Mary Anne Carter. © MOSHE ZUSMAN PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO The National Endowment for the Arts has a new chair: Mary Anne Carter, the same political operative who served in the post during Trump’s first term. The Senate voted this morning to confirm her along party lines, by a 53–43 margin. In keeping with his tendency to …
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Stephen Marc, 87th and Constance, from “Changing Chicago Project,” n.d. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Gift of Jack A. Jaffe, Focus/Infinity Fund The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago will host an exhibition next year titled “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground” and guest curated by leading photography scholar and Harvard …
The entrance to Este Arte. Courtesy Este Arte “There’s a before and after Este Arte,” Uruguay’s first and only art fair, according to its founder, Laura Bardier. The professionalization of Uruguay’s art market could read as Bardier’s biography—the curator who, through sheer insistence, converted a quixotic dream into a promising market machine—but that would misinterpret …
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Graffiti artwork by street artist Banksy, painted beneath the Centre Point building near Tottenham Court Road in central London. Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images For the third time this year, Banksy has created a new work of street art. The new piece has been confirmed in the anonymous British artist’s customary fashion, with an …
View of the Nanjing Museum on International Museum Day 2024. Courtesy Nanjing Museum Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly removed cultural treasures from the collection and sold them on the open market—claims that have gone viral on social media and drawn comparisons to the recent …
Installation view, “Eduardo’s birthday party on Ave. Gabriel,” at Galerie 1900-2000, New York, curated by artist Oscar Murillo, including works by Arshile Gorky, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, and Murillo. Galerie 1900-2000 In a multi-year market slowdown, numerous galleries large and small have either gone out of business or retrenched. Galerie 1900-2000, founded in Paris, opened …
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Lee Friedlander, New York State, 1965. ©Lee Friedlander/Fraenkel Gallery, Courtesy Eakins Press Foundation “Whether or not you’ve celebrated Christmas at any point over the past seventy years—roughly the period covered by these photographs—you have no doubt encountered some of the things Lee Friedlander shows us here.” So begins the afterward to Lee Friedlander: Christmas, a …
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Editor’s note: This story is an edition of Link Rot, a bi-weekly column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. It’s the end of the year. You know what that means: a list. For this end-of-year edition of LinkRot, I asked artists, curators, gallerists, critics, and technologists to pick the …
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Erythemis simplicicollis dragonfly wing tip. ©Michael Benson Nanocosmos: Journeys in Electron Space is an otherworldly collection of images from a mysterious realm of the extremely small scale. With help from powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies that he started working with at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), artist Michael Benson went on a years-long …
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This areal picture shows celebrations during the reopenning ceremony of the National Museum housed at the historic Red Castle (As-Saraya al-Hamra) in the Libyan capital Tripoli on December 12, 2025. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Libya’s National Museum, known as As-Saraya Al-Hamra or the Red Castle Museum, …
