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Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote
A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence. The National Capital Planning Commission will consider the proposal for a roughly 90,000-square-foot addition to the read more
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Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake
Announcement As the lake’s ecological crisis worsens, the artist’s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing. Olafur Eliasson testing A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake (2026); commissioned for Wake the Great Salt Lake; supported by Salt Lake City Art Council, Salt Lake read more
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Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems
Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania? Well, the read more
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$7.6 M. Grant from William Penn Foundation Will Support Low-Income and Disabled Museum-Goers in Philadelphia
Earlier this week, the William Penn Foundation announced a slew of grants, totally $7.6 million, that will support access to museums for low-income families and people with disabilities. The grants apply to six specific organizations based on the number of ACCESS visitors each received during the 2024-25 fiscal year. (The ACCESS card allows people who read more
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The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects
In the age of the internet, we’re fortunate to have virtual access to museum collections around the world, thanks to objects in the public domain and programs like The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative. Through a searchable digital catalogue, visitors to the museum’s website can see hundreds of thousands of objects, many images read more
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Art Institute of Chicago’s Beloved Stock Exchange Room May Be Impacted by Expansion Plans
A treasured area of the Art Institute of Chicago may be reshaped by an expansion plan that would see the gallery spaces grow significantly in size. That area of the museum is the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room, which was originally built between 1893 and 1894, and which was spared from demolition during the ’70s. read more
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Getty’s Next PST ART to Focus on Exchange Between Los Angeles and Pacific Rim
The next edition of the Getty Foundation‘s PST ART will be themed around cultural exchanges between Los Angeles and the Pacific Rim. The fourth edition of the initiative is set to open at institutions across Southern California in September 2030. Justine Ludwig, the inaugural creative director of PST ART, officially started in her role last read more
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Director of Museo National de Colombia Liliana Angulo Cortés Dies at 51, Art Centers in Beirut Pause Programming Amid War: Morning Links for March 5, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines IN MEMORIAM. Liliana Angulo Cortés, who led Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia, died on February 21, aged 51, reports the Art Newspaper. She was the first Afro-Colombian artist to direct the museum, which she diversified by including more Black and Indigenous artists. Angulo read more
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Scale the Dramatic Verticality of Grundtvigs Kirke in David Altrath's Dreamy Photos
The construction of Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen took nearly two decades, beginning in fall of 1921 and finally reaching completion in 1940. Designed by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint, it transforms the humble brick into a masterpiece of Expressionist architecture. Its pointed interior arches and vaulted ceiling, stepped crenellations, and hulking exterior nod to medieval Gothic and read more
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Key Works from the Brant Foundation’s Upcoming Keith Haring Exhibition, Selected by Curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer
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Painter Emmi Whitehorse, Known for Her Abstract Landscapes of the Indigenous Southwest, Joins White Cube
White Cube will now represent Emmi Whitehorse, alongside New York–based Garth Greenan Gallery, which has exhibited her work since 2022. Related Articles White Cube will feature Whitehorse’s 2025 painting Father Sky meets Mother Earth in its booth at Art Basel Hong Kong later this month. The representation comes after she had a solo exhibition at read more
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Guggenheim Union Rallies Outside Carol Bove Reception for New Contract
On Wednesday in Manhattan, VIP guests trickled into the Guggenheim Museum to celebrate its buzzy Carol Bove show, while outside, its unionized staff—conservators, archivists, educators, front-facing staff, and others—rallied forasecondcontract that the group hopes will be more robust. The Guggenheim staff, who voted to join UAW Local 2110 in 2023 after more than two years read more
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Roberts Projects Takes On Esmaa Mohamoud, Cristin Tierney Adds Debbi Kenote, and More: Industry Moves for March 4, 2026
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. Happy Wednesday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Cristin Tierney Adds Debbi Kenote to Roster: The Brooklyn-based abstract painter will have her first solo exhibition with the read more
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Sotheby’s Spring Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale in London Achieves Impressive $175 M. White-Glove Result
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. It is officially March, which means I was back at the Windmill pub, just around the corner from Sotheby’s New Bond Street location, on Wednesday. My pre-sale pint before the house’s spring modern and contemporary read more
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Prominent Israeli Painter Doron Langberg Addresses ‘Atrocities’ in Gaza
On Friday, Doron Langberg, one of the most successful and well-known Israeli artists working today, will open his first New York exhibition in seven years at Jeffrey Deitch’s Tribeca gallery. For the occasion, Langberg has so far opted to give a single interview—to the New York Times—and to publish an accompanying 750-word text on Deitch’s read more
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15 Art Excursions Outside NYC This Spring
My favorite thing to do in New York City is leave it. I’m kidding, I’m kidding, but there’s nothing wrong with a little break, especially to explore the beautiful exhibitions below. They’re just a short trip from the city —and just as the weather’s beginning to hint at warmth. Many of these shows offer alternate read more
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Explore The Met’s Collection in 3D From Your Couch
News The museum offers scans of items including a painting by Claude Monet, Neolithic sculptures, and Greek terracotta vases Some of the 3D scans were done in collaboration with Japan’s national broadcaster NHK. (image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) A voluptuous Neolithic marble figurine, a model Nayarit home from ancient Mesoamerica, Claude Monet’s 1891 read more
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In Cardboard and Gold, Narsiso Martinez Highlights the Workers of American Agriculture
Americans are uniquely disconnected from our food. More than 10 percent of the working population is employed in agricultural sectors, but it’s rare for the average person to grapple with—let alone witness—the number of people involved in growing, harvesting, packaging, and ultimately getting dinner onto their plate. Given that many farms, restaurants, and other food-related read more
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Long-Lost Rembrandt Goes on Display at the Rijksmuseum
News Previously misattributed to a pupil of the Dutch Master, the painting was hidden from public view in a private collection for over six decades. Rembrandt van Rijn, “The Vision of Zechariah in the Temple” (1633) (photo by Rene Gerritsen, courtesy Rijksmuseum) After a two-year study by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a painting held for read more
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Remembering Iris Cantor, Ulysses Jenkins, and Rena Bransten
In Memoriamis published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world. Iris Cantor (1931–2026)Arts patron The chairwoman of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, she gave hundreds of millions to arts, medical, and educational instiuttions. She held one of the largest private collections of sculptures by Auguste Rodin in read more
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