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Image: ARTnews The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has faced declining ticket sales and now contends with a video from an activist group that challenges its claims about falling debris. The center posted images of the debris on X and Instagram on Friday , stating: “Another warning we

Image: ARTnews Mexican artist Geles Cabrera , recognized as the country’s first professional female sculptor and associated with the Generación de la Ruptura (Breakaway Generation), passed away on September 1 at the age of 100 . Her death was initially reported by the Spanish magazine Bonart , and l

Image: The Art Newspaper An Argentine federal judge has approved the restitution of an 18th-century painting, “Portrait of a Lady,” to Marei von Saher , the heir of Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker . The artwork, previously attributed to Giuseppe Ghislandi and now to Giacomo Antonio Melch

Image: Artnet News London-born, Italy-based artist Raphaella Spence explores the evolving relationship between painting and digital photography in her meticulous hyperrealist practice. Her work, which focuses on cityscapes, waterways, and historic architecture, is currently on view at Louis K. Meise

Image: Hyperallergic When artist Ernie Barnes passed away in 2009 , his daughter Erin Barnes began the task of cataloging the extensive collection of art supplies her father had amassed over his decades-long career. The Los Angeles-based painter and former professional football player created dynami

Image: Hyperallergic Hundreds of artists globally, including Syd Sauer Wilson , 25, an airbrush painter from Los Angeles, report receiving invitations to an artist residency program hosted by Abstract Mag , only to be subsequently ghosted. The popular art-focused social media platform, boasting over

Image: Hyperallergic A 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut and subsequent reflections on Lebanon’s Civil War recently brought a writer to revisit a Moustafa Farroukh painting and a Vahan Tekeyan poem, two decades after first translating the latter. The August 4, 2020 blast killed over 200 people ,

Image: Hyperallergic Two immigrant-led collectives in Northwestern Queens, New York City, are using textile art to record and preserve their community histories. These groups, BordeAndo and Las Comadres Bordadoras , consist of women from across Latin America who gather to create textiles together, f

Image: ARTnews An iconic Yves Saint Laurent Piet Mondrian dress from the 1960s will be auctioned by online house Fair Warning, in collaboration with Kerry Taylor Auctions. The sale, titled “The Impossible Couture Collection,” is scheduled for the evening of September 17 , coinciding with the first d

Image: ARTnews The National Portrait Gallery in London has inaugurated a new initiative titled “Artist Focus,” welcoming contemporary artists into its space, which also houses works by Hans Holbein the Younger , Anthony Van Dyck , and Joshua Reynolds . The program will feature three annual exhibitio