Designed by Shigeru Ban, the Aspen Art Museum’s $45 million building opened in 2014. ©Michael Moran/OTTO On a late July afternoon in Aspen, I stood in the living room of a private home with mountain views streaming through a trio of nearly floor to ceiling windows on one side and, on the other, a major …
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Lisa Phillips. Photo Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Lisa Phillips, director of New York’s New Museum, will retire after more than 25 years in the post, the New York Times reported Thursday. The museum is currently undergoing a 62,000-square-foot expansion that had been expected to open this fall, though no inauguration date has been …
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Egypt – Alexandria, Hellenistic Alexandria, Necropolis of Mustafa Basha, Tomb 2 (Photo by DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images) A submerged port discovered near a temple complex west of Alexandria, Egypt may be the key to finding Cleopatra’s lost tomb, according to archaeologists. The port was found outside the ruins of the …
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Red Hook, along the river, battled a large fire on Wednesday. Getty Images The Headlines AFTER THE FIRE. Over the past couple decades, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a once-industrial waterfront neighborhood, a collection of 19th-century warehouses has become a haven for artists. Then, last Wednesday, a massive fire ripped through one of those buildings, at 481 Van Brunt Street, burning …
http://www.sgfara.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GettyImages-1236159105.jpg Ai Weiwei said Die Zeit‘s “vengeful actions stem from a narrow and petty form of censorship.” Photo Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images Chinese artist Ai Weiwei claimed that the German newspaper Die Zeit portrayed him in “a distorted and unjust manner” in an article it published this past Thursday. His claim follows another he made …
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A pyrotechnic show by Cai Guo-Qiang over Quanzhou Bay in China in 2024. Photo Wang Dongming/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images A fireworks show staged by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the base of the Himalayas in Tibet has led to stinging criticism online. Amid the outcry, both the artist and Arc’teryx, the outdoor apparel brand …
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Adrian Cheng. Photo Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images for Festival de Can One year after Adrian Cheng resigned as CEO of his family’s Hong Kong property firm, New World Development Co. (NWD), the mega-collector has announced his next venture: ALMAD Group. The details of the new business are predictably fuzzy. The announcement reads as if Cheng, who …
Installation view of Kerry James Marshall: The Histories,” 2025–26, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, showing the “Africa Revisited” gallery. Photo: ©David Parry/ Royal Academy of Arts, London; Art: ©Kerry James Marshall Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s leading painters, is debuting a new set of paintings that look at the involvement of Africans …
The Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images The man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., in May appears to have worn a bodycam and filmed the incident, according to federal investigators. Elias Rodriguez, the suspect, was indicted on hate …
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Artist Jennifer Packer. Photo Joshua Franzos American artists Jennifer Packer and Marie Watt were named on Tuesday the winners of this year’s Heinz Awards for the Arts. Now in its 30th year, the awards are distributed by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation and each carries an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000. Six recipients are named annually, two in each of …
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