The president has ordered the National Park Service to put up signage near the entrances to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History warning would-be visitors of what the White House sees as the museum's "ideological capture": www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/28/t...

Trump orders signage to be erected outside Smithsonian museum warning visitors of political bias

US president’s executive order comes after the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History was grilled by a congressional subcommittee

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Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw's 65-foot-long hot dog sculpture is back in Times Square on the occasion of the US's 250th anniversary festivities, now with some patriotic fixins: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/24/j...

After it closes in spring 2027, the California College of the Arts in San Francisco will be reborn as Vanderbilt University's Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, named in honor of the world's seventh-richest person: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/21/v...

Shuttered San Francisco arts school will become college co-named for Nvidia founder Jensen Huang

The anchor institution for Vanderbilt University’s Bay Area campus will be the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, in recognition of the couple's $75m gift

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Legal proceedings seek to halt a long-term loan agreement authorised by Mexican authorities concerning works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and other national treasures. buff.ly/bC86USh

A New York exhibition celebrating Venezuelan contemporary artists has been transformed into a fundraising effort after the powerful earthquakes that struck the country on 24 June, killing at least 1,700 people and leaving widespread destruction in their wake. buff.ly/FdGuSH3

I wonder how Tony Shafrazi feels about his gallery getting name-dropped in a Madonna song; tagging "Guernica" is one kind of infamy, but this is indisputably cooler: youtu.be/Abty86vTsV0?...

Madonna - Danceteria (Official Audio)

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The Bellevue Men’s Shelter was closed earlier this year after falling into disrepair, but efforts to document and preserve at least six Works Progress Administration-era murals in the building have stalled buff.ly/BVg7hIS

Some thoughts and favorites from the 2026 Whitney Biennial, including Akira Ikezoe, Erin Jane Nelson, Mao Ishikawa, David L. Johnson, Raven Halfmoon, Carmen de Monteflores (pictured), and more: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/01/2...

The photographer’s estate has accused the dealer James Danziger of leveraging an unauthorised AI-generated piece to push a commercial venture to colourise other artists' works. buff.ly/IwaQ7Rg

The ceramicist Roberto Lugo has created a giant urn that serves as a monument to important Puerto Ricans in Madison Square Park: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/22/r...

As celebrations of the US’s semiquincentennial kick into gear, many of the historical sites that recognise the country’s diverse, complex history are in peril. buff.ly/BHVsOe8

New auction records were set for works by Joseph Yaeger, P.S. Krøyer and Pat Passlof at Phillips last night, and for any two-dimensional work by Lee Bontecou, by this epic fractal wave composition in pastel on canvas, which nearly doubled its high estimate. 🌊 www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/20/p...

So long Neue Galerie, hello "the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie"! Aside from the name, seems like a win-win merger for both parties: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/14/n...

New York’s Neue Galerie will merge with the Metropolitan Museum

The merger, to be completed in 2028, will bring the Ronald Lauder-founded Neue Galerie’s exceptional holdings of German and Austrian Modern art into the Met’s encyclopaedic collection

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Echoing the words of Lori Fogarty: "We must do what we can in this moment, and do it with courage and conviction." www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/27/c...

Comment | Museums are civic institutions. It’s time we acted like it

At the Oakland Museum of California we often say: “Keep doing the good work.” We need to be clearer about what the work is and how we commit to it

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Curate, you must, George: the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art's namesake co-founder is curating 18 exhibitions spanning 30+ galleries and 100,000 square feet for the institution's opening in September. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/30/l...

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art reveals inaugural exhibition lineup

George Lucas is curating 18 thematic exhibitions that will fill 100,000 sq. ft of the $1bn museum he and his wife Mellody Hobson are building in Los Angeles

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For the fifth High Line Plinth commission, the Vietnamese American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has created a 27ft-tall version of the 6th-century Buddhas that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. buff.ly/CHbl0ev

Some thoughts and favorites from two Expo Chicago satellite fairs—one of which, the delightful Barely Fair, continues through Sunday: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/10/b...

Chicago’s Neighbors and Barely fairs show the strengths of smaller, alternative formats

The two Expo Chicago satellite fairs compliment the main event with accessible settings filled with ambitious presentations

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Paul Pfeiffer, the conceptual artist known for interventions in mass-media imagery of athletes and entertainers, will be the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/02/p...

Paul Pfeiffer will be inaugural artist-in-residence at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena

The arena’s parent company also announced a suite of forthcoming artistic additions to its campus by Sarah Sze, Kambui Olujimi and others

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More than 300 Mexican cultural professionals are calling for clarity surrounding the Gelman Santander Collection, a trove of works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, María Izquierdo and others buff.ly/0XqmSWy

Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who travelled from present-day Guyana to Amsterdam and back. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/a...

Nearly 200 artists, curators and art workers involved in this year’s Venice Biennale (9 May–22 November) have signed a letter calling for Israel’s exclusion from the event. buff.ly/aVE0CCc

The Museum of Conremporary Art in Los Angeles has acquired Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone,” which she made by dissecting and reconfiguring a statue of Stonewall Jackson. It is one of the centerpieces of “Monuments,” the landmark show at MoCA and The Brick: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/24/l...

Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles acquires Kara Walker sculpture made from dissected Confederate monument

Walker’s “Unmanned Drone” is a centrepiece of “Monuments”, a landmark exhibition at Moca and The Brick

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At Mexico City Art Week’s foremost satellite fairs, Material and Salón Acme, artists look to nature for ways to adapt to crises: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/07/f...

At Mexico City’s Material and Salón Acme fairs, artists find hope in nature

The two foremost satellite fairs of Mexico City Art Week are drawing record crowds and feature strong presentations by artists and galleries from across Mexico and throughout the Americas

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Zona Maco, Mexico City's foremost art fair—and the largest in Latin America—continues to draw enormous crowds of collectors and curators, reflecting rising interest across the Western Hemisphere: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/06/z...

Mexico City’s Zona Maco fair continues to draw upbeat crowds and eager buyers

Latin America’s foremost art fair, now in its 24th year, remains a magnet for collectors, curators and museum groups from across the Western Hemisphere and beyond

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The US National Gallery of Art has acquired "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy", an important Artemisia Gentileschi painting that was rediscovered in 2011 and sold for a then-record price at auction in 2014: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/04/u...

US National Gallery of Art acquires important Artemisia Gentileschi painting

The Baroque master’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”, which sold at auction for €865,500 in 2014, will go on display in Washington, DC, later this month

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Following the Art Gallery of Ontario’s controversial decision not to acquire a work by Nan Goldin after a trustee accused her of antisemitism (and likened her to Leni Riefenstahl), an open letter calling for that trustee’s removal has garnered 500+ signatures: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/03/a...

Open letter calls for ouster of Art Gallery of Ontario trustee who led vote against Nan Goldin acquisition

The institution will also overhaul its committee structure in response to the scandal

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Dozens of art spaces across the US—from blue-chip galleries in New York and Los Angeles to non-profits in Arkansas and Missouri—are joining tomorrow's nationwide shutdown in protest of ICE: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/29/n...

US art spaces from New York to Los Angeles will close in protest of violent Ice actions

Commercial and non-profit galleries are participating in the national day of action, which comes after federal immigration enforcement agents killed US citizens in Minneapolis and Los Angeles

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A rediscovered portrait by the 16th-century artist Sofonisba Anguissola is on offer in Robert Simon Fine Art's booth at the Winter Show fair in New York: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/26/r...

Rediscovered portrait by the Renaissance’s leading woman artist goes on display at the Winter Show

A rare painting by Sofonisba Anguissola resurfaced in a private collection after it was thought to have been lost

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The National Park Service (NPS) has removed an exhibit called “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation” at the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. The decision comes after president Trump to remove “corrosive ideology” from cultural heritage venues. buff.ly/ni1GGsk

The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, a museum and sculpture park in Northern California, has listed its Napa Valley property (minus the art) for sale, for $10.9m: www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/01/22/d...

Northern California museum and sculpture park puts its property up for sale

The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has listed its Napa Valley property for sale for $10.9m

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