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, …
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 …
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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 …
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The wreck of the Titanic. Photo Xavier Desmier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images The Headlines I’ll NEVER LET GO? Jack, from the 1997 film Titanic, famously heard those words from his beloved Rose before he sank into the icy ocean. But now, the company that owns salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck wants to let go of—or, rather, auction—nearly 100 artifacts recovered …
Emmanuel Macron at the Marina Palace of Cotonou during a 2022 visit to Benin. Photo Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines IN THE DOGEHOUSE. A federal judge slammed the US DOGE Service, ruling on Thursday that the Elon Musk–led department made unconstitutional and discriminatory cuts to National Endowment for the Humanities grants worth over $100 million, according to …
Nicole Kidman, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, and Anna Wintour at the 2026 Met Gala celebrating “Costume Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue The annual Met Gala has become such a global pop-culture phenomenon that many probably forget—or maybe never knew!—that the event functions as a lucrative fundraiser …
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Members of Pussy Riot and FEMEN outside the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale on Wednesday. Brian Boucher “Russia kills! Biennale exhibits!” “Disobey! Disobey! Disobey!” “Art for show, graves below!” “Blood is Russia’s art!” “Slava Ukraini!” Those were some of the chants from a few dozen protesters, some clad in pink balaclavas, some with bared …
Lavar Munroe, ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, 2026. Courtesy the Bahamas Pavilion After a thirteen-year hiatus, the Bahamian Pavilion has returned to Venice with a proposition that is as much educational as representational: that the Caribbean nation can be reintroduced to the world through its contemporary artistic inheritance. To do so, the pavilion turns to the …
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Stewart Butterfield and Jennifer Rubio. Photo Olivier Simille Just two months after becoming a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jennifer Rubio, along with her husband, Stewart Butterfield, have pledged $23 million to the New York museum. Rubio is an entrepreneur who founded the ubiquitous travel brand Away, and Butterfield, who is on the …
DORAL, FLORIDA – APRIL 30: A statue of President Donald Trump is seen near the ninth tee during the first round of the Cadillac Championship 2026 at Trump National Doral Miami on April 30, 2026 in Doral, Florida. Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images A gold-leafed statue of Donald Trump is now standing at his Trump …
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