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A look from Rahul Mishra’s fall 2025 couture collection. Photo Valerio Mezzanotti/Courtesy Rahul Mishra Gustav Klimt loomed large over Rahul Mishra’s fall 2025 couture collection, presented Monday during Paris Haute Couture Week. Mishra translated Klimt’s lush symbolic language—gold-leaf decadence, layered faces, and sensual mystique—into 30 looks that seemed to step directly off the canvas and …

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El Anatsui’s commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Photo Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images Tate‘s chair of trustees is reportedly open to relinquishing naming rights to the Turbine Hall for a minimum of £50 million (roughly $68 million) to fund the London institution’s new endowment fund. In an interview with the Telegraph, Roland Rudd, …

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Lumin Wakoa. Photo Brad Ogbonna Lumin Wakoa, a rising painter whose art was part of a quest to better learn how to see the world around her, has died at 43. Her death was announced by her gallery, Harper’s, on Monday. Her husband Hendrik Gerrits wrote on Instagram that she had been battling brain cancer. …

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Adam Lindemann. Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Last week, dealer Tim Blum told ARTnews that he was closing up shop in search of a new model for art dealing. “Everybody talks about wanting to step off,” Blum said. “But nothing ever really changes.” But Blum isn’t the only one getting out of the gallery business. On …

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Aerial view of the new Museum of West African Art in Benin City, Nigeria. Photo Tolulope Sanus/Courtesy MOWAA The Museum of West African Art, based in Benin City, Nigeria, announced Thursday that it will officially open its campus to the public on Nov. 11. First announced in 2020, the MOWAA campus is planned as a …

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Albright’s art collection is being used as a sacrificial lamb as the college struggles to balance its books. MediaNews Group via Getty Images A college in Pennsylvania is the latest US university looking to sell its art collection to balance its books. Albright College, a liberal arts institution in Reading, has put more than 500 …

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An aerial view of a building structure in Peñico. Courtesy Peruvian Ministry of Culture Peru’s Ministry of Culture recently revealed the archaeological site of Peñico after eight years of research and conservation work. Located in the province of Huaura, the 3,500-year-old “City of Social Integration” dates back to 1800 BCE and was strategically located “to …

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Hélio Menezes. Photo Aline Motta Hélio Menezes is no longer the director of the Museu Afro Brasil, a key São Paulo institution founded by sculptor Emanoel Araújo that is known for its support of Afro-Brazilian artists, who have long been neglected by mainstream institutions in the country. Menezes announced that he had been dismissed from …

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Khaled Sabsabi. Photo Anna Kucera Lebanese-born artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino are back at the helm of Australia’s 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion, following a dramatic reversal by the organization that makes the Australian Pavilion in Venice possible, Creative Australia.  The decision, reported earlier today by the Art Newspaper, comes after an independent review and …

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The Smithsonian Institution. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The Smithsonian Institution has once again come under the scrutiny of the Trump administration, this time with a focus on the National Museum of American History. Fox News reported that the White House has raised concerns about “Entertainment Nation,” a permanent display on view since 2022 that sheds …

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