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Climate Activist Hurls Pink Paint at Picasso Painting at Montreal Museum

Pablo Picasso’s L’hetaire (1901) covered in pink paint. Last Generation Canada On Thursday, a Picasso painting on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was splashed with bright pink paint by an environmental activist, in the latest of such attempts to draw attention to the accelerating climate crisis.  Footage posted on social media by …

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Curtis Yarvin Details Proposed Titian-Centric ‘Art Hos’ US Pavilion for Venice Biennale

Martin Puryear’s 2019 US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images Two weeks after the New Yorker revealed that a “dissident-right art hos” US Pavilion was being floated for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Vanity Fair has now reported further details of the proposal, which hinges on the loan of a Titian painting from …

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Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Design in London’s St James’s Park Includes Sculpture by Yinka Shonibare

Tourists outside Buckingham Palace in St James’s Park, London, England, 2025. Photo James D. Morgan/Getty Images The final design plans for a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in London’s St James’s Park have been determined by the UK government. A team led by architect Norman Foster of Foster + Partners, which includes British-Nigerian artist …

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British Team Uncovers Lost Nile Delta City Built Around Temple and Trade

Excavation trench showing mudbrick layers and a foundation wall at Tell al-Faraun. Hamada Hussein Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of Imet, a once-prominent city in Egypt’s Nile Delta, buried for centuries beneath a mound in the Sharqia governorate. The discovery, led by a British team from the University of Manchester, was announced this week by …

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Guerrilla Girls: Fighting Discrimination, One Poster at a Time

Guerrilla Girls Kathe Kollwitz, Zubeida Agha, and Frida Kahlo during a press preview for the exhibition “Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready To Make Nice, 30 Years and Still Counting,” at the Abrons Art Center, New York, April 30, 2015 Copyright © Guerilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com. Photo: Andrew Hinderaker. As revolutionaries often do, the feminist collective known …

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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Reclaiming Her Prison Time Through Art

Nadya Tolokonnikova: Police State, 2025, performance, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Photo Yulia Shur. Courtesy LA MOCA. Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. More than a decade after Pussy Riot cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova was imprisoned in Russia for …

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Who Was Helen Chadwick, and Why Was She So Important?

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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Man Sits On and Breaks Crystal-Encrusted ‘Van Gogh’ Chair in Italian Museum Before Fleeing

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 …

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Joel Shapiro, Post-Minimalist Sculptor with a Keen Sense for Scale, Dies at 83

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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