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Banksy’s ‘Migrant Child’ Removed From Venice Wall for Restoration

Migrant Child (2019), by British street artist Banksy in Venice. VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images A fading Banksy mural in Venice has been removed from the side of a palazzo for restoration, according to The Associated Press, two years after officials first sparked debate by introducing the unconventional option. Titled Migrant Child, the piece shows a child in …

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A New Exhibition Looks at Generations of ‘Copyists’ Inspired by the Louvre’s Masterpieces

Jeff Koons, (Sleeping Hermaphrodite) Gazing Balls, 2025, installation view. Photo: ©2025 Marc Domage/Centre Pompidou-Metz; Art: ©Jeff Koons Just over a year ago, some 100 high-profile contemporary artists—from Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy to Julie Mehretu and Camille Henrot to Claire Tabouret and Julien Creuzet—were invited to copy masterpieces from the Louvre’s collection. Their imitations now form …

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A New Gallery Dedicated to Digital Art Makes a Case for Showing It IRL

Offline director Mika Bar-On Nesher. Courtesy of Offline Earlier this month, Offline, a new, brick-and-mortar gallery created by digital marketplace SuperRare, opened the evocatively titled group exhibition, “Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time.” While Offline did a soft launch in April, the current exhibition is the first open to the public, and it has been …

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12 Women Old Masters to Know

Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, 1615 Collection of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. A few years after art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”in a 1971 ARTnews article, she and fellow professor Ann Sutherland Harris came up with an answer of sorts, in the …

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Solange Pessoa Tells the Tale of Humanity Through the History of the Earth

Solange Pessoa. Photo Miro Kuzmanovic/Courtesy the artist On a recent summer day in the Colorado resort town of Aspen, while some were hiking through the Rocky Mountains and enjoying the heat, the artist Solange Pessoa was indoors, strewing bones around the basement level of the Aspen Art Museum. She worked with purpose, careful not to …

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Why is Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights So Important?

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1490–1510 Collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. The word most often used to describe The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490–1510), surreal, is, in fact, an anachronism. No such term existed when it was created, and there was nothing about it that didn’t …

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Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Previously Obscure Modernist, Is Having a Moment

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection show. ©Matteo De Fina It’s fitting that a major survey of the maze-like abstractions of Portuguese French artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–92) is taking place in Venice, a city whose labyrinthine streets unexpectedly burst into piazzas. In these paintings, patchwork planes of vibrant, tile-like squares …

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