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New York Investigators Return $600,000 Worth of Looted Art—and More Art Industry News

https://news.artnet.com/market/paint-drippings-art-industry-news-jul-13-2787586

Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art Plans Bangkok Branch

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museum-of-old-and-new-art-bangkok-outpost-2787630

Ana Mendieta’s ‘Neolithic art’ recreated for major Tate Modern survey

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/13/ana-mendietas-neolithic-art-recreated-for-major-tate-modern-survey

Nazi-Looted Painting Found Decades Ago Among Amsterdam’s Street Trash Will Be Returned to Jewish Dealer’s Heirs

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nazi-looted-painting-jacques-goudstikker-returned-1234792013/

High Museum of Art’s Former COO Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $600,000

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/high-museum-art-former-coo-guilty-embezzling-1234791968/

A Convicted Antiquities Dealer’s Web

https://hyperallergic.com/a-convicted-antiquities-dealers-web/

Where Is Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara?

https://hyperallergic.com/where-is-luis-manuel-otero-alcantara/

Louvre Jewel Heist Suspects Claim ‘Mysterious Sponsor’ Recruited Them

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/louvre-jewel-heist-suspects-claim-sponsor-recruited-them-1234791929/

Should We See Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets?

https://hyperallergic.com/should-we-see-peter-hujars-contact-sheets/

EU Commission Recommends Cancelation of Venice Biennale Grant over Russian Pavilion

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/eu-commission-cancelation-venice-biennale-grant-russia-1234791923/

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Meet 5 Midwestern Artists From the Artnet Gallery Network

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/midwestern-artists-gallery-network-2785585

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Results at the Big Three Auction Houses Tell Two Different Stories

https://news.artnet.com/market/mid-year-review-auctions-2787320

Magritte, Constable, Trump's Smithsonian Wrath

https://hyperallergic.com/magritte-constable-trumps-smithsonian-wrath/

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Bayeux Tapestry arrives at the British Museum in London after secret English Channel crossing

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-at-the-british-museum-after-secret-english-channel-crossing

Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art announces plans for Thailand outpost

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/tasmanias-museum-of-old-and-new-art-announces-plans-for-thailand-outpost

Exhibition in Bogotá shows off more than 1,000 repatriated pre-Columbian artefacts

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/exhibition-in-bogota-shows-off-more-than-1000-repatriated-pre-columbian-artefacts

Gelman Collection controversy reaches Mexican courts

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/could-mexicos-treasured-kahlo-works-leave-the-country-forever

Unesco reviewing controversial ‘black cube’ project in Florence amid outrage

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/10/unesco-reviewing-controversial-black-cube-project-in-florence-amid-outrage

Artists and Former Staffers Accuse Cape Town Gallery SMAC of Nonpayment and Withholding Artworks

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/artists-staffers-accuse-cape-town-gallery-smac-nonpayment-1234791540/

Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?

https://hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-many-museums-hold-a-convicted-antiquity-dealers-treasures/

US Returns Two Looted Bronze Buddha Statues, Sold by Disgraced Antiquities Dealer Douglas Latchford, to Indonesia

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/us-returns-indonesia-looted-bronze-buddha-statues-douglas-latchford-1234791873/

ICOM Adopts New Museum Code of Ethics Taking Aim at AI, Colonialism, and Climate Change

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/icom-new-museum-code-of-ethics-ai-colonialism-climate-change-1234791845/

Which Artworks Will Grace the High Line’s Plinth Next?

https://hyperallergic.com/which-artworks-will-grace-the-high-lines-plinth-next/

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New York Investigators Return 59 Looted Antiquities to Italy, Iraq, and Indonesia

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-york-returns-59-antiquities-to-italy-iraq-indonesia-1234791699/

Midjourney strikes back: sued AI giant demands Hollywood’s secrets

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/midjourney-demands-hollywood-AI-secrets

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Slams White House Report As ‘Not a Fair Characterization’ of Museum’s Scholarship

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-white-house-report-july-4-1234791701/

Edi Rama, Artist and Albanian Prime Minister, Defends Controversial Kanye West Concert Near Tirana

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/edi-rama-defends-kanye-west-concert-tirana-1234791728/

Venice Arts Workers to Protest During US Ambassador’s Visit

https://hyperallergic.com/venice-arts-workers-to-protest-during-us-ambassadors-visit/

Hauser & Wirth Cleared by UK Judge of Breaching Russia Sanctions with Sale of a George Condo Artwork

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hauser-wirth-cleared-breaching-russia-sanctions-condo-1234791702/

Chicago Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement

https://hyperallergic.com/chicago-photographer-accuses-mickalene-thomas-of-copyright-infringement/

Los Angeles's Post-Fair will expand to Paris during Art Basel week

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/los-angeless-post-fair-will-expand-to-paris-during-art-basel-week

Icom adopts new code of ethics for museums in bid to address a ‘rapidly changing world’

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/icom-adopts-new-code-of-ethics-for-museums-in-bid-to-address-a-rapidly-changing-world

Flamenco, fashion and freedom: three photography shows to see at Les Rencontres d'Arles

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/09/riots-resistance-and-the-birth-of-a-new-country-three-photography-shows-to-see-at-les-rencontres-darles

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New Museum names Massimiliano Gioni as new director

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/new-museum-names-massimiliano-gioni-as-new-director

White, patriarchal and Christian: White House’s vision for the National Museum of American History

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/white-patriarchal-and-christian-white-house-vision-for-the-national-museum-of-american-history

Italy Advances Legislation on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/italy-advances-legislation-nazi-looted-art-restitution-1234791606/

Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective’s sprawling Arles installation offers haunting world view

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/patti-smith-and-soundwalk-collectives-sprawling-arles-installation-offers-haunting-world-view

Ukraine gives its troops a handbook on protecting cultural property

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/08/ukraine-gives-its-troops-a-handbook-on-protecting-cultural-property

Whitney Museum Screens Taken Over With Gaza Protest Messages

https://hyperallergic.com/whitney-museum-screens-taken-over-with-gaza-protest-messages/

Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement in New Lawsuit

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mickalene-thomas-lawsuit-barbara-karant-infingement-1234791577/

High Line Art Wants the Public’s Opinion on 62 Artist Proposals for Its Plinth Commission

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/high-line-plinth-artist-proposals-2029-2030-commissions-1234791398/

The Hidden History of Stock Photography

https://hyperallergic.com/the-hidden-history-of-stock-photography/

The Netherlands and Germany Agree to Return 2,000 Artifacts to Ghana

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/netherlands-germany-return-2000-artifacts-ghana-1234789956/

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Massimiliano Gioni Will Lead the New Museum

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/massimiliano-gioni-new-museum-director-2786527

This Giant Spider at Frieze London Will Transport You to a Digital World

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frieze-artist-award-theo-triantafyllidis-2786271

Massimiliano Gioni Named Director of New York’s New Museum

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/massimiliano-gioni-named-director-new-museum-new-york-1234791359/

Luísa Cunha, the Portuguese Artist Whose Sound Sculptures Explored the Power of Language, Dies at 77

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/luisa-cunha-portuguese-conceptual-artist-dies-77-1234791364/

Texas Covers Up Beloved "Black Artists Matter" Mural in Austin

https://hyperallergic.com/texas-covers-up-beloved-black-artists-matter-mural-in-austin/

Pro-Palestinian Cultural Workers Call for Strike Over US Ambassador’s Visit to Venice

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/pro-palestine-strike-over-us-ambassador-visit-to-venice-1234791414/

UK Artists Accuse Shuttering Artist Pension Trust of ‘Epic Betrayal,’ Former Barnes Foundation President Richard Glanton Has Died, and More: Morning Links for July 7, 2026

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/uk-artist-pension-trust-shutters-morning-links-july-7-2026-1234791307/

An English National Is the First to Be Convicted of Violating Sanctions Against Russia

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/english-national-first-convicted-violating-russia-sanctions-1234791248/

Trump’s Unhinged Attacks on the Smithsonian

https://hyperallergic.com/trumps-unhinged-attacks-on-the-smithsonian/

Denmark’s Louisiana Museum Announces Remedios Varo Exhibition in Fall 2026

https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/louisiana-museum-denmark-annouces-remedios-varo-exhibition-fall-1234791322/

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Yemen Identifies 28 Looted Artifacts at British Museum, London Auction Houses

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yemen-looted-artifacts-british-museum-auctions-1234791176/

New White House Report Alleges ‘Anti-White’ Bias at Smithsonian

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/white-house-july-4-report-smithsonian-2786226

When two become one: the complex dance of museum mergers

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/06/museum-mergers-neue-galerie-met-museum

In Chloe Wise’s ‘Extrasensory’ Basel Show, UFOs Meet Scripture

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chloe-wise-basel-interview-2786414

Businessman Fined in U.K.’s First Russia Art Sanctions Conviction

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/russia-sanctions-conviction-2786232

Experts blame extensive earthquake damage in Venezuela on decades of government neglect

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/07/06/experts-blame-earthquake-damage-in-venezuela-on-government-neglect

Thieves Steal Over $4.5M in Jewelry From French Museum

https://hyperallergic.com/thieves-steal-over-4-5m-in-jewelry-from-french-museum/

In Two Chicago Exhibitions, Liberation Takes the Floor

https://hyperallergic.com/in-two-chicago-exhibitions-liberation-takes-the-floor/

Amid Its Own Copyright Controversy, Midjourney Asks Court to Reveal How Disney Uses AI

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/copyright-midjourney-court-to-reveal-how-disney-uses-ai-1234791213/

Yervant Gianikian, Artist Who Helped Win Armenia the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, Dies at 84

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/yervant-gianikian-artist-filmmaker-dead-1234791166/

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How Alexandria Gallery Went From Cleveland Pop-Up to Global Force

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alexandria-gallery-woodmere-2785495

Why We Can’t Get Enough Juicy Art Heist Stories

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/art-heist-perfect-day-the-mastermind-how-to-steal-a-million-lemle-1234791022/

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Le Corbusier Vandalized This House. An Artist Is Reclaiming Its Memory

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/e-1027-house-eileen-gray-lorna-bauer-2785325

Akira Ikezoe’s Frogs and Bears Have Something Urgent to Tell Us

https://hyperallergic.com/akira-ikezoes-frogs-and-bears-have-something-urgent-to-tell-us/

Charles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible Architecture

https://hyperallergic.com/charles-seliger-painted-natures-invisible-architecture/

Revisiting 35 Years of an Iconic Newark Artist-Led Space

https://hyperallergic.com/revisiting-35-years-of-an-iconic-newark-artist-led-space/

A View From the Easel With Arghavan Khosravi

https://hyperallergic.com/a-view-from-the-easel-344/

Art and Resistance on the Nation’s 250th

https://hyperallergic.com/weekly-7-4-26/