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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Reclaiming Her Prison Time Through Art

Nadya Tolokonnikova: Police State, 2025, performance, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Photo Yulia Shur. Courtesy LA MOCA. Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. More than a decade after Pussy Riot cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova was imprisoned in Russia for …

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Who Was Helen Chadwick, and Why Was She So Important?

Helen Chadwick making Piss Flowers, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, 1991 Artwork copyright © Estate of Helen Chadwick. Photo: Monte Greenshields. Courtesy of Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada. Helen Chadwick was obsessed with the restless, fleeting vestiges of things and feelings that had vanished—what she called “fugitive traces.” Her huge breadth of multimedia installations bloomed …

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Man Sits On and Breaks Crystal-Encrusted ‘Van Gogh’ Chair in Italian Museum Before Fleeing

Break a leg: The man’s chair-crushing performance was caught on CCTV. Palazzo Maffei The Palazzo Maffei museum in the Italian city of Verona has called on people to “respect art” after a visitor was filmed on CCTV breaking a chair covered in shimmering Swarovski crystals. The footage, which was captured back in April, shows a man …

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Joel Shapiro, Post-Minimalist Sculptor with a Keen Sense for Scale, Dies at 83

Joel Shapiro, 2008. Getty Images Joel Shapiro, an acclaimed Post-Minimalist sculptor whose work explored shifts in scale and perception, died on Saturday at 83. His death was announced on Sunday by Pace Gallery. The New York Times reported that he had been battling acute myeloid leukemia. Shapiro’s work has been seen widely, in particular his …

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Design Miami Announces 2025 Programming, Including New Event in Seoul

Design Miami will have a new 14-day event at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, South Korea in September. ⓒ 2024. Seoul Design Foundation Design Miami recently announced its events for its 20th anniversary year, including a new initiative which aims to highlight local design communities. Design Miami will hold a one-day event in Aspen …

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Museums in Tehran and Tel Aviv Move to Safeguard Their Collections

Smoke billows in the distance from an oil refinery following an Israeli strike on the Iranian capital Tehran on June 17, 2025. AFP via Getty Images Israel and Iran have taken measures to safeguard their cultural property amid escalating hostilities between the neighboring countries, which has included air strikes on cosmopolitan centers. Iran’s Cultural Heritage …

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Ahead of Art Basel, Katharina Grosse Sprays the Messeplatz with Color

Katharina Grosse. Photo Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP via Getty Images Over the past 40 years, German artist Katharina Grosse (b. 1961) has gained many fans for using an airless spray machine to make eye-catching, color-saturated, and immersive paintings. Many of her works have been shown in museums and galleries—one from 2004 involved spraying paint across the Contemporary …

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