The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation on June 27 announced the seventy-four recipients of its 2025 Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI) grants, totaling $3.4 million. The foundation, which to date has distributed more than $17.5 million among 249 grantees and assisted 318 different energy projects in...

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Five art market veterans have allied to form the white-glove consulting firm New Perspectives Art Partners (NPAP). The founders include onetime Christie’s and Phillips CEO Ed Dolman, who formerly led the Qatar Museums Authority, and his son Alex, with...

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The Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) is set to lay off or buy out roughly one-third of its unionized staff, the Vancouver Sun reports. An unspecified number of non-union workers are expected to be made redundant as well. The cuts...

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An ode to Black fashion at the Met Costume Institute

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The J. Paul Getty Trust this month announced the launch of a fellowship program aimed at developing the careers of individuals working in the fields of art and science with a focus on sustainability. The Getty Global Art and...

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A visitor to the Uffizi in Florence accidentally tore the canvas of an eighteenth-century portrait after stumbling into it while posing for a humorous photo that he intended to turn into a meme. The guest was attempting to mimic...

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New York’s Elizabeth Street Garden, which had been set to be demolished to accommodate the construction of affordable housing, will instead be preserved, thanks to a deal struck between First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro and Democratic councilman Christopher Marte,...

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The Sharjah Art Foundation, which organizes the Sharjah Biennial, has named Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento as the curators of the Biennial’s seventeenth iteration, which is set to open in January 2027. “Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento each bring...

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A twenty-one-year-old man affiliated with the civil resistance group Last Generation Canada splashed pink paint across the glass protecting Pablo Picasso’s 1901 L’hétaïre at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on the morning of June 19. The work, borrowed...

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The city of Ostend, Belgium, has halted construction of a set of sculptures by British Guyanese artist Hew Locke that were to have recontextualized a public monument to Leopold II, citing a lack of consultation with the public. Locke...

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Abstract painter Thornton Willis, a third-wave member of the New York School acclaimed for canvases in which geometric shapes evinced a warmth atypical of such forms, died in New York on June 15. He was eighty-nine. His death was...

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The Maria Lassnig Foundation has named Japanese American interdisciplinary artist Carrie Yamaoka as the winner of its 2025 Maria Lassnig Prize. Established in 2017, the honor is presented biennially in recognition of a midcareer artist and is accompanied by...

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Minimal artist Joel Shapiro, whose colossal stick-figure sculptures surprised with their emotional charge, died on June 14 in a Manhattan hospital. He was eighty-three. His daughter, Ivy Shapiro, told the Washington Post that the cause of death was acute...

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A visitor to the Palazzo Maffei in Verona, Italy, mangled artist Nicola Bolla’s so-called Van Gogh chair after falling on it while pretending to sit in it for a picture. CCTV footage released by the museum on June 12...

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German sculptor, painter, and installation artist Günther Uecker, known for deploying the common nail in austere works of profound power, and for his membership in the pathbreaking Zero Group of the 1960s, died on June 10 in a hospital...

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An unplanned work stoppage by employees at the Louvre in Paris caused the museum to close for several hours on the morning of June 16, as throngs of ticketed visitors waited outside in the blazing sun. The spontaneous halt,...

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Renowned avant-garde film historian P. Adams Sitney, whose 1974 landmark volume Visionary Film remains a canonical work of experimental cinema history, died June 8 at his home in Rhode Island following a brief bout with advanced metastatic cancer. He...

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Canyon, a new institution centering sound, video, and performance art, is set to open in New York in 2026. Conceptualized by MASS MoCA founding director Joe Thompson and philanthropist and art collector Robert Rosenkranz, Canyon will be housed in...

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