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In Booming Bozeman, Montana, Tinworks Art Aims to Reimagine the American West

Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground (2024) sprouting in May. Photo Jenny Moore/Courtesy the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects One of the many different kinds of development underway in Bozeman, Montana—a small city that since the pandemic began has been a staple of stories about ongoing urban exodus and …

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Dior Pays Homage to Faith Ringgold in Runway Show at Paris’s Musée Rodin

Dior’s latest runway show, at Paris’s Musée Rodin, featured reproductions of Faith Ringgold’s 1971 work Woman Free Yourself. Photo Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri has made a point of including women artists in her runway shows, shining a light on works by Judy Chicago, Joana Vasconcelos, Isabella Ducrot, …

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Outed as an LGBTQ Activist in Uganda, Leilah Babirye Finds Fame Abroad with Proudly Queer Sculptures

Leila Babirye. Photo Jonty Wilde/Courtesy the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park Like her imposing sculptures, Leilah Babirye is still standing. And even better, she is thriving. In 2015, Babirye fled Uganda after she was outed by a local publication as an activist and a member of the queer community. In her home …

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A Long Night Out During Art Basel Yields Run-ins with Collectors, Celebs, and Art World Power Brokers

The front of the Les Trois Rois hotel in Basel, Switzerland, 3 November 2015. Chef Peter Knogl has been awarded a third Michelin star for his restaurant Cheval Blanc. PHOTO: PATRICK SEEGER/DPA | usage worldwide (Photo Patrick Seeger/picture alliance via Getty Images) picture alliance via Getty Image For those who arrived in Switzerland on Monday, …

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Barbara Gladstone, Legendary New York Dealer Who Minted Art Stars, Dies at 89

Barbara Gladstone. Photo Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images Barbara Gladstone, a dealer who built one of the top galleries in New York, died on Sunday in Paris following a brief illness at 89. The gallery confirmed her death in an email sent to the press on Monday. Her gallery, Gladstone Gallery, currently has locations in New York, …

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Restitution Suit Over Guggenheim’s ‘Woman Ironing’ by Picasso Dismissed

Pablo Picasso, Woman Ironing, 1904 Courtesy, court documents Pablo Picasso’s 1904 painting Woman Ironing, which has been at the center of a restitution lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, will remain with the Guggenheim Foundation. The lawsuit was dismissed by the court on the grounds that it failed to establish “actionable duress,” according to a report in …

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12th-Century Pilaster Returned by the Art Institute of Chicago to Thailand’s Phanom Rung Temple

A 12th-century pilaster fragment returned by the Art Institute of Chicago to Thailand. Courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago A fragment of a pilaster with the Hindu diety Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana is being returned to Thailand by the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). The return is the result of more thorough provenance research within …

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