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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MCDINSI_UC026.jpg?w=1024″] I didn’t take much convincing. In movies, there is always that scene where the criminal, having said no, changes his mind and growls, “I’m in,” but I was feeling more agreeable. When anold friend approached me about one more job with abig payday, I decided to say yes before I’d finished the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-55995075.jpg?w=1024″] Tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry when it goes on view at the British Museum this fall sold out in just over 24 hours this week, reports the Telegraph. The museum said it was the biggest day of ticket sales in its history. Depicting the Norman conquest of England 1066 and made…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/agU6n6YofJOwHPGe_9TheCourseofEmpire_Desolation.jpg?w=1024″] Fragments of an equestrian statue of King George III, which loomed over Bowling Green in New York City until it was toppled in 1776, open “Democracy Matters,” the inaugural exhibition in the new Tang Wing for American Democracy at the New York Historical. Most of the statue was melted down and reformed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/N-6710-00-000002-A5cropped.jpg?w=1024″] The National Gallery in London announced that it has acquired a significant history painting by 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman. The work is now on view at the museum.  Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes (1787–88) is the first work by Kauffman to enter a UK national collection in nearly two centuries.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1353890578.jpg?w=1024″] The discovery of lead during renovation work at Paris’s historic Palais Garnier—opened in 1875 and summoned as inspiration for Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera (and even more famously for Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical adaptation)—has “throw[n] a tight schedule of venue closures and the projected budget into disarray,” according…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/NT_8687.jpg?w=1024″] An artist has demanded the organizers of Manifesta 16 remove an installation from the exhibition in Essen, Germany, alleging that a piece in the show plagiarizes one of her earlier works.  The piece, titled Elevation and made by the Turkish sculptor Nasan Tur, consists of reclaimed church pews installed on their side…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/1280px-Joaquin_Sorolla_y_Bastida_-_La_playa_de_Valencia.jpg?w=1024″] A word to the wise: no matter how frazzled you are while preparing to leave town for a family vacation, make sure you don’t forget anything on the sidewalk when you drive away. Especially if you are the type of family that takes valuable, framed artwork on road trips. Andrés Hurtado, a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/924949774.jpg?w=1024″] A photograph by acclaimed Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov has been stolen from the Lithuanian National Museum of Art in what officials believe was a targeted theft. The work, part of Mikhailov’s 1993 series At Dusk, disappeared from the Radvila Palace Museum of Art in Vilnius on June 28 while on view in the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/herbertlust.jpg?w=1024″] Herbert Lust, a major collector of modern and contemporary art who befriended Alberto Giacometti, Robert Indiana, and other artists, died on May 12 at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, the New York Times reports. He was 99. Lust often described his life in the art world as something of an “accident.” On…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-1166449264.jpg?w=1024″] Phillips has sold $1.9 million worth of art from the holdings of disgraced art advisor Lisa Schiff—and the sales are not finished yet. According to a list provided by a Phillips spokesperson, the house has so far sold 231 pieces from Schiff’s collection of contemporary art. The result of $1.9 million is…