Obituary
Mary Heilmann, Painter of Irreverent Abstractions, Dies at 86
“My inspiration for art doesn’t really come from the history of painting,” the artist told Hyperallergic in a 2013 interview, “it comes from the community of art as it is now.”
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NYC Names Bryan Joseph Lee as New Deputy Culture Commissioner
The cultural strategist and producer will work alongside curator and commissioner Diya Vij at the Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Priceless Renaissance Paintings Stolen From Italian Museum
Authorities say thieves made off with four artworks by Sicilian master Antonello da Messina in under five minutes.
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New Digital Archive Honors Gaza Journalists Killed by Israel
The project developed by the Writers Against the War on Gaza serves as a digital memorial for the around 240 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023.
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11-Year-Old Boy Sets Guinness Record for World’s Youngest Curator
Anderson Taylor opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in rural Illinois at just nine years old
Art Movements
24 Latin American Art Scholars Named ISLAA Fellows
New leaders at the Portland Art Museum and Storm King Art Center, a West Coast art magazine closes, and more in this week's Art Movements.
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Former Philly UArts Building to Become Affordable Housing for Artists
The Village of Industry & Art will transform a dormitory in the now-shuttered university into 45 affordable units by fall 2027.
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A Picasso Vanished in 1961. The Guggenheim Now Wants It Back
The museum is suing the current owners of "Femme dans un fauteuil" (1918), which resurfaced decades after it was stolen from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Long-Misattributed Clara Peeters Still Life Resurfaces After Decades in Storage
Formerly attributed to the Brueghel family, the painting was found in 2022 by a curator at the National Museum of Norway.
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SF Camerawork, Photo Champion for Five Decades, Abruptly Announces Closure
The nonprofit's co-founder, photographer Hal Fischer, told Hyperallergic that neither he nor anyone he knew “got advance warning that this was in the wind.”
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Elvira Dyangani Ose to Succeed Koyo Kouoh at Zeitz MOCAA
The Spanish curator will steer the South African institution after the untimely loss of its late leader.
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15 Artists Named 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellows
Each recipient will receive $60,000 in unrestricted funding distributed over five years, in the spirit of the namesake abstract painter’s commitment to “aid and assist” artists.