Protesters in front of the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale on the opening day. Photo Felix Hörhager/picture alliance via Getty Images The Venice Biennale will not exclude Russia from its events due to political pressure, the foundation’s president said Thursday in a public address criticizing the European Union’s recent confirmation that it will …
Jessica Morgan will be the next director of Tate, beginning January 1. Photo Gabriela Herman After more than a decade of leading the Dia Art Foundation, Jessica Morgan will return to the Tate museum network, this time as its director. She will start January 1, 2027. In that new role, she will oversee one of …
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‘Maman’ (1999) by Louise Bourgeois in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. In Pictures via Getty Images Good Morning! Vanderbilt University to keep art at the heart of the former California College of the Arts campus after a $75 million gift from Jensen and Lori Huang. A new study argues that art-world inequality is shaped by institutional …
Man Ray in 1963. Photo by Joseph McKeown/Express/Getty Images As previews continue in advance of showtime upon its opening on September 22, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles—the starry institution conceived by director George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson—announced its inaugural film program at San Diego Comic Con. In a panel …
Jason Bard Yarmosky (fourth from left) with other 2026 CHANEL Tribeca Artist Awards Program contributing artists, June 8, 2026. Photo Jamie McCarthy/WireImage Life imitates art, sort of. Katie Holmes plays a New York–based photographer reconnecting with her high school flame in Happy Hours, a new film Holmes also wrote and directed. Happy Hours premiered at …
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The ceiling of the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery, which reopened on July 22, 2029. Photo LOU BENOIST / POOL / AFP via Getty Images The Louvre reopened its now-infamous Apollo Gallery on July 22, nine months after a group of thieves lifted $102 million worth of Napoleon era jewels from the Paris museum. The brazen daytime …
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The Kansong Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea. One of the two lions in question is visible in front of the museum’s entrance. Courtesy Academy of Korean Studies/Wikimedia Commons On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul hosted a ceremony to mark the return of two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China. According …
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President Donald Trump examines a new statue in the Rose Garden, where it was recently installed in March. Photo Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Last week, President Trump installed a new, life-size bronze sculpture of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden, making it the fifth statue he has added to the White …
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A woman passes by the US artist Jeff Koons’ artworks titled “Made in Heaven” during the presentation of the “Jeff Koons: Retrospective” exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, in the northern Spanish Basque city of Bilbao on June 8, 2015. AFP PHOTO/ ANDER GILLENEA RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, …
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A production still from “The Odyssey,” featuring Matt Damon (center) as Odysseus. Universal Pictures Months before Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hit theaters, many on the internet had seemingly already reached a conclusion. The armor was wrong. Agamemnon’s black, plasticky helmet looked, one widely shared post complained, like something out of a Batman movie. Odysseus’s ship …
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