Paula Kamps. Courtesy Sans Titre Paula Kamps, a painter whose softly hued paintings showing flowers and blurring figures gained her recognition in Europe and the US, died at 36. Her Paris gallery, Sans Titre, confirmed her death on Tuesday, but did not state a cause. Kamps’s paintings frequently dealt with the fleetingness of memory. Using …
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L-R: Princess Ariane of The Netherlands, Queen Maxima of The Netherlands, King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands, Princess Amalia of The Netherlands and Princess Alexia of The Netherlands pose for the media during the annual summer photosession in the Dutch Garden at Clingendael Estate on May 21, 2026 in The Hague, Netherlands. Getty Images Good Morning! …
MIAMI BEACH, FL – DECEMBER 01: Julio Le Parc speaks onstage during the Art Basel Miami Beach Vernissage at the Miami Beach Convention Center on December 1, 2016 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Getty Images Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born artist whose shimmering mobiles, vibrating light installations, and participatory environments helped …
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Alan Saret installing one of his wire sculptures. Courtesy Karma Alan Saret, an unclassifiable artist whose wire sculptures and colored-pencil drawings helped define the “anti-form” tendency of the late 1960s and early ’70s, died on Tuesday at 81. His death was announced by Karma, the New York gallery that helped bring Saret increased attention with …
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The proposed $250 bill. Screenshot Iain Alexander, a British painter who has exhibited in Palm Beach, Florida, designed a proposed $250 bill recently sent by the Trump Administration to the Treasury Department. In an interview with the Washington Post, Alexander said that Trump had reviewed his design and gave the okay for adding the colors …
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Andras István Demeter recently resigned as Romania’s Minister of Culture. Photo Alex Nicodim/NurPhoto via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Russia attacked Kyiv on Sunday, killing four, injuring about 100, and damaging cultural sites. Romania’s culture minister has stepped down following an outcry over a leaked recording. …
Cheryl Finley. Gediyon Kifle Cheryl Finley, the director of visual arts and culture at Spelman College who oversees the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective, has been awarded the David C. Driskell Prize dedicated to figures whose work is important to the realms of African American art and art history. Established by …
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Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995 Artwork copyright © Nam June Paik Estate. Photo: Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum. The first three words from the preamble of the United States Constitution—“We the People”—are among the most famous in the world. But these days, as the country approaches its 250th anniversary, plenty …
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Muriel Hasbun. Photo Asher Selle/Courtesy International Center of Photography Muriel Hasbun, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice poignantly recounted the effects of El Salvador’s civil war and the migration and exile of its diaspora, died on May 13 from ovarian cancer in Silver Springs, Maryland. She was 64 years old. The news was confirmed by art …
Gladys Nilsson, Big Birthday, 2010. PD Young/Collection of the artist Spectacle in all its many forms is the big theme of the summer season, when big, glitzy projects will take over museums across the globe. Laure Prouvost has been given a wide playing field for a show about quantum physics at Paris’s Grand Palais, while …
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