Pair Who Covered Picasso with Photo of Palestinian Mother and Child Found Guilty of Criminal Damage

By Polly WatsonJuly 29, 2026

The charge stems from an October 9, 2024, incident in which Halai and Rosenfeld entered London’s National Gallery during open hours and covered Pablo Picasso’s 1901 Motherhood (La Maternité) with an image of a Palestinian woman weeping as she held her bloodied child. The photo was taken by Palestinian journalist Ali Jadallah during the Israeli […]

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From Medusa to Nvidia: On the Algorithm’s Primal Scene

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The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, which recently announced that it will open December 11, has named Valerie Hillings as its inaugural director. Hillings joins the institution from Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMAA), where she has served as director since 2018. Her appointment marks her return to Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, where she was curator and […]

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Earlier this week, the Art Bridges Foundation announced that two museums—The San Diego Museum of Art and The Westmoreland Museum of American Art—are the recipients of the second annual Bridgemaker Prize. The prize, which this year comes with a $75,000 award to support future projects, is given to Art Bridges’ museum partners whose institutional endeavors […]

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CAM Raleigh is Selling Its Building and Reallocating Resources to Artists

The Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh (CAM Raleigh), North Carolina is selling its longtime home in the city’s Warehouse District. The building has been listed the commercial real estate firm CBRE for an undisclosed sum. CAM Raleigh, which describes itself as a “non-collecting contemporary art museum,” was established in 1983 as the City Gallery of […]

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Theo BelciAug 4, 2026

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Francisco Correa Cordero, Founder of New York’s Lubov Gallery, Dead at 37

Francisco Correa Cordero, whose ten-year-old Lubov gallery was a beacon for emerging artists, died on August 2 in a Manhattan hospital. He was thirty-seven. His death was announced by his gallery in an Instagram post, which noted that Cordero “passed away peacefully surrounded by what he loved the most—his chosen family, laughter and so much […]

Polly WatsonAug 4, 2026

Pair Who Covered Picasso with Photo of Palestinian Mother and Child Found Guilty of Criminal Damage

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