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Archaeologists Discovered More than 1,000 Artifacts Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral

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Archeological findings under the paving of Notre Dame Cathedral, 2024. Photo SAMI KARAALI/AFP via Getty Images After a blaze nearly destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, archaeologists had a rare opportunity to dig underneath the building’s structure during its five-year renovation and reconstruction, and found more than 1,000 fragments of historical artworks. It would have …

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Gucci, Valentino, Versace, and Balenciaga Are Among Fashion Brands On View in Rome Exhibition

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The MAXXI museum’s “Memorabile.Ipermoda” (2024–25) fashion exhibition in Rome. Giovanni Giannoni / WWD “What has fashion become today?” That is one of the key questions fashion theorist, professor and curator Maria Luisa Frisa asked herself when planning the “Memorabile.Ipermoda” exhibition at the MAXXI Museum here. “These are challenging times and the exhibition generates questions and issues that …

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A Painter’s Studio in France Needed Maintenance. The Contractor Found Ancient Art Behind its Walls.

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Artist Jean Charles Blais with the newly unearthed Roman funerary stone in his studio in Vence, France. Photo courtesy the artist and Opera Gallery After 35 years of use, Jean Charles Blais’ art studio in Vence, France, sprung a leak. As the painter tells it, a contractor removed a bit of the wall’s plaster coating …

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India Art Fair Cancels First Mumbai Iteration Just Months After Announcement

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The scene during the VIP preview at the India Art Fair. Photo Anindo Sen for ARTnews The organizers of the India Art Fair, an annual event held in New Delhi since 2008, have announced that its first Mumbai iteration, planned to launch in 2025, has been cancelled. Dubbed India Art Fair Contemporary, the event was …

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Climate Activists Who Doused the US Constitution in Red Powder Sentenced to Prison

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An honor guard stands next to the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, 2001, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Photo Alex Wong/Getty Images Two climate activists who doused a display case containing the U.S. Constitution in red power at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. …

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Newsmakers: Visual AIDS Executive Director Kyle Croft Reflects on 35 Years of ‘Day Without Art’

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Shan Kelley, “With Curators Like These, Who Needs A Cure,” 2015, projected on the façade of the Guggenheim Museum as part of RADIANT PRESENCE, Day With(out) Art 2015. Photo: Elliot Luscombe; Courtesy of Visual AIDS Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in …

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Recent Exhibitions at US Museums Explore the Complexity of Puerto Rican Identity

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From left: Miguel Pou y Becerra, La promesa (The Promise), 29128; José Campeche y Jordán, The Vision of Saint Philip Benizi, 1786. Museo de Arte de Ponce (2) In a portrait from 1928, a Puerto Rican woman holds a devotional painting of the Virgin Mary and child. She stares directly at the viewer, her other …

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Banksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ Mural Will Soon Be Sold with the Building It is Painted on

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Banksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ was painted on the side of a sexual health clinic in Bristol in 2006. Andrew Michael/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction with the building it …

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This Beloved Austrian Museum May Never Reveal Which Artist Is Doing Its Big Fall Show Next Year

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The Kunsthaus Bregenz. ullstein bild via Getty Images The Kunsthaus Bregenz, a beloved contemporary art museum in Austria, has announced what might already count as the most mysterious show of 2025: an exhibition by an artist whose identity may never be known to the press and the general public. That makes the show an unusual …

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