Sandy Rodriguez, Resistance Map of Gulf of Mexico (detail), 2025. ©Sandy Rodriguez/Courtesy The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art/Collection of the artist In the paintings on paper of Los Angeles–based artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez, each color has a defined function. “Each pigment carries symbolic power,” she recently told ARTnews. “Maya Blue connects us …
Madalena Santos Reinbolt, Untitled, 1969–77. Photo João Liberato Earlier this spring, artist Julia Isídrez led an informal guided tour at the São Paulo gallery Gomide & Co. The occasion was a joint exhibition featuring her work alongside that of Maria Lira. At face value, the two artists don’t seem to have much in common. They …
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Chanel’s Arts & Culture Magazine Vol. 1. Courtesy Chanel/Roe Ethridge via WWD Chanel is strengthening its cultural initiatives with celebrations for its centenary in the U.K. The French brand is launching Arts & Culture Magazine, a publication that revisits the brand’s work with artists and cultural institutions in the last five years. The project is …
View of the Uffizi Museum courtyard, 2024, Florence, Italy. Photo Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images A 17th-century portrait of Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici was damaged when a tourist tried to take a picture with the work for social media on Saturday at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy. On a visit to the museum, the young …
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Archaeologists cleaning the mosaic outside Alès, France. ©F. Giraud, Inrap The remains of a Gallo-Roman site overlooking the French city of Alès have been identified by archaeologists, the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) announced on Tuesday. Excavations conducted between February and June this year revealed the remains of dwellings, hydraulic systems, a domus …
Ai Weiwei in his studio. Photo Adam Simons/Courtesy RIBBON International This fall, Ai Weiwei will realize a new work in the Ukraine about the country’s ongoing war with Russia. Titled Three Perfectly Proportioned Spheres and Camouflage Uniforms Painted White, the work will be on view at Pavilion 13, a Soviet-era exhibition space in Kyiv, from …
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(L to R): Brett Gorvy, Philip Hoffman, Ed Dolman, Patti Wong, Alex Dolman Courtesy Emilio Madrid The art market isn’t broken, exactly, but in the eyes of art market veterans Ed Dolman, Alex Dolman, Brett Gorvy, Philip Hoffman, and Patti Wong, it doesn’t function the way it used to. The group aims to change that …
Nick Merriman. COURTESY ENGLISH HERITAGE The chief executive of English Heritage, the British conservation charity, has stepped down from his role having only joined at the beginning of 2024. English Heritage said in a statement that Nick Merriman resigned for personal reasons linked to family health. Geoff Parkin will now step into the role on …
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Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 Digital image copyright © The Museum of Modern Art, licensed by Scala/Art Resource, New York. Artwork copyright © 2025 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism’s most famous …
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Liz Collins Christopher Garcia Valle /ARTnews Liz Collins had her work cut out for her when she conceived the two 16-foot-long tapestries she showed at last year’s Venice Biennale. Both textiles feature mountain ranges whose peaks emit rainbows that twist through a dark sky, and though they were among the largest works in the Biennale, …
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