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Franco Vaccari at the 1972 Venice Biennale with his piece Esposizione in tempo reale n. 4. Lascia sulle pareti una traccia fotografica del tuo passaggio. Courtesy the artist and P420 Franco Vaccari, an Italian conceptual artist whose experiments with photography expanded the medium’s possibilities, has died at 89. His death was announced by his gallery, …

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Several race cars at the the Salon Privé Concours 2024 at Blenheim Palace. The palace frequently plays hosts to major events in the UK. Getty Images Conservators currently at work restoring paintings in Blenheim Palace said they found the names of 11 people written in the ceiling decades ago, with the oldest dated to 1843. …

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“The World of Studio Ghibli” at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore, 2024. Photo Then Chih Wey/Xinhua via Getty Images “The World of Studio Ghibli”, a long-running immersive exhibition dedicated to the wildly popular Japanese animation studio, will next set up shop at Manarat Al Saadiyat, an arts and culture center in Abu Dhabi, the National …

Immersive Studio Ghibli Exhibition Travels to Abu Dhabi in May 2026 Read More »

Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali (1977) Robert McKeever One of the most recognizable faces in American culture returned to the site of his making on Wednesday, when Lévy Gorvy Dayan sold Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali (1977) for $18 million during the VIP Preview of Art Basel Miami Beach. The painting—autographed on the reverse by Ali and once …

A Knockout Sale: Warhol’s Ali Fetches $18 M. in the Building Where the Legend Was Born Read More »

CCI fellow Celia Irina González (left) and CCI curatorial associate Iberia Pérez González. Photo Lazaro Llanes During a week when all eyes (art world ones, at least) are on Miami, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has announced a pair of substantial gifts in support of the museum’s Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI). The Mellon Foundation …

Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Gifts Totaling $7 M. for Caribbean Cultural Institute Read More »

Aerial view of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art under construction, September 2025. Photo Pedro Ramirez/©2025 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, All Rights Reserved/Courtesy Hathaway Dinwiddie To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! Hauser & Wirth to open Sicily branch in historic Palazzo Forcella De Seta. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art …

Hauser & Wirth to Open in Palermo, Lucas Museum Chief Curator Out, and More: Morning Links for December 5, 2025 Read More »

Diana Ross performing at Alex Prager’s Mirage Factory, with Capital One and the Cultivist. Photo Bre Johnson/BFA.com An elegant, all-green room, meant to evoke a garden party in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park, was the setting for an intimate performance by the one and only Diana Ross. In a glimmering red-and-silver gown, Ross, accompanied by two …

Diana Ross Is Transcendent During Miami Art Week Performance Read More »

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 …

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

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 …

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

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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