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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/luisa-cunha.jpg?w=1024″] Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese conceptual artist whose whispering sound installations and language-based works made her one of her country’s most influential contemporary artists, died on Monday of cancer at Lisbon’s Hospital de São José. She was 77.  Over a career that began in the early 1990s, Cunha built a body of work…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/af25b41f-dc8b-c350-41e9-160032e17da7.jpg?w=1024″] The New Museum in New York announced that Massimiliano Gioni, its longtime artistic director, has been named as the institution’s next director. He will take on the role beginning August 1. He succeeds Lisa Phillips, who announced her retirement, after 26 years, last September. “After an extensive international search, we are thrilled…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/GettyImages-526227760.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! The London branch of the Artist Pension Trust is closing to the dismay of participating artists. “Combative” former head of the Barnes Foundation has died at 79. Historians rebut White House attack against the National Museum of American History. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/734384455_18603491323059276_124581964361796670_n.jpg?w=1024″] Valerie Brathwaite, an artist whose sculptures utilized sinuous forms that intentionally recall both geographic formations and curvaceous bodies, died on Monday. The news was announced via the artist’s Instagram page, whose bio memorably terms her a “Sculptress & Dj.” She was either 87 or 88. In the second half of the 20th…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/russian-icon-st-Vladimir.jpg?w=1024″] British national Jonathan Hornby is the first from his country to be convicted of violating the UK’s sanctions on exports of luxury goods to Russia, imposed in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which was launched on February 24, 2022. Hornby, managing director of a logistics company, attempted to send four…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2284331794.jpg?w=1024″] Designer Jonathan Anderson has once again taken inspiration from the work of sculptor Lynda Benglis for his latest fashion show. The creative director of Dior since 2025, Anderson presented the house’s Fall Winter 2026-27 Haute Couture Show at the Musée Rodin in Paris on Monday, marking his second haute couture collection for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/20210308_MARLBOROUGH-09_PLH.jpg?w=1024″] The former New York home of Marlborough Gallery, arguably the world’s pioneering mega-gallery before its collapse and closure in 2024, has found a new owner. Gazelli Art House, which operates galleries in London and Baku, Azerbaijan, has purchased the former Marlborough space at 545 West 25th Street for $7.5 million. Brown Harris Stevens brokers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-1354483857.jpg?w=1024″] Updated July 6, 2026 Our fascination with all things Frida Kahlo seemingly knows no end. Fridamania, the global obsession with this painter whose life was as artful as her canvases, has been rising for decades but is now at a fever pitch. A major exhibition of her work that opened in late…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/disney-lawsuit.png?w=1024″] Midjourney has asked a federal US court to force Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to disclose how they use artificial intelligence, returning a legal volley first fired by the entertainment giants. The studios sued Midjourney, accusing it of facilitating widespread infringement of their copyrighted characters—a potentially devastating legal challenge for the popular…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/thai-ring.jpeg?w=1024″] An archaeological dig in western Thailand turned up a pair of gold rings in the vicinity of human bones. As reported by the Associated Press, one of the rings bears script that reads “pusarakhitasa,” which means “the one protected by Pushya.” Written in Bhrami, an ancient Indian system of writing, the allusion…