Still from The Phoenician Scheme, 2025. Courtesy TPS Productions/Focus Features ©2025 All Rights Reserved “Never buy good pictures,” says Zsa-Zsa Korda, the protagonist of Wes Anderson‘s new film, The Phoenician Scheme, now playing in theaters in New York and Los Angeles. “Buy masterpieces.” It’s good advice to any aspiring art collector. But with what money? …
View of Paris Getty Images. Paris, the City of Light. Millions of travelers perceive it as an ideal destination. With structures spanning the Middle Ages (Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés) to the 21st century (Frank Gehry’s Louis Vuitton Foundation), Paris offers a way to time travel through beauty in art and architecture. It is the birthplace of …
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – MAY 20: Fans take pictures of the mural of Pope Leo XIV during a rain delay in the game between the Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox at Rate Field on May 20, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images) Getty Images When white smoke rose above the Sistine Chapel …
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James Rondeau. TNS James Rondeau will return as director of the Art Institute of Chicago following reports that he had undressed on a plane to Germany. CBS News first reported the news on Thursday. Rondeau had taken a voluntary leave from the museum’s top post, which he has held since 2016. According to CBS, he …
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Louisville’s statue of King Louis XVI was graffitied in 2020 amid protests over the police killing of Breonna Taylor. Photo Brett Carlsen/Getty Images An art historian who chaired Louisville’s public art commission said he would leave his post amid plans to restore a statue of King Louis XVI graffitied by protestors in 2020 following the …
Janet Dawson, St George and the dragon, 1964. ©Janet Dawson/National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Women rule museums this summer, taking over grand halls and big galleries. Pipilotti Rist is set to do a major commission in Beijing, while Vija Celmins will get a retrospective in Switzerland that will feature a large chunk of her oeuvre. …
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Iguazu Falls. AFP via Getty Images While its Paris home base closes for five years to undergo a renovation, the Centre Pompidou will expand its international reach, opening its first South American space in 2027. Scheduled to launch in November 2027, the new location in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, will be one of several satellites …
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Pope Leo XIV meets with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the end of the Inauguration Mass in St. Peter’s Square on May 18, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. Photo Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images On Sunday, following his first Sunday mass as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV met …
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Sebastiao Salgado. Photo Roberto Serra/Iguana Press/Getty Images Sebastiao Salgado, a photographer whose memorable images of worker exploitation, environmental destruction, and human rights abuses gained him widespread acclaim, has died at 81. His death was announced on Friday by Instituto Terra, the organization he cofounded with his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado. The New York Times reported …
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CAMBRIDGE, MA – JUNE 20: Shonrael Lanier, a descendant of former slave Renty Taylor, holds a sign at a press conference held at Harvard University to talk about the lawsuit that the family has filed against the university in Cambridge, MA on June 20, 2019. Under cover from a torrential downpour, two families came together …
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