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Cara Romero’s Indigenous Futurist Lens Resists Erasure Through Humor and Strength

Cara Romero. ©Cara Romero/Courtesy the artist The photographs of Cara Romero operate on the precipice between the risk of death and possibility of self-dissolution. A woman buried in sand stares resolutely at the viewer, or a figure floats in a body of water below an oil field. Her lens fuses Indigenous ancestral memory with the …

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The Getty Launches Global Art and Sustainability Fellowship Program

The Getty Villa was closed on January 7. Courtesy of the Getty Museum On Wednesday, the Getty announced that it is launching a new initiative to further sustainability efforts within the art and cultural sectors. The Getty Global Art and Sustainability Fellows program will support early-career professionals and visual artists focused on climate resiliency. As …

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TEFAF Cameos in ‘Just Like That’, Museums Respond to Rising Middle East Conflict, Greek Heritage Damaged by Earthquake: Morning Links for June 18, 2025

The view from the Park Avenue Armory’s mezzanine, overlooking the first floor of TEFAF New York, in May 2024. Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES IRAN AND ISRAEL have taken steps to protect artworks and heritage sites amid an escalating conflict between both nations, as they exchange …

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Climate Activist Hurls Pink Paint at Picasso Painting at Montreal Museum

Pablo Picasso’s L’hetaire (1901) covered in pink paint. Last Generation Canada On Thursday, a Picasso painting on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was splashed with bright pink paint by an environmental activist, in the latest of such attempts to draw attention to the accelerating climate crisis.  Footage posted on social media by …

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Curtis Yarvin Details Proposed Titian-Centric ‘Art Hos’ US Pavilion for Venice Biennale

Martin Puryear’s 2019 US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images Two weeks after the New Yorker revealed that a “dissident-right art hos” US Pavilion was being floated for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Vanity Fair has now reported further details of the proposal, which hinges on the loan of a Titian painting from …

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Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Design in London’s St James’s Park Includes Sculpture by Yinka Shonibare

Tourists outside Buckingham Palace in St James’s Park, London, England, 2025. Photo James D. Morgan/Getty Images The final design plans for a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in London’s St James’s Park have been determined by the UK government. A team led by architect Norman Foster of Foster + Partners, which includes British-Nigerian artist …

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British Team Uncovers Lost Nile Delta City Built Around Temple and Trade

Excavation trench showing mudbrick layers and a foundation wall at Tell al-Faraun. Hamada Hussein Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of Imet, a once-prominent city in Egypt’s Nile Delta, buried for centuries beneath a mound in the Sharqia governorate. The discovery, led by a British team from the University of Manchester, was announced this week by …

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Guerrilla Girls: Fighting Discrimination, One Poster at a Time

Guerrilla Girls Kathe Kollwitz, Zubeida Agha, and Frida Kahlo during a press preview for the exhibition “Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready To Make Nice, 30 Years and Still Counting,” at the Abrons Art Center, New York, April 30, 2015 Copyright © Guerilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com. Photo: Andrew Hinderaker. As revolutionaries often do, the feminist collective known …

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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Reclaiming Her Prison Time Through Art

Nadya Tolokonnikova: Police State, 2025, performance, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Photo Yulia Shur. Courtesy LA MOCA. Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. More than a decade after Pussy Riot cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova was imprisoned in Russia for …

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