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Dame Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville in “Downton Abbey” Series Six. Courtesy Carnival Films/Nick Briggs via WWD BACK IN TIME: Attention all “Downton Abbey” fans who are finding it hard to say farewell to the franchise. To coincide with the release of the third and final “Downton Abbey” film in September, Bonhams is holding a farewell exhibition and auction of props, costumes …

Bonhams to Auction ‘Downton Abbey’ Costumes, Props Ahead of Final Film Release Read More »

Security footage of unidentified agents attempting to enter the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture. Courtesy National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture Agents from the Department of Homeland Security descended upon the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago on Tuesday, with at least 15 DHS vehicles arriving …

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France’s President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the Jean-Pierre Bloch award ceremony of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), at the Elysee palace in Paris, on April 2, 2025. (Photo by Thibaud MORITZ / AFP) (Photo by THIBAUD MORITZ/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Good Morning! Guggenheim Asher Associates art …

France Floats UK-Style National Trust, Guggenheim Asher Associates Implodes: Morning Links for July 16, 2025 Read More »

Ed Sheeran, painter. Courtesy Heni Gallery The singer Ed Sheeran has topped the charts with his singles and sold out stadiums across the world, and now he looks to expand his output to include artworks that look suspiciously like Jackson Pollock‘s drip paintings. Sheeran is now showing his all-over abstractions at Heni Gallery in London, …

Ed Sheeran Is Selling Prints of His Jackson Pollock Rip-Off Paintings for $1,200 Each Read More »

PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 10: Auctioneer Aurélie Vandevoorde is pictured during the sale of the Jane Birkin bag for €8.6 million euros at Sotheby’s July 10, 2025, in Paris, France. (Photo Julien Hekimian/Getty Images) Getty Images The first-ever Hermès Birkin bag sold at Sotheby’s Paris on Thursday for a record-breaking €8.6 million ($10 million), with …

Original Birkin Bag Sells for Record-Breaking $8.2 M at Sotheby’s Paris to Japanese Buyer Read More »

David Mimran. WireImage In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, Phillips, one of the world’s top auction houses, claimed that a billionaire’s son failed to pay $14.5 million for a Jackson Pollock painting that sold in New York this past November. The lawsuit, filed in the Supreme Court of New York, alleges that David Mimran, …

Phillips Accuses Billionaire’s Son of Failing to Pay for Jackson Pollock Painting Read More »

View of the Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain, Georgia, 1969. Fox Photos/Getty Images A Confederate heritage group has filed a lawsuit against Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, arguing that a new exhibition examining the site’s connections to slavery, segregation, and white supremacy violates state law. The lawsuit was brought by the Georgia Division of the …

Confederate Heritage Group Sues Over Stone Mountain Exhibition Read More »

Nan Goldin. Photo Stpehane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images The photographer Nan Goldin once again publicly addressed Israel’s war in Gaza this week, this time during a talk given at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in France. Goldin, the recipient of Kering’s Women in Motion award this year, took the stage at the Théâtre Antique on …

Nan Goldin Addresses Israel’s War in Gaza During Arles Talk: ‘Whose Lives Matter?’ Read More »

CHIQUIBUL, BELIZE – MARCH 21: A general view of the media as Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visit Caracol Mayan archaeological site in the Chiquibul Forest on the third day of a Platinum Jubilee Royal Tour to the Caribbean on March 21, 2022 in Chiquibul, Belize. The Royal couple are …

Ancient Mayan Tomb of Caracol’s Founding King Unearthed in Belize Read More »

George Morrison, Traversal, 1958. Art Bridges Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Art Bridges Foundation in Bentonville, Arkansas, have acquired 90 works of contemporary Native art from the St. Louis–based John and Susan Horseman Collection, which focuses on supporting Indigenous and African American artists. The acquisition includes works by Kent Monkman, Tyrell Tapaha, …

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