Commission of Fine Arts Chairman Rodney Mims Cook Jr. speaks at a public hearing on President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary at the National Building Museum on April 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. Getty Images Late last week, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the chairman of the US Commission of …
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Interim Archives/Getty Images A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is under investigation over course materials that referenced Palestine, becoming the latest flashpoint in debates about eroding freedom of expression on American college campuses, the Guardian reported Friday. Savneet Talwar …
Lucian Freud, ‘Sleeping by the Lion Carpet’, 1995–1996. Courtesy Sotheby’s The subject of an auction-bound Lucian Freud nude portrait may be asleep, but the painter’s market is wide awake and keenly watching the rare lot. Titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, the painting could fetch between £25 million and £35 million ($33.4 million to $46.8 …
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Protesters outside New York’s New School in December. Hayden Tutton Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to 87 of its employees. The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of …
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In a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, William the Conqueror (c.1027 – 1087) rescues the future King Harold II (c.1022 – 1066) from captivity in France and betrothes his daughter Aelfgifu to him, 1064. The tapestry is housed in the town of Bayeux in Normandy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Last July, French …
René Magritte, The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959). Gali Tibbon/AFP via Getty Images René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a …
Two of David Haskell’s pieces from “Boom Beach” at Donzella Ltd. Photo by Eric McNatt David Haskell spends his days running New York Magazine. Twice a week, he goes to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and throws clay. The editor in chief of one of the country’s most influential magazines has spent the last dozen years quietly building …
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The Beatles Museum in Liverpool. Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images Good Morning! Pace Gallery is dropping some 50 artists from its roster and cutting about 50 staff. Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French artist and author of the graphic novel Persepolis, has died at 56. A new study says the Bayeux Tapestry can safely travel …
The Floating Art Hotel, Monaco Edition, 2026. Courtesy Floating Art Hotel Good Morning! The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, “museum-grade” exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco. Abram Champanier’s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go …
Thomas Bangalter. Illustration by Stéphane Manel Thomas Bangalter made a name for himself as one half of the French electronic-music duo Daft Punk starting from the early 1990s through the group’s dissolution in 2021. A name but definitely not a face—he and his partner, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, famously presented themselves as robots replete with all-concealing …
