MIAMI, FLORIDA – APRIL 01: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks about a toll highway relief program during a press conference held at the Greater Miami Expressway Agency on April 01, 2024, in Miami, Florida. The Governor announced a second consecutive year of a Toll Relief Program, which is expected to cut the toll rates of …
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Ron DeSantis. Photo Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Headlines FLORIDA SLASHES ARTS BUDGET. Governor Ron DeSantis has vetoed over $32 million in arts and culture grants that had already been approved by the state legislature for next year’s budget, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The cuts to two arts grants programs that support nonprofits throughout the …
Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground (2024) sprouting in May. Photo Jenny Moore/Courtesy the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects One of the many different kinds of development underway in Bozeman, Montana—a small city that since the pandemic began has been a staple of stories about ongoing urban exodus and …
In Booming Bozeman, Montana, Tinworks Art Aims to Reimagine the American West Read More »
Dior’s latest runway show, at Paris’s Musée Rodin, featured reproductions of Faith Ringgold’s 1971 work Woman Free Yourself. Photo Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri has made a point of including women artists in her runway shows, shining a light on works by Judy Chicago, Joana Vasconcelos, Isabella Ducrot, …
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The front of the Les Trois Rois hotel in Basel, Switzerland, 3 November 2015. Chef Peter Knogl has been awarded a third Michelin star for his restaurant Cheval Blanc. PHOTO: PATRICK SEEGER/DPA | usage worldwide (Photo Patrick Seeger/picture alliance via Getty Images) picture alliance via Getty Image For those who arrived in Switzerland on Monday, …
View of the Acropolis ancient hill with Parthenon temple during a heat wave, 2023, Athens, Greece. Photo Milos Bicanski/Getty Images Those wishing to visit the Acropolis in Athens, Greece this week are out of luck, as the ancient site has been closed due to a record heatwave since Wednesday. As the nation grapples with another …
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Barbara Gladstone. Photo Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images Barbara Gladstone, a dealer who built one of the top galleries in New York, died on Sunday in Paris following a brief illness at 89. The gallery confirmed her death in an email sent to the press on Monday. Her gallery, Gladstone Gallery, currently has locations in New York, …
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Jeffrey Yin. Courtesy Artsy Jeffrey Yin, the chief financial officer and general counsel for Artsy, has been appointed the online fine art marketplace’s chief executive following the departure of Mike Steib, who has led the company since 2019. Steib, who will take on the role of chief executive at the media company Tegna, will remain …
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Pablo Picasso, Woman Ironing, 1904 Courtesy, court documents Pablo Picasso’s 1904 painting Woman Ironing, which has been at the center of a restitution lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court, will remain with the Guggenheim Foundation. The lawsuit was dismissed by the court on the grounds that it failed to establish “actionable duress,” according to a report in …
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A 12th-century pilaster fragment returned by the Art Institute of Chicago to Thailand. Courtesy the Art Institute of Chicago A fragment of a pilaster with the Hindu diety Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana is being returned to Thailand by the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). The return is the result of more thorough provenance research within …
