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Exterior view of the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, 2016. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! An employee from Ireland’s National Museum has been charged with possession of Semtex.  Chinese artist Gao Zhen has been sentenced to up to three years in prison for “slandering …

National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged with Possession of Military-Grade Explosive, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence, The Venice Film Festival Defends Inclusion of Russian-born Filmmaker, and More: Morning Links for August 26, 2026 Read More »

The Natural History Museum in London. Photo Alex Segre/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! A hidden gallery at London’s Natural History Museum will reopen to the public for the first time since 1943. Trump’s administration is escalating its campaign to reshape how the …

A Hidden Gallery at London’s Natural History Museum Reopens After 80 Years, Newly Attributed Bernini Painting On View in Vienna: Morning Links for August 20, 2026 Read More »

Matthew Barney, ZONE DEFENSE: Old Snowmass Parallax, 2026. Photo Lance Gerber/©Matthew Barney/Courtesy the Artist and Aspen Art Museum Matthew Barney has been an integral part of the first two editions of the Aspen Art Museum’s AIR festival in Colorado: last year, with a performance in a former military drill hall on a cattle ranch; this …

Matthew Barney on His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Colorado Ranch Read More »

Jüri Arrak’s “Discussion on Nature Conservation,” (1976) will be available for auction from the Estonian Artists’ Association collection. Photo courtesy of the Estonian Artists’ Association (EKL). Photo courtesy of the Estonian Artists’ Association (EKL). Estonian artists are banding together and donating 124 artworks for a charity auction to raise emergency funds following a bank scam …

Estonian Artists Donate Artworks for Auction Following $800,000 Bank Scam Read More »

Brett Littman will be the next director of the MCA San Diego. Photo Don Stahl The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced that its next director and chief executive will be Brett Littman. He will begin in the role in October. The fifth director in the institution’s 85-year history, Littman succeeds Kathryn Kanjo, …

Brett Littman Named Next Director of MCA San Diego Read More »

MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. Photo Noel Woodford/Courtesy MoMA PS1 The restaurant space at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, will soon have a new tenant: Symone, by chef DeVonn Francis, will open in early October. The space’s menu will also be previewed during Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, running September 24–27. …

MoMA PS1’s Newest Restaurant Will Be Symone, a French African Cafe by DeVonn Francis Read More »

Norval Morrisseau in a photo from 1977. Graham Bezant/Toronto Star via Getty Images New information has been released by a little-known Canadian federal agency about its staffers’ years-long effort to contribute to a police investigation into fraudsters selling faked paintings supposedly by Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau. CityNews Toronto reports that the largest art fraud …

An Obscure Canadian Agency Helped Convict Norval Morrisseau Forgers—and Is Finally Getting Its Due Read More »

“Olalekan Jeyifous: Hydricosmic Litanies,” at the Walker Art Center. Photo by Eric Mueller, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center and the artist Olalekan Jeyifous are refuting accusations by some museum visitors that his work was made using generative AI, reports MPR News. Jeyifous, born in Nigeria and living in New York, is …

Visitors to the Walker Art Center Encounter Olalekan Jeyifous’s Digital Artwork and Wrongly Brand It ‘AI Slop’  Read More »

Bronze relics found near the town of Marzabotto. Courtesy Marzabotto National Etruscan Museum Archaeologists working in northern Italy excavated “remarkably well-preserved” bronze artifacts from a well dating back to the ancient Etruscan city of Kainua. As reported by Heritage Daily, “Bronze figures buried at the bottom of an ancient well for nearly two and a …

2,500-Year-Old Etruscan Bronze Relics Excavated from Ancient Well in Italy Read More »

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. F. M. Kearney/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Some of New York’s most prominent cultural institutions reportedly are getting off the hook on paying fines for fire code violations. Gothamistreports that the city is not collecting fines from institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum …

New York Museums Reportedly Get a Pass on Fines Resulting From Fire Code Violations Read More »