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Jack Leigh, Lone Tree at Sunset, Ossabaw, 2001. ©Jack Leigh Collection/Courtesy Laney Contemporary ARTS Southeast, an artist residency nonprofit based in Savannah, Georgia, will launch a new residency program on Ossabaw Island, the state’s third-largest barrier island. The Ossabaw Island Residency will host two week-long sessions, one in fall 2026 and one in spring 2027, …

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Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. Cape Town. View Pictures/Hufton+Crow/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Good Morning! Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town has appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. Sotheby’s has landed a $450 million tranche of works from the collection of Argentine industrialists Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier. An …

Zeitz MOCAA Enters Post-Koyo Kouoh Era, Sotheby’s Lands $450 Blaquier Collection, And More: Morning Links for August 12, 2026 Read More »

Ruth Patir, Intake (still), 2024. Courtesy the artist; Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; and Jewish Museum, New York A video installation at the center of high-profile controversy at the 2024 Venice Biennale will go on view this winter in New York, marking its US premiere. New York–born, Tel Aviv–based artist Ruth Patir’s video installation (M)otherland was …

New York’s Jewish Museum to Present US Premiere of Ruth Patir’s Installation from Israeli Pavilion at 2024 Venice Biennale Read More »

Ivan Cheng, 16, 2026, at Aspen’s AIR festival. Photo Maria Baranova/Courtesy the artist and Aspen Art Museum Aspen, Colorado, stands at an elevation of just under 8,000 feet, enough to wonder what the atmosphere there might do differently to the eye, the ear, and all the rest of the bodily apparatus that we marshal throughout …

Aspen’s Ambitious AIR Festival Turns the Rocky Mountains into a Stage Read More »

A Jamil Hellu exhibition at SF Camerawork. Senny Mau The Bay Area photography exhibition venue SF Camerawork is calling it quits after 52 years, the institution announced on its website yesterday. “This decision follows years of rising operating costs, declining public funding, and a changing philanthropic landscape,” said the institution. “SF Camerawork is not alone …

SF Camerawork To Close After Five Decades, Citing ‘Changing Philanthropic Landscape’ Read More »

Elvira Dyangani Ose will be the next artistic director of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo Ramiie G/Courtesy Zeitz MOCAA The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, announced Wednesday Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. She will begin in the post on October 1. In leading …

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One of the many “Giants’ Tomb” in Sardinia, similar to the one that was recently uncovered near Bortigali. Photo Ivan Romano/Getty Images A new megalithic funerary monument, one of the many so-called “Giants’ Tombs” scattered around Sardinia, has been uncovered in the central part of the Italian island. The Bronze Age tomb was discovered at …

Monumental Bronze Age Tomb Discovered Amid Dense Vegetation in Sardinia Read More »

The Lilli Petroli fuel distribution company in L’Aquila, Italy, where thieves rammed through a gate to nab over $4.6 million dollars’ worth of art. Photo courtesy of Carabinieri On July 28, a group of 10 people ransacked the headquarters of the Italian fuel distribution company, Lilli Petroli, in L’Aquila, located in Italy’s Abruzzo region, spending …

All-Night Art Heist in Italy Suspected to Be ‘Some Sort of Revenge’ Read More »

A photography installation about wildfires by the artist Stefano Cerio in Gibellina, Sicily, was nearly destroyed by a wildfire in August, 8, 2026. Photo courtesy of the artist, Stefano Cerio. Life not only imitated art at an exhibition in Sicily this summer — it almost destroyed it. Stefano Cerio’s outdoor photography installation about the devastation …

Photography Exhibit on Wildfires Nearly Engulfed by Real Wildfire in Sicily Read More »

The Rapa Nui people welcome the remains of their ancestors repatriated from the Australian Museum in a ceremony on the island Courtesy Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural. The Australian Museum has returned 18 ancestral remains to the people of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island). The news was reported by the Art Newspaper following …

Australian Museum Returns 18 Ancestral Remains to Rapa Nui Read More »