The Orange County Museum of Art. Photo Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group via Getty Images The University of California, Irvine, said it is discussing the possibility of a deal with the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa that would see the institutions merge. “UC Irvine and the Orange County Museum of Art are exploring a …
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Joyce Joumaa and Rhea Dillon. Courtesy Baloise Art Prize The Baloise Art Prize, a $36,800 award given out to two artists participating in the Statements sector of Art Basel annually, has this year gone to Rhea Dillon and Joyce Joumaa. Dillon’s work was brought to the fair by London’s Soft Opening gallery, whose booth showcased …
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Design Miami will have a new 14-day event at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, South Korea in September. ⓒ 2024. Seoul Design Foundation Design Miami recently announced its events for its 20th anniversary year, including a new initiative which aims to highlight local design communities. Design Miami will hold a one-day event in Aspen …
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Smoke billows in the distance from an oil refinery following an Israeli strike on the Iranian capital Tehran on June 17, 2025. AFP via Getty Images Israel and Iran have taken measures to safeguard their cultural property amid escalating hostilities between the neighboring countries, which has included air strikes on cosmopolitan centers. Iran’s Cultural Heritage …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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