Charles I with his wife Empress Zita circa 1916. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the Habsburg …
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Timothee Chalamet in Rome in May. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images In a restless and ping-ponging profile for Vogue, actor Timothée Chalamet paid a visit to one of the most mystique-intensive artworks of this or any century: Michael Heizer’s monumental Land art installation City. The work, measuring a mile-and-a-half long by a half-mile wide …
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bayou, 1984. Alex Greenberger/ARTnews Ahead of its public reopening on November 15, the Studio Museum in Harlem showed off its new building to the press on Thursday, revealing a multitude of treasures that have entered its holdings since its closure in 2018—including the first Jean-Michel Basquiat painting to join the museum’s collection. The …
Installation view of “View Finding: Selections from the Walther Collection,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 28, 2025–May 3, 2026 Hyla Skopitz Last May the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that photography collector Artur Walther, via his Walther Family Foundation, had made a promised gift to the museum of more than …
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Storm surge is pictured before the arrival of Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean Terrace area of Kingston, Jamaica, on October 25, 2025. Deadly storm Melissa strengthened Saturday afternoon into a Category 1 hurricane, with rapid intensification expected over the weekend as it cut a worryingly slow course toward the Caribbean island of Jamaica, forecasters said. …
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Rendering of Prequel Park, Dogpatch Power Station, for which the ICA SF will organize the public art program. ©Hayes Davison The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) will leave its current home at The Cube in December in favor of adopting a “a fully nomadic, citywide model” that will see it present exhibitions …
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Samia Halaby’s work at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art. Sarah Douglas/ARTnews The Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar is showing works by Samia Halaby that were meant to appear in a canceled survey to be held last year at Indiana University. In December 2023, the school’s Eskenazi Museum of Art called off the …
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Exterior view of the front entrance of the Oakland Museum of California, 2010. Photo Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images More than 1,000 objects were stolen from the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)’s collection earlier this month, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. On October 15, around 3:30 a.m., a thief or group of …
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Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares inaugurating “Half the World: Women in Indigenous Mexico” Courtesy el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación de España On Friday, Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares inaugurated a sprawling exhibition titled “Half the World: Women in Indigenous Mexico,” with more than 400 works on loan from the …
Hale A. Woodruff, Opening Day at Talladega College (1942) Historical Collection of Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama In a move that may shine light on how museums and institutions could share the responsibility of preserving cultural heritage, Alabama’s Talladega College has entered into a partnership with three art institutions to share six monumental artworks. The alliance—between …
