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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DavidOdo-3.jpg?w=1024″] The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) in Hawai‘i has named David Odo as its next director and chief executive. He will start in the role on September 1.  He succeeds Halona Norton-Westbrook, who left in July 2025 to lead the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas. Odo is currently director…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GettyImages-1246531689.jpg?w=1024″] On Saturday, July 4, the Trump Administration released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian‘s National Museum of American History of “institutional capture by a radical, activist ideology.” On Tuesday, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III finally responded. In an email to staff obtained by the Washington Post and published Wednesday evening,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Hauser-Wirth-London.jpg?w=1024″] Swiss-based megagallery Hauser & Wirth was cleared on Thursday of charges of violating Russia sanctions by selling an artwork by George Condo to Alexander Popov, a person connected with Russia. Judge Tony Baumgardner dismissed the criminal charges, saying prosecutors had not proven that Popov was a Russian resident at the time of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GC_Portrait.jpeg?w=1024″] George Condo is heading back to Hauser & Wirth less than a year after leaving the mega-gallery, with the two sides reuniting for a pair of exhibitions in 2027 and resuming a relationship that dates back to 2019.  Hauser & Wirth announced Wednesday that it will present exhibitions of new and historical…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/TAYLHiv-HWZ-June-2026-view03-JE-hires.jpg?w=1024″] James Jarvaise, the late California modernist (1924—2015), cuts a slick silhouette in Henry Taylor’s vibrant impasto rendering of him. Jarvaise, wearing black shades, his shoulder-length hair combed back, sits slouched at the lower center of Taylor’s glowing, yellow canvas. “He had swag,” Taylor has said of his subject and first real art…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2241795731.jpg?w=1024″] Mickalene Thomas, an artist known for her popular paintings and photo-based installations centering Black women, is facing a lawsuit from the photographer Barbara Karant, who alleges that Thomas used her pictures without attribution or permission in works that appeared at an array of museums and blue-chip galleries. “In installation after installation, and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1139711601.jpg?w=1024″] The Italian parliament is advancing legislation to create a formal process for restituting art and cultural property looted by the Nazis under Italian Fascist racial laws. The news was reported by the Jewish News Syndicate following a statement by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), a Jerusalem-based nonprofit that works toward the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Artissima24-Oval-Interni-Balconata-IC-051.jpg?w=1024″] When the long-running contemporary art fair Artissima opens its 33rd edition in late October, 180 galleries from 35 countries will welcome visitors to the Oval, a vast former Olympic speed skating facility that has hosted the fair since 2010. Luigi Fassi returns as director for the fifth year running. He has organized…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/burgundy-wine-chateau.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. This story is also part of a new series on the convergence of art and luxury. See all of our reporting on the topic here. The wine market is in flux. After years of rising…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ABB26__Galleries__Public_Interactions__Hauser_and_Wirth__Pablo_Pi_HiRes.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. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a roundup of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Philadelphia Museum of Art Promotes Jennifer Thompson: With a 25-year tenure at the museum, Thompson was…