Frank Lloyd Wright’s Circular Sun House in Phoenix. Courtesy Realty ONE Group Frank Lloyd Wright’s so-called Circular Sun House—the last design completed by the famed architect before his death in 1959—is up for sale for $8.8 million. The look is sleek and futuristic, with consummate rhythm and flow. The setting is a hilltop in Phoenix …
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Albright Knox Art gallery. Public domain Janne Sirén, director of Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery since 2013, used a museum loan to help finance a $710,000 home—more than half of which remains unpaid, including accrued interest, according to a state review. Buffalo News, citing data from the Erie County Comptroller’s Office, reported that prevailing interest rates …
Tyanna Buie working on her installation Be the Change! for the Obama Presidential Center. Photo Kaylee Pugliese/Courtesy RISD Over the past year, the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has announced groups of artists who have been commissioned to create site-specific installations for the center’s 19-acre campus. The most recent cohort includes Mark Bradford, Tyanna J. …
The lobby of Doha’s M7 building. Nino Consorte of Seeing Things S Art Basel Qatar’s first edition doesn’t unfold in a convention center or a sealed-off fairground. Instead, it is embedded directly into the newly built Msheireb Downtown Doha. The fair spans two venues—the M7 building and the Doha Design District—set roughly two blocks apart, …
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Casa Batlló in Barcelona. AFP via Getty Images Casa Batlló, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Barcelona designed by the Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí, recently opened a new exhibition space designated for shows of contemporary art. The program opened last week with an exhibition of work by United Visual Artists (Matt Clark) and will continue …
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The Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Photo Elise Sinagra/Getty Images On Thursday night, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston issued a lengthy explanation about a recent round of layoffs that drew controversy, in part because many claimed the cuts unfairly targeted curators of color. The museum denied that this was the case. “All along, we …
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Yuko Mohri, a fast-rising Japanese sculptor, won the Calder Prize. Photo Lorenzo Palmi Yuko Mohri, a Japanese sculptor whose assemblages of fruit and found objects are in high demand on the international art circuit, has won yet another accolade: the Calder Prize, which is awarded by the namesake artist’s foundation and comes with $50,000. Mohri …
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Visitors in LACMA’s soon-to-open David Geffen Galleries with Todd Gray’s Octavia’s Gaze, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Urban/©Museum Associates/LACMA; Art: ©Todd Gray The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced that it will open its long-awaited new building, officially called the David Geffen Galleries, on April 19 to members, who will have access to the building ahead …
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Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline Lang in 2006. Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images Former French culture minister Jack Lang and his daughter, film producer Caroline Lang, are the latest art world figures revealed to have had ties with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. Correspondence between Epstein and the Langs appears in …
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy (ca. 1625) is the first Artemisa Gentileschi painting acquired by the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art An Artemisia Gentileschi painting entered the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., marking the first work by the artist to join the museum’s holdings. The painting, titled Mary …
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