Trace nearly five decades of Diane Arbus’s fearless vision as 450 photographs reveal the outsiders, performers, and everyday people who defined her career, inviting you to look closer at what it means to see and be seen.
Federal support for culture is shrinking, but many states are racing to fill the gap with bold new funding streams - from ticket-sale levies to art-themed license plates. See which legislatures are boosting the arts, which are slashing budgets, and why the stakes have never been higher for museums, theaters, and community programs nationwide.
Lucian Freud’s first-ever exhibited painting returns to the spotlight in a landmark exhibition tracing Peggy Guggenheim’s bold impact on British modernism. Opening in Venice and traveling to London, the show uncovers the roots of an art world revolution.
Damien Hirst just mapped out 200 years of posthumous art releases, turning his legacy into a factory for future masterpieces. The strategy could upend long-held assumptions about scarcity and value in the art market; read the full story to see how.
A radical feminist storms Warhol’s studio, three shots leave the Pop icon clinically dead for a minute, and the aftermath rewires his art, his business empire, and the 1960s counter-culture scene. Uncover the gripping minute-by-minute drama and the long-term fallout that still echoes through the art world today.
Imagine brushing dust off an attic canvas and revealing a long-missing Klimt that scholars wrote off decades ago. The rediscovered portrait rocketed to a record €30 million at auction, but its secret journey - from 1920s Vienna to a modern bidding frenzy - packs even bigger surprises than the price tag.
The Museum of Cycladic Art stages a rare encounter between Marlene Dumas’s psychologically charged paintings and the minimalist beauty of Cycladic antiquities. Spanning three decades of work, Cycladic Blues reveals the timeless pull of the human form and invites visitors to see new links between present and past.
Former Museo Frida Kahlo director Hilda Trujillo Soto reveals that key works by Frida Kahlo may be missing from the museum’s collection and resurfacing in private hands. Her call for transparency and collaboration invites a deeper look into how Kahlo’s legacy is being protected - or lost.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing with a transformative redesign that honors the cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the Indigenous Americas through light-filled architecture and contextual curation. The renovation integrates contemporary voices, ethical scholarship, and symbolic spatial changes to reframe these works as central to the global artistic narrative.
France will introduce a €25–€30 surcharge for non-EU visitors to view the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, as part of a major renovation project aiming to expand capacity and improve infrastructure. The painting will be moved to a dedicated room with separate entry, sparking debate over cultural accessibility and tourism pricing.
From billion-dollar Cubist gifts to the Whitney’s landmark expansion, Leonard Lauder’s passion for art reshaped New York’s museums and left an everlasting public legacy. Read how the cosmetics titan turned his fortune into cultural treasure.
Gagosian’s final exhibition at 980 Madison Avenue, Tête-à-tête, curated with Paloma Picasso, presents an intimate and unconventional dialogue with Pablo Picasso’s work, blending legacy, irreverence, and personal reflection.
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