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A $15.4 Million Lifeline Rescues Regional NSW Galleries from Collapse
28 August 2025 The NSW government has announced $15.4m in arts funding. The Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery applied for $100,000 but was...
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Lost Nazi-Looted Masterpiece Vanishes After Reappearing in Argentina Real-Estate Listing
27 August 2025 Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a leading Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam....
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Lies, private jets and a missing $86 million: the spectacular rise and fall of Inigo Philbrick sketched anew
22 August 2025 Inigo Philbrick was interviewed for more than 14 hours for the BBC Two documentary. Photograph: BBC/Bamus (WAA)...
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Trump orders Smithsonian to swap hard truths for national cheer in sweeping “anti-woke” exhibit review
21 August 2025 A sign for The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden exhibition inside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American...
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Douglas Stuart credits Jenny Saville’s visceral paintings for igniting the spark that gave birth to Shuggie Bain and shaped his visual storytelling
17 August 2025 Body of work. Jenny Saville. Photograph: Tyler Mitchell Renowned novelist Douglas Stuart, best known for his Booker Prize...
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Chris Ofili’s 1997 masterpiece Blossom sets the art world alight as it prepares for its auction debut with a potential £1-1.5 million price tag
14 August 2025 Blossom: ‘One of the most exciting paintings I’ve worked with in a long time,’ said Tessa Lord of Christie’s. Photograph:...
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Rose Nolan embraces invisibility and analogue rhythms to invite viewers into a slower, more present mode of art and life
11 August 2025 Nolan’s To Keep Going Breathing Helps, 2016-17, on show at the MCA. Photograph: Anna Schwartz Gallery In the whitewashed...
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An exhibition in Paris resurrects five millennia of Gaza’s heritage amid the shadows of war
10 August 2025 One of the key pieces in the show is a small marble statue of a goddess, thought to be either Aphrodite or Hecate. In the...
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A Cadillac at Dusk Through Phil Stockbridge’s Lens
9 August 2025 Untitled, 2021, shot on iPhone 12 Pro Max. Photograph: Phil Stockbridge Daylight fading behind a Cadillac Fleetwood, a...
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Tjanpi Desert Weavers at 30: Indigenous Women in Central Australia Weave Culture into High Art
6 August 2025 Tjanpi Desert Weavers in Papulankutja with the Tjanpi Toyota that won top prize at the 2005 Natisaas. Photograph: Thisbe...
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Pablo Bronstein Unveils Two Fantastical Solomon’s Temples That Satirize Architecture and Identity
31 July 2025 A detail of a winged sphinx from Pablo Bronstein’s ‘vaudeville beaux arts’ version of the Temple of Solomon on display at...
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Salvador Dalí Painting Bought for £150 at House Clearance Sale Turns Out to Be an Original Worth Up to £30,000
29 July 2025 Salvador Dalí’s Vecchio Sultano is one of 100 illustrations finished in what was meant to be a 500-piece project....
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A Photographer’s Haunting Portrait Captures the Sacred Stillness of a Dried Oasis in Morocco
23 July 2025 A powerful reminder of what’s at stake’ Mustapha looks down a well, in a picture from the series Before It’s Gone....
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Norfolk Heiress Returns Long‑Lost Renaissance Masterpiece to Its Italian Home
21 July 2025 A detail from the Solario artwork. The painting will be returned to the Civic Museum of Belluno. Photograph: Art Recovery...
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Elizabeth Day’s iPhone Snapshot Transforms Ephemeral Moment into Royal Academy Art
20 July 2025 Glimpse, 2024, shot on iPhone 15 Pro. Photograph: Elizabeth Day On a grey December morning in London, podcaster and author...
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Bronx Museum Taps Shamim M. Momin as Visionary Director Amid Major Expansion
14 July 2025 Guarionex Rodriguez for The New York Times A wave of anticipation swept through the Bronx art scene on July 11 when the...
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Virtual Beauty Exhibition at Somerset House Challenges Digital Identity and AI Aesthetics
13 July 2025 INES ALPHA When Virtual Beauty opens at Somerset House on July 23, it will confront visitors with the profound ways digital...
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"The First Homosexuals" Unearths Seventy Years of Queer Identity Evolution
12 July 2025 Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 hosts a revelation in art history with “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New...
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The Strange Truth About Fake Artworks That Still Stir Our Souls
10 July 2025 AI generated Art / Freepik There are moments when what we see in a gallery an ancient vase, a radical splatter painting...
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THE VISIONARY: XITLALI LOBASSO IS ONLY 12-AND ALREADY CREATING ART THAT HITS HARDER THAN MOST ADULTS DARE
7 July 2025 In a cultural landscape saturated with filters, trends, and fleeting attention spans, 12-year-old Xitlali LoBasso is doing...
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