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Time for a Right-Size Art Market

12/16/2025

The HeadlinesIF THE RIGHT SIZE FITS. One could be forgiven for thinking, at various points over the past year, that the global art industry was approaching an existential breaking point, Tim Schneider writes in the Art Newspaper. A steady drumbeat …

Метки : искусствовыставкиливияпеременыистория.рынок искусства

Tuan Andrew Nguyen Selected for Next High Line Plinth Commission

12/16/2025

The High Line in New York has selected artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen to produce its next plinth commission, scheduled to open next spring. Titled The Light That Shines Through the Universe, the commission will see Nguyen present a re-created version …

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Malba Acquires Daros Latinamerica Collection in Major Expansion

12/16/2025

The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires is set to nearly double the size of its holdings following founder Eduardo F. Costantini’s acquisition of the Daros Latinamerica Collection, a trove of 1,233 works by 117 artists created primarily …

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In a First, Hong Kong Selects Two Artists to Go to the Venice Biennale

12/16/2025

Hong Kong has typically sent a single artist to represent the special administrative region at the Venice Biennale, but in 2026, artists Angel Hui and Kingsley Ng, both Hong Kong natives who live in the city, will jointly take up …

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Louvre Temporarily Closes as Employees Protest Working Conditions

12/16/2025

Louvre Temporarily Closes as Employees Protest Working Conditions TheLouvreclosed its doors to visitors on Monday, December 15, as staffersstruckin protest of what they have characterized as intolerable working conditions at theParisinstitution. TheNew York Timesreports that about four hundred of the …

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Ceal Floyer, Understated Conceptualist, Dead at 57

12/16/2025

Ceal Floyer, Understated Conceptualist, Dead at 57 Pakistani-born British Conceptual artistCeal Floyer, known for her discreetly comedic conceptual performances and films and for her works composed of slightly altered mundane objects, died on December 11. Her death after a “long …

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Somerset’s Unlikely Contemporary Art Scene is a Welcome Departure from the UK’s London-Centric Thinking

12/16/2025

Knocking back fine wine, fermented potato brioche, and smoked eel in a Michelin-starred restaurant is not a traditional West Country endeavor. Nor is wandering around a mega-gallery. But I was recently at Hauser & Wirth Somerset in Bruton with a …

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Louvre Closed as Workers Begin Strike, In Latest Blow to French Museum

12/16/2025

The Louvre Museum in Paris was forced to close on Monday after hundreds of employees went on strike to protest “increasingly deteriorated working conditions.” Around 400 of the museum’s 2,100 staffers participated in the strike, blocking the museum’s iconic pyramid …

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Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem Reopens

12/16/2025

Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, which closed following the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, has reopened as a “cultural platform that carries the narrative of Palestine.” The British street artist opened the guesthouse …

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Bianca Censori Dips Her Toes Into Furniture Design and Performance Art

12/16/2025

However legitimate her background in architecture and jewelry design may be, Bianca Censori is first and foremost known for her distinctive, revealing fashion choices and for being Ye’s—né Kanye West’s—wife and muse. On December 12 and 13, Censori debuted BIO …

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Martin Parr, Documentarian of Modern Life, Dies at 73

12/16/2025

Martin Parr, Documentarian of Modern Life, Dies at 73 British photographerMartin Parr, known for his wry and incisive documentation of England’s social class structure, died on December 6 at his home in Bristol, England. He was seventy-three. Parr earlier this …

Метки : фотографиядокументалистикаобщество#культураискусствоновости

Whitney Biennial Announces Artists for 2026 Edition

12/16/2025

Whitney Biennial Announces Artists for 2026 Edition TheWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, has revealed the fifty-six artists and collectives slated to participate in the Eighty-SecondWhitney Biennial, opening March 8, 2026. This year’s iteration of the Biennial is curated …

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The National Museum of Asian Art Returns Three Sculptures to Cambodia

12/15/2025

On December 11, the National Museum of Asian Art, an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., announced it was returning three Khmer period sculptures in its collection to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The return was made after …

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Benin City's Flourishing Art Scene Is Gaining International Attention

12/15/2025

“Every square meter in Benin City has an artist,” Victor Ehikhamenor said with a laugh. He was talking about the capital of Edo, the Nigerian State, which is famed as a historical, cultural and artistic heritage center. “Every family” in …

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