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BIG ASK.<\/strong>\u00a0The suits who hired Jessica Morgan to lead Tate are hoping she\u2019ll restore its confidence, ambition, and curatorial edge. As the\u00a0FT<\/em>\u00a0wrote, expect the museum to look beyond familiar names and champion overlooked artists, particularly those missing from traditional art histories, while bringing greater coherence to Tate\u2019s sprawling collections. Morgan\u2019s track record, especially at Dia Art Foundation, suggests more adventurous exhibitions, stronger connections with artists, and a renewed emphasis on quality over trend. But she\u2019ll also need to balance the museum\u2019s future-facing ambitions with the public\u2019s appetite for iconic works and blockbuster exhibitions. Her task is to make Tate feel both more expansive and more compelling.<\/p>\n LAYER CAKE.<\/strong>\u00a0A new design by Japanese architecture firm SANAA has been selected for the Museo Nacional del Ecuador in Quito, following a controversial reset of the competition process,\u00a0The Art Newspaper<\/em>\u00a0reported. The winning proposal, \u201cLiving Strata,\u201d imagines the museum as a series of layered spaces connecting culture, landscape, and history. The $100 million project aims to give a permanent home to a collection of 1.2 million objects, only a fraction of which are currently on display. The decision follows public backlash over the original winner, sparking debate over transparency, architectural judgment, and the role of public opinion in shaping major cultural projects.<\/p>\n \n\tAn \u201cenormously important\u201d 18th-century painting by Scottish artist\u00a0Katherine Read<\/strong> has been rediscovered through the\u00a0BBC\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Fake or Fortune?<\/em>\u00a0[BBC]<\/p>\n \n\tA new digital archive is turning the world\u2019s museums into a single searchable collection, putting 5.8 million artworks spanning 5,000 years of history at anyone\u2019s fingertips. [Open Culture]<\/p>\n \n\tA Viking ship replica used in\u00a0Christopher Nolan<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0The Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0has sailed into a legal dispute, with its owner claiming Universal failed to cover damage costs, a claim the studio denies, contending that all bills have been paid in full. [The Art Newspaper]<\/p>\n Victoria Mouraux Durand-Ruel\u00a0<\/strong>will open a new contemporary gallery in Chelsea this September, timed with The Armory Show week. [FAD]<\/p>\n ALL THE CONTINENT\u2019S A STAGE<\/strong>. Europe is often seen as a continent defined by its past, a vast archive of artistic achievement, historical landmarks, and cultural memory. But\u00a0The Economist\u00a0<\/em>offers a fresh way of seeing the continent: not as a static museum, but as a \u201ctheme park\u201d that continually curates and reinvents its heritage for a global audience. The idea captures Europe\u2019s ability to turn culture into a living, valuable experience, from architecture and design to food and the arts. The question now is whether Europe can use that cultural confidence to fuel new ideas and creative energy, rather than simply refining its relationship with the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/museo-nacional-del-ecuador-selects-architect-morning-links-1234793347\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2241470479.jpg?w=1024″] Good Morning! How will Jessica Morgan transform Tate? Expect more adventurous shows, greater accountability, and stronger connections with artists. A new design by Japanese architecture firm SANAA has been selected for the Museo Nacional del Ecuador\u2019s $100 million new home. A replica Viking ship from Christopher Nolan\u2019s\u00a0The Odyssey\u00a0is embroiled in a payment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2062002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\tTHE DIGEST\t<\/h2>\n
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