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Corrine Bailey Rae wept as 140 students at NYC's Special Music School performed her 2006 hit "Put Your Records On"—a moment that proved her music's profound impact across generations.
France has returned a sacred talking drum stolen from Côte d'Ivoire over a century ago—marking a landmark moment in colonial artifact restitution.
Canada's top art collector Bob Rennie just handed the National Gallery 24 contemporary masterpieces—part of a staggering 284-work donation since 2012.
Led Zeppelin didn't just define rock music—they invented the blueprint for stadium-shaking excess and mystical experimentation that still echoes today.
A Nazi-era bunker built by forced laborers still looms over Berlin's upscale Reinhardtstrasse, a jarring concrete reminder amid elegant restaurants and boutiques.
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Photographer Keisha Scarville wins the Brooklyn Museum's $25,000 Uovo Prize for her powerful work exploring diaspora and shifting identities. Her work will be displayed on a Bushwick art storage facade.
Fab 5 Freddy, the graffiti artist who shaped hip-hop culture, reveals his latest creative obsessions in a candid new interview.
Hip-hop artist JJ'88 transforms his years in California's prison system into a visual album, documenting his journey from incarceration to redemption through music and meditation.
Italy just spent €30 million on a Caravaggio portrait of a future pope—one of the state's priciest art purchases ever.
UC Berkeley students examine rare Etruscan terracotta figurines from the Hearst Museum, preparing artifacts for display while lecturer Lisa Pieraccini documents precise measurements.
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John Krasinski's Jim Halpert made millions swoon in The Office—but the show's magic went far beyond one couple's fairy-tale romance.
Dallas is launching a sprawling public art biennial across its 3.5-mile Katy Trail in Spring 2027, with artworks on view for 18 months.
Ben Franklin's scientific credibility was his secret weapon in winning American independence, a Harvard historian argues.
Independent's 17th edition moves to Pier 36 this May with 76 exhibitors showcasing over 100 artists—70% in single-artist booths.
A chance encounter between a dog walker and a groundsman in Chicago's Gold Coast led to an unexpected three-year friendship—and a home.
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Dries Van Noten is opening a Venice foundation next month to celebrate craftsmanship in a Grand Canal palace.
Sculptor Alma Allen, tapped to represent the U.S. at Venice Biennale, has signed with Galerie Perrotin, the blue-chip French gallery with eight global locations.
Thick limestone walls quarried from nearby Bedfordshire create a sanctuary of silence in the Lady Chapel—a vast vaulted space where solitude meets the echoes of centuries past.
Laura Phipps takes the helm of the Gochman Family Collection, New York's premier private repository of contemporary Indigenous art, after nearly two decades at the Whitney Museum.
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir's "Pocket Universe"—blending art, poetry, music, and film—takes over Iceland's Venice Biennale pavilion this May through November in a former shipyard.
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The oldest film ever to feature a robot just resurfaced: George Méliès' 1897 silent masterpiece, long presumed lost, has been restored and released by the Library of Congress.
A striking mural honors 41 women whose legacies continue reshaping campus and beyond.
The Brady home's iconic exterior fooled millions—interior scenes were actually shot on a soundstage. Years later, renovations finally made the real house match the TV sets.
LACMA's director breaks silence on the David Geffen Galleries in an exclusive interview launching Vanity Fair's revamped art newsletter True Colors.
Zanele Muholi wins the world's most prestigious photography prize for work celebrating queer Black life in South Africa—and a $218,000 award.
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Princess Kate danced with Bollywood performers in Leicester, charming them with praise for their "super energetic" moves and revealing her children's love of dancing.
Conservators at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum just solved a mystery hiding in plain sight: the original fabric of chairs in the Dutch Room, where three priceless paintings vanished in history's greatest art heist.
Los Angeles and the Pacific Rim collide in the Getty Foundation's 2030 art initiative. PST ART's fourth edition explores cultural exchange across Southern California institutions.
Prestigious gallery White Cube adds Emmi Whitehorse to its roster, joining Garth Greenan Gallery in representing the artist whose work debuts at Art Basel Hong Kong this month.
A painting erased from art history for 60 years just got its artist back. Scholars at the Rijksmuseum reopened the case when owners brought in "Vision of Zacharias in the Temple.
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A $65 million expansion will transform St. Petersburg's Dalí Museum starting in 2026, adding 35,000 square feet of galleries, a learning center, and immersive digital experiences by 2028.
Maia Chao turns everyday mysteries into art: Where does doctors' office art come from? How do artists survive? Her anthropological eye finds the absurd, beautiful, and troubling in mimicry and replication.
Exiled Belarus Free Theatre brings underground resistance to Venice Biennale's official stage, transforming a 1,000-year-old church into a political exhibition space.
Swivel Gallery founder Graham Wilson joins Marc Straus Gallery as partner, bringing his roster of artists and a curated exhibition opening March 19.
The National Museum of American History just acquired two holy grails of comic book history: the debut issues of Superman and Captain America.
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Europe's art academies just pledged nearly $2 million to defend artistic freedom as pressure mounts. Meanwhile, Iranian diaspora artists grapple with hope and fear.
The Vancouver Art Gallery just acquired 800+ photographs from Stephen Shore's iconic "Uncommon Places" series—a landmark collection documenting North America's overlooked landscapes from 1973-1981.
A Dutch-French painter's former home became a museum on the most romantic day of the year—Valentine's Day.
A lost Rembrandt emerges after 60 years: The Rijksmuseum confirms "Vision of Zacharias in the Temple" (1633) is authentic, overturning decades of scholarly doubt.
After 144 years of cranes dotting Barcelona's skyline, Gaudí's Sagrada Família finally reached its full height in February 2026—a monumental moment for one of architecture's greatest unfinished dreams.