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Alleged Capital Jewish Museum Shooter Filmed His Crime with Bodycam

The Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images The man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May appears to have worn a bodycam and filmed the incident, according to federal investigators. Elias Rodriguez, the suspect, was indicted on hate …

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Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt Win $250,000 Heinz Awards

Artist Jennifer Packer. Photo Joshua Franzos American artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt were named on Tuesday the winners of this year’s Heinz Awards for the Arts. Now in its 30th year, the awards are distributed by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation and each carries an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000. Six recipients are named annually, two in each of …

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Cuban Museum Won’t Lend Wifredo Lam Works to MoMA Due to U.S. Customs Laws

Wifredo Lam: The Jungle, 1942–43. ©Wifredo Lam Estate, ADAGP, Paris, and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Museum of Modern Art’s Wifredo Lam retrospective, “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” one of the more hotly anticipated fall exhibitions, will not feature artworks from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. According to a …

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David Lynch’s Daughter Urges Artists to Buy Her Dad’s Starry LA Compound

David Lynch at his studio in 2002. Chris Weeks/WireImage “An artist or artists should be there,” David Lynch’s daughter wrote of the newly on-the-market Los Angeles home of the famed artist and filmmaker who died this past January. In a Reddit thread under the mantle thatjenlynch, Jennifer Lynch, herself a filmmaker and the author of …

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Florida Art History Professor Suspended Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Controversial Bayeux Tapestry Transfer Is Delayed and More: Morning Links for September 18, 2025

(From L) Britain’s Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lisa Nandy, Director of the British Museum Nicholas Cullinan, and France’s Minister of Culture Rachida Dati sign an agreement for loaning exchange of Bayeux tapestry and Sutton Hoo treasures during a ceremony at The British Museum in London July 9, 2025, during the second day of a …

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Helen Frankenthaler Inspires Designer Ulla Johnson’s Spring Collection

A look from Ulla Johnson’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection show at Cooper Hewitt, September 14, 2025. Photo Giovanni Giannoni/WWD Ulla Johnson looked to Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler as lodestar for her spring collection, the next chapter after collaborating with female artists Lee Krasner, Anna Zemánková, and Shara Hughes.   “She struggled with the meaning of the word beautiful,” Johnson …

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Sally Mann Says She Was ‘Telling the Wrong Story’ with Her Photos of Black Men

Sally Mann. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images In her new memoir Art Work, photographer Sally Mann writes that she now has reservations about one series featuring Black men—and reveals that she even removed some of these works from her 2018 National Gallery of Art exhibition because of those concerns. For that series, titled “Men” and …

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Woodmere Art Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Canceled IMLS Grant

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), reported Bloomberg Law. The museum expected to receive a $750,000 grant award towards its historic preservation program. In March, …

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