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Maliza Kiasuwa’s Rhizome 1-6 (2026) will feature in the fair. Courtesy the artist and FILAFRIQUES The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which was founded in London in 2013 and has since expanded with satellite editions in Marrakech and New York, announced 35 exhibitors for its next edition in the British capital this fall. Scheduled for …

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A rendering of the new Victoria & Albert Museum storage center in London. Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum Workers at the Victoria and Albert Museum‘s new V&A East Storehouse have voted unanimously to strike in a dispute over working conditions, just weeks after the East London facility became one of the museum world’s most closely …

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Emma Shaprio’s Exposure Therapy stickers. Courtesy the artist On December 8, 2025, Instagram permanently terminated the account @nipeople, a project by artist, journalist, and activist Emma Shapiro, instantly erasing years of work and sparking a legal debate over digital freedom. The Instagram account was part of Exposure Therapy, a project begun in 2017 that aims …

Citing Censorship, Artist Emma Shapiro Launches Legal Challenge to Restore Instagram Account Read More »

Illustration Kat Brown/ARTnews There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by …

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Simone Forti, artist, choreographer, dancer, poet, and leading figure of New York’s Judson Dance Theater scene of the 1960s, as well as an influential contributor to Minimalism and the Fluxus movement, has passed away in Los Angeles at age 91, her gallery, Raffaella Cortese, confirmed via social media today. “She was a beloved friend and …

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Richmond Orlando Mensah recently founded the New Africa Cultural Initiative as a nonprofit arm of Manju Journal. Photo Daniel Okon/Courtesy the New Africa Cultural Initiative (NACI) For nearly a decade, Manju Journal has been establishing a vital digital archive and storytelling platform celebrating contemporary African art, fashion, photography, and the creatives shaping its future. Founded …

The New Africa Cultural Initiative Hopes to Build a Collaborative Arts Infrastructure in Africa—and for Africa Read More »

The National Gallery in London. The National Gallery Photographic Department Two activists affiliated with Youth Demand, a group calling for the British government to end economic trade with Israel as well as the cessation of new licenses for fossil fuels, were found guilty of criminal damage after covering a Picasso painting with an image of …

UK Jury Convicts Activists Who Covered a Picasso With Image of Gazan Mother and Child at the National Gallery Read More »

Cave painting at Font-de-Gaume, Dordogne Centre des monuments nationaux/Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France, Anne Maigret. For the first time, scientists have precisely dated prehistoric paintings inside Font-de-Gaume, a decorated cave in Dordogne, southwestern France. The news was reported by Science Daily, following an announcement made March 9 by France’s National …

French Scientists Precisely Date a Paleolithic Cave Painting for the First Time as About 13,000 Years Old Read More »

Gilberto Cárdenas. Courtesy Dolores Carrillo García Gilberto Cárdenas, one of the country’s top collectors of Latinx art and a leading scholar of Latino studies, died on July 26 at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 79 years old. With his wife Dolores Carrillo García, Cárdenas, a sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of …

Gilberto Cárdenas, Top Collector of Latinx Art and Leading Scholar of Latino Studies, Has Died at 79 Read More »

The artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. ©James Van der Zee Archive, the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Courtesy “King Pleasure” exhibition, New York There is a new development in an ongoing fraud lawsuit against the leader of the collapsed Vancouver-based developer Coromandel Properties, whose chief executive allegedly misappropriated funds to acquire an art collection, reports The Vancouver …

Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat and George Condo Among Those Caught in Major Vancouver Real Estate Fraud Lawsuit Read More »