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Howard and Cindy Rachofsky. Getty Images for amfAr The Dallas home of art collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky remains available for sale, and for deep-pocked prospective buyers, there’s some good news: The property is now available at a discount. That’s also bad news for the Rachofskys, whose Richard Meier–designed home has been on the market …

Cindy and Howard Rachofsky’s Dallas Home Could Be Yours at a Discount, for $17.5 M. Read More »

Harald Metkes, Removal of the Six-Armed Goddess, 1956. Courtesy State Museums in Berlin, Nationalgalerie/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Harald Metzkes, the so-called “Cézannist of Prenzlauer Berg” who made classically indebted and symbolically rich paintings following Germany’s surrender in World War II, died last Thursday in Brandenburg at the age of 97. His death was confirmed to the …

Harald Metzkes, Postwar German Painter of ‘World Theater,’ Dies at 97 Read More »

Reikado Hall before a fire that destroyed it. Daderot/Wikimedia Commons A sacred Buddhist hall on the top of Mount Misen in Japan was destroyed by fire—but an “eternal flame” said to have been burning for more than a millennium was rescued and moved to another site, where it continues to glow. As reported in the …

Eternal Flame, Burning for 1,200 Years, Survives Blaze at Buddhist Hall in Japan Read More »

The new issue of Art in America, ARTnews’s sister publication, features profiles of 20 “New Talent” honorees selected by the editors as artists to watch. The list includes artists from all over the world and who work in different mediums, all of them emerging in their own ways. The Summer 2026 issue of Art in …

Art in America’s Summer “New Talent” Issue Names 20 Artists to Watch Read More »

Rendering of Powerhouse Parramatta’s new building west of Sydney, Australia. Courtesy MOREAU KUSUNOKI When Powerhouse Parramatta, the enormous new cultural center opening in the city of Parramatta west of Sydney, Australia, opens later this year, a new commission by the British-Indian sculptor Bharti Kher will welcome visitors as the entrance. Art Asia Pacific reported the …

Bharti Kher Commissioned by Powerhouse Parramatta, Australia’s New Cultural Center Opening Later This Year Read More »

The Wexner Center for the Arts. Brad Feinknopf Members of the Wexner Center for the Arts union have called on university leadership to rename the institution, citing Leslie Wexner’s documented ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner Workers United announced on social media yesterday that it had sent a formal letter to Ohio State …

Citing Epstein Ties, Wexner Union Demands Leslie Wexner’s Name be Dropped from Art Center Read More »

‘AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH’ by Turner Prize nominee Rene Matic on October 01, 2025 in Bradford, England. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Rene Matić was named the winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. They received the £30,000 ($40,250) prize for their exhibition “AS …

Rene Matić Awarded 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize Read More »

Hans H. Biermann-Ratjen presents Hannah Arendt the certificate of the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the Kaisersaal of Hamburg City Hall. ullstein bild via Getty Images A culture prize that has been awarded in Germany for nearly five decades will be renamed due to the Nazi ties of the …

Hamburg Culture Prize Renamed After Namesake’s Nazi Ties Emerge Read More »

Nadar, Untitled (Man on horse), ca. 1865 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Joy of Giving Something Inc. Photo: Trevor Davis – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic …

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Announces a Major Gift of Nearly 2000 Photographs Read More »

President Donald Trump, mid sentence, points while smirking. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images A group of Miami residents and a local nonprofit have sued President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Miami Dade College, and members of the Florida Cabinet over plans for Trump’s future presidential library, arguing that the transfer of a prime stretch …

Trump’s Planned Miami Presidential Library Faces New Lawsuit Over Land Transfer Read More »