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Artist Elizabeth Peyton Sued Over Painting of Oasis Brothers
Photographer Justin Thomas accused the artist of copyright infringement on his 1995 photograph of British musicians Liam and Noel Gallagher.
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Ex-Pussy Riot Member Says She Was Recruited by Russia to Spy on Artists
Margarita Konovalova, who performed in the collective under the alias Rita Flores, fled Russia earlier this month with the help of her lawyer.
Pompeii
Major Exhibition of Pompeii Treasures Will Make Its US Debut
Over 160 artifacts from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples are headed to the Dallas Museum of Art in December.
Book Review
Can We Stop Calling South Asian Painting "Miniature"?
A book on 18th-century Pahari painting warns against thinking of these works as “miniatures,” a Western term, instead illuminating the artistic collaboration and ways of life at their heart.
In Memoriam
Remembering Marijke De Roover, Sliman Mansour, and Fabrizio Plessi
This week, we honor a feminist Belgian performance artist, an icon of Palestinian liberation, and an Italian video art pioneer.
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Announcement
Mitchell Johnson: "Twenty-One Years in Truro (Selected Paintings 1988–2026)"
The artist's sixth solo exhibition at Castle Hill will open to the public on September 8, 2026.
Feature
Artist's Device Slows Down Citi Bikes in Less Affordable Neighborhoods
Justin Blinder's latest project examines New York City’s affordability crisis and makes the disparities felt on a physical level.
Daily Newsletter
Goodbye, Dolly, Artists Love You
From the heart-wrenching dulcet tones of "Jolene" to the boppy proletarianism of “9 to 5,” Dolly Parton has given us a soundtrack for every possible stage of life.
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Famed “Portrait of Omai” Will Go on View at LA’s Getty Museum
The Sir Joshua Reynolds painting, acquired in a joint deal by the Getty and the National Portrait Gallery in London after a heated controversy, will be on display starting September 14.
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US State Department Takes Down “Woke” Kehinde Wiley Painting
“Young Artists After Siamesa 1960” (2015) was removed from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic and could be sold.
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Chinese Artist Gao Zhen Gets 3-Year Prison Sentence for Mao Sculptures
Prosecutors used sculptures depicting the Chinese Communist Party founder repenting and aiming fire at Jesus in evidence.
New York Newsletter
Dazed and Confused at the New Museum
New Triennial in Western NY, NYC’s investment in public art, and a beer with Rina Banerjee.
Weekly Newsletter
Betye Saar, Picasso, BlackStar
The little-known story of a stolen Picasso that once belonged to the Guggenheim Museum, Zeitz MOCAA’s new leader, and the discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck.
Daily Newsletter
The Guggenheim Wants Its Picasso Back
The museum sues for ownership of a Picasso painting stolen in 1961, plus new affordable housing for artists in Philly.
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A New Chapter for Zeitz MOCAA
Elvira Dyangani Ose is named artistic director of the Cape Town museum, following in the late Koyo Kouoh’s footsteps.
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Meet This Year’s Joan Mitchell Fellows
15 artists won this year’s prize. Plus, an interview with the founder of BlackStar Film Festival, layoffs at the San Diego Museum of Art, and more.
New York Newsletter
Art Dispatches From “Habibi City”
Alan Michelson’s oyster-shaped public artwork on Governors Island, a fragment of The Odyssey at The Met, and Simone Forti talking about her days in Yoko Ono’s Manhattan loft.
Daily Newsletter
Meta's Glasses for Betas
Plus, Betye Saar’s last word of advice, 2,000-year-old shipwreck found off the coast of Sicily, and how Trump’s unnecessary IndyCar race in DC might jeopardize art.
Books Newsletter
RIP Vermeer, You Would’ve Hated AI
A biography of the Dutch painter misses the mark, Ed Simon reacts to Anthropic’s book-pulping, and more.
Daily Newsletter
The Native History of NYC's Oysters
Who needs IMAX? See a real papyrus fragment of Homer’s Odyssey at The Met.
Weekly Newsletter
Savneet Talwar, Anna Boghiguian, Iris van Herpen
A never-before-published interview with Simone Forti, pleating at the Brooklyn Museum with an elite designer, and heartbreaking drawings by children held at ICE facilities.
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Simone Forti in Her Own Words
A never-before-published interview with the late performance artist, police arrest anti-ICE protesters in DC, and an artist’s scented toilets for Frieze London.
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Hundreds Demand Return of SAIC Professor
Plus: devastating drawings by children held in ICE detention facilities.
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Pleating With Iris van Herpen
Iris van Herpen is making a collective garment at the Brooklyn Museum, Trump’s Smithsonian warpath, and Rice University goes tuition-free for many.