Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu. The business cards that Mary Reynolds had made were in all capital letters and simply read: MARY REYNOLDS / RELIURE / 24 R. HALLÉ / PARIS XIV. It’s unclear why she wanted them, since her reliure (French for “bookbinding”) was mostly for herself. The address was semi-accurate. Reynolds had a place …
Photocollage by Daniela Hritcu. In a photograph from 1994, the Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray sits cross-legged on the ground wearing a purple sweater and a black beanie. Though the canvas stretching out before her is enormous, she is absorbed in a small section, carefully dabbing at the material with a long brush dipped in …
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Installation view of “Living Architecture: Gehry” at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. © Refik Anadol, Bilbao 2025 Refik Anadol had Mark Rothko on his mind last week as he unveiled “Living Architecture: Gehry,” an AI-powered reimagining of Frank Gehry’s architectural legacy at the Guggenheim Bilbao. “I’m hoping that this artwork not only talks about technology but …
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Installation view of “Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith: CORRESPONDENCES,” 2025, at Kurimanzutto, New York. Photo Zach Hyman/Courtesy Kurimanzutto Crickets in Ibiza, traditional Georgian music, sounds of the Amazon River recently filled the cavernous Chelsea outpost of Kurimanzutto. Across sound pieces, eight two-channel films, mixed-media collages, drawings, and sculpture, Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective contemplated our …
Scene 32 of the Bayeux Tapestry showing men staring at Halley’s Comet. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons A fragment of the Medieval Bayeux Tapestry has been found at the Schleswig-Holstein State archive in northern Germany, the Canberra Times reported. The famous embroidered tapestry depicts the Norman invasion of England by the Duke of Normandy in 1066. It …
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Mildred Thompson, Music of the Spheres: Mars, 1996. ©The Mildred Thompson Estate/Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. This spring, it’s Paris calling. The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that respectively focus on Black and Asian émigrés who …
A protest at the White House in February. Photo Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal organization that provides funding to many major arts centers across the US. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, the ACLU’s Rhode Island offshoot …
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The Temple of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt, 2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Archaeologists have discovered a collection of jewelry dating back to the early 26th Dynasty during excavation work in the northwestern part of the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. The Temple of Karnak is one of Egypt’s most significant complexes, boasting as many as 20 …
Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th Street, Washington, D.C., 2021. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images On Monday, construction crews began dismantling the Black Lives Matter (BLM) mural in Washington, D.C., just down the street from President Donald Trump‘s official residence. The large, yellow mural, which was part of a larger plaza, was painted by the city …
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Pritzker Prize winner Liu Jiakun’s West Village complex. photo courtesy of Chen Chen Liu Jiakun, a Chengdu-based architect known for his sensitive, place-driven approach to design, has been awarded the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious honor in architecture. Liu, who has spent decades crafting a body of work rooted in the traditions and materials of …
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