A close up view of a sign for ‘The Trump Kennedy Center’ with black tape covering “Trump.” Photo Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he would close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which has been facing an existential crisis for the past year, for up …
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M HKA in Antwerp will not become a cultural center after all. Photo Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images The government of Belgium’s Flanders region has backpedaled on its plan to close down the M HKA in Antwerp and convert it into a new cultural center, temporarily ending a months-long controversy over …
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This 1991 Porsche 911 Reimagined by Singer Vehicle Design, sold for $1,073,750 at RM Sotheby’s Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week last year. Sotheby’s This week Sotheby’s Financial Services (SFS) announced that it had priced a $900 million securitization backed by loans secured against artworks and, for the first time, collectible cars, according to the company. The deal is scheduled …
Joe Biden. Photo Spencer Platt/Getty Images In a new report published by the State Department’s Bureau of Protocol, records show that former President Joe Biden received a $19,000 painting from the president of Angola, João Lourenço, last year. The report, published annually, details gifts given to the president, their spouse, members of the cabinet, and …
M7, the future home of Art Basel Qatar. Photo Julius Hirtzberger/Courtesy Art Basel. When Art Basel opens its first edition in Doha on Tuesday, the difference—from other editions—will be immediately apparent. This is the smallest Basel fair by far: just 87 galleries, all of them mounting solo presentations, in a layout that feels closer to a curated …
Shahzia Sikander at work. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle Hong Kong’s M+ museum has selected Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander‘s hand-painted animated film 3 to 12 Nautical Miles (2026) for its latest commission for M+ Facade, an enormous LED-embedded media screen measuring approximately several hundred feet across. Co-commissioned by M+ and Art Basel, the work will screen from …
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James Rondeau. TNS For the first time since his return to his job last May following a voluntary leave, James Rondeau, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, spoke frankly about a bizarre incident on an airplane that gained attention far beyond the art world. During that incident, last April, Rondeau was on a …
Anish Kapoor is sending a sculpture to space. Photo Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images Anish Kapoor, a Turner Prize–winning artist who has never been afraid of controversy, has plotted his next project: sending a sculpture to space. What, exactly, the work might be remains a mystery, but he told the Times of London this week that …
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Esther Bell will be the next director of the Clark Art Institute. Courtesy Clark Art Institute The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has promoted Esther Bell, its deputy director and chief curator, to serve as the museum’s sixth director. She begins in the post on July 1. Bell is the first woman to hold …
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Tim Walz compared Minnesota’s children to Anne Frank, leading to pushback. Photo Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The US Holocaust Memorial Museum pushed back against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz this week after he compared victims of ICE raids in his state to Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who was killed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. …
