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Crystal Bridges Museum Tacks on a Big Expansion, Just 15 Years After Opening, and Packs it With American Art

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Tim Hursley, courtesy Crystal Bridges. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art may have opened its 200,000-square-foot facility in Bentonville, Arkansas just 15 years ago, but it is already ready for its first major addition. At the museum’s campus last week, founder Alice Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune and, …

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Guggenheim Museum to Livestream Select World Cup Matches, Screen Art Film on Legendary Football Star Zinédine Zidane

The Guggenheim Museum will screen Zidane, a 21st century portrait (2006, detailed still) by Douglas Gordan and Philippe Parreno during the 2026 World Cup. Photo: Anders Sune Berg/Courtesy ARoS Aarhus Art Museum and Gagosian; Art: ©2026 Studio lost but found and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Guggenheim Museum in New York …

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Citing Financial Trouble, Charleston’s International African American Museum to Furlough Staff

The International African American Museum on June 27, 2023 in Charleston, South Carolina. Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) Citing ongoing financial difficulties, Charleston’s International African American Museum (IAAM) will furlough its entire staff, including senior leadership, according to a statement from the institution. The 20-day furlough program will begin July 1 and run into December …

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Alma Allen Doubles Down on Accusations Against Cultural Strategist David Resnicow of Working Against His Venice Biennale Pavilion

Alma Allen. Photo Luis Garvan/Courtesy Perrotin Artist Alma Allen has again accused cultural strategist David Resnicow of working against Allen’s controversial US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, after months of criticism surrounding the project. In an Instagram post published Monday afternoon, Allen wrote that “two of the three galleries that withdrew their support for …

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Independent 20th Century Heads to the Breuer With Its Biggest Edition Yet

An image from Andrew Kreps’s presentation of Harold Stevenson at Independent 20th Century Courtesy of the Estate of Harold Stevenson and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Independent launched Independent 20th Century in 2022 in the Battery Maritime Building, a Beaux-Arts landmark overlooking New York Harbor. This fall, the fair is moving uptown to Marcel Breuer’s …

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Fendi Names Rome Gallery for Couture Show, Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition

The Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. Wikimedia Commons WHEN IN ROME: Fendi on Thursday revealed the location of the first couture show designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri — the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome on the evening of July 9. For the occasion, guests will be invited to a private view of the exhibition …

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Chairman of US Commission of Fine Arts Attends ‘Russian Davos,’ Joins Roundtable With Russian Envoy Responsible for Venice Biennale Participation

Commission of Fine Arts Chairman Rodney Mims Cook Jr. speaks at a public hearing on President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary at the National Building Museum on April 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. Getty Images Late last week, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the chairman of the US Commission of …

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Professor at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Under Investigation for Referencing Palestine

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Interim Archives/Getty Images A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is under investigation over course materials that referenced Palestine, becoming the latest flashpoint in debates about eroding freedom of expression on American college campuses, the Guardian reported Friday.  Savneet Talwar …

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A Prized Lucian Freud Nude, Estimated at $47 M., is Poised to Break Records at Sotheby’s

Lucian Freud, ‘Sleeping by the Lion Carpet’, 1995–1996. Courtesy Sotheby’s The subject of an auction-bound Lucian Freud nude portrait may be asleep, but the painter’s market is wide awake and keenly watching the rare lot. Titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, the painting could fetch between £25 million and £35 million ($33.4 million to $46.8 …

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New School Lays Off 87 Staff and Faculty As It Attemps to Plug $48 M. Deficit

Protesters outside New York’s New School in December. Hayden Tutton Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to 87 of its employees. The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of …

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