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Recovered stolen artifacts found in a raid. Courtesy Europol Bulgarian authorities, with the support of Europol, busted a criminal network involved in the trafficking of thousands of cultural artifacts across Europe on Tuesday, according to Europol. Investigations are still ongoing. Conducted by a Europol operational task force, the investigation has involved law enforcement and judicial …

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Michael H. Smith Courtesy estate of Michael H. Smith Michael H. Smith, an artist, dealer, and curator who prized experimentation and was instrumental to helping develop the art scenes in Southern California in the 1970s and ’80s, died on October 31 in Santa Barbara. He was 80 years old. A cause was not given. Smith …

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The Rialto in Bozeman, Montana. Dan Armstrong Tinworks Art, an enterprise that garnered attention last year with an ambitious resurrection of Agnes Denes’s storied Wheatfiled Land art work in Bozeman, Montana, is making its next move with a newly acquired historic theater to be inaugurated with screenings of Matthew Barney’s 2018 film Redoubt. The program …

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Installation view of “Eadweard Muybridge, Michael Snow, Haim Steinbach,” 1995, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York. Courtesy Jay Gorney Modern Art Lari Pittman’s first New York solo show, the first time Nan Goldin showed prints of her famed The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985), Barbara Bloom’s conceptual reimagining of the Titanic’s ocean-floor detritus, Catherine Opie’s …

You Can Now Explore the Archives of Jay Gorney Modern Art, a Seminal New York Gallery in the 1980s and ’90s Read More »

Patti Smith, 1975. Getty Images Rosalía’s fourth studio album, the divinely affected LUX, unfolds in four parts and 13 languages, with several choirs contributing to the miraculous feat of an avant-garde chart-topper. A sonic scripture of desire and ruin, it accordingly invokes god: Patti Smith. A 1976 interview recording of Smith closes the flamenco ballad …

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CATPC members (from left) Olele Mulela Mabamba, Irene Kanga, Huguette Kilembi, Jeremie Mabiala, Jean Kawata, Mbuku Kimpala, Ced’art Tamasala and Matthieu Kasiama, 2020, © CATPC In recent years, museums have expressed their wishes to rethink their pasts, returning looted objects, acknowledging the original inhabitants of the land where they are located, and taking steps to …

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Saint Francis of Assisi (1747), by an unknown artist, is returned to the Church of San Francisco de Asis in Teotihuacán, Mexico. Courtesy Morton Subastas A church in Mexico has been reunited with a painting of Saint Francis of Assisi, its namesake, that was stolen nearly a quarter-century ago.  Thieves entered the Church of San …

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