Patti Smith, 1975. Getty Images Rosalía’s fourth studio album, the divinely affected LUX, unfolds in four parts and 13 languages, with several choirs contributing to the miraculous feat of an avant-garde chart-topper. A sonic scripture of desire and ruin, it accordingly invokes god: Patti Smith. A 1976 interview recording of Smith closes the flamenco ballad …
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CATPC members (from left) Olele Mulela Mabamba, Irene Kanga, Huguette Kilembi, Jeremie Mabiala, Jean Kawata, Mbuku Kimpala, Ced’art Tamasala and Matthieu Kasiama, 2020, © CATPC In recent years, museums have expressed their wishes to rethink their pasts, returning looted objects, acknowledging the original inhabitants of the land where they are located, and taking steps to …
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Saint Francis of Assisi (1747), by an unknown artist, is returned to the Church of San Francisco de Asis in Teotihuacán, Mexico. Courtesy Morton Subastas A church in Mexico has been reunited with a painting of Saint Francis of Assisi, its namesake, that was stolen nearly a quarter-century ago. Thieves entered the Church of San …
Still from Andrew Thomas Huang’s video installation and sculpture The Deer of Nine Colors, 2025. Courtesy Onassis ONX The Onassis Foundation’s experimental art and tech studio Onassis ONX is doubling its size at a new location in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. It is slated to open with the multimedia exhibition “TECHNE: Homecoming” in January. Founded in …
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Aerial view of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art under construction, September 2025. Photo Pedro Ramirez/©2025 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, All Rights Reserved/Courtesy Hathaway Dinwiddie The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has set its opening date for September 22, 2026. The Lucas Museum has been in the works for over a …
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Band of Holes, Pisco Valley, Peru, 2010. Courtesy Wikimedia Researchers from the University of Sydney have uncovered new evidence that might solve one of South America’s most enduring archaeological puzzles—the “Band of Holes,” an almost one mile stretch of more than 5,000 circular depressions carved into the desert hills of Peru’s Pisco Valley. According to Science …
Mindy Seu performs her lecture “A Sexual History of the Internet.” Max Lakner Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. Now that I’ve captured your attention, please buy my book. Or my skin cream. Or my …
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s new galleries. Photo Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images As New York museums go, the Studio Museum in Harlem does not hold the largest collection, or even the widest-reaching one, but this has always been a feature, not a bug. First opened in 1968, the museum is focused specifically on …
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LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 13: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Getty Images Los Angeles County Museum of Art leadership has declined to voluntarily recognize LACMA United, the union that hundreds of its staff voted to form last week, opting instead to …
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Charles I with his wife Empress Zita circa 1916. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the Habsburg …
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