Muriel Hasbun. Photo Asher Selle/Courtesy International Center of Photography Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice poignantly recounted the effects of El Salvador’s civil war and the migration and exile of its diaspora, died on May 13 from ovarian cancer in Silver Springs, Maryland. She was 64 years old. The news was confirmed by art …
Gladys Nilsson, Big Birthday, 2010. PD Young/Collection of the artist Spectacle in all its many forms is the big theme of the summer season, when big, glitzy projects will take over museums across the globe. Laure Prouvost has been given a wide playing field for a show about quantum physics at Paris’s Grand Palais, while …
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Paul Cezanne, “La Montagne Sainte Victoire,” ca. 1888. Public Domain Good Morning! The family of a Jewish collector claims a Cézanne watercolor on loan for a recent Fondation Beyeler exhibition was lost due to Nazi persecution. The online prediction platform Kalshi has launched a category for art auctions. Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian to …
The lintel on view at the Mexican Consulate in New York on Apr. Courtesy Instagram/Mexican Consulate in New York The cultural minister of Guatemala has begun the process to reclaim a 1,200-year-old stone lintel that was repatriated from the United States to Mexico in mid-April, according to a report in the Art Newspaper. The object …
The Reina Sofía, Madrid Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press via Getty Images. Spain’s government is turning up the pressure on the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía over longstanding problems tied to its collection inventory, with lawmakers threatening consequences that could ultimately cost museum director Manuel Segade his job. A parliamentary oversight committee in Spain recently passed a resolution demanding …
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People viewing the Bayeux Tapestry, which is making a rare journey back to England in 2026. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images The upcoming presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long embroidered cloth depicting the Norman invasion of 1066, figures to be the blockbuster exhibition of the year for the British Museum. The institution is pricing …
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The Hispanic Society of America building in Washington Heights. Photo: Asaavedra32/Wikipedia Commons. When Sotheby’s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum. Now, Sotheby’s is leaning into that history in earnest, …
TOPSHOT – French photographer and street artist JR, poses in his Paris studio on November 26, 2025, presenting “The Cave of the Pont Neuf,” the artwork he will create as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, transforming the Pont Neuf forty years after the wrapping of Paris’s oldest bridge. This work will be on display …
A statue of d’Artagnan and the other three musketeers in front of a church in southwestern France. Photo Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Good Morning! Dutch archaeologist Wim Dijkman was arrested and then released for taking some of the skeletal remains that are possibly of the fourth Musketeer, D’Artagnan. Congress rejected a bill to …
The Palm Springs Art Museum. Photo Lance Gerber/Courtesy Palm Springs Art Museum The Palm Springs Art Museum in California has released a three-page statement saying that an investigation conducted in response to a whistleblower complaint alleging mismanagement and fraud found no wrongdoing by the museum. The museum declined to provide ARTnews a copy of the …
