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 …
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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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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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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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Peter Paul Rubens, Christ on the Cross, 1613. AFP via Getty Images A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, unseen for four centuries, has just sold at auction in Versailles for $2.7 million. Created in 1613, the painting shows Jesus Christ on the cross, a subject the Flemish Baroque Master returned to frequently. …
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Ancient stone fortresses were uncovered in the mounts near Yulin, in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images A team of archaeologists and cultural heritage researchers in northern China have uncovered a network of 573 stone forts, the earliest of which date to approx. 2800 BC. The discovery took place in the …
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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. …
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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Michael H. Smith Courtesy estate of Michael H. Smith Michael H. Smith, an artist, dealer, and curator who prized experimentation and was instrumental to helping develop the art scenes in Southern California in the 1970s and ’80s, died on October 31 in Santa Barbara. He was 80 years old. A cause was not given. Smith …
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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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