Former Whitney Museum Building Designated a Landmark Ahead of Sotheby’s Move
Changes to portions of the Marcel Breuer–designed building will now require official authorization.
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“It Always Sounds Somewhere: Sounding Sound Practice in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Since the 1990s” at Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum
Beijing Oomph 2025 Oomph is a curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions and events held by galleries, museums, and institutions in town during Gallery Weekend Beijing (GWBJ), taking place from May 23 to June 1, 2025. “It Always Sounds Somewhere: Sounding Sound Practice in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Since the 1990s” explores the
Met Museum Returns Three Antiquities to Iraq Connected to Art Dealer Robin Symes
Two of the items were seized by the Manhattan DA’s Office earlier this year.
Crystal Bridges Acquires Monumental Tiffany Studios Stained-Glass Window from a Texas Church
The Agnes Northrop–designed window had been in San Antonio for nearly a century.
Winged Goddess Carving Discovered by Volunteers at Hadrian’s Wall in England
The couple spotted the stone relief as they were clearing the infantry barracks.
A Unique Portfolio of Hilma af Klint’s Botanical Drawings Communes with Nature’s Spiritual Side
‘Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers’ highlights the recent acquisition of a phenomenal, 46-leaf portfolio.
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Rene Matić “Idols Lovers Mothers Friends” at Arcadia Missa, London
Rene Matić explains to me that each of the subjects photographed in Idols Lovers Mothers Friends have, at one stage or another, been all of those things to them. The lens through which they are seen is Matić’s—a lens of love which is nuanced and complex. By reversing the gaze and turning it onto whiteness,
“Queer Love” at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
An exhibition bringing together a selection of significant and recently discovered erotic drawings by British artist and key Bloomsbury group member Duncan Grant (1885–1978) in dialogue with new works by contemporary queer artists including: Soufiane Ababri, Leilah Babirye, Anthony Cudahy, Kyle Dunn, Alex Foxton, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Wardell Milan, Sola Olulode, Tom Worsfold and Jimmy
“Stolen Heirlooms” by Artist Kellen Hatanaka
Kellen Hatanaka … Continued
Why Is Michelangelo’s David So Important?
A monument of art history both literally and figuratively, it is undoubtedly the world’s most famous sculpture