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  • Restoration of Fire-Ravaged Glasgow School of Art May Be Too Expensive

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1020027846.jpg?w=1024″] The future of the architecturally illustrious centerpiece of the Glasgow School of Art—designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in stages between 1899 and 1909—is uncertain after the school said planned renovation work following two fires is too expensive to undertake on its own. After a fire in 2014, actors Brad Pitt…

  • Made in L.A. 2027 to Be Curated by Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Jose-Luis-Blondet-and-Michael-Wellen-3_photo-by-Gabriel-Noguez-.jpg?w=1024″] The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has named the two curators for the next edition of its closely watched Made in L.A. biennial: Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet. Their edition, the eighth overall, will open in the fall 2027. Wellen is the recently appointed chief curator of the Hammer, who officially…

  • Connecticut Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty in $2.1 M. Theft Scheme

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/US_Dist_Conn.jpg?w=1024″] A Connecticut antiques dealer and auction house owner pleaded guilty to a federal money laundering charge Tuesday, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, which alleges that the theft totaled some $2.1 million. According to the plea deal, David L. Johnson, a 66-year-old resident of Greenwich who operated…

  • New Tate Director Takes Big Pay Cut: Morning Links for July 23, 2026

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GettyImages-2222627505.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Vanderbilt University to keep art at the heart of the former California College of the Arts campus after a $75 million gift from Jensen and Lori Huang. A new study argues that art-world inequality is shaped by institutional networks, not just representation. Ex-Dia director Jessica Morgan is taking a $500,000…

  • Lauren Oyler on Florentina Holzinger, Watermill’s New Councils, and More

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2275857869.jpg?w=1024″] Happy Thursday! Here’s who’s moving and shaking in the art world this week. Jessica Morgan Appointed Director of Tate:The British curator, currently director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, will succeed Maria Balshaw at the helm of the Tate network, which oversees Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives.…

  • French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track Down Looted Artworks

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1080x1350_WANTED.png?w=1024″] Have you seen a middle-aged man sporting an 18th-century, white, powdered wig, a nobleman’s fine clothes, and a gentle, open smile? If so, you may have come upon a certain Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, a French engraver, designer, and art critic, who worked for King Louis XV and lived from 1715 to…

  • Jeff Koons Wins Appeal in Copyright Case on ‘Made in Heaven’ Series

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-476346410.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Jeff Koons has once again prevailed in a legal challenge, as a New York federal appeals court affirmed that a copyright lawsuit filed against him by artist Michael Hayden was brought too late. According to court documents filed yesterday in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the…

  • The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery Reopens, Without Any Crown Jewels

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286529394.jpg?w=1024″] The Louvre reopened its now-infamous Apollo Gallery on July 22, nine months after a group of thieves lifted $102 million worth of Napoleon era jewels from the Paris museum. The brazen daytime heist took less than eight minutes, during which time thieves, disguised as construction workers, used a monte-meubles, or a moving…

  • If Dealers Want to Sell to a Museum, They May Have to Find the Buyer

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Rose-deSmith-Greenman-I-e1783367986575.jpeg?w=1024″] Art dealer Sonia Dutton was at her gallery on the Lower East Side last fall, where “Night Drawing,” Boston artist Rose deSmith Greenman’s debut New York exhibition, was on view. The untrained artist began drawing only in her seventies, but her still lifes, often made after dark with humble materials like everyday…

  • Newly Discovered Tombs Offer Rare Insight Into Ancient Egyptian Society

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/News-20260721-Egypt-Saqqara-Tomb-Relief-1.jpg?w=1024″] An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three rock-cut tombs dating to Egypt’s New Kingdom period (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.) at the Bubasteion Necropolis in Saqqara. The news was first reported by Ahram Online. Located 40 km southwest of Cairo, Saqqara was an important cemetery of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis. In the second…