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 …
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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Dundas Street, Edinburgh, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests across the UK. PA Images via Getty Images The Palestine Museum US in Woodbrigde, Connecticut, will launch a European satellite project in Edinburgh this May. The now space will be set in the Scottish city’s central Georgian-designed New Town, which was listed as …
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Photographer Sally Mann relaxes with her dog Honey in a meadow of tall grass on her farm near Lexington, Virginia. Photo Michael Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images A Texas county will not take legal action against the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for showing Sally Mann photographs that some labeled “child pornography,” according …
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Reconstructed mid-3rd century CE Roman Mithraeum beneath Bloomberg’s European headquarters, 2017, London, England. Photo Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images The London Museum has received a donation of more than 14,000 Roman artifacts from the site of a 3rd century CE temple. The trove was unearthed between 2012–14, during the construction of …
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MF Husain’s portrayals of naked women continue to enrage hardline Hindus. Getty Images To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines HISTORIC MODERN IDIAN ART SALE. M.F. Husain’s 1954 painting Untitled (Gram Yatra) became the most expensive work of modern Indian art ever publicly auctioned, when it sold yesterday for $13.8 …
View of the new David Zwirner gallery, located at 533 West 19th Street, looking northeast. Rendering by Selldorf Architects David Zwirner will open its newest space in Chelsea on May 8 with a solo show for Michael Armitage. Located at 533 West 19th Street, the new, two-story location is adjacent to Zwirner’s two connected 19th …
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Scene 32 of the Bayeux Tapestry showing men staring at Halley’s Comet. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons A fragment of the Medieval Bayeux Tapestry has been found at the Schleswig-Holstein State archive in northern Germany, the Canberra Times reported. The famous embroidered tapestry depicts the Norman invasion of England by the Duke of Normandy in 1066. It …
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Mildred Thompson, Music of the Spheres: Mars, 1996. ©The Mildred Thompson Estate/Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. This spring, it’s Paris calling. The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that respectively focus on Black and Asian émigrés who …
A protest at the White House in February. Photo Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images A branch of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a federal organization that provides funding to many major arts centers across the US. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, the ACLU’s Rhode Island offshoot …
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