2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (329+ words) Belarus-born billionaire Igor Tulchinsky, who supported the Bayeux Tapestry's UK sojourn, also funded part of an illegal West Bank settlement. The historic voyage of the Bayeux Tapestry to London’s British Museum has been a popular sensation, with VIPs like…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (507+ words) This year's winners are honored for “deeply interested in the forces that shape what we see—and what we don’t,” wrote the Rabkin Foundation. The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation in Portland, Maine, named eight recipients of its 2026 prize for visual…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (182+ words) Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III will retire at the end of this year, according to the Washington Post, amid a historic confrontation with the Trump administration over how the museum consortium historicize the United States. In an email to his…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (256+ words) A monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture that was disassembled last week at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has found a new owner: none other than the embattled center’s former chairman, David Rubenstein. Rubenstein, a billionaire philanthropist,…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (159+ words) The center’s vice president for public relations Roma Daravi said that the collapse was “another example of the urgent need to close for renovation and revitalization.” The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in all kinds of…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (529+ words) A group of Vietnam veterans filed Friday for a restraining order to stop progress on Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch in Memorial Circle....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (318+ words) In an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic. Kehinde Wiley’s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir Erin Scavino, director of Art…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (318+ words) In an unearthed radio interview from April, US ambassador Leah Campos described the painting as a lesbian picnic. Kehnide Wiley’s artwork at the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic continues to cause a stir Erin Scavino, director of Art…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (244+ words) United States President Donald Trump has big plans for his Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC, with excavation work for the proposed monument slated to start over the next two weeks, according to secretary of interior Doug…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (353+ words) The removal of a monumental Joel Shapiro sculpture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has generated concern among artists who have shown there. In that Times report, Ivy Shapiro, the artist’s daughter, said that her…...