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  • World Monuments Fund Commits $7 M. to Protect Global Heritage Sites in 2026

    The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that it will commit $7 million in 2026 to support 21 new preservation projects. Founded in 1965 and originally known as the International Fund for Monuments, the New York–based WMF has for the last 60 years worked to preserve more than 700 heritage sites across the globe. The read more

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  • Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Artforum—Rachel Wetzler and Daniel Wenger to Lead Magazine as Co-Editors

    On Wednesday, Artforum announced that editor-in-chief Tina Rivers Ryan will depart from her role at the end of February. She will be replaced by the publication’s executive editor, Rachel Wetzler, and editor Daniel Wenger, who will now serve as co-editors. (The editor-in-chief title will no longer be used.) Ryan, a curator, critic, and specialist in read more

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    Tina Rivers Ryan Departs Artforum—Rachel Wetzler and Daniel Wenger to Lead Magazine as Co-Editors

  • Amy Sherald’s Show Sets Visitor Record at Baltimore Museum of Art

    News The museum became a venue for “American Sublime” after Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the Smithsonian, citing censorship concerns. Amy Sherald, “Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)” (2024) (courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth) The traveling exhibition Amy Sherald: American Sublime has set a new attendance record at the Baltimore Museum of read more

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  • Queens Museum Promotes Debra Wimpfheimer to Executive Director

    The Queens Museum has named Debra Wimpfheimer as its next executive director. She replaces Sally Tallant, who departed last month ahead of taking on the directorship of the Hayward Gallery in London. Wimpfheimer, a Queens native, has worked for the museum for more than two decades. She first joined as the institution’s director of external read more

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  • Teaching Children Taught Me How to Be an Artist

    At the end of November of 2011, I saw my dad take his last breath. I came back to the United States after participating in all the death-related rituals that helped organize my pain in México. New York City was not a place to live my mourning, and right around December of the same year, read more

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  • No, The Gardner Museum’s Stolen Rembrandt Is Not in the Epstein Files, Despite Claims in a Viral Video

    Wouldn’t it be fascinating if one of the greatest museum heists of all time was somehow associated with one of the most sordid crime rings in recent history? And wouldn’t it be great if you could get a piece of the $10 million reward? That was the prospect presented by a video by Instagrammer Emily read more

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    No, The Gardner Museum’s Stolen Rembrandt Is Not in the Epstein Files, Despite Claims in a Viral Video

  • Jerry McMillan, Whimsical Chronicler of LA’s Art Scene, Dies at 89

    Photographer Jerry McMillan, who played a key role in documenting the mid-century art scene in Los Angeles, died on Monday, February 9, at the age of 89. The cause was “old age and a broken heart,” according to his son. McMillan’s wife of more than six decades, Patricia Ella McMillan, had passed away a week read more

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  • Art Problems: Should I Sell My Work to People Whose Politics I Hate?

    Should I allow my work to be sold to people whose politics I hate? I’m not okay with the ongoing injustice in Minneapolis and I don’t want to pretend this is just a difference of opinion. —distraught painter in America Short answer. No. You should not allow your work to be sold to MAGA supporters. read more

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  • Along the Mississippi River, 'Water | Craft' Is a Confluence of Art, Culture, and Ecology

    When we think of terms like “flowing” or “fluid,” we could be referring to the nature of water, but we can also just as easily apply these concepts to our understanding of art and craft. Fabrics “pool” and different mediums converge. The nature of creativity is often referred to in terms of an “ebb and read more

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    Along the Mississippi River, 'Water | Craft' Is a Confluence of Art, Culture, and Ecology

  • Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey Museum Is Officially ‘Dead,’ Says Jersey City Mayor

    A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday. The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the only North American satellite operated by Paris’s biggest museum of modern and contemporary art, which is read more

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  • Remembering Ted Berger, Christopher White, and Hudson Talbott

    In Memoriam This week, we honor a devoted patron of the arts, the director of the Ashmolean, and a beloved children’s book illustrator. Ted Berger in 2012 (photo by Lloyd Mulvey, courtesy Joan Mitchell Foundation) In Memoriamis published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world. Ted Berger (1940–2026)Head of read more

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    Remembering Ted Berger, Christopher White, and Hudson Talbott

  • David Bowie Immersive Exhibition Opens in London

    The UK can’t seem to get enough of David Bowie. “David Bowie Is,” an exhibition about the late pop icon’s life, music, videos, and art, was organized by the V&A in London, where it opened in 2013 and proceeded to tour the world for five years. The V&A also recently opened the David Bowie Centre, read more

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  • Debra Wimpfheimer Named Executive Director of Queens Museum

    News The Queens native, who succeeds Sally Tallant, has held senior roles at the institution for over two decades. A portrait of Debra Wimpfheimer, the Queens Museum’s incoming executive director (photo by Claudia Lucia, courtesy the museum) Three weeks after the Queens Museum announced the forthcoming departure of Executive Director Sally Tallant, the board has read more

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  • David Henry Nobody JR Exposes Himself – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    There’s a fluidity to his art, a sense that nothing is every quite complete. “They’re for sale, but it’s process oriented work,” says Brown, “so I keep the props and sometimes I develop them further.” In some instances, it takes several tries to best capture the image he wants to present. That was the case read more

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  • Minimal Shapes Layer into Dynamic, Abstracted Murals by James Reka

    Although James Reka finds total freedom in his studio practice, it’s public art that he gravitates toward. The Australia-born artist researches the history of a building or neighborhood as he conceptualizes a mural and enjoys the constraints of creating within a particular geographic and cultural context. “Public art needs to connect with the local community,” read more

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  • Traditional African Baskets and Pottery Meet Pop Culture in Donté K. Hayes' Sculptures

    Redolent of African basketry, hairstyles, headwear, and pottery, Donté K. Hayes’ abstract ceramic sculptures may be interpreted as poetic vessels, even though they lack traditional openings. While we easily associate clay pots and round woven forms with ideas related to storage, protection, and even spiritual significance, they also nod to the human head as a read more

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  • Bonhams’ New HQ Opens, Lubaina Himid Wins PAMM Prize, and More: Industry Moves for February 11, 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. Bonhams Opens New US Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan: The auction house’s official opening of its new 42,000-square-foot flagship at read more

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    Bonhams’ New HQ Opens, Lubaina Himid Wins PAMM Prize, and More: Industry Moves for February 11, 2026

  • Harmony Korine Talks About Creating New Worlds and Adding Emotion to AI

    In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Harmony Korine—a filmmaker and multimedia artist whose boundless imagination has careened into painting, poetry, music, digital art, and pretty much every other artform that exists—talks about moving past his previous pursuits and going all-in on AI. From the Miami office of EDGLRD, the creative studio Korine started read more

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    Harmony Korine Talks About Creating New Worlds and Adding Emotion to AI

  • Advocates for the Incarcerated Protest Removal of Artworks from UK Court Facilities

    Cultural organizations and reformers in the UK are up in arms against government contractor Serco for removing artworks from court facilities in England and Wales. A February 10 report from Lay Observers, an independent monitor, found that Prisoner Escort and Custody Service, a government agency, provided artworks to all courts. Lay Observers found that only read more

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  • A Surprisingly Enjoyable Show About Critical Theory

    Art Review An exhibition about the influence of French critical theory on American art finds inspiration in diasporic thinkers like Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire. A work from Melvin Edwards’s Lynch Fragments series (begun 1963) in Echo Delay Reverb: American Art, Francophone Thought at Palais de Tokyo (all photos Cat Dawson/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Echo Delay read more

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