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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HNFnmMzXAAAX-sW.jpg?w=1024″] A painting that once belonged to the prominent Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has been successfully identified and will be returned to his heirs. The discovery of the painting, depicting the interior of Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and likely by Dutch Golden Age painter Hendrick van der Burgh, has an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Johnson00001-3.jpg?w=1024″] Standing 60 feet tall in a former horse pasture at Max Levai’s Montauk exhibition space, The Ranch, Matt Johnson’s Meditating Figure is impossible to ignore. Built from 12 retired shipping containers that collectively traveled more than 12 million miles before being stacked into the outline of a cross-legged figure, the sculpture turns one…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/GettyImages-464571726.jpg?w=1024″] Brady Lum, former chief operating officer at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, pleaded guilty on Monday to a federal charge of theft. Lum “pilfered more than $600,000 from the museum by doctoring invoices and approving transactions for personal purchases,” says an announcement from the Justice Department.  “Over several years, Lum deceptively plundered…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tt1.webp?w=1024″] Archaeologists have uncovered a previously unknown tomb in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Sheikh Abd El-Qurna on Luxor’s West Bank. The 3,000-year-old monument contains colorful wall paintings as well as inscriptions identifying the former occupant as a man named Paser. Part of the Theban Necropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Sheikh…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2241678506.jpg?w=1024″] The two prime suspects in the infamous 2025 Louvre jewel heist claimed they were recruited by a “mysterious sponsor,” according to statements made to Paris judicial authorities that were published by Le Monde over the weekend. Arrested one week after the robbery and indicted on charges of “organized gang robbery,” Abdoulaye N.,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/studio-campo-baeza-and-maoda-win-competition-to-design-ecuadors-new-national-museum-in-quito_1.jpg?w=1024″] The winning design for a new National Museum of Ecuador (MuNA) in Quito has met with criticism among detractors who deride its minimalist aesthetic and claim it clashes with the culture of the country. “A heritage that tells our Andean, Amazonian, coastal, and insular history cannot be contained within a structure that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2259106655_44cb9d.jpg?w=1024″] Last week, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the ranking member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, detailed allegations that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts “mismanaged federally appropriated funds,” rushed renovation work, and skirted standard government contracting procedures. The allegations, laid out in a letter on July…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2208317162.jpg?w=1024″] A California resident was sentenced last week for his theft of a rare 17th-century Chinese manuscript from the library of the University of California, Los Angeles.  Jeffrey Ying, 39, had pleaded guilty to a single count of art theft last October. He was sentenced to “time served, accounting for around one month…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/venice-bienanle-26_1.jpg?w=1024″] Over the weekend, a European Union commission followed up on its earlier threats to cancel a €2 million grant to the Venice Biennale, citing Russia’s participation in the event this year as its reasoning. The European Commission was among the most high-profile voices to denounce the Biennale in advance of the opening,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Chua-Mia-Tee.jpg?w=1024″] Chua Mia Tee, known for his sympathetic depictions of the people of Singapore during the country’s early period of self-rule, has died, age 94. The artist’s daughter, Chua Yang, told the Straits Times that her father was recently hospitalized for pneumonia and died at his Bukit Timah home on July 10. No…