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Amy Sherald attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Amy Sherald, the painter who canceled her exhibition “American Sublime” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in July due to censorship issues, has broken her silence in a MSNBC article. …

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Visitors to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Photo Sylvia Lederer/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images The Van Gogh Museum, the beloved Amsterdam home to many masterpieces by one of the 19th century’s most famous painters, said it could be forced to close if the Dutch government doesn’t appropriate more money to a much-needed renovation. …

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After posting her painting G for Genocide, Danielle SeeWalker’s Vail residency was canceled. Courtesy the artist The Colorado town of Vail has settled a lawsuit brought by Danielle SeeWalker, a Denver-based Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation whose residency was canceled last year after she posted a pro-Palestine painting to social media. …

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Moai sculptures on Easter Island. Universal Images Group via Getty Images Rising sea levels are expected to impact part of Chile’s Rapa Nui National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, by 2080, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage. Coastal flooding also threatens at least 51 culturally significant artifacts there, including …

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Inigo Philbrick. Photo Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Galerie Patrick Seguin Inigo Philbrick, an art dealer who went to prison for defrauding other dealers and investors out of millions of dollars, spoke to the BBC for a forthcoming documentary. In 2022, Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in US prison, with two years of supervised …

Inigo Philbrick, Art Dealer Convicted of Fraud, Makes Rare Appearance in New Documentary Read More »

Eddie Van Halen’s 1982 Kramer Electric Guitar. The guitar shows extensive wear from playing, and the body features an inscription from Eddie Van Halen to Rudy Leiren. Courtesy, Sotheby’s This October, Sotheby’s will auction one of rock history’s most recognizable instruments: Eddie Van Halen’s custom-built 1982 Kramer guitar. Estimated at $2 million–$3 million, the instrument …

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The medieval Citadel of Qaitbay, built during the reign of the eponymous Mamluk Sultan between 1477-1479 on the exact site of the ancient Ptolemaic Lighthouse of Alexandria, is lit up at night in Egypt’s northern Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Amir MAKAR / AFP) (Photo by AMIR MAKAR/AFP via …

After 12-Year Hiatus, Egypt’s Alexandria Biennale Will Return in 2026 Read More »

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery’s current Ben Hyunjin show. Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will close its Los Angeles space just seven years after opening it. The last exhibition there will be its current one for Ben Hyunjin, whose solo show closes on August 29. “Tanya Bonakdar Gallery has made the considered decision not to renew …

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An assortment of the ‘Riding Sun/Srivatsa’ coins discovered at Oc Eo/An Giang, Vietnam, and Angkor Borei, Cambodia, and held at the Ho Chi Minh City History Museum and SOSORO Museum of Economy and Money. Via Antiquity A vast trade network likely linked the ancient inhabitants of Southeast Asia’s jungles and coastlines, a two-millennia-old trove of …

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Leon Black. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art Leon Black, a billionaire investor and art collector, is once again the subject of scrutiny for his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier convicted of sex trafficking. At the end of July, Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon who sits on …

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