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Onassis Foundation Doubles Down on Experimental Art and Tech With New Space in Tribeca

Still from Andrew Thomas Huang’s video installation and sculpture The Deer of Nine Colors, 2025. Courtesy Onassis ONX The Onassis Foundation’s experimental art and tech studio Onassis ONX is doubling its size at a new location in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. It is slated to open with the multimedia exhibition “TECHNE: Homecoming” in January. Founded in …

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New Research Suggests Peru’s Mysterious ‘Band of Holes’ May Have Been an Ancient Marketplace

Band of Holes, Pisco Valley, Peru, 2010. Courtesy Wikimedia Researchers from the University of Sydney have uncovered new evidence that might solve one of South America’s most enduring archaeological puzzles—the “Band of Holes,” an almost one mile stretch of more than 5,000 circular depressions carved into the desert hills of Peru’s Pisco Valley. According to Science …

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Mindy Seu’s Latest Lecture, ‘A Sexual History of the Internet,’ Is a Grand Financial Experiment

Mindy Seu performs her lecture “A Sexual History of the Internet.” Max Lakner Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. Now that I’ve captured your attention, please buy my book. Or my skin cream. Or my …

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LACMA Declines to Voluntarily Recognize Union Formed by Hundreds of Workers

LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 13: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Getty Images Los Angeles County Museum of Art leadership has declined to voluntarily recognize LACMA United, the union that hundreds of its staff voted to form last week, opting instead to …

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Legendary ‘Florentine Diamond,’ Lost for a Century, Found in a Vault in Canada

Charles I with his wife Empress Zita circa 1916. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the Habsburg …

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Timothée Chalamet Visited Michael Heizer’s ‘City’ for Vogue Photoshoot

Timothee Chalamet in Rome in May. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images In a restless and ping-ponging profile for Vogue, actor Timothée Chalamet paid a visit to one of the most mystique-intensive artworks of this or any century: Michael Heizer’s monumental Land art installation City. The work, measuring a mile-and-a-half long by a half-mile wide …

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The Studio Museum in Harlem Is Officially One of the Few US Museums to Own a Basquiat Painting

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bayou, 1984. Alex Greenberger/ARTnews Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building to the press on Thursday, revealing a multitude of treasures that have entered its holdings since its closure in 2018—including the first Jean-Michel Basquiat painting to join the museum’s collection. The …

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9 Works to Know in “View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection” at the Met

Installation view of “View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 28, 2025–May 3, 2026 Hyla Skopitz Last May the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that photography collector Artur Walther, via his Walther Family Foundation, had made a promised gift to the museum of more than …

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