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Ahead of Art Basel, Katharina Grosse Sprays the Messeplatz with Color

Katharina Grosse. Photo Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP via Getty Images Over the past 40 years, German artist Katharina Grosse (b. 1961) has gained many fans for using an airless spray machine to make eye-catching, color-saturated, and immersive paintings. Many of her works have been shown in museums and galleries—one from 2004 involved spraying paint across the Contemporary …

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This Barbara Kruger Mural from 1990 Has Become the Year’s Most Poignant Artwork

National Guard troops beneath Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles this past weekend. Photo Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images History repeats itself, and so does Barbara Kruger. Over and over, she has created text-heavy artworks that make visible secret forms of power and control in the media. Over and …

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Two French Men Found Guilty of Forging and Selling Fake Royal Furniture

Bill Pallot was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of €200,000. Photo Foc Kan/WireImage An antiques expert and a cabinet maker were recently found guilty for forging and selling nine imitations of historic 18th-century armchairs they claimed belonged to members of French royalty like Marie Antoinette. The judgment for the case applied …

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Trump Met with Mixed Reception at Kennedy Center’s Showing of ‘Les Misérables’

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive for a performance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center June 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Photo Win McNamee/Getty Images While attending a fundraiser at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump was booed, reported the Washington Post. …

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Grace Hartigan’s Artistic Kinship with Midcentury Poets

Unknown photographer, Grace Hartigan, n.d. Grace Hartigan Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries. By 1954, artist Grace Hartigan no longer doubted herself. Her bold vigorous paintings, which mixed abstraction with figuration at a time when both methods were strictly separated from one another, were finally receiving an abundance of critical and commercial attention. …

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10 Key Works in “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939”

Photo Collage by Daniela Hritcu. For much of human history, queerness wasn’t thought of as something one was, but rather as something one did. “The First Homosexuals,” an ambitious exhibition at Wrightwood 659, a three-story gallery occupying a former Chicago apartment building, tracks the shift from that fluid definition to a more concrete identity. Most …

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Cabaret Performer Justin Vivian Bond Dishes on the Current Cultural Climate

Justin Vivian Bond before showtime at Joe’s Pub, May 2025 Photo: Christopher Garcia Valle Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Justin Vivian Bond is a star of the stage and a powerful singer and interpreter of songs. They are …

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Museum Launches Public Appeal to Raise $5 M. to Keep Rare Barbara Hepworth Sculpture on British Soil

‘Rare and exceptional’: The Hepworth Wakefield does not own any finished works by Hepworth from the 1940s… yet. Betty Saunders A public campaign was launched on Thursday to raise £3.8 million ($5 million) to buy a rare Barbara Hepworth sculpture and keep it on British soil.   A private collector bought the wooden work, which …

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Collectors Igor and Mojca Lah to Open New Contemporary Art Museum in Foothills of Slovenian Mountains

Picturesque: The new museum will be a stone’s throw from Lake Bled. David Chipperfield A new contemporary art museum is slated to open next year in Slovenia in the foothills of the Julian Alps. Named after its founders, Slovenian philanthropists Igor and Mojca Lah, Muzej Lah will house the Fundacija Lah art collection. On its …

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