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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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The Art Deco building to be the American Numismatic Society’s new home starting in 2028. Julia Chytil/Courtesy American Numismatic Society The American Numismatic Society, an organization of coin collectors founded in 1858 whose motto is “Parva Ne Pareant” (“Let Not the Little Things Perish”), is moving to Ohio’s Toledo Museum of Art to mint a …
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The Vatican has returned 62 artifacts from its Anima Mundi ethnographic collection to Indigenous peoples in Canada. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett The Headlines CONTROVERSIAL SALE. The Phillips Collection, the art museum located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC, plans to auction major works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, and Georges Seurat at Sotheby’s New …
Kurt Cobain playing a different guitar in 1993. Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic A 1969 Fender Competition Mustang beloved by Nirvana mastermind Kurt Cobain is heading to the auction block at Christie’s in March, with an estimated sale price of $2.5–$5 million. The instrument figured in the recording sessions for the albums Nevermind and In Utero …
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