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The Bayeux Tapestry Is Coming to London (and It Isn't Really a Tapestry)
The Bayeux Tapestry Is Coming to London (and It Isn't Really a Tapestry)
In the early hours of Friday, July 10, 2026, a 68-metre strip of embroidered linen rode a train under the English Channel, packed in a climate-controlled crate sitting on shock-absorbing... Read more...
Morgan Library Exhibition Reclaims Tarot as Renaissance Art
Morgan Library Exhibition Reclaims Tarot as Renaissance Art
Long before it became a tool for fortune-telling, the tarot was a courtly game of skill, played by Italian aristocrats under the painted gaze of gilded saints and virtues. If... Read more...
Beyond Beige: Why Dense, Map-Like Abstraction is Taking Over
Beyond Beige: Why Dense, Map-Like Abstraction is Taking Over
Walk into the soaring Haas, Jr. Atrium at SFMOMA, and you are immediately confronted by two massive, opposing forces. Julie Mehretu’s diptych, HOWL, eon (I, II), flanks the main staircase... Read more...
Inside the New York Historical’s $175M Tang Wing
Inside the New York Historical’s $175M Tang Wing
Museums are often seen as quiet vaults for old objects, but the New York Historical is taking a different approach. The city's oldest museum just opened the Tang Wing for... Read more...
The Factory as a Family: Andy Warhol's Obsessive Polaroid Archive
The Factory as a Family: Andy Warhol's Obsessive Polaroid Archive
In the mid-1960s, Andy Warhol purchased his first Polaroid camera. It wasn't a casual purchase. That clunky piece of plastic would quickly become an extension of his own hand, a... Read more...
Art Basel Tributes to David Hockney: California Color for Your Walls
Art Basel Tributes to David Hockney: California Color for Your Walls
Walk through the aisles of Art Basel this week, and you will see a unified, vivid tribute playing out across the world's most prestigious gallery stands. Following the passing of... Read more...
Tate Modern Opens 'Frida: The Making of an Icon' (And Why She Belongs on Your Wall)
Tate Modern Opens 'Frida: The Making of an Icon' (And Why She Belongs on Your Wall)
The art world has a habit of flattening its most complex figures into merchandise, and few have suffered that fate quite like Frida Kahlo. But London's Tate Modern is aiming... Read more...