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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/christiessummit.png?w=1024″] “We are in a historic moment in wealth creation,” said CNBC wealth reporter Robert Frank at the keynote presentation of the 2026 edition of the Christie’s Art + Tech Summit last week, alongside Christie’s CEO Bonnie Brennan and Michael Anders, founder of the investment firm ICONIQ Capital. Frank was referring to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/rose-garden.jpg?w=1024″] Last week, President Trump installed a new, life-size bronze sculpture of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden, making it the fifth statue he has added to the White House grounds during his second administration, the Washington Post reports. The piece is another example of Trump-led efforts to install realistic statues around the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2280611021.jpg?w=1024″] Life imitates art, sort of. Katie Holmes plays a New York–based photographer reconnecting with her high school flame in Happy Hours, a new film Holmes also wrote and directed. Happy Hours premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 6, and, according to TMZ, it was at a dinner related to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2286438756.jpg?w=1024″] “Dr. Hartig, are you America first? Do you love America?” So asked Representative Tim Burchett (Republican of Tennessee) of Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH), during a two-hour congressional hearing Tuesday over allegations that the institution has failed in its duty to preserve and present the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/escamez-beginning-end-mural-955×1024-1.webp?w=955″] Two 1970s murals by Chilean artist Julio Escámez, long thought to have been destroyed by Augusto Pinochet’s military regime, are currently in the process of being uncovered and restored. The Heritage Unit of the Municipality of Chillán (UPA), which has been carrying out the work, announced this week that they expect to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/about-us-banner-1688436552.jpeg?w=1024″] The Hong Kong Palace Museum entered into an agreement with the Islamic Civilization Center in Uzbekistan to collaborate on exhibitions, academic research, and other projects. At a signing ceremony on Monday, the connection forged between the two institutions marked the first official reciprocal visit by a Central Asian cultural institution since Hong…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2271050885.jpg?w=1024″] On Friday, the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), most of whose members were appointed by President Trump or include leaders of Trump-controlled agencies, sent an internal draft proposal to eliminate federal regulations requiring public and state input before construction begins on historic sites, as first reported The Atlantic. The suggested…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-498043082.jpg?w=1024″] A New York sculptor thought he had found an unlikely market for a new artwork. Instead, he found himself stuck with a six-foot-four-inch bronze-colored monument sitting in his studio, a broken foot, a six-figure bill, and almost no interest from collectors. Artist Sergio Furnari says he spent roughly $100,000 building a life-size…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG_4473.jpeg?w=909″] Is Italy’s famous 6th-century BCE statue known as the “Warrior of Capestrano” a Mussolini-backed forgery? Recently granted permission to test the mysterious statue, held in Abruzzo’s National Archaeology Museum in Chieti, central Italy, may have the answers, reports the Times of London. The over-two-meters-high, imposing limestone figure, adorned with a wide-brimmed hat,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Russia-Venice-Pavilion.jpg?w=1024″] The European Union has officially suspended its €2 million ($2.3 million) grant to the Venice Biennale after a review of the inclusion of the Russian Pavilion in its official program.   The decision was announced by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) after a legal review and on the recommendation of the European Commission, Monopol reported Tuesday. Last…