Lonnie G. Bunch III. Getty Images On Monday evening, the Smithsonian Institution released its first statement since President Donald Trump said he fired National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet. In its statement, the institution affirmed that it is an “independent entity.” While the statement did not name Sajet nor call out Trump directly, it stated, …
Blue House, in Mexico City, the museum dedicated to artist Frida Kahlo on January 17, 2019. Getty Images A former director of museums devoted to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City has accused the trust that oversees those two institutions of years of mismanagement. In a statement to the Art Newspaper, which first …
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Diane Prince’s exhibition at the Suter Art Gallery. Mark Tantrum/Courtesy Suter Art Gallery A art museum has removed an artwork composed of New Zealand’s national flag printed with a message that invited viewers to walk on it. The artwork, a new version of a 1995 piece titled Flagging the Future, was on view in a …
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Japanese sculptor and terracotta artist Kunimasa Aoki. Courtesy Loewe LONDON — Japanese sculptor and terracotta artist Kunimasa Aoki has been named the winner of the 2025 Loewe Craft Prize on Thursday evening during an award ceremony in Madrid with a cash prize of 50,000 euros. Selected by a 12-member jury from 30 shortlisted works on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in …
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Gas flares (R-at back) at the Woodside operated North West Shelf Venture with rock (L-foreground) are shown on the Burrup Peninsula in the north of Western Australia on June 17, 2008. Piles of red rock which typify the Burrup area are the site for perhaps one million pieces of Aboriginal rock engravings several thousands of …
The Whitney Museum. Patrick McMullan via Getty Image On Monday, Whitney Museum director Scott Rothkopf sent the museum’s Independent Study Program an email in which he said he would “pause” the program’s 2025–26 academic year. “Today, the program is without a Director,” Rothkopf wrote in that email, which was obtained by ARTnews. “This leadership gap …
The ‘V&A East’ Storehouse is seen under construction at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London on March 16, 2023. AFP via Getty Images A group of officials overseeing major UK cultural institutions, including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the National Gallery, have signed a public letter defending the use …
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Listed by: Lisa and John Cregan of Sotheby’s International Realty – Palm Beach Brokerage FLYLISTED LLC. / Sotheby’s International Realty Jamie McCourt, a former US ambassador to France and Monaco, has added a Palm Beach landmark to her portfolio, paying $19.2 million for a restored house on North Lake Way, according to the Palm Beach Daily …
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – MAY 20: Fans take pictures of the mural of Pope Leo XIV during a rain delay in the game between the Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox at Rate Field on May 20, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images) Getty Images When white smoke rose above the Sistine Chapel …
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The Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd. AFP via Getty Images Nikolai Chesnokov, chancellor of Moscow’s State Academy of Physical Education, died on Thursday at the site of a World War II–era monument in the Russian city of Volgograd, according to reports in the local media. He was 68. Chesnokov had traveled to the city to …
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