Ancient stone fortresses were uncovered in the mounts near Yulin, in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images A team of archaeologists and cultural heritage researchers in northern China have uncovered a network of 573 stone forts, the earliest of which date to approximately 2800 BCE. The discovery took place in the …
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J. Oscar Molina in 2022. ©2022 Studio Marsin Mogielski Each edition of the Venice Biennale grows a little bigger as countries join the event’s national pavilion line-up. That will be the case again this year with the debut of El Salvador’s first national pavilion at the 2026 Biennale. The inaugural artist will be J. Oscar …
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Claes Oldenburg. Getty Images After it was vandalized, Claes Oldenburg‘s beloved 1969 sculpture Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks will be relocated by Yale University from a public courtyard to the Yale University Art Gallery. The Yale Daily News, the school’s student-run newspaper, first reported on the removal this week. The sculpture, which is typically viewable …
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Aerial view of the Durrington Walls and Woodhenge in 2022. Getty Images An enormous pit circle near Stonehenge was created by Neolithic-era humans who might have conceived it as a portal to the underworld, according to archaeologists behind a newly published paper. “The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they …
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Eileen Harris Norton, 2020. Joshua White/Courtesy Eileen Harris Norton Foundation In February, Hauser & Wirth’s Downtown Los Angeles gallery will stage a show of masterpieces from the holdings of Eileen Harris Norton, an important collector based in the city. The exhibition will open on February 24, making it one of the key exhibitions taking place …
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Kate Capshaw, The Picture Maker, 2025. ©Kate Capshaw The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will show newly commissioned and acquired works paying tribute to filmmaker Steven Spielberg, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, scientist Temple Grandin, and poet Joy Harjo in an exhibition titled “Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees.” The show, opening December …
The Serpentine in London. Photo Andy Stagg for Serpentine The New York–based FLAG Art Foundation will give £1 million ($1.3 million) to the Serpentine Galleries in London to endow a new artist prize. The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize, as it will be called, will be awarded every other year to an international artist …
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Peter Paul Rubens, Christ on the Cross, 1613. AFP via Getty Images A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, unseen for four centuries, has just sold at auction in Versailles for $2.7 million. Created in 1613, the painting shows Jesus Christ on the cross, a subject the Flemish Baroque Master returned to frequently. …
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Keith Haring. Photo Jack Mitchell/Getty Images After a teacher at an Upstate New York middle school asked students to visit the Keith Haring Foundation’s website for an assignment, a prominent conservative legal group got involved, claiming that children were “forced: to look at imagery that the organization termed “pornographic,” without specifying what that imagery was. …
Wolfgang Beltracchi. ullstein bild via Getty Images A painting determined to be the work of “genius forger” Wolfgang Beltracchi in Japan’s Tokushima Modern Art Museum was returned and refunded for 67.2 million yen ($426,000) by an Osaka-based company on Wednesday, November 19, reported the Mainichi. The museum had announced that it would withdraw the canvas …
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