Kate Capshaw, The Picture Maker, 2025. ©Kate Capshaw The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will show newly commissioned and acquired works paying tribute to filmmaker Steven Spielberg, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, scientist Temple Grandin, and poet Joy Harjo in an exhibition titled “Portrait of a Nation: 2025 Honorees.” The show, opening December …
The Serpentine in London. Photo Andy Stagg for Serpentine The New York–based FLAG Art Foundation will give £1 million ($1.3 million) to the Serpentine Galleries in London to endow a new artist prize. The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize, as it will be called, will be awarded every other year to an international artist …
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Peter Paul Rubens, Christ on the Cross, 1613. AFP via Getty Images A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, unseen for four centuries, has just sold at auction in Versailles for $2.7 million. Created in 1613, the painting shows Jesus Christ on the cross, a subject the Flemish Baroque Master returned to frequently. …
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Keith Haring. Photo Jack Mitchell/Getty Images After a teacher at an Upstate New York middle school asked students to visit the Keith Haring Foundation’s website for an assignment, a prominent conservative legal group got involved, claiming that children were “forced: to look at imagery that the organization termed “pornographic,” without specifying what that imagery was. …
Wolfgang Beltracchi. ullstein bild via Getty Images A painting determined to be the work of “genius forger” Wolfgang Beltracchi in Japan’s Tokushima Modern Art Museum was returned and refunded for 67.2 million yen ($426,000) by an Osaka-based company on Wednesday, November 19, reported the Mainichi. The museum had announced that it would withdraw the canvas …
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French Police officers seal off the entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris after a jewel heist on October 19, 2025. Photo Kiran Ridley/Getty Images Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris last month, USA Today reported. Two men and two …
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Bob Ross, ‘Cabin at Sunset’, is the lead lot in comedian John Oliver’s sale to benefit public media. John Oliver’s benefit auction for public broadcasting just set a new market milestone for Bob Ross’ painting—and funneled some crucial funds toward free speech in America. On Monday, Ross’ Cabin at Sunset, painted for a 1986 episode …
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T-section of MacArthur causeway in Miami, Florida. Getty Images/iStockphoto Miami Beach, a city founded on the principle that nothing should ever take longer than ordering a cortadito, has finally admitted defeat. The traffic is bad—biblically bad—and the municipal solution is wonderfully literal: water taxis. For the second year in a row and beginning on December 1, the city will …
A security guard stands in front of the Louvre Pyramid, designed by Chinese American architect I.M. Pei, with the Louvre Museum in the background in Paris, France, on October 22, 2025. Photo THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday, four more suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from …
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Robert S. Duncan, ‘Ellen’s Isle, Loch Katrine’, 1871. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward Levine in memory of Bob Thompson. Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York. “We have not yet begun to utilize the museum as an instrument of cultural education.” Those words, from Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of the …
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