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Sam Gilliam, 1980. Photo Anthony Barboza/Getty Images David Kordansky gallery and the Sam Gilliam Foundation are facing a lawsuit over their alleged attempts to “disavow” what one entity claims is a genuine drape painting by the late artist. Drax Fine Art, LLC, which is registered in Albany, New York, filed suit against the gallery, the …

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The interior of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Sijena, in Aragon, Spain. Photo Javier Broto/Europa Press via Getty Images After more than a decade of legal battles, Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that a set of 13th-century Romanesque murals—removed from the Sijena Monastery during the Spanish Civil War and housed since in the …

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Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun seems to be enjoying the publicity that comes with buying a $6.2 million banana. AFP via Getty Images Last week, crypto billionaire Justin Sun announced on X that he was purchasing $100 million worth of President Donald Trump‘s memecoin, $TRUMP, which will soon be tradeable on TRON, the blockchain Sun …

Justin Sun, Billionaire Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana, Is Purchasing $100 M. of Trump’s Memecoin Read More »

Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, Connecticut. Moment Editorial/Getty Images The Yale Art Gallery,  the renowned university museum in New Haven, Connecticut, has withdrawn two federal grant applications for an African art exhibition after rejecting the new, anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) stipulations introduced by the Trump administration on federal funding, the Connecticut Insider reported …

Yale Art Gallery Rejects Federal Grants for Africa Migration Show, Citing New Anti-Diversity Stipulations Read More »

Portrait of Raymond Saunders, 1981, by Mimi Jacobs. Courtesy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Raymond Saunders, who created enigmatic paintings often infused with sociopolitical undertones, has died at 90. Casemore, Andrew Kreps, and David Zwirner galleries, all which co-represented the artist, announced his passing in a joint statement on Instagram on Monday. Saunders’s work …

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Barbara Guggenheim and Abigail Asher. Photo Gregg DeGuire/WireImage While much of the art world is off on summer holidays, news broke earlier this week of a bitter legal battle between top art advisor Barbara Guggenheim and her former partner Abigail Asher. The implosion of the advisors’ high-profile partnership, Guggenheim Asher Associates (GAA), has sent waves …

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The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn. Courtesy Downtown Brooklyn This spring, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced it was withdrawing funding for arts organizations across the country. As part of broader efforts already in motion to cut back government spending under the Trump administration, the arts is the latest sector …

With NEA Funding Slashed, Arts Institutions Serving Black Communities Face an Uncertain Future Read More »

Aerodynamic: The museum’s design is inspired by a falcon’s wing. courtesy Zayad National Museum A new mega museum is slated to open in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island in December this year. Designed by UK architectural firm Foster + Partners, the Zayad National Museum will house a Qur’an more than …

UAE to Open Massive Museum in December that ‘Reflects Historical Trajectory of the Country’ Read More »

On the road: The bus will soon be a traveling museum. Karen Therese Nahra An artist from Cleveland, Ohio is transforming a classic 1947 Greyhound bus, which he saved from a Pennsylvania junkyard, into a traveling museum. Robert Louis Brandon Edwards, who is also a historian and preservationist, is tearing out the bus’s interior (in …

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A mosaic depicting an erotic bedroom scene has made its way back to Pompeii. Photo Eliano Imperato/Anadolu via Getty Images An ancient mosaic that may have been looted by a Nazi officer has returned to its home in Italy decades after being stolen. The mosaic depicts a bedroom scene and probably originated somewhere in the …

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