Books stacked on a shelf. Photo DANIEL ROLAND/AFP via Getty Images Seven leading foundations have come together to launch the Literary Arts Fund to distribute $50 million over a five-year span to support nonprofit literary arts across the United States. The Literary Arts Fund will award grants to US-based nonprofits and fiscally sponsored literary organizations …
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The Vatican Museums. Photo Beytullah Eles/Anadolu via Getty Images The Vatican will return several dozen cultural objects to Indigenous communities in Canada as part of a continued reckoning with the role the Catholic Church played in the oppression of Indigenous groups in the Americas. The objects include an Inuit kayak and are housed in the …
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Chris Levine. Photo Oli Scarff/Getty Images British artist Rob Munday has filed a lawsuit against Chris Levine, claiming he is the co-creator of two of the most recognizable portraits of Queen Elizabeth II—Equanimity and Lightness of Being—which Levine has for years presented as solely his own work. The dispute, filed in the High Court, centers on the …
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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Where Is My Mind?, 2020. ©Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige and Sursock Museum The Biennale of Sydney, Australia’s top biennial, has revealed the full artist list for its 2026 edition, which is due to open on March 14, 2026. The exhibition is closely watched by curators and has accordingly brought on …
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A newly discovered megalithic monument in Jordan. Photo : University of Copenhagen Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered a landscape of megalithic monuments that offer insight into how ancient societies responded to the tumultuous cultural transition into the Early Bronze Age. The discovery was made by a team from the University of Copenhagen during an excavation …
The sale’s sell-through rates were 90 percent by value and 81 percent by lot, while 39 percent of the works sold above their high estimate. Christie’s Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art evening sale in London on Wednesday netted £17.3 million ($23 million), marking a 20 percent increase on last year’s equivalent sale. Barbara Hepworth’s …
Empress Eugenie presides over the award ceremony at the Imperial Institution of Honor Region in Saint Denis, 1869, France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original artwork from the 19th century, exact original date unknown. Bildagentur-online/Universal Ima Before the shocking theft of the French Crown Jewels from the Louvre on October 19, most had all …
Art Toronto 2024 Zou Zheng/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Ima Art Toronto, Canada’s oldest and largest international fair for modern and contemporary art, opens to the public on Friday. While most of the participating galleries are Canadian, there will be a smattering of European exhibitors, as well as a group of Latin American and US …
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Installation shot of Oliver Jeffers Dipped Paintings at Praise Shadows. Dan Watkins There’s a quiet ceremony to the way artist and acclaimed children’s book illustrator Oliver Jeffers destroys his own paintings. At each dip performance—the latest held two days before the October 3 opening of his solo show at Praise Shadows in Boston—a portrait is …
Empress Eugénie’s crown was dropped by the looters as they made their escape. Photo Zhang Weiguo/VCG via Getty Images On Sunday, at around 9:30 a.m., robbers broke into the Parisian museum‘s Apollo Gallery using a cherry picker and an angle grinder to steal nine pieces of jewelry worth an estimated $102 million in less than eight minutes. Could the …
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