John Phelan (left) and Amy Phelan attend the amfAR Palm Beach Gala in March. Photo by Ryan Emberley/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR President-elect Donald Trump recently announced that businessman and Top 200 collector John Phelan will lead the US Navy, despite no prior military experience. Phelan is the founder and chairman of the private investment firm …
Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos of Protat, 1290–1310. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons The identity of a notable Byzantine painter has been discovered using a handwriting analysis studying a Medieval illuminated manuscript, the Associated Press reported this week. Manuel Panselinos, as the artist is known, was a contemporary of Giotto and equally influential among Byzantine art …
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Parthenon sculptures of Ancient Greece, fragments which are collectively known as the Parthenon Marbles aka Elgin Marbles at the British Museum on 4th December 2023 in London, United Kingdom. The Elgin Marbles are considered stolen goods by Greece, and has regularly demanded their return, while the Acropolis Museum, which houses the remaining sculptures, keeps an …
The Yale Peabody Museum Courtesy Yale Peabody Museum The Yale Peabody Museum has flagged human remains and eight funerary objects in its collection for repatriation to Native American tribes of the Wabanaki Nations in Maine. These remains and objects were removed from burial sites and shell mounds in Maine and donated to the museum in …
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Exterior view of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines FROM BARN SALE TO AUCTION. After being picked up earlier this year at a barn sale in the Hamptons for just $50 dollars by an eagle-eyed art dealer, a …
The MAXXI museum’s “Memorabile.Ipermoda” (2024–25) fashion exhibition in Rome. Giovanni Giannoni / WWD “What has fashion become today?” That is one of the key questions fashion theorist, professor and curator Maria Luisa Frisa asked herself when planning the “Memorabile.Ipermoda” exhibition at the MAXXI Museum here. “These are challenging times and the exhibition generates questions and issues that …
Inci Eviner, Harem (still), 2009. Courtesy the artist Inci Eviner, an artist whose work has appeared in biennials across the globe, from Venice to Sharjah, accused Qatar’s Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art of censorship after it removed one of her videos from an exhibition at the last minute. The video, titled Harem (2009), revisits …
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“It’s much better than other bananas,” Sun told reporters. “It’s really quite good.” COURTESY Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images On Friday, Justin Sun, the Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur who purchased Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, the banana duct-taped to a wall, for $6.2 last week – made good on his promise to eat it. Immediately after buying the controversial artwork at …
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Banksy’s ‘Well Hung Lover’ was painted on the side of a sexual health clinic in Bristol in 2006. Andrew Michael/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A Banksy mural of a man hanging out of a bedroom window as he tries to evade his love rival is being sold at auction with the building it …
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Nora Burnett Abrams. Photo Nikki Rae Photography After a year-long search, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston has selected Nora Burnett Abrams as its next director. She will begin in the post on May 1, succeeding Jill Medvedow, who has directed the ICA for 26 years. Abrams comes to the ICA after a 15-year tenure …
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