President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed White House ballroom during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on October 22, 2025 Alex Wong/Getty Images. On Thursday, President Donald Trump came one step closer to building his $400 million White House ballroom, when an …
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Iris Cantor. Courtesy Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Iris Cantor, a collector and philanthropist who provided the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and other US art institutions with millions of dollars worth of support, died on Sunday in Palm Beach, Florida. She was 95, according to a release from her foundation, which …
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Tom Pritzker. Photo Daniel Boczarksi/Getty Images The Pritzker Architecture Prize issued a statement defending the integrity of its selection process after newly released Jeffrey Epstein files detailed past contact between Tom Pritzker, the director of the foundation behind the award, and the disgraced financier. The statement, released to the New York Times, said the Hyatt Foundation’s role …
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4445 Sabal Palm Road, Miami. Google Earth via Bloomberg. Brazilian authorities are searching for assets, including art, linked to financier Daniel Vorcaro, CEO of the failed bank Banco Master SA, reports Bloomberg. Brazil’s central bank liquidated Banco Master last November due to a severe solvency crisis and regulatory violations and after a police investigation into …
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Isaiah Zagar in the 2000s. Courtesy of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens Isaiah Zagar, an artist who created one of Philadelphia’s great public art attractions, died on February 19 due to complications from heart failure and Parkinson’s Disease, which he had been diagnosed with in 2023. His death was confirmed by Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (PMG), the nonprofit …
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José de Mora, Saint Margaret of Cortona. Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Historico. After a convoluted process dating back to 2018, the High Court of Justice of Andalusia has overturned a four-year prison sentence for a Spanish antiques dealer in a case involving an artwork from a 16th-century convent in an ancient Italian city just north …
Domingo Zapata at a bullfight in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in 2024. Photo By Raul Terrel/Europa Press via Getty Images Saudi Arabia commissioned Domingo Zapata to paint what’s being called the largest mural ever created—at a size, as the New York Post’s “Page Six” put it, of 540,000 square feet, or about nine football fields. …
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The Hall of Horns and Teeth at the Museum of the Rockies. Courtesy the Museum of the Rockies A rare fossil in the collection of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the subject of new research that suggests its shows signs of an attack by a Tyrannosaurus rex. As reported by Phys.org, …
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The US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. courtesy AFP via Getty Images Last year was marked by the uncertainty and disruption of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which caused tumult in the art market. Now, just over a year after Trump signed executive orders imposing tariffs on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico, and China, …
“Meet Me at the Zoo,” the first video uploaded to YouTube, 2005. Photo Peter Kelleher/© Victoria and Albert Museum, London On Wednesday, the V&A in London reopened several galleries dedicated to design from the past 126 years. The newly installed Design 1900-Now spaces, which had been closed since November, showcase 250 objects from the 20th …
