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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286326675.jpg?w=1024″] In January, the Bay Area’s California College of the Arts announced that it would close in 2027 after selling its two campuses to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. Now, Vanderbilt has revealed that its San Francisco campus will open next year as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, named…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/St.-Mark-AME-Zion-Church.jpeg?w=1024″] The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced the final cohort of grantees for the Conserving Black Modernism initiative, which focuses on preserving the work of Black architects.   This year’s grantees range, which each receive $150,000 for a total of $750,000 for the cohort from an urban park to a shopping mall. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MAGRI_1936.0002.jpg?w=1024″] Gagosian will present a major exhibition devoted to René Magritte and his influence on contemporary art this fall, bringing together museum and private loans alongside newly commissioned works by living artists in London during Frieze week. Opening September 24 at the gallery’s Grosvenor Hill space, “This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/bcd1338a-ce58-485a-8362-2b1d1a199f9c-2.jpeg?w=1024″] A monumental desk designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Frank Gehry sold for $243,200 at Freeman’s in Chicago last week, according to Artnet News. The figure is more than ten times its $20,000 high estimate and sets a new auction record for one of Gehry’s design objects.  Known as Icehenge, the sprawling 16-piece work…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Refik-Anadol_Credit-Efsun-Erkilic.jpeg?w=1024″] During a brief pause in a years-long renovation that began in 2023, the Smithsonian’s iconic red sandstone Castle hosted an immersive light and sound installation by Refik Anadol. The project, Smithsonian Dreams, was projected onto the façade of the building for two hours, starting at 9 PM, on Friday and Saturday evenings…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2265099607.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Jessica Morgan has been named director of the Tate museum network. The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery has reopened nine months after the infamous crown jewels heist exposed major security weaknesses. British artist Lucy Sparrow’s first US museum exhibition has transformed a 1980s supermarket into a felt-filled wonderland. The Headlines COMING HOME. After…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Jessica-Morgan-photo-by-Gabriela-Herman.jpeg?w=1024″] After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027. In that new role, she will oversee one of England’s most important art institutions. Tate facilitates two major London museums—Tate Modern…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-21-at-4.20.03-PM-e1784668250451.png?w=1024″] Months before Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hit theaters, many on the internet had seemingly already reached a conclusion. The armor was wrong. Agamemnon’s black, plasticky helmet looked, one widely shared post complained, like something out of a Batman movie. Odysseus’s ship was a Norse longship, from the wrong civilization and the wrong…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/christiessummit.png?w=1024″] “We are in a historic moment in wealth creation,” said CNBC wealth reporter Robert Frank at the keynote presentation of the 2026 edition of the Christie’s Art + Tech Summit last week, alongside Christie’s CEO Bonnie Brennan and Michael Anders, founder of the investment firm ICONIQ Capital. Frank was referring to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/rose-garden.jpg?w=1024″] Last week, President Trump installed a new, life-size bronze sculpture of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden, making it the fifth statue he has added to the White House grounds during his second administration, the Washington Post reports. The piece is another example of Trump-led efforts to install realistic statues around the…