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Zanele Muholi, South African ‘Visual Activist,’ Wins the World’s Top Photography Prize

Zanele Muholi, ‘Bona III’, ISGM, Boston, 2019 ©Zanele Muholi/Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York and Southern Guild, Cape Town Zanele Muholi, an acclaimed photographer and activist whose work celebrates the queer Black experience in South Africa and beyond, has won the Hasselblad Award, the world’s leading photography prize, which carries a cash award of SEK 2,000,000 …

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Russian Archaeologist Arrested in Poland Amid Ukraine Probe Into Crimean Excavations

SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – APRIL 18: General view of the Hermitage Museum on April 18, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Lavazza, partner of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburgh supports the exhibition ‘Gods, Men, Heroes’ From the Naples National Archaeological Museum and the Archaeological Park of Pompei. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images for Lavazza) Getty …

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In Los Angeles for Frieze Week? Watch Out For a Mobile LED Truck with the Art World’s Jeffrey Epstein Emails

Tod Lippy, All of the Gang (2026). Courtesy Tod Lippy. Artist Tod Lippy has been following reports about art world figures who maintained friendships and correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—even after his crimes were public—and been left with the nagging sense that the consequences have been too mild. Billionaire collector Leon Black still …

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Labubus, Vintage YouTube, Pimple Patches, and More On View in the V&A’s Reopened ‘1900-Now’ Galleries

“Meet Me at the Zoo,” the first video uploaded to YouTube, 2005. Photo Peter Kelleher/© Victoria and Albert Museum, London On Wednesday, the V&A in London reopened several galleries dedicated to design from the past 126 years. The newly installed Design 1900-Now spaces, which had been closed since November, showcase 250 objects from the 20th …

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A Popular Bernini Sculpture of an Elephant in a Rome Square Was Damaged. Was It Weather or Vandalism?

Bernini’s sculpture of an elephant in the Piazza della Minerva in Rome. Getty Images/iStockphoto Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s popular marble sculpture of an elephant in Rome’s Piazza della Minerva was damaged over the weekend, with a four-inch fragment of the tip of one of its tusks broken off and found on the ground.  Local …

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Veterans Sue Over Trump’s Arch, Saying It Would Blight Arlington National Cemetery and Nearby Monuments

A model of President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A group of three military veterans and a historical preservationist filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s proposed 250-foot arch that opponents contend would mar the views from Arlington National Cemetery to other monuments around …

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South Africa Will Officially Sit Out Venice Biennale After Gabrielle Goliath Cancelation

Gayton McKenzie, South Africa’s culture minister, was protested after he canceled Gabrielle Goliath’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Photo Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images After canceling a planned pavilion by Gabrielle Goliath that would have featured references to Israel’s war in Gaza, South Africa will not take part at all in this year’s Venice …

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