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M+ in Hong Kong and Centre Pompidou in Paris Plan New Five-Year Partnership

M+ in Hong Kong, left, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Bob Henry/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images; Luc Castel/Getty Images Two high-profile museums—Hong Kong’s M+, a contemporary art museum that opened in 2021 in a building designed by Herzog & de Meuron facing Victoria Harbor, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris’s National Museum of Modern …

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Rene Matić Awarded 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

‘AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH’ by Turner Prize nominee Rene Matic on October 01, 2025 in Bradford, England. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Rene Matić was named the winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field. They received the £30,000 ($40,250) prize for their exhibition “AS …

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Canadian Museum of Human Rights Threatened With Legal Action Over Palestinian Nakba Show

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Photo by Sebastien ST-JEAN / AFP The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli organization over an exhibition about the Nakba, with the group arguing that the presentation “politicizes” history, according to local media reports.   Shurat HaDin – …

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JR Talks His Homage to Christo, Christie’s Sells $162.7 M. In Tepid Postwar and Contemporary Auction, and More: Morning Links for May 21, 2026

TOPSHOT – French photographer and street artist JR, poses in his Paris studio on November 26, 2025, presenting “The Cave of the Pont Neuf,” the artwork he will create as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, transforming the Pont Neuf forty years after the wrapping of Paris’s oldest bridge. This work will be on display …

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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Announces a Major Gift of Nearly 2000 Photographs

Nadar, Untitled (Man on horse), ca. 1865 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Joy of Giving Something Inc. Photo: Trevor Davis – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic …

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In Performance Series, Artists Tackle the Nature of Images, and Reality, in the Face of AI

Gideon Jacobs performs at Giorno Poetry Systems in early May. Shanti Escalante-De Mattei/ARTnews Every time a tech company promotes an emerging technology like AI or the metaverse, the pitch sounds the same: a promise to “unleash” the imagination, or a new “immersive world.” When Facebook rebranded as Meta in 2021, its ad showed four people …

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The Most Expensive Works by Mark Rothko Sold at Auction

Mark Rothko’s ‘Orange, Red, Yellow’ 1956. AP Photo/Alastair Grant Mark Rothko’s abstractions, recognizable for their rectangularly shaped floating forms and thin washes of color, have been said by critics and historians to invoke the metaphysical. The Russian-American painter relied on these formal elements to imbue his canvases with grand meaning. He famously remarked his works …

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Clothing Brand Hurley Is Collaborating with Keith Haring Estate on Capsule Collection

Clothing from the Hurley x Keith Haring collection. Courtesy Hurley The streetwear brand Hurley, which is known for surf and swim apparel, has released a capsule collection inspired by Keith Haring, one of the most recognizable and oft-licensed American artists. The collection includes cotton T-shirts, board shirts, bucket and trucker hats, bathing suits, and sweatshirts …

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New York’s Neue Galerie to Merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in Major Expansion

Ronald Lauder with Gustav Klimt’s Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, one of the Neue Galerie’s prized possessions. Photo Chris Hondros/Getty Images The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York’s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the …

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