MacKenzie Thomas performs her four-hour show “I Said What I Said.” Courtesy of MacKenzie Thomas I saw a work this past week that I did not know how to critique. The premise of the performance was simple: MacKenzie Thomas, an internet personality with half a million followers across TikTok and Instagram, would read aloud everything …
Sandra Mujinga at the Park Avenue Armory, where she unveiled a new performance this past November. Photo Christopher Garcia Valle/ARTnews About a decade ago, when Sandra Mujinga visited Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she relished her time people watching, as travelers are wont to do. But Mujinga was not exactly …
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Granda Moses (Anna Mary Robertson) at work on one of her paintings at age 95, Eagle Bridge, New York, September 1955 Getty Images. “Her primitive paintings captured the spirit and preserved the scene of a vanishing countryside.” So reads the epitaph of American artist Grandma Moses (aka Anna Mary Robertson Moses), whose lifetime remarkably stretched …
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, L’Âge d’Or (still), 1930. Public Domain With each passing year, new artworks are shorn of their copyright protections and entered into the public domain, allowing them to be used freely, without express permission from the estates that steward these pieces. This year, pieces by Salvador Dalí, José Clemente Orozco, and …
The discovery site in the western Nile Delta. Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists working in the western Nile Delta of Egypt discovered remnants of an “extensive industrial complex” from as far back as the 5th century B.C.E. as well as a Roman cemetery that suggests the area was fertile ground for civilization …
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The statue of Joan of Arc in Paris without a sword. Photo by Blanca CRUZ/AFP A statue of Joan of Arc in Paris’s 8th arrondissement is missing a sword after a man broke it off and swiped it for reasons not yet known. As reported by Le Parisien, the incident occurred on Monday morning, when …
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The return of the Piprahwa relics in July. Photo Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images The Indian government has unveiled an array of Buddha-linked relics that were repatriated to the country after initially being set for sale at Sotheby’s last year. It is the first time that these artifacts, known as the Piprahwa relics, are …
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In 2020, the first year of Covid, two-thirds of non-bank art lenders faced defaults. Getty Images Half of non-bank art lenders experienced loan defaults in 2024, up from 17 percent two years earlier, according to the Art and Finance Report 2025, published by Deloitte Private and ArtTactic. That figure, however, is still better than 2020, …
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Visitors to the Grand Egyptian Museum in December 2025. Photo Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua via Getty Images After more than a decade of anticipation, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest museum devoted to a single civilization, has fully opened its exhibitions, including the long-awaited King Tutankhamun halls. Originally announced in 2002, the idea for the museum …
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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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