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Kim Sajet, Ex-Director of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, attends the 2019 American Portrait Gala at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on November 17, 2019 in Washington, DC Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! A new AI chatbot helps speed up provenance research for Nazi-looted artworks. The …

Kim Sajet Talks to the Times About the Smithsonian, and More: Morning Links for July 31, 2026 Read More »

Michelle Grabner. Photo Myrica von Haselberg Artist Michelle Grabner will donate more than 2,000 artworks to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, making the institution the most comprehensive repository of her work. Comprising 700 paintings, 200 sculptures, and 1,200 prints, Grabner’s gift spans the arc of her career, so far, with …

Michelle Grabner Donates More Than 2,000 Artworks to Wisconsin’s Kohler Arts Center, Now the Most Comprehensive Repository of Her Work Read More »

Courtesy Art Week NYC On Tuesday, Art Week NYC, the soon-to-launch annual citywide celebration of contemporary art presented by ARTnews, Art in America, and Artforum, announced the galleries participating in its gallery program. Seventy-six galleries are set to participate in the inaugural edition of the event, set to take place November 11–14. Among those participating …

Art Week NYC Names 76 Participating Galleries for Inaugural Event in November Read More »

The Philadelphia skyline, seen on July 4, 2026. Getty Images On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search at Dane Fine Art, a gallery based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. While the FBI did not say what the search was for, a spokesperson told CBS Philadelphia that it was conducting a “court-authorized law enforcement activity.” Victor Fiorillo, a …

FBI Executes Search on Blue-Chip Gallery That May Be Owned by Notorious Philadelphia Collector Read More »

Kim Sajet. Photo Andre Chung/The Washington Post via Getty Images “I was incredulous. Really?” That was Kim Sajet’s take when her former Smithsonian colleague, Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, was subjected to hostile questioning during a congressional hearing last week, according to a new interview with The New York …

Ex-National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet Defends Smithsonian Colleague After Heated Congressional Hearing Read More »

Larry Gagosian. Getty Images Gagosian has closed its small space in London’s Burlington Arcade and will soon close up its space in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Newspaper reports. Both spaces started as pop-ups, and as long as the rents were good, it made sense for founder Larry Gagosian to keep up those spaces, a source …

Gagosian Gives Up London and Basel Spaces as Mega-Galleries Rethink Their Footprints Read More »

Maliza Kiasuwa’s Rhizome 1-6 (2026) will feature in the fair. Courtesy the artist and FILAFRIQUES The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which was founded in London in 2013 and has since expanded with satellite editions in Marrakech and New York, announced 35 exhibitors for its next edition in the British capital this fall. Scheduled for …

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Announces Exhibitors for Upcoming London Edition Read More »

A rendering of the new Victoria & Albert Museum storage center in London. Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum‘s new V&A East Storehouse have voted unanimously to strike in a dispute over working conditions, just weeks after the East London facility became one of the museum world’s most closely …

V&A East Storehouse Workers Vote to Strike Over Working Conditions Read More »

Emma Shaprio’s Exposure Therapy stickers. Courtesy the artist On December 8, 2025, Instagram permanently terminated the account @nipeople, a project by artist, journalist, and activist Emma Shapiro, instantly erasing years of work and sparking a legal debate over digital freedom. The Instagram account was part of Exposure Therapy, a project begun in 2017 that aims …

Citing Censorship, Artist Emma Shapiro Launches Legal Challenge to Restore Instagram Account Read More »

Illustration Kat Brown/ARTnews There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by …

The 30 Best Art Museums in the US Read More »