The Getty Center in Los Angeles closed early on Wednesday after a fire broke out along the 405 Freeway, prompting an evacuation warning that included the museum complex. The Los Angeles Times...
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation refused to license Mapplethorpe’s 1981 portrait Roy Cohn for the cover of a forthcoming biography, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to...
ARTnews’s Morning Links for August 18, 2026 reports that Joshua Reynolds’s eight-foot 18th-century portrait of Mai, a young Tahitian man who arrived in London with Captain Cook in 1774, will make its...
Performance artist and choreographer Simone Forti died on Wednesday at age 91, prompting renewed attention to her influence on postmodern dance and interdisciplinary art. Hyperallergic notes that...
Assemblage artist Betye Saar died on July 26, four days before her 100th birthday; she was born in Los Angeles in 1926 and worked for six decades using found objects to address race, politics, and...
Scholar Simona Supekar’s book “Stock Photo” (2026), published in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series, examines how stock photography has helped perpetuate racism and sexism and how those biases now...
Getty Images and Shutterstock terminated their proposed $3.7 billion merger after the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority required the sale of Shutterstock’s editorial business as a condition,...
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Refik Anadol has opened Dataland in Downtown Los Angeles, described as the world’s first AI art museum, occupying 25,000 square feet in Frank Gehry’s Grand LA development across from Walt Disney...
ARTnews’s June 12, 2026 “Industry Moves” roundup reports that conservation scientist Francesca Casadio, currently vice president and Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science at the Art...
Hyperallergic reviews Dataland, billed as “the world’s first museum of AI Arts,” co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç and opening to the public in Los Angeles on June 20. Located...
Kinetic art pioneer Julio Le Parc has died at age 97, as part of a wider Artnet News roundup that also highlights major appointments and upcoming fairs. The roundup reports that Art Basel Paris will...
A report commissioned by the Netherlands’ Foundation for the Royal Private Collections examining about 1,000 objects found that a small number of items in the Dutch royal family’s holdings—such as a...
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The Getty Foundation awarded an additional $1.8 million to its Black Visual Arts Archives initiative, which supports processing, digitizing, preserving, and activating archival collections related to...
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The Getty Center in Los Angeles will close for one year starting 15 March 2027 for its most significant upgrades since it opened in 1997, after welcoming 1.3 million visitors last year. The...
The Getty Center in Los Angeles will close for roughly a year for renovations, from spring 2027 to spring 2028, with its last public day set for 15 March 2027. The Getty described the work as its...
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A 25 February 2026 feature in The Art Newspaper examines whether the Guerrilla Girls’ long-standing anonymity still serves their mission, in the context of the Getty exhibition “How to Be a Guerrilla...