The International African American Museum on June 27, 2023 in Charleston, South Carolina. Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) Citing ongoing financial difficulties, Charleston’s International African American Museum (IAAM) will furlough its entire staff, including senior leadership, according to a statement from the institution. The 20-day furlough program will begin July 1 and run into December …
Alma Allen. Photo Luis Garvan/Courtesy Perrotin Artist Alma Allen has again accused cultural strategist David Resnicow of working against Allen’s controversial US Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, after months of criticism surrounding the project. In an Instagram post published Monday afternoon, Allen wrote that “two of the three galleries that withdrew their support for …
An image from Andrew Kreps’s presentation of Harold Stevenson at Independent 20th Century Courtesy of the Estate of Harold Stevenson and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Independent launched Independent 20th Century in 2022 in the Battery Maritime Building, a Beaux-Arts landmark overlooking New York Harbor. This fall, the fair is moving uptown to Marcel Breuer’s …
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The Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. Wikimedia Commons WHEN IN ROME: Fendi on Thursday revealed the location of the first couture show designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri — the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome on the evening of July 9. For the occasion, guests will be invited to a private view of the exhibition …
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Commission of Fine Arts Chairman Rodney Mims Cook Jr. speaks at a public hearing on President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary at the National Building Museum on April 16, 2026 in Washington, DC. Getty Images Late last week, Rodney Mims Cook Jr., the chairman of the US Commission of …
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Interim Archives/Getty Images A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is under investigation over course materials that referenced Palestine, becoming the latest flashpoint in debates about eroding freedom of expression on American college campuses, the Guardian reported Friday. Savneet Talwar …
Lucian Freud, ‘Sleeping by the Lion Carpet’, 1995–1996. Courtesy Sotheby’s The subject of an auction-bound Lucian Freud nude portrait may be asleep, but the painter’s market is wide awake and keenly watching the rare lot. Titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, the painting could fetch between £25 million and £35 million ($33.4 million to $46.8 …
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Protesters outside New York’s New School in December. Hayden Tutton Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to 87 of its employees. The layoffs, first reported by the Chronicle of …
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In a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, William the Conqueror (c.1027 – 1087) rescues the future King Harold II (c.1022 – 1066) from captivity in France and betrothes his daughter Aelfgifu to him, 1064. The tapestry is housed in the town of Bayeux in Normandy. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Last July, French …
René Magritte, The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959). Gali Tibbon/AFP via Getty Images René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. A boy visiting the museum with his family punctured the painting with a …
