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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 …

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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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The Louvre. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Good Morning! Jessica Morgan has been named director of the Tate museum network. The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery has reopened nine months after the infamous crown jewels heist exposed major security weaknesses. British artist Lucy Sparrow’s first US museum exhibition has transformed a 1980s supermarket into a felt-filled wonderland. The …

Louvre Reopens Apollo Gallery, Jessica Morgan to the Tate, and More: Morning Links for July 22, 2026 Read More »

The Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse in New Haven, Connecticut. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons A Connecticut antiques dealer and auction house owner pleaded guilty to a federal money laundering charge Tuesday, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, which alleges that the theft totaled some $2.1 million. According to …

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Protesters in front of the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale on the opening day. Photo Felix Hörhager/picture alliance via Getty Images The Venice Biennale will not exclude Russia from its events due to political pressure, the foundation’s president said Thursday in a public address criticizing the European Union’s recent confirmation that it will …

Venice Biennale President Calls EU Withdrawal of Funding Over Russia ‘Entirely Political, Certainly Not Legal’ Read More »

Jessica Morgan will be the next director of Tate, beginning January 1. Photo Gabriela Herman After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027. In that new role, she will oversee one of …

Jessica Morgan Named Top Director at Tate, Departing Dia After More Than a Decade Read More »

‘Maman’ (1999) by Louise Bourgeois in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. In Pictures via Getty Images Good Morning! Vanderbilt University to keep art at the heart of the former California College of the Arts campus after a $75 million gift from Jensen and Lori Huang. A new study argues that art-world inequality is shaped by institutional …

San Francisco Art School Renamed for Silicon Valley Tycoon, New Tate Director Takes Big Pay Cut: Morning Links for July 23, 2026 Read More »