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Jessica Morgan named new Tate director

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum ...
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Lisbon's Museu Calouste Gulbenkian returns to its mid-century modern roots following major renovation

The Portuguese private art collection, which features fine and decorative art from antiquity to the 20th-century, reopened on ...
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Artforum bids farewell to back-cover star in style

Casting one’s eye over the back-cover advertisement of Artforum magazine—taken by the Swiss gallerist Bruno Bischofberger for ...
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Yoko Ono’s most famous performance art piece cuts both ways in Los Angeles

The artist MPA put her twist on the seminal "Cut Piece" at Redcat, in tandem with the Broad’s presentation of Ono’s traveling ...
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Shuttered San Francisco arts school will become college co-named for Nvidia founder Jensen Huang

The anchor institution for Vanderbilt University’s Bay Area campus will be the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, ...
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Museum acquisitions round-up: a Kandinsky ‘Improvisation’ and a canvas by Minimalist pioneer Agnes Martin

Improvisation 21 (1911) by Wassily Kandinsky Hilti Art Foundation, Liechtenstein. In 1909, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) started producing his Improvisations, ...
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Theaster Gates to create giant frieze for Obama Presidential Center

The forthcoming Obama Presidential Center, a museum and library celebrating the 44th US president, has announced a new artist commission in advance of its opening in 2026. The latest work to be ...
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More than 100 archaeological structures discovered in the Peruvian Andes

Researchers working in Peru have discovered more than 100 previously unknown structures at the Gran Pajatén archaeological complex, an ancient site located within Río Abiseo National Park, 500 km ...
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Petroglyphs and cave paintings, some more than 4,000 years old, discovered in Mexico

Specialists from Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) announced this week that they have recorded 16 petroglyphs and cave paintings dating from prehistory and the Mesoamerican ...
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London mansion where ‘secret listeners’ spied on Nazi prisoners for intel opens as museum

Trent Park House of Secrets tells the story of how mainly Jewish refugees covertly transcribed conversations from the ...
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A fresh appreciation of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, who was haunted by mental illness

The most comprehensive show of the artist since the 1970s brings together more than 100 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in ...
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As Andy Burnham becomes the new UK prime minister, here are five key challenges facing his culture ministry

From the future of the Arts Council to AI, there are several complicated issues for the incoming culture secretary to tackle ...