Walter Sickert, Ethel Sands Descending the Stairs at Newington , c. 1920 Collection of the Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK. Photo copyright © The Hepworth Wakefield/Bridgeman Images. The room comes into focus slowly. It’s an intimate space, with clothing strewn across a chair and a glimpse of a bed frame on the left side of …
Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu When Salvator Mundi, a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, fetched $450 million at Christie’s in 2017, it became the most expensive artwork ever sold. While male artists, dead or alive, keep breaking records at auctions (Jeff Koons’s $58.4 million Balloon Dog sculpture in 2013, Claude Monet’s $65.5 million Nymphéas painting …
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Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu. From the first wave of feminism in the 1840s to second-wave feminism and the Feminist art movement of the 1960s and ’70s through the intersectional feminism of today, these 15 artworks by American women stand out for the lasting impact they’ve had on art history. Read more of our Women’s History …
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Dundas Street, Edinburgh, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests across the UK. PA Images via Getty Images The Palestine Museum US in Woodbrigde, Connecticut, will launch a European satellite project in Edinburgh this May. The now space will be set in the Scottish city’s central Georgian-designed New Town, which was listed as …
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Photographer Sally Mann relaxes with her dog Honey in a meadow of tall grass on her farm near Lexington, Virginia. Photo Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images A Texas county will not take legal action against the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for showing Sally Mann photographs that some labeled “child pornography,” according …
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Japanese-born artist and musician Yoko Ono and British musican and artist John Lennon (1940 – 1980), December 1968. (Photo by Susan Wood/Getty Images) Getty Images Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Yoko, a new biography about Yoko Ono from author David Sheff. It releases March 25 from Simon and Schuster. On September 14, 1966, there …
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Ho Tzu Nyen, Screening of “Night Charades” on the M+ Facade, 2025. Courtesy of M+ and Art Basel, presented by UBS; Photo M+ Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. When Hong Kong‘s M+ opened in 2021 after over …
Fashion designer Jonathan Anderson walks the runway during the Loewe Menswear Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 24, 2023 in Paris, France. Getty Images On Monday, LVMH announced that heralded designer Jonathan Anderson was stepping down from his role as creative director of Loewe. Since joining Loewe in 2013, Anderson …
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The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, during its launch for the “Historias” initiative last fall. Photo Yann Chashanovski/Courtesy Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in the Lower East Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Founded …
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Reconstructed mid-3rd century CE Roman Mithraeum beneath Bloomberg’s European headquarters, 2017, London, England. Photo Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images The London Museum has received a donation of more than 14,000 Roman artifacts from the site of a 3rd century CE temple. The trove was unearthed between 2012–14, during the construction of …
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