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The Venice Biennale’s 2024 edition. Photo Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images The jury for the 2026 Venice Biennale, which awards the exhibition’s top prizes, announced Thursday that it had resigned. The news was posted to the Instagram account of the journal e-flux, providing no reasoning for the decision. The statement, in full, reads: “As of 30 …

Venice Biennale Jury Resigns En Masse, Organizers to Award “Visitors’ Lions” in November Read More »

Botticelli: The Virgin and Child Enthroned, 1470s. Courtesy the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport A Botticelli painting placed under an export ban in an effort to keep it in the UK was acquired by the Klesch Collection and will stay in England by way of a three-year loan to the Ashmolean Museum at …

Botticelli Painting Banned from Export Will Stay in the UK Read More »

An AI-generated image of a Pompeii victim’s last moments Pompeii Archological Park. In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, sending a cloud of ash and hot gas sweeping through the Roman town of Pompei. The writer Pliny the Younger—whose uncle, Pliny the Elder, died in the eruption—watched the catastrophe unfold from a vantage point across the …

Using AI, Pompeii Archaeological Park Recreates the Final Moments of a Man Who Died in the Vesuvius Eruption 2,000 Years Ago Read More »

The Russian Pavilion during the 2024 Venice Biennale. Photo Felix Hörhager/picture alliance via Getty Images Only days before the opening of the 61st Venice Biennale, Italian culture minister Alessandro Giuli has launched his long-teased investigation into the Russian Pavilion. Italian media reported today that an inspector sent by the minister to Venice has set up …

Italian Culture Minister Launches Inspection of Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion Read More »

Guadalupe Maraville: ICE age Disease Thrower 4, healing instrument/altar/sculpture, 2026. Courtesy the artist New York–based artist Guadalupe Maravilla had traveled to Venice last weekend to finalize the installation of his work at the 2026 Venice Biennale, a crowning achievement for any artist. But that situation, which he first posted about on Instagram, soured Thursday evening …

In Venice to Install Work for the Biennale, Artist Guadalupe Maravilla Alleges Racial Profiling by Police Read More »

WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 25: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (3rd-L) is taken out of the ballroom by security agents during a shooting incident at the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. According to reports, President Donald Trump, along with …

Republicans Push $400 M. White House Ballroom After Gala Attack Read More »

John Trumbull, Declaration of Independence, 1817. Courtesy US Capitol Alongside Donald Trump’s face, you can expect to soon see a piece of American art history on your US passport. As reported yesterday by Fox News, Trump’s State Department has revealed a limited-edition passport for the nation’s 250th anniversary that will feature John Trumbull’s 1817 painting …

John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence Painting Appears on Trump’s New US Passports Read More »

Construction crews dismantling Vaillancourt Fountain at the Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco on April 27, 2026. Photo Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images The family of 96-year-old Quebecois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt is not giving up the fight to save the 710-ton concrete landmark known as Québec Libre! or the Vaillancourt Fountain. The public artwork …

Family of Nonagenarian Sculptor Is Fighting to Halt Demolition of Iconic Brutalist Fountain in Downtown San Francisco Read More »

Production still from Raven’s Murderers Bar, 2025. ©Lucy Raven/Courtesy the Artist and Lisson Gallery After an inaugural edition last year, the AIR festival will return to Aspen, Colorado, in July with a program of performances, exhibitions, talks, and other events in the high-flying mountain town. The second edition, slated for July 27-31, will feature some …

Aspen AIR Festival to Feature Lucy Raven, Camille Henrot, Los Thuthanaka, Morgan Bassichis, and More Read More »

Treat a Stranger Grant recipients (from top left to bottom right): Samiya Bashir, Malcolm-X Betts, Agosto Machado, Jacolby Satterwhite, Christopher Udemezue, Pe Ferreira, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Mercy Kelly, and Keioui Keijaun Thomas. Courtesy Giorno Poetry Systems Giorno Poetry Systems, a nonprofit organization founded by the artist and downtown New York …

Giorno Poetry Systems Gives Grants to 12 Artists Including Jacolby Satterwhite, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), and the Late Agosto Machado Read More »