King Charles follows Sharon Ament (L), director of the Museum of London, as he tours the Smithfield Market site. POOL/AFP via Getty Images The new London Museum has been handed an extra $65 million to help get its construction to the finish line. The institution has now eclipsed its original budget of $445 million from …
Artemisia Gentileschi, Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1625–26. Kimbell Art Museum The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting that has been owned by private collectors for nearly 400 years. When the work goes on view today, it will be the first time the painting has been exhibited publicly since the …
A more than 3,000 year old jar lays shattered on the floor. Hecht Museum staff A curious four-year-old boy visiting the Hecht Museum in Israel with his family inadvertently smashed a jar that predates the time of Biblical main characters King David and King Solomon. The boy’s father told the BBC that his son was simply “curious …
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Caitlin Berry. Will Kirk for Johns Hopkins University Caitlin Berry has been named the inaugural director of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, a new university art gallery that is part of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. She began in her role in August. Berry was most recently the inaugural director …
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The glass facade of the newly expanded and renovated Museum of Modern Art, reflects the surrounding buildings. The new MoMA, designed by architect Yoshio Tanigchi, is twice as large as before and cost $425 million to be built. (Photo by James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images A long-running legal dispute over a …
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In a word, this fall’s offerings are electric. The word shows up in the titles of not one but two tech-minded shows—one devoted to Op art and its influence, the other to the rise of digital art, at the Buffalo AKG Art Gallery and Tate Modern, respectively. It may as well also have figured in …
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A Teddy Bear figure from Sway Molina’s 2024 AI film “Our T2 Remake” is in front of Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised” and an AI work by Alexander Reben. Images courtesy of Crocker Art Museum, Daniela Hritcu, Getty, and Sway Molina; Illustration by Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews. When Edmund Cartwright was at work creating the world’s first …
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, one of the three founders of the Museum of Modern Art, in 1922. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York In the words of Gertrude Stein, “You can be modern or you can be a museum, but you cannot be both.” Her remark captured exactly the contradiction inherent in one of …
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Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop, Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony, around 1534. Allentown Museum of Art. A 16th-century portrait attributed to the studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder will leave the collection of the Allentown Museum of Art in Pennsylvania after the work was restituted to the relatives of its original …
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January Parkos Arnall. Photo Maria Ponce Compound, an art and wellness nonprofit in Long Beach, California, has named January Parkos Arnall as its executive director. She begins in the post on September 23. Compound was founded in 2020 by Megan Tagliaferri, a longtime resident of Long Beach, but it closed in 2022 amid a wave …
