Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá dismisses longtime artistic director • London’s National Gallery to Slash Staff as $11.2 Million Deficit Forces ‘Strategic Reset’ • Louvre Rocked by Arrests in $11.8 Million Ticket Fraud Investigation

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Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá dismisses longtime artistic director
On 6 February 2026, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (Mambo) announced it would terminate the contract of its artistic director, the Italian...

London’s National Gallery to Slash Staff as $11.2 Million Deficit Forces ‘Strategic Reset’
London’s National Gallery has announced a “strategic reset” after reporting a $11.2 million deficit, prompting plans to reduce staffing and adjust...

Louvre Rocked by Arrests in $11.8 Million Ticket Fraud Investigation
French authorities arrested individuals connected to an alleged $11.8 million ticket-fraud scheme involving the Louvre, according to an Artnet...

Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’
Tate Modern is staging Tracey Emin’s largest retrospective to date, titled “A Second Life,” spanning work from her first solo exhibition at White...

Texas University Cancels Exhibition Critical of ICE
The University of North Texas’s College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries in Denton canceled a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Victor...

The Big Review | Monuments, The Geffen Contemporary at Moca and The Brick, Los Angeles ★★★★★
The Los Angeles exhibition “Monuments,” presented at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick, brings nine Confederate monuments into...

New IMLS Guidelines Echo Trump’s Vision for American Culture
New grant guidelines issued by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) have been described by Artnet News as aligning with former...

See you, Searle: Guardian chief art critic bows out after 30 years
Adrian Searle is stepping down as The Guardian’s chief art critic after more than 30 years, according to a 13 February 2026 report in The Art...

Queer Arab Artists on Their Own Terms
A Hyperallergic feature examines how queer Arab artists are asserting agency over how their identities, politics, and aesthetics are represented...

Trump Wants the National Portrait Gallery to Commission a New Portrait
ARTnews reports that Donald Trump wants the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to commission a new portrait. The proposal would add to the...

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