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A look from Ulla Johnson’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection show at Cooper Hewitt, September 14, 2025. Photo Giovanni Giannoni/WWD Ulla Johnson looked to Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler as lodestar for her spring collection, the next chapter after collaborating with female artists Lee Krasner, Anna Zemánková, and Shara Hughes.   “She struggled with the meaning of the word beautiful,” Johnson …

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Installation view of David Hammons’s exhibition at Nahmad Contemporary. ©David Hammons/Courtesy Nahmad Contemporary The heir to one of the world’s most valuable private art collections, Yoni Nahmad married Israeli model Eden Polani in Cannes, France, September 11, according to Forbes. The three-day, €5 million ($5.89 million) celebration at Château de la Croix des Gardes in …

Art Heir Yoni Nahmad Marries Model Eden Polani in $5.89 M. Ceremony in France Read More »

Haegue Yang Photo Cheongjin Keem Artist Haegue Yang was named chair of the board that oversees the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. She succeeds German artist Katharina Grosse, who served in the role for four years. “I am very pleased that after four very intensive and extremely instructive years, I can hand over …

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Exterior of the Chicago History Museum, Illinois, 2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Chicago History Museum has reduced hours at its Abakanowicz Research Center by roughly 50 percent following staff reductions tied to a labor dispute, according to a recent report in the Chicago Sun-Times. The library, which supports academic and public research, is now open only …

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Nicholas Galanin. WireImage via Getty Images Artist Nicholas Galanin said he pulled out of a symposium related to a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition, claiming that he was asked not to record the event or share footage of it on social media. That show, “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” was …

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Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Getty Images/iStockphoto The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, built in 1905 in the southwest of England, requires nearly £4 million (around $5.4 million) for “extensive” repairs to its roof and windows as well as its doors and facade. According to a committee report cited by the BBC, the museum—home to …

Bristol Museum Requires $5.4 M. in Repairs of ‘Major Defects’ in 120-Year-Old Home Read More »

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – DECEMBER 13: Sylvester Stallone attends the grand opening of Fontainebleau Las Vegas on December 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images When Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin bought their Palm Beach home, it wasn’t just the private stretch of beach—the only one in town—that drew …

Sylvester Stallone’s Palm Beach House Has Works by Warhol, Condo, Botero, and Many Other Contemporary Art Stars Read More »

A damaged yard of the National Museum is seen after Israeli airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Sept. 11, 2025. Israeli strikes on Yemen have escalated in recent weeks. Photo Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Ima The National Museum of Yemen was damaged last Wednesday during a series of Israeli airstrikes on the country’s capital, Sanaa, …

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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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