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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Faro-Santander-view-over-the-city.-Credit-Juan-Baraja.jpg?w=1024″] The Banco Santander Foundation announced September 8 as the new opening date for its forthcoming art center, the Faro Santander. The news was first reported by El País. The space’s three inaugural shows include a Leonora Carrington solo, an exhibition looking at the Banco Santander’s previously unseen collection of masterpieces, and “Modern…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2274724637_ae0222.jpg?w=1024″] The Venice Biennale will not exclude Russia from its events due to political pressure, the foundation’s president said Thursday in a public address criticizing the European Union’s recent confirmation that it will suspend a €2 million ($2.3 million) grant. The withdrawal of funding was made in response to Russia’s participation in this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-3347275.jpg?w=1024″] As previews continue in advance of showtime upon its opening on September 22, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles—the starry institution conceived by director George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson—announced its inaugural film program at San Diego Comic Con. In a panel discussion featuring Lucas Museum senior curator…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2285616799.jpg?w=1024″] The replica Viking ship used in Christopher Nolan‘s blockbuster The Odyssey has become the subject of a dispute between its Swedish owners and Universal Pictures over who should pay for repairs after filming.  The nonprofit Värmlands Vikingacenter says its 17.5-meter replica warship, Glad av Gillberga, returned from production in need of repairs including a cracked…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2241470479.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! How will Jessica Morgan transform Tate? Expect more adventurous shows, greater accountability, and stronger connections with artists. A new design by Japanese architecture firm SANAA has been selected for the Museo Nacional del Ecuador’s $100 million new home. A replica Viking ship from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is embroiled in a payment…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/61_DSC8582.jpg?w=1024″] Betty Parsons’s importance in postwar American art history as a fearless, groundbreaking art dealer is indisputable. Within a year after she opened her eponymous gallery in 1946, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still had all signed with her. Remarkable as this beginning was, her importance as a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Encykorea-간송미술관.jpg?w=1024″] On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul hosted a ceremony to mark the return of two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China. According to a report in the South Korean publication Yonhap News Agency, the ceremony was attended by Chun In-keon, director of the Kansong Art Museum, You Hong-june,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/banknote-design-proposal-e-100-front-1.jpg?w=1024″] Could Leonardo da Vinci, alongside imagery of visitors strolling through art exhibitions, become the face of future euro banknotes? In a first, Europeans can now help decide how they want to pay for their Belgian chocolate and French cheese: with bills printed in designs depicting either “European culture” or “Rivers and birds,”…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286636242.jpg?w=1024″] The United States has repatriated a collection of looted cultural artifacts to Indonesia, according to a report by the Associated Press. The handover took place July 22 at a meeting between Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto and FBI director Kash Patel in Jakarta. The returned items, from Indonesia’s Papua region, are part of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2282229707.jpg?w=1024″] Missed a golden glimpse of the first Knicks’ championship trophy in 53 years, as it made its victory lap through Manhattan? Never fear, New York: Get yourself to the American Museum of Natural History starting Monday, where the Larry O’Brien Trophy will be on display through January 3. The Knicks beat the…