Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656 Collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons Diego Velázquez’s 1656 portrayal of a Spanish princess and her entourage is one of the most important paintings in Western art history, if not the most conceptually complex by an old master. A deconstruction of the …
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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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 …
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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The Orange County Museum of Art. Photo Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group via Getty Images The University of California, Irvine, said it is discussing the possibility of a deal with the Orange County Museum of Art in Costa Mesa that would see the institutions merge. “UC Irvine and the Orange County Museum of Art are exploring a …
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Joyce Joumaa and Rhea Dillon. Courtesy Baloise Art Prize The Baloise Art Prize, a $36,800 award given out to two artists participating in the Statements sector of Art Basel annually, has this year gone to Rhea Dillon and Joyce Joumaa. Dillon’s work was brought to the fair by London’s Soft Opening gallery, whose booth showcased …
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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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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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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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National Guard troops beneath Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles this past weekend. Photo Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images History repeats itself, and so does Barbara Kruger. Over and over, she has created text-heavy artworks that make visible secret forms of power and control in the media. Over and …
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