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Ryan Presley, Darwin, Australia, August 6, 2026. Photo: (A)manda Parkinson/Getty Images. Artist Ryan Presley, who is a member of the Marri Ngarr people of the Northern Territory of Australia, has just been awarded the Telstra art prize, the most prestigious First Nations accolade in Australia. The top-ranking National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), which comes with $100,000, was granted specifically to Presley’s painting Our lifestyle of tranquillity undisturbed, 2026.

The sun sets behind the National Mall in Washington, DC, during 2024 heat wave. Photo: Kevin Carter/Getty Images. Seven Smithsonian museums in Washington, DC, were forced to temporarily close without notice on August 6 as their shared temperature-control system failed.

Three shows prove that “the genre exacts its toll regardless of how rigorous the treatment” Mary Cassatt, A Goodnight Hug , 1880, pastel on paper, 16.5 ×25". THIS SUMMER, a constellation of exhibitions offered the rare opportunity to chart conceptions of motherhood across Renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods. Raphael’s Madonnas were on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever mounted in the United States.

View of the Department of Islamic Art, Musée du Louvre, 2012, Paris. Photo: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images. The Musée du Louvre in Paris has loaned twenty-six artworks from its Islamic art collection to the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art,” which runs from September 25 through January 18, 2027.

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Carlos Quijon Jr. Photo: Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila. The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in Manila has appointed art historian, critic, and curator Carlos Quijon Jr. chief curator of its Contemporary Art Museum. Quijon arrives at the institution from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he has spent the past two years as the inaugural Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives fellow for Southeast and East Asia.

Donald Trump holds models for a proposed "Independence Arch" during a dinner in October 2025. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images. In a recent report, the National Park Service (NPS) has stated that Trump’s proposed United States Triumphal Arch would “result in impacts to the integrity of historic properties” in the nation’s capital.

View of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 2019. Photo: Dietmar Rabich/Wikimedia Commons. The Australian Museum in Sydney has returned Ivi Tupuna, or ancestral remains, to the people of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) 144 years after they were first stolen from the island’s sacred burial sites. A Rapa Nui delegation received the remains in a ceremony in Sydney on July 15.

Entertainment district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Basile Morin/Wikipedia Commons. Tokyo Jazz Club, a group exhibition and “marketplace” from a collective of artists, galleries, and performers, will be debuting in partnership with Art Week Tokyo this November. A list of participating artists and a full performance program are both forthcoming, but the Club will unfold between November 1st and the 8th.

Robert Rauschenberg during an exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1977. Photo: Jack Mitchell/Getty Images. Robert Rauschenberg’s home at 381 Lafayette Street in New York’s NoHo neighborhood is listed with commercial real estate company Newmark, Artnet News reports. The early-nineteenth-century town house, which Rauschenberg bought in 1965, once housed an orphanage and a convent.