Bernard Arnault. Photo Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images ARTnews Top 200 collectors Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Alice Walton have lost additional billions during the last three trading days after $10 trillion in stock market sell-offs in response to the new “reciprocal” tariffs against all other nations and the increased likelihood of a global recession due to …
The White House. Getty Images In the latest legal challenge to the Trump administration from the cultural sector, the largest union of museum and library professionals in the United States has sued to block efforts to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The lawsuit was filed in in the US District Court …
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Max Kozloff. Bettmann Archive via Getty Images Max Kozloff, a critic who influentially collapsed the divide between art and politics that was erected by formalists who came before him, died on April 6 at 91. His death was announced this week by his wife, the artist Joyce Kozloff. Kozloff made his name during the 1970s …
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The restored sculpture by Eric Gill behind protective glass on the exterior of BBC Broadcasting House in London, photographed on April 9. Photo Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images The BBC Broadcasting House in London has restored a sculpture by Eric Gill, an artist associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement who is also known …
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A still from the trailer for Giraffes on Horseback Salad, a new film made from Salvador Dali’s unmade screenplay. It was created using Google’s new generative video platform Veo 2. Screenshot/Dali Museum and Goodby Silverstein & Partners In December, Google announced that it would soon launch a new version of its generative video model, Veo …
Installation view of “The Anansean World of Robert Colescott,” curated by Umar Rashid, 2025, at Blum Los Angeles. Photo Josh Schaedel; ©The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy The Trust and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York Robert Colescott’s most famous painting might just be George Washington …
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The world loves few things better than a controversy involving an artist. Such brouhahas are nothing new; Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin (c. 1605–06), for instance, was rejected by the Church fathers who commissioned it for the chapel of Santa Maria Della Scala in Rome because of its brutally realistic depiction of Mary—for whom a …
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Warburg Institute, London. From Renaissance Milanese court painter Bonifacio Bembo to the Surrealists and even contemporary artist Claire Tabouret (who painted her home’s ceiling with images from an early-20th-century tarot deck), tarot—a centuries-old set of 78 cards—wafts in and out of art history. Between 1979 and 1998, French avant-garde artist Niki de Saint Phalle built …
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Karyn Olivier in front of her work, Revelation, at Brochstein Pavilion, commissioned by the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University. Photo Frank Hernandez Karyn Olivier’s work can often read as elusive. An expansive artist whose practice floats across various mediums, her works take many forms: a white column that rests on a historical …
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L’Enfant Promenade in Washington, D.C., 2011. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Work at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in Washington, D.C., came to a screeching halt yesterday afternoon after the entire staff was placed on administrative leave, effective immediately, by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Between 55 and 70 employees received a …
