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Wifredo Lam: The Jungle, 1942–43. ©Wifredo Lam Estate, ADAGP, Paris, and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Museum of Modern Art’s Wifredo Lam retrospective, “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” one of the more hotly anticipated fall exhibitions, will not feature artworks from the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. According to a …

Cuban Museum Won’t Lend Wifredo Lam Works to MoMA Due to U.S. Customs Laws Read More »

David Lynch at his studio in 2002. Chris Weeks/WireImage “An artist or artists should be there,” David Lynch’s daughter wrote of the newly on-the-market Los Angeles home of the famed artist and filmmaker who died this past January. In a Reddit thread under the mantle thatjenlynch, Jennifer Lynch, herself a filmmaker and the author of …

David Lynch’s Daughter Urges Artists to Buy Her Dad’s Starry LA Compound Read More »

(From L) Britain’s Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Lisa Nandy, Director of the British Museum Nicholas Cullinan, and France’s Minister of Culture Rachida Dati sign an agreement for loaning exchange of Bayeux tapestry and Sutton Hoo treasures during a ceremony at The British Museum in London July 9, 2025, during the second day of a …

Florida Art History Professor Suspended Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Controversial Bayeux Tapestry Transfer Is Delayed and More: Morning Links for September 18, 2025 Read More »

A look from Ulla Johnson’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection show at Cooper Hewitt, September 14, 2025. Photo Giovanni Giannoni/WWD Ulla Johnson looked to Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler as lodestar for her spring collection, the next chapter after collaborating with female artists Lee Krasner, Anna Zemánková, and Shara Hughes.   “She struggled with the meaning of the word beautiful,” Johnson …

Helen Frankenthaler Inspires Designer Ulla Johnson’s Spring Collection Read More »

Sally Mann. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images In her new memoir Art Work, photographer Sally Mann writes that she now has reservations about one series featuring Black men—and reveals that she even removed some of these works from her 2018 National Gallery of Art exhibition because of those concerns. For that series, titled “Men” and …

Sally Mann Says She Was ‘Telling the Wrong Story’ with Her Photos of Black Men Read More »

Sylvain Amic. Photo Luc Castel/Getty Images Sylvain Amic, an art historian who took the helm of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay last year, died on Sunday in southern France at 58. Rima Abdul Malak, the former French culture minister, told the New York Times that Amic died of heart failure. His death has been treated with shock, …

Sylvain Amic, Recently Named Head of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, Dies at 58 Read More »

Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday over the unlawful termination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), reported Bloomberg Law. The museum expected to receive a $750,000 grant award towards its historic preservation program. In March, …

Woodmere Art Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Canceled IMLS Grant Read More »

Jota Mombaça’s 2022 Kadist show in San Francisco. Courtesy Kadist Kadist, a Paris-based nonprofit known for commissioning works by key artists, will shutter its San Francisco space after 14 years, bringing an end to one of the city’s richest non-commercial art venues. The organization announced the closure on social media late on Thursday evening, writing …

Kadist, Internationally Minded Art Organization, Shutters San Francisco Space After 14 Years Read More »

Rosalyn Drexler at ringside, 1972. Photo Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images Rosalyn Drexler, whose paintings of the 1960s about Hollywood actors, on-screen violence, and gender subversion have in recent years gained widespread praise, died in New York on Wednesday at 98. A spokesperson for New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery, which represents her, confirmed her death but …

Rosalyn Drexler, Indefatigable Painter Who Wrestled Her Way into the Pop Canon, Dies at 98 Read More »

Shafrazi with Keith Haring and Leo Castelli. Courtesy Tony Shafrazi / Gallery Without Walls Things had a way of just happening in the small, tight-knit New York art world of the 1960s and ’70s. Artists introduced other artists to dealers, who in turn introduced them to more artists. Tony Shafrazi arrived in New York in …

Legendary Dealer Tony Shafrazi Returns to the Art Fair After More than a Decade Away—He Remains Exactly Himself Read More »