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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1015487486.jpg?w=1024″] The Trump administration has diverted at least $90 million in entry fees collected at national parks, including Yellowstone and Yosemite, to projects in Washington, D.C., according to National Park Service documents reviewed by the Washington Post. The funds have reportedly been earmarked for a range of projects tied to the 250th anniversary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HAYDEN_TUTTON-new-school-picket-line.jpg?w=1024″] Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to around 15 percent of its employees. The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education on Tuesday, affect…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/download.jpg?w=746″] The 230-foot-long Bayeux Tapestry will head to the UK in July to go on display at the British Museum. A new report, presented by the French Culture Ministry on Wednesday, expresses confidence that the fragile piece will not be threatened by the move, reports Le Monde. Dating to the 11th century, the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-948921290.jpg?w=1024″] Later this month, Pope Leo XIV will visit Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia to inaugurate and bless the Tower of Jesus Christ, the final tower of the long-gestating church. The tower was completed in February, wrapping up 144 years of construction on the notoriously complex and intricate design. The famed church was designed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/156539896-e1780597355969.jpg?w=1024″] Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director whose landmark animated feature Persepolis earned a Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nomination and made her one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema, has died. She was 56. “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Philippe-Vergne-Credit-Joaquim-Norte-de-Sousa.jpg?w=1024″] Longtime museum director and curator Philippe Vergne is assuming a newly created position at Miami’s Bass Museum of Art, joining the institution on October 1 as artistic director and chief curator. Since 2019 he has led Portugal’s Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, in Porto. “Philippe Vergne brings a remarkable depth of curatorial…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1235597145.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! Pace Gallery is dropping some 50 artists from its roster and cutting about 50 staff. Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel Persepolis, has died at 56. A new study says the Bayeux Tapestry can safely travel to London’s British Museum from Normandy. The Headlines SLOWING THE…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/nikola.png?w=1024″] New York City nonprofit Artists & Mothers has named the 2026 recipients of its eponymous $25,000 grant for artists who identify as mothers. The landmark program provides funding to cover nine months of childcare and is open to emerging and mid-career artists raising a child under the age of three. From photography…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/MarcGlimcher.jpeg?w=1024″] Pace Gallery, a mega gallery with seven locations worldwide, is laying off some 50 staff and dropping about 50 artists. In a statement to ARTnews Thursday, CEO Marc Glimcher said that the gallery will now focus its roster on 85 artists, after growing to 135 and will “continue to be a global…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026.0528_Kulapat-Yantrasast-and-Gayane-Umerova.jpg?w=1024″] Kulapat Yantrasast, the architect behind major museum projects for institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre, has been named artistic director of the 2027 Bukhara Biennial in Uzbekistan. The appointment comes less than a year after the debut edition of the biennial, which drew an estimated 1.8 million visitors and quickly…