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    In Promotional Video, Lady Gaga Modernizes the Mona Lisa’s Smile

    In Promotional Video, Lady Gaga Modernizes the Mona Lisa’s Smile

    The museum released an 80-second video featuring Lady Gaga, who stars opposite Phoenix’s Joker as his maniacal love interest Harleen Quinzel, bopping through the Louvre’s halls, pointing finger guns at priceless works of art.


    Slowly, Brazil’s art market is becoming more racially diverse

    Slowly, Brazil’s art market is becoming more racially diverse

    “We have a culture of erasing the past in Brazil, but racism is finally no longer being ignored.” Mendes Wood DM has since signed Afro Brazilian artists such as Sonia Gomes and Rosana Paulino, the latter of whom currently has a show of paintings, botanical drawings and installations at the house museum of Eva Klabin in Rio.


    After 20 years without a permanent home, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art will open this month

    After 20 years without a permanent home, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art will open this month

    Among the artists currently represented in the collection are many women, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, MĂĄria BartuszovĂĄ, Sarah Lucas, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Sandra Mujinga, Senga Nengudi, Alina Szapocznikow, Rebecca H. Quaytman and Vivian Suter, she says.


    Meet the grassroots group making the art world more welcoming for Black women

    Meet the grassroots group making the art world more welcoming for Black women

    The typical BGIAS meetup sees the women have a private tour of an exhibition dedicated to work by a Black artist at a commercial gallery, museum or other art space, followed by a guided conversation about what they have just seen and then a meal together.


    Late Freud nude to make auction debut in London with ÂŁ10m-ÂŁ15m estimate

    Late Freud nude to make auction debut in London with ÂŁ10m-ÂŁ15m estimate

    A late Lucian Freud painting of Ria Kirby, an art handler at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, is appearing at auction for the first time during Frieze week next month, with an estimate of ÂŁ10m to ÂŁ15m.


    Art Supposedly by Michael Jackson Clears Legal Hurdles to Hit the Auction Block With High Estimate of $30 M.

    Art Supposedly by Michael Jackson Clears Legal Hurdles to Hit the Auction Block With High Estimate of $30 M.

    Since a federal judge dismissed the bankruptcy filing and ruled that the art collection return to the block, the auction house rescheduled the sale for October 5.


    Disgraced adviser Lisa Schiff’s art holdings planned for auction at Phillips starting in November

    Disgraced adviser Lisa Schiff’s art holdings planned for auction at Phillips starting in November

    According to Artnet News, the sale will take place in two tiers: lower-valued decorative items will be offered through Millea Brothers Auctioneers, while bigger-ticket works of art will be handled by Phillips.


    Biggest-ever Indigenous art show to tour North America

    Biggest-ever Indigenous art show to tour North America

    Highlights that have never before been seen in North America include the late desert painter Emily Kam Kngwarray’s largest painting, Anwerlarr anganenty (Big Yam Dreaming) (1995), measuring three by nine metres.


    Even Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Can’t Power “The Roommate”

    Even Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone Can’t Power “The Roommate”

    O’Brien’s production, which lacks much in the way of behavioral detail, barely creates a sense of the real, and when LuPone, jutting her chin out, claims that, should it come to stealing cars, she’s good at “jacking them and stripping them down,” we drop fully into camp.


    Rome’s Maxxi museum ousts dentist to appoint second interim president in a week

    Rome’s Maxxi museum ousts dentist to appoint second interim president in a week

    A member of the Amici per Maxxi association, a donors club, from 2016 to 2023, she stood in the European elections with Brothers of Italy, the party led by prime minister Giorgia Meloni, in May, coming seventh.


    Letters from Our Readers

    Letters from Our Readers

    In all weather, smiling staff members were outside greeting kids, who poured off buses and cheerfully shouted things at me like “Your dog is so cute!” A school like that is a source of pride for anyone who lives near it.


    The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia

    The Presidential Campaign, After Philadelphia

    Her suggestion that voters pay attention to his rallies, and note how many attendees left early “out of exhaustion and boredom,” prompted the Republican to inveigh against the nonexistent pet-eating migrants; and a well-timed reminder that Trump had inherited a large fortune, during an exchange about Harris’s recent move to the center, distracted him from what otherwise might have been an effective attack on her flip-flopping.


    London’s Courtauld Institute gets down to business with new art market-focused degree

    London’s Courtauld Institute gets down to business with new art market-focused degree

    “So there will be the classic seminar teaching with tutors as well as meeting a range of experts from the art world.” He added that on graduation, students will also be given mentors to provide ongoing professional support.


    Brutalism meets art in SĂŁo Paulo pop-up exhibitions

    Brutalism meets art in SĂŁo Paulo pop-up exhibitions

    “Due to a relationship with the material, or the entrance of light, or a type of perspective, you already saw that work placed in that spot.” The pergola in the Silveira house, for instance, immediately struck the curators as the perfect site for pieces by Artur Lescher and Anish Kapoor.


    Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo

    Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo

    “OQS Media, which is owned by British entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Paul Marshall, will prioritise investing in journalism, talent and the latest technology, with the aim of building a strong future for The Spectator and supporting it to reach new audiences,” the statement adds.


    ‘We want to lift those who take the risk for us all’: Rosana Paulino receives new Munch prize celebrating artistic freedom

    ‘We want to lift those who take the risk for us all’: Rosana Paulino receives new Munch prize celebrating artistic freedom

    Her practice, which spans drawing, embroidery, engraving, printmaking, collage, sculpture and installation, deconstructs the production and dissemination of racist theories that served as justification for European colonialism and the slave trade.


    Two publications show how in Caspar David Friedrich’s world mankind is puny against nature’s power and glory

    Two publications show how in Caspar David Friedrich’s world mankind is puny against nature’s power and glory

    While field, meadow and trees seem to descend towards the viewer, that left-to-right diagonal is powerfully offset, in the painting’s upper half, by the sheer weight of the evening sky, a mass of lavender-tinged clouds parting to reveal horizontal bands of yellowish-orange produced by the setting sun, a fading glimpse of a world beyond.


    Long-planned Las Vegas art museum given plot of land downtown

    Long-planned Las Vegas art museum given plot of land downtown

    The idea for a standalone fine art museum in Las Vegas has been in the making for several decades, but previous schemes never fully materialised.


    “Shrek” v. Perry the Donkey

    “Shrek” v. Perry the Donkey

    Several minutes later, after a detour through the diamond district to pick up some stamps, she was back inside the lobby, standing before a gold letter box affixed to the wall.


    An art-world wish list for the next US president

    An art-world wish list for the next US president

    Generally private enterprise supports art by buying paintings, putting murals in lobbies and commercial projects involving artists.”


    Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname

    Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname

    Maria Sibylla Merian’s 1705 Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium is considered a “high point” of early printing, portraying exotic insects at a time when Western Europeans were keen to explore, name and understand the world.


    New London Museum gets ÂŁ50m cash boost in face of rising costs

    New London Museum gets ÂŁ50m cash boost in face of rising costs

    Described as “one of Europe's largest cultural infrastructure projects”, the new complex is designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan in partnership with the conservation architects Julian Harrap.


    The Temporary License of Literary Bratdom

    The Temporary License of Literary Bratdom

    “My First Book” is a rainbow grenade of based waifus and raw-milk-chugging looksmaxxers, of parables about cancellation, of seemingly unedited reflections on status, social media, and how “reality is what we make it.” “Mood Swings,” by Barnet, features animal uprisings and venture capitalists investing in time travel.


    From ‘Soho scammer’ to television dancer: Anna Sorokin will compete on Dancing with the Stars

    From ‘Soho scammer’ to television dancer: Anna Sorokin will compete on Dancing with the Stars

    Sorokin has parlayed her notoriety into various ventures beyond the Netflix series—for which she was paid $320,000, though she was not allowed to keep the money due to a law in New York preventing criminals from cashing in on their infamy.


    Out of the Sky

    Out of the Sky

    The remarkable rise of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and Russia’s increasing isolation on the world stage, is likely to alter this arrangement soon, but a U.S. astronaut, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, launched off from Baikonur as recently as this past March.


    How Natural Are We?

    How Natural Are We?

    Then, one evening after dinner, my six-year-old son and I biked to the marina to use his remote-control boat—a green plastic vessel about a foot long, with a tiny black propeller, which he’d got for his birthday.


    Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain’s first prime minister gets export bar

    Surreal Watteau painting owned by Britain’s first prime minister gets export bar

    The work features in A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole’s Collection of Pictures, where it is described as: “‘Watteau—A dream of Watteau’s, Himself asleep by a rock; Several Dancers & Grotesque figures in the Clouds’.”


    Van Gogh’s fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London

    Van Gogh’s fruitful final two years are the focus of show at the National Gallery in London

    The show’s focus will be on the 27 months in 1888-90 that Van Gogh spent in Provence, initially working in the town of Arles, partly at the Yellow House, and, after mutilating his ear, in the asylum just outside Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence.


    Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show

    Elizabeth Catlett—the artist who was seen as a threat to the US—gets her due with touring show

    In addition to giving a wider and more nuanced view of the overlapping political forces that informed Catlett’s life and career—from the civil rights movement in the US to the nascent sense of Black Mexican identity taking root in her adoptive country—the curators hope to recast a dichotomy that has been used to structure exhibitions and texts about her work: the contrast between her decades-long printmaking practice and her commissions for public monuments in the 1980s.


    What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood?

    What Can We Learn from Menstrual Blood?

    One of them, NextGen Jane, imagined a future where, ahead of your gynecology appointment, you could simply mail a sealed tampon to a lab for analysis; the results might indicate that you had an eighty-per-cent chance of endometriosis, making it worthwhile to undergo surgery and find out for sure.


    AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical

    AI Is Trying to Take Over Art Authentication, but Longtime Experts Are Skeptical

    Hephaestus Analytical is a London-based tech company that integrates AI analysis and machine learning trained from sampled data sets, alongside scientific tests, provenance research, and “connoisseurly expertise to analyze works.


    Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools?

    Does A.I. Really Encourage Cheating in Schools?

    A study by the Center for Democracy and Technology found that “a majority of teachers still report that generative AI has made them more distrustful of whether their students’ work is actually theirs.” Such suspicions have been paired with real questions about the efficacy of A.I.-detection tools, including one concerning finding that showed A.I.