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Bloomberg Donates 14,000 Artifacts Unearthed in Renovation to London Museum

Reconstructed mid-3rd century CE Roman Mithraeum beneath Bloomberg’s European headquarters, 2017, London, England. Photo Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images The London Museum has received a donation of more than 14,000 Roman artifacts from the site of a 3rd century CE temple. The trove was unearthed between 2012–14, during the construction of …

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M.F. Husain Painting Makes Auction History, SF Art Institute Renovation Takes Shape, Marina Abramovic Announces NFT Project: Morning Links for March 20, 2025

MF Husain’s portrayals of naked women continue to enrage hardline Hindus. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HISTORIC MODERN IDIAN ART SALE. M.F. Husain’s 1954 painting Untitled (Gram Yatra) became the most expensive work of modern Indian art ever publicly auctioned, when it sold yesterday for $13.8 …

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Harmony Korine’s Video Game–Inspired Film ‘Baby Invasion’ Gets a Trailer

Harmony Korine, Baby Invasion, 2024. Courtesy Venice Film Festival Artist, filmmaker, and former enfant terribleHarmony Korine is closing in on the New York premiere of his latest film, Baby Invasion. Naturally, it’s time for a trailer. On March 21, Baby Invasion will make its premiere in New York with an immersive screening at the Knockdown …

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9 Iconic Artists Discuss What Women’s History Month Means to Them in 2025

Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu. In a landmark 1971 essay published by ARTnews, the art historian Linda Nochlin pointedly asked, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Her piece was “an encouragement, an announcement of an arrival, a gift to women artists of a shared but previously little-known past, and a declaration of a future,” …

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Who Was Mary Reynolds? A Two-Person Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago Celebrates Her Life and Artistry

Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu. The business cards that Mary Reynolds had made were in all capital letters and simply read: MARY REYNOLDS / RELIURE / 24 R. HALLÉ / PARIS XIV. It’s unclear why she wanted them, since her reliure (French for “bookbinding”) was mostly for herself. The address was semi-accurate. Reynolds had a place …

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Refik Anadol’s Guggenheim Bilbao Show Is an Architectural AI Overload

Installation view of “Living Architecture: Gehry” at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. © Refik Anadol, Bilbao 2025 Refik Anadol had Mark Rothko on his mind last week as he unveiled “Living Architecture: Gehry,” an AI-powered reimagining of Frank Gehry’s architectural legacy at the Guggenheim Bilbao.  “I’m hoping that this artwork not only talks about technology but …

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Patti Smith’s Poetic Voice Mixes the Sounds of the Amazon’s Destruction for an Ongoing Collaboration

Installation view of “Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith: CORRESPONDENCES,” 2025, at Kurimanzutto, New York. Photo Zach Hyman/Courtesy Kurimanzutto Crickets in Ibiza, traditional Georgian music, sounds of the Amazon River recently filled the cavernous Chelsea outpost of Kurimanzutto. Across sound pieces, eight two-channel films, mixed-media collages, drawings, and sculpture, Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective contemplated our …

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