Jordyn Brooks’s lucky Tux Clutch Mini bag. Screenshot/Instagram Tired of winning yet? The Guggenheim in New York isn’t. Earlier this week, the museum announced that a “courtside icon” from the New York Knicks’s NBA Finals run is coming its way. Fashion designer Jordyn Brooks, who is also the fiancée of Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns, made …
Swiss Institute director Stefanie Hessler (left) with her team outside the organization’s forthcoming home at 250 Bowery. Photo Lee Mary Manning/Courtesy Swiss Institute New York The New York–based Swiss Institute has acquired the ground floor and lower level of 250 Bowery, which will become its permanent home when it opens in spring 2027. In an …
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The Guggenheim Museum in New York. Photo Ben Hider/Getty Images Unionized staff at the Guggenheim Museum have voted to authorize a strike, its union UAW Local 2110 announced today. The union is currently in contract negotiations with the museum, seeking better pay, health benefits, and job security. UAW Local 2110 announced that 93 percent of …
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Michael Ovitz at the Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit in 2024. Photo Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art Lawyers for Julia Ormond are looking to have the court issue a bench warrant for the arrest of CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz for walking out of a deposition after being prodded about his relationship with Jeffrey …
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Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy, seen from above. Getty Images Good Morning! Christie’s double-header sale in London on Thursday hammered for just under its low estimate, a lukewarm result after Sotheby’s $520.7 million result on Wednesday. Norman Rockwell’s So You Want to See the President! finally goes on public view, after decades spent in the White House. …
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Rubble in Venezuela. Photo Jesus Varga/Getty Images The Headlines VENEZUELA FALLOUT. The painter Onai Quiñonez is one of thousands still missing since Venezuela’s devastating double earthquake on Wednesday, June 24, reports Hyperallergic. His family has issued a call for help in rescuing the artist, whom they believe remains trapped under rubble from his collapsed residential building in the coastal town …
Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, I.C.E. SCREAM, 2024–ongoing, installation view at Boston University Art Galleries, 2025. Photo Tim Correira/Courtesy Boston University Art Galleries As accusations of censorship mount at museums nationwide, a new resource has emerged to help artists safeguard freedom of expression. The Artist’s Guide to Defending Artistic Freedom, from the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), outlines …
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani addresses the crowd at the 2026 New York City Inauguration outside of City Hall in New York City, New York, United States on January 1, 2026. (Photo by Jason Alpert-Wisnia / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images) Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Hundreds of New York City–based artists and cultural workers …
An exceptional bronze votive chariot discovered at the Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site. Fran Muñoz de Llanos, courtesy Guareña Town Hall. The Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site, in the municipality of Guareña, has turned up a remarkable specimen, an extraordinary bronze votive chariot, the likes of which has never been uncovered in the Iberian Peninsula. …
Courtenay Finn will be the next chief curator of Crystal Bridges and the Momentary. Photo Benedicte Gyldenstierne Sehested/Courtesy Crystal Bridges The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, announced that the appointment of Courtenay Finn as the next chief curator of both institutions. Finn will start in her role on …
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