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July 2026 · ARTS · 147 articles← Back to archive

Venice 2026 Lineup Drops With Danny Boyle's "Ink" Set to Open a Leaner Festival

A Whitewashed Washington, Quietly Reinstalled

V&A's Loss of an Academic Programs Head Reopens a Familiar Question About Britain's Major Museums

Vienna's art market regroup: a 35-gallery coalition bets on Astoria as the city's two anchor fairs disappear

A Bronze Jefferson Lands in the Rose Garden: Trump's Quiet Remake of the White House Grounds

Toronto lines up its 51st edition with Mirren, Rock and Rogen at the top of the marquee

Inside the bugged stately home where Nazi POWs monologued to their captors

At SVA's MFA Thesis Show, the Rubble of History Becomes a Working Surface

Sony courts the Cinerama Dome, and the exhibition map tilts again

Shania Twain plays the long game on Little Miss Twain

"Faces Catastrophe With Flowers": Sabri Sundos and the Body as Archive

Five Years After 11J, Otero Alcántara Lands in Miami: What the Cuban Exile of a Performance Artist Tells Us About the Island's Squeeze

Nikiforchin's 16-concert marathon: how a Russian piano festival sold 40,000 tickets

A flash flood inside the New Museum, and a third death in New York's Legionnaires' cluster: the dual emergencies hitting Manhattan's cultural infrastructure

A Shiny Glass Box Meets a Flash Flood

The seven-metre ballerina, and why Moscow wants her back

Forty thousand tickets and one Russian pianist: how Denis Matsuev's summer festival became a soft-power statement

Kyung-Me turns to the sunflower, and lets the form come apart

Katie Holmes, the Tribeca Dinner, and the Slow Convergence of Celebrity and the Art World

A Mountain West Residency Reopens Its Doors, and the Question of Who Gets to Disappear

A Silk Road Museum Pairing: Hong Kong and Tashkent Sign a Cultural Accord

The Hole, a Downtown NYC Gallery, Faces a $50,000 Lawsuit From Artists It Reportedly Couldn't Pay

EU Pulls €2 Million Biennale Grant as Russia’s Venice Pavilion Refuses to Step Aside

A Manchester show stitches Manchester's textile past into a global conversation

Disney Store Returns to D23 With F1 Jackets and a Peter Pan Push

Christine Borland, the Scottish artist who turned forensic science into form, dies at 60

Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists take Tchaikovsky back to Alapaevsk

Behind the Art Institute of Chicago's outsourcing push

Zwirner folds the Upper East Side into Chelsea, signalling a Manhattan gallery map in motion

Soil collapse at the Scriabin Museum exposes Moscow's cultural-infrastructure squeeze

Otero Alcántara in Miami: What a Cuban Artist's Exit Reveals About the Island's Cultural Drain

A 2 a.m. Odyssey: Inside the All-Night Nolan Revival That Sold Out Manhattan

Water in the gallery: a leak at the New Museum tests a Lower Manhattan flood plan

Netflix buys Danny Boyle's 'Ink' ahead of Venice, putting Murdoch back on screen

Bolshoi brings its 250-year archive to the Seychelles

Bessmertnova at 85: what the Bolshoi's longest-serving ballerina still teaches a fractured art form

Shanghai auction fraud sentences land as collectors ask who else was watching

Netflix's Murdoch biopic buy signals a streaming arms race for prestige cinema

Bayeux Tapestry Survives Its London Outing, But the Loan Debate Is Just Beginning

When the figure won't hold still: the quiet contest over who illustrates the science we read

Veronesi’s ‘Dio Ride’ Lands Closing Slot at 83rd Venice Film Festival

Steve Lacy's long silence, and the price of an early No 1

A New York Sculptor Wants to Put Charlie Kirk in Bronze. The Internet Has Other Plans.

Glasgow's hidden rooms: John Wood's leather-scene archive gets its first solo show

Asghar Farhadi heads to Sarajevo: a festival lifeline for an Iranian cinema in exile from its own screens

Felandus Thames and the Politics of Recognition in Beadwork

Re-reading a 1,400-year-old wall at Calakmul: the hunter who may also be a king

Velvet, amethyst and the slow return of the ritual object

A stolen Soulages, a 1977 disappearance, and the question hanging over a Manhattan auction

Hockney, Warhol and the canonical crowd: a pop-inflected week in art

Pat Oleszko Takes the Whitney's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award

Murmurs Gallery, a Springboard for Emerging Artists in Los Angeles, Closes After Seven Years

Lena Headey's quiet score-settling with the room that paid her

Three antiquities, one reckoning: Manhattan DA returns Nayarit and Aztec pieces to Mexico

Mark Hamill's Lightsaber Breaks the Prop Market Wide Open

Iran strikes a US radar site in Kuwait: what we know, and what we don't

Richmond's ICA Hosts a Greek-and-Confederate Reckoning

British Museum Faces Political Scrutiny Over Removal of ‘Palestine’ from a Display

Vienna’s Belvedere and LEGO turn Klimt into a 4,000-piece puzzle you can hang on the wall

The auction houses learned to adapt. The wider art market is still catching up.

Vriesendorp at the Soane: a Dutch surrealist's erotics of the skyline

Tate Modern's Mendieta retrospective reclaims the artist from the obituary

Two Soviet-era scores, one Russian orchestra: what Svetlanov's summer finale signals

Storm King and Delfina name their next residency cohorts, and the geography of the circuit is shifting

An Anonymous Collective Just Gave Trump a Trophy for a War He Won't Name

Pat Oleszko Wins Whitney Biennial's $100,000 Bucksbaum Award

Can the grotesque still shock a generation that scrolls past beheadings

Six Decades On, Artist MPA Reopens Yoko Ono's Cut Piece at the Broad

Munch's Frieze, Renewed: A Long Look at Edvard Munch's Most Human Masterpiece Gets Rehung at the National Gallery

The Museum as Site: Michael Asher's Institutional Excavation Returns to Los Angeles

Manhattan DA Returns Three Antiquities to Mexico, Including a Piece Once Held by the Met

Legionella hits the Met: a public-health scare meets a cultural institution on edge

Anya Taylor-Joy's Apple series 'Lucky' lands with charm but uneven teeth

Miniature Histories: Lyndon Barrois Sr. Carves the World Cup Into LACMA

Vija Celmins and Denis Villeneuve Take the LACMA Art+Film Stage, and the Gala Still Knows How to Write a Check

Keltie Ferris, Painting as Building Blocks

James Cohan Gallery rebrands as Norr Cohan as David Norr takes sole ownership

A Break-In at the Tubman Museum Tests What a Town Owes Its Monuments

Hauser & Wirth Plants a Flag in Silicon Valley

Gergiev headlines a closing gala as the 'Summer. Music. Museum' festival wraps in Russia