Cecily Brown, The Serpentine Picture, 2024. Genevieve Hanson/©2026 Cecily Brown All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Over in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging a Raphael retrospective—the first ever devoted to the Renaissance …
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Tod Lippy, All of the Gang (2026). Courtesy Tod Lippy. Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still …
“Meet Me at the Zoo,” the first video uploaded to YouTube, 2005. Photo Peter Kelleher/© Victoria and Albert Museum, London On Wednesday, the V&A in London reopened several galleries dedicated to design from the past 126 years. The newly installed Design 1900-Now spaces, which had been closed since November, showcase 250 objects from the 20th …
French police officers patrol in front of the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA – Arab World Institute) during a search as part of investigations entrusted to the National Anti-Fraud Office (ONAF) on the Epstein case linked to its president Jack Lang, at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on February 16, 2026. AFP via …
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Bernini’s sculpture of an elephant in the Piazza della Minerva in Rome. Getty Images/iStockphoto Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s popular marble sculpture of an elephant in Rome’s Piazza della Minerva was damaged over the weekend, with a four-inch fragment of the tip of one of its tusks broken off and found on the ground. Local …
The December 2006 YouTube watch page acquired and reconstructed by the Victoria & Albert Museum. Courtesy Victoria & Albert Museum The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has acquired the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, as well as an early watch page of the video-sharing platform, for its collection. The video, “Me at the …
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A model of President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A group of three military veterans and a historical preservationist filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proposed 250-foot arch that opponents contend would mar the views from Arlington National Cemetery to other monuments around …
Gayton McKenzie, South Africa’s culture minister, was protested after he canceled Gabrielle Goliath’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images After canceling a planned pavilion by Gabrielle Goliath that would have featured references to Israel’s war in Gaza, South Africa will not take part at all in this year’s Venice …
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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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