Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbeck in the Bekaa valley on October 31, 2024. Photo by Nidal SOLH / AFP) (Photo by NIDAL SOLH/AFP via Getty Images) Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture has appealed to UNESCO to provide additional …
The closed pavilion of Russia pictured at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Photo James Arthur Gekiere/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images The forthcoming Venice Biennale will see the first Russian Pavilion since the onset of the nation’s war in Ukraine in 2022, and few outside Russia seem happy about it. Ukraine itself issued a blistering statement about …
Nicholas R. Bell will be the next director and CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum. Courtesy Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has named Nicholas R. Bell as its next director and CEO. Bell, who was selected via an international search, will start in the role on July 6. He succeeds Josh …
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WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 22: U.S. President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed $250 million White House ballroom as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on October 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Less than a week after hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump …
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Zanele Muholi, ‘Bona III’, ISGM, Boston, 2019 ©Zanele Muholi/Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York and Southern Guild, Cape Town Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 …
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Dali Museum in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. AFP via Getty Images The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg is planning a major expansion expected to begin construction in 2026, with the new facilities slated to open in 2028. The museum said the approximately 35,000-square-foot addition will cost an estimated $65 million and is intended to grow the exhibition spaces, …
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Now you can learn about American history on the back of a flatbed truck, as God intended. Courtesy PragerU Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s …
SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – APRIL 18: General view of the Hermitage Museum on April 18, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Lavazza, partner of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburgh supports the exhibition ‘Gods, Men, Heroes’ From the Naples National Archaeological Museum and the Archaeological Park of Pompei. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images for Lavazza) Getty …
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Mikhail Shvydkoy, Russia’s delegate for international cultural exchanges and the country’s former culture minister, confirmed to ARTnews that the pavilion will open in May. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett After closing for the last two editions of the Venice Biennale following its war in Ukraine, Russia will reopen its national pavilion this year, its organizers told …
The Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room at the Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago A treasured area of the Art Institute of Chicago may be reshaped by an expansion plan that would see the gallery spaces grow significantly in size. That area of the museum is the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room, which …
