Zilia Sánchez. Photo Raquel Perez Puig Zilia Sánchez, an artist known for her shaped canvases that bulge outward, has died at 98. The San Juan–based aritst’s death was announced on Thursday by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, which did not state a cause. Sánchez’s erotically tinged paintings alluded frequently to the female body, …
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The ancient neolithic monument of Stonehenge. Photo Matt Cardy/Getty Images This has been a monumental year for further insight about Stonehenge‘s creation. Researchers are now positing that the iconic stone circle may have been erected in an effort to unite ancient farming communities, CNN reported. Earlier this year, experts discovered that Stonehenge’s central six-ton altar …
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Grupo Fenix playing at Dia de los Muertos on November 1, 2024, at La Cosecha. Jeremy Norwood / National Museum of the American Latino. The National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) faces a Herculean challenge. Established in late 2020, nearly 30 years after it was first proposed, the Smithsonian component must represent the art, …
Nicholas Galanin also won a Guggenheim Fellowship this year. Photo Bethany Goodrich/Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has named Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit-Unangax̂) as the recipient of this year’s Don Tyson Prize for outstanding achievement in American art. A press release called Galanin “a renowned figure in the …
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Mona curator and conceptual artist Kirsha Kaechele apologized to the Picasso Estate on the museum’s blog after she forged a painting by the Spanish master for her “Ladies Lounge” exhibition. Courtesy of Mona Like most years in the art world, 2024 saw a slew of lawsuits wind their way through the courts. There were, of …
Daniela Hritcu/ARTnews Crumbling amber, a nonbinary deity, a horned woman, a disco ball formed from synthetic hair: all these things and more appeared in the year’s most memorable artworks. Produced during a time that was a chaotic as any other in recent history, these works made powerful pleas for liberation (particularly in Gaza, where Israel’s …
The tombs of the pharoahs Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu, dating from around 2000 BCE, in Giza, Egypt. Photo by EMD/Then and Now Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images The Egyptian government has yet again rented out the pyramids to the highest bidder—this time to American YouTuber MrBeast. “We got all three of the pyramids of Egypt …
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Olga Honcharova, temporary director of the Kherson Regional Museum, shows shows an empty glass display cases in Kherson. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images) World heritage is rarely exempt from war, as 2024 proved in the cases of Israel and its enemies in the Middle East, and Ukraine …
Pierre Levai and Marcia Levine. Photo Zach Hyman/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images The long-running legal saga over Marlborough Gallery dealer Pierre Levai has deepened further with yet one more lawsuit, this one centered around the gallerist’s final months. His son, Max Levai, has now alleged that Pierre was held “captive” by Marcia Levine, a beneficiary …
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Double portrait by Renaissance artist Giorgione (1473/74–1510) found in the Bavarian State Painting Collections. Courtesy Bavarian State Painting Collections/dpa A painting by Venetian Renaissance artist Giorgione (1473/74–1510) has been found among the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich, Germany. The double portrait of the young Giovanni Borgherini from Florence with his teacher and Venetian polymath …
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