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Partnership Between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and David Zwirner Stands to Separate the Artist’s Work for Profit

Hilma af Klint: Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907. Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk. A potential agreement between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and mega gallerist David Zwirner stands to separate the artist’s work for profit. The family of the Swedish artist oversees her foundation, which is responsible for the preservation of …

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Cast of New Film ‘The Gallerist’ Confirmed As Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and More

From left to right: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Sterling K. Brown, Zach Galifianakis, Daniel Bruhl, Charli xcx, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Courtesy Irvin Rivera/Mark Leibowitz/Pablo Arroyo/Terry O’Connor via Deadline. MRC is set to independently finance The Gallerist, Cathy Yan’s new film starring the previously announced Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega. The company also today officially confirmed the remaining cast …

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Zilia Sánchez, Painter of Erotically Tinged Shaped Canvases, Dies at 98

Zilia Sánchez. Photo Raquel Perez Puig Zilia Sánchez, an artist known for her shaped canvases that bulge outward, has died at 98. The San Juan–based aritst’s death was announced on Thursday by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, which did not state a cause. Sánchez’s erotically tinged paintings alluded frequently to the female body, …

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Stonehenge Possibly Erected to Unite Ancient Farming Communities, Study Finds

The ancient neolithic monument of Stonehenge. Photo Matt Cardy/Getty Images This has been a monumental year for further insight about Stonehenge‘s creation. Researchers are now positing that the iconic stone circle may have been erected in an effort to unite ancient farming communities, CNN reported. Earlier this year, experts discovered that Stonehenge’s central six-ton altar …

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A New National Museum of the American Latino Moves Forward as It Fights to Find Its Footing

Grupo Fenix playing at Dia de los Muertos on November 1, 2024, at La Cosecha. Jeremy Norwood / National Museum of the American Latino. The National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) faces a Herculean challenge. Established in late 2020, nearly 30 years after it was first proposed, the Smithsonian component must represent the art, …

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Nicholas Galanin Wins Crystal Bridges Museum’s $200,000 Prize

Nicholas Galanin also won a Guggenheim Fellowship this year. Photo Bethany Goodrich/Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has named Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit-Unangax̂) as the recipient of this year’s Don Tyson Prize for outstanding achievement in American art. A press release called Galanin “a renowned figure in the …

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The Defining Artworks of 2024

Daniela Hritcu/ARTnews Crumbling amber, a nonbinary deity, a horned woman, a disco ball formed from synthetic hair: all these things and more appeared in the year’s most memorable artworks. Produced during a time that was a chaotic as any other in recent history, these works made powerful pleas for liberation (particularly in Gaza, where Israel’s …

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MrBeast to Rent Ancient Egyptian Pyramids to Explore Parts ‘That No One’s Seen Publicly’

The tombs of the pharoahs Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu, dating from around 2000 BCE, in Giza, Egypt. Photo by EMD/Then and Now Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images The Egyptian government has yet again rented out the pyramids to the highest bidder—this time to American YouTuber MrBeast. “We got all three of the pyramids of Egypt …

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