Rio’s Museum of Image and Sound finally opens after 16 years in development – The Art Newspaper
The Museum of Image and Sound (MIS-RJ) on Rio de Janeiro’s waterfront finally opens to the public tomorrow (8 May) ...
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The US pavilion’s curator on the controversial choice of Alma Allen for the Venice Biennale – The Art Newspaper
The selection of the artist for the Giardini’s biggest and most imposing pavilion was unusually fraught. The first artist selected ...
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Father and daughter plead guilty in $2m counterfeit art scheme – The Art Newspaper
A father and daughter from Lawrence, New Jersey, pleaded guilty last month to running a five-year scheme to sell more ...
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Alvaro Barrington takes a road trip to the Venice Biennale – The Art Newspaper
UK artist Alvaro Barrington’s vibrant haulage truck (Labor Day Parade ’91, 2026) decorated with scenes linked to his background, and ...
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Muscle memory: Natasha Tontey’s wild Venice installation explodes perceptions of Indonesian history – The Art Newspaper
Visitors to Natasha Tontey’s new installation at the historic Ateneo Veneto will, upon arrival, find themselves ascending a ramp to ...
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1,000-year-old archaeological site bulldozed during construction of Mexico-US border wall – The Art Newspaper
Multiple reports have confirmed that a rare archaeological site in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona was bulldozed by a ...
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The Egyptian Modernist Inji Efflatoun gains international exposure with new biographical collection – The Art Newspaper
In February 1959, amid a series of government crackdowns in Egypt, the artist and activist Inji Efflatoun realised that her ...
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‘We are complicit’: Austrian artist Florentina Holzinger’s immersive Venice Biennale pavilion brings apocalypse to the city – The Art Newspaper
In Kevin Costner’s 1995 sci-fi blockbuster Waterworld, melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels have forced humanity to live ...
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In new play, Norval Morrisseau forgery scandal prompts questions about authenticity and Indigenous identity – The Art Newspaper
A new play by the Ojibway playwright Drew Hayden Taylor about art fraud and identity politics could have been subtitled ...
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The Venice Biennale has long been a sales platform—now no one is pretending otherwise – The Art Newspaper
The Venice Biennale has long been a place where art is sold, though its commercial capacity is usually downplayed. As ...
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