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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US President Donald Trump holds a rendering of the East Wing modernization as he speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on March 29, 2026. Mandel NGAN / AFP In an opinion filed March 31, a US District Court judge for the District of Columbia has rejected the …
“Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition.” Courtesy SEE Global Entertainment The similarities between Rome and Paramus, New Jersey, are legion, and soon there will be one more point of commonality: Michelangelo’s hallowed paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The setting will be the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall, and the occasion will be “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: …
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An installation view of “Samurai” at the British Museum. Courtesy Trustees of the British Museum The myth of the samurai gained prominence outside Japan in the early 20th century through films, TV shows, art, and literature. This widespread interest contributed to various misconceptions about them. However, a new exhibition at the British Museum, simply titled …
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Mariasole Cecchi, Hofit Golan and Maxim Sapozhnikov attend the Les Petits Joueurs Dinner at Galleria Uffizi on September 20, 2016 in Florence, Italy. Ernesto S. Ruscio Good Morning! Artist Henry Guimond, from Sagkeeng First Nation, designed a patch worn by Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis II mission to the Moon. The Uffizi Galleries …
Amedeo Modigliani, Seated Man With a Cane, 1918. Via Public Domain An 11-year-long legal dispute over a prized Amedeo Modigliani painting looted during World War II has concluded in a loss for billionaire art dealer David Nahmad and his family, marking an unlikely restitution victory for the heirs of its original Jewish owner. A New …
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Gisela Colón working in Los Angeles studio. Photo Marten Elder Gisela Colón didn’t plan to become an artist. “I studied law because I thought it would protect me,” she told ARTnews, looking back on a childhood in Puerto Rico shaped as much by instability as it was by the farm in the outskirts of Bayamón …
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Ming Wong in his studio during his residency at the National Gallery in London. ©The National Gallery In the hushed, reverent galleries of the National Gallery in London, saints usually suffer in silence. Not so in the hands of Ming Wong, who was given unparalleled access to the museum’s collection of European masterpieces during a …
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