Lorde at the 2025 Met Gala. Photo John Shearer/WireImage An NSFW picture of Lorde has gone viral, stirring debate on social media about why the singer chose to bare it all for a special-edition release of her new album, Virgin. The photograph, which appears in the vinyl edition of that LP, shows Lorde wearing a …
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An aerial photograph of the Cerne Abbas Giant, 2001. Courtesy Wikimedia The Cerne Abbas Giant, one of England’s best-known historic hill figures, almost had its genitalia covered up due to a complaint in the 1930s. The Cerne Abbas Giant is a 180-foot-long male nude with a club made by Anglo-Saxons out of chalk in Dorset, …
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Relief Plaque Showing Two Officials with Raised Swords (16th century) was one of two works returned to the Kingdom of Benin. Courtesy of MFA Boston The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two works of art to the Kingdom of Benin after 12 years in its collection. The transfer was coordinated and facilitated by …
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A model walking in Dior Homme for the Menswear Ready-to-wear Spring-Summer 2026 collection as part of the Paris Fashion Week in Paris, on June 27, 2025. AFP via Getty Images An anticipated Paris show presenting Dior’s latest men’s collection, set to be released in 2026, and the first designed under ex-Loewe’s Jonathan Anderson direction, made …
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British pop artist Peter Phillips seen through a star-shaped hole in a version of his painting INsuperSET, ca. 1963. Photo Tony Evans/Getty Images One of the founders of the British Pop art movement, English painter Peter Phillips died at 86 years old on June 23. His family confirmed the news in an online statement. Born …
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Marcia Resnick, 1977. Getty images. Marcia Resnick, a photographer known for documenting Manhattan’s downtown art scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s, died at age 74. Her cause of death was lung cancer, according to her sister Janice Hahn, her sole surviving relative. Resnick started out making conceptual photography and later moving toward portraiture. …
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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 9: Ayo Edebiri attends “The Bear” Cast and Producers dinner at Musso & Frank Grill on June 9, 2025, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by David Jon/Getty Images for FX Networks) Getty Images for FX Networks Performances by Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White may be the main dishes on the newly …
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A diver carefully brushes sand away from stacked ceramics found in a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. Courtesy the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey Hundreds of ancient ceramics “perfectly stacked in their original position” have been found in a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. The ceramic plates, trays, and bowls date back …
Jeff Bezos nowhere to be seen: ‘Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day’ by Canaletto. Courtesy of Christie’s Christie’s Old Masters evening sale in London on Tuesday set a new auction record for Canaletto, when one of his celebrated Venice views sold for £31.9 million with fees ($43.7 million). Venice, the Return of …
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Courtesy Simon & Schuster Bob Dylan will spotlight another side of his creative output this fall with “Point Blank (Quick Studies),” a new art book set for release on Nov. 18 from Simon & Schuster. The collection brings together nearly 100 of Dylan’s black-and-white drawings from 2021 and 2022, offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at works that originally …
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