Agnes Gund. Photo Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Agnes Gund, one of the greatest and most influential art patrons in the US, has died at 87. The New York Times reported her death on Friday, but did not state a cause. Gund’s collecting and philanthropy transformed the American art world, spurring on many others to begin buying …
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Uniqlo executive creative director John C Jay and National Gallery of Victoria director Tony Ellwood attend a KAWS show in 2019. Photo Graham Denholm/Getty Images for The NGV KAWS, artist, entrepreneur, and hypebeast patron saint, has a new first on his CV: Uniqlo’s inaugural artist-in-residence. Starting immediately, he’ll be tasked with expanding the Japanese company’s …
David Lynch at his studio in 2002. Chris Weeks/WireImage “An artist or artists should be there,” David Lynch’s daughter wrote of the newly on-the-market Los Angeles home of the famed artist and filmmaker who died this past January. In a Reddit thread under the mantle thatjenlynch, Jennifer Lynch, herself a filmmaker and the author of …
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A look from Ulla Johnson’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection show at Cooper Hewitt, September 14, 2025. Photo Giovanni Giannoni/WWD Ulla Johnson looked to Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler as lodestar for her spring collection, the next chapter after collaborating with female artists Lee Krasner, Anna Zemánková, and Shara Hughes. “She struggled with the meaning of the word beautiful,” Johnson …
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Installation view of David Hammons’s exhibition at Nahmad Contemporary. ©David Hammons/Courtesy Nahmad Contemporary The heir to one of the world’s most valuable private art collections, Yoni Nahmad married Israeli model Eden Polani in Cannes, France, September 11, according to Forbes. The three-day, €5 million ($5.89 million) celebration at Château de la Croix des Gardes in …
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Haegue Yang Photo Cheongjin Keem Artist Haegue Yang was named chair of the board that oversees the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. She succeeds German artist Katharina Grosse, who served in the role for four years. “I am very pleased that after four very intensive and extremely instructive years, I can hand over …
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Exterior of the Chicago History Museum, Illinois, 2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Chicago History Museum has reduced hours at its Abakanowicz Research Center by roughly 50 percent following staff reductions tied to a labor dispute, according to a recent report in the Chicago Sun-Times. The library, which supports academic and public research, is now open only …
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Nicholas Galanin. WireImage via Getty Images Artist Nicholas Galanin said he pulled out of a symposium related to a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition, claiming that he was asked not to record the event or share footage of it on social media. That show, “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” was …
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Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Getty Images/iStockphoto The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, built in 1905 in the southwest of England, requires nearly £4 million (around $5.4 million) for “extensive” repairs to its roof and windows as well as its doors and facade. According to a committee report cited by the BBC, the museum—home to …
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – DECEMBER 13: Sylvester Stallone attends the grand opening of Fontainebleau Las Vegas on December 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images When Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin bought their Palm Beach home, it wasn’t just the private stretch of beach—the only one in town—that drew …
