Rana Begum with her work No. 1272 Chainlink (2023). Aric Attas, courtesy the Gallery at Windsor Growing up in Bangladesh and Hertfordshire, England, Rana Begum didn’t know that being an artist was a possible future for her. Her father worked various jobs to support the family, and brought them to the UK looking for a …
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Nan Goldin, Greer and Robert on the bed, New York City (1982) from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” 1973–86, 126 archival pigment prints, in frames, each: 15 3/4 × 11 × 1 1/8 inches (40 × 27.9 × 2.9 cm), overall dimensions variable, edition of 10 Artwork copyright © Nan Goldin. Digital image courtesy the …
Still image from Stephen Thomas Gallagher, Sunset – The Jubilation of The Baboons (2026) Courtesy of SWEAR Studio There are many people who say they have the coolest job in the world. Stephen Thomas Gallagher might actually have a case. He designs live shows for Gorillaz and Lana Del Rey. He helped build a blazing London tower block …
Mia Westerlund Roosen, Heat, 1981, installation view, at Nunu Fine Art, 2026. Photo Martin Seck/Courtesy the artist and Nunu Fine Art When artist Mia Westerlund Roosen debuted her conical sculptures, which unmistakably recall phalluses, at the “25th Anniversary Exhibition of Leo Castelli” in 1982, she did so as a form of feminist protest. The exhibition, …
The opening leads to a concealed space, roughly 2 feet by 2 feet, complete with a ladder down to the ground floor. Wikipedia A historic Manhattan home that’s long been a window into 19th-century New York life has revealed an unexpected secret. It turns out the Merchant’s House Museum, a preserved landmark in the NoHo …
Church of Saint-Eustache, Paris WMF. The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that it will commit $7 million in 2026 to support 21 new preservation projects. Founded in 1965 and originally known as the International Fund for Monuments, the New York–based WMF has for the last 60 years worked to preserve more than 700 heritage …
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Katherine Bernhardt, Spring Cleaning, 2026. Courtesy High Line Art High Line Art, the Cecilia Alemani–curated enterprise the programs and commissions public artworks for the reimagined elevated-train-track park in New York, announced its next season, to start in the spring and continue (in most cases) for around a year. In March, the High Line Billboard—a working …
The Africa Museum, formerly known as the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, near Brussels, Belgium on June 18, 2022. Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A museum devoted to Belgium’s colonial history in Africa has found itself involved in a dispute over access to documents pertaining to rich mineral deposits in what is …
The National Gallery in London. The National Gallery Photographic Department. The National Gallery in London will institute cuts to staff and programming in the face of a deficit that would, in the absence of “decisive remedial action,” grow by 2027 to £8.2 million ($11.2 million), says the institution in an emailed statement. The museum says …
Masterworks CEO Scott Lynn. Courtesy Masterworks From its offices on the 57th floor of 1 World Trade Center, employees at Masterworks hawk fractional ownership of blue-chip artworks, promising retail investors hefty returns. Reporting in both ARTnews in 2022 and the New York Times in 2024 has revealed a freewheeling atmosphere in which the company has …
