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The location and meaning of Banksy’s new mural is not yet known. via Instagram On December 16, British street artist Banksy posted on Instagram an artwork referencing the Madonna and Child, stirring speculation to its meaning. The painting on a metal panel in an unknown location shows the woman’s breast with a rusting hole for …

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The anonymous gift will enable free admission for kids 12 and under. Photo by Front Room Studios, Courtesy of the Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) will now be free for kids age 12 and under through an anonymous gift of $3.54 million. The gift will enable the museum to establish a endowment …

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Daniela Hritcu/ARTnews Multihyphenates rule this winter, a season headlined by attempts to fully assess artists whose work resists the traditional museum retrospective format. Within Germany alone, Shu Lea Cheang, who has shown her work in movie theaters, on the internet, and in art galleries, will finally get a career-spanning survey, and Semiha Berksoy, a Wagnerian …

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A sign held up by a member of SAM VSO during a strike in December. Photo: Margot Pasky. Courtesy SAM VSO The Seattle Art Museum‘s union remains on strike one week after the workers began their stoppage. In a statement, the union claimed that the institution has been “bargaining in bad faith” during the negotiations …

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Nan Goldin. Photo Fabian Sommer/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Following a widely discussed interview in which she alleged censorship, Nan Goldin has added a message about the people killed in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, and during the October 7 Hamas attack, to an artwork on view at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Goldin and Klaus …

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The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close its doors from 2025 to 2030 for a major renovation. Photo Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas/AFP, via Getty Images Saudi Arabia will contribute €50 million ($52.6 million) to the €262 million renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The money is part of a heritage fund established as part of …

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Exterior view of MoMA PS1, 2024, Queens, New York. Photo Nathan Bajar/Courtesy MoMA PS1 MoMA PS1 has received a $1 million donation toward the funding of future exhibitions from the Teiger Foundation. A dedicate fund known as the Teiger Foundation Exhibition Fund will support exhibitions by MoMA PS1’s curatorial team, which includes Jody Graf, Elena …

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LONDON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 27: Candida Gertler attends the unveiling of new art work as leading British artist Lubaina Himid is awarded the Robson Orr Ten Ten Award 2021 at 11 Downing Street on September 27, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Outset Contemporary Art Fund) Getty Images for Outset Contemporary …

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Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun seems to be enjoying the publicity that comes with buying a $6.2 million banana. AFP via Getty Images The story about cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun and Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian keeps on giving. Sun kept the promise he made immediately after buying the artwork, comprising a banana duct-taped to the wall, …

Justin Sun Vows to Buy 100,000 Bananas From Vendor Who Sold 25-Cent Banana Used for $6.2 M. ‘Comedian’ Read More »

A mixed media work by Mimmo Paladino titled ‘Lo Spirito della Foresta’ (1981) was one of the works to be authenticated by Art Recognition for the auction. COURTESY GERMANN AUCTION HOUSE. Last week, in an unprecedented move, a Swiss auction house sold an artwork solely authenticated by artificial intelligence (AI). Germann Auction House in Zürich …

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