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CultureGeorge Condo Returns to Hauser & Wirth Less Than a Year After Leaving
George Condo has returned to Hauser & Wirth for worldwide representation less than a year after leaving the gallery for Sprüth Magers and Skarstedt, with new exhibitions planned in Paris and Palo Alto in 2027.
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CulturePollock's 'Number 7A, 1948' Sells for $181.2M at Christie's, a Record for the Artist
Jackson Pollock's Number 7A, 1948 sold for $181.2 million at Christie's, nearly tripling the artist's auction record, as the house's May sales topped $1.1 billion.
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CultureJack White Opens First Art Exhibition at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery May 29
"These Thoughts May Disappear" runs through September 13 at Hirst's Newport Street Gallery in London — Jack White's first visual-art show, billed as "Hardware Store Art" and built from carpentry, upholstery, and found-material assemblage. Free admission.
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Culture61st Venice Biennale Opens After Jury Resigns and 81 Artists Withdraw From Competition
Curated posthumously by Koyo Kouoh, opened with no jury after all five members quit, with 81 artists withdrawn in solidarity, with pavilions on strike over Israel's participation — and somehow with the most-photographed work being portable toilets in the Austrian pavilion.
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CultureMet's "Costume Art" Opens to Public May 10 With 400 Works in 12,000-Sq-Ft Galleries
The Met's "Costume Art" opens to the public May 10 in the new Condé Nast Galleries — 400 objects organized by body type, not designer or era. Andrew Bolton's thesis show is a curatorial argument 20 years in the making.
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CultureBjörk premieres Echolalia at the National Gallery of Iceland
Björk's first new album in four years won't drop on Spotify on a Friday. It will premiere as an exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland — a 30-speaker requiem, a film shot at an erupting volcano, and a thesis statement about what music releases can be.
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ArtRenoir, Cézanne, and Matisse Stolen From Italian Museum in Three-Minute Heist
On the night of March 22-23, four hooded thieves broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma, Italy, forced entry through a first-floor door, and stole three paintings in under three minutes.
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ArtIbrahim Mahama Weighs Legal Action Against Police Following Alleged Assault in Tamale, Ghana
Ibrahim Mahama — the first African artist to top ArtReview's Power 100 — says Ghanaian police beat him, broke a tooth, and deleted his footage. He's cancelled international lectures and is headed to court.
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ArtBrooklyn Museum Plans New Permanent African Art Galleries for 2027
A century after dubbing its African holdings 'Primitive Negro Art,' the Brooklyn Museum is opening new permanent galleries in 2027 — a major reckoning with how one of America's largest African art collections gets told.
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ArtJames Barnor At MoMA: Photography As Pan-African Infrastructure
MoMA pairs James Barnor's Ever Young Studio portraits with Kwame Brathwaite's 'Black is Beautiful' photography to reveal a transatlantic visual language that actively constructed Pan-African consciousness—not merely documented it.
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ArtTavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began
Tavares Strachan's LACMA debut includes a 17,000-entry goatskin-bound encyclopedia and a canopic jar he literally launched into orbit — all interrogating who history chooses to remember.
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FashionFear of God x Barkley L. Hendricks for the NBA
Barkley L. Hendricks made a separate body of abstract work about basketball — hoops, nets, the geometry of the ball. Fear of God built an entire NBA collection around it.