DeepTime Collective (Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer): Embodying the River (stream)” 2022, performance art with custom T-shirts and an installation with plastic, projections, and sound. Photo Allyn Griffin Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) have named this year’s recipients of the AWAW Environmental Art Grants program. …
A Roman mausoleum discovered in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, France. Photo Julien Bourreau, Musée Gallo-Romain A well-preserved Roman mausoleum, modeled after the famous Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, was discovered by archaeologists in Saint-Romain-en-Gal, near Lyon, France. Constructed around 50 CE, the interior of the structure measures more than 50 feet in diameter and is thought to have had …
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Life’s a beach: the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort will form the backdrop of the auctions. Courtesy sotheby’s. Sotheby’s will stage its first series of luxury marquee auctions in Abu Dhabi this December. Dubbed Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week, the sales will run from December 3 to 5 and span cars, watches, jewelry, and real estate, …
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A deleted real estate listing for a home in Argentina appeared to have featured a Nazi-looted painting by Giuseppe Ghislandi. Courtesy Robles Casas & Campos A Dutch newspaper said this week that it discovered a Nazi-looted painting from the Baroque era in a real estate listing for a home in Argentina. Not long afterward, the …
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Lindsay Jarvis in front of Variations in Time, a 1964 work by Forrest Bess (left) and From Time to Time He Played to Deactivate the Transistor, a 2025 work by Guillaume Denervaud. Courtesy Lindsay Jarvis On a sunny late-August afternoon, Lindsay Jarvis was installing works for his opening exhibition at his new 2,000-square-foot gallery, located …
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Wingu Tingima, Minyma Tjuta (Seven Sisters), 2006. Christian Markel/©Wingu Tingima/Copyright Agency, 2024/National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Make way for new museums far and wide this fall. The Museum of West African Art will fully open in Benin City, Nigeria, and the Almaty Museum of Arts will launch its program in Kazakhstan, where it has the …
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Just a phalacy? Experts can’t agree on how many penises are depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Almost 50,000 people have signed a petition to stop the Bayeux Tapestry being loaned to London’s British Museum. The appeal, which was launched in July by the French art historian Didier Rykner, cites warnings from textile …
The Smithsonian Institution. Photo David Ake/Getty Images On Thursday night, the White House appeared to denounce a range of artworks, shows, and objects on view at the Smithsonian Institution, continuing President Donald Trump‘s protest against the museum network. Published on the White House website as an article called “President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian,” …
Madagascar’s Minister of Culture Volamiranty Donna Mara (L) offers a gift to her France’s contrepart Rachida Dati flanked by France’s Delegate Minister for Francophonie and International Partnerships Thani Mohamed Soilihi during a ceremony for the restitution of three Sakalava skulls to Madagascar, at the Culture Ministry in Paris, on August 26, 2025. France returns three …
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After posting her painting G for Genocide, Danielle SeeWalker’s Vail residency was canceled. Courtesy the artist The Colorado town of Vail has settled a lawsuit brought by Danielle SeeWalker, a Denver-based Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation whose residency was canceled last year after she posted a pro-Palestine painting to social media. …
