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• UK Promises to Help Local Museums, The Masterminds Behind the Bayeux Tapestry Move, and More: Morning Links for August 7, 2026

  07-08-2026 15:54 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!The UK government has promised to help the country’s struggling local museums.A forgotten still life in Norway’s National Museum has been reattributed to Flemish master Clara Peeters.Meet the masterminds behind the painstaking transport of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum.The Headlines MUSEUMS IN CRISIS. The temporary cl
  
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• “New Humans” Takes a Disappointingly Old Approach to Disability

  07-08-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  When I picture cyborgs, I can’t help but picture the ones I know—all of them are disabled. Insulin pumps, cochlear implants, and pacemakers make human-machine hybrids out of people every day. So when I saw that New York’s New Museum was reopening with a cyborg-centric show, “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” I assumed it would account for the disability arts movement blossoming right there in the museum’s backyard.I winced, then, when I read the artist list
  
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• Is Broadway Paying the price of Disneyfication?

  07-08-2026 02:24 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Major institutions are now partnering to buy works jointly and share them, swapping trophy acquisition for pooled expertise and a split invoice (Artnet). Pittsburgh is running the same play one level up, where the CLO and the Public Theater are merging instead of chasing the same subscribers and donors (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).The Alex Theatre in Glendale hadn’t screened a first-run movie in 35 years and is now the top-grossing venue in the country for Christopher Nolan&rsquo
  
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• 7 Smithsonian Museums Abruptly Closed Over Mechanical Issue

  06-08-2026 22:29 via artnews.com
  
  The Smithsonian Institution on Thursday closed seven buildings on the National Mall, citing a failure of the temperature-control system.Visitors were turned away today from a swath of Smithsonian museums and facilities on the south side of the National Mall between Jefferson Drive and Independence Avenue SW, including the Smithsonian Castle, the Arts and Industries Building, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Asian Art, t
  
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• Uffizi Announces Plans for $57 M. Renovations Over Two Years

  06-08-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  Yesterday, the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, revealed the extent of ongoing €50 million renovation plans spread across the museum. The revamp includes dozens of projects in the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, the nearby Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens, some of which have already begun, while others are scheduled to start in the coming months, allowing the museum to remain open.“An operation of unprecedented scale and depth is underway,” said Uffizi director Simone
  
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• Monumental Bronze Age Tomb Discovered Amid Dense Vegetation in Sardinia

  06-08-2026 22:09 via artnews.com
  
  A new megalithic funerary monument, one of the many so-called “Giants’ Tombs” scattered around Sardinia, has been uncovered in the central part of the Italian island. The Bronze Age tomb was discovered at Carrarzu Iddia, an archaeological site near the town of Macomer, as reported in Finestra Sull’Arte.The excavation was overseen by two local archaeology and fine art organizations, who were already working in the area.This tomb, and others in Sardinia, was built as a coll
  
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• Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Latest Brand Collaboration is A Makeup Line With MAC Cosmetics

  06-08-2026 21:14 via artnews.com
  
  MAC Cosmetics has joined forces with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s family and estate for its latest limited-edition collaboration, inspired by the late artist’s creative signatures.Debuting direct-to-consumer and in select MAC stores on Thursday, the six-piece collection ranges in price from $29 for loose powder pigments in three shimmering gold, taupe and white shades to $120 for a four-piece set of Basquiat Artist Brushes, which come in different shapes and sizes and are inspired by
  
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• A Kinetic, Slightly Goofy New Form Of Competitive Dance Develops In Côte d’Ivoire

  06-08-2026 21:01 via theguardian.com
  “There is some debate over exactly when biama emerged, but it exploded in popularity after the coronavirus pandemic as young people turned to TikTok to post and respond to dance challenges that fused acrobatics with goofiness that pushed bodies to their limits.” – The Guardian
  
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• Why Are Theatres Still Ignoring (Mostly) The Deaf Audience?

  06-08-2026 20:31 via theconversation.com
  
  Most films are distributed with caption tracks, but cinemas, on average, caption only 1% of all showings. This is despite statistics showing that in the UK, one in seven people – approximately 14% of the population – are deaf or have hearing loss. – The Conversation
  
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• Isaiah Davis Makes Metal—and Masculinity—Seem Soft

  06-08-2026 20:10 via artnews.com
  
  Isaiah Davis’s Midtown Manhattan studio was once Christian Louboutin’s atelier, and it still has red carpeting that evokes the lacquered undersides of the designer’s signature stilettos. When I visited Davis’s studio this past winter, that red peeked out from under heaps of black and brown leather the artist was working with.Leather appeared in Davis’s 2021 show at New York’s Participant Inc: White American Flag (2021) is a wall work with stars and stripes but
  
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• The Mystic Poet-Saints Of Kashmir, One Hindu And one Muslim

  06-08-2026 20:03 via theconversation.com
  
  The 14th-century Hindu poetess Lal Ded and the 15th-century Sufi Muslim poet Nund Rishi wrote not in the elegant, aristocratic court language, Persian, but with simple words and phrases in Kashmiri, the everyday language of ordinary people These mystics are seen by many Kashmiris as spiritual grandmother and grandfather, even today. – The Conversation
  
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• David Zwirner Recruits Longtime Andrew Kreps Partner Liz Mulholland for LA Outpost

  06-08-2026 20:00 via artnews.com
  
  Dealer Elizabeth Mulholland, who for the last two decades has served as director and then partner at New York’s Andrew Kreps Gallery, is heading west to serve as a senior director at megadealer David Zwirner’s Los Angeles outpost. “I genuinely wish Liz the best,” Kreps told ARTnews. “It’s a big life decision, and I’m supportive. She made a huge contribution to the gallery and I’m forever grateful.”Founded in 1993, Zwirner’s gallery
  
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• Rise Of The Neo-Luddites

  06-08-2026 19:44 via theconversation.com
  
  The label of “neo-Luddism” or “digital Luddite” is also being reclaimed by people concerned about labour conditions, society and democracy in an era of AI expansion twinned with personal profit. – The Conversation
  
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• Company Turns AI On Art Fraud

  06-08-2026 19:31 via diginomica.com
  
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• An America250 IndyCar Race Will Pass By DC’s Museums. Could the Vibrations Damage Artworks?

  06-08-2026 19:28 via artnews.com
  
  Since Donald Trump assumed office again, Washington, D.C., has seen new gold-plated statues and UFC fights on the White House lawn. Up next: an IndyCar race involving high-performance machines whizzing around the capital at speeds up to 185 miles per hour from August 22-23.One part of a series of celebrations of the semiquincentennial, the IndyCar race will send those vehicles racing by cultural and historical institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, the National Archives, and three
  
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• English Heritage Appoints V&A Deputy Director as New Chief Executive

  06-08-2026 19:19 via artnews.com
  
  English Heritage has appointed Tim Reeve as its new chief executive. He rejoins the organization after 13 years as deputy director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the organization announced Tuesday.Reeve will replace interim Geoff Parkin who took over after the abrupt resignation of Nick Merriman due to family health issues in 2025.English Heritage acts as caretaker for the National Heritage Collection, a group of over 400 historic sites and monuments across England, including bel
  
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• How A Grassroots Seattle Theatre Built Itself From The Ground Up

  06-08-2026 19:15 via seattletimes.com
  As Taproot’s current and founding artistic team members chat in the theater’s comfortable lobby, with its welcoming windows looking out onto North 85th Street in Greenwood, it’s hard to believe that the company’s permanent space was once an X-rated movie theater with a dirt floor basement. – Seattle Times
  
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• New York Historical Replaces Artworks With Reproductions Weeks After Opening $175 M. Expansion

  06-08-2026 19:06 via artnews.com
  
  Less than two months after opening its $175 million Tang Wing for American Democracy, the New York Historical has replaced 17 objects in its inaugural exhibition with reproductions. Another three objects have been removed entirely.The problem is natural light, reportedly. The new wing’s main exhibition gallery has large windows that flood the space with sunlight, but some of the objects selected for “Democracy Matters,” which opened June 18, are light-sensitive and could be dam
  
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• Do The People Of This Slovakian Village Really Want To Lose UNESCO World Heritage Status?

  06-08-2026 19:04 via dw.com
  
  That’s what all the headlines said, but the people of the well-preserved medieval village of Vlkolínec say it’s not that simple. They want to protect their small, still-living community from the pressures of overtourism, which could easily overwhelm it. – Deutsche Welle
  
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• More Than 2,000 People Have Signed a Petition to Free Two Indian Artists After Protesting for Workers Rights

  06-08-2026 19:00 via artnews.com
  
  In April, two Indian artists Srishti Gupta and Akriti Choudhary were arrested for protesting with factory workers in Greater Noida, an industrial and manufacturing city close to New Delhi, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday.Now, a Change.org petition is calling for their freedom along with six workers, who were also arrested on April 11. The petition which was started by a user called Shaleen Wadhwana four weeks ago has been signed by 2,345 people so far. (Wadhwana did not immediately answer an
  
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• Russian Drone Incinerated 18th-century Ukrainian Church

  06-08-2026 18:57 via artnews.com
  
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• Sao Paulo’s MASP Names Flavia Almeida as New President

  06-08-2026 18:54 via artnews.com
  
  Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), one of the world’s most closely observed museums in the art-rich biggest city in Brazil, promoted Flávia Almeida from vice-president to president, to direct the institution after 12 years of leadership by Heitor Martins.As reported by ArtReview, Almeida “comes from a business and management background,” with a business administration degree from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and an MBA from Harvard University. She
  
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• Two Pittsburgh Theatres Merge

  06-08-2026 18:44 via post-gazette.com
  
  Pittsburgh’s theater community is betting that a business deal of its own — the merger of the Pittsburgh CLO and the Pittsburgh Public Theater — will pay off. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  
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• Theatre That Hadn’t Shown A Movie In 35 Years Has Highest Ticket Sales In The Country For “Odyssey”

  06-08-2026 18:15 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  The venue, which hadn’t shown a first-run movie for 35 years, has announced it’s the highest grossing theatre in the country for Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic on the film format. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• Samantha Morton Says She’s Gotten No Acting Work Since She Finished Shooting For “The Odyssey”

  06-08-2026 18:02 via variety.com
  
  A two-time Oscar nominee who’s widely expected to get another nomination for her performance as Circe, Morton said, “I’ve got really good agents and a manager, but at the end of the day, I’m 49. I do believe I’m a good actor, (but) there are other good actors out there.” – Variety
  
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• John Caird: Broadway Has Become Disneyfied

  06-08-2026 17:44 via thestage.co.uk
  Caird concluded that Broadway’s significant cost meant it might now “no longer necessarily be people’s choice of where to put a show, which is maybe a good thing”. He added: “Maybe some sanity will return [to Broadway].” – The Stage
  
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• Who Is Buying Massive Quantities Of Books?

  06-08-2026 17:31 via theatlantic.com
  
  We know that something mysterious is afoot. Someone—if not more than one group or company—has been snapping up massive volumes of books from shops around the world. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Big Estate Sales That Are Reshaping The Art Market

  06-08-2026 17:15 via artnews.com
  
  The list of collectors whose art has arrived at auction over the past two years reads like the society pages of decades past. Some died; others have merely reached an age when keeping several hundred million dollars’ worth of paintings around no longer seems quite as important as it once did. – ARTnews
  
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• John Galliano at the Met Raises Questions, UK Show of Sarah Cunningham Paintings Planned, and More: Morning Links for August 6, 2026

  06-08-2026 17:12 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good morning!The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is taking precautionary measures to protect its collection from vibrations caused by the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.A Cold War bunker beneath Italy’s Lake Garda is being transformed into a museum.British painter Sarah Cunningham, who died in 2024 at the age of 31, will receive her first instituti
  
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• Bruno Campanella, Opera Conductor Known For Bel Canto, Is Dead At 83

  06-08-2026 17:03 via moto-perpetuo.com
  
  After emerging internationally in the late 1970s, he established himself as one of the leading specialists in the operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. He guest-conducted at most of the world’s major opera houses and served as music director of the Teatro Regio in Turin for three years in the 1990s. – Moto Perpetuo
  
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• As Broadway Struggles, London’s West End Thrives — With Less Expensive Tickets

  06-08-2026 16:30 via msn.com
  “The West End is capitalizing on lower production costs, cheaper ticket prices and government tax relief to drive attendances to new heights. … Staging a show in New York now costs three to five times what it does in London, producers say.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• How Jonathan González Became the Performance Artist of the Moment

  06-08-2026 16:18 via artnews.com
  
  This past May, on one of the first warm days of an unusually frigid spring in New York, two friends seized on the good weather and decided to have cocktails on the Whitney Museum’s eighth floor terrace. They chatted and laughed—and then were quickly interrupted by a woman in a white leotard that looked as though it had been splashed with paint. The woman got up on their table and gleefully pretended to tap dance, drawing an amused crowd of onlookers. “A typical Friday night in
  
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• Major Museums Are Forming Partnerships To Buy And Share Artworks

  06-08-2026 16:04 via news.artnet.com
  “Pooling resources now reflects a broader shift away from the competitive collection building of the 19th and 20th centuries. Increasing financial pressure plays an undeniable role, but so does a growing appetite for deeper institutional ties and shared expertise.” – Artnet
  
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• Dallas’s Perot Museum Of Nature And Science Seems To Be Planning A Big Expansion It Hasn’t Announced

  06-08-2026 15:31 via msn.com
  The news comes from a filing the museum made last week with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation; management has also filed with the city of Dallas for a construction permit. Work is expected to start early next year. – The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
  
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• Disney To Allow TikTok Creators To Use Clips From Its Films And TV Shows

  06-08-2026 15:05 via bbc.com
  
  “Neither company shared financial details of the agreement, although it follows the collapse of a $1 billion (£745 million) deal between Disney and OpenAI which would have let people use its characters in AI-generated videos.” – BBC
  
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• Contemporary Art Museum Of Raleigh Is Selling Its Building

  06-08-2026 14:32 via msn.com
  The museum paused its exhibitions and other activities last year due to financial troubles. The board and management have not announced any permanent closure; their statements indicate that they hope to keep operating without a permanent home. – The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
  
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• What Wagner Lovers Put Up With To Be At Bayreuth

  06-08-2026 14:06 via nytimes.com
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• White Cube Now Represents Tesfaye Urgessa, First Artist to Represent Ethiopia at the Venice Biennale

  06-08-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  White Cube, which has six gallery locations around the world, announced today that it will now represent artist Tesfaye Urgessa, who splits his time between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Nürtingen, Germany.The gallery will open its first solo show for the artist at its Hong Kong location on September 9, featuring new paintings and works on paper. The gallery will also include Urgessa’s 2025 painting Fiber of grace (Schutz) 2 in its booth at Frieze Seoul next month.Urgessa is known for hi
  
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• Wyoming Association of Archaeologists Sues Federal Government Over NAGPRA Regulations

  05-08-2026 23:38 via artnews.com
  
  Late last month, the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists (WAPA) filed a complaint against Douglas J. Burgum, the US Secretary of the Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming.In the case, filed July 24, WAPA, a Wyoming-based nonprofit representing field archaeologists, academic researchers, and museum professionals, calls for the court to “halt ongoing unlawful transfers of, and denial of research access to, archaeologic
  
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• Australian Museum Returns 18 Ancestral Remains to Rapa Nui

  05-08-2026 23:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Australian Museum has returned 18 ancestral remains to the people of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island). The news was reported by the Art Newspaper following a July 27 announcement by Chile’s National Cultural Heritage Service.The repatriated human remains (known locally as Ivi Tupuna) include 17 skulls and one sample of hair, which have been in the museum’s collection since the late 19th century. They were among a number of objects and remains removed from Rapa Nui by an 188
  
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