Acclaimed Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison with flogging, a fine, and confiscation of property. His lawyer, Babak Paknia, wrote on the platform X that “the main reason for issuing this sentence is signing statements and making films and documentaries, which, according to the court, are examples of collusion with the…Read More

Christie’s is working to recover control of its website following a May 9 cyberattack that took it offline ahead of its major spring modern and contemporary art sales, to take place this week. The spring sales typically generate half of the auction house’s annual revenue, with this year’s iteration carrying a high estimate of $840 million. Christie’s…Read More

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A team of researchers from Egypt’s National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics and Japan’s Higashi Nippon International University and Tohoku University have discovered an unusual L-shaped structure between roughly one and a half and six and a half feet below the surface of the Western Cemetery, adjacent to the Great Pyramid of Khufu in…Read More

Six years after being largely destroyed in a massive electrical fire that incinerated some 18,000 artifacts, or 85 percent of its collection, the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro has moved one step closer to rebuilding, with the gift of more than 1,100 fossils from Burkhard Pohl, president of the Swiss research and…Read More

The organizers of Documenta, Kassel’s quinquennial art festival, have said that they are proceeding with the event’s sixteenth edition but that they will not put in place a code of conduct for its artistic director. The announcement contradicts one of the recommendations set out by an expert advisory panel appointed by Documenta’s supervisory board in…Read More

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Gustave Courbet’s iconic 1866 painting L’origine du monde (The Origin of the World), which notoriously depicts the exposed vulva and torso of a woman whose face remains out of view, was one of five works spray-painted with the phrase “MeToo” at France’s Centre Pompidou-Metz on May 6. The canvas, which had been on loan to the institution…Read More

Carlo Ratti, curator of the forthcoming Venice Architecture Biennale, and Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco have announced the title and theme for the event’s nineteenth iteration, set to take place May 10–November 23, 2025. Titled “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective,” the Biennale will connect disciplines including art, engineering, biology, and data science to urban design and climate change. The exhibition, which…Read More

A federal judge on May 3 issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Des Moines Art Center from dismantling a major Land art installation that it commissioned from artist Mary Miss decades ago. In regard to the contested work, Miss’s 1989–96 environment Greenwood Pond: Double Site, Judge Stephen Locher of the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa ruled that “the Art…Read More

Reclaiming corporeal sublimation in Wilawan Wiangthong’s performance Email Facebook Pinterest Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsAppRead More

Gallery Weekend Berlin celebrates its twentieth anniversary Email Facebook Pinterest Twitter Reddit LinkedIn WhatsAppRead More