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Saudi Arabia Commissions Giant Mural the Size of 9 Football Fields

Domingo Zapata at a bullfight in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in 2024. Photo By Raul Terrel/Europa Press via Getty Images Saudi Arabia commissioned Domingo Zapata to paint what’s being called the largest mural ever created—at a size, as the New York Post’s “Page Six” put it, of 540,000 square feet, or about nine football fields. …

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US Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs That Had a Tumultuous Effect on the Art Market

The US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. courtesy AFP via Getty Images Last year was marked by the uncertainty and disruption of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which caused tumult in the art market. Now, just over a year after Trump signed executive orders imposing tariffs on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico, and China, …

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Labubus, Vintage YouTube, Pimple Patches, and More On View in the V&A’s Reopened ‘1900-Now’ Galleries

“Meet Me at the Zoo,” the first video uploaded to YouTube, 2005. Photo Peter Kelleher/© Victoria and Albert Museum, London On Wednesday, the V&A in London reopened several galleries dedicated to design from the past 126 years. The newly installed Design 1900-Now spaces, which had been closed since November, showcase 250 objects from the 20th …

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A Popular Bernini Sculpture of an Elephant in a Rome Square Was Damaged. Was It Weather or Vandalism?

Bernini’s sculpture of an elephant in the Piazza della Minerva in Rome. Getty Images/iStockphoto Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s popular marble sculpture of an elephant in Rome’s Piazza della Minerva was damaged over the weekend, with a four-inch fragment of the tip of one of its tusks broken off and found on the ground.  Local …

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Veterans Sue Over Trump’s Arch, Saying It Would Blight Arlington National Cemetery and Nearby Monuments

A model of President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A group of three military veterans and a historical preservationist filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proposed 250-foot arch that opponents contend would mar the views from Arlington National Cemetery to other monuments around …

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South Africa Will Officially Sit Out Venice Biennale After Gabrielle Goliath Cancelation

Gayton McKenzie, South Africa’s culture minister, was protested after he canceled Gabrielle Goliath’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images After canceling a planned pavilion by Gabrielle Goliath that would have featured references to Israel’s war in Gaza, South Africa will not take part at all in this year’s Venice …

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British Museum Contests Report on Removal of ‘Palestinian’ from Some Wall Texts

The British Museum said it did not, in fact, remove the word “Palestinian” from some displays in response to pressure from a pro-Israel group. Photo Leon Neal/Getty Images The British Museum contested a Telegraph report from this weekend, saying that it had not entirely stripped the word “Palestinian” from its wall texts in response to …

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