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Researchers Confirm Location of Lost City of Alexandria on the Tigris

03/17/2026

An international team of researchers has confirmed the rediscovery of the lost city of Alexandria on the Tigris in Iraq. Founded by Alexander the Great (356 BCE–323 BCE), whose brief empire stretched from Greece to the Indus River and encompassed …

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Rosalía Apologizes for Picasso Comments: 'Not at Peace' with His Life

03/16/2026

Rosalía, one of the world’s most popular singers, apologized after wading into an age-old debate surrounding Pablo Picasso, whose work she initially praised before admitting she didn’t know enough about his biography. The controversy kicked off after the Spanish singer …

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Curator Diya Vij to Lead NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs

03/03/2026

Curator Diya Vij to Lead NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed curatorDiya Vijdirector of the city’sDepartment of Cultural Affairs. Vij, who is currently a vice president at Brooklyn nonprofit Powerhouse Arts, is the first …

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75 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See in Spring 2026

03/02/2026

All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Over in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging a Raphael retrospective—the first …

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Venice Biennale Reveals Artist List for Koyo Kouoh's 2026 Edition

02/25/2026

The Venice Biennale, the world’s most important art exhibition, has officially named the 111 artists participating in its 2026 edition. Opening to the public on May 9 and running through November 22, this year’s Biennale, the 61st edition to date, …

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Anonymous Buyer Pays $1 M. for Secret Code to Sculpture at C.I.A.

11/22/2025

In one of the more head-scratching moments of an auction season full of twists and turns, an anonymous buyer won the elusive code to crack the final part of a puzzling sculpture created by artist Jim Sanborn for the Central …

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137-Karat ‘Florentine Diamond' Discovered in a Vault in Canada

11/06/2025

A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the …

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Hidden Painting Revealed Beneath Portrait from Picasso's Blue Period

02/11/2025

The most studied period of Pablo Picasso’s career, it seems, still had a secret to keep: a mystery woman hidden beneath a well-known portrait, now revealed by conservators at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. X-ray and infrared analysis …

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