The US State Department is now accepting design proposals for the 2027 Venice Biennale of Architecture, with stipulations echoing its application process for this year’s Venice Biennale: designs should “exemplify America’s exceptionalism,” and “advance and complement U.S. foreign policy and publi
The Iron Age city of Sardis in western Turkey has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, marking a milestone in one of the longest-running archaeological projects in history. Every year since 1958, archaeologists have returned to the ancient city as part of the Harvard-Cornell Exploratio
Raphael’s epic fresco cycle, the Loggias, is getting a makeover. The Vatican Museums launched a restoration of the Renaissance masterpiece this week, unprecedented in scale: more than 20 experts are set to clean the artwork spanning 65 meters (nearly 215 feet) in the Apostolic Palace, also kno
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Время летит незаметно: ежегодный арт-фестиваль Upstate Art Weekend, который охватывает всю долину Гудзон, возвращается в эти выходные уже в седьмой раз. С момента своего основания в 2020 году фестиваль значительно вырос, увеличив число участников с 23 до 160. Кроме того, майское мероприятие с
Untitled Art, Houston will gather 95 galleries for its upcoming second edition, scheduled to run October 2–4, with a preview day on October 1, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. For its sophomore outing, the Houston edition of the fair has expanded slightly, adding 11
We’re only a few days into summer, and there is seemingly no end in sight to the heatwave smothering much of Europe. On Tuesday, France recorded its highest average temperature ever, about 86 degrees Fahrenheit, with highs in some places reaching 104 degrees. It’s not just France that is swelteri
As teams compete for the World Cup across North America, football fan can show some spirit at New York’s leading museum of American art. The office of New York City Zohran Mamdani announced this week that New Yorkers who present their own World Cup-inspired poster to the Whitney will receive fr
British artist, printmaker, and educator Tess Jaray, known for her hard-edge abstractions, died on May 24 at age 88. The news was first reported by the Guardian in May. Jaray was born in 1937 in Vienna into a Jewish family with artistic connections: her father was an engineer and inventor, and
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, announced that the appointment of Courtenay Finn as the next chief curator of both institutions. Finn will start in her role on August 24. She will report to Austen Bailly, who was promoted from chief curator t
A federal judge has given the Trump administration until July 31 to explain why a tarp still obscures the facade of the Kennedy Center, days after the president’s name was removed from the building by court order. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the administration must report “the p
На археологическом памятнике Касас дель Туруньуэло, расположенном в муниципалитете Гуаренья, был обнаружен выдающийся образец – необыкновенная бронзовая вотивная колесница. По словам Эстер Родригес, одного из соруководителей исследования, подобных находок никогда ранее не было на Иберийском пол