Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, 2006. COURTESY CITY OF CHICAGO British artist Anish Kapoor’s shiny sculpture Cloud Gate (2006), sited in Chicago’s Millennium Park, is one of the world’s most popular works of public art. Often called “the Bean” in reference to its elliptical shape, the 110-ton piece has served as the setting for countless photo …
The US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo Simone Padovani/Getty Images According to ARTnews’s sources, Utah-born, Mexico-based sculptor Alma Allen has been picked to represent the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale, which is set to open next May. The pavilion’s commissioning curator is Jeffrey Uslip, according to sources, who say the official announcement …
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Jennifer Lawrence at the Rome Film Festival, 2025. Photo Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence is the subject of W magazine’s current art issue. In 2006, the fashion-focused publication launched this collaborative series with fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti shooting contemporary American artist Richard Tuttle. Since then, there have been many examples of …
https://www.sfaaat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-2168584158-1.jpg The Louvre in Paris. Photo Graham Denholm/Getty Images Nearly a month after the theft of the French crown jewels that captured global attention, the Louvre Museum announced several emergency security measures. On Friday, the Board of Directors of the Louvre Museum met to discuss the emergency measures concerning the museum’s security. The meeting came …
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https://www.sfaaat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GettyImages-2241971037-1.jpg Police at the Louvre on Sunday, October 19. Photo Kiran Ridley/Getty Images The French national audit has published its report on the Louvre‘s security, excerpts of which were leaked to press shortly after a trove of crown jewel were stolen from the museum. The report, known as the Cour des Comptes, found that only …
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Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled, (1999). Photo Zeno Zotti, Courtesy Maurizio Cattelan Archive This year’s Preis der Nationalgalerie (Prize of the National Gallery), administered by Berlin’s Nationalgalerie, has been awarded to artist Maurizio Cattelan. Every two years, the prize goes to an influential contemporary artist, who receives a solo exhibition of their work at the German institution. …
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LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 13: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Getty Images Los Angeles County Museum of Art leadership has declined to voluntarily recognize LACMA United, the union that hundreds of its staff voted to form last week, opting instead to …
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Timothee Chalamet in Rome in May. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images In a restless and ping-ponging profile for Vogue, actor Timothée Chalamet paid a visit to one of the most mystique-intensive artworks of this or any century: Michael Heizer’s monumental Land art installation City. The work, measuring a mile-and-a-half long by a half-mile wide …
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The V&A East Storehouse opened in May 2025 in London. England. Photo Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has announced an opening date for the newest branch of its museum. The five-story building, designed by the Irish architecture firm O’Donnell + Tuomey, will open to the public on Apr. 18, 2026. The …
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Charles I with his wife Empress Zita circa 1916. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the Habsburg …
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