[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/reynolds.jpg?w=1024″]<\/p>\n
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 MAI, OH MAI. Joshua Reynolds<\/strong>\u2019s monumental 18th-century portrait of\u00a0Mai<\/strong>, a young Tahitian man who arrived in London with\u00a0Captain Cook\u00a0<\/strong>in 1774, will soon make its West Coast debut, the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0reports. After a joint acquisition, for more than $61 million, between the\u00a0Getty Museum\u00a0<\/strong>in Los Angeles and the\u00a0National Portrait Gallery\u00a0<\/strong>in Los Angeles, the eight-foot painting made a transatlantic and transcontinental trek to the Getty, where it is currently undergoing intensive conservation research, which has so far revealed layers of paint, revisions, and pigments including lead and vermilion. Going on view at the Getty next month and until the institution\u2019s 2027 closure, the\u00a0striking work is a rare example of Reynolds\u2019s Grand Manner style depicting a person of color, and captures a complex cultural encounter between Tahitian traditions and Georgian Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n ARTIST ON ARTIST.<\/strong>\u00a0Director\u00a0Finlay<\/strong>\u00a0Pretsell\u00a0<\/strong>speaks with\u00a0Deadline<\/em>\u00a0on his latest film,\u00a0Douglas Gordon By Douglas Gordon<\/em><\/strong>, which premiered at the\u00a0Edinburgh Film Festival<\/strong>. The documentary gives an \u201cinsightful\u201d portrait into the work of the Scottish artist known for filmic installations like\u00a024 Hour Psycho<\/em>\u00a0(1993) and\u00a0Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait\u00a0<\/em>(2006). \u201cAs the title suggests,\u201d Damon Wise writes, \u201cGordon was not a passive subject, actively fighting his director for authorship of the story. The result is a fascinating deconstruction of the documentary process, with Pretsell both charmed and exasperated by his mercurial and temperamental subject.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCould\u00a0Brighton & Hove<\/strong>, England,\u00a0create its own \u201cBilbao effect\u201d by building a major landmark art gallery on the seafront? [The Argus]<\/p>\n Gazelli Art House<\/strong>, which has spaces in London and Baku, Azerbaijan, spent $7.5 million to acquire the 10,000-square-foot Chelsea space that\u00a0Marlborough Gallery<\/strong>\u00a0once called home for its forthcoming New York outpost. [FAD Magazine]<\/p>\n \n\tThe\u00a0Cinema Museum<\/strong>\u00a0in London is hoping to crowdfund \u00a3500,000 by December to buy its Elephant & Castle home and finally secure its future. [Time Out]<\/p>\n \n\tA rare\u00a0Picasso<\/strong>\u00a0print stolen from a Milwaukee gallery in 2018 has been found by a landlord cleaning out an apartment. [The Guardian]<\/p>\n \n\tA new art-focused dinner series is bringing young\u00a0Washingtonians<\/strong>\u00a0together over food while helping them plug into the city\u2019s gallery scene and beat loneliness IRL. [Axios]<\/p>\n CRIME AND CANVAS<\/strong>. London mobster\u00a0Eddie Richardson<\/strong>, who fought a notorious turf war with the\u00a0Kray twins\u00a0<\/strong>before his life took an unexpected turn into art, has died aged 90, the\u00a0Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0reports. He discovered painting in prison, quickly becoming a prolific artist whose subjects were strikingly removed from his violent past. He portrayed friends, sporting scenes, children playing, and people enjoying a drink. Richardson, who ran the notorious \u201cTorture Gang,\u201d exhibited some 80 works in 2003 and even made a portrait of Lord Longford sold to benefit charity. In later life, he also became an author and public speaker, leaving behind a body of work that offers a surprisingly gentle counterpoint to his notorious past.<\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/joshua-reynolds-portrait-getty-morning-links-august-18-2026-1234795135\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/reynolds.jpg?w=1024″] To receive\u00a0Morning Links\u00a0in your inbox every weekday,\u00a0sign\u00a0up\u00a0for our\u00a0Breakfast with ARTnews\u00a0newsletter. Good Morning! The Headlines MAI, OH MAI. Joshua Reynolds\u2019s monumental 18th-century portrait of\u00a0Mai, a young Tahitian man who arrived in London with\u00a0Captain Cook\u00a0in 1774, will soon make its West Coast debut, the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0reports. After a joint acquisition, for more than $61 […]<\/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-2099921","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\/2099921","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=2099921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2099921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2099921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2099921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\tThe Headlines\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tThe Digest\t<\/h2>\n
\n\t\tThe Kicker\t<\/h2>\n