The Venice Biennale’s Central Pavilion, located in the Giardini. Photo Francesco Galli As controversy mounts over Russia’s plans to mount its first Venice Biennale pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter that calls for the European Union to cease all funding to the Biennale. …
Steve McQueen. Photo Michael Campanella/Getty Images The British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen is this year’s winner of the Erasmus Prize, given annually by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch cultural institution. The award comes with a 150,000 euro (about $172,000) cash prize plus “adornments”—in this case, a folded paper booklet printed with text in …
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The Galérie Medicis at the Louvre, where Peter Paul Rubens’s Marie de’ Medici cycle hangs. Photo Blanca Cruz/AFP via Getty Images If you want to see one of Peter Paul Rubens‘s beloved paintings in the Marie de’ Medici cycle, head to the Louvre before the fall. After that, these canvases, considered by some to be …
Marica Vilcek. Courtesy Vilcek Foundation Marica Vilcek, an art historian who, with her husband Jan, cofounded the grant-making Vilcek Foundation, died on Monday in New York. She was 89, according to the foundation, which said she died peacefully at her home. The Vilcek Foundation is an unusual one, since it funds endeavors in both art …
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Countless bands and musical artists have celebrated new album releases on late-night television, but no one has done so with quite the art world flair as BTS, the mega-famous K-pop boy band fronted by art enthusiast and collector RM. (The other six members are Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook.) Fresh off a …
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Jay-Z, photographed for a special global issue of GQ, on newsstands March 31. Rashid Johnson/GQ The Will Welch era of GQ has ended with a bang. On Tuesday, the magazine unveiled the cover for its new special global issue featuring an extensive interview with Jay-Z—who is now styling his name JAŸ-Z in honor of the …
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Yto Barrada standing in her exhibition “Agadir” at the Curve Barbican Centre, London, 2018. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images After her forthcoming French Pavilion for the Venice Biennale was denounced by a prominent Jewish group, artist Yto Barrada appeared to address the controversy, saying that the pavilion’s organizers knew about her views on Israel when they selected …
A statue of d’Artagnan and the other three musketeers in front of a church in southwestern France. Photo Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The skeletal remains of the 17th-century French folk hero D’Artangnan—born: Charles de Batz de Castelmore—have perhaps been recovered after being buried under a church in the Netherlands for centuries. The floor …
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San Giobbe Altarpiece, ca. 1478. Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images A 15th-century altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini in Venice’s vaunted Gallerie dell’Accademia will be restored behind glass—giving viewers a chance to peer in and follow the process—over a two-year period estimated to cost €500,000 (around $580,000). The work will be conducted in what the …
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K-pop boy band BTS performing in Seoul, South Korea, on Mar. 21. Photo Kim Hong-Ji-Pool/Getty Images The Guggenheim in New York City is one of the most famous art museums in the world, and on the morning of Wednesday (March 25), BTS descended on the landmark to add a little performance art to its galleries ahead of …
