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Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled, (1999). Photo Zeno Zotti, Courtesy Maurizio Cattelan Archive This year’s Preis der Nationalgalerie (Prize of the National Gallery), administered by Berlin’s Nationalgalerie, has been awarded to artist Maurizio Cattelan. Every two years, the prize goes to an influential contemporary artist, who receives a solo exhibition of their work at the German institution. …

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LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 13: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Getty Images Los Angeles County Museum of Art leadership has declined to voluntarily recognize LACMA United, the union that hundreds of its staff voted to form last week, opting instead to …

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Timothee Chalamet in Rome in May. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images In a restless and ping-ponging profile for Vogue, actor Timothée Chalamet paid a visit to one of the most mystique-intensive artworks of this or any century: Michael Heizer’s monumental Land art installation City. The work, measuring a mile-and-a-half long by a half-mile wide …

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The V&A East Storehouse opened in May 2025 in London. England. Photo Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has announced an opening date for the newest branch of its museum. The five-story building, designed by the Irish architecture firm O’Donnell + Tuomey, will open to the public on Apr. 18, 2026. The …

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Charles I with his wife Empress Zita circa 1916. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the Habsburg …

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bayou, 1984. Alex Greenberger/ARTnews Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building to the press on Thursday, revealing a multitude of treasures that have entered its holdings since its closure in 2018—including the first Jean-Michel Basquiat painting to join the museum’s collection. The …

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Four views of a modified ochre fragment. D’Errico et al. 2025, Science Advances A recent analysis of ochre fragments from several Neanderthal sites indicated that Neanderthals used ochre for drawing and marking surfaces. It has been long-believed that Neanderthals used the iron-rich pigment to adorn their bodies, clothing, and surfaces. Many ancient civilizations, for example, …

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From left, Jonathan Rider, Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Scout Hutchinson, and Glenn Fuhrman. Photo Steven Probert The New York–based FLAG Art Foundation and the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, have announced a new partnership that will see the two organizations collaborate on three exhibitions annually beginning next year and extending until 2030. The exhibitions …

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