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• Divers Discover Hundreds of Ancient Ceramic Vessels Amid Shipwreck Off the Coast of Sicily

  10-08-2026 22:27 via artnews.com
  
  Divers with a specialized unit of the Carabinieri, Italy’s military police, have uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Sicily. In a Facebook post on August 7, Alessandro Giuli, Italy’s culture minister, said that this is “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries in recent years.”According to the BBC, local fishermen alerted the Carabinieri to the shipwreck, which was full of hundreds of ancient Roman vess
  
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• Ireland’s Museum Staffers Struggle with Precarious Contracts and Toxic Environments

  10-08-2026 22:11 via artnews.com
  
  Museum staffers in Ireland are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain a career in the field over unstable contracts, low pay and toxic working environments, according to Dr. Emma McAlister, who wrote a blog post on the issue for the International Council of Museums on Monday.As McAlister recounted, she has only been able to work in the Irish museum industry over the last two and a half years through a temporary rolling contract that, at times, would be renewed just one day before its expir
  
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• Storm King Art Center Appoints Anne Reeve as Senior Curator

  10-08-2026 21:45 via artnews.com
  
  Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley has filled its senior curatorial vacancy after over a year and half. First reported by Artnet, Anne Reeve will lead the sculpture park’s curatorial program as senior curator from November 1. Reeve is no stranger to sculpture. She heads to Storm King from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where she has worked since 2018 as associate curator and now curator, overseeing the modern and contemporary sculpt
  
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• Looted Ivorian “Talking Drum” Arrives at Its Home Village After More Than a Century

  10-08-2026 21:35 via artnews.com
  
  A sacred “talking drum” known as the Djidji Ayôkwé, looted from Côte d’Ivoire by French colonial troops over a century ago, returned this month to the place where it was made. According to the Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA), the drum arrived on August 7 at its home village of Adjame, where the local community was able to see it for the first time.The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out from the sl
  
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• Three Public Artworks by Banksy Have Cost UK Taxpayers Almost $200,000

  10-08-2026 19:58 via artnews.com
  
  Banksy’s guerrilla artworks have generated millions of dollars in auction sales and drawn crowds wherever they appear. They’ve also left British taxpayers footing a growing cleanup bill.Public authorities across London have spent nearly $203,000 removing, protecting, and managing three of the anonymous street artist’s works since 2024, according to figures obtained by the BBC through Freedom of Information requests. The total will keep going up as
  
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• Fossils and Other Exhibits Stolen From German University in Latest Museum Robbery

  10-08-2026 18:14 via artnews.com
  
  The University of Bonn in Germany announced last week that numerous fossils and other exhibits have been stolen from its Goldfuß Museum. The university is now appealing to the public for information on items put up for sale or found on display, in order to secure their recovery.The university said it is not clear when the items were stolen, but that it occured during renovation work, which began in December 2023 and is ongoing. In a blog post published August 7, the university shared
  
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• Inhotim Founder Bernardo Paz to Open a Namesake Museum, Right Next Door

  10-08-2026 18:10 via artnews.com
  
  Brazil’s Minas Gerais will soon see another museum thanks to mining magnate Bernardo Paz, the megacollector behind the Inhotim museum and nature complex. The Museu Bernardo Paz will turn 311 acres of countryside into a new landscape for “art, nature and community.” The first phase will open in September 2027. “Museu Bernardo Paz is taking root and flourishing from a belief in the creative potential of unexpected encounters,” said Paz in press materials. “
  
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• Admission Fees at the Lucas Museum, David Hockney’s Reluctant Museum, and More: Morning Links for August 10, 2026

  10-08-2026 16:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s entrance fee.Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning and security fees.David Hockney’s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer wants to be remembered as the late painter’s muse.The Head
  
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• Admission Fees at the Lucas Museum, David Hockney’s Reluctant Muse, and More: Morning Links for August 10, 2026

  10-08-2026 16:39 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.Good Morning!Major critic slams the billionaire-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s entrance fee.Three public artworks by Banksy have cost UK taxpayers almost £150,000 in cleaning and security fees.David Hockney’s former lover, the artist Peter Schlesinger, says he no longer wants to be remembered as the late painter’s muse.The Head
  
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• Joeun Kim Aatchim’s Layered Lines Summon Translucent Worlds

  10-08-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  In Joeun Kim Aatchim’s paintings—but she calls them drawings—everything is so vivid, yet so elusive. Her line feels definitive, yet the images they convey seem to fade away into sheer luminosity. Her works are typically painted using mineral pigment in shellac—sometimes with watercolor, pastel, or other materials—on layers of silk that, stretched across frames, show through to the wall behind. They’re all about one image being seen through another—n
  
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