The interior of Pete Davidson’s house. Ginnel x Modern Angles Pete Davidson, the lovable lunk who made his name on Saturday Night Live and went on to star on the silver screen (as well as in the annals of dubious boat-ownership), put his house in suburban Westchester, New York, on the market—while revealing a considerable …
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Madeleine Grynsztejn. MCA Chicago. At year’s end, Madeleine Grynsztejn will leave her post after 18 years as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which bills itself as one of the world’s largest museums devoted to the art of today. The museum, which launched in 1967 with a Fluxus happening by John Cage, Dick …
Ministry of Culture employees look at the famous caryatid statues inside the new Acropolis Museum in Athens 10 January 2008. The Greek president visited the new museum that is expected to be ready to open its gates to the public in early 2008.AFP PHOTO/Louisa Gouliamaki (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP …
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The National Assembly in Paris. Photo by Bastien Ohier/Hans Lucas via AFP In what was described as “a decisive step in the long road to the restitution of property looted in Africa during the colonial era,” on Wednesday the French National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee approved a proposed bill that was unanimously passed by the Senate’s …
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Bored Ape #8398 OpenSea A long-running legal saga between Yuga Labs, the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club, and artist Ryder Ripps and his business partner Jeremy Cahen, has finally ended, with the parties reaching a settlement on Tuesday. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, the parties disclosed that they agreed to …
The Venice Biennale’s Russian Pavilion was closed in 2022 by its artists and curator. Photo Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on Friday that has imposed sanctions on five Russian cultural figures who are involved with organizing the Russian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The news was first …
Alfred Stieglitz, Fountain by R. Mutt, 1917, published in The Blind Man (No. 2), edited by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood, May 1917 Philadelphia Museum of Art When does something become a work of art? A canvas once it’s been painted? A block of marble once it’s been carved? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), …
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Marcel Duchamp with The Large Glass (1915–1923), Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965 Mark Kauffman/Getty Images. More than any of his early modernist contemporaries, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has had a huge impact on art throughout the last century into our own. He pioneered a cerebral, ironic practice whose DNA is still apparent in works like Maurizio …
Josh Kline. Photo Isabel Asha Penzlien/©Josh Kline/Courtesy Lisson Gallery In 2011, Andrea Fraser wrote that “what has been good for the art world has been disastrous for the rest of the world.” Fifteen years on, Fraser’s words still ring true. But finding the words for why is not always so easy, and maybe that is …
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Exhibition view of “New Humans: Memories of the Future” at the. New Museum, New York. Hito Steyerl’s 2025 video work “Mechanical Kurds” plays in the back. Courtesy New Museum/Photo Dario Lasagni In the beginning, there was a lot of work to do. In the Mesopotamian creation myth, the Anunnaki, the Big Gods, and the Igigi, …
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