Arthur Brand and some of the recovered works. Courtesy Arthur Brand Arthur Brand, a self-proclaimed art detective, has recovered a trove of documents stolen from the Netherlands’s National Archives in 2015, the Art Newspaper reported on Thursday. The 25 objects recovered include documents listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. Those documents relate to …
A Tibetan statue of a dancing Dakini at the Musée Guimet in Paris. Photo Olivier Laban-Mattei/AFP via Getty Images The Musée Guimet, a Paris museum known for its rich collection of Asian art, is facing a lawsuit from several groups who accused the institution of trying to “erase the existence of Tibet.” According to the …
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One possible future of MSCHF’s King Solomon’s Baby(2025) MSCHF If you’ve ever stood before a hulking sculpture and thought, “I wish I could take just a sliver of that home,” MSCHF has you covered. The Brooklyn-based collective—best known the ATM at Art Basel Miami Beach that had monied art fair fans jockeying for position, selling …
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Shamim M. Momin. Photo Sue de Beer The Bronx Museum of the Arts has named Shamim M. Momin as its next director and chief curator. She will begin in the role in early September, succeeding Klaudio Rodriguez, who departed the museum last September to lead the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in Florida. Momin …
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NWA 16788. Courtesy of Sotheby’s A 54-pound chunk of Mars—believed to be the largest Martian meteorite ever discovered on Earth—is hitting the auction block at Sotheby’s New York on July 16, with an estimate of $2 million to $4 million. Dubbed NWA 16788, the rock was discovered in November 2023 in Niger’s Agadez region and …
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Two of the 22 large stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Courtesy GEDEON Programmes / CEAlex A team from the French National Center for Scientific Research recently lifted 22 massive stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria from the seafloor, 30 years after the remains were first discovered in Egypt. The stone blocks include …
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The Fort Greene townhouse was designed by the British architect David Adjaye for Lorna Simpson and James Casebere in 2006. Courtesy REPN/Kellen Houde for Corcoran In a city known for artists repurposing disused spaces into studios, those wishing to glimpse Lorna Simpson‘s former Brooklyn–based home studio now have the chance to see it. The four-story, …
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A look from Rahul Mishra’s fall 2025 couture collection. Photo Valerio Mezzanotti/Courtesy Rahul Mishra Gustav Klimt loomed large over Rahul Mishra’s fall 2025 couture collection, presented Monday during Paris Haute Couture Week. Mishra translated Klimt’s lush symbolic language—gold-leaf decadence, layered faces, and sensual mystique—into 30 looks that seemed to step directly off the canvas and …
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El Anatsui’s commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Photo Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images Tate‘s chair of trustees is reportedly open to relinquishing naming rights to the Turbine Hall for a minimum of £50 million (roughly $68 million) to fund the London institution’s new endowment fund. In an interview with the Telegraph, Roland Rudd, …
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Lumin Wakoa. Photo Brad Ogbonna Lumin Wakoa, a rising painter whose art was part of a quest to better learn how to see the world around her, has died at 43. Her death was announced by her gallery, Harper’s, on Monday. Her husband Hendrik Gerrits wrote on Instagram that she had been battling brain cancer. …
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