 100th birthday, to the shock and sadness of an art world preparing to celebrate the centennial of the singular assemblage artist. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar spent six decades excavating the American sediments of race and politics through found objects,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Robert-Lazzarini-US-Pavillion-with-eagle.jpg?w=1024″] A Boston exhibition this fall will reveal works by New York–based artist Robert Lazzarini that were intended to represent the country at the hotly contested US Pavilion at the current Venice Biennale. The show, as yet untitled, opens on September 30 at Boston’s MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), at the Massachusetts College of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2287939698.jpg?w=1024″] The Biennale of Sydney has appointed Low Kee Hong artistic director of its 26th edition, which will be on view in and around the city in 2028. This year’s Biennale, directed by Hoor Al Qasimi and titled “Rememory,” closed last month. “The 2028 Biennale will embrace participation and discovery, inviting people from all walks of life…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/philadelphiamuseumofart.jpg?w=1024″] The hits keep coming for the Philadelphia Museum of Art: On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the museum is suffering a growing deficit, according to preliminary documentation reviewed by the paper. For the fiscal year 2025-2026, which ended on June 30, the museum had a deficit of $10 million on a…