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Florida Art History Professor Suspended Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Controversial Bayeux Tapestry Transfer Is Delayed and More: Morning Links for September 18, 2025

(From L) Britain’s Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lisa Nandy, Director of the British Museum Nicholas Cullinan, and France’s Minister of Culture Rachida Dati sign an agreement for loaning exchange of Bayeux tapestry and Sutton Hoo treasures during a ceremony at The British Museum in London July 9, 2025, during the second day of a …

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Helen Frankenthaler Inspires Designer Ulla Johnson’s Spring Collection

A look from Ulla Johnson’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection show at Cooper Hewitt, September 14, 2025. Photo Giovanni Giannoni/WWD Ulla Johnson looked to Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler as lodestar for her spring collection, the next chapter after collaborating with female artists Lee Krasner, Anna Zemánková, and Shara Hughes.   “She struggled with the meaning of the word beautiful,” Johnson …

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Donald Moffett Takes Abstraction to Its Visceral Extreme, Addressing Climate Change and the Tense Political Moment

Donald Moffett, Aluminum/White House Unmoored (still), 2004. Photo Dan Bradica Studio/©2025 Donald Moffett/Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Anthony Meier, Mill Valley The title of Donald Moffett’s latest exhibition, “Snowflake,” is a deliberate provocation.“I don’t identify as a snowflake,” he told me, a week before the opening of the show, his first New York solo …

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Sally Mann Says She Was ‘Telling the Wrong Story’ with Her Photos of Black Men

Sally Mann. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images In her new memoir Art Work, photographer Sally Mann writes that she now has reservations about one series featuring Black men—and reveals that she even removed some of these works from her 2018 National Gallery of Art exhibition because of those concerns. For that series, titled “Men” and …

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German Artist Gabriele Stötzer Survived Prison, Censorship, and the Stasi

Gabriele Stötzer, ‘Lippen mit Draht’, 1983. © Gabriele Stötzer, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Courtesy LOOCK Galerie, Berlin On the banks of a glacial river high in the Swiss Alps, in a subterranean stone room among the remnants of a 12th-century Benedictine monastery, one can find the photographs of Gabriele Stötzer.The images are small and rudimentary, …

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The Enduring Mystery of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665 Mauritshuis Collection, The Hague, Netherlands. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. Everybody loves a good mystery. That may explain why, for generations, art lovers have sought to learn the identity of the unknown subject in Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665–67). Her ineffable pose (looking …

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Woodmere Art Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Canceled IMLS Grant

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), reported Bloomberg Law. The museum expected to receive a $750,000 grant award towards its historic preservation program. In March, …

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