“I sat in the Jim Irsay sale room, and that was an experience like I’ve never seen,” Christie's Bonnie Brennan said.

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The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has announced that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will lead the project to expand the museum. The subterranean expansion will be constructed beneath Plaza Perú, the public park that neighbors the...

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The artwork, by the German painter Albert Lang, was returned to Sofie Heilbronner’s heirs in a ceremony on September 22 at the German Embassy in Washington, DC.

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The U.K. government has placed a ban on the export of an early-sixteenth-century bronze, valued at $6.2 million, in an effort to give British museums and galleries time to acquire the work and keep it on public display. Seated...

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Jeffreen M.H. Ash will depart from her role as executive director of the Chicago cultural nonprofit Threewalls on September 30. She has spent eleven years at the contemporary art organization, whose mission is to support Black artists through collaboration...

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Plus, Julia Phillips wins the €100,000 K21 Global Art Award.

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The couple are longtime collectors of Alexander Calder, having donated 48 works by the artist to the Seattle Art Museum in 2023.

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New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs called the event "reprehensible."

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The conversation centered on Williams's career-spanning profile in the magazine.

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The Art Institute of Chicago has announced that it will return Jean Metzinger’s painting Woman with a Fan (1913) to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein. The museum acquired the painting from New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery...

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Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article...

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The 6.8 pounds of silver coins date to the time of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

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On the death and resurrection of Dave Green's 2026 film Coyote vs. Acme

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Though he invokes 9/11 and pornographic Jeff Koons works, Wolfson generally plays it safe.

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There had been gaps in the painting’s provenance ever since the museum acquired it in 1959.

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Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares was attributed by Detroit Institute of Arts director Salvador Salort-Pons earlier this year.

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Wilson's movie debut is primed for absurdity, delving into something that's immanently mundane yet fundamental to the way we live. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing...

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Here's what we're reading this morning.

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The transformable jacket comes as new research uncovers the UK's bizarre bag-for-life habits. It also makes a clever little marketing campaign for the budget supermarket chain. Aldi's middle aisle is...

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The Chinese illustrator's personal series highlights how being alone is never as simple as it looks. Humans are social animals, and so in our cultural imagination, we tend to bracket solitude with lon...

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