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Commission of Fine Arts Approves Trump's Controversial Triumphal Arch Celebrating "Greatness, Freedom, and Posterity'
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (287+ words) The Commission of Fine Arts, stacked with Trump appointees, approved the President's controversial proposal for a triumphal arch in Washington, D. C. President Donald Trump announced the idea of building a triumphal arch, modeled on Paris's Arc de Triomphe, at a holiday…...
Chanel Renews Financial Support of Centre Pompidou During Long-Term Renovation
1+ day, 56+ min ago (171+ words) In 2024, the luxury brand sponsored the museum's acquisition of a cache of 21 artworks by 15 contemporary Chinese artists. The Pompidou and Chanel began working together in 2019, and in 2024 the luxury brand sponsored the museum's acquisition of a cache of 21 artworks by…...
Sotheby's Launches Museum Partnership Series, Starting with Exhibition by New York's Hispanic Society Museum & Library
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (259+ words) When Sotheby's moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum. Now, Sotheby's is leaning into that…...
One Erased Vermeer, Two Books, and No Consensus
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (790+ words) A review of both Ruth Bernard Yeazell's Vermeer's Afterlives and Andrew Graham-Dixon's Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found. Senior Editor, Art in America A room sits empty, save for a lone chair and a shaft of golden light. Yet in…...
An Installation at the British Museum Recreates the Bayeux Tapestry's Landscape
1+ week, 1+ day ago (303+ words) A planting scheme by garden designer Andy Sturgeon will evoke a woodland like the one depicted in the 1000-year-old embroidery In the run-up to the British Museum's historic presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the institution will open "Tapestry of Trees,…...
New York's Neue Galerie to Merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in Major Expansion
1+ week, 1+ day ago (306+ words) The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York's Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution's modern art offerings. The New York…...
America's Museums Have a Building Problem
2+ week, 1+ day ago (380+ words) Most American museums have a problem that visitors rarely see until it's too late: their buildings are falling apart. A new report from the Government Accountability Office analyzed by'The Art Newspaper'finds that roughly 85 percent of museums across the country are…...
With Nearly 30, 000 Clay Earth Bricks, Dana Awartani Remakes History in the Saudi Arabia Pavilion
2+ week, 3+ day ago (955+ words) When you enter the Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the first thing you're struck by is the scale of the project: tens of thousands of clay bricks slotted together to replicate the forms in traditional mosaics, spread across…...
Unrealized Artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude Will Take Over Gagosian in London
2+ week, 4+ day ago (286+ words) An unrealized artwork conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968 will take over Gagosian gallery in London. Gagosian gallery in London will present an artwork conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1968 but never realized before the artists" deaths'Jeanne-Claude in 2009 and Christo…...
Zurich's Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After Seven Years
3+ week, 2+ day ago (206+ words) After seven years in Zurich, Galerie Philipp Zollinger will cease operations, its founder announced today on Instagram. However, Zollinger continued, "it has become increasingly clear that the global landscape offers little more than continued instability," adding that the "conditions necessary…...