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The nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, 2024. Photo STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Five years after Paris watched Notre Dame Cathedral burn, the 861-year-old structure has been restored. It is slated to reopen its doors to the public on Sunday, December 8, with two Catholic masses will commemorating the event. Following the April …

After a Major Restoration, Notre Dame Cathedral is Reopening. Here’s What to Expect. Read More »

Archeological findings under the paving of Notre Dame Cathedral, 2024. Photo SAMI KARAALI/AFP via Getty Images After a blaze nearly destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, archaeologists had a rare opportunity to dig underneath the building’s structure during its five-year renovation and reconstruction, and found more than 1,000 fragments of historical artworks. It would have …

Archaeologists Discovered More than 1,000 Artifacts Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral Read More »

The MAXXI museum’s “Memorabile.Ipermoda” (2024–25) fashion exhibition in Rome. Giovanni Giannoni / WWD “What has fashion become today?” That is one of the key questions fashion theorist, professor and curator Maria Luisa Frisa asked herself when planning the “Memorabile.Ipermoda” exhibition at the MAXXI Museum here. “These are challenging times and the exhibition generates questions and issues that …

Gucci, Valentino, Versace, and Balenciaga Are Among Fashion Brands On View in Rome Exhibition Read More »

Artist Jean Charles Blais with the newly unearthed Roman funerary stone in his studio in Vence, France. Photo courtesy the artist and Opera Gallery After 35 years of use, Jean Charles Blais’ art studio in Vence, France, sprung a leak. As the painter tells it, a contractor removed a bit of the wall’s plaster coating …

A Painter’s Studio in France Needed Maintenance. The Contractor Found Ancient Art Behind its Walls. Read More »

The scene during the VIP preview at the India Art Fair. Photo Anindo Sen for ARTnews The organizers of the India Art Fair, an annual event held in New Delhi since 2008, have announced that its first Mumbai iteration, planned to launch in 2025, has been cancelled. Dubbed India Art Fair Contemporary, the event was …

India Art Fair Cancels First Mumbai Iteration Just Months After Announcement Read More »

An honor guard stands next to the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, 2001, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Photo Alex Wong/Getty Images Two climate activists who doused a display case containing the U.S. Constitution in red power at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. …

Climate Activists Who Doused the US Constitution in Red Powder Sentenced to Prison Read More »

Room K1 in the Athribis temple in Sohag, Egypt, 2016. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons An entrance to what may have once been a sanctuary was found by researchers among the cliffs of Athribis in a small Egyptian village near present-day Sohag, roughly 124 miles north of Luxor. Arthribis was once a hub for the worship of …

Ptolemaic Temple Entrance Discovered in Egypt Read More »

Shan Kelley, “With Curators Like These, Who Needs A Cure,” 2015, projected on the façade of the Guggenheim Museum as part of RADIANT PRESENCE, Day With(out) Art 2015. Photo: Elliot Luscombe; Courtesy of Visual AIDS Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in …

Newsmakers: Visual AIDS Executive Director Kyle Croft Reflects on 35 Years of ‘Day Without Art’ Read More »

From left: Miguel Pou y Becerra, La promesa (The Promise), 29128; José Campeche y Jordán, The Vision of Saint Philip Benizi, 1786. Museo de Arte de Ponce (2) In a portrait from 1928, a Puerto Rican woman holds a devotional painting of the Virgin Mary and child. She stares directly at the viewer, her other …

Recent Exhibitions at US Museums Explore the Complexity of Puerto Rican Identity Read More »

Banksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ was painted on the side of a sexual health clinic in Bristol in 2006. Andrew Michael/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction with the building it …

Banksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ Mural Will Soon Be Sold with the Building It is Painted on Read More »