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To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0<\/em>Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tGood morning!<\/p>\n SHOW ME THE MONEY.<\/strong>\u00a0A new report by a UK parliamentary committee accuses the government of having \u201ctaken an almost hands-off approach\u201d to the challenges facing national museums, which range from cyber security to the physical preservation of collections,\u00a0reports\u00a0the\u00a0Art Newspaper<\/em>. The\u00a0Public Accounts Committee<\/strong>\u00a0has unveiled a report titled \u201cFinancial Resilience of government-sponsored museums and galleries,\u201d which concerns 15 of England\u2019s public museums it says are being left vulnerable due to the government\u2019s \u201creactive, rather than strategic approach.\u201d It is also unclear whether public money granted to these arts institutions is being valuably spent, said the report, which alleges that the\u00a0Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)<\/strong>, led by\u00a0UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy<\/strong>, doesn\u2019t seem to have the answer to that question either. Over the year 2024 to 2025, the DCMS allotted \u00a3484 million ($640 million) in funding to 15 national institutions, but did not monitor its spending, in a demonstration of a \u201clack of leadership,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n IN MEMORIAM<\/strong>. The feminist, self-taught German conceptual artist and painter\u00a0Rune Mields<\/strong>, who designed her own grave decades ago, has died at age 91, reports\u00a0dpa<\/em>. \u201cWe have lost an artist who vehemently advocated for raising awareness and strengthening the role of women in art in what was then a male-dominated art world,\u201d her gallerist\u00a0Judith Andreae<\/strong>\u00a0said. Mields participated in Documenta 6 in 1997, won the Gabriele M\u00fcnter Prize, and was celebrated at the Bonn Art Museum with a dedicated solo gallery exhibition coinciding with her 90th birthday. A double exhibition of her works is planned for next year, at the\u00a0Morsbroich Museum<\/strong>\u00a0in Leverkusen and the\u00a0Gie\u00dfen Art Gallery<\/strong>. Per her wishes, Mields will be buried in the \u201cartists\u2019 cemetery\u201d in Kassel, Germany, the home of Documenta.\u00a0<\/p>\n Skulptur Projekte M\u00fcnster<\/strong>, the decennial exhibition that brings major artist commissions to the titular German town, has revealed some of the first details of its 2027 edition, the first staged without the leadership of its founder\u00a0Kasper K\u00f6nig<\/strong>\u00a0died in 2024. [ARTnews<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA rare broadside print of the American Declaration of Independence, printed by a British loyalist, known as the\u00a0Goodspeed-Sang-Streeter<\/strong>\u00a0copy, is being sold at\u00a0Goldin Auctions<\/strong>\u00a0until July 8, with bidding having reached $1.2 million. [Observer<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tArtist\u00a0Bae Young-whan<\/strong>, who participated in the Korean Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale, has died at age 57. [K-Artnow<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tThe\u00a0Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay<\/strong>\u00a0is celebrating its 40th anniversary this December, with events leading up to it, including a light projection by artist\u00a0Jenny Holzer<\/strong>\u00a0on the museum fa\u00e7ade from October 18 to 22, and a\u00a0Mary Cassatt<\/strong>\u00a0retrospective opening the same month. [press release<\/strong>]<\/p>\n \n\tA privately funded, \u201cartistic creation\u201d around the\u00a0Statue of Liberty<\/strong>, made by an unnamed French artist and organized by the French consulate in New York, will be broadcast July 3rd on ABC, in celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary. [Le Figaro<\/strong>]<\/p>\n TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE<\/strong>. When reporter Judd Tully was tipped off about curiously affordable artworks by famous Chicago Imagists\u00a0Jim Nutt<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Christina Ramberg\u00a0<\/strong>sold on the\u00a0dantegallery eBay\u00a0<\/strong>store, he decided to go deep. For\u00a0Artnet News<\/em>, he writes about how he and a friend acquired two works by the artists, for which bidding opened at $99, and then the real sleuthing began. Those gallery labels on the back of the framed works? All fakes. They cross-checked them with experts and people who worked at the galleries themselves (Phyllis Kind Gallery<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Jean Albano Gallery<\/strong>). So it comes as little surprise that the artworks themselves were copies, and poor ones at that. But Tully doesn\u2019t stop there. He and his friend hopped in a car, and drove to the return address on the FedEx package, in which the fake works had been shipped. They came upon a certain eBay sender named\u00a0Katarzyna Ozimek<\/strong>, in Walton, New York, with whom they left a handwritten note. Some time afterwards, they received a response: \u201cI received your note regarding Artnet story. There is really no story\u2026\u201d went the blatant denial. But soon after that message, the dantegallery eBay site came up empty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/rune-mields-passing-uk-report-museums-morning-links-june-30-2026-1234790766\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2253671616.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. Good morning! A new parliamentary report says the UK government lacks leadership and has a \u201chands-off\u201d approach to how it funds and cares for national museums. 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