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States Pick Up the Slack on Arts Funding After Federal Reductions

State legislatures are moving to soften the blow of shrinking federal cultural support. According to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), combined appropriations for the 50 states and…

Berndnaut Smilde : Sculpting Clouds Indoors

by Justin Muñoz

Step inside an abandoned chapel and, for a few heart-stopping seconds, a luminous cloud floats just above the pews, drifting like a dream you could almost reach out and touch. This impossible sight is…

Long-Lost Rodin Marble Le Désespoir Found on a Family Piano Sells for $1.2 Million

For more than a century, a luminous white-marble figure by Auguste Rodin rested unnoticed atop a family piano in central France. The owners, who believed it to be a harmless copy, invited auctioneer Aymeric…

Real Masterpieces, Reel Risk: Inside Wes Anderson's “The Phoenician Scheme”

by Justin Muñoz

As the crate opened on Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Enfant assis en robe bleue the bedroom set seemed to inhale. Varnish caught the key light and the crew instinctively lowered their voices. Knowing that Greta…

Frida’s Disappearing Act? Former Casa Azul Director Raises Questions About Missing Kahlo Works

by Raquel Cohen

A new chapter has opened in the story of Frida Kahlo’s legacy, and it brings with it a wave of unresolved questions about where her works truly belong. Hilda Trujillo Soto, who spent nearly two decades…

The Met’s Reimagined Rockefeller Wing Rises to the Moment

by Raquel Cohen

After four years of anticipation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing has reopened, and it is nothing short of transformative. The redesign is not merely an architectural facelift;…

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