The National Assembly in Paris. Photo by Bastien Ohier/Hans Lucas via AFP In what was described as “a decisive step in the long road to the restitution of property looted in Africa during the colonial era,” on Wednesday the French National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee approved a proposed bill that was unanimously passed by the Senate’s …
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The Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion was closed in 2022 by its artists and curator. Photo Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on Friday that has imposed sanctions on five Russian cultural figures who are involved with organizing the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The news was first …
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks at a press conference in September. Getty Images When the Basque regional government made a formal request last week to Spain‘s Ministry of Culture to authorize a temporary loan of Pablo Picasso‘s Guernica (1937), the region’s head of government, Lehendakari Imanol Pradales, said he expected more robust discussion on …
Melissa Chiu. Photo Shannon Finney/Getty Images Melissa Chiu will depart her post as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., to lead the Guggenheim Museum in New York, making her the latest person to depart a Smithsonian-run museum as the Trump administration continues its crackdown. She will report to Solomon R. …
People looking at phones, looking at Beeple’s humanoid pig-dogs at Art Basel Miami Beach. Daniel Cassady You couldn’t possibly have thought that you’d seen the last of Beeple‘s grotesque robot dogs? Last appearing in Art Basel Miami Beach‘s new Zero10 digital art section in December, Regular Animals is now on the loose in San Francisco. …
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A visitor walks past an artwork by German artist Thomas Zipp at the 2021 edition of Arco Madrid. Photo Javier Soriano/AFP via Getty Images Thomas Zipp, the German punk musician, painter, and installation artist with a relentlessly critical eye, has died. His gallery, Berlin’s Galerie Barbara Thumm, announced the news on social media, writing that …
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Josh T. Franco, the recently appointed director of USLAF, is plotting the organization’s future. Courtesy USLAF A decade ago, Latinx art within the US didn’t have as much visibility as it has now. One of the key organizations advocating for this increased prominence in mainstream institutions is the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), founded in …
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Romare Bearden, Street Serenade, 1979–80. ©2026 Romare Bearden Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York While New York’s top auction houses prepare to sell multimillion-dollar consignments from private patrons this May, one of the city’s mega-galleries is getting ready to exhibit a collection that has gone largely unseen—until now. On May 7, at one of its …
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President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed White House ballroom during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on October 22, 2025 Alex Wong/Getty Images. Donald Trump’s $400 million plan to remake the White House with a sprawling ballroom has hit a familiar Washington …
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Diego Rivera, Portrait of Natasha Gelman, 1943. Photo: ©Gerardo Suter; Art: ©2026 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./VEGAP The Fundación Banco Santander in Spain has announced that it will return the Gelman Collection, which includes several important works of 20th-century Mexican art, to Mexico by 2028, according to a report …
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