Photographer Sally Mann relaxes with her dog Honey in a meadow of tall grass on her farm near Lexington, Virginia. Photo Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images A Texas county will not take legal action against the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for showing Sally Mann photographs that some labeled “child pornography,” according …
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Reconstructed mid-3rd century CE Roman Mithraeum beneath Bloomberg’s European headquarters, 2017, London, England. Photo Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images The London Museum has received a donation of more than 14,000 Roman artifacts from the site of a 3rd century CE temple. The trove was unearthed between 2012–14, during the construction of …
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MF Husain’s portrayals of naked women continue to enrage hardline Hindus. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HISTORIC MODERN IDIAN ART SALE. M.F. Husain’s 1954 painting Untitled (Gram Yatra) became the most expensive work of modern Indian art ever publicly auctioned, when it sold yesterday for $13.8 …
View of the new David Zwirner gallery, located at 533 West 19th Street, looking northeast. Rendering by Selldorf Architects David Zwirner will open its newest space in Chelsea on May 8 with a solo show for Michael Armitage. Located at 533 West 19th Street, the new, two-story location is adjacent to Zwirner’s two connected 19th …
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Scene 32 of the Bayeux Tapestry showing men staring at Halley’s Comet. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons A fragment of the Medieval Bayeux Tapestry has been found at the Schleswig-Holstein State archive in northern Germany, the Canberra Times reported. The famous embroidered tapestry depicts the Norman invasion of England by the Duke of Normandy in 1066. It …
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Mildred Thompson, Music of the Spheres: Mars, 1996. ©The Mildred Thompson Estate/Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. This spring, it’s Paris calling. The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that respectively focus on Black and Asian émigrés who …
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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