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 …
A maquette for one of Claire Tabouret’s windows for Notre-Dame. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Few contemporary public art projects have simultaneously stirred such artistic, theological, and political controversy as Notre-Dame Cathedral’s new stained glass windows. It’s no surprise, then, that the artist awarded the commission in 2024, the French figurative painter Claire …
The National Museum of Qatar, designed by Jean Nouvel, opened in Doha in 2019. Iwan Baan Happy Friday! Qatar has unveiled ambitious details for its inaugural quadrennial contemporary art exhibition set to coincide with neighboring Frieze Abu Dhabi in November. Fallout from the Epstein saga continues with new revelations of ties to SFMOMA. A small …
http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1236159105.jpg Ai Weiwei. Photo Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images In a new interview with The Guardian in advance of his forthcoming book On Censorship, artist Ai Weiwei talked about experiencing censorship not just in his native China but also in the West—including an incident involving his membership in London’s Royal Academy. After chronicling some of his …
Judy Chicago attends the New Museum’s 2023 Spring Gala in New York. Dominik Bindl/Getty Images For just about any artist, a major, permanent public commission from a giant global corporation might seem like great news. The artist might expect big budgets, massive exposure, and a ribbon-cutting with the mayor and CEO. Even Judy Chicago, an …
