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Former National Gallery Executive Accuses Institution of ‘Soft Censorship’ After DOGE Visit

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Photo J. David Ake/Getty Images A former senior executive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has accused the institution of “soft censorship” for relocating, without explanation, a symposium inspired by its exhibition on race in American and Mexican art last year. The symposium, titled …

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Mamdani Administration Might Save Elizabeth Street Garden, Bruce Springsteen Museum in New Jersey Is ‘Badass,’ And More: Morning Links for August 13, 2026

Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden. Photo Barry Williams for New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Mamdani administration is expected to abandon city plans to replace Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden with housing.  NYC Culture Club has moved into New York’s Port …

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Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover Three Ancient Tombs at Bahariya Oasis

The first tomb contains a square shaft about 3 meters deep, leading to two burial chambers Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered three tombs from different historical periods at the Sheikh Sobi archaeological site in the Bahariya Oasis. The news was reported by several outlets, including Arab News, following an …

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ARTS Southeast Revives Residency Program on Georgia’s Remote Ossabaw Island

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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Monumental Bronze Age Tomb Discovered Amid Dense Vegetation in Sardinia

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 …

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