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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/108_investigacionVelazquez_ARS71-2.jpg?w=1024″] Salvador Salort-Pons, the director of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), recently revealed the discovery of a portrait by Diego Velázquez made during the artist’s earliest years as a court painter to King Philip IV. Salort-Pons, a specialist on Velázquez, published his findings in the current issue of ARS Magazine, which is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/716.jpeg?w=1024″] Archaeologists working in Egypt’s Western Desert have uncovered a well-preserved Byzantine-era city at the Dakhla Oasis, reports Heritage Daily. According to the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the discovery provides important insights into daily life when Egypt was part of the Byzantine Empire.   Excavation of the fourth-century settlement, conducted at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-113633699.jpg?w=1024″] Yemen’s Antiquities Authority said it had identified 28 allegedly looted Yemeni artifacts in overseas collections, including eight pieces recently offered for sale at auction houses in London and 20 held by the British Museum. According to Yemen’s General Authority for Antiquities and Museums, the first group of objects appeared in antiquities sales…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-180320441.jpg?w=1024″] Yervant Gianikian, an Italian filmmaker whose work helped Armenia win the Venice Biennale’s top honors in 2015, has died, according to reports in the Italian press. He was 84. Frequently working with his partner Angela Ricci Lucchi, who died in 2018, Gianikian produced experimental films that considered forms of dispossession and the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/145447228.jpg?w=1024″] Google Image Search can identify a lot of things. But according to a new lawsuit filed in Oregon, multimillion-dollar Chinese paintings aren’t one of them. An estate sale company is accused of selling dozens of Chinese scrolls and rubbings for as little as $45 apiece after allegedly relying on Google Image Search…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/5ffc71f0e0928364466038.jpg?w=1024″] Jewelry worth an estimated €4 million ($4.57 million) was stolen from a decorative arts museum in northeastern France’s Alsace region early on Sunday morning, less than a week after another heist at an archaeological museum on the other side of the country. According to French reports, soon after 5:30 a.m. on Sunday,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/unnamed2-copy.jpg?w=1024″] Artist Jonathan Bruce Williams sued New York’s Kai Matsumiya last month, alleging that the gallery still owes him more than $16,000 for two artworks that sold from his 2025 show there. Located near Tribeca, one of the city’s most densely populated gallery districts, Kai Matsumiya was founded in 2014 and has shown…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/es-auctions.png?w=943″] In February, Walter and Cathy Shannon launched Black Crown Art Auctions, the only active Black-owned and Black-operated fine art auction house in the United States. They created the platform to ensure equity, visibility, and legacy for African American artists, gallerists, and collectors. The Shannons, who launched Black Crown Art Auctions at the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2232706818-e1783348220166.jpg?w=1024″] While most of the country was celebrating United States’s 250th birthday, the Trump White House launched its latest broadside against the Smithsonian Institution: a 162-page report from the Domestic Policy Council detailing supposed “ideological capture” at the National Museum of American History. The report, released on July 4, alleges the museum “purposely…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GettyImages-2231277648.jpg?w=1024″] The Headlines HISTORY WILL TELL? On July 4, as Americans celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary, the White House published a scathing attack on the Smithsonian Institution, in particular its National Museum of American History, reports the New York Times. Titled “Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage,”…