Installation view of “Divine Egypt,” 2025, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art With about 210 works included, “Divine Egypt” is the largest exhibition devoted to ancient Egyptian art in over a decade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the venerable New York institution that is famous for its shows …
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Visitors at the TEFAF Maastricht fair at conference center MECC in Maastricht on March 15, 2025. ANP/AFP via Getty Images Though the TEFAF art fair has begun dipping its toes into contemporary fare, the European Fine Arts Foundation’s spring art fairs—in Maastricht and New York—remain best known for its Old Master paintings and antiquities. For …
“Tinsel Larry” in the new film Him, created by Cannupa Hanska Luger. Courtesy HIM Cannupa Hanska Luger revealed on Instagram on Tuesday that he collaborated with the filmmakers behind the movie Him to create “Tinsel Larry,” a sports mascot featured in the film. Him is a new horror film directed by Justin Tipping and produced …
Artist Gabrielle Bejani in her studio. Courtesy Gabrielle Bejani On November 27, 2024, when Israel and Lebanon reached a ceasefire after months of armed violence across southern Lebanon, Gabrielle Bejani may have been hopeful, if briefly. But within hours of the announcement, the ceasefire was broken: Israeli soldiers opened fire in the town of Khiam, …
Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters. Getty Images Sotheby’s has sold its longtime New York headquarters at 1334 York Avenue to Weill Cornell Medicine, the auction house confirmed in a note to staff this week. The move marks the latest step in a real estate overhaul that includes its 2023 acquisition of the Breuer Building, the Whitney …
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Elizabeth Denny was previously a director at Eric Firestone Gallery and of her own gallery in New York and Hong Kong. Photo by Olya Vysotskaya Elizabeth Denny was named the new director of the Outsider Art Fair last week. Founded in 1993, the fair is known for its focus on art brut, folk art, outsider …
A statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, now known as Why Can’t We Be Friends?, has returned to the National Mall. Photo Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A much-debated statue of President Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has officially returned to Washington, D.C. after it was hauled away by the National Parks …
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Glenn Lowry at the Museum of Modern Art on in 2023. Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art With his 30-year reign as the director of the Museum of Modern Art now in the rear view after stepping last month, Glenn Lowry has been talking about the past, present, and future as …
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, 1978 Artwork copyright © Cindy Sherman. Digital images courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. In the United States, the 1970s were known as the malaise decade, nowhere more so than in New York City, where the white middle class had fled the Five Boroughs along with manufacturing …
Camille Pissarro: Hoar-Frost, Peasant Girl Making a Fire (Gelée blanche, jeune paysanne faisant du feu), 1888. Courtesy akg-images, Laurent Lecat Nearly 100 artworks and related ephemera by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro are expected to go on view as part of the exhibition “The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) next …
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