1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (486+ words) The memory ended with Calle receiving the Praemium Imperiale prize in 2024 in Tokyo, where Wilson was also in attendance. "At the beginning of 2025, I learned that he had contacted the prize committee to obtain my phone number," she wrote, matter-of-factly....

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1045+ words) Agosto Machado, a beguiling artist and performer who was among the whirling tribe that made up Manhattan's downtown avant-garde in the 1960s and '70s, and who memorialized his compatriots as they were felled by AIDS and other scourges in shrines he created…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (517+ words) A large dust cloud hovers over the otherwise clear Johnson Valley in Southern California. Just past the town of Lucerne Valley, a plot of public land is filled with all manner of off-road vehicles: dirt bikes, first-gen Toyota trucks with…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (508+ words) When Troubetzkoy exhibited at the famed Colnaghi gallery in London in 1931, the catalog included a preface by the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, a friend, who called him "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times." Later art avant-garde critics were…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago  (667+ words) Oli Scarff / AFP / GettyA handler waits with her Huacaya alpaca as it is judged in the show ring at the British Alpaca Society National Show held at the Staffordshire County Showground, in Stafford, England, on March 20, 2026. The three-day show brought…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1371+ words) Pat Steir, a trailblazing artist whose shimmering paintings, born of ingenuity and accident, evoke the energy of natural forces, most vividly in her celebrated "Waterfall" series, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 87. Her death was confirmed by Marc Payot,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (690+ words) What most of America didn't realize at the time was that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era in entertainment, one where Black artists were flourishing because of, rather than in spite of, their Blackness. One of the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1014+ words) Thomas Gentille, a master jeweler whose idiosyncratic conceptual pieces resembled tiny minimalist sculptures or paintings " though he hated labels and movements and, if pressed, would describe his work simply as "nonobjective" " died on March 6 in Manhattan. He was 89. The cause…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (612+ words) Hector Vivas / GettyA digital composite image of the women's snowboard halfpipe final, combining many runs made on Day 6 of the 2026 Winter Olympic games at Livigno Snow Park on February 12, 2026. Ryan Pierse / GettyAn infrared camera, combined with an in-camera filter, was…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (239+ words) On Monday, Mr. De Craene stopped the auction. In a written statement shared with Greek and Belgian news media, he said he was "open to constructive dialogue" with the Greek authorities. The fact that the pictures had been offered for…...