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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-854467512.jpg?w=1024″] The future of a 5th-century church in Glasgow, known locally as “Govan Old,” has been in a state of flux for the past decade. In 2016, according to a report by the BBC, the Govan Heritage Trust began managing the site (Govan is the name of a district in southwest Glasgow) and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/gettycenter11-9906db014504513c.jpg?w=775″] The Getty Center, the main campus for the Getty Foundation’s two Los Angeles museums, announced that it will close for renovations for about a year. The closure is expected to last from spring 2027 to spring 2028, meaning that the institution will reopen in time for the Olympics. The last public day…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/eiffel-tower-stairs.png?w=1024″] There was a time when monuments were meant to be visited; now, it seems, they can be owned—at least in parts. A section of the original staircase from the Eiffel Tower will go up for auction in Paris on May 21, CNN reported, offering collectors the chance to take home a fragment of one of the world’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/03.LEVERArchitectureTheNewWingseenfromHighStreetintheSummer-jpg.webp?w=1024″] The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in Maine closed on its purchase of a new building in the city’s downtown, as well as two adjacent parking lots late last month. The building, previously owned by MaineHealth, a major regional hospital system and the largest private employer in the state, was sold for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-78873579.jpg?w=1024″] Greece has introduced sweeping new legislation aimed at protecting its cultural property from forgery and damage, marking the country’s first comprehensive legal framework for crimes against art and collectibles. The bill, approved by Parliament in late January, establishes strict criminal penalties calibrated to the severity of the offense, including prison sentences ranging…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2223457820.jpg?w=1024″] In what was described as “a decisive step in the long road to the restitution of property looted in Africa during the colonial era,” on Wednesday the French National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee approved a proposed bill that was unanimously passed by the Senate’s Cultural Affairs Committee in January, setting up a plenary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/260331_10-00-35_R5_42515-Edit.jpg?w=1024″] Just months after her death in January at 97, Marian Goodman is returning to the market—this time as a consignor. Christie’s will offer works from the dealer’s personal collection during its May marquee sales in New York, led by a group of paintings by Gerhard Richter, with one carrying an estimate as high…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-1398396995.jpg?w=1024″] Melissa Chiu will depart her post as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., to lead the Guggenheim Museum in New York, making her the latest person to depart a Smithsonian-run museum as the Trump administration continues its crackdown. She will report to Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation director…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/small-The-Album-white-BG1728.jpg?w=1024″] An annotated photographic scrapbook—often called a “daybook”—featuring newspaper clippings and hundreds of photos by Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton has been acquired by the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford. The album was compiled by British Vogue darkroom assistant Roland Haupt between 1943 and ’49; Haupt developed film by both Miller…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/BEARO0005.jpg?w=1024″] While New York’s top auction houses prepare to sell multimillion-dollar consignments from private patrons this May, one of the city’s mega-galleries is getting ready to exhibit a collection that has gone largely unseen—until now. On May 7, at one of its Chelsea galleries, David Zwirner will open a show of works from…