Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884–86. The Art Institute of Chicago A view of weekend day-trippers at a popular Parisian park overlooking the Seine, Georges Seurat’s Post-Impressionist masterpiece, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–86), is a study in contradictions: a painting of modern life that doesn’t capture a moment so much …
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Portrait of Raymond Saunders, 1981, by Mimi Jacobs. Courtesy Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Raymond Saunders, who created enigmatic paintings often infused with sociopolitical undertones, has died at 90. Casemore, Andrew Kreps, and David Zwirner galleries, all which co-represented the artist, announced his passing in a joint statement on Instagram on Monday. Saunders’s work …
Maurizio Cattelan Comedian (2019) Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images. A visitor to France’s Pompidou-Metz last week took a bite of an iteration of Comedian (2019), Maurizio Cattelan‘s infamous conceptual artwork that involves a banana duct-taped to a wall, the museum announced on Friday. Exhibitors said the visitor ate the fruit on display at the museum …
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The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2018. Photo Michael Perez Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation, in partnership with the Penn Museum, is expanding its online learning technology this fall. The Visual Experience Platform (VXP), which was developed by the Barnes to teach visual material to K-12 students as well as adults, will host the Penn Museum’s “Deep Dig” …
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An archaeologist excavating the tomb’s stone enclosure. Photo courtesy the Complex of Landscape Parks of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship. Archaeologists recently discovered two megalithic tombs built 5,500 years ago in Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park in west-central Poland. The tombs are considered among the largest sepulchral structures built in prehistoric Poland and commonly known as “Polish pyramids”, …
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Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters. Getty Images A planned research facility by Weill Cornell Medicine at 1334 York Avenue—the former headquarters of Sotheby’s—is moving forward despite a federal funding freeze that has disrupted hundreds of research projects across the university. A story published on July 22 in Crain’s, citing data from S&P, claimed the auction house was “exposed to the turmoil” …
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Migrant Child (2019), by British street artist Banksy in Venice. VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images A fading Banksy mural in Venice has been removed from the side of a palazzo for restoration, according to The Associated Press, two years after officials first sparked debate by introducing the unconventional option. Titled Migrant Child, the piece shows a child in …
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Jeff Koons, (Sleeping Hermaphrodite) Gazing Balls, 2025, installation view. Photo: ©2025 Marc Domage/Centre Pompidou-Metz; Art: ©Jeff Koons Just over a year ago, some 100 high-profile contemporary artists—from Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy to Julie Mehretu and Camille Henrot to Claire Tabouret and Julien Creuzet—were invited to copy masterpieces from the Louvre’s collection. Their imitations now form …
Archaeological site of Carthage (Unesco World Heritage List, 1979), Tunisia Getty Images. Modern Carthage is a residential suburb (population 26,000) of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. But in its heyday, the seaside town was the seat of the Carthaginians, whose North African empire gave ancient Greece and Rome a run for their money. Established in …
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Offline director Mika Bar-On Nesher. Courtesy of Offline Earlier this month, Offline, a new, brick-and-mortar gallery created by digital marketplace SuperRare, opened the evocatively titled group exhibition, “Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time.” While Offline did a soft launch in April, the current exhibition is the first open to the public, and it has been …
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