Brent Sikkema, 2007. Photo Will Ragozzino/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images A little over a year after Brent Sikkema was discovered dead in Brazil, the late New York gallerist’s husband has been charged with hiring someone to kill him. Sikkema was the founder of the gallery formerly known as Sikkema Jenkins & Co., whose roster includes …
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The sale of the home also includes multiple pieces of furniture designed by Paul Rudolph. Photo Michael Berrio/Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture The Walker Guesthouse, a mid-century structure designed by architect Paul Rudolph, is now on the market for a cool $2 million, if the right buyer has the space for …
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An employee works at an excavation site by Israel Antiquities Authority containing the remains of a Byzantine monastery which was uncovered north of the Israeli city of Qiryat Gat, on January 6, 2025. AFP via Getty Images The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), a body of the Israeli government that oversees national artifacts and sites, rejected …
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The entrance to the 11th edition of Feria Material in Mexico City on Thursday, February 6. Courtesy of Feria Material Shortly before I left for Mexico City last week, I asked a fellow journalist who has reported on the country’s art for years for any advice for a first-timer. “The young Mexican artists are the …
Noah Davis at work, Los Angeles, 2009 Patrick O’Brien-Smith In Painting for My Dad (2011), artist Noah Davis presents a male figure gazing over a rocky landscape beneath a star-strewn, nearly black night sky. With the figure facing away from the viewer, dressed in a worn red shirt and denim trousers and holding a lantern …
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Lubaina Himid, Le Rodeur: Exchange, 2016. Photo Andy Keate/©Lubaina Himid/Courtesy the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; and Hollybush Gardens, London A range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through February 9). Organized by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, “The Time Is Always …
Builders working on the reconstruction of the historic Great Mosque of al-Nuri, destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Mosul’s old city in Northern Iraq, 2024. Photo ZAID AL-OBEIDI/AFP via Getty Images UNESCO has completed its reconstruction of the Great Mosque of Al‑Nouri, Al-Tahera Church, and Al-Saa’a Convent in Iraq, as part of its …
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Hamishi Farah, Untitled, 2025. Photo Stefan Korte/Courtesy the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; and Arcadia Missa, London Artist Hamishi Farah said on Wednesday that a painting of Joe Chialo, Berlin’s controversial culture senator, never made it on view in Berlin because it was “deemed inappropriate” by the art festival that planned to show it. The …
PARIS, FRANCE – MAY 01: Francois Bayrou arrives a French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron is about to give a political meeting at Grande Halle de La Villette on May 1, 2017 in Paris, France. Emmanuel Macron faces President of the National Front, Marine Le Pen in the final round of the French presidential elections on …
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Titian: Ecce Homo, ca. 1570–75. Courtesy the Pittas Collection Below the surface of an oil painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, experts have identified a previously unknown work by the artist using scientific analysis, the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories at the Cyprus Institute (APAC) announced in a press release for an exhibition of the …
