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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.
British sculptor Thomas J Price’s twin installations in New York spotlight everyday Black figures with monumental presence, challenging traditional notions of visibility, dignity, and public space.
Soft Landscape at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong offers a profound immersion into Louise Bourgeois’s inner terrain, where sculpture, drawing, and memory converge to map the psychic landscape of trauma, intimacy, and transformation across four decades of work, revealing her enduring exploration of the body, emotion, and the delicate thresholds between vulnerability and strength.
More than a shiny sculpture, the Balloon Dog is a cultural landmark that transforms childhood play into high art. With its towering scale and mirror-polished finish, it invites us to take joy seriously.
An Architectural Digest video of Gwyneth Paltrow’s home ignited an online frenzy when viewers thought they saw a rare Ruth Asawa wire sculpture beside an Ed Ruscha painting.
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