Saint Francis of Assisi (1747), by an unknown artist, is returned to the Church of San Francisco de Asis in Teotihuacán, Mexico. Courtesy Morton Subastas A church in Mexico has been reunited with a painting of Saint Francis of Assisi, its namesake, that was stolen nearly a quarter-century ago. Thieves entered the Church of San …
Still from Andrew Thomas Huang’s video installation and sculpture The Deer of Nine Colors, 2025. Courtesy Onassis ONX The Onassis Foundation’s experimental art and tech studio Onassis ONX is doubling its size at a new location in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. It is slated to open with the multimedia exhibition “TECHNE: Homecoming” in January. Founded in …
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Aerial view of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art under construction, September 2025. Photo Pedro Ramirez/©2025 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, All Rights Reserved/Courtesy Hathaway Dinwiddie The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has set its opening date for September 22, 2026. The Lucas Museum has been in the works for over a …
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Band of Holes, Pisco Valley, Peru, 2010. Courtesy Wikimedia Researchers from the University of Sydney have uncovered new evidence that might solve one of South America’s most enduring archaeological puzzles—the “Band of Holes,” an almost one mile stretch of more than 5,000 circular depressions carved into the desert hills of Peru’s Pisco Valley. According to Science …
Mindy Seu performs her lecture “A Sexual History of the Internet.” Max Lakner Editor’s note: This story is the latest edition of Link Rot, a new column by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei that explores the intersections of art, technology, and the internet. Now that I’ve captured your attention, please buy my book. Or my skin cream. Or my …
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s new galleries. Photo Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images As New York museums go, the Studio Museum in Harlem does not hold the largest collection, or even the widest-reaching one, but this has always been a feature, not a bug. First opened in 1968, the museum is focused specifically on …
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LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 13: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Getty Images Los Angeles County Museum of Art leadership has declined to voluntarily recognize LACMA United, the union that hundreds of its staff voted to form last week, opting instead to …
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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 …
