A rendering of the Irthi Museum. Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council The United Arab Emirates landscape is expanding once again, with Sharjah set for the region’s first contemporary crafts museum. The Irthi Museum will open in Sharjah’s Creative Quarter sometime in 2029 and house a permanent collection of contemporary crafts from across the Gulf, the Irthi …
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Sabyasachi cuffs inspired by artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Courtesy Sabyasachi The distinguished Indian fashion brand Sabyasachi has partnered with New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for a new line of jewelry inspired by the institution’s vast collection. Sabyasachi, which was founded by designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, will unveil the jewelry line on September …
Excerpt from a mystical treatise by Omar Saïdou Tall, held in the manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France [National Library of France], in Paris. Photo courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Photo courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. For decades, the descendants of the Senegalese Muslim mystic, scholar, and military commander …
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Photo J. David Ake/Getty Images A former senior executive of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has accused the institution of “soft censorship” for relocating, without explanation, a symposium inspired by its exhibition on race in American and Mexican art last year. The symposium, titled …
Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden. Photo Barry Williams for New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Mamdani administration is expected to abandon city plans to replace Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden with housing. NYC Culture Club has moved into New York’s Port …
The first tomb contains a square shaft about 3 meters deep, leading to two burial chambers Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. An Egyptian archaeological mission has discovered three tombs from different historical periods at the Sheikh Sobi archaeological site in the Bahariya Oasis. The news was reported by several outlets, including Arab News, following an …
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Jack Leigh, Lone Tree at Sunset, Ossabaw, 2001. ©Jack Leigh Collection/Courtesy Laney Contemporary ARTS Southeast, an artist residency nonprofit based in Savannah, Georgia, will launch a new residency program on Ossabaw Island, the state’s third-largest barrier island. The Ossabaw Island Residency will host two week-long sessions, one in fall 2026 and one in spring 2027, …
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Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. Cape Town. View Pictures/Hufton+Crow/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Good Morning! Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town has appointed Elvira Dyangani Ose as its next artistic director. Sotheby’s has landed a $450 million tranche of works from the collection of Argentine industrialists Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier. An …
Ruth Patir, Intake (still), 2024. Courtesy the artist; Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; and Jewish Museum, New York A video installation at the center of high-profile controversy at the 2024 Venice Biennale will go on view this winter in New York, marking its US premiere. New York–born, Tel Aviv–based artist Ruth Patir’s video installation (M)otherland was …
Ivan Cheng, 16, 2026, at Aspen’s AIR festival. Photo Maria Baranova/Courtesy the artist and Aspen Art Museum Aspen, Colorado, stands at an elevation of just under 8,000 feet, enough to wonder what the atmosphere there might do differently to the eye, the ear, and all the rest of the bodily apparatus that we marshal throughout …
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