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The Black Lives Matter Mural is Being Dismantled in Washington, D.C.

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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Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Wins Pritzker Prize for Thoughtful, Human-Centered Design

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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Mexican Artist Duo ASMA Follow Their Materials into the Unconscious 

ASMA, “Nude and the Staircase, (A Doll),” 2024. Doll (Found objects, wood, metal, epoxy resin, silicone, fabric, synthetic hair, cardboard, acrylic, elastic, plastic, polyurethane, adhesive tape), vintage miniature playing cards, artist-made lamps. Doll: 40 ½ x 11 ¾ x 4 inches (103 x 30 x 10 cm); installation dimensions variable. Commissioned SculptureCenter, New York. Courtesy …

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Gene Hackman’s Paintings, Canceled Exhibition in DC, and More: Morning Links for February 28, 2025

Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa pose for a portrait in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images Good Morning! Amid an ongoing investigation into the mysterious death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, the actor’s less-famous art practice comes to light.  Artist Andil Gosine’s exhibition based on his book about queer theory …

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Monaco Court Annuls Case Against Billionaire Art Collector Dmitry Rybolovlev

Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev attends the Rose Ball 2014 in aid of the Princess Grace Foundation at Sporting Monte-Carlo on March 29, 2014 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Getty Images Dmitriy Rybolovlev, the Russian billionaire and majority owner of the French football club AS Monaco, has been cleared of all criminal proceedings in Monaco, following a ruling by …

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Theater Producer Jenna Segal Brings Peggy Guggenheim’s Vision To the Present with ’31 Women’ Exhibition

Jenna Segal Rita Carmo In the mid-1990s, film producer Jenna Segal‘s life changed during a European backpacking trip. All it took was a visit to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice with her best friend. “This was before smartphones,” Segal told ARTnews from her office on West 57th Street in Manhattan, which, not coincidentally, was once …

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National Endowment for the Arts Scraps Challenge America Grant Program, Future of NYSE’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Uncertain, Tatsumi Orimoto Dies: Morning Links for March 06, 2025

The ‘Fearless Girl’ sculpture opposite the New York Stock Exchange by Kristen Visbal is in question. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines NEA NIXES GRANT. In the latest anti-DEI news, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has cancelled its Challenge America arts grant program for 2026, reports Hyperallergic. …

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Texas Lawmakers Take Aim at Pro-Palestine Student Art Exhibition

University of North Texas campus. via Google images. A Texas lawmaker urged university administrators to cancel a planned lecture, remove a student art exhibition, and review campus free speech policies, citing alleged antisemitism, according to NTdaily, the school’s news outlet. In a letter addressed to University President Harrison Keller and UNT System Chancellor Michael Williams, …

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Artist Young Joon Kwak Invites Audiences to the ‘Resisterhood’ with Glimmering Bejeweled Sculptures and Neon Works

Young Joon Kwak, “Uh, As If! (still),” 2014. HD video (color, sound). © Young Joon Kwak and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, an ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers who are making change in the art world. Welcome to the resisterhood. That’s the premise of Young Joon …

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