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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Photo by Sebastien ST-JEAN / AFP The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg has been threatened with legal action by an Israeli organization over an exhibition about the Nakba, with the group arguing that the presentation “politicizes” history, according to local media reports.   Shurat HaDin – …

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Hans H. Biermann-Ratjen presents Hannah Arendt the certificate of the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in the Kaisersaal of Hamburg City Hall. ullstein bild via Getty Images A culture prize that has been awarded in Germany for nearly five decades will be renamed due to the Nazi ties of the …

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TOPSHOT – French photographer and street artist JR, poses in his Paris studio on November 26, 2025, presenting “The Cave of the Pont Neuf,” the artwork he will create as a tribute to Christo and Jeanne-Claude, transforming the Pont Neuf forty years after the wrapping of Paris’s oldest bridge. This work will be on display …

JR Talks His Homage to Christo, Christie’s Sells $162.7 M. In Tepid Postwar and Contemporary Auction, and More: Morning Links for May 21, 2026 Read More »

Nadar, Untitled (Man on horse), ca. 1865 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Joy of Giving Something Inc. Photo: Trevor Davis – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic …

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Clothing from the Hurley x Keith Haring collection. Courtesy Hurley The streetwear brand Hurley, which is known for surf and swim apparel, has released a capsule collection inspired by Keith Haring, one of the most recognizable and oft-licensed American artists. The collection includes cotton T-shirts, board shirts, bucket and trucker hats, bathing suits, and sweatshirts …

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Ronald Lauder with Gustav Klimt’s Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, one of the Neue Galerie’s prized possessions. Photo Chris Hondros/Getty Images The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York’s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the …

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Band-aids featuring designs by Redon, Van Gogh, and Monet Kenvue Brands LLC. Following the success of their 2025 collaboration, BAND-AID® Brand and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have reunited to produce a new lineup of art-themed adhesive bandages. This year, the band-aids feature details from three flower paintings in the Met’s collection: Impressionist painter Claude …

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Sotheby’s sold an $85.8 million Rothko painting from dealer Robert Mnuchin’s holdings on Thursday. Julian Cassady Photography/Alive Coverage/Courtesy Sotheby’s Good Morning! Sotheby’s kicked off the May marquee auction season with a $433.1 million result at its modern and contemporary art evening sales. Australia’s Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal people say a $107 million payout from a recent …

Rothko Leads Sotheby’s $433.1 M. Contemporary Art Sale, UK Returns Artifacts to Ethiopia, and More: Morning Links for May 15, 2026 Read More »

Valie Export, 2025. Photo Nicole Toferer Valie Export, whose groundbreaking work questioned the very nature of art and cinema, all through an explicitly feminist lens, has died at 85. The news was confirmed by Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, which represents her. Her death on May 14 came three days before her 86th birthday, according to AFP. …

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Molemo Moiloa (left) and Chao Tayiana Maina (right), founders of Open Restitution Africa (ORA) Mekbib Tadesse, 2025. On March 31, the research initiative Open Restitution Africa (ORA) launched the ORA Open Data Platform, a database that provides information on the restitution of African artifacts and ancestral remains. Developed over six years by ORA’s all-woman, pan-African …

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