The Wexner Center for the Arts. Brad Feinknopf Members of the Wexner Center for the Arts union have called on university leadership to rename the institution, citing Leslie Wexner’s documented ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wexner Workers United announced on social media yesterday that it had sent a formal letter to Ohio State …
‘AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH’ by Turner Prize nominee Rene Matic on October 01, 2025 in Bradford, England. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Rene Matić was named the winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. They received the £30,000 ($40,250) prize for their exhibition “AS …
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Hans H. Biermann-Ratjen presents Hannah Arendt the certificate of the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the Kaisersaal of Hamburg City Hall. ullstein bild via Getty Images A culture prize that has been awarded in Germany for nearly five decades will be renamed due to the Nazi ties of the …
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Nadar, Untitled (Man on horse), ca. 1865 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Joy of Giving Something Inc. Photo: Trevor Davis – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic …
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President Donald Trump, mid sentence, points while smirking. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images A group of Miami residents and a local nonprofit have sued President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Miami Dade College, and members of the Florida Cabinet over plans for Trump’s future presidential library, arguing that the transfer of a prime stretch …
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M+ in Hong Kong, left, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images; Luc Castel/Getty Images Two high-profile museums—Hong Kong’s M+, a contemporary art museum that opened in 2021 in a building designed by Herzog & de Meuron facing Victoria Harbor, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris’s National Museum of Modern …
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Photo by Sebastien ST-JEAN / AFP The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli organization over an exhibition about the Nakba, with the group arguing that the presentation “politicizes” history, according to local media reports. Shurat HaDin – …
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Viewers at the 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair in New York. Courtesy 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair is back at the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea—just a few blocks from Frieze New York and in the same building at NADA—with more than 20 galleries from the continent and other ports of call …
The National Art Museum of Catalonia. Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images The Catalan government in Spain sent a formal demand to the Aragonese government asking for €791,000 (around $920,000) to recoup costs related to the value and upkeep of artworks from the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena it was ordered to return in …
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The Louvre Museum in Paris. Getty Images The French government announced Monday morning the team of architects who have been selected to overhaul the Louvre in Paris, concluding a protracted selection process marked by staff strikes and the lingering investigation into the jewel heist. The Paris office of STUDIOS Architecture, together with Selldorf Architects, will …
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