A protest at the White House in February. Photo Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal organization that provides funding to many major arts centers across the US. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, the ACLU’s Rhode Island offshoot …
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The Temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt, 2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists have discovered a collection of jewelry dating back to the early 26th Dynasty during excavation work in the northwestern part of the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. The Temple of Karnak is one of Egypt’s most significant complexes, boasting as many as 20 …
Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th Street, Washington, D.C., 2021. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images On Monday, construction crews began dismantling the Black Lives Matter (BLM) mural in Washington, D.C., just down the street from President Donald Trump‘s official residence. The large, yellow mural, which was part of a larger plaza, was painted by the city …
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Pritzker Prize winner Liu Jiakun’s West Village complex. photo courtesy of Chen Chen Liu Jiakun, a Chengdu-based architect known for his sensitive, place-driven approach to design, has been awarded the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious honor in architecture. Liu, who has spent decades crafting a body of work rooted in the traditions and materials of …
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ASMA, “Nude and the Staircase, (A Doll),” 2024. Doll (Found objects, wood, metal, epoxy resin, silicone, fabric, synthetic hair, cardboard, acrylic, elastic, plastic, polyurethane, adhesive tape), vintage miniature playing cards, artist-made lamps. Doll: 40 ½ x 11 ¾ x 4 inches (103 x 30 x 10 cm); installation dimensions variable. Commissioned SculptureCenter, New York. Courtesy …
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Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa pose for a portrait in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images Good Morning! Amid an ongoing investigation into the mysterious death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, the actor’s less-famous art practice comes to light. Artist Andil Gosine’s exhibition based on his book about queer theory …
Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev attends the Rose Ball 2014 in aid of the Princess Grace Foundation at Sporting Monte-Carlo on March 29, 2014 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Getty Images Dmitriy Rybolovlev, the Russian billionaire and majority owner of the French football club AS Monaco, has been cleared of all criminal proceedings in Monaco, following a ruling by …
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Good bank? $TRUMP has shed billions. AFP via Getty Images The value of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency, a meme coin aptly called $TRUMP, has fallen off a cliff – and its investors have lost around $12 billion. (A cryptocurrency is typically labeled a meme coin if it has no intrinsic function but originates from an internet …
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Jenna Segal Rita Carmo In the mid-1990s, film producer Jenna Segal‘s life changed during a European backpacking trip. All it took was a visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice with her best friend. “This was before smartphones,” Segal told ARTnews from her office on West 57th Street in Manhattan, which, not coincidentally, was once …
The ‘Fearless Girl’ sculpture opposite the New York Stock Exchange by Kristen Visbal is in question. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NEA NIXES GRANT. In the latest anti-DEI news, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has cancelled its Challenge America arts grant program for 2026, reports Hyperallergic. …
