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An artwork by Jordan Wolfson produced for Prada’s Spring/Summer 2026 ad campaign. Courtesy the artist and Prada Prada’s current ad campaign for its Spring/Summer 2026 collection is an unsettling affair, and no surprise its maker is an artist known for disturbing video art and sculptures: Jordan Wolfson, whose past works have featured a gyrating cyborg, …

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Exhibition view: Threading Inwards, CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong, 2026 Image courtesy: CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong In 2025, nearly 100,000 people—collectors, curators, and the merely curious—descended on the archipelago of Hong Kong for Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest and busiest art event on the global calendar. But woe unto …

In Hong Kong for Art Basel? Don’t Miss These Local Galleries and Museums Read More »

Liz Munsell will be the new vice president of curatorial and arts programs at Powerhouse Arts. Photo Xavier Petromelis/Courtesy Powerhouse Arts Powerhouse Arts, a nonprofit creative production center in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood, announced that curator Liz Munsell to the role of vice president of curatorial and arts programs. Munsell will replace Diya Vij, who was …

Curator Liz Munsell Named Vice President of Curatorial and Arts Programs at New York’s Powerhouse Arts Read More »

An installation view of the Royal Academy of Arts’s recent Kerry James Marshall exhibition. Photo: ©David Parry/ Royal Academy of Arts, London; Art: ©Kerry James Marshall/Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, London Helen Legg, the current director of the Tate Liverpool, has been appointed as artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, …

Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts Read More »

Rosso Fiorentino Madonna and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, 1512/13. Private Collection/Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced Thursday that it had acquired a recently rediscovered Renaissance painting of significant art historical importance. Layers of paint were removed during a recent conservation to reveal the figure …

Met Museum to Acquire Rediscovered Renaissance Painting Admired by Vasari Read More »

El Greco, The Reedemer, c. 1590–95 Courtesy Vatican Museum The Vatican has announced the discovery of a newly identified painting by Mannerist painter El Greco, Artnet News reports. Titled The Redeemer and dating to the late 1500s, the piece was uncovered by restorers Alessandra Zarelli and Paolo Violini. While conserving the work, they realized that an …

Painting in the Vatican’s Collection Is Newly Identified as an El Greco Read More »

Kamel Mennour. Archives Mennour. The baton is being passed from an elder generation of French art dealer to a younger one, with the purchase of Galerie Malingue by dealer Kamel Mennour, who will take over Malingue’s 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s Matignon district. “Located in a space with a long history in …

Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue, Founded Over Five Decades Ago  Read More »

Supporters gather at Sebastian Street and A1A in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the site of the Pride crosswalk, for a “We Won’t Be Erased” Rally on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025. The protest is in response to the state of Florida’s directive to erase the rainbow crosswalks in Fort Lauderdale Beach, and to show support for …

Fort Lauderdale Still Fighting Removal of Rainbow Crosswalks: ‘We Are the Last Man Standing’ Read More »

Trevor Paglen. Photo Michael Avedon/©Trevor Paglen/Courtesy the artist, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, and Pace Gallery, New York Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the LG Guggenheim Award for technology-minded artists, the New York museum revealed on Tuesday. Through the prize, he will win $100,000, a vast sum that he said will support the …

Trevor Paglen Wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award for Art and Technology Read More »

Alexander Gardner, Lincoln’s Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865. National Gallery of Art, Gift of Funds from Ronald M. Costell, M.D. and the Estate of Marsha E. Swiss, 2025.44.20 The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., announced today the acquisition of nearly 600 works to its permanent collection, spanning from the 17th century to today. …

National Gallery of Art Acquires Hundreds of Works, from Civil War Photographs to a Salman Toor Painting Read More »