The new Colosseo-Fori Imperiali station on Metro Line C in Rome. Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images Construction projects in cities that have been inhabited for thousands of years often run into special challenges as work crews come upon ancient artifacts, and suddenly, what was a construction site becomes an archaeological dig. Officials in Rome …
A view of the Texas State University Old Main building. Wikimedia Commons A decision by the Texas State University (TXST) to cancel an appearance of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum at one of its campuses, scheduled for 2026 Black History Month, has prompted a First Amendment challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union of …
Robert Mnuchin, owner of the Mnuchin Gallery in New York. RICHARD A. SMITH/COURTESY MNUCHIN GALLERY Robert Mnuchin, the Wall Street pioneer who became one of New York’s most respected art dealers and a fixture at blue-chip auctions, died on Friday at his home in Bridgewater, Connecticut. He was 92. His death, first reported by the …
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The British Museum. Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images The British Museum is sending some of its prized art and artifacts on long-term loan to countries that the British Empire previously colonized. While those nations have long called for the repatriation of objects they consider stolen, the institution may be hoping to blunt some of …
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A demonstrator holds up a reproduction of Patrick Martinez’s Abolish Ice (2018/2021) at an anti-ICE demonstration in downtown Los Angeles, June 2025. Courtesy the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles We often look back on past moral crises and imagine ourselves acting differently: resisting sooner, refusing silence, choosing courage over complicity. It’s a reassuring fiction, …
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Mildred Howard in her Oakland studio, 2025. Photo Christine Cueto/Courtesy Oakland Museum of California The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will stage a major retrospective for Bay Area artist Mildred Howard, opening next June. Titled “Poetics of Memory,” the exhibition will bring together work from across five decades of Howard’s career and will also debut …
Minnie Evans, Untitled (Four Figures Collage), 1961–67. ©The Estate of Minnie Evans/Collection of John Jerit We are coming to understand that art history rarely moves in a straight line. Whereas the canon was once seen in the West as a series of successive movements, now it is recognized as a cascade of different artists working …
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Modern Art Foundry in 1947, shortly after it moved to its longtime home. Courtesy Modern Art Foundry Founded in 1932, Modern Art Foundry is one of the oldest foundries in the United States. Located in Astoria, Queens, since 1944, the foundry has a history in producing well-known sculptures, from José de Creeft’s Alice in Wonderland …
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Ava DuVernay (left) and David Oyelowo. Photo JC Olivera/Apple TV+ via Getty Images David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, “Heist of Benin,” more than a decade after their Academy Award-winning film “Selma.” Oyelowo will star in the film, which is set in modern-day London and described as “a thriller that intertwines art, love …
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Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1907–1908 Belvedere Museum, Vienna. In 1900, the events of the 20th century still lay ahead, its horrors and epochal upheavals unknown. But in one European metropolis, signs of that future could be gleaned from the social, political, and artistic unrest that roiled it. Vienna in the years leading up to World …
