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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-2170792148.jpg?w=1024″] More than 300 workers across London’s Victoria and Albert Museum are voting on whether to strike over salary, working conditions, and what unions describe as unsafe heatwave policies. According to the Guardian, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union launched the ballot on July 23, covering employees at the V&A’s flagship South Kensington museum,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Andy-Warhol-Brillo-Box-Soap-Pads-1964.jpg?w=1024″] The Detroit Institute of Arts has received one of the largest gifts in its history: more than 2,000 modern and contemporary artworks from the estate of Detroit collectors Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman. The donation, which includes nearly 500 artists, will begin going on public view in November when the museum reopens…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AP20219511923229.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Staffers at London’s V&A Museum are voting on possible “heatwave” strike action. A Vancouver real-estate collapse has exposed an alleged art-fraud dispute involving artworks worth almost $5 million. A new Art in Embassies exhibition is set to open in Washington,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/3_1e9614.jpg?w=1000″] In an island-nation known for its rich cultural heritage, MICAS is shaping Malta into a contemporary art hub with its world-class program of exhibitions. Situated in the Mediterranean between Italy and North Africa, the island of Malta is known for its 5,000-year-old megalithic temples, crystal clear lagoon waters, and cinematic landscapes. Building…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/torque_en_or.jpg?w=1024″] A 2,500-year-old gold collar belonging to the Vix Treasure archaeological find was stolen Friday in broad daylight from a French museum, according to reports in Le Parisien and France 3. The thieves allegedly entered the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais – Trésor de Vix in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Burgundy, around 10:30 a.m. on July 24…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/0021_262304_Archie-Rand-Photo-Christopher-Garcia-Valle.jpg?w=1024″] For decades, Archie Rand‘s “Letter Paintings” series has been something of a cult favorite among painters and critics. Now, 44 of them are heading to an unlikely home: the corporate collection of Italy’s Modena FC. New York–based gallery Jarvis Art announced this week that the Italian football club has acquired the group of paintings,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/gettyimages-2285620655-594×594-1.jpeg?w=594″] President Donald Trump escalated his battle with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Friday, ordering signage outside the institution to flag what an executive order calls “inaccurate information” presented in its exhibits. The extraordinary directive comes amid intensifying Republican scrutiny of the Smithsonian branch, which was the subject of a recent…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GettyImages-944550220.jpg?w=1024″] Earlier this week, French customs near the Swiss border gifted an artwork by Marc Chagall to a nearby museum in France, after it had been languishing in bureaucratic purgatory, forgotten on a warehouse shelf for over 20 years, reported ICI Besançon. In 2006, French authorities stopped a truck carrying artworks from France…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-949580188_9715eb.jpg?w=1024″] Joyce Kozloff, the renowned Pattern and Decoration artist and founder of the feminist magazine Heresies (1977–93), has revealed herself to be a founding member of the feminist action group Guerrilla Girls. She made the disclosure in an interview published July 22 in Art Journal Open. The Guerrilla Girls collective was formed in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Jillian-and-Cathleen-2_photo-by-Nina-Grenga.jpg?w=1024″] Following the departure of Buffalo AKG Art Museum director Janne Sirén in October, after 13 years on the job, the Upstate New York modern and contemporary art museum is turning inward for its future leaders. Today, it announced the appointment of the museum’s current chief curator, Cathleen Chaffee, as the new artistic…