WORLD ART
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New Ruins Found at Ancient Port City Near Morocco’s Capital
Ancient ruins believed to be a port city near present-day Rabat have been identified by archaeologists who discovered thermal baths and...
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Hungary Removes National Museum Director Over Display of LGBTQ+ Imagery at World Press Photo Exhibition
Hungary’s cultural minister dismissed the director of the country’s National Museum in Budapest after just a two-year stint over the...
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Just Stop Oil Activists Attack Velázquez Venus Painting at London’s National Gallery With Hammers
Two activists were arrested Monday at London’s National Gallery after attacking The Toilet of Venus by Diego Velázquez “with what...
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Top 200 Collector Emily Wei Rales Charts the Future of Glenstone, the Idyllically Set Maryland Museum She Cofounded
Emily Wei Rales is director and cofounder of Glenstone, a museum in Potomac, Maryland, that integrates contemporary art, architecture, and...
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition to Avoid ‘Insensitivity or Offense’ Related to Israel-Hamas War
An exhibition of a millennium’s worth of Islamic art that was set to open this weekend at the Frick Pittsburgh has been postponed to next year,...
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Artists Seek Removal of Sculpture from National Gallery Show in Protest of US Funding to Israel
Artists Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson said on Friday night that they had asked the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. to remove...
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At Event, Critic Jerry Saltz Talks Astral Projection, His Instagram Habit, and the Size of the Art World
On Thursday night at T.J. Byrnes, an Irish pub in lower Manhattan, art criticism’s anti-hero Jerry Saltz sat—and stood, and paced, and waved his...
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Russia Sentences Artist and Pussy Riot Member Pyotr Verzilov to Over 8 Years in Prison in Absentia
A court in Moscow has sentenced the exiled Russian-Canadian artist and activist Pyotr Verzilov to eight and a half years in prison for charges...
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A Whitney Show Highlights Pioneering Sculptor Ruth Asawa’s Works on Paper
The eminent 20th-century artist Ruth Asawa is best known for her airy looped-wire sculptures (featured on a set of U.S. Postal Service stamps...
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Venice Biennale’s Lifetime Achievement Awards Go to Nil Yalter, Anna Maria Maiolino
Ahead of its opening in the spring, the 2024 Venice Biennale has awarded its Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement to Anna Maria Maiolino and...