The Kanal-Centre Pompidou, acollaboration between the Centre Pompidou and the Brussels-based institution Kanal, will finally open on November 28 after a decade of planning, renovations, and delays. Designed around an Art Deco building that formerly housed a Citroën garage, the new 430,000-square-foot...

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An installation from Marina Abramović floats "Manhattan's next gimmick"

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The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation on September 10 named the eight recipients of its 2026 Rabkin Prize for arts journalists. Each will receive an unrestricted grant of $50,000. Established in 2017, the honor recognizes the contributions of journalists writing about the visual...

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Qatar Museums has announced that Doha will welcome a permanent pavilion devoted to Gerhard Richter this autumn. The building will occupy the city’s MIA Park, outside the Museum of Islamic Art. It is being designed by Richter himself, in collaboration with...

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American artist Tschabalala Self has unveiled Lady in Blue (2026) on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. Her sculpture, cast in bronze and patinated with lapis lazuli blue—a pigment used in in north Africa, the Middle East, and Europe since antiquity—will remain...

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The Freelands Foundation has awarded £100,000 (approximately $135,000) of unrestricted funding to three organizations annually for the next five years, totaling £1.5m (roughly $2 million). The recipients are Wolverhampton Art Gallery, selected for its youth art incubator; Burton Futures, an educational outreach project...

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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has announced Robert Stein as its new executive director and CEO. Stein joins the institution from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where he has served as...

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The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, will close permanently at the end of the month, citing low attendance and rising costs. Its last day open to the public with regular hours will be Sunday, September 27.⁠ In a...

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Lucien Smith, an artist whose career spanned painting, public projects, and restaurants, has died at the age of thirty-seven. His death, news of which circulated widely on social media, was first reported by Art News. No cause has yet been...

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Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III, who has served as secretary of the Smithsonian since 2019, has announced that he is leaving the institution. Bunch was the first African American person to occupy the post. The Smithsonian in a statement...

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Laureates for the thirty-seventh iteration of the Praemium Imperiale, awarded by the Japan Art Association, were announced on September 8. The recipients of the 15 million yen prize (approximately $95,000), are Jenny Holzer (painting), Andy Goldsworthy (sculpture), Daniel Libeskind (architecture), Herbert Blomstedt (music), and Cate...

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On the occasion of her forty-fifth birthday on September 4, pop-music superstar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter donated $2 million to the Studio Museum in Harlem. “Art tells all our stories; the past and the present, but is not always accessible to everyone,”...

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Thieves broke into a museum devoted to the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the South of France early this morning, making off with four paintings by the French Impressionist before dropping two in the garden in their haste to...

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