Lumin Wakoa. Photo Brad Ogbonna Lumin Wakoa, a rising painter whose art was part of a quest to better learn how to see the world around her, has died at 43. Her death was announced by her gallery, Harper’s, on Monday. Her husband Hendrik Gerrits wrote on Instagram that she had been battling brain cancer. …
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The White House. Getty Images The Trump administration‘s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers moved closer to a reality on Tuesday, when the United States Supreme Court lifted a lower court order that had temporarily blocked the terminations. The initial lawsuit addressed by the lower court was jointly filed on April 28 by the American …
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Adam Lindemann. Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Last week, dealer Tim Blum told ARTnews that he was closing up shop in search of a new model for art dealing. “Everybody talks about wanting to step off,” Blum said. “But nothing ever really changes.” But Blum isn’t the only one getting out of the gallery business. On …
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A diver carefully brushes sand away from stacked ceramics found in a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. Courtesy the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey Hundreds of ancient ceramics “perfectly stacked in their original position” have been found in a shipwreck off the coast of Turkey. The ceramic plates, trays, and bowls date back …
Jeff Bezos nowhere to be seen: ‘Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day’ by Canaletto. Courtesy of Christie’s Christie’s Old Masters evening sale in London on Tuesday set a new auction record for Canaletto, when one of his celebrated Venice views sold for £31.9 million with fees ($43.7 million). Venice, the Return of …
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The British Museum, London Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images. The British Museum, the world’s first free-to-the-public national museum, opened its doors in 1759. Founded in 1753 by an act of Parliament, after the physician and collector Hans Sloane bequeathed his collection to the nation, the museum immediately had a base of 71,000 items to …
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Sandy Rodriguez, Resistance Map of Gulf of Mexico (detail), 2025. ©Sandy Rodriguez/Courtesy The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art/Collection of the artist In the paintings on paper of Los Angeles–based artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez, each color has a defined function. “Each pigment carries symbolic power,” she recently told ARTnews. “Maya Blue connects us …
Madalena Santos Reinbolt, Untitled, 1969–77. Photo João Liberato Earlier this spring, artist Julia Isídrez led an informal guided tour at the São Paulo gallery Gomide & Co. The occasion was a joint exhibition featuring her work alongside that of Maria Lira. At face value, the two artists don’t seem to have much in common. They …
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Chanel’s Arts & Culture Magazine Vol. 1. Courtesy Chanel/Roe Ethridge via WWD Chanel is strengthening its cultural initiatives with celebrations for its centenary in the U.K. The French brand is launching Arts & Culture Magazine, a publication that revisits the brand’s work with artists and cultural institutions in the last five years. The project is …
View of the Uffizi Museum courtyard, 2024, Florence, Italy. Photo Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images A 17th-century portrait of Grand Prince Ferdinando de’ Medici was damaged when a tourist tried to take a picture with the work for social media on Saturday at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy. On a visit to the museum, the young …
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