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A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art puts Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in the same frame. It gives Krasner, who often worked from a cramped kitchen studio while Pollock occupied the spotlight, a fuller share of the story.
5:27 PMNew York Times Arts
Senators Richard Blumenthal and John Cornyn have filed a brief supporting heirs seeking the return of Egon Schiele works allegedly looted by the Nazis. The defendants are challenging the constitutionality of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act.
4:07 PMARTnews
Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, Vincent Valdez, and Chip Thomas are among the 20 recipients of this year's MacArthur fellowship. Each winner receives $800,000 with no restrictions on how the money is used.
3:50 PMHyperallergicNicole Eisenman says the behind-the-scenes resistance to artists supporting Palestine helped inspire her painting The Auction. She also points to a broader reluctance in the art world to confront the destruction in Gaza.
4:39 PMARTnewsSouth African ceramic artist Andile Dyalvane has won the Officine Saffi Award, an international biennial prize focused on contemporary ceramics. He is the first African artist to receive the honor.
1:30 PMWWDLauren Halsey is taking over the Hollywood Bowl tonight, reshaping the venue into an immersive artistic world for a concert led by Erykah Badu. The project reimagines the familiar space rather than simply decorating it, turning the performance into a full-scale environment.
5:18 PMARTnewsAn Italian art historian spotted a long-lost drawing in a private collection in northern Italy. The work may be an unknown piece by Édouard Manet, though its attribution still needs to be established.
3:11 PMARTnews
J.M.W. Turner’s early 19th-century painting, Rome, from Mount Aventine, is going on display in Rome for the first time. The work could fetch around £50 million when it goes to auction in London in December.
10:10 AMBBCSummary
A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art puts Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in the same frame. It gives Krasner, who often worked from a cramped kitchen studio while Pollock occupied the spotlight, a fuller share of the story.
The show is not simply adding Krasner to Pollock’s biography. It is asking viewers to
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The exhibition helps correct the long-standing imbalance between Krasner’s achievements and Pollock’s fame.
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Senators Richard Blumenthal and John Cornyn have filed a brief supporting heirs seeking the return of Egon Schiele works allegedly looted by the Nazis. The defendants are challenging the constitutionality of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act.
The case sits at the intersection of Holocaust restitution, property law, and the art market's
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The outcome could shape how heirs pursue Nazi-looted art decades after the thefts occurred.
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Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, Vincent Valdez, and Chip Thomas are among the 20 recipients of this year's MacArthur fellowship. Each winner receives $800,000 with no restrictions on how the money is used.
The group reflects the foundation's broad view of artistic practice, spanning visual art, performance, community
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The award gives four artists the financial breathing room to pursue ambitious work on their own terms.
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Nicole Eisenman says the behind-the-scenes resistance to artists supporting Palestine helped inspire her painting The Auction. She also points to a broader reluctance in the art world to confront the destruction in Gaza.
Her comments tap into the pressure artists face when political speech collides with galleries, institutions,
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The art world is still wrestling with how openly artists can respond to Gaza and Palestine.
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South African ceramic artist Andile Dyalvane has won the Officine Saffi Award, an international biennial prize focused on contemporary ceramics. He is the first African artist to receive the honor.
The award puts Dyalvane’s work at the center of a major global ceramics conversation. It
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Dyalvane’s win gives African contemporary ceramics a bigger platform and signals a broader view of where the medium’s leading voices come from.
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Lauren Halsey is taking over the Hollywood Bowl tonight, reshaping the venue into an immersive artistic world for a concert led by Erykah Badu. The project reimagines the familiar space rather than simply decorating it, turning the performance into a full-scale environment.
Halsey’s approach blurs the line between concert design, public art, and performance. It gives the
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The event shows how artists are turning major music venues into complete, immersive experiences.
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An Italian art historian spotted a long-lost drawing in a private collection in northern Italy. The work may be an unknown piece by Édouard Manet, though its attribution still needs to be established.
Discoveries like this can turn a quiet private collection into the center of an art-historical
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If confirmed, the drawing would add a previously unknown work to Manet's legacy.
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J.M.W. Turner’s early 19th-century painting, Rome, from Mount Aventine, is going on display in Rome for the first time. The work could fetch around £50 million when it goes to auction in London in December.
The painting offers a rare chance to see Turner’s grand view of Rome in the
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A landmark Turner is getting a hometown-style reunion before the market puts a very large price on it.
A curated list of other prominent stories from this day.
A powerful nor’easter battered the Eastern Seaboard and exposed the remains of a shipwreck on a Nantucket beach. The wreck is believed to be from a schooner that went down nearly 150 years ago.
4:53 PMNPR Arts
A huge mosaic beneath the ruins of Rome's Baths of Trajan offers a striking glimpse of the city's artistic scale. An unusual fresco nearby adds another surprise to a site that keeps yielding new wonders.
3:23 PMHyperallergic
Edinburgh-based writer Cherise Saywell has won the £15,000 BBC national short story award for “Ditto,” a taut, tender story about a young boy living amid domestic violence in a small Australian town. An extract is available to read, and the full story has also been recorded for BBC Sounds.
3:00 PMThe Guardian Books
Artists and other culture workers are confronting pet-care bills that can reach $1,600 for dental work and $16,000 for emergency procedures. Many are weighing difficult choices as veterinary costs rise alongside already precarious creative incomes.
2:53 PMHyperallergic
In Turkey, families who have recently lost someone hire confectioners to hand out lokma, small balls of fried dough, to strangers. The ritual honors the dead while sharing blessings with the wider community.
5:00 PMThe New York Times
An Istanbul confectioner makes fried dough balls to distribute as memorial offerings for the dead. The work is both a livelihood and a deeply personal way to keep memory, grief and tradition alive.
7:58 AMThe New York Times
The exhibition Source Materials: A Bioart Exhibit brings together artists experimenting with alternatives to synthetic art supplies. Their work draws on local ecosystems, scientific research, and collaboration to imagine a less extractive way to make art.
2:51 PMHyperallergic
Put the phone down and let the phone songs play. This playlist gathers telephone-themed tracks from Blondie, Chuck Berry, R.E.M. and other artists.
2:01 PMNew York Times Arts
Cal Swann, who died at 91, spent more than five decades shaping graphic design education in the United Kingdom and Australia. Trained in typography at Leicester College of Art, he went on to make a lasting contribution to how design was taught.
1:25 PMThe Guardian Art and DesignIn a solo play at the Public, actor Jacob Ming-Trent looks back on years of rejection and the role Shakespeare played in helping him find a way through them. The result mixes personal tragedy with comedy and the playwright's words.
1:13 PMNew York Times Arts
Over five years, artist Katherine Hubbard photographed her mother, Antonette Berger, as her memory and independence declined. The project includes intimate images and nude body prints made together at home, as Berger lived with LATE, a condition resembling Alzheimer's disease.
11:04 AMThe Guardian Art and Design
September’s standout images range from a floating Kylie Minogue to a 95-year-old comedian and some impressive sporting scenes. The collection also includes Damien Frost’s striking portraits of drag performers, capturing both their glamour and the toughness of life on the road.
11:00 AMThe Guardian Art and Design
Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins is performing this week at the Village Vanguard. His work connects New York’s longstanding jazz tradition with a contemporary approach to the genre.
11:00 AMGothamist
Maine's opera houses have survived fires, floods and changing times because they were never only about classical music. They became gathering places for entertainment, community life and a distinctly American kind of togetherness.
10:27 AMNew York Times Arts
A new exhibition in Florence explores why damaged sculptures can feel more vivid than perfectly intact ones. More than 80 ancient objects, from a pharaoh’s striking lips to a bust of Mussolini with a hole in its head, show how fragments can carry their own force and mystery.
10:00 AMThe Guardian Art and Design
F. Keith Wahle reflects on an encounter with death, beginning with the striking image of carrying a body bag from a funeral home. The conversation appears to move through the uneasy space between the ordinary and the macabre, with dark humor close at hand.
10:00 AMThe Paris Review Daily
A new six-volume library collects every Adventure Time comic published over the past 15 years. It is a substantial package for fans who want the entire comic-book side of the animated series in one place.
10:00 AMIGN
Owen Jones traces the West’s slide from post-Cold War confidence to today’s fractured global order. He links the shift to economic failures, military misadventures and political crises that exposed the limits of free-market certainty and US dominance.
4:00 AMThe Guardian Books
Louise Kennedy’s follow-up to Trespasses follows damaged lives from 1970s Northern Ireland during the Troubles to a harsh, unsettled London of squats and payphones. The review praises its portraits of broken hearts and broken people, calling it a strong second novel after Kennedy’s acclaimed debut.
2:00 AMThe Guardian BooksSummary
A powerful nor’easter battered the Eastern Seaboard and exposed the remains of a shipwreck on a Nantucket beach. The wreck is believed to be from a schooner that went down nearly 150 years ago.
Storms can be rough on coastlines, but they sometimes act like accidental archaeologists. The newly
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The storm uncovered a piece of local history that may not stay visible for long.
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A huge mosaic beneath the ruins of Rome's Baths of Trajan offers a striking glimpse of the city's artistic scale. An unusual fresco nearby adds another surprise to a site that keeps yielding new wonders.
Rome's ruins are not a finished story or a static museum display. Even familiar ancient
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The mosaic shows how much of ancient Rome's visual world remains hidden beneath the city.
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Edinburgh-based writer Cherise Saywell has won the £15,000 BBC national short story award for “Ditto,” a taut, tender story about a young boy living amid domestic violence in a small Australian town. An extract is available to read, and the full story has also been recorded for BBC Sounds.
Saywell’s story appears to find emotional power in a child’s perspective without turning a painful
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A high-profile prize is drawing attention to a difficult story about violence, fear and childhood.
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Artists and other culture workers are confronting pet-care bills that can reach $1,600 for dental work and $16,000 for emergency procedures. Many are weighing difficult choices as veterinary costs rise alongside already precarious creative incomes.
For freelancers and low-paid arts workers, pets are family but often lack the financial safety
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Rising veterinary bills are putting basic financial security, and beloved pets, out of reach for some artists.
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In Turkey, families who have recently lost someone hire confectioners to hand out lokma, small balls of fried dough, to strangers. The ritual honors the dead while sharing blessings with the wider community.
It is grief expressed through generosity rather than ceremony alone. A simple sweet becomes a
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The tradition shows how food can carry memory, mourning and communal care all at once.
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An Istanbul confectioner makes fried dough balls to distribute as memorial offerings for the dead. The work is both a livelihood and a deeply personal way to keep memory, grief and tradition alive.
These sweets turn mourning into a shared public ritual, connecting one family’s loss with the
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A simple local treat becomes a lasting way to honor people and bring the living together.
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The exhibition Source Materials: A Bioart Exhibit brings together artists experimenting with alternatives to synthetic art supplies. Their work draws on local ecosystems, scientific research, and collaboration to imagine a less extractive way to make art.
This is sustainability as a studio practice, not just an exhibition theme. The artists are
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The show suggests that changing art materials could also change how artists think about production and the environment.
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Put the phone down and let the phone songs play. This playlist gathers telephone-themed tracks from Blondie, Chuck Berry, R.E.M. and other artists.
There is something delightfully old-fashioned about songs built around ringing phones, missed calls and answering
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These songs turn an everyday technology into a surprisingly rich piece of musical history.
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Cal Swann, who died at 91, spent more than five decades shaping graphic design education in the United Kingdom and Australia. Trained in typography at Leicester College of Art, he went on to make a lasting contribution to how design was taught.
Swann's career points to the often overlooked influence of educators, whose work spreads through generations
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His legacy lives not only in his own work but in the designers and teachers he helped shape.
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In a solo play at the Public, actor Jacob Ming-Trent looks back on years of rejection and the role Shakespeare played in helping him find a way through them. The result mixes personal tragedy with comedy and the playwright's words.
The premise gives Shakespeare a practical role rather than treating him as a classroom monument.
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It makes a familiar literary giant feel immediate, personal and potentially life-changing.
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Over five years, artist Katherine Hubbard photographed her mother, Antonette Berger, as her memory and independence declined. The project includes intimate images and nude body prints made together at home, as Berger lived with LATE, a condition resembling Alzheimer's disease.
The work sits in an uneasy space between caregiving, collaboration and documentation. Its power comes
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The project confronts aging and dementia without looking away from the complicated ethics of turning family life into art.
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September’s standout images range from a floating Kylie Minogue to a 95-year-old comedian and some impressive sporting scenes. The collection also includes Damien Frost’s striking portraits of drag performers, capturing both their glamour and the toughness of life on the road.
It is a lively snapshot of Australia through many different lenses, with spectacle, personality and
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The best photography can turn a month of scattered moments into a vivid portrait of a country and its people.
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Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins is performing this week at the Village Vanguard. His work connects New York’s longstanding jazz tradition with a contemporary approach to the genre.
Wilkins represents the city’s jazz scene as both an institution to preserve and a platform
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The performances show how New York’s jazz identity survives through artists who extend its tradition rather than simply reproduce it.
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Maine's opera houses have survived fires, floods and changing times because they were never only about classical music. They became gathering places for entertainment, community life and a distinctly American kind of togetherness.
These theaters function less like grand cultural monuments and more like town anchors. Their staying
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The opera houses show how local arts spaces can help keep small-town communities connected and alive.
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A new exhibition in Florence explores why damaged sculptures can feel more vivid than perfectly intact ones. More than 80 ancient objects, from a pharaoh’s striking lips to a bust of Mussolini with a hole in its head, show how fragments can carry their own force and mystery.
Missing pieces invite the imagination to do some of the work. A broken face can
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The exhibition makes a strong case that damage is not just loss but part of an artwork’s meaning.
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F. Keith Wahle reflects on an encounter with death, beginning with the striking image of carrying a body bag from a funeral home. The conversation appears to move through the uneasy space between the ordinary and the macabre, with dark humor close at hand.
That magician’s-bag line makes the tone clear: unsettling, observant, and a little absurd. Wahle seems
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The conversation suggests that confronting mortality can produce not just grief, but vivid language and unexpected humor.
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A new six-volume library collects every Adventure Time comic published over the past 15 years. It is a substantial package for fans who want the entire comic-book side of the animated series in one place.
This is the kind of set built for completionists, with a lot of colorful weirdness
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The collection gives longtime fans a definitive way to own the series’ full comic history.
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Owen Jones traces the West’s slide from post-Cold War confidence to today’s fractured global order. He links the shift to economic failures, military misadventures and political crises that exposed the limits of free-market certainty and US dominance.
The book looks back at the early 2000s, when the Western model was treated as
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The review presents the book as a sharp account of how a supposedly settled world order came undone.
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Louise Kennedy’s follow-up to Trespasses follows damaged lives from 1970s Northern Ireland during the Troubles to a harsh, unsettled London of squats and payphones. The review praises its portraits of broken hearts and broken people, calling it a strong second novel after Kennedy’s acclaimed debut.
Kennedy appears less interested in grand historical explanation than in showing how conflict and displacement
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The novel builds on Kennedy’s breakthrough with another closely observed story about love, violence and survival.
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