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“I’ve never seen one that’s so beautifully preserved,” professor Alice Roberts said, who presents a documentary featuring the sword. Prof Alice Roberts/BBC/Rare TV Archaeologists in rural Kent, UK, have unearthed a “really incredible” 6th-century sword from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Canterbury. Several other striking objects have also been found at the same site. It is …

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The museum’s atrium. Courtesy of the Grand Egyptian Museum After over a decade of development, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has opened its doors—partially. In late October, GEM opened 12 of its main galleries and began welcoming around 4,000 visitors daily. These galleries, in chronological and thematic order, feature a selection of the collection’s 15,000 …

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Frida Kahlo. Photo Hulton Archive/Getty Images Every year, January 1 marks a new crop of artists and artworks entering the public domain, a holiday affectionately known to some as Public Domain Day. This year, works by Henri Matisse, Robert Capa, and Frida Kahlo lose their copyright protections, as do novels like Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell …

Works by Matisse, Frida Kahlo, and Robert Capa Are Entering the Public Domain, With Some Caveats Read More »

Artist Claire Taboure. © Claire Tabouret / Photo: © STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP French figurative painter Claire Tabouret has been chosen to create new stained glass windows for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which reopened on December 7 after a six-year-long renovation. Tabouret was selected by French president Emmanuel Macron and the Paris archbishop, …

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Roberto Chavez, El Tamalito del Hoyo, 1959. ©1959 Roberto Chavez/Smithsonian American Art Museum Roberto Chavez, a major figure within US Latinx art history whose work has influenced generations of artists that followed, died on December 17 of natural causes in Arivaca, Arizona. He was 92. The news was confirmed by the artist’s daughter, Sonna Chavez, …

Roberto Chavez, Iconic Artist Who Influenced Generations of Chicanx Artists, Dies at 92 Read More »

A sign installed in March by the Barbican in the show “Unravel”, explaining the withdrawal of two works by Loretta Pettway. Courtesy of Censorship at the Barbican Before 2024 even began, and arguably even before October 7, 2023, the art world was split on Israel and Palestine. But this year, the schism widened even further, …

The Year in Censorship: An Irreparable Art World Schism Over Israel’s War in Gaza Intensified Read More »

Andy Mister’s recent exhibition at Rebecca Camacho Presents, a San Francisco gallery that recently expanded. Courtesy Rebecca Camacho Presents Earlier this year, dealer Rebecca Camacho was standing in her new and expanded downtown San Francisco gallery in Jackson Square, when she paused and pointed to the arched windows facing the street. “There have been people …

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An elderly man reacts at the Babyn Yar memorial on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the mass execution of civilians, mainly Jewish people by the Nazis during the World War II, in Kyiv on September 29, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP …

UNESCO Grants Enhanced Protections to Ukrainian Heritage Sites Read More »

Robert Frank: Sick of Goodby’s, 1978. © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation A total of 38 photographs by Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank (1924-2019) was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the institution announced in a statement last week. The acquisition includes 34 photographs donated by the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, …

MFA Boston Acquires Robert Frank’s Photographs of 1940s Paris Read More »