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Petrit Halilaj Brings Kids’ Doodles—and Balkan Memories—to the Met’s Rooftop
A giant spider currently looms over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop, its face crumpled into a knowing smile. The arachnid would seem...
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Watch Belonging to Titanic’s Richest Passenger Sells for Record-Breaking $1.471 M.
A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor, the richest man on the Titanic, sold on Saturday at auction for a...
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New Legal Filing Deems Bombing of Gaza’s Saint Porphyrius Church a ‘War Crime’
Chicago-based human rights organization Justice For All has deemed the bombing of the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza by Israel a...
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New Fair Founders Are Testing What Gallerists (and Collectors) Want in an Alternative
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Esther Mahlangu’s South African Retrospective Asks: Whose Abstractions Count as “Modern”?
In 1989 Esther Mahlangu (b. 1935) participated in “Magiciens de la terre” at the Pompidou Center in Paris. One of the first exhibitions to...
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10 Museum Shows to See in New York This Week
May is undoubtedly a market-oriented art month in New York, with Frieze quickly followed by another fair, Independent, and then a succession of...
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Senegal Postpones Dakar Biennale by Six Months amid Widespread Protests
The 15th edition of the Dakar Biennale, in Dakar, Senegal, will not open on May 16 as originally scheduled: it has been postponed to November,...
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Who Was Mary Cassatt and Why Was She So Important?
One of the notable distinctions of the first exhibition of the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. (later known as the...
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale, Dakar Biennale Postponed, Vienna Actionism Show Protested, and More: Morning Links for April 29, 2024
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Potential Legal Heir Emerges to Claim Long-lost Klimt Portrait Auctioned in Vienna
A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser has emerged and claimed ownership of the Gustav Klimt portrait sold for $32 million in a...