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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.
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.
What if a sunlit cumulus cloud drifted through a stone chapel, low enough to brush with your fingertips, only to dissolve before anyone could raise a camera? Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde stages that fragile miracle in galleries and castles around the world.
A palm-sized marble left on a French piano turned out to be a lost Rodin and it just sold for $1.2 million. Discover the full story.
She was the audacious Surrealist photographer who captivated Picasso, only to be pushed into silence as his muse and cast aside amid affairs, breakdowns, and an asylum stay. Dive into the scandalous tale of how Dora Maar lost—and ultimately reclaimed—her artistic voice.
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme borrows Renoir’s Enfant assis en robe bleue and Magritte’s The Equator, thanks to curator Jasper Sharp. Their brief on-set presence cost dearly but, Anderson says, lent performers and viewers palpable authenticity.
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.
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