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Paris’s Galerie 1900-2000 Has Closed Its New York Branch: ‘Business Was Quite Slow’

Installation view, “Eduardo’s birthday party on Ave. Gabriel,” at Galerie 1900-2000, New York, curated by artist Oscar Murillo, including works by Arshile Gorky, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, and Murillo. Galerie 1900-2000 In a multi-year market slowdown, numerous galleries large and small have either gone out of business or retrenched. Galerie 1900-2000, founded in Paris, opened …

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Christmas Through the Eyes of Photographer Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander, New York State, 1965. ©Lee Friedlander/Fraenkel Gallery, Courtesy Eakins Press Foundation “Whether or not you’ve celebrated Christmas at any point over the past seventy years—roughly the period covered by these photographs—you have no doubt encountered some of the things Lee Friedlander shows us here.” So begins the afterward to Lee Friedlander: Christmas, a …

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The Best Digital Art of 2025, According to Curators, Artists, and Critics

Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a bi-weekly column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. It’s the end of the year. You know what that means: a list. For this end-of-year edition of LinkRot, I asked artists, curators, gallerists, critics, and technologists to pick the …

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See Wonders of the ‘Nanocosmos’ Through an Electron Microscope

Erythemis simplicicollis dragonfly wing tip. ©Michael Benson Nanocosmos: Journeys in Electron Space is an otherworldly collection of images from a mysterious realm of the extremely small scale. With help from powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies that he started working with at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), artist Michael Benson went on a years-long …

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Two Days Into Walkout, Louvre Staff Unions Vote to Continue Strike

Museum staff stage a protest as workers voted to go on strike against increasingly deteriorating working conditions and security vulnerabilities at Louvre Museum in Paris, France on December 15, 2025. Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images The world’s most-visited museum, it seems, cannot catch a break lately. Unionized staff at Paris’s Louvre Museum voted …

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Rome Has Two New Metro Stations That Offer Underground Mini-Museums, With More On the Way

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 …

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Texas State University Cancels Black History 101 Mobile Museum Visit, Prompting ACLU Challenge

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 …

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Robert Mnuchin, Goldman Sachs Power Broker Turned Influential Art Dealer, Dies at 92

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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Can the British Museum Lend Its Way Out of Criticisms Over Its Colonial Holdings?

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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