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Adaline Kent, Days of Our Youth, 1947 Accessions Committee purchase, by exchange, through the T.B. Walker Foundation Fund The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the purchases of more than 90 modern and contemporary artworks between January and June 2026. The purchases include videos and video installations by Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, …

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SubwayTakes host Kareem Rahma and artist Dustin Yellin on a recent episode of the viral show. Screenshot/SubwayTakes Dustin Yellin has a hot take: “Religion should be a product of art, not art a product of religion!” Um, sure! The multidisciplinary artist and Pioneer Works founder made the comment in a recent appearance on SubwayTakes, the internet …

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A screenshot from the beginning of the Open Call episode showing François Boucher’s Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1750) being animated via AI. Via Open Call, Harvard Business Review The Harvard Art Museums, a consortium of three institutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, tested out a marketing campaign aimed at increasing visitor engagement and membership that makes …

Harvard Art Museums Tested Out Using Generative AI to Animate 18th-Century Painting as Part of Marketing Campaign Read More »

Visitors engage with interactive displays and informational panels regarding the global history of nuclear weapons at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, on April 22, 2026. NurPhoto via Getty Images Good Morning! The American Alliance of Museums has slammed the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the Smithsonian Institution. Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic …

Japan’s Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Accused of Whitewashing, and More: Morning Links for July 29, 2026 Read More »

José Luis Blondet (left) and Michael Wellen will curate the 2027 Made in L.A. biennial. Photo Gabriel Noguez The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has named the two curators for the next edition of its closely watched Made in L.A. biennial: Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet. Their edition, the eighth overall, will open in …

Made in L.A. 2027 to Be Curated by Hammer Chief Curator Michael Wellen and MOCA’s José Luis Blondet Read More »

The Victoria and Albert Museum. DPA/Picture Alliance via Getty More than 300 workers across London’s Victoria and Albert Museum are voting on whether to strike over salary, working conditions, and what unions describe as unsafe heatwave policies. According to the Guardian, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union launched the ballot on July 23, covering employees at …

V&A Workers Ballot for Strike Over Pay, Heatwave Conditions Read More »

Bernard Arnault. Photo Chesnot/Getty Images In a social media post, Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man and one of Europe’s most influential art patrons and collectors, shot back at a scathing, six-part investigation by Le Monde delving into the scope of his power, wealth, and alleged rivalries within the Arnault clan, described as “the last royal …

Bernard Arnault Hits Back at Le Monde Report Accusing Him of Being ‘In Love With the Arts and Tax Exemptions’ Read More »

A “Wanted” campaign poster by the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans, featuring a circa 1760 to 1779 painting by Jean Siméon Chardin of Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, which was looted from the museum in 1940, during the Nazi invasion. Photo courtesy of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Orléans Have you seen a middle-aged man sporting an 18th-century, …

French Museum Launches ‘Wanted’ Campaign to Track Down Hundreds of WWII-era Looted Artworks Read More »

View of the city of Quito from the bell tower of the San Francisco Church in Quito, Ecuador. At left is the bell tower of the Metropolitan Cathedral, with the domes of the Church of the Society of Jesus at center. (Photo by: Jon G. Fuller / VWPics/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images) VW …

Museo Nacional del Ecuador Selects an Architect for Quito, Chelsea Set to Get a New Gallery this Art Week: Morning Links for July 24, 2026 Read More »

Archie Rand, at work in his studio. Photo by Christopher Garcia Vale/ARTnews. For decades, Archie Rand‘s “Letter Paintings” series has been something of a cult favorite among painters and critics. Now, 44 of them are heading to an unlikely home: the corporate collection of Italy’s Modena FC. New York–based gallery Jarvis Art announced this week that the …

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