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“Utility,” at the Bunker Artspace, featured works from Beth Rudin DeWoody’s collection. Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews Top collector Beth Rudin DeWoody has listed her Upper East Side co-op for $12 million, for the second time since 2018. She previously took the apartment off the market in 2020. At 5,000-square-feet, the 10 Gracie Square fourth-floor apartment boasts incredible …

Art Collector Beth Rudin DeWoody Lists Upper East Side Co-Op for $12 M. Read More »

A new piece from the 2026 clothing collaboration between Gap, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Roy Lichtenstein Estate. Courtesy Gap, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Roy Lichtenstein Estate If you’ve ever wanted to own a Lichtenstein, but can’t afford the multi-million dollar price tag, there is a more affordable …

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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Photo Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Funding trouble has been brewing at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam since at least 2023, when the museum began negotiating with the Dutch Ministry of Culture over the budget for a much-needed building renovation. In the summer of 2025, two years into …

Van Gogh Museum Reaches Agreement with Dutch Government on Contentious Renovation Budget Read More »

The Whitney Museum. UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum in New York ratified its second contract Sunday night, hours ahead a strike deadline, narrowly heading off a disruption to the opening of a forthcoming Roy Lichtenstein retrospective. Under the new contract, every Whitney employee will receive a wage increase …

Whitney Museum Workers Reach Contract Deal Hours Before Strike Deadline Read More »

The Phoenix Art Museum. Bill Timmerman Philanthropist Sukumar Nagendran has donated $5 million to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the museum announced this week. The gift will support the expansion of the institution’s Asian art galleries, as well as acquisitions, scholarly research, and public programs on Sri Lankan art. The museum’s Art of Asia …

Phoenix Art Museum Receives $5 M. Donation to Expand Sri Lankan and South Asian Art Galleries Read More »

Sections of the Parthenon Marbles displayed at The British Museum in London, England, on November 22, 2018. Photo Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has continued to speak out regarding the Parthenon Marbles, vowing to “ramp up” his country’s efforts to retrieve the marble sculptures from the British Museum, The Guardian reported. Mitsotakis …

Greek Prime Minister to “Ramp Up” Efforts Related to Parthenon Marbles Return Read More »

Unions at the Guggenheim Museum (left) and the Brooklyn Museum ratified contracts this week. From left: Photo David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images; Photo Christina Horsten/picture alliance via Getty Images Unionized staff at four of New York’s prominent cultural institutions—the Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum, and (AFAM)—have ratified …

Guggenheim and Brooklyn Museum Unions Ratify New Contracts, Averting Strikes Read More »

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting a king and his minions. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Crowds of visitors have swarmed the British Museum since the Bayeux Tapestry arrived in London from its home in Normandy, France, earlier this fall. Along with unprecedented attendance figures and fervent international interest in the 230-foot-long textile have come some visitor …

The British Museum Will Extend Its Hours Amid ‘Extraordinary’ Demand for Bayeux Tapestry Read More »

Artist Martha Jungwirth with AKRIS creative director Albert Kriemler in her studio. Courtesy AKRIS “Painting, for me, is about tension,” Martha Jungwirth once said, describing its interaction with her preferred surface, paper. A “sensual” material, she said, “smooth or rough, its tactile quality often resembles skin.” For more than 60 years, Jungwirth has refined this …

Martha Jungwirth’s Abstractions Animate AKRIS’s Spring 2026 Collection Read More »

This picture shows a natural pool of water in the centre of the Palestinian village of Lifta, which was abandoned during fighting in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on December 30, 2022. Lifta, a rare example of a still existing abandoned Palestinian village, lies in a bucolic spot at the entrance …

Insufficient Public Funding Identified as Biggest Threat to Global Heritage Sites, New World Monuments Fund Study Finds Read More »