Exhibition view: “Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2024. Dario Lasagni In April 2019, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme were in the West Bank filming their latest installation. For the work, the artist duo, who are both of Palestinian descent, spent three years filming the …
Erarta Museum in St. Petersburg. COURTESY ERARTA MUSEUM St. Petersburg’s Erarta Museum – which holds the largest private collection of contemporary art in Russia – is staring down a raft of administrative charges after exhibiting a painting that Russian authorities say contains “Nazi symbols.” The case was brought on July 12 before the Vasilevsky District …
The complaint adds to a long list of artworks sought by the US Department of Justice. ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images The US Justice Department has reached an agreement with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, the former general counsel of Malaysia’s sovereign investment development fund (1MDB), to recover a $1.27 million drawing by Pablo Picasso that …
Jessie Homer French, Ghosts, 2012. ©Jessie Homer French/Courtesy Gagosian Actor and activist Jane Fonda has once again partnered with Gagosian gallery to present a second exhibition aimed at protecting neighborhoods from toxic oil drilling. In April, Fonda, Gagosian, and Christie’s partnered on a two-part benefit that was aimed at combatting a voter referendum on the …
The ancient neolithic monument of Stonehenge. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images UNESCO has postponed a decision to add Stonehenge to its “World Heritage in Danger” by 18 months, according to the Art Newspaper. The organization considered adding Stonehenge to that list because the UK government is planning to build a divided highway tunnel near the ancient …
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The Paris Olympics’s opening ceremony. Photo François-Xavier Marit – Pool/Getty Images The Headlines EPIC, UNIQUE, OLYMPIC. After giving his blood, sweat, and tears for 18 months, Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of Paris’s Olympics opening ceremony, the first one not to take place in a closed stadium, can be proud. His intention was to capture France in …
IV Chan, Ritual rehearsal : the Sacred and the Profane, 2020–24, installation view, in “Cantando Bajito: Incantations,” 2024, at Ford Foundation Gallery, New York. Photo Sebastian Bach/Courtesy Ford Foundation Gallery For 605 days, the Nicaraguan activist and historian Dora María Téllez Argüello was incarcerated for her political opposition to the country’s presidency turned dictatorship. While …
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York Guild Hall. The East End of Long Island, including the North Fork and the Hamptons, is known for its beautiful landscapes, beaches, farms, and vineyards, but that’s not all it has to offer. There is no shortage of art-forward activities for families and children to enjoy all summer long. …
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Bettina Steinbrügge, director of Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean. COUERTESY FABRIZIO VATIERI @ MUDAM It’s hard to think of a less radical place than Luxembourg City’s business quarter. The Kirchberg Plateau, as it’s known, is an administrative enclave of offices and people in suits bookended by the European Parliament’s Secretariat to the …
Interior installation view of Letitia Huckaby’s Memorable Proof, 2024, at 1767 Chowan County Courthouse, North Carolina. Photo Lissa Gotwals/©Letitia Huckaby/Courtesy the artist and The Harriet Jacobs Project Resting in the windowsills of the 1767 Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton, North Carolina, are the silhouettes of women appearing behind sheer floral curtains; their profiles overlook the …
