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Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night, 1889. Google Arts & Culture, via Wikimedia A group of scientists at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes have published a study introducing a newly developed method that they say will help authenticate artworks—and identify potential forgeries. The report was published in the June 2026 issue of Surface …

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Entrance to a tunnel discovered this month under New Hall School in Essex, England Henry Godfrey-Evans/BBC. Tunnels dating to Henry VIII’s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month. Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to …

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Christie’s corporate headquarters in Rockefeller Center. Photo by Spencer Platt/Newsmakers Christie’s is planning to open a boutique wine shop at its headquarters in Rockefeller Center, thanks in part to assistance from New York state legislators who passed a law allowing the auction house to get around a regulation dating back more than a century. As …

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La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Photo by Bill Wassman/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Good Day! Pace CEO Marc Glimcher announces plan to downsize its London branch. Influential South-East Asian dealer and curator Valentine Francis Willie has died at 71. Experts in Italy accidentally mistook a three for an eight, and misdated an important, 14th-century Madonna and Child painting, now …

Sagrada Familia’s Inauguration Day, Influential Curator Valentine Willie Has Died, and More: Morning Links for June 10, 2026 Read More »

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo Howard Agriesti, Cleveland Museum The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced Friday that it has a $600 million fundraising campaign in the works. The goal is to support the institution’s long-term health—and it is nearly 80 percent of the way there. As it approaches the final stretch of the …

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Clarence Heyward, Man in the Garden, 2025. Courtesy Houston Museum of African American Culture A self-portrait by Clarence Heyward was vandalized last week by visitors to the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where the work by the Raleigh, North Carolina–based artist is on view as part of a survey titled “Eden.” As reported by …

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Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942–43 The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s years in New York—in particular, the influence of the city’s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian’s paintings either …

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Installation view of “Oscar Tuazon: dépendance,” 2013, at dépendance, Brussels. Photo Sven Laurent/Courtesy dépendance, Brussels Dépendance, the iconoclast, 23-year-old Brussels gallery that built a trusted reputation as an “artists’ gallery,” is closing. “Galleries come and go. Some are short-lived but leave a clear trace, others endure for decades without changing much. Dépendance has been there …

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A model of President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images President Donald Trump wants to fast-track the construction of his proposed triumphal arch to be sited in Arlington, between the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, just across the Potomac River. The plan, which would see work happen year-round and for …

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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Tim Hursley, courtesy Crystal Bridges. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art may have opened its 200,000-square-foot facility in Bentonville, Arkansas just 15 years ago, but it is already ready for its first major addition. At the museum’s campus last week, founder Alice Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune and, …

Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art Read More »