Portrait of Ti Pelen. Courtesy Leah Gordon/Pioneer Works. Haitian sculptor Ti Pèlen, whose birth name is Jean Salomon Horace, died last month at the age of 66. His cause of death remains undisclosed. His family will preserve the remaining artworks in his possession, according to a spokesperson for Pioneer Works, which featured his work in …
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The wildfires in Korea consumed the ancient Gounsa temple. Photo Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images The Headlines A MASSIVE WILDFIRE IN SOUTH KOREA has killed at least 27 people in Uiseong County in North Gyeongsang and destroyed the Buddhist Gounsa temple, founded in 681 CE, according to Korea JoongAng Daily and the BBC. Though the temple’s structure could not be …
Joe Goode with his dog Angie. Photo Paul Laufer Joe Goode, a painter who counted as a core figure of the Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s, died on March 22 at his home in Los Angeles at 87. He would have turned 88 the following day. Michael Kohn Gallery and Zander Galerie, Goode’s …
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Museo del Prado, Madrid Eduardo Parra/Europa Press via Getty Images. A painting that for short while was referred to as a lost Caravaggio is now at the center of a major fraud investigation in Spain. The artwork, Ecce Homo with Two Executioners, was sold by Herennia Trillo, a Spanish art dealer, for nearly $300,000 in early …
Lucy Dacus. Photo Kevin Winter/Getty Images Lucy Dacus‘s newly released album Forever Is A Feeling has been widely anticipated among music aficionados, with the 29-year-old singer even getting a full-length profile in the New Yorker last week. But it turns out that the art world has a reason to pay attention to the album, too. …
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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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