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Belgian Surrealist René Magritte’s iconic 1959 painting Le château des Pyrénées is undergoing conservation after a young visitor to the Israel Museum pierced it with a pine cone. Ha’aretz reports that a six-year-old boy was visiting the Jerusalem institution with his family when he discovered the pine cone in the museum’s sculpture garden and used it to puncture the canvas several […]
Last Friday, three men who were convicted of stealing priceless golden artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands were sentenced to serve 47 months apiece in prison. In January of 2025, three thieves used dynamite and a crowbar to breach a door to the museum. They ultimately made off with golden treasures that included the helmet of Coțofenești, […]
Galerie Templon has closed its Chelsea outpost in New York after four years in the location, Artnet News reports. Headquartered in Paris since its 1966 founding, the gallery joins the London-based Stephen Friedman and Timothy Taylor, both of which shuttered their New York branches in recent months. Mathieu Templon, who oversaw the New York space and is the son […]
Italian culture workers and arts collectives announced this week that they would be joining trade unions and other organizations across the country in participating in a “general cultural strike” on June 12. The strike will focus on supporting Palestine and championing workers’ rights. The organizations who communicated on Monday that they’d be part of the effort include […]
On June 2, Sotheby’s in New York attempted to stage a private auction for Number 19, 1951, an oil and enamel masterwork by abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, but the sale failed to launch after the auction house wasn’t able to attract enough bidders, according to a report from Artnews. The asking price for the painting—which is owned by Arne Glimcher, the founder […]
"Never mind that more and more of these movies look and feel like TV shows"
Franco-Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, whose innovations in kinetic and Op art presaged the interactive art of today, died in Paris on May 30. He was ninety-seven. His death was confirmed to Argentinian newspaper La Nación by his son Yamil. Le Parc was the last surviving cofounding member of the pathbreaking Groupe de Recherche d’Art […]
Sweden’s minister for culture, Parisa Liljestrand, at a June 8 press conference announced Tone Hansen as the next director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Hansen arrives to the institution from Munch, the museum in Oslo devoted to the work of Edvard Munch, where she has served as director since 2022. She previously helmed the Henie Onstad […]
A new online platform, Leonardotheka, was launched on Monday that, for the first time in over 400 years, reunites two historically essential collections of writings and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci that were originally separated hundreds of years ago by the Italian sculptor Pompeo Leoni. The online digital archive, which is the result of a […]
Ahead of the June 11 kickoff of the 2026 World Cup, revisit a pair of essays by Michael Fried and Tim Griffin on Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, a ninety-minute film in which seventeen cameras follow the French football legend Zinédine Zidane for the entirety of a 2005 match in Madrid. […]
Emerson Bowyer, an expert in 18th- and 19th-century British and French art, has been appointed chief curator of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.
Artist-filmmakers Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk introduce their exhibition at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Julian Cox step down as deputy director and chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on April 13 after eight years in the dual roles.
Revisiting Daniel Herman’s essay on air architecture
Cambridge scholars found Ancient Egyptian scribes used a calcite-based white pigment to correct mistakes in a 3,000-year-old Book of the Dead papyrus.
Thaddeus Mosley, known for his dramatic abstract sculptures made from reclaimed wood, died on March 6 at his home in Pittsburgh.
Lawsuits say Department of Government Efficiency staff used ChatGPT to flag DEI-related National Endowment for the Humanities grants for cancellation.
Theo Belci evaluates Young Joon Kwak, Agosto Machado, and Cooper Jacoby in the 2026 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Alex Jovanovich highlights Cooper Jacoby, Carmen de Monteflores, and Akira Ikezoe in the 2026 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum.
Rachel Wetzler on Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Michelle Lopez, Pat Oleszko, Jordan Strafer, Akira Ikezoe, David L. Johnson in the 2026 Whitney Biennial.
South African photographer Zanele Muholi has been named the winner of the 2026 Hasselblad Award. The honor is considered the world's top photo prize.
For a solo exhibition at P.P.O.W, Yu Ji shares her thoughts on Rodin, Khmer dance, and her well-known series "Flesh in Stone"
Russia will have a presence at the 61st Venice Biennale, four years after canceling its pavilion in 2022, just after the country attacked Ukraine.
The Watermill Center in Water Mill, New York, has named Charles Chemin artistic director. Chemin succeeds the center's late founder, Robert Wilson.
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has announced Nicholas R. Bell, currently president and CEO of Calgary's Glenbow, as its next CEO and director.
A diary from Frieze Week LA 2026 including visits to art fairs, galleries, parties, events, and dinners.
A portfolio of drawings by artist and architect Claude Parent accompanied by excerpts from his periodical Architecture Principe (1966)
US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran have damaged Tehran’s four-hundred-year-old Golestan Palace, the Iranian capital's only UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Kostas Stasinopoulos has been named director of exhibitions and programs at Greece's Kyklos, a forthcoming center devoted to African and Oceanic art.
Winter gallery exhibitions in Berlin, including Isabella Bortolozzi, Tanja Wagner, Molitor, and Wentrup
