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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-578551334.jpg?w=1024″] The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation denied the use of a 1981 portrait by the artist of notorious New York lawyer Roy M. Cohn for the cover of a forthcoming biography, titled American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn‘s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, because of its negative affiliation with the sitting US president,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2t13122owac4p1i.jpg?w=1024″] The Chinese ambassador to South Korea has ordered China’s artists to withdraw from the 16th Gwangju Biennale, which opens September 5, in protest of the Gwangju Biennial Foundation allowing Taiwanese exhibitors to participate under the name “Taiwan,” South Korean media reported today.  In a meeting with Gwangju Mayor Min Hyung-bae at Gwangju…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2227935346.jpg?w=1024″] Two municipal employees in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have been dismissed following an investigation into alleged corruption involving construction contracts. They include work connected to asbestos removal at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, one of the country’s most important museums. The employees were among three officials investigated after concerns emerged that municipal…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1228526756.jpg?w=1024″] Two men stole a diamond necklace worth millions of dollars from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on Thursday, after entering the museum as ordinary visitors and smashing open a display case. The unidentified men entered the MAK during opening hours and targeted the museum’s current exhibition of jewelry by Van Cleef…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/rembrandt.jpg?w=1024″] The United Kingdom’s government announced this week that it has put a temporary export ban on a Rembrandt painting valued at £71.7 million ($97.2 million). The painting in question is Rembrandt van Rijn’s Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet (1657), which has been on view in the UK since the mid-18th century, according to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2185850849.jpg?w=1024″] Just 10 weeks prior to the opening of Sydney’s latest cultural institution, Powerhouse Parramatta, its chief executive Lisa Havilah has stepped down amid ongoing “investigations into governance and procurement,” according to a statement released on Thursday from the office of Australia’s Minister for Arts John Graham. Since her 2018 appointment, Havilah has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2292011631.jpg?w=1024″] The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge on Thursday that it will halt efforts to add President Trump’s name to the building until at least October 8, delaying its plans by a month. The announcement followed an emergency court hearing prompted by a Justice Department filing this week warning that the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2291737202.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Lisa Havilah, CEO of Sydney’s Powerhouse Parramatta, has stepped down ten weeks before its opening. A €4 million ($4.7 million) diamond necklace has been stolen from the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.  A £71 million ($96.4 million) Rembrandt portrait…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/11-Vue-de-lexposition-Mythologies-Alexandra-Vaquero.jpg?w=1024″] Nicknamed the “Little Louvre,” a hidden gem of European masterpieces in France’s Basque Country was given a new lease on life last fall. Founded in 1891, the Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne is home to some 7,000 artworks spanning antiquity to the early 20th century, and it reopened after 14 years of renovations…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Hasnaine-Yavarhoussen-portrait.-Courtesy-Hakanto-Contemporary.jpg?w=1024″] In 2019, just four nations mounted their debut pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Madagascar was one of them, and Hasnaine Yavarhoussen’s sponsorship was largely what made it possible. The year before, the Malagasy art collector and entrepreneur met with artist Joël Andrianomearisoa to discuss the country’s participation and his support. At the…