A trove of gold jewelry dating to the Middle Bronze Age. Courtesy of the Greek Ministry of Culture Excavations at Kolona, an archaeological site on the Greek island of Aegina, have uncovered a trove of gold jewelry dating to the Middle Bronze Age. The discovery was made inside a large stone building near a defensive …
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Exterior of The Box Los Angeles, with a mural by Sarah Conaway. Photo ©Fredrik Nilsen Studio The Box in Los Angeles announced this weekend that it would close after 19 years in business. Its final show was a two-venue collaboration with Parker Gallery for the late California artist Wally Hedrick, which ran through April 4. …
Mummies discovered in a Roman-era tomb at Al-Bahnasa. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities A newly excavated Roman-era tomb found at Al-Bahnasa, site of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, offers insights into Egyptian funerary practices during the Greek and Roman periods (332 BCE–641 CE). The find, announced by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry, was …
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Ai Weiwei will stage a 24-hour performance titled Sewing a Button in July in Manchester, England. Photo Michael Ostuni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images In the 15 years since his 81-day detention by China’s Ministry of Public Security, artist and dissident artist Ai Weiwei has explicitly addressed the harrowing experience in his work. This summer, he …
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A pair of black fedora loafers, worn by Michael Jackson for the September 2001 concerts at Madison Square Garden – and signed by the pop star are seen during a Entertainment Memorabilia sale photocall Bonhams in London. (Photo by Tim Ireland/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images GWS Auctions is set to auction a …
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Barkley L. Hendricks, Quarry Shortcut, 2008. Courtesy Sotheby’s Artists ranging from Mickalene Thomas to Tammy Nguyen are banding together to sell more than $1 million in art at Sotheby’s next month, with all the funds going toward Yale University’s MFA art program, among the most esteemed ones of its kind in the country. All of …
Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The removal of a controversial artwork in the exhibition “Storage Room,” which was curated by art students Erik Siegel and Angeles Juarez-Ruiz, is causing quite the stir beyond the walls of Dartmouth College’s Black Family Visual Arts Center (BFVAC). The art …
A view of the Long Museum, a part of which is a preserved coal unloading bridge from an old industrial site, located in the up and coming West Bund district of Shanghai, China. photo by Qilai Shen/In Pictures via Getty Images Images SHANGHAI BOUND: Max Mara has zeroed in on the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai as …
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Claude Lalanne, Important and Unique Ensemble of Fifteen Mirrors for Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, ca. 1974. Courtesy Sotheby’s A bespoke ensemble of 15 mirrors by Claude Lalanne sold at Sotheby’s New York today for $33.5 million, breaking the artist’s secondary-market record and becoming the most valuable design work ever to leave the auction …
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Rendering of building facade for Berlin’s forthcoming Museum of the 20th Century. Courtesy Herzog & de Meuron. Another day, another setback for Berlin‘s long awaited Berlin Modern, as moisture damage in the building’s shell and microbial contamination in other parts of the structure have forced the postponement of the museum to 2030. The Prussian Cultural …
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