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2024

Even in Her Memoir, Melania Trump Remains a Mystery

Even in Her Memoir, Melania Trump Remains a Mystery

During Trump’s Presidency, she didn’t speak publicly very often—“There is absolutely no question that she has been quieter than any modern First Lady we’ve known,” the Washington Post’s Mary Jordan, who has written a biography of Melania, said, in 2020—and even when she did make a rare address, such as the speech she gave at the 2016 Republican National Convention, some of her words were revealed to have been lifted from Michelle Obama.

A brush with
Sonia Boyce — podcast

A brush with
Sonia Boyce — podcast

An in-depth interview with the Golden Lion-winner, discussing her shift to social practice, the influence of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and how William Morris’s wallpaper designs have made their way into her work

Pricking the art market bubble?

Pricking the art market bubble?

However, Michael Macauley, Sotheby's head of contemporary art in Europe, says: “Watch this space, we are expecting more to come in before the sale.” The top lot is David Hockney’s 1968 painting from the south of France, L’Arbois, Sainte-Maxime (1968) with an almost Ruscha-esque vibe to the depiction of a building with large umbrella pines in the foreground.

7 October survivor’s show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks painful anniversary

7 October survivor’s show at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks painful anniversary

In thinking of the enormity of the tragedy of 7 October and all that has unfolded since, Coen-Uzzielli adopts the message that Jon Polin, the father of the recently murdered Israeli American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, shared at August’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago: “In a competition of pain, there are no winners.”

Curatorial risks worth taking to foster a sense of belonging in museums

Curatorial risks worth taking to foster a sense of belonging in museums

Moving away from approaches that merely “add and stir” historically excluded art and creative traditions into a set of canonical narratives, the Brooklyn Museum is exploring new paths forward in research, interpretation and care for collections that are inspired by the ways strategically undervalued communities see and experience the world.

Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle

Manhattan sculpture garden founded by gallerist served eviction notice after years-long legal battle

In June, the New York State Court of Appeals issued a six-to-one ruling that allowed the city to move forward with its plans to demolish the garden.

How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week

How to decode art: UK schools embark on ‘visual literacy’ week

And that is why Bridget [Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women & Equalities] and I have kickstarted a review of the curriculum to put arts, sports and music back at the heart of our schools and communities where it belongs."

Atlanta steps into the art market spotlight

Atlanta steps into the art market spotlight

Creatives like the multi-disciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte, the photographer Myra Greene and the painter Gerald Lovell were able to “make names for themselves beyond the boundaries of Atlanta 
 by cultivating relationships that started from within the community”, Johnson says.

Does Anyone Really Know You?

Does Anyone Really Know You?

Standing to speak at the Fort Gibson National Cemetery, in Oklahoma, her youngest son spoke movingly about what she’d been like as a parent, recalling moments from his childhood, including a time when she dived to rescue him from the bottom of a lake.

How to Opt Out of A.I. Online

How to Opt Out of A.I. Online

Last week, like the Jews of Exodus painting blood on their lintels, hundreds of thousands of Instagram users posted a block of text to their accounts hoping to avoid the plague of artificial intelligence online.

Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera rebrands as launch of new modern art space nears

Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera rebrands as launch of new modern art space nears

Founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria, the state-run Pinacoteca di Brera possesses one of Milan’s richest and most varied public art collections, including works by Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, Mantegna, Caravaggio, Titian and Bellini, as well as Francesco Hayez’s beloved painting The Kiss (around 1859).

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.