Peter Max, whose trippy Day-Glo paintings came to symbolize the Flower Power era of the 1960s, died on September 18 in a hospital in New York at the age of eighty-eight. He had previously suffered from Alzheimer’s-related dementia. His...

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The Centre for Contemporary Arts Tashkent (CCA Tashkent), Uzbekistan’s first permanent institution devoted to contemporary art, opened to the public on September 6. London-born curator, writer, and educator Sara Raza was named artistic director and chief curator last year....

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The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the four curators who will lead the third edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, slated to open on November 1, 2027. The team will be helmed by Nada Raza, director of the Alserkal...

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Ticket sales for the National Gallery’s forthcoming Renoir exhibition have topped twenty-two thousand, setting a record for the London institution. Bookings opened to members on August 4, and to the general public on August 25. The museum’s previous best-selling...

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Visiting “Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions” at the Morgan Library & Museum

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Unionized employees of the Brooklyn Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York, voted overwhelmingly to strike if they do not receive fair contract offers. Local 2110 UAW, which represents...

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On September 15, the Metropolitan Museum of Art broke ground on the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, a long-awaited addition that will house the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art. The new wing is scheduled...

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The prized Russian icon Trinity, painted by Andrei Rublev in the fifteenth-century, has possibly been damaged after the climate-control system in which the work is housed broke down. The icon is currently kept in the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra monastery...

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The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art has named Bhutanese mixed-media artist Pem Lham the winner of the 2026 Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize. The honor is presented annually to a contemporary artist from the Himalayan region. It is attended...

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The National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) at the Smithsonian has appointed Ching-Ling Wang as the inaugural Nancy Chang Lee Curator of Chinese Art. The art historian and curator begins his new role in November. “I hope to not...

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Photography is no longer permitted in front of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum, according to Maxwell Museums, the blog run by arts writer Maxwell Blowfield. Blowfield reported that he visited the museum twice to see the eleventh-century...

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Following a major building expansion, the New Museum has added ten new members to its board of trustees, expanding its existing slate and bringing its total membership to nearly fifty. The new members are Donald Capoccia, Christina Hribar, Adriane...

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President Donald Trump has demanded that the Smithsonian remove what he described as a “strange modernist sculpture” from outside the National Museum of American History and install a thirty-foot-high “Colossus statue” of George Washington in its stead. “He is...

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The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York is terminating its MFA program in photography, video, and related media. Launched in 1988, the program will wind down at the end of the 2027–28 academic school year, allowing those...

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The Musée du Louvre in Paris has appointed French art historian and curator Vincent Delieuvin to lead its Department of Paintings. A specialist in Renaissance art, in particular the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Delieuvin joined the Louvre in...

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A pair of oil paintings by Eastman Johnson stolen from separate New York City galleries in 1978 have been recovered, thanks to an eagle-eyed art dealer. The Long Island-based dealer Brandon Levine spotted the works in a private estate...

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Revisiting the sculptor's provocations against "consumerist ambiguity" and rigid intellectualism

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The Greek entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos has donated fifty-one artworks—mostly by Greek artists—from his personal collection to four museums in Greece and Scotland as part of an ongoing philanthropic campaign to make contemporary art accessible to wider audiences. “This initiative seeks...

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