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Nancy Holt is best known for Sun Tunnels, her 1976 work installed in the Utah desert, where four concrete cylinders align with the movements of the cosmos.

"It was a very smart trick," he tells me, because he'd start by naming the works he, as a sullen preteen, found stupid or boring, and then, by process of elimination, arrive at the pieces he liked. "Then she'd go, 'Why do you like it?'" Ehrenreich says. Suddenly, he had to learn to express why he was into art.

Impasse is a powerful, driving, high-speed performance with a set and props that reference African immigration, confronting the biased narratives etched onto Black bodies throughout history.

"There are always a combination of professional and personal factors when it comes to a decision like this. One marker in this process of starting to think about next chapters was the completion of the campus expansion project."

Édouard Glissant gathered these works not for ownership, but in the spirit of the commons, imagining them as the beginnings of a living archive attentive to relation and difference.

A good auctioneer will be able to extract at least one extra bid beyond the mental ceiling that each bidder had fixed for themselves, de Pury once wrote.

Cranston's pictures are rich in cultural resonance, reflecting personal events and memories while incorporating images and ideas from the history of art and cinema.

The Scenerium 2026 Art Award invites artists worldwide to capture the essence of place through landscapes, seascapes, and imagined worlds, offering global promotion and various features.

"Museums, art galleries, theaters, and performing arts spaces across the U.K. are facing the biggest financial and existential threat to their survival in generations, and yet their role not just as important public and civic spaces, but as places where people can collectively imagine and create new sustainable futures feels more important than ever."

Gradel first wrote to the museum in 2021, explaining he had found proof that precious objects under its care were being sold on eBay. His correspondence named the British Museum's senior curator Peter Higgs, as the person he believed was behind the sales.

By increasing our endowed scholarship resources, we are not only supporting artists today but investing in a community that will continue to grow.

Paulo Nimer Pjota describes his artistic process as akin to a hip-hop producer, sampling imagery and motifs from diverse sources, including ancient civilizations and Brazilian folklore.

I say I'm a dancer, or a physical theater person, or doing performing arts. It gives them a very general framework. Even if I say dancer, they immediately think ballet dancer or contemporary modern dancer.

Forum Florum unfolds across SIAM's courtyard and two historic interior rooms, with the Flower Journey installation opening the sequence. The monumental portal traces the global history of the cut flower industry, an extractive trade that scaled from 19th-century Dutch greenhouse cultivation into today's Kenyan and Colombian export agriculture.

The late winter and spring 2026 books from Yale University Press offer something for everyone. Exhibition catalogues from museum publishing partners include Raphael: Sublime Poetry and Gwen John: Strange Beauties.

Joe Macken's 50-foot wood replica of New York City, inspired by his childhood visit to the Queens Museum, is now on long-term view at the Museum of the City of New York.

Valencia's work, particularly the piece 'En El Cielo No Hay Fronteras,' illustrates the joy and resilience of people engaging in everyday activities, juxtaposed against the harsh realities of immigration.

Barney ran for the mayoralty of his beloved hometown in 1933 under the self-declared banner of 'the Need for Political Action by Men of Culture', proposing extensive cultural reforms.

Flea describes his childhood experience with jazz, stating, "They played fast, they played furiously, they played with great tenderness, they played with great violence and physicality, and it was wild. When I was a kid and I heard them playing that jazz, it just blew my mind and changed my life forever."

R1 has been programmed to tell visitors something of the story of how a noble family crossed the Alps in the 11th century, gradually established a powerful duchy, and would eventually offer up the first king of a unified Italy in the mid-19th century.

Uche Okeke's declaration in 1960 marked the beginning of a new era of independence, emphasizing the role of artists in shaping a postcolonial identity: 'This is our renaissance era!'

"Every artist has a sweet spot where they move away from what they were doing before in their student years to who they would become. These were made within that pinnacle period of time."

The case traces back to the 1980s, when the dealer Daniel Wildenstein identified Adolphe Monet Reading in a Garden (1867), a significant early work depicting the artist's father and held by the family of Monet's brother, Léon.

MoMI recorded its highest single-day attendance, with 3,600 visitors on February 14, due to the exhibit 'Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos'.

After we bought the palazzo, we lay on the floor in the music room to look at the details in the ceilings-and to understand what we just bought. That spirit of curiosity has guided curatorial decisions, as they placed artworks in conversation with ornate interiors.

The show's centerpiece is the video 'Jeanetta and Alex' (2026) featuring poet Jeanetta Rich and artist Alex Hubbard playing guitar together. In a walkthrough of the show, Gordon described the instrument as 'phallic,' but she explained that the work is less about the cliched sexuality of rock and roll than a meditation on electricity.

Building trust, connection and belonging with our communities begins inside our museums. Treating the people within your institution with respect and care is essential for fostering a positive environment.

Joe Macken revealed to his daughter that he'd made significant progress on his miniature scale model of New York City, a robust project to which he'd devoted the previous two decades. The handmade model is now housed at the Museum of the City of New York in an ongoing exhibition entitled He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model, located in the Museum's Dinan Miller Gallery.