The Philadelphia skyline, seen on July 4, 2026. Getty Images On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search at Dane Fine Art, a gallery based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. While the FBI did not say what the search was for, a spokesperson told CBS Philadelphia that it was conducting a “court-authorized law enforcement activity.” Victor Fiorillo, a …
Kim Sajet. Photo Andre Chung/The Washington Post via Getty Images “I was incredulous. Really?” That was Kim Sajet’s take when her former Smithsonian colleague, Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, was subjected to hostile questioning during a congressional hearing last week, according to a new interview with The New York …
Larry Gagosian. Getty Images Gagosian has closed its small space in London’s Burlington Arcade and will soon close up its space in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Newspaper reports. Both spaces started as pop-ups, and as long as the rents were good, it made sense for founder Larry Gagosian to keep up those spaces, a source …
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Maliza Kiasuwa’s Rhizome 1-6 (2026) will feature in the fair. Courtesy the artist and FILAFRIQUES The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which was founded in London in 2013 and has since expanded with satellite editions in Marrakech and New York, announced 35 exhibitors for its next edition in the British capital this fall. Scheduled for …
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A rendering of the new Victoria & Albert Museum storage center in London. Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum‘s new V&A East Storehouse have voted unanimously to strike in a dispute over working conditions, just weeks after the East London facility became one of the museum world’s most closely …
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Emma Shaprio’s Exposure Therapy stickers. Courtesy the artist On December 8, 2025, Instagram permanently terminated the account @nipeople, a project by artist, journalist, and activist Emma Shapiro, instantly erasing years of work and sparking a legal debate over digital freedom. The Instagram account was part of Exposure Therapy, a project begun in 2017 that aims …
Illustration Kat Brown/ARTnews There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by …
Simone Forti, artist, choreographer, dancer, poet, and leading figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s, as well as an influential contributor to Minimalism and the Fluxus movement, has passed away in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery, Raffaella Cortese, confirmed via social media today. “She was a beloved friend and …
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Richmond Orlando Mensah recently founded the New Africa Cultural Initiative as a nonprofit arm of Manju Journal. Photo Daniel Okon/Courtesy the New Africa Cultural Initiative (NACI) For nearly a decade, Manju Journal has been establishing a vital digital archive and storytelling platform celebrating contemporary African art, fashion, photography, and the creatives shaping its future. Founded …
The National Gallery in London. The National Gallery Photographic Department Two activists affiliated with Youth Demand, a group calling for the British government to end economic trade with Israel as well as the cessation of new licenses for fossil fuels, were found guilty of criminal damage after covering a Picasso painting with an image of …
