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Unesco adds ancient Greek city Tauric Chersonese in Crimea to World Heritage in Danger list
The decision comes after calls by Ukraine to protect the archaeological site, which is now managed by a Russian Orthodox cleric appointed by Vladimir Putin
Artists’ monumental hot dog sculpture, now with patriotic toppings, returns to Times Square
Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw’s 65ft-long “Hot Dog in the City” is back on display in New York on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding
Buffalo AKG Art Museum will split leadership duties in two and promote internally for new directors
Chief curator Cathleen Chaffee and deputy director Jillian Jones will serve as artistic director and executive director, respectively
Viking centre that loaned ship for ‘The Odyssey’ says that it has not been compensated by Universal for repairs
The Värmlands Vikingacenter in Sweden has reportedly not been able to sail its replica ship this summer due to $6000 worth of damages; Universal disputes the non-payment claims
Ecuador’s national museum picks new design for $100m home following pushback to original selection and resignations
After criticism on social media, the government scrapped the original selection of a design by Estudio Campo Baeza and Maoda, opting for a proposal led by the Japanese firm Sanaa
Exhibitions
A lifetime of war: meet the 94-year-old Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Dubovyk
Having survived his country’s numerous adversaries from Stalin to Putin, the artist has opened his first large-scale retrospective in Kyiv
A fresh appreciation of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, who was haunted by mental illness
The most comprehensive show of the artist since the 1970s brings together more than 100 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
Yoko Ono’s most famous performance art piece cuts both ways in Los Angeles
The artist MPA put her twist on the seminal "Cut Piece" at Redcat, in tandem with the Broad’s presentation of Ono’s traveling retrospective
'The Climate Clock is ticking': new art trail in Finland shines a light on rapid Arctic warming
Artists including Rana Begum, SUPERFLEX and Ranti Bam have produced works for the initiative, which is part of the Oulu 2026 European Capital of Culture programme
New York exhibition explores how the Wiener Werkstätte preserved the human touch of handcraft
Show at the Jewish Museum looks at the movement founded by members of the Vienna Secession, who rejected Bauhaus's mass-production ethos
Art market
Appeals court sides with Jeff Koons in copyright-infringement dispute over ‘Made in Heaven’ series
The lawsuit was brought by the artist Michael A. Hayden, who created a sculpture that appears in some of the images from the series
The Armory Show reveals 230-gallery line-up and move to late September
Caribbean-focused curatorial programme and expanded sections for emerging galleries headline 2026 edition of the New York City fair
Gus the T-Rex sells for a record $50.1m at Sotheby’s
One of the most complete fossilised skeletons of its kind beat the previous record, held by Ken Griffin’s Apex, by more than $5m
James Cohan Gallery becomes Norr Cohan as founders step back
Longtime senior director David Norr assumes sole ownership following a years-long leadership transition
Christie’s and Sotheby’s 2026 half year results: trophy lots and luxury goods fuel rebound
Private sales and flexible financing arrangements are also helping the businesses shore up their bottom lines
Museums & Heritage
Jessica Morgan named new Tate director
Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027
Glasgow School of Art says £265m needed to restore destroyed Mackintosh building is ‘unaffordable’
The future of the iconic Art Nouveau building may be in jeopardy following fires in 2014 and 2018, as the Scottish art school looks for external funding
Three Ancient Egyptian tombs with ‘significant’ inscriptions discovered in Saqqara necropolis
Rare carvings may reveal important information about New Kingdom era connections to the Near East and ancient domestic life
Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian returns to its mid-century modern roots following major renovation
The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on 18 July
Head of V&A’s academic programmes resigned citing ‘racist’ and ‘culturally insensitive’ behaviours, letter reveals
Yuko Kikuchi wrote a letter to the museum’s leadership that was supported by 12 academics and included student testimonials
Diary
Artforum bids farewell to back-cover star in style
Long-running series of quirky advertisements for Bruno Bischofberger’s Swiss gallery has come to an end
What happened when Lucian Freud met Kate Moss? Nothing much, according to new film
Movie about the friendship between the artist and the supermodel gets widespread drubbing from critics
K-pop stars BTS and British Museum band together for art trail
The London institution has collaborated with the Korean music group as part of a citywide experience supporting the BTS world tour Arirang
Nicholas Cullinan portrait goes up at his former employer, London's National Portrait Gallery
Elizabeth Peyton's painting of Cullinan, now the director of the British Museum, is now on permanent display at the gallery
London Library, a favourite haunt of the art and literary crowds, celebrates its 185th birthday
The historic lending library has an extensive collection, including a large selection of art books
Books
A new biography looks at how Michael Andrews shifted from slow burner to innovative creator
The School of London artist, equally at home in Soho society and rural Scotland, was also a noted painter of celebrities
The worst of us: a philosopher’s guide to the world’s most depraved art
The academic Daisy Dixon discusses her new book investigating the art that has provoked outrage over the centuries
How novelists continue to be inspired by artists
Several books out this summer use art as a springboard—we speak to some of their authors
Joseph Beuys was ambitious, ‘perhaps to the point of megalomania’, says a new book about the German artist
A new reading of the life and work of Beuys is no hagiography, seeing Beuys as someone who was fiercely determined and created myths about himself
An expert’s guide to Gustave Courbet: five must-read books on the French painter
The best Courbet publications, from a comprehensive monograph to a look at how he was “a skilful media strategist”—selected by the curators Sonja Pizonka and Anna Brohm
Opinion
Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?
An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts
Comment | A view from the top of Manhattan’s famed Municipal Building
A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration
Comment | Why should artists stay in cities like London and New York when financial pressures are making it harder than ever?
Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention
Comment | Georg Baselitz's final exhibition is a warning that history is repeating itself
Since the opening of the late German artist's Venice show, events at the Biennale and the result of the UK's council elections have continued to expose art's vulnerability to politics
Comment | Opportunists are to blame for the Kennedy Center’s downfall
The argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes
Obituaries
Remembering Valerie Brathwaite, the Caracas-based Trinidadian sculptor of singular abstractions
Over six decades, the artist developed a distinctive sculptural language in Venezuela and beyond
Remembering Desmond Morris, the Surrealist painter and zoologist who explored the artistic abilities of apes
Morris's eight decades at the easel left him among the last of the original Surrealists
David Hockney, an artist of brio and versatility, with global recognition beyond the art world, has died, aged 88
The Yorkshire-born maestro had been a cultural star to reckon with, and a pioneer of new figurative formats, since making headlines at the “Young Contemporaries” exhibition in London in 1961
Remembering Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of kinetic art
The Argentine-born, Paris-based artist, who died at age 97, had been hoping to attend the opening of his retrospective at Tate Modern next week
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, American artist and satirist, has died at age 40 in São Paulo, local media reports
Widely known by her online alter ego Jerry Gogosian, Helphenstein had come to prominence through her memes and critiques of the art world
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Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern, the Brexit effect, a Renaissance tarot deck—podcast
In this week's episode, Ben Luke learns about Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern in London, speaks to Alexander Herman of the Institute of Art and Law on the impact of Brexit ten years on, and discusses the Renaissance-era Visconti-Sforza Tarot, on view at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.
Adventures with Van Gogh
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Philadelphia opens its Van Gogh Sunflowers display with a very rare loan from London’s National Gallery
‘A Symphony in Blue and Yellow’ raises intriguing questions about how the artist wanted to present his masterpieces
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Mexican chef brings spirit of Frida Kahlo to Tate Modern pop up restaurant
Santiago Lastra is combining a love for the artist and his home cuisine in London this summer
From the Hamptons to Saint-Tropez: design fairs PAD and Nomad follow the sun
Nomad co-founder and director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte describes the fair as “a resort concept”
'A work of conceptual art': Belmond launches new Art Deco-inspired train dining car
The film director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, production designer Catherine Martin, have designed the lavish interior
Hotel and art hub Casabianca opens on Italy's Lake Como
From Jannis Kounellis to Anselm Kiefer, a very personal art collection, asssembled by the De Santis family, is now on view in the 1930s villa