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The image submitted to the House Oversight Committee, released by Democratic congresspeople on Monday Courtesy of the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee On Monday, the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee reportedly obtained a drawing that it said was made by President Donald Trump of a naked woman, the Wall Street Journal reported. The …

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Ralph Rugoff. Photo Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images Ralph Rugoff, the curator of the 2019 Venice Biennale, is set to leave his post as director of the Hayward Gallery after 20 years leading the London institution. The Southbank Centre, the organization that runs the Hayward Gallery, said that Rugoff would depart the museum in the spring of …

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Sally Mann. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images In her new memoir Art Work, photographer Sally Mann writes that she now has reservations about one series featuring Black men—and reveals that she even removed some of these works from her 2018 National Gallery of Art exhibition because of those concerns. For that series, titled “Men” and …

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The Bayeux Tapestry. ©Bayeux Museum The Headlines BAYEUX TAPESTRY TRAVAILS. In a letter to the Guardian, British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan attempted to reassure readers concerned that the nearly 900-year-old Bayeux Tapestry will be in good hands when it travels to his museum next year. The unprecedented agreement to loan the 11th-century tapestry from France to Britain has been interpreted …

British Museum Says Bayeux Tapestry Is Safe, Judge Saves Marilyn Monroe’s Los Angeles Home, and More: Morning Links for September 8, 2025 Read More »

The opening reception of the exhibition “15” at Cristin Tierney’s new Tribeca location. Bob Krasner In recent weeks, stories about the dire state of the art market have tended to obscure the fact that for many seasoned art dealers now is less a time to panic than one in which you sit down and figure …

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The first calculating machine developed by Blaise Pascal has an estimate of €2 million to €3 million. ©Christie’s Images Limited 2025 Christie’s will sell an example of the first calculating machine in history, developed by Blaise Pascal in 1642, at an upcoming auction in Paris. A press release from the auction house called the Pascaline …

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One of SVA’s main buildings, at 133/141 West 21st Street in New York. Courtesy SVA The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York will be owned by an alumni-affiliated nonprofit following a period of financial difficulties and a recent unionization effort by its faculty. On September 1, the Rhodes family, which has owned it …

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Kim Sajet ©2025 Kat Schleicher. Courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum Kim Sajet will take the helm as director of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) on September 22, the institution announced Wednesday. “This moment marks a unique opportunity to bring in a leader who can unlock the Museum’s full potential and advance its vision of connecting people …

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Robert Grosvenor, ca. 1970s. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Robert Grosvenor, a sculptor whose idiosyncratic works flirted with the aesthetics of Minimalism, only to strike out on his own and create pieces that were totally unclassifiable, died in New York on Wednesday at 88. His death was confirmed by Paula Cooper …

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The Met Breuer. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Just hours after Independent 20th Century art fair closed its doors to the public, the fair announced that Sotheby’s will host its 2026 edition in the auction house’s soon-to-be flagship headquarters in Manhattan’s historic Breuer building. The move, first reported by the New York Times, will be a …

Independent 20th Century to Relocate to Breuer in 2026, in Partnership With Sotheby’s Read More »