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• Caravaggio: Genius, Thug, Gangster, Nightmare Tenant

  07-09-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nightmare tenant? Oh, yes - he poked holes in the roof of his apartment and threw rotten vegetables at his landlady. That in addition to the murder, brawling, whoring and vandalism. In fact, writes Noah Charney, "we know far more about Caravaggio than most pre-modern artists because he was brought to trial so often."
  
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• The Phildelphia Museum of Art Ran a $10 M. Deficit This Past Fiscal Year

  28-07-2026 19:20 via artnews.com
  
  The hits keep coming for the Philadelphia Museum of Art: On Tuesday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the museum is suffering a growing deficit, according to preliminary documentation reviewed by the paper.For the fiscal year 2025-2026, which ended on June 30, the museum had a deficit of $10 million on a $76.5 million budget. That deficit is nearly double the $5.4 million it experienced in the previous fiscal year. And, according to the Inquirer, museum leaders expect the deficit to eithe
  
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• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Sets December Opening Date

  28-07-2026 19:16 via artnews.com
  
  The keenly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will open its doors on Saadiyat Island on December 11, the Department of Culture and Tourism-Abu Dhabi announced today. Plans for the addition to the Guggenheim network were unveiled in 2006 at an undisclosed cost, designed by the late Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry.At its opening, it will become the largest star in the Guggenheim’s four-country museum constellation, joining the flagship in New York and outposts in Venice and Bilbao. The
  
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• National Museum of Ireland Employee Charged in Alleged Car Bomb Plot

  28-07-2026 19:13 via artnews.com
  
  An employee at the National Museum of Ireland has been charged with explosives offenses, according to the Irish Mirror, after Irish authorities said they intercepted a suspected car bomb near the border with Northern Ireland.Simon O’Donovan, 44, who prosecutors identified as an employee at the National Museum’s Collins Barracks site in Dublin, appeared before Ireland’s Special Criminal Court on Saturday after being charged with possession of explosives. Authoriti
  
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• Bernard Arnault Hits Back at Le Monde Report Accusing Him of Being ‘In Love With the Arts and Tax Exemptions’

  28-07-2026 17:25 via artnews.com
  
  In a social media post, Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man and one of Europe’s most influential art patrons and collectors, shot back at a scathing, six-part investigation by Le Monde delving into the scope of his power, wealth, and alleged rivalries within the Arnault clan, described as “the last royal family of France.” The report also devotes a chapter to Arnault’s engagement with the arts, titled: “Bernard Arnault, the generous patron, in love with the
  
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• SFMoMA Announces Recent Gifts and Purchases of Modern and Contemporary Artworks

  28-07-2026 17:12 via artnews.com
  
  The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the purchases of more than 90 modern and contemporary artworks between January and June 2026. The purchases include videos and video installations by Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, Ana Mendieta, and Agniezka Polska; works on paper by Arakawa + Gins and Orlando Smith; sculpture and mixed-medium pieces by Betye Saar, Kishio Suga, Rose B. Simpson and Elaine Cameron-Weir; basketry by Jeremy Frey; and objects by architects Frida Escobedo, Bi
  
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• Betye Saar Dies at 99, Irish Museum Worker Charged in Bomb Plot, and More: Morning Links for July 28, 2026

  28-07-2026 16:00 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Betye Saar has died at 99, just four days before her 100th birthday.A worker of the National Museum of Ireland has been charged in connection with a bomb plot. Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Museum has reopened after a meticulous restoration.The Headlines AN ICON GONE. Yesterday evening, news broke that Betye Saar, the Los Angeles&
  
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• Who is Matthew Taylor, the Artist Helping Trump Reshape Washington, D. C.?

  28-07-2026 14:26 via artnews.com
  
  Who is Matthew Taylor, a senior adviser to the National Endowment for the Humanities and a key figure in the Trump Administration’s efforts to reshape the nation’s capital in the president’s image? Well, the New York Times‘s Zachary Small dug into the little-known, but important figure, and found that Taylor has become a kind of de facto culture czar in the White House. Taylor consulted on the July 4 report that accused the National Museum of American History of “id
  
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• Czech Artist and Museum Director Milan Knížák, Once Imprisoned as an ‘Enemy of the State,’ Has Died at 86

  28-07-2026 14:05 via artnews.com
  
  Milan Knížák, the Czech artist and performer and a former director of the country’s National Gallery director, died on July 26 at the age of 86. Czech culture minister Oto Klempíř announced his death on X. In his post, Klempíř called Knížák an “author who was part of the history of modern Czech art and shaped it for decades” and “a personality who made a significant impact not only on the art world, but al
  
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• Rusudan Petviashvili Channels the Divine Through the Elegance of an Unbroken Brushstroke

  28-07-2026 14:00 via artnews.com
  
  Celebrated throughout Europe for decades, the enigmatic artist and ambassador of Georgian culture is finding new acolytes worldwide.Related ArticlesBetye Saar, Pioneering Assemblage Artist Who Powerfully Tackled Racism, Dies at 99  Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Celtic Princess' 2,500-year-old Gold Torque From French Museum, as National Security Plan Is Launched Many words have been used to describe the phenomenon that is Georgian artist Rusudan Petviashvili. Peers and critics have calle
  
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• Betye Saar, Pioneering Assemblage Artist Who Powerfully Tackled Racism, Dies at 99 

  28-07-2026 00:14 via artnews.com
  
  Betye Saar, the Los Angeles–based artist whose assemblages powerfully tackled the brutality of racism and anti-Blackness and the stereotypes they engender, died in her sleep in the early hours of Sunday, July 26, her gallery Robert Projects announced. She was 99 years old, and just four days shy of turning 100 on July 30. Across seven decades, Saar created a body of work that used a wide variety of materials—often found objects like furniture, statuettes, feathers, and more&mdas
  
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• Betye Saar, Pioneering Assemblage Artist Who Powerfully Tackled Racism, Dies at 99 

  28-07-2026 00:14 via artnews.com
  
  Betye Saar, the Los Angeles–based artist whose assemblages powerfully tackled the brutality of racism and anti-Blackness and the stereotypes they engender, died in her sleep in the early hours of Sunday, July 26, her gallery Robert Projects announced. She was 99 years old, and just four days shy of turning 100 on July 30. Across seven decades, Saar created a body of work that used a wide variety of materials—often found objects like furniture, statuettes, feathers, and more&mdas
  
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• Betye Saar Dead at 99—Here are 5 Places to See the Legendary Artist’s Work

  27-07-2026 23:44 via artnews.com
  
  On Sunday, legendary artist Betye Saar died at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 99,according to a publicist for Roberts Projects, the gallery that has represented Saar for years.A central figure in the Black Arts and feminist art movements of the 1960s, Saar was best known for her assemblage boxes reframing the history and legacy of racism in America, which she has sought to transform objects of hate into symbols of liberation. One of Saar’s most famous works is her 1972 sculpture The
  
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• Betye Saar Dead at 99—Here are 5 Places to See the Legendary Artist’s Work

  27-07-2026 23:44 via artnews.com
  
  On Sunday, legendary artist Betye Saar died at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 99,according to a publicist for Roberts Projects, the gallery that has represented Saar for years.A central figure in the Black Arts and feminist art movements of the 1960s, Saar was best known for her assemblage boxes reframing the history and legacy of racism in America, which she has sought to transform objects of hate into symbols of liberation. One of Saar’s most famous works is her 1972 sculpture The
  
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• Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Celtic Princess’ 2,500-year-old Gold Torque From French Museum, as National Security Plan Is Launched

  27-07-2026 23:07 via artnews.com
  
  The French government has announced the implementation of a national museum and monument security plan, after investigators arrested and detained a suspect in connection with Friday’s theft of a Celtic princess’s golden necklace from a museum in Burgundy, reported Le Figaro.The 10:30 am robbery on July 24 has shocked France’s museum world, because the stolen 2,500-year-old, 24-karat golden torque from the Vix Treasure archaeological site was a unique example of Celtic life in t
  
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• Police Arrest Suspect in Theft of Celtic Princess’ 2,500-year-old Gold Torque From French Museum, as National Security Plan Is Launched

  27-07-2026 23:07 via artnews.com
  
  The French government has announced the implementation of a national museum and monument security plan, after investigators arrested and detained a suspect in connection with Friday’s theft of a Celtic princess’s golden necklace from a museum in Burgundy, reported Le Figaro.The 10:30 am robbery on July 24 has shocked France’s museum world, because the stolen 2,500-year-old, 24-karat golden torque from the Vix Treasure archaeological site was a unique example of Celtic life in t
  
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• Spencer Tunick’s Latest Nude Action Celebrates Pride in the Canary Islands

  27-07-2026 22:26 via artnews.com
  
  On Sunday July 26, the photographer Spencer Tunick organized one of the large-scale nude happenings for which he has become known over the past several decades. Tunick’s latest eye-catching gathering took place in Las Palmas, the capital city of Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands.The one-day “collective art action” was called Gran Spectrum, and according to El Pais, it involved around 400–500 participants. Unlike most of Tunick’s previous actions, in
  
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• Spencer Tunick’s Latest Nude Action Celebrates Pride in the Canary Islands

  27-07-2026 22:26 via artnews.com
  
  On Sunday July 26, the photographer Spencer Tunick organized one of the large-scale nude happenings for which he has become known over the past several decades. Tunick’s latest eye-catching gathering took place in Las Palmas, the capital city of Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands.The one-day “collective art action” was called Gran Spectrum, and according to El Pais, it involved around 400–500 participants. Unlike most of Tunick’s previous actions, in
  
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• UNESCO Adds Contested West Bank Archaeological Site, Lebanese Castles to World Heritage List

  27-07-2026 21:20 via artnews.com
  
  A UNESCO committee voted on Friday to add an archaeological site in the occupied West Bank and a complex of castles in southern Lebanon to its World Heritage List and List of World Heritage in Danger, despite objections from Israel.The vote took place at a meeting of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Busan, South Korea, as Israel’s Foreign Ministry urged the committee to reject calls to inscribe the West Bank town of Sebastia and five castles in Lebanon’s
  
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• UNESCO Adds Contested West Bank Archaeological Site, Lebanese Castles to World Heritage List

  27-07-2026 21:20 via artnews.com
  
  A UNESCO committee voted on Friday to add an archaeological site in the occupied West Bank and a complex of castles in southern Lebanon to its World Heritage List and List of World Heritage in Danger, despite objections from Israel.The vote took place at a meeting of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Busan, South Korea, as Israel’s Foreign Ministry urged the committee to reject calls to inscribe the West Bank town of Sebastia and five castles in Lebanon’s
  
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• ADAA Fair Names 63 Exhibitors for Inaugural Rebranded Edition in November

  27-07-2026 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has named the 63 galleries that will participate in its upcoming New York fair, recently rebranded the ADAA Fair.The fair returns to its longtime home of the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side, though will a few key changes. It will run a couple weeks later than usual, from November 13–16, to coincide with Art Week NYC, a new four-day week program initiated by ARTnews and Art in America. Its preview gala on November 12 will now benefit t
  
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• ADAA Fair Names 63 Exhibitors for Inaugural Rebranded Edition in November

  27-07-2026 20:33 via artnews.com
  
  The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has named the 63 galleries that will participate in its upcoming New York fair, recently rebranded the ADAA Fair.The fair returns to its longtime home of the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side, though will a few key changes. It will run a couple weeks later than usual, from November 13–16, to coincide with Art Week NYC, a new four-day week program initiated by ARTnews and Art in America. Its preview gala on November 12 will now benefit t
  
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• Archaeologists Map Buried Sacred Precinct of Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan Under Mexico City

  27-07-2026 19:51 via artnews.com
  
  Researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) finished a holistic survey of an area beneath Mexico City’s Centro Historico that long ago served as the home of the sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.As reported by Heritage Daily, the project undertaken as part of INAH’s Urban Archaeology Program to identify buried pre-Hispanic structures beneath the city’s streets is “expected to improve the protection of archaeol
  
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• Archaeologists Map Buried Sacred Precinct of Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan Under Mexico City

  27-07-2026 19:51 via artnews.com
  
  Researchers from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) finished a holistic survey of an area beneath Mexico City’s Centro Historico that long ago served as the home of the sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.As reported by Heritage Daily, the project undertaken as part of INAH’s Urban Archaeology Program to identify buried pre-Hispanic structures beneath the city’s streets is “expected to improve the protection of archaeol
  
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• V&A Workers Ballot for Strike Over Pay, Heatwave Conditions

  27-07-2026 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  More than 300 workers across London’s Victoria and Albert Museum are voting on whether to strike over salary, working conditions, and what unions describe as unsafe heatwave policies.According to the Guardian, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union launched the ballot on July 23, covering employees at the V&A’s flagship South Kensington museum, Young V&A in Bethnal Green, and the V&A East Museum and Storehouse in Stratford. The union said soaring tempera
  
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• V&A Workers Ballot for Strike Over Pay, Heatwave Conditions

  27-07-2026 19:27 via artnews.com
  
  More than 300 workers across London’s Victoria and Albert Museum are voting on whether to strike over salary, working conditions, and what unions describe as unsafe heatwave policies.According to the Guardian, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union launched the ballot on July 23, covering employees at the V&A’s flagship South Kensington museum, Young V&A in Bethnal Green, and the V&A East Museum and Storehouse in Stratford. The union said soaring tempera
  
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• Detroit Institute of Arts Receives Gift of More Than 2,000 Modern and Contemporary Artworks from Silverman Estate

  27-07-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Detroit Institute of Arts has received one of the largest gifts in its history: more than 2,000 modern and contemporary artworks from the estate of Detroit collectors Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman. The donation, which includes nearly 500 artists, will begin going on public view in November when the museum reopens its newly renovated Modern and Contemporary Art galleries. The gift expands the museum’s holdings across six curatorial departments, including modern and contemporary art
  
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• Detroit Institute of Arts Receives Gift of More Than 2,000 Modern and Contemporary Artworks from Silverman Estate

  27-07-2026 18:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Detroit Institute of Arts has received one of the largest gifts in its history: more than 2,000 modern and contemporary artworks from the estate of Detroit collectors Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman. The donation, which includes nearly 500 artists, will begin going on public view in November when the museum reopens its newly renovated Modern and Contemporary Art galleries. The gift expands the museum’s holdings across six curatorial departments, including modern and contemporary art
  
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• Possible Strike at the V&A Museum, a New American Pride-Focused Art Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for July 27, 2026

  27-07-2026 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Staffers at London’s V&A Museum are voting on possible “heatwave” strike action.A Vancouver real-estate collapse has exposed an alleged art-fraud dispute involving artworks worth almost $5 million.A new Art in Embassies exhibition is set to open in Washington, D.C.The HeadlinesGET OUT OF THE KITCHEN. Staffers at London&
  
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• Possible Strike at the V&A Museum, a New American Pride-Focused Art Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for July 27, 2026

  27-07-2026 16:30 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Staffers at London’s V&A Museum are voting on possible “heatwave” strike action.A Vancouver real-estate collapse has exposed an alleged art-fraud dispute involving artworks worth almost $5 million.A new Art in Embassies exhibition is set to open in Washington, D.C.The HeadlinesGET OUT OF THE KITCHEN. Staffers at London&
  
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