Kay WalkingStick, The Silence of Glacier, 2013. Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago announced the top lots among its more than 1,000 acquisitions in 2025, with special notice going to key paintings and other holdings now in the collections of departments including prints and drawings, photography and media, textiles, and architecture …
This areal picture shows celebrations during the reopenning ceremony of the National Museum housed at the historic Red Castle (As-Saraya al-Hamra) in the Libyan capital Tripoli on December 12, 2025. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Libya’s National Museum, known as As-Saraya Al-Hamra or the Red Castle Museum, …
Ava DuVernay (left) and David Oyelowo. Photo JC Olivera/Apple TV+ via Getty Images David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, “Heist of Benin,” more than a decade after their Academy Award-winning film “Selma.” Oyelowo will star in the film, which is set in modern-day London and described as “a thriller that intertwines art, love …
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Officials with two of the repatriated sculptures at a handover ceremony with the Thai Consulate. Courtesy Asian Art Museum After years of research revealed they had been illegally removed in the 1960s, four ancient bronze sculptures were transferred from San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum to their original home in Thailand as a result of an …
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Henri Matisse, Marguerite endormie (1920). © Martin Parsekian When the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris mounted the exhibition “Matisse and Marguerite: Through Her Father’s Eyes,” the world took note, with feature articles in the Guardian and the Wall Street Journalrecounting the life of his eldest daughter, conceived in an affair with one of his models, …
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Thomas Iser, in black body paint and gold stripes, handcuffed outside the Miami Beach Convention Center. Jillian Mayer A performance artist from Luxembourg managed to turn a few scrawled lines of washable spray chalk into a night in jail during Art Basel Miami Beach—an outcome he claims was both unexpected and meaningful. Thomas Iser was …
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 05: EDITORIAL USE ONLY Guests attend the Art Basel Miami Beach VIP Preview 2025 at Miami Beach Convention Center on December 05, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images) Getty Images Now that the art world has finally caught its breath after a sun- and champagne-soaked Miami …
A CCTV image released by the UK police showing the suspected thieves leaving the Bristol Museum. Courtesy Avon and Somerset Police More than 600 artifacts have been stolen from the Bristol Museum’s British Empire and Commonwealth collection, in what UK police describe as a “high-value burglary.” On Thursday, authorities released CCTV footage of the suspects …
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Franco Vaccari at the 1972 Venice Biennale with his piece Esposizione in tempo reale n. 4. Lascia sulle pareti una traccia fotografica del tuo passaggio. Courtesy the artist and P420 Franco Vaccari, an Italian conceptual artist whose experiments with photography expanded the medium’s possibilities, has died at 89. His death was announced by his gallery, …
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Napoleon Jones-Henderson. Photo Christopher Cardoza Napoleon Jones-Henderson, a member of the AfriCOBRA collective who made art for the age of Black Power, died in Boston on December 6 at 82. Wonderland, a Boston-based art publication, reported that Jones-Henderson had been battling cancer. Jones-Henderson was one of the key artists associated with AfriCOBRA, a Chicago-based group …
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