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Former first lady of South Korea Kim Keon Hee arriving at Seoul Central District Court on Aug. 12, 2025. Photo Jung Yeon-Je – Pool/Getty Images A former South Korean prosecutor who allegedly tried to buy political influence with a painting by Lee Ufan has now been convicted on appeal, in a case that adds disputed authenticity claims …

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Alessandro Giuli. Photo Vincenzo Nuzzolese/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This year’s Venice Biennale may not have its traditional Golden Lion awards, but Italian cultural minster Alessandro Giuli has revealed the person he thought won this year’s edition: Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose nation made its Biennale return to this year to great controversy. “There’s no …

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Gozo Yoshimasu. Photo Masashi Asada The inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize will go to Tokyo-based artist Gozo Yoshimasu, who will receive £200,000 (about $272,000), as well as exhibitions in London and New York as part of the prize. Yoshimasu is better known as a poet who first emerged in the avant-garde scene of …

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Molemo Moiloa (left) and Chao Tayiana Maina (right), founders of Open Restitution Africa (ORA) Mekbib Tadesse, 2025. On March 31, the research initiative Open Restitution Africa (ORA) launched the ORA Open Data Platform, a database that provides information on the restitution of African artifacts and ancestral remains. Developed over six years by ORA’s all-woman, pan-African …

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Installation view of “Abbas Akhavan: Entre chien et loup,” 2026, Canada Pavilion, at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Canada Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Photo Francesco Barasciutti/©Abbas Akhavan Step through the glass door of the Canada Pavilion—particularly …

Abbas Akhavan Transforms the Canada Pavilion Into a Greenhouse, Daring Viewers to Leave Behind Their Preconceptions Read More »

People visit the American Wing for paintings, sculpture and decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum in 2012 following a 10 year $100 million renovation. Getty Images Most American museums have a problem that visitors rarely see until it’s too late: their buildings are falling apart. A new report from the Government Accountability Office analyzed by The …

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Kader Attia. Courtesy Kochi Biennale Foundation Kader Attia, an acclaimed artist whose work is currently included in Koyo Kouoh’s main exhibition of the Venice Biennale, has been selected to curate the 2027 edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India’s top biennial. Attia, a winner of France’s Prix Marcel Duchamp, may be best known for his sculptures …

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San Giacomo Island. Courtesy Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Photo: Jacopo Trabuio The international art world visiting Venice for the preview week of the Biennale woke up Thursday with great relief to a sunny forecast after two days of rain. For some, the day got even better with a visit to the island of San Giacomo, …

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s New Art Island Made a Sunny Splash in a Rainy Venice Vernissage Week Read More »

Jeffrey Epstein, 2004. Corbis via Getty Images An eBay seller claimed to have Jeffrey Epstein‘s reproduction of a painting by Kees van Dongen, a Dutch painter who became a part of the Fauvist movement in France during the early 20th century. The work in question, it should be noted, was not a bona fide van …

Was Jeffrey Epstein’s Copy of a Modernist Painting Available for Sale on eBay? Read More »

The exterior of the BBC building is seen at their Shepherds Bush headquaters July 22, 2003 in London. Getty Images  A former BBC reporter is claiming that the U.K. broadcaster “buried” footage that he captured of Banksy at one of his mural sites in New York City. Nick Bryant, who previously served as the BBC’s New York correspondent, detailed …

BBC ‘Buried’ Footage of Banksy at NYC Mural Site, Former Reporter Claims Read More »