Gabriel Jesus is expected to miss the first few games of the season for Arsenal due to an injury. This has raised numerous questions regarding what Arteta’s attack will look like and who will replace him.

Eddie Nketiah has stated unequivocally that he is capable of spearheading the attack in Jesus’ absence. Of course, we expect Arteta to rely on Arsenal’s No. 14, with Folarin Balogun heavily linked with a move away, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other choices. Leandro Trossard, who shined in his preseason games as a Gunner playing the striker role, may also play there.

Other than Trossard, Kai Havertz could be an option, but could Arteta be tempted to use the German as the 9 when in the last few seasons he has failed to impress in a similar role in Chelsea’s colours? As per Darren Bent, Arteta shouldn’t think about unleashing Havertz in the No. 9 role, obviously suggesting that Arteta should use other options to fill the void Jesus’ absence leaves. “I hope he (Havertz) doesn’t play as a nine,” said Bent.

Bent, who discussed the Arsenal striker situation with Gabby Agbonlahor on talkSPORT, said so after Gabby claimed Arteta should just stick to his original plan to use Havertz as an attacking midfielder: “When I see Gabriel Jesus play, in certain games I see him play, and I think he should be finishing that. I think that was a problem last season, but you have goals from Saka, Martinelli, Trossard can score goals, and now you have Havertz who could play in that eight.”

Would you consider Havertz playing as Arsenal’s No. 9 in Jesus’ absence? or should Arteta stick with Nketiah?

Late on Friday, a judge in Texas issued an pre-trial injunction limiting the reach of the state’s recent anti-abortion measures.

While Texas law technically allows ending a pregnancy in emergency, medically necessary situations, patients seeking care under that provision have been denied, as doctors fear fines, imprisonment, or the loss of their license for being involved in any kind of abortion. The judge clarified that a doctor can decide when their patient needs an emergency abortion, and held that the women who brought the suit with the assistance of the Center for Reproductive Rights had had a legal right to an abortion in Texas. Under the law, one plaintiff in the suit was denied an abortion and developed sepsis; another was forced to give birth to a non-viable fetus. Others opted to travel out of state for care.

Travis County district judge Jessica Mangrum also held that SB8, the state law that encourages Texas citizens to investigate and turn in people who seek or help enable an abortion, is unconstitutional because it violates a provision in the state’s bill of rights banning unreasonable fines and cruel and unusual punishment. Mother Jones‘s Pema Levy wrote about the law last year:

It allows vigilantes to piggyback on any cases brought under the bans and win civil suits with ample bounties. Vigilantes can also go after anyone involved in a suspected abortion without a prosecutor’s involvement, meaning that even in the state’s liberal enclaves where elected prosecutors have promised not to prosecute abortion cases, SB8 will allow individuals to become the enforcers… [U]nder SB8, scrutiny has been expanded and weaponized: When the law took effect, a Texas anti-abortion group set up a website for people to submit tips about abortions performed in violation of SB8 and promised to “do the rest.” The portal didn’t last, but it also wasn’t needed for the law to have its intended effect.

According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, the case, Zurawski v. State of Texas, was the first brought on behalf of women denied abortions after the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision ending the federal constitutional right to abortion.

How to watch Arsenal players vying for quarter-final place at Women’s World Cup by Michelle

The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 kicked-off on 20th July and, I’m sure you’ll agree, we’ve been treated to some pretty outstanding football in that time. Now, there are 16 teams that have progressed to the Round of 16 knock-out stage of the tournament.

Unfortunately, 3 of our Arsenal players were knocked out of the competition today, but we still have 9 Arsenal players vying for those coveted quarter-final places – see full schedule and how to watch below, by date.

Saturday 5th August

Noelle Maritz and Lia Walti – Switzerland

Arsenal’s Swiss duo were today knocked out of the World Cup, after losing 5-1 to Spain, at Eden Park, Auckland

Almost six months after she passed away from cancer at age 75, the longtime Marin County residence of venerable art collector and philanthropist Chara Schreyer has popped up for sale, asking a brush stroke over $8.2 million. Resting in the desirable Belvedere enclave of Tiburon, just across the Golden Gate Bridge, the sleek architectural-style digs come complete with picturesque views overlooking the Tiburon Peninsula, San Francisco Bay, and Sausalito.

Originally acquired by Schreyer and her then-husband Gary Schreyer in the late 1970s—and subsequently customized to her tastes by interior designer Gary Hutton—the three-story structure is known as the “Art House,” and has six bedrooms and a matching number of baths in a little more than 8,100 square feet of gallery-like living space boasting high ceilings and a striking spiral staircase holding court in the slate-covered foyer. A freestanding art studio also is whimsically framed by a half-pair of gigantic red eyeglasses, with the other portion on exhibit at her home in Los Angeles.

Highlights include a soaring living room with French doors spilling out to the leafy grounds and an adjacent family room warmed by a fireplace. There’s also an office, a lofty game lounge, wood-clad library with built-in banquette seating and window-lined dining room that connects via a butler’s pantry to the gourmet kitchen, which is outfitted with granite countertops, a center island sporting dual sinks, top-tier Bosch, Dacor, Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, and a cozy fireside breakfast nook.

An upstairs master retreat features a fireplace donning a marble surround, private balcony, walk-in closet and luxe bath spotlighted by a shower equipped with a large pivoting steel door, while a lower level leading to the attached three-car garage is decked out with a recreation/media room, gym, full bath with a steam shower and wine cellar. Outdoors, the sculpture-laced grounds span almost an acre, and host meandering pathways and an expansive terrace ideal for al fresco entertaining with a built-in barbecue setup, as well as a sunny site primed for a pool.

Revered as one of the world’s foremost collectors of modern and contemporary art created by the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Mark Bradford, Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol, Schreyer served on the boards of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art and Hammer Museum in L.A. The German-born daughter of Holocaust survivors, she also was an avid supporter of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, where she was instrumental in the Daniel Libeskind-designed expansion in 2008.

A poster by artist Demian DinéYazhi’ that reads “DEFUND THE POLICE DECOLONIZE THE STREETS” was chosen for a group show at Chehalem Cultural Center (CCC) in Newberg, Oregon, that is set to run through September 28. But on August 1, the opening day of the exhibition, the artwork was removed from view, a decision that DinéYazhi’ has called censorship in a scathing Instagram post. 

DinéYazhi’, a trans nonbinary Indigenous artist (Naasht’ézhí Tábąąhá and Tódích’íí’nii clans) who confronts oppressive institutional machinations in their multidisciplinary practice, said the work was removed without their knowledge and without the consent of the curatorial team, composed of Selena Jones, Owen Premore, and Tammy Jo.

“Each time a crucial conversation resurfaces without proper consultation, support, or reparations,” DinéYazhi’ wrote in their post. “It is unsurprising especially given the amount of resources that are extracted from artists & politically motivated communities by arts spaces in order to escape accountability & restructuring initiatives.” DinéYazhi’ said the decision to remove the work was made by Sean Andries, executive director of CCC.

“[Curator Tracy Schlapp] & myself collaborated on the design of the original letterpress poster, which it references, in the spring of 2020 as a result of the police murder of George Floyd & Black Lives Matter uprisings that followed & effectively empowered the Portland community,” they continued, adding that CCC has “chosen to stand on the side of conservative extremism & fear by censoring the work of an Indigenous Non-Binary Trans Artist.”

A CCC spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

Fortune smiled on a British couple when they discovered what is believed to be a work by John Constable. According to the Daily Mail, the couple learned that the famous English landscape painter was indeed the author all along of an overlooked painting in the guest wing of the castle their family has owned for 800 years.

When Simon Houison Craufurd and his wife, Adity, inherited Craufurdland Castle, a 600-acre estate 25 miles south of Glasgow, Scotland, they also inherited debilitating maintenance costs of up to $127,000 a year. Despite running an events and vacation rental business out of the 16th-century castle, the Craufurds thought they might have to sell their ancestral home. 

That is, until they appeared on Millionaire Hoarders, a British reality show that follows a group of antique experts as they rummage around ancient homes in search of overlooked, but potentially priceless, treasure. 

Their hopes may have been fulfilled when the Millionaire Hoarders crew found what they believe to be a genuine Constable painting, despite the work’s having been dismissed as a fake by an auction house a decade earlier.

“It’s funny because it’s a painting that I have seen I don’t know how many times and I have never actually paid any attention to it,” Simon Houison Craufurd told the Daily Mail.

A Canadian company known for its immersive art exhibitions featuring the works of van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt, and Claude Monet will significantly shrink its operations after filing for creditor protection in Delaware and Ontario.

The Toronto-based Lighthouse Immersive will reduce its operations to four or five venues by the end of September, down from its height of nearly 20.

In court documents filed in Delaware, Lighthouse Immersive cited increased competition from governments lifting restrictions on cultural institutions and multiple competitors as reasons for lower ticket sales. The company also did not have a “solid, long-term chief financial officer or a substantial financial department to keep up with the rapid expansion of the business.” Partner immersive experience company Impact Museums Inc has alleged that Lighthouse owes it $16.6 million, a figure the company disputes.

“Our goal is to emerge from restructuring a stronger company and continue to offer incredible shows to the public,” Lighthouse Immersive spokesperson Nick Harkin told ARTnews in a written statement. “”All of our Lighthouse ArtSpace venues currently operating are still open to the public. Two Lighthouse Immersive affiliate companies are currently undergoing restructuring in Canada. This in no way impacts the operations of our venues or the presentation of currently scheduled shows.”

Lighthouse Immersive and its 10 US affiliates filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in Delaware on July 28. The following quotes are from court documents.

Things tend to be surreal at Watermill Center’s annual benefit, and this year was no different. One performer was left suspended in a bath of water drawing on Hamlet’s Ophelia. Another melted a block of ice with body heat alone, while a third sat still inside a police car as it was axed apart by a team of mechanics—a process that unfolded over two hours, as guests looked on.

All this took place on Saturday night in the Hamptons, where a modest size art crowd flocked to Long Island’s East End for the center’s annual STAND benefit held at the Watermill Center. This year’s event was themed around “The Body,” and saw artists pushing their corporeal limits.

The performance art center sits on a sprawling wooded property that bills itself as a testing ground, residency, and “laboratory” for experimental artists and performers. Founded in 1992 by artist and theater director Robert Wilson, Watermill is home to his collection and archive.

The benefit has for years been an attraction in the summer months as commerce quiets down and art world insiders leave the city for more scenic locales. Previous editions have featured 10 or so performances spread across the center’s grounds, taking place inside a concrete lobby and across a substantial gravel courtyard that opens into moss-covered backwoods.

Each year, the personalities attending range widely, from academic types to those with celebrity ties. Among them this year were artists Coco Fusco, Robert Longo, and Daniel Arsham, as well as actor Cuba Gooding Jr. and designer Carolina Sarria.

A group of miners in Serbia found more than just timber when they happened upon the remains of an ancient ship that archaeologists say may belong to the Roman Empire.

The ship, whose hull measures some 42 feet in length, was discovered in the village of Drmno, near what was once a Roman settlement called Viminacium. Because of the proximity to that region, archaeologists believe the ship was related to a city that was once sited there.

“We may assume that this ship is Roman, but we are unsure of its exact age,” Miomir Korac, the archaeologist spearheading the research being done on the ship, told Reuters. He estimated that it could be from the 3rd or 4th century CE.

Since 2020, at least one other vessel has been found in the area, which is close to the Mlava river. To date, archaeologists have found two ships and three canoes.

Viminacium was the humming site of significant activity during the 4th century CE, with emperors such as Theodosius even visiting the city, which is thought to have hosted some 48,000 residents.

Google celebrated the 116th birthday on Friday of sculptor, documentary filmmaker, and inventor Altina Schinasi with a pair of orange cat’s-eye glasses framing the company logo.

Born August 4, 1907, Schinasi was a native New Yorker who studied art in Paris. She began her creative career as a window dresser for New York’s Fifth Avenue luxury storefronts.

In her role as a window dresser, she helped Salvador Dalí fully realize and execute his window designs at Bonwit Teller & Co. department store. At the same time, she took art classes at the Art Students League of New York, where artists Howard Warshaw and George Grosz were her instructors.

After noticing the lack of options for women’s glasses, she invented the harlequin shape, or cat’s-eye, glasses for which she is probably most known. One shop owner took to her creation and grabbed the rights to the frames for six months, leading to her design’s huge success as a must-have fashion accessory among American women in the late 1930s and ’40s.

Schinasi’s invention earned her Lord & Taylor’s American Design Award in 1939 and received recognition from notable magazines such as Life and Vogue.