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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/iranparticpationtrophy.jpg?w=1024″] President Donald Trump has made no secret of his love for all things gold—the larger and glitzier the better. So visitors this week to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., who happened upon a 10-foot-tall, golden “Iran War Participation Trophy” dedicated to the president, can be forgiven for initially thinking it was…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Sasha-Wortzel_Dreams-of-Unknown-Islands.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Industry Moves Artists Hellen Ascoli and José Morbán Selected for Delfina Foundation Residencies: The two artists will head to London for 12 weeks via support from the Jorge M. Perez Collection and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/gala-celmins-v-1-2.png?w=1000″] The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art has announced the honorees for its annual Art+Film Gala, chaired by returning hosts Leonardo DiCaprio and LACAMA trustee Eva Chow. This year’s star-studded event on Nov. 7 will honor artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. The Art + Film gala raises funds for LACMA’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Copy-of-_DSF3899-Edit.jpg?w=1024″] The third episode of 2026’s breakout show on Apple TV, Widow’s Bay, ends with the creature of the week—the perpetually sopping Sea Hag—astride her prey: cynical mayor Tom Loftis, played by Matthew Rhys. He’d been warned. Her preferred method of murder is asphyxiation (she sits on your face). Pinned beneath her rotting legs in his recliner chair, Loftis narrowly escapes by yanking its lever, catapulting the hag over his head. The spell breaks; dread collapses with a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/vt2.webp?w=1024″] New research suggests that a treasured bronze artifact excavated from the Sanxingdui archaeological site in China is an assemblage of different parts made in different areas at different points in time—“offering fresh evidence of ancient trade networks and advanced metalworking techniques,” according to a report in Heritage Daily. The research released by…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Jacolby-Satterwhite-courtesy-the-artist.-Photo_-Xavier-Scott-Marshall.jpg?w=1024″] Jacolby Satterwhite has been named the inaugural recipient of the Artists Living With Cancer Grant, a new $25,000 award co-presented by the Rema Hort Mann Fund (RHMF) and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Satterwhite will be presented with the inaugural grant, the first such partnership between RHMF and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Ana-Mendieta-installation-view.-Photo-Tate-Yili-Liu_011.jpg?w=1024″] In 1980, Ana Mendieta returned to her homeland of Cuba for the first time, having fled as a child refugee in 1961. She would make another six trips between 1980 and 1983, and the works she made during these visits open Tate Modern’s new major retrospective of her work. “Esculturas Repuestras”(1981)is a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2014_Zimmerli-Building7x5_hires-Photo-McKay-Imaging-Photography_Facilities.jpg?w=1024″] The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey is now richer by more than 70 artworks after a donation from the collectors Anne and Arthur Goldstein that includes pieces by established figures such as Tauba Auerbach, Darren Bader, Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, Kunié Sugiura, and John Waters, as well as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1266461085.jpg?w=1024″] The Metropolitan Museum of Art has tested positive for traces of the bacteria linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, health officials announced Tuesday. The bacteria were previously detected at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as authorities continue searching for the source of the outbreak. The Met is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GettyImages-1227930861.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Smithsonian is under yet more pressure from the Trump administration over its leadership and governance. Yoko Ono’s landmark performance Cut Piece is being revisited at The Broad in Los Angeles. The Cincinnati Art Museum opens its first Yayoi Kusama…