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Neolithic Pits Near Stonehenge Might Have Channeled the Underworld, Archaeologists Argue

Aerial view of the Durrington Walls and Woodhenge in 2022. Getty Images An enormous pit circle near Stonehenge was created by Neolithic-era humans who might have conceived it as a portal to the underworld, according to archaeologists behind a newly published paper. “The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they …

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FLAG Art Foundation Endows £200,000 Artist Prize at London’s Serpentine Galleries

The Serpentine in London. Photo Andy Stagg for Serpentine The New York–based FLAG Art Foundation will give £1 million ($1.3 million) to the Serpentine Galleries in London to endow a new artist prize. The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize, as it will be called, will be awarded every other year to an international artist …

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A Museum Dedicated to Works from the Sonnabend Collection Opens in Mantua, Italy

Torre Dell’Orologio and Palazzo della Ragione, Piazza delle Erbe, Mantua, Mantova, Italy, 2024 UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. A museum dedicated to works from art dealer Ileana Sonnabend’s legendary collection opened this past weekend in the Renaissance city of Mantua, Italy, thanks to a partnership with the Sonnabend Foundation. The nearly 100 artworks on …

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Conservative Legal Group Targets Upstate New York School over ‘Pornographic’ Keith Haring Artworks

Keith Haring. Photo Jack Mitchell/Getty Images After a teacher at an Upstate New York middle school asked students to visit the Keith Haring Foundation’s website for an assignment, a prominent conservative legal group got involved, claiming that children were “forced: to look at imagery that the organization termed “pornographic,” without specifying what that imagery was. …

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Thirty-Five Arrested in Bulgaria, with Ties to Larger Criminal Art Trafficking Network

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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Tinworks Art in Montana Inaugurates Newly Acquired Theater with Matthew Barney Film

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

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 …

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