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Art Auction Sales Dropped by 25% in 2024 Amid Global Volatility
Private sales rose, as did sales of works priced under $5,000, among other findings in the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report.
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17,000 Children’s Shoes Line Pennsylvania Avenue in Moving Gaza Memorial
The pro-Palestine art installation in Washington, DC, coincided with anti-Trump marches across the country.
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Art Scholars Pledge to Boycott Columbia University
Art historians and professors are among the hundreds who signed an open letter denouncing the school’s capitulation to Trump’s demands.
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Republican-Led Bill Would Penalize Texas Museums for “Obscene” Art
The proposed legislation comes after police seized photographs by Sally Mann from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Researchers Discover Joan Miró Painted Over a Portrait of His Mother
The revelation comes almost 50 years after the artist’s foundation first detected the likeness of a mysterious woman behind the deep blue of “Painting” (1927).
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Deadly Myanmar Earthquake Devastates Cultural Sites
Amid a rising death toll and worsening human rights crisis, the 7.7-magnitude quake took down mosques, pagodas, monasteries, and other landmarks.
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Museum of the American Proud Boy to Open in DC
The initiative is part of President Trump’s push to restore “American greatness” at the Smithsonian.
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RISD Shuts Down Students’ Pro-Palestine Art Show
The school said it would relocate the exhibition, which was on view in a public cafe, to a private building in order to “uphold safety.”
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Colorado Legislature Bows to Trump’s Demands to Remove “Distorted” Portrait
The president said the painting, which had hung in the state’s capitol since 2019, was “truly the worst.”
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The “Signalgate” Memes Have Entered the Chat
Users are lampooning government officials’ flippant discussions of a deadly assault with no apparent knowledge of the journalist in the room.
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Venezuelan Migrants Allegedly Labeled as Gang Members Based on Tattoos
Immigration lawyers report that their clients are being deported or held in custody over innocuous tattoos of roses, crowns, and other symbols.
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No Other Land Co-Director Reportedly Taken by Israeli Forces
Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was beaten by Israeli settlers and taken by soldiers who held him at a military base overnight, according to the film's co-directors.