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Pulitzer-Winning ‘Washington Post’ Art Critic Sebastian Smee Laid Off in Cutbacks, But Philip Kennicott Remains
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post laid off some thirty percent of its employees on Wednesday, according to sources quoted in the New York Times, slashing the paper’s sports, local news, and international coverage. More than 300 of the approximately 800 journalists in the newsroom were reportedly let go. Among the casualties was Pulitzer Prize for read more
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The Best Booths at Zona Maco 2026, Where Sculptures Using Natural Materials Shine
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What to See at Milan’s Best Museums and Galleries During the 2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympics are upon us, with the opening ceremony—featuring a performance by Mariah Carey!— taking place at Milan’s San Siro Stadium at 8 PM local time on Friday, February 6. Events will take place throughout northern Italy, with indoor ice events in Milan and outdoor events in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Livigno, Bormio, Predazzo, and read more
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Buffalo AKG Director Hasn’t Repaid $335K Museum Loan Used to Buy Home, State Report Finds
Janne Sirén, director of Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery since 2013, used a museum loan to help finance a $710,000 home—more than half of which remains unpaid, including accrued interest, according to a state review. Buffalo News, citing data from the Erie County Comptroller’s Office, reported that prevailing interest rates at the time of the loan read more
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New Exhibition Space Opens in Gaudí-Designed Building in Barcelona
Casa Batlló, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Barcelona designed by the Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí, recently opened a new exhibition space designated for shows of contemporary art. The program opened last week with an exhibition of work by United Visual Artists (Matt Clark) and will continue with two annual shows in a space now read more
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Tara Donovan's 'Stratagems' Tower Within a San Francisco Architectural Icon
Completed in 1972, the innovative 48-story building known as the Transamerica Pyramid Center quickly became an indelible icon of the San Francisco skyline. Its modernist features include blocky elements, uniform rows of windows, and it’s namesake pyramidical shape, but its design also took its surroundings into consideration, as its tapered shape meant that more sunlight read more
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Ropac to Open New York Project Space, ADAA New Members, And More: Industry Moves for February 5, 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 Thursday! Here’s a round-up of who’s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Thaddaeus Ropac to Open New York Project Space: The gallery also hired Emilio Steinberger as a senior director in read more
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Toledo Museum of Art Director Adam M. Levine on Six of the Museum’s Most Important 2025 Acquisitions
The Toledo Museum of Art has a somewhat atypical history, in terms of encyclopedic museums of its ilk. “The museum,” director Adam M. Levine explains, “was founded in 1901 with money and not a collection. The most interesting feature of our acquisitions is that they are almost all funded from the endowment rather than as read more
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Is Martin Puryear the Most Influential American Artist Working Today?
Self-portraiture is commonly thought to be one of the most revealing genres of artmaking: In presenting an image of yourself to the world, you are baring it all, or so the thinking goes. What, then, is one to make of Martin Puryear’s 1978 sculpture Self? Composed of a large piece of carved mahogany topped off read more
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Fast-Rising Sculptor Yuko Mohri Wins $50,000 Calder Prize
Yuko Mohri, a Japanese sculptor whose assemblages of fruit and found objects are in high demand on the international art circuit, has won yet another accolade: the Calder Prize, which is awarded by the namesake artist’s foundation and comes with $50,000. Mohri had already built a long CV in her native Japan before she represented read more
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Empress Eugénie’s Crown to be Restored After Louvre Heist, Rembrandt Drawing Breaks Auction Record: Morning Links for February 5, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. THE HEADLINES FALLEN CROWN. For the first time since the brazen theft of French crown jewels, the Louvre has publicly shared images of Empress Eugénie’s crown, which was badly crushed by thieves who tried but failed to make off with it. Investigators determined that the read more
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Philippines-Based Ayala Foundation Names Reuben Keehan as Artistic Director for Kontempo Arts Center
The Ayala Foundation, the social development arm of the Phillippines largest conglomerate, announced Wednesday that it has named Reuben Keehan as the incoming artistic director for Kontempo, a new contemporary art space scheduled to open in Manila. Designed by Kulapat Yantrasat, founder of WHY Architecture and architect of the new Rockefeller Wing at the Met, read more
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A Major Survey in Paris Chronicles Leonora Carrington's Esoteric Surrealism
Multiple-headed deities, strange woodland feasts, plants with sprite-like faces, and worlds floating on animals’ backs are just a few of the dreamlike occurrences in the work of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). The British-Mexican artist, born into an upper-class family in Lancashire, was fascinated by the notion of “other.” She immersed herself in fairytales and folk stories read more
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Empress Eugénie’s Damaged Crown to Be Restored After Louvre Heist
When thieves broke into Paris’s Louvre on October 19 last year, they ran off with an estimated $102 million in jewels. In their scramble to escape, however, they left behind what may have been at the top of their loot list: the crown of Empress Eugénie. Dropped and badly damaged during the heist, the diamond- read more
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Philadelphia Art Museum Says Goodbye to “PhAM”
News “There was no good reason to rename it,” Director Daniel Weiss told Hyperallergic about the museum’s decision to backpedal on a controversial new name. Another lesson in “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” (edit Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) The Philadelphia Art Museum, no, hold on … Scratch that! The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) confirmed read more
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Epstein Files Detail Gruesome Allegations Against Leon Black
Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault and harassment. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. The latest tranche of Epstein files released by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) last week includes detailed and gruesome descriptions of alleged abuse by private equity billionaire and read more
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In Minneapolis, Artists Mobilize to Crush ICE
MINNEAPOLIS — A steady line formed in the hallway outside of Art Price’s co-operative screen-printing and painting studio in an old Grain Belt Beer building. Visitors held blank t-shirts, sweatshirts, and other apparel that would soon be emblazoned with anti-ICE messages and artwork, from the Minnesota state bird, the loon, dubbed a “rebel loon” in read more
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New Details Revealed for Planned Saudi Museum in AlUla
Further details about a new museum to open in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, were revealed by Arts AlUla, a project of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU). Plans for the Lina Ghotmeh–designed institution, a partnership between the RCU and the Centre Pompidou, were first announced in 2023. The new information was reported by the Art Newspaper, read more
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Philadelphia Art Museum Reverses Controversial Rebrand, Becomes Philadelphia Museum of Art Again
Four months after announcing a snazzy rebrand from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Philadelphia Art Museum, the institution announced that it is reversing course. As of Wednesday afternoon, the museum will again be known by its longtime moniker. In a press release, the museum said that it would retain its new griffin logo read more
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Collector Ronald Lauder Repeatedly Named in Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Files
Ronald Lauder, a powerful art collector who has patronized institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, and the World Monuments Funds, appears more than 900 times in the set of Jeffrey Epstein–related files that were released by the Department of Justice at the end of January. read more
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