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A Museum Dedicated to Works from the Sonnabend Collection Opens in Mantua, Italy

Torre Dell’Orologio and Palazzo della Ragione, Piazza delle Erbe, Mantua, Mantova, Italy, 2024 UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A museum dedicated to works from art dealer Ileana Sonnabend’s legendary collection opened this past weekend in the Renaissance city of Mantua, Italy, thanks to a partnership with the Sonnabend Foundation. The nearly 100 artworks on …

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Rediscovered Rubens Painting Sells for $2.7 M. in France

Peter Paul Rubens, Christ on the Cross, 1613. AFP via Getty Images A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, unseen for four centuries, has just sold at auction in Versailles for $2.7 million. Created in 1613, the painting shows Jesus Christ on the cross, a subject the Flemish Baroque Master returned to frequently. …

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Archaeologists in Northwest China Discover 573 Stone Forts

Ancient stone fortresses were uncovered in the mounts near Yulin, in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images A team of archaeologists and cultural heritage researchers in northern China have uncovered a network of 573 stone forts, the earliest of which date to approx. 2800 BC. The discovery took place in the …

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Conservative Legal Group Targets Upstate New York School over ‘Pornographic’ Keith Haring Artworks

Keith Haring. Photo Jack Mitchell/Getty Images After a teacher at an Upstate New York middle school asked students to visit the Keith Haring Foundation’s website for an assignment, a prominent conservative legal group got involved, claiming that children were “forced: to look at imagery that the organization termed “pornographic,” without specifying what that imagery was. …

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The ‘Pressure’ of Richard Hunt’s Sculptures Takes Center Stage in ICA Miami Survey

Richard Hunt in Chicago studio, 2020. ©2025 The Richard Hunt Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York “The material basis of my sculpture is metallic opportunities. Bringing pressure to the right points, I draw the aesthetic out of the industrial process,” Richard Hunt, one of the most prolific public sculptors in the United States, …

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How Romare Bearden’s Estate Is Bringing the Artist’s Work into the Digital Realm

Romare Bearden in front of Return of the Prodigal Son, undated. Romare Bearden Papers, The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. Even the estate of an artist as acclaimed as Romare Bearden has trouble tracking down the thousands of works he made over the course of his five-decade career. Known as one of America’s foremost collagists, Bearden …

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Artist Yang Fudong Summons the Future in One of His Biggest Exhibitions in China

Yang Fudong. Courtesy UCCA Center for Contemporary Art In his third year of college, the artist Yang Fudong decided to stop speaking. For what became Otherwhere: Not Speaking for Three Months (1993), he communicated largely by writing on his hand or signage. Sometimes he even traced his finger on a cold window and breathed to …

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Keith Haring Foundation Names Simon Castets, Former Director of Swiss Institute, as Next Executive Director

Keith Haring at his Crack is Wack mural, New York, NY, June 1986. Artwork © The Keith Haring Foundation. Photograph Tseng Kwong Chi © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc., New York The New York–based Keith Haring Foundation announced Tuesday that it has named Simon Castets as its next executive director. Castets, a French American curator …

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Craig Boagey’s Nests of Internet References Thread the Line Between Desire and Horror

An installation view of works in Craig Boagey’s “Spirit Economy” at Amanita in New York. Courtesy Amanita Girl with pitbull, bands of cash. The radiance of heaven. Being a teen. Gummy, chewy, delicious. Pink. Meme. Foucault and the way Foucault writes. Absurd extinction! Pagan root. Western civilization and liking it. Not like a boy likes …

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25 Native American Artists to Know

http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Kay-WalkingStick-North-Rim-Temple-2023-Oil-on-panel-in-two-2-parts-101.6-x-203.2-x-5.1-cm-40-x-80-x-2-in-K_WAL0392-Photo-by-JSP-Art-Photography-copy.jpg Kay WalkingStick, North Rim Temple, 2023 Courtesy of the artist and Hales, London and New York. Photo: JSP Art Photography. Native American artists have only recently gained a spotlight within the mainstream art world. For centuries, Native art was siloed on reservations, at trading posts, and in Indian markets, with no dedicated Indigenous commercial …

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