Man Ray in 1963. Photo by Joseph McKeown/Express/Getty Images As previews continue in advance of showtime upon its opening on September 22, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles—the starry institution conceived by director George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson—announced its inaugural film program at San Diego Comic Con. In a panel …
Jason Bard Yarmosky (fourth from left) with other 2026 CHANEL Tribeca Artist Awards Program contributing artists, June 8, 2026. Photo Jamie McCarthy/WireImage Life imitates art, sort of. Katie Holmes plays a New York–based photographer reconnecting with her high school flame in Happy Hours, a new film Holmes also wrote and directed. Happy Hours premiered at …
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The ceiling of the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery, which reopened on July 22, 2029. Photo LOU BENOIST / POOL / AFP via Getty Images The Louvre reopened its now-infamous Apollo Gallery on July 22, nine months after a group of thieves lifted $102 million worth of Napoleon era jewels from the Paris museum. The brazen daytime …
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The Kansong Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea. One of the two lions in question is visible in front of the museum’s entrance. Courtesy Academy of Korean Studies/Wikimedia Commons On July 23, the Kansong Art Museum in Seoul hosted a ceremony to mark the return of two Qing Dynasty stone lion sculptures to China. According …
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President Donald Trump examines a new statue in the Rose Garden, where it was recently installed in March. Photo Peter W. Stevenson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Last week, President Trump installed a new, life-size bronze sculpture of Thomas Jefferson in the Rose Garden, making it the fifth statue he has added to the White …
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A woman passes by the US artist Jeff Koons’ artworks titled “Made in Heaven” during the presentation of the “Jeff Koons: Retrospective” exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, in the northern Spanish Basque city of Bilbao on June 8, 2015. AFP PHOTO/ ANDER GILLENEA RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, …
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A production still from “The Odyssey,” featuring Matt Damon (center) as Odysseus. Universal Pictures Months before Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey hit theaters, many on the internet had seemingly already reached a conclusion. The armor was wrong. Agamemnon’s black, plasticky helmet looked, one widely shared post complained, like something out of a Batman movie. Odysseus’s ship …
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An installation view of teamLab’s “Resonating Microcosms – Solidified Light” at “Second Nature” at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre. Courtesy Superblue Superblue, the experiential art venture cofounded in 2020 by Pace CEO Marc Glimcher and former Pace London president Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, has landed in India for the first time, with a sprawling nine-work exhibition …
Pat Oleszko. Darian DiCianno/BFA.com/©BFA 2026 Pat Oleszko, a sculptor and performance artist who was not well-known in New York before earlier this year, has won the 2026 Whitney Biennial’s $100,000 Bucksbaum Award, a prize previously won by famed artists such as Zoe Leonard, Ralph Lemon, and Pope.L. Oleszko’s contribution to the show was a large …
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A general view shows the city skyline and historic buildings in Shanghai on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP via Getty Images) Two former managers of a prominent Shanghai auction house have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for orchestrating an extensive fraud scheme that led one collector to spend about RMB …
