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84 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/fall-art-preview-1234792473/

Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen from Vienna museum in brazen daytime heist

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/30/queen-egypt-diamond-platinum-necklace-stolen-vienna-museum-applied-arts-robbery

A curator’s crucial perspective on Hong Kong’s burgeoning art scene in the 1980s and 1990s

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/31/a-curators-crucial-perspective-on-hong-kongs-burgeoning-art-scene-in-the-1980s-and-1990s

Dismantling the West’s temples of plundered African artworks—essay collection reassesses the 'colonial encounter'

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/31/dismantling-the-wests-temples-of-plundered-african-artworksessay-collection-reassesses-the-colonial-encounter

An expert’s guide to Anish Kapoor: five must-read books

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/31/an-experts-guide-to-anish-kapoor-five-must-read-books

Why I launched a new photobook imprint—veteran bookseller and publisher reveals next career move

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/31/why-i-launched-a-new-photobook-imprintveteran-bookseller-and-publisher-reveals-next-career-move

Seeing Krasner and Pollock Together

https://hyperallergic.com/seeing-krasner-and-pollock-together/

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Pace Gallery Founder Arne Glimcher Criticizes Met Museum Over Planned Galliano Show: Report

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-john-galliano-controversy-arne-glimcher-1234796260/

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Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen caught up in alleged bribery scandal as civil servants dismissed

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/28/rotterdams-museum-boijmans-van-beuningen-caught-up-in-alleged-bribery-scandal-as-civil-servants-dismissed

Comment | Felix Gonzalez-Torres's major survey in Madrid shows how his art was both stridently political and gently lyrical

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/28/comment-|-felix-gonzalez-torress-major-survey-in-madrid-shows-how-he-was-both-stridently-political-and-gently-lyrical

Remembering Sliman Mansour, a defining figure of Palestinian art

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/28/remembering-sliman-mansour-a-defining-figure-of-palestinian-art

Chief Executive of Sydney’s Forthcoming $915 M. Cultural Institution Steps Down Amid Ongoing Investigations, 10 Weeks Ahead of Its Opening

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/powerhouse-parramatta-ceo-lisa-havilah-ousted-amid-investigations-1234796200/

$4.3 M. Van Cleef & Arpels Necklace Stolen From Vienna Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/van-cleef-arpels-necklace-stolen-vienna-mak-museum-1234796217/

China Pulls Artists from Gwangju Biennale as ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ Moves Forward

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/china-pulls-artists-from-gwangju-biennale-as-taiwan-pavilion-moves-forward-1234796234/

The Belgian Exhibition That Strives to "Decenter" the West

https://hyperallergic.com/the-belgian-exhibition-that-strives-to-decenter-the-west/

Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Denied Use of Roy Cohn Portrait for New Biography Over Political Concerns

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-mapplethorpe-foundation-roy-cohn-portrait-denial-1234796227/

Kennedy Center Board Says It Will Delay Adding Trump’s Name to the Center by One Month

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/kennedy-board-delays-adding-trump-name-to-the-center-1234796204/

Demolition of Georgian Architectural Landmark Sparks Outcry

https://hyperallergic.com/demolition-of-georgian-architectural-landmark-sparks-outcry/

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Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen caught up in alleged bribery scandal as civil servants dismissed

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/28/rotterdams-museum-boijmans-van-beuningen-caught-up-in-alleged-bribery-scandal-as-civil-servants-dismissed

UK government places export bar on £71m Rembrandt portrait

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/28/uk-government-places-export-bar-on-£71m-rembrandt-portrait

Comment | Felix Gonzalez-Torres's major survey in Madrid shows how his art was both stridently political and gently lyrical

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/28/comment-|-felix-gonzalez-torress-major-survey-in-madrid-shows-how-he-was-both-stridently-political-and-gently-lyrical

New documentary chronicles the late Brazilian artist Amélia Toledo’s boundary-pushing work

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/27/amelia-toledo-brazilian-contemporary-artist-documentary

‘We don't think it should be controversial to talk about these subjects’: Bonniers Konsthall opens exhibition on art as antifascist resistance ahead of Swedish election

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/28/bonniers-konsthall-opens-exhibition-art-antifascist-resistance-ahead-swedish-election

Chief Executive of Sydney’s Forthcoming $915 M. Cultural Institution Steps Down Amid Ongoing Investigations, 10 Weeks Ahead of Its Opening

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/powerhouse-parramatta-ceo-lisa-havilah-ousted-amid-investigations-1234796200/

The Art World Reacts to Yayoi Kusama’s Passing

https://hyperallergic.com/the-art-world-reacts-to-yayoi-kusamas-passing/

$4.3 M. Van Cleef & Arpels Necklace Stolen From Vienna Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/van-cleef-arpels-necklace-stolen-vienna-mak-museum-1234796217/

Collector and Patron Hasnaine Yavarhoussen Is Determined to Bring Madagascar’s Art Scene to the Rest of the World

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/hasnaine-yavarhoussen-collector-madagascar-art-scene-1234796150/

For 20 Years, Turkish Media Star Vuslat Made Art in Secret. Now She’s on the Biennial Circuit

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/vuslat-artist-interview-emanet-silence-keramics-biennial-1234796120/

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Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who enthralled people worldwide with her polka dots and mirror rooms, has died aged 97

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/27/yayoi-kusama-polka-dots-mirror-rooms-has-died-aged-97

Chief executive of Sydney’s anticipated Parramatta Powerhouse museum steps down two months before grand opening

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/27/chief-executive-of-sydneys-anticipated-parramatta-powerhouse-museum-steps-down-two-months-before-grand-opening

Chinese artist Gao Zhen sentenced to three years in prison for satirical sculptures of Mao Zedong

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/27/chinese-artist-gao-zhen-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-for-satirical-sculptures-of-mao-zedong

Founders of alternative art fair Basel Social Club to launch new event in Tokyo

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/27/alternative-art-fair-basel-social-club-to-launch-new-event-tokyo

MoMA to Stage Major Exhibition on Mid-Century African Modernism, Centered on the Concept of ‘Emancipatory Art’

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/moma-emancipatory-art-in-africa-exhibition-1234796064/

$1.98 M. Worth of Gold Pieces Stolen From the Treasure of Villena

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gold-pieces-stolen-from-the-treasure-of-villena-1234796080/

Germany’s 100-Year-Old Merz Academy Declared Insolvent

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/merz-academy-germany-declared-insolvent-1234796063/

Artist Elizabeth Peyton Sued Over Painting of Oasis Brothers

https://hyperallergic.com/artist-elizabeth-peyton-sued-over-painting-of-oasis-brothers/

Frieze Abu Dhabi Lines Up 84 Galleries for Inaugural Edition in November

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/frieze-abu-dhabi-2026-exhibitor-line-up-1234795989/

Ex-Pussy Riot Member Says She Was Recruited by Russia to Spy on Artists

https://hyperallergic.com/ex-pussy-riot-member-says-she-was-recruited-by-russia-to-spy-on-artists/

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Two Convicted in Hamburg Court of Selling Looted Egyptian Antiquities

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/children-serop-simonian-convicted-egyptian-antiquities-1234795719/

Trump officials take down, explore sale of Kehinde Wiley painting commissioned for US embassy

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/25/kehinde-wiley-painting-removed-us-embassy-dominican-republic-state-department

How a new generation of Indigenous artists is redefining Taiwan’s contemporary art scene

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/25/new-generation-of-indigenous-artists-redefine-taiwans-contemporary-art-scene

Fabrizio Plessi, Pioneering Italian Video Artist and Experimenter, Dies at 86

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/fabrizio-plessi-video-artist-dead-1234795689/

Photographer Sues Elizabeth Peyton Over Painting Using His Photo of Oasis Band Members

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/photographer-sues-elizabeth-peyton-over-painting-using-his-photo-of-oasis-band-members-1234795728/

Chinese Artist Gao Zhen Gets 3-Year Prison Sentence for Mao Sculptures

https://hyperallergic.com/chinese-artist-gao-zhen-gets-3-year-prison-sentence-for-mao-sculptures/

Anne Imhof to Debut New Ballet-Inspired Performance at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/anne-imhof-tai-kwun-contemporary-hong-kong-exhibition-1234795736/

Russia’s FSB Agents Recruited Former Pussy Riot Member to Spy on Artists

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pussy-riot-member-recruited-russia-fsb-spy-artists-1234795669/

An Ethos of "By Us, for Us" at the Santa Fe Indian Market

https://hyperallergic.com/an-ethos-of-by-us-for-us-at-the-santa-fe-indian-market/

Barbara Hammer Through Her Own Lens

https://hyperallergic.com/barbara-hammer-through-her-own-lens/

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‘You can’t be burdened by a legacy’: James Taylor-Foster on his vision for Hong Kong's Para Site as it turns 30

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/18/you-cant-be-burdened-by-a-legacy-james-taylor-foster-on-his-vision-for-hong-kongs-para-site-as-it-turns-30

The wild world of Cathy de Monchaux revealed in exhibition at Paris's Palais de Tokyo

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/18/the-wild-world-of-cathy-de-monchaux-revealed-in-exhibition-at-pariss-palais-de-tokyo

Why Won’t Britain Return Looted Gold to Ghana?

https://hyperallergic.com/why-wont-britain-return-looted-gold-to-ghana/

Mafia Involvement Feared in Heist of Renaissance Paintings in Sicily

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mafia-involvement-feared-antonello-paintings-theft-sicily-1234795152/

Art as Infrastructure at the Medina Triennial

https://hyperallergic.com/art-as-infrastructure-at-the-medina-triennial/

Taiwanese Artists Accuse South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale of Censorship

https://hyperallergic.com/taiwanese-artists-accuse-south-koreas-gwangju-biennale-of-censorship/

Prosecutor Opens War Crimes Investigation For Illegal Archaeological Dig in Occupied Crimea, With Artifacts Turned Over to the Hermitage

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/war-crimes-illegal-dig-occupied-crimea-hermitage-1234795178/

School of Visual Arts Faculty “Blindsided” by Course Cuts Amid $22M Deficit

https://hyperallergic.com/school-of-visual-arts-faculty-blindsided-by-course-cuts-amid-22m-deficit/

Shu Lea Cheang Gives Trans Artists the Wings to Fly

https://hyperallergic.com/shu-lea-cheang-gives-trans-artists-the-wings-to-fly/

$61 M. Joshua Reynolds Portrait Heads to LA, New Douglas Gordon Documentary Premieres, and More: Morning Links for August 18, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/joshua-reynolds-portrait-getty-morning-links-august-18-2026-1234795135/

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Four works by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina stolen from Sicily museum

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/four-works-by-sicilian-renaissance-master-stolen-from-messina-museum

Human skull featuring elaborate mosaic ornamentation repatriated to Mexico

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/human-skull-turquoise-mosaic-repatriated-netherlands-mexico

Brett Littman Named Next Director of MCA San Diego

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/brett-littman-director-mca-san-diego-1234795110/

Police recover eight Matisse works stolen in Brazil heist

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/stolen-matisse-works-recovered-sao-paulo-brazil-heist

Frieze Seoul to move to new venue from 2027

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/frieze-seoul-to-move-to-new-venue-from-2027

Mary Heilmann, fearless colourist and singular abstract painter, has died, aged 86

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/mary-heilmann-fearless-colourist-singular-painter-obituary

Alison Jacques Gallery Hit with Lawsuit After Artist’s Estate Cancels Sale to First-Time Collectors

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/collectors-sue-alison-jacques-monica-sjoo-cancels-sale-1234795087/

Renaissance Masterpieces Stolen from Sicilian Museum During National Holiday

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/antonello-da-messina-masterpieces-stolen-sicilian-museum-1234795072/

In ‘Strange Rules,’ an Epic Show with a Bold Vision For What Counts as Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/strange-rules-venice-exhibition-asks-what-is-art-1234795127/

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

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/etruscan-bronze-relics-italy-1234795085/

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Why Brancusi’s Sleek, Streamlined Sculptures Still Seduce

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/brancusi-sleek-sculptures-neue-nationalgalerie-moma-design-1234794979/

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Betye Saar, Picasso, BlackStar

https://hyperallergic.com/betye-saar-picasso-blackstar/

Mary Heilmann, Influential Abstract Painter, Dead at 86

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mary-heilmann-influential-abstract-painter-dead-86-1234795047/