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Ximena Garrido-Lecca Wins Miami Beach Legacy Purchase as City Highlights Year-Round Cultural Role

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 05: EDITORIAL USE ONLY Guests attend the Art Basel Miami Beach VIP Preview 2025 at Miami Beach Convention Center on December 05, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images) Getty Images Now that the art world has finally caught its breath after a sun- and champagne-soaked Miami …

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UK Police Seek Suspects in “High-Value Burglary” at Bristol Museum

A CCTV image released by the UK police showing the suspected thieves leaving the Bristol Museum. Courtesy Avon and Somerset Police More than 600 artifacts have been stolen from the Bristol Museum’s British Empire and Commonwealth collection, in what UK police describe as a “high-value burglary.” On Thursday, authorities released CCTV footage of the suspects …

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Vancouver Art Gallery and Modern Art Museum in Paris Receive Major Gift, Rare Illuminated Jewish Prayer Book Heads to Auction, and More: Morning Links for December 11, 2025

http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Vancouver-Art-Gallery-exterior-view-Spring-2023-Photography-courtesy-Vancouver-Art-Gallery-2.jpg The Vancouver Art Gallery scrapped plans for a new building after investing C$60 million. Photo by Ian Lefebvre, Vancouver Art Gallery. Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery. To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines GIVING TIME. A few notable museums have just announced landmark donations to their permanent collections. …

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Franco Vaccari, Artist Who Expanded Photography’s Possibilities, Dies at 89

Franco Vaccari at the 1972 Venice Biennale with his piece Esposizione in tempo reale n. 4. Lascia sulle pareti una traccia fotografica del tuo passaggio. Courtesy the artist and P420 Franco Vaccari, an Italian conceptual artist whose experiments with photography expanded the medium’s possibilities, has died at 89. His death was announced by his gallery, …

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Blenheim Palace Conservators Search For Writers of Century-Old Graffiti in Ceiling

Several race cars at the the Salon Privé Concours 2024 at Blenheim Palace. The palace frequently plays hosts to major events in the UK. Getty Images Conservators currently at work restoring paintings in Blenheim Palace said they found the names of 11 people written in the ceiling decades ago, with the oldest dated to 1843. …

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ARTnews Awards 2025 Emerging Artist of the Year: Claudia Alarcón and Silät

Claudia Alarcón and Silät for “Claudia Alarcón & Silät” at James Cohan, New York April 11–May 10, 2025 For over a decade, Claudia Alarcón has been immortalizing aspects of Wichí lore in the form of weavings, many of them produced collaboratively with an all-women group of weavers called Silät that was formed by curator Andrei …

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ARTnews Awards 2025 Best Thematic Museum Show: “Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City”

“Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City” at 80WSE, New YorkCurators: Howie Chen, Jayne Cole Southard, and christina ongSeptember 11–December 20, 2024 “Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City” was billed as the first institutional show ever to survey artists of Asian descent in its titular city, a distinction that would …

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ARTnews Awards 2025 Historical Artist of the Year: Jack Whitten

Jack Whitten for “Jack Whitten: The Messenger” at the Museum of Modern Art, New YorkMarch 23–August 2, 2025Curators: Michelle Kuo, with Helena Klevorn, Dana Liljegren, and David Sledge  Across his six-decade career, Jack Whitten repeatedly found daring, innovative, and new ways of wielding paint, only rarely using the traditional oil-on-canvas method that has long dominated …

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ARTnews Awards 2025 Best Gallery Group Show: “Bowls, Boxes, Plates & Vessels”

“Bowls, Boxes, Plates & Vessels” at Parker Gallery, Los AngelesFebruary 1–October 19, 2025 Saying goodbye can be hard. That was the premise of “Bowls, Boxes, Plates & Vessels,” Parker Gallery’s final exhibition at its longtime base in founder Sam Parker’s home in LA’s Los Feliz neighborhood. Since its founding in 2017, Parker Gallery has gained …

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