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Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US
The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.
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Art Review
The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me
The artist’s current series marks a shift in her practice, evoking the life span of a sunflower — from blooming to dying, from sharply defined forms to rivulets of dissolution.
News
Activists Sue to Stop Frida Kahlo Works From Leaving Mexico
It’s the latest in the battle over the Gelman Santander Collection, a trove of 161 works by artists including Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros that is slated to travel to Spain this fall.
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Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display
The panels installed by the administration in Philadelphia come just six months after Trump ordered the removal of the outdoor exhibition "Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation."
Daily Newsletter
A Stolen Dove Takes Flight Again
A participatory artwork honors Alex Odeh, the cheerfully sinister worlds of Trevor Winkfield, and why is Zendaya wearing 3,000-year-old Iranian artifacts?
Weekly Newsletter
Edwin Church, Peter Hujar, Looted Art
Who is the antiquities dealer behind looted artifacts at dozens of museums across the United States?
Feature
A Living Memorial to Palestinian Activist Alex Odeh Takes Flight
"The Stolen Dove" is a participatory project that turns a decades-old monument into an artwork to keep the scholar and civil rights leader’s memory alive.
Art Review
Trevor Winkfield’s Cheerfully Sinister Worlds
His rejection of certainty is an urgent reminder that imagination should not be neglected in the pursuit of art.
News
Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Fatally Stabbing NYC Vogue Dancer
Dmitriy Popov killed the Black gay dancer O'Shae Sibley at a Brooklyn gas station in 2023 in a homophobic hate crime.
Opinion
Zendaya’s Earrings Are Part of a Much Bigger Problem
The 3,000-year-old Iranian discs turned red-carpet jewelry are emblematic of a market that has spent decades quietly dismantling ancient objects for parts.
Community
A View From the Easel
“One of my favorite museums is the street itself.”
Daily Newsletter
Planned Charlie Kirk Statue Gets Trolled
Also: Trump shrinks two national monuments in Utah by 90%.