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The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Photo Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, one of the biggest museums of its kind in Russia, named Daria Kotova as its new director, effective immediately, on Thursday. Kotova is a longtime staffer at Garage, having started there in 2010 when she graduated from …

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Margarita Polovinko. Photo via Instagram. Ukrainian artist Margarita Polovinko, whose drawings and photography excavated her post-Soviet reality and later, the Russian invasion, died at age 31 while serving as a combat medic. Her death was announced on April 8 by her sister, who wrote in an Instagram post, “Margarita died defending Ukraine.” Margarita Polovinko was …

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Faith Ringgold. Photo Meron Menghistab/Courtesy the Anyone Can Fly Foundation and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York The estate of Faith Ringgold, an acclaimed artist known for works that directly and bracingly protest racism, has joined New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. Prior to her death in 2024, Ringgold had long been represented by ACA Galleries, which …

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Carlos Basualdo. Photo Matteo De Fina Venezia/Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, a modestly sized but formidable institution dedicated to the medium, has named Carlos Basualdo as director. He succeeds longtime director Jeremy Strick, who retired in June 2024, and will start at the Nasher on May 12, according to …

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The Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa, California. Photo: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and director of the Orange County Museum of Art, will step down at the end of her contract in December 2025, the institution said Thursday. Zuckerman, who joined OCMA in early 2021, will assist in the search for …

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Oh dear! Two reindeer—engraved on bone, found in France around 13,500 years ago—are being loaned to Bradford. Courtesy British Museum The British Museum has announced that it will loan “some of the rarest surviving examples” of Ice Age art to Bradford, the 2025 UK City of Culture. Around 70 objects from the museum will be …

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La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Photo by Bill Wassman/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. The Vatican has moved Antoni Gaudí, the architect behind Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia church, a step closer toward achieving sainthood. On April 14, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, with authorization from Pope Francis, issued a decree recognizing Gaudí’s “heroic virtues,” a …

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A bust of Elon Musk in Texas that was vandalized. Via Twitter (X) A 12-foot-tall bust of Elon Musk in Texas was defaced over the weekend, according to the owner of the property where the artwork is located. The landowner, Eleazar Villafranca, told ABC Newsthat passersby alerted him on Saturday to the damage, and, on …

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Pierre Terjanian has been appointed the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s next Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO. Courtesy of MFA Boston The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, generally considered the top art museum in that city, named its new director and CEO on Thursday, the museum announced in a press statement. Pierre Terjanian, …

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Video still of a portrait of President Donald Trump hanging in the grand foyer of the White House. Courtesy The White House/X The White House has reshuffed its artwork on display, with the official portrait of former President Barack Obama replaced by a painting of President Donald Trump. “Some new artwork at the White House,” …

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