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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/merlin_89950765_9a66a2bc-f644-4625-8e61-f939bcdef0c2-superJumbo-copy.jpg?w=1024″] The keenly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open its doors on Saadiyat Island on December 11, the Department of Culture and Tourism-Abu Dhabi announced today. Plans for the addition to the Guggenheim network were unveiled in 2006 at an undisclosed cost, designed by the late Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. At its opening,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/517763668.jpg?w=1024″] An employee at the National Museum of Ireland has been charged with explosives offenses, according to the Irish Mirror, after Irish authorities said they intercepted a suspected car bomb near the border with Northern Ireland. Simon O’Donovan, 44, who prosecutors identified as an employee at the National Museum’s Collins Barracks site in Dublin, appeared…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1498692773.jpg?w=1024″] In a social media post, Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man and one of Europe’s most influential art patrons and collectors, shot back at a scathing, six-part investigation by Le Monde delving into the scope of his power, wealth, and alleged rivalries within the Arnault clan, described as “the last royal family of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/3_Adaline-Kent_Days-of-Our-Youth_1947-1.jpg?w=1024″] The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the purchases of more than 90 modern and contemporary artworks between January and June 2026. The purchases include videos and video installations by Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, Ana Mendieta, and Agniezka Polska; works on paper by Arakawa + Gins and Orlando Smith;…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/betye-saar.jpg?w=1024″] Betye Saar, the Los Angeles–based artist whose assemblages powerfully tackled the brutality of racism and anti-Blackness and the stereotypes they engender, died in her sleep in the early hours of Sunday, July 26, her gallery Robert Projects announced. She was 99 years old, and just four days shy of turning 100 on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/torque_en_or.jpg?w=1024″] The French government has announced the implementation of a national museum and monument security plan, after investigators arrested and detained a suspect in connection with Friday’s theft of a Celtic princess’s golden necklace from a museum in Burgundy, reported Le Figaro. The 10:30 am robbery on July 24 has shocked France’s museum…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2287089833.jpg?w=1024″] On Sunday July 26, the photographer Spencer Tunick organized one of the large-scale nude happenings for which he has become known over the past several decades. Tunick’s latest eye-catching gathering took place in Las Palmas, the capital city of Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands. The one-day “collective art action” was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2284663639.jpg?w=1024″] A UNESCO committee voted on Friday to add an archaeological site in the occupied West Bank and a complex of castles in southern Lebanon to its World Heritage List and List of World Heritage in Danger, despite objections from Israel. The vote took place at a meeting of the U.N. Educational, Scientific…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/RUDD2301-Enhanced-NR.jpg?w=1024″] The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has named the 63 galleries that will participate in its upcoming New York fair, recently rebranded the ADAA Fair. The fair returns to its longtime home of the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side, though will a few key changes. It will run…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1216043440.jpg?w=1024″] Researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) finished a holistic survey of an area beneath Mexico City’s Centro Historico that long ago served as the home of the sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. As reported by Heritage Daily, the project undertaken as part of INAH’s Urban Archaeology Program…