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Texas Politician Proposes Plan to Fine Museums for Displaying ‘Obscene’ Content

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Photo Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images A Texas lawmaker has proposed a bill that could be used to keep certain kinds of art off view, the Fort Worth Report reports. On March 6, representative David Lowe filed House Bill 3958, which outlines a proposed civil penalty against any …

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Patti Smith to Perform at Rally to Save New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden Park

Patti Smith performing at Elizabeth Street Garden rally, 2025. Courtesy Rolling Stone Patti Smith performed at a New York City rally Tuesday as part of an effort to prevent a downtown park from being converted into affordable housing. The Elizabeth Street Garden, located between between Spring and Prince streets, has long been a community gathering place …

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Trump’s Smithsonian Executive Order, Explained: What Is the Smithsonian Institution, and What Will Happen to It?

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Photo Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Since retaking office in January, President Donald Trump has issued a flood of executive orders taking up topics such as the importation of Chinese goods, Venezuelan immigrants, union protections, and electoral politics. But one executive order has the art world particularly worried, and that …

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Sculptor Ti Pèlen, Known Figure in Haitian Arts Collective, Dies at 66

Portrait of Ti Pelen. Courtesy Leah Gordon/Pioneer Works. Haitian sculptor Ti Pèlen, whose birth name is Jean Salomon Horace, died last month at the age of 66. His cause of death remains undisclosed. His family will preserve the remaining artworks in his possession, according to a spokesperson for Pioneer Works, which featured his work in …

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Wildfires Destroy Ancient Korean Temple, X-Ray Reveals That Joan Miró Painted Over His Mother’s Portrait, and More: Morning Links for March 27, 2025

The wildfires in Korea consumed the ancient Gounsa temple. Photo Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines A MASSIVE WILDFIRE IN SOUTH KOREA has killed at least 27 people in Uiseong County in North Gyeongsang and destroyed the Buddhist Gounsa temple, founded in 681 CE, according to Korea JoongAng Daily and the BBC. Though the temple’s structure could not be …

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Spanish Art Dealer Under Investigation for Fraud over Painting Marketed as Lost Caravaggio

Museo del Prado, Madrid Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images. A painting that for short while was referred to as a lost Caravaggio is now at the center of a major fraud investigation in Spain. The artwork, Ecce Homo with Two Executioners, was sold by Herennia Trillo, a Spanish art dealer, for nearly $300,000 in early …

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Curator Sam Ozer, Creator of Mexico’s TONO Festival, on Museum Collaborations and Funding Time-Based Work

Eartheater & Freeka Tet – screening of new video directed by Freeka Tet and live performance with the world premiere of Eartheater’s new song “Shark Brain” performed by her and Estrella del Sol at Ex Teresa Arte Actual Courtesy TONO Editor’s Note: This story is part of Newsmakers, a new ARTnews series where we interview the movers and shakers …

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New York’s Natural History Museum Returns Shrine to First Nations Community

Exterior view of The American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation on May 10, 2023. Corbis via Getty Images New York’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has returned a shrine known as the Whalers’ Washing House to Mowachaht, a First Nations people in Canada. The Whalers’ Washing House …

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