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Aspen’s Ambitious AIR Festival Turns the Rocky Mountains into a Stage

Ivan Cheng, 16, 2026, at Aspen’s AIR festival. Photo Maria Baranova/Courtesy the artist and Aspen Art Museum Aspen, Colorado, stands at an elevation of just under 8,000 feet, enough to wonder what the atmosphere there might do differently to the eye, the ear, and all the rest of the bodily apparatus that we marshal throughout …

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SF Camerawork To Close After Five Decades, Citing ‘Changing Philanthropic Landscape’

A Jamil Hellu exhibition at SF Camerawork. Senny Mau The Bay Area photography exhibition venue SF Camerawork is calling it quits after 52 years, the institution announced on its website yesterday. “This decision follows years of rising operating costs, declining public funding, and a changing philanthropic landscape,” said the institution. “SF Camerawork is not alone …

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Monumental Bronze Age Tomb Discovered Amid Dense Vegetation in Sardinia

One of the many “Giants’ Tomb” in Sardinia, similar to the one that was recently uncovered near Bortigali. Photo Ivan Romano/Getty Images A new megalithic funerary monument, one of the many so-called “Giants’ Tombs” scattered around Sardinia, has been uncovered in the central part of the Italian island. The Bronze Age tomb was discovered at …

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A man seen from behind holds a painting as he looks at a storage shelf holding four paintings from different eras.

All-Night Art Heist in Italy Suspected to Be ‘Some Sort of Revenge’

The Lilli Petroli fuel distribution company in L’Aquila, Italy, where thieves rammed through a gate to nab over $4.6 million dollars’ worth of art. Photo courtesy of Carabinieri On July 28, a group of 10 people ransacked the headquarters of the Italian fuel distribution company, Lilli Petroli, in L’Aquila, located in Italy’s Abruzzo region, spending …

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Photography Exhibit on Wildfires Nearly Engulfed by Real Wildfire in Sicily

A photography installation about wildfires by the artist Stefano Cerio in Gibellina, Sicily, was nearly destroyed by a wildfire in August, 8, 2026. Photo courtesy of the artist, Stefano Cerio. Life not only imitated art at an exhibition in Sicily this summer — it almost destroyed it. Stefano Cerio’s outdoor photography installation about the devastation …

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Australian Museum Returns 18 Ancestral Remains to Rapa Nui

The Rapa Nui people welcome the remains of their ancestors repatriated from the Australian Museum in a ceremony on the island Courtesy Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural. The Australian Museum has returned 18 ancestral remains to the people of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island). The news was reported by the Art Newspaper following …

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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Latest Brand Collaboration is A Makeup Line With MAC Cosmetics

MAC x Jean-Michel Basquiat Courtesy of MAC Cosmetics MAC Cosmetics has joined forces with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s family and estate for its latest limited-edition collaboration, inspired by the late artist’s creative signatures. Debuting direct-to-consumer and in select MAC stores on Thursday, the six-piece collection ranges in price from $29 for loose powder pigments in three shimmering gold, …

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Appeals Court Says Trump Lacks Authority to Build White House Ballroom

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 30: Construction continues on a new helipad on the South Lawn of the White House and the East Wing ballroom on July 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images) Getty Images A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to build a $400 …

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Spanish Police Recover a 16th-Century Virgin Relief Stolen 16 Years Ago From Monastery

The recovered 16th century carved wooden relief from the Monastery of Santa Clara de Fitero Screenshot/X On Tuesday, Spanish National Police and Mossos d’Esquadra, the regional police of Catalonia, announced that they had recovered a 16th century carved wooden relief that had been stolen from the Monastery of Santa Clara de Fitero in nearby Navarre …

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