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Olafur Eliasson and Vignesh Sundaresan. Photo credit: Yanina Isla A new experimental space dedicated to the intersection of art and technology will open this November at Tanjong Pagar Distripark in Singapore. Padimai Art & Tech Studio will launch with Your view matter (2022/25), a VR work by artist Olafur Eliasson that was commissioned by the studio’s founder, …

Beeple Superfan ‘Metakovan’ to Launch Art & Tech Studio in Singapore  Read More »

Recovered stolen artifacts found in a raid. Courtesy Europol Bulgarian authorities, with the support of Europol, busted a criminal network involved in the trafficking of thousands of cultural artifacts across Europe on Tuesday, according to Europol. Investigations are still ongoing. Conducted by a Europol operational task force, the investigation has involved law enforcement and judicial …

Thirty-Five Arrested in Bulgaria, with Ties to Larger Criminal Art Trafficking Network Read More »

The Rialto in Bozeman, Montana. Dan Armstrong Tinworks Art, an enterprise that garnered attention last year with an ambitious resurrection of Agnes Denes’s storied Wheatfiled Land art work in Bozeman, Montana, is making its next move with a newly acquired historic theater to be inaugurated with screenings of Matthew Barney’s 2018 film Redoubt. The program …

Tinworks Art in Montana Inaugurates Newly Acquired Theater with Matthew Barney Film Read More »

Michael H. Smith Courtesy estate of Michael H. Smith Michael H. Smith, an artist, dealer, and curator who prized experimentation and was instrumental to helping develop the art scenes in Southern California in the 1970s and ’80s, died on October 31 in Santa Barbara. He was 80 years old. A cause was not given. Smith …

Michael H. Smith, Dealer and Curator Who Prized Experimentation, Dies at 80 Read More »

Installation view of “Eadweard Muybridge, Michael Snow, Haim Steinbach,” 1995, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York. Courtesy Jay Gorney Modern Art Lari Pittman’s first New York solo show, the first time Nan Goldin showed prints of her famed The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985), Barbara Bloom’s conceptual reimagining of the Titanic’s ocean-floor detritus, Catherine Opie’s …

You Can Now Explore the Archives of Jay Gorney Modern Art, a Seminal New York Gallery in the 1980s and ’90s Read More »

Crowds mill about the colossal statue of Ramses II at the entrance hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt on November 8, 2025. Getty Images The Grand Egyptian Museum, two-decades in the making and inaugurated earlier this month in a ceremony attended by world leaders, is not having a grand time with crowd …

Ticketing Policy Causes Chaos, Claims of Discrimination at Grand Egyptian Museum Read More »

Installation view,CRADLED at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles, 20 November 2025–4 January 2026. Yellow Cradle: courtesy Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA. Infant Cradle: courtesy South Union Shaker Village, Auburn KY. Hangers: courtesy Shaker Museum, Chatham NY. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.MA. Hangers: courtesy Shaker Museum, Chatham NY. Photo: Keith Lubow Ten years ago, a Reddit user …

Frances McDormand and Artist Suzanne Bocanegra Want to Rock You at Hauser & Wirth Read More »

The closed Apollo Gallery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, on October 30, 2025, following the theft of several French crown jewels. Photo Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images Louvre director Laurence des Cars sat down for an interview with the New York Times this week, one of her first since last month’s robbery. In it, des Cars forcefully pushed back …

Louvre Director Says New Security Plan Was Being Implemented Days Before Heist Read More »

Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present, performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 9, 2010. Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images What if one of the most commanding performance art events of the 21st century had never happened? What if a naysaying curator had quashed a performance that drew some 1,500 people, some of …

Marina Abramovic Says Curator Klaus Biesenbach Wasn’t So Sure About Her ‘Artist Is Present’ Performance  Read More »

French Police officers seal off the entrance to the Louvre Museum on October 19, 2025 in Paris, France. Getty Images Some 100 surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion systems are set to be installed at the Louvre Museum as part of increased security measures following the theft of France’s crown jewels last month, reported the Associated Press. …

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