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David Zwirner's Los Angeles flagship. Photo: David Zwirner gallery. Elizabeth Mulholland is set to take on the role of senior director at David Zwirner Gallery’s Los Angeles outpost, according to ARTnews. The move follows Mulholland’s two-decade tenure at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, where she served as a director and subsequently became a partner. Speaking to ARTnews, Andrew Kreps conveyed his gratitude to Mulholland, stating: “It’s a big life decision, and I’m supportive.

White Cube’s New York flagship, at 1002 Madison Avenue. Photo: White Cube/Wikimedia Commons. Three star directors have severed ties with White Cube’s New York gallery, Artnet News reports. The trio—Courtney Willis Blair, Sukanya Rajaratnam, and Jessie Washburne-Harris—offered varying reasons for their departures.

Former head of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Roberto Riccardi poses with seized goods in 2021. Photo: Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images. Thieves stole €4 million ($4.6 million) worth of art from Italian fuel distribution company Lilli Petroli in an overnight raid at the firm’s headquarters in Abruzzo. The Italian newspaper Il Messaggero reports that the thieves made off with roughly 30 artworks, all belonging to the company’s owner Mauro Lilli.

New lighting in the Sala Bianca (White Hall) of the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Photo: Uffizi Galleries. The Uffizi in Florence has announced a €50 million ($58 million) restoration plan that it expects to carry out over the course of two years. The renovations will encompass the Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, and the Boboli Gardens. Work has already begun on various projects, which are being staggered to avoid closing the museum completely.

The Holy Presentation Church in Beryslav, Ukraine in 2019. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Over the weekend, a Russian drone strike destroyed a historic 18th century church in the Kherson region of Ukraine. The Holy Presentation Church, which was built in 1725 within a fort near Zaporizhzhia and transported to its current location at Beryslav in 1784, is said to be the last surviving example of wooden Cossack architecture in the country.

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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