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Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), reported Bloomberg Law. The museum expected to receive a $750,000 grant award towards its historic preservation program. In March, …

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A promotional image for the Nintendo 3DS Louvre guide. Courtesy Nintendo In 2012 the Louvre rolled out a partnership with Nintendo to use 3DS consoles—released in 2011—as guides for the Paris museum. On Monday, after more than a decade, the Louvre ended the service. For the partnership, Nintendo loaned the museum 5,000 of the devices, …

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Installation view of “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” 2025, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. From left to right: A God Blessed Land (Empire of Dirt), 2022; Trans Forming Liberty, 2024. Photo Ron Amstutz. Courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Amy Sherald‘s exhibition “American Sublime” is now expected to …

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Richard Prince’s Man Crazy Nurse at Barbara Gladstone’s home in NYC, featured at Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening sale. Courtesy Sotheby’s The five-bedroom Chelsea town house belonging to the late art gallerist Barbara Gladstone recently sold for $13.1 million, more than $1 million above its asking price, reports the New York Post. The historic home at 344 …

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Sylvain Amic. Photo Luc Castel/Getty Images Sylvain Amic, an art historian who took the helm of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay last year, died on Sunday in southern France at 58. Rima Abdul Malak, the former French culture minister, told the New York Times that Amic died of heart failure. His death has been treated with shock, …

Sylvain Amic, Recently Named Head of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, Dies at 58 Read More »

The 2025 Rabkin Prize winners. Courtesy The Rabkin Foundation. Photo Kevin J. Miyazaki. The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine, named eight recipients of its 2025 prize for visual arts journalists. The Rabkin Prize comes with an unrestricted $50,000 purse, along with creative and intellectual recognition of each writer’s respective contributions. This year’s grant winners …

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Lonnie G. Bunch III. Photo Paras Griffin/Getty Images President Donald Trump had lunch on Thursday with Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, according to the New York Times. The meeting suggests that the Trump administration and the Smithsonian are in communication, even as the President continues to target its museums in official …

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Lindsay Jarvis in front of Variations in Time, a 1964 work by Forrest Bess (left) and From Time to Time He Played to Deactivate the Transistor, a 2025 work by Guillaume Denervaud. Courtesy Lindsay Jarvis On a sunny late-August afternoon, Lindsay Jarvis was installing works for his opening exhibition at his new 2,000-square-foot gallery, located …

Art Adviser Lindsay Jarvis Is Making a Bet on the Bowery and a Return to Connoisseurship Read More »

Lonnie G. Bunch III. Photo Paras Griffin/Getty Images After weeks of speculation about how the Smithsonian Institution would respond to the Trump administration’s executive order calling for a review of the museum network’s programming, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has finally weighed in. In a letter to staff on Wednesday, Bunch said the institution has …

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Exterior view of Claire Oliver Gallery, New York. Courtesy Claire Oliver Gallery Claire Oliver Gallery is expanding to include the upper floors of the four-story town house in New York’s Harlem neighborhood. The gallery will continue its street-level space and, as part of this expansion, the upper floors are now dedicated to showcasing artwork in …

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