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Philadelphia Art Museum Accuses Former Director of Theft
After Alexandra Suda accused the museum of wrongful termination, the institution said she misappropriated funds to increase her salary.
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Art Review
KAWS Makes Art for the Tech Bro Era
His exhibition at SFMOMA could have examined the collapse of culture at the hands of commodity, but instead it nudges us toward the gift shop.
Art Review
Paying Homage to the Iconoclasts of Abstraction
An exhibition traces the radical advancements in painting by Al Held, Elizabeth Murray, Judy Pfaff, and Frank Stella.
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Artist Alma Allen to Represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale
The artist alleged that two galleries dropped him from their rosters after he accepted the commission for the United States Pavilion.
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Artist Displays 2,000-Pound White House Made of Bullets
Al Farrow, who created the sculptural rendering in 2018, said the work took on a renewed significance under the Trump administration.
Art Review
We Are History’s Ghosts
An exhibition on the Lower East Side turns to collective memory and reenactment to cut through today’s political numbness.
Opinion
Art Market Reporters Are Getting It All Wrong
The worst of the current market decline is not the closure of major galleries. It is the dozens of younger galleries that have gone under in the past three and a half years.
Art Review
R. Crumb Wonders What It All Means
With his new comic book and exhibition, the artist explores his neurosis and mortality, but continues to question authority.
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MFA, MA, and PhD Programs to Apply for by Early 2026
A list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close.
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Former Met President Daniel Weiss to Lead Philadelphia Art Museum
The news comes on the heels of a lawsuit by former director Sasha Suda, who accused the institution of wrongful termination.
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Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
“El sueño (La cama)” (1940), a surreal rumination on dreams, nightmares, and the afterlife, sold for $54.7M at Sotheby's.
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This week: pothole mosaics, mosque demolitions in India, Yazidi cultural reclamation, remembering Alice Wong, vocal fry, “American Gothic” drag, and much more.