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Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya Sculpts Vampires and Nahuales—But Do Not Be Afraid

“Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Skinchangers: Begotten of My Flesh,” 2024, at Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland One’s eye typically skates right over the list of materials on the caption for an artwork, since the verbiage used—“oil on canvas,” “ink on paper,” and the like—tends to be more perfunctory …

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Eikoh Hosoe, Artist Who Set Japanese Photography on a New Course, Dies at 91

Eikoh Hosoe (at right) with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Photo Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Eikoh Hosoe, a Japanese photographer who blazed a new trail for his medium with his taboo-testing pictures about invisible worlds, has died at 91. The Japanese agency Kyodo News reported his death last week, saying that he died in Tokyo of complications related to …

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Sharjah Biennial Announces Artists for 2025 Edition, Will Feature Works by Arthur Jafa, Lorna Simpson and More

Hajra Waheed, Hum II, 2023, installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15. ©Hajra Waheed/Courtesy the artist and mor charpentier The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the artists participating in the 16th Sharjah Biennial, set to run from February 6, through June 15, 2025. The exhibition, one of the premier international showcases of its kind, will feature …

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Nolita’s Elizabeth Street Garden Faces Eviction After Development Dispute

Elizabeth Street Garden. via Google Images. The Elizabeth Street Garden, a communal outdoor space in downtown Manhattan, has been served a two-week eviction notice by New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development after a lengthly legal dispute. The notice comes three months after a legal ruling in July allowing the city to move …

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Man Agrees to Guilty Plea for Trafficking Stolen Andy Warhol Print of Vladimir Lenin Worth $175,000

The same art gallery which sold the print helped identify it as stolen. Courtesy of US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California A man has pled guilty to a federal charge of trafficking after trying to sell a stolen Andy Warhol print of Vladimir Lenin to an auction house. A press release from …

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Judge Makes Ownership Call on Basquiat Fought Over by Art Lender and Collectors Who Were All Duped by Inigo Philbrick

Inigo Philbrick (L) in 2016 before he was sent to prison for the biggest art fraud in US history. courtesy Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Inigo Philbrick, the disgraced art dealer who committed the largest art fraud in American history, may have been released from prison but his crimes still resonate. On Tuesday, a US …

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France and Madagascar Form Committee to Review Repatriation of Colonial-Era Remains

Conservatory at Natural History Museum in Paris. Getty Images On Thursday, the culture ministers of France and Madagascar announced a joint effort to begin the process of repatriating human remains seized while the African nation was under French colonial rule. Officials from both countries revealed the appointment of a joint scientific committee to conduct a …

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Artist Tsherin Sherpa Is Reviving Once-Dying Tibetan and Nepali Craft Industries With His Practice

Tsherin Sherpa, “Tiger Saddle,” 2024, Highland Tibetan wool and Chinese silk, warp, cotton, 122 x 182 cm. Image Courtesy of the artist and Rossi & Rossi; Photo by Raj Bhai Suwal At Art Basel Hong Kong this past March, the Nepali artist Tsherin Sherpa unveiled his latest installation, a 30-foot-long runner woven by artisans from …

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Centre Pompidou Revives Plans for Jersey City Museum Nixed by Local Politicians

The new plan for the Centre Pompidou’s Jersey City satellite museum. Via X Paris’s Centre Pompidou is making a fresh attempt to open a satellite museum in Jersey City several months after New Jersey politicians chose to pull funding from the project. Under the Pompidou’s new plan, the museum will be sited in a new …

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