Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbeck in the Bekaa valley on October 31, 2024. AFP via Getty Images Ancient Roman ruins in Baalbek, a historic city in Lebanon, survived an initial wave of Israeli air strikes this week, …
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Agustín Arteaga. Photo Paloma Torres Agustín Arteaga, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, will depart his post on December 31 after eight years, leaving open one of the top institutional roles in the South. The museum’s announcement of his departure did not state where he was headed next. Tamara Wootton Forsyth, …
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Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the closing rally of her campaign at the base of the iconic “Rocky Steps” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania on November 05, 2024. Photo Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Ahead of Tuesday’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris held her final rally for her U.S. …
An AI chip logo painted on an integrated circuit wall in Hangzhou. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Everyone wants to be a creator. According to a report by YouTube, SmithGeiger, and the Fandom Institute, 65 percent of teenagers and young adults aged 14 to 24 now identify as creators. But the creator’s future is uncertain: the …
Exterior view of King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt, 2022. Photo Fareed Kotb/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images An ancient Egyptian tomb with 11 sealed burials was excavated by archaeologists in Luxor, the country’s tourism and antiquities ministry announced on Friday. The tomb was found in the South Asasif …
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Bangladeshis swarm over Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka. Photo K M Asad/LightRocket via Getty Images The former palace of Bangladesh’s ex-leader, Sheikh Hasina, will become a museum following the democratic revolution that saw the autocrat ousted. “The museum should preserve memories of her misrule and the people’s anger when they removed her from …
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The Whitney Museum of American Art on September 12, 2023 in New York. Patrick McMullan via Getty Image The Whitney Museum of American Art may expand its footprint to the nearby Gansevoort Meat Market building located on the west side of Manhattan as part of a development proposal in the area. New York City Mayor …
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LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 26: Queen Elizabeth II, from: Reigning Queens is displayed alongside Queen Margarethe II of Denmark, both by Andy Warhol during preparations ahead of online sales at Christies Auction House on March 26, 2021 in London, England. The sale includes “The Prints & Multiples” and “Banksy: I Can’t Believe You Morons Actually …
Sharon Coplan, curator of STUDIO VISIT, and Jenny Gibbs, executive director of the IFPDA Foundation and Print Fair at the 2024 IFPDA Foundation Benefit hosted by Christie’s. Jason Lowrie/BFA.com. © BFA 2024. Courtesy IFPDA Foundation. A host of top tier New York-based artists are opening the doors to their studios to benefit the International Fine …
Tantastic: Former President Donald Trump was called ‘cheap’ by Andy Warhol. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines TRUMPED UP AND ‘CHEAP.’ Artnet News reports about how a “cheap” Donald Trump, per Andy Warhol ’s description of the former president in 1981, failed to pay for paintings he commissioned from the artist …
