Willem de Kooning in his studio at 85 Fourth Avenue in New York in 1946. Photo Harry Bowden On Sunday, an expansive exhibition focused on Willem de Kooning’s drawings opened at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show includes some 200 artworks, including paintings, bronze sculptures, and mixed-media works from throughout de Kooning’s seven-decade career. …
The Jefferson Memorial is seen on the National Mall along the Potomac River in Washington, DC. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images) President Donald Trump’s proposed “National Garden of American Heroes” has hit another setback as a coalition of Washington-era preservation and cultural groups sues to halt its construction. The lawsuit, filed Monday, argues that the …
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Teresita Fernández at the Fresco Building, the Menil Collection, Houston. Photo Sarah Hobson The Menil Collection in Houston will reopen its Fresco Building in late 2027, converting the space into a site for site-specific commissions. The first artist to take up the challenge will be New York–based Teresita Fernández. Closed since 2018 and reopening as …
Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night, 1889. Google Arts & Culture, via Wikimedia A group of scientists at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes have published a study introducing a newly developed method that they say will help authenticate artworks—and identify potential forgeries. The report was published in the June 2026 issue of Surface …
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Entrance to a tunnel discovered this month under New Hall School in Essex, England Henry Godfrey-Evans/BBC. Tunnels dating to Henry VIII’s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month. Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to …
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Christie’s corporate headquarters in Rockefeller Center. Photo by Spencer Platt/Newsmakers Christie’s is planning to open a boutique wine shop at its headquarters in Rockefeller Center, thanks in part to assistance from New York state legislators who passed a law allowing the auction house to get around a regulation dating back more than a century. As …
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La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Photo by Bill Wassman/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Good Day! Pace CEO Marc Glimcher announces plan to downsize its London branch. Influential South-East Asian dealer and curator Valentine Francis Willie has died at 71. Experts in Italy accidentally mistook a three for an eight, and misdated an important, 14th-century Madonna and Child painting, now …
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo Howard Agriesti, Cleveland Museum The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced Friday that it has a $600 million fundraising campaign in the works. The goal is to support the institution’s long-term health—and it is nearly 80 percent of the way there. As it approaches the final stretch of the …
Clarence Heyward, Man in the Garden, 2025. Courtesy Houston Museum of African American Culture A self-portrait by Clarence Heyward was vandalized last week by visitors to the Houston Museum of African American Culture, where the work by the Raleigh, North Carolina–based artist is on view as part of a survey titled “Eden.” As reported by …
Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942–43 The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art has announced a forthcoming exhibition dedicated to Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian’s years in New York—in particular, the influence of the city’s boogie-woogie music scene on his art. The exhibition will bring together 30 of Mondrian’s paintings either …
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