Georges Coran, Délire et paix, 1954. Photo Claude Coran/©Georges Coran/Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris At the Centre Pompidou hangs a dense, colorful ink painting on cotton in which two figures with white faces and blue skin hold court in a lush thicket of flora and fauna. According to the work’s title, they are …
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Ei Arakawa-Nash with his twins. Ricardo Nagaoka/Courtesy of the Japan Foundation Los Angeles–based performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash will represent Japan at the 2026 Venice Biennale, the Japan Foundation announced Thursday. A curator has not been announced yet. For the Pavilion, Arakawa-Nash will create a new installation that, according to the announcement, will explore his perspective …
RISD’s campus. Courtesy RISD. A group of ACLU-affiliated organizations filed a class-action lawsuit Friday in federal court in New Hampshire, seeking to reinstate the legal status of over 100 international students whose visas were abruptly revoked this year. The suit aims to protect students in New England and Puerto Rico who advocates say were stripped …
Ho Tzu Nyen. Courtesy Singapore Art Museum The next Gwangju Biennale will be organized not by a world-renowned curator but by an artist whose profile is fast-rising. Ho Tzu Nyen will organize the 2026 edition of South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale, which is regarded as one of the top biennial-style shows in Asia. It’s not the …
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The 15-foot-tall pink granite false door at the tomb of Waserif Re in Saqqara, Egypt. Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The tomb of Prince Waserif Re, son of King Userkaf who founded ancient Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty and reigned from 2465 BCE to 2458 BCE, was excavated by archaeologists at the Saqqara necropolis, just southwest …
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The Coțofenești helmet from 450 BCE had an estimated value of €4.3 million ($4.9 million). Courtesy the Dutch Police Dutch police recently arrested two more suspects in connection with the theft of Romanian artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands earlier this year in January. “These suspects are a 20-year-old man and an …
RICHMOND, VA – FEBRUARY 09: The Virginia State flag and the American flag fly near the Virginia State Capitol, February 9, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia. Virginia state politics are in a state of upheaval, with Governor Ralph Northam, State Attorney General Mark Herring, both Democrats, and Republican Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment involved with past …
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Ronen Zien, Walking Into, 2024. Courtesy the artist Ronen Zien dreams about crossing over. In his moving works the artist, born in the Arab city of Shefa Amr in northern Israel, traverses time, space, memory, and even borders—conjuring in images what he can only imagine doing in reality. Zien walks up a hill on a …
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Thèrëse Bonney, Tamara de Lempicka in her studio, 1928 Collection of the Bibliothëque historique de la Ville de Paris. Photograph copyright © Thèrëse Bonney. Digital image BHVP/Parisienne de Photographie. Courtesy of the de Young Museum, San Francisco. I’m going places, Tamara de Lempicka seems to be saying in Tamara in the Green Bugatti, her iconic …
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Faith Ringgold. Photo Meron Menghistab/Courtesy the Anyone Can Fly Foundation and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York The estate of Faith Ringgold, an acclaimed artist known for works that directly and bracingly protest racism, has joined New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. Prior to her death in 2024, Ringgold had long been represented by ACA Galleries, which …
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