A pyrotechnic show by Cai Guo-Qiang over Quanzhou Bay in China in 2024. Photo Wang Dongming/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images A fireworks show staged by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the base of the Himalayas in Tibet has led to stinging criticism online. Amid the outcry, both the artist and Arc’teryx, the outdoor apparel brand …
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Adrian Cheng. Photo Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images for Festival de Can One year after Adrian Cheng resigned as CEO of his family’s Hong Kong property firm, New World Development Co. (NWD), the mega-collector has announced his next venture: ALMAD Group. The details of the new business are predictably fuzzy. The announcement reads as if Cheng, who …
Installation view of Kerry James Marshall: The Histories,” 2025–26, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, showing the “Africa Revisited” gallery. Photo: ©David Parry/ Royal Academy of Arts, London; Art: ©Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s leading painters, is debuting a new set of paintings that look at the involvement of Africans …
The Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images The man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May appears to have worn a bodycam and filmed the incident, according to federal investigators. Elias Rodriguez, the suspect, was indicted on hate …
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Cynthia Hawkins in her studio in Poughkeepsie, New York, 2025. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle for ARTnews Throughout recent art history, grids have remained a constant. Prized by artists for their rigid orderliness, they have been painted, sculpted, and woven. Many critics have claimed that the grid is emotionless. Art historian Rosalind Krauss famously wrote that …
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Artist Jennifer Packer. Photo Joshua Franzos American artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt were named on Tuesday the winners of this year’s Heinz Awards for the Arts. Now in its 30th year, the awards are distributed by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation and each carries an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000. Six recipients are named annually, two in each of …
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Uniqlo executive creative director John C Jay and National Gallery of Victoria director Tony Ellwood attend a KAWS show in 2019. Photo Graham Denholm/Getty Images for The NGV KAWS, artist, entrepreneur, and hypebeast patron saint, has a new first on his CV: Uniqlo’s inaugural artist-in-residence. Starting immediately, he’ll be tasked with expanding the Japanese company’s …
Wifredo Lam: The Jungle, 1942–43. ©Wifredo Lam Estate, ADAGP, Paris, and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Museum of Modern Art’s Wifredo Lam retrospective, “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” one of the more hotly anticipated fall exhibitions, will not feature artworks from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. According to a …
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David Lynch at his studio in 2002. Chris Weeks/WireImage “An artist or artists should be there,” David Lynch’s daughter wrote of the newly on-the-market Los Angeles home of the famed artist and filmmaker who died this past January. In a Reddit thread under the mantle thatjenlynch, Jennifer Lynch, herself a filmmaker and the author of …
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(From L) Britain’s Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lisa Nandy, Director of the British Museum Nicholas Cullinan, and France’s Minister of Culture Rachida Dati sign an agreement for loaning exchange of Bayeux tapestry and Sutton Hoo treasures during a ceremony at The British Museum in London July 9, 2025, during the second day of a …
