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April 24, 2024
Lost for a Century: Klimt's 'Fräulein Lieser' Resurfaces in Vienna
A Klimt portrait known only from a single 1925 photograph reappeared after nearly 100 years and sold for €30 million —…
April 20, 2024
Foreigners Everywhere: The 2024 Venice Biennale Centres the Outsider
Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the 60th Venice Biennale put migrants, outsiders and self-taught artists at the very heart…
April 13, 2024
Faith Ringgold, Who Told Stories in Quilts, Dies at 93
Faith Ringgold, the American artist and activist famed for her narrative 'story quilts' of Black life, died in 2024 age…
April 11, 2024
Frozen in Time: Stunning New Frescoes Emerge at Pompeii
Excavations at Pompeii keep yielding spectacular finds — including, in 2024, a grand black-walled banquet hall painted…
March 26, 2024
Richard Serra, Sculptor of Monumental Steel, Dies at 85
Richard Serra, the American artist whose colossal curving steel sculptures redefined how we move through space, died in…
February 22, 2024
Sargent and Fashion: When the Portrait Was a Power Move
Tate Britain's 'Sargent and Fashion' revealed how John Singer Sargent used silk, satin and a fearless eye to turn socie…
February 15, 2024
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at Tate Modern
Tate Modern's 2024 retrospective reclaimed Yoko Ono as a pioneering conceptual artist, far beyond her fame as a Beatle'…
February 9, 2024
Lost in the Light: teamLab Borderless Reopens in Tokyo
The Japanese collective teamLab reopened its boundary-dissolving digital art museum, Borderless, in Tokyo in 2024 to en…
December 5, 2023
Turner Prize 2023: Jesse Darling's Wobbling, Barricaded Britain
Jesse Darling won the 2023 Turner Prize with sculptural installations of hazard tape, crowd barriers and bowing office…
December 3, 2023
Australia's Spectacle: The NGV Triennial
The National Gallery of Victoria's free, blockbuster Triennial returned to Melbourne in 2023, mixing big-name contempor…
November 28, 2023
The Endless Tug-of-War Over the Parthenon Marbles
A diplomatic spat in 2023 reignited the centuries-old dispute over whether the British Museum should return the Parthen…
October 10, 2023
Shimmering Metal Skies: El Anatsui Fills the Turbine Hall
Ghanaian artist El Anatsui transformed Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall in 2023 with monumental hangings made from thous…