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Dalí Museum in Florida Announces $65 M. Expansion Planned for 2028

https://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dali-museum.jpg Dali Museum in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. AFP via Getty Images The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg is planning a major expansion expected to begin construction in 2026, with the new facilities slated to open in 2028. The museum said the approximately 35,000-square-foot addition will cost an estimated $65 million and is intended to grow the exhibition …

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Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 22: U.S. President Donald Trump displays a rendering of his proposed $250 million White House ballroom as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on October 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Less than a week after hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump …

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Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems 

Now you can learn about American history on the back of a flatbed truck, as God intended. Courtesy PragerU Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s …

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Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

Zanele Muholi, ‘Bona III’, ISGM, Boston, 2019 ©Zanele Muholi/Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York and Southern Guild, Cape Town Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 …

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Russian Archaeologist Arrested in Poland Amid Ukraine Probe Into Crimean Excavations

SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – APRIL 18: General view of the Hermitage Museum on April 18, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Lavazza, partner of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburgh supports the exhibition ‘Gods, Men, Heroes’ From the Naples National Archaeological Museum and the Archaeological Park of Pompei. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images for Lavazza) Getty …

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Belarus Free Theatre to Present Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibition on Art Under Authoritarianism and Censorship

Belarus Free Theatre artists Sergey Grinevich, Daniella Kaliada, Natalia Kaliada, and Olga Podgayskaya. Photo Francesco Barasciutti The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition “Official. Unofficial. Belarus.” as an official collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale. The show, to be staged at …

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The 2026 Whitney Biennial Includes a Video Game Designed by Leo Castañeda You Can Play At Home

A screenshot from Leo Castañeda’s Camoflux Recall Grotto. Courtesy the artist and Whitney Museum While the Whitney Biennial isn’t set to open its 2026 edition to the public until Sunday, anyone can get a sneak peek at one work in the show: Camoflux Recall Grotto. The work, a video game by Colombian artist Leo Castañeda, …

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In Los Angeles for Frieze Week? Watch Out For a Mobile LED Truck with the Art World’s Jeffrey Epstein Emails

Tod Lippy, All of the Gang (2026). Courtesy Tod Lippy. Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still …

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