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A house in Mar del Plata, Argentina, where police searched for a painting looted by the Nazis. Photo Mara Sosti/AFP via Getty Images A court in Argentina has placed under house arrest as police continue to search for a Nazi-looted painting that appeared in the real estate listing for a house in Mar del Plata. …

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Rosalyn Drexler at ringside, 1972. Photo Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images Rosalyn Drexler, whose paintings of the 1960s about Hollywood actors, on-screen violence, and gender subversion have in recent years gained widespread praise, died in New York on Wednesday at 98. A spokesperson for New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery, which represents her, confirmed her death but …

Rosalyn Drexler, Indefatigable Painter Who Wrestled Her Way into the Pop Canon, Dies at 98 Read More »

The opening bid for Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Red Man One was $2.975 million. Courtesy of Sotheby’s Four artworks by Jean-Michael Basquiat, Diane Arbus, and Pablo Picasso surrendered to the US Department of Justice in connection with the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal collectively netted some $36 million in an online auction conducted by the US Marshals …

Basquiat, Picasso Works Linked to Global 1MDB Scandal Net $36 M. in Auction by US Marshals Read More »

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), reported Bloomberg Law. The museum expected to receive a $750,000 grant award towards its historic preservation program. In March, …

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A promotional image for the Nintendo 3DS Louvre guide. Courtesy Nintendo In 2012 the Louvre rolled out a partnership with Nintendo to use 3DS consoles—released in 2011—as guides for the Paris museum. On Monday, after more than a decade, the Louvre ended the service. For the partnership, Nintendo loaned the museum 5,000 of the devices, …

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Installation view of “Amy Sherald: American Sublime,” 2025, at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. From left to right: A God Blessed Land (Empire of Dirt), 2022; Trans Forming Liberty, 2024. Photo Ron Amstutz. Courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Amy Sherald‘s exhibition “American Sublime” is now expected to …

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Richard Prince’s Man Crazy Nurse at Barbara Gladstone’s home in NYC, featured at Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening sale. Courtesy Sotheby’s The five-bedroom Chelsea town house belonging to the late art gallerist Barbara Gladstone recently sold for $13.1 million, more than $1 million above its asking price, reports the New York Post. The historic home at 344 …

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Sylvain Amic. Photo Luc Castel/Getty Images Sylvain Amic, an art historian who took the helm of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay last year, died on Sunday in southern France at 58. Rima Abdul Malak, the former French culture minister, told the New York Times that Amic died of heart failure. His death has been treated with shock, …

Sylvain Amic, Recently Named Head of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, Dies at 58 Read More »

The 2025 Rabkin Prize winners. Courtesy The Rabkin Foundation. Photo Kevin J. Miyazaki. The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine, named eight recipients of its 2025 prize for visual arts journalists. The Rabkin Prize comes with an unrestricted $50,000 purse, along with creative and intellectual recognition of each writer’s respective contributions. This year’s grant winners …

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Lonnie G. Bunch III. Photo Paras Griffin/Getty Images President Donald Trump had lunch on Thursday with Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, according to the New York Times. The meeting suggests that the Trump administration and the Smithsonian are in communication, even as the President continues to target its museums in official …

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