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Sir Joshua Reynolds, “Portrait of Omai” (c. 1776) (courtesy owner) The National Portrait Gallery in London is trying to raise £25m (~$30.5m) by June 10 to preserve Sir Joshua Reynold’s …

Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach, David Kennedy and Finlay Clark of Still House Plants. Photo: Immobile houseplants. THIS SEEMS VAGELY IMPLAUSIBLE that a band as important as Still House Plants started playing in …

Patrick Bringley, All the beauty in the worldSimon & Schuster, 2023 (all images courtesy of Simon & Schuster) In June 2008, days after author Patrick Bringley turned 25, his brilliant …

The Iraqi-born, Abu Dhabi-based artist Rand Abdul Jabbar was named the winner of the second Richard Mille Art Prize. She received the $60,000 prize in a lavish ceremony at the …

Sophiline Cheam-Shapiro performing a ritual dance in front of sculptures of Cambodian deities at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (all images courtesy of Sophiline Cheam-Shapiro) Shortly after immigrating to …

Water figures prominently in the practice of Turkish artist Sena Başöz – ebb and flow, connection and separation, shimmering one moment and disappearing the next. One of Başöz’s first forays …

Myesha Evon Gardner, of the Our bodies (2022) series (image courtesy of Myesha Evon Gardner for Creator Labs) On view now in a sprawling illuminated exhibition space nestled between the …

For centuries, art lovers have wondered about the identity of the models for Vermeer’s beloved masterpieces. To the astonishment of many academics, one expert has suggested that girl in red …

New York City’s New Museum has chosen two curators to curate the next edition of its well-attended triennial, selecting both internally and, for the first time, internationally: New Museum curator …

William Bache Extended Page Silhouette albumblack paper-coated silhouettes mounted on paper (all images scanned by Mark Gulezian/National Portrait Gallery, courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) Long before influencers used front …