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Portrait of Darren Walker. Photo Simon Luethi Former Ford Foundation president Darren Walker has been elected president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.—effective immediately—the institution announced Tuesday. Walker, who has been a board member of the National Gallery since 2019, is perhaps best known for his 11-year tenure at the helm of …

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Apollo Belvedere on display following its restoration at the Vatican Museum. Photo Stefano Costantino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On Tuesday, the restoration of one of the Vatican Museums‘ most prized artworks was unveiled. The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture of the eponymous Greek god dating back to the 2nd century CE. The statue, executed …

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“Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World,” 2024. Courtesy UCR Arts A man pulled an Andrew Norman Wilson artwork from a California exhibition being staged as part of the Getty Foundation’s science-themed PST Art initiative. The piece was in a show at the California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts …

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A view of the Metropolitan Museum of Art building in New York City, United States on July 15, 2024. NurPhoto via Getty Images The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned another ancient Greek drinking vessel to Italian officials overseeing the countries’ repatriation efforts after finding the artifact was likely looted from its origin site. The …

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Jade artifact uncovered at Yuanbaoshan archaeological site, Chifeng city, China. Courtesy Facebook/China Daily A trove of more than 100 Stone Age jade artifacts discovered by archaeologists in inner Mongolia may reveal evidence of long-distance trade between two ancient Chinese civilizations. Three 5,000-year-old jade dragons of varying colors and sizes stood out among the hoard at …

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Charli xcx debuts the ‘brat’ remix album at Storm King Art Center on October 10, 2024. Photo: Henry Redcliffe The title of Charli xcx’s Brat remix album, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, applies neatly to the pop-up listening party she hosted Thursday at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York. …

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Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964. Courtesy Christie’s. Ed Ruscha’s 1964 painting Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half will be offered for sale at auction next month in New York, with an estimated price of $50 million, Christie’s announced on Monday. The painting will be among the most …

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Installation view of “Mire Lee: Open Wound,” 2024, Tate Modern. Photo Larina Fernandes/©Tate The circus has rolled into town. Frieze London and Frieze Masters open their doors to the VIPs today, but are London’s fairs fast becoming an amuse-bouche for the feast that will be Art Basel Paris next week? Many think so. The art …

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View of Galerie Sardine’s pop-up exhibition in Paris. Courtesy Galerie Sardine Galerie Sardine is having a moment in Paris and New York—for those lucky enough to catch it! The New York–based space and collaborative curatorial project was started by artist Joe Bradley and art director Valentina Akerman in an historic Amagansett farmhouse over the summer, …

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Christine Macel. Photo Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images Christine Macel, a closely watched French curator who organized the 2017 Venice Biennale, will reportedly no longer be director of Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Musée Nissim de Camondo roughly two years after stepping into the top role of both institutions. According to the French-language Journal …

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