Pop star Jay Chou’s Matisse dream comes true with $20m purchase
The Taiwanese musician has fulfilled a long-held ambition to own a work by the French artist, buying a painting at Sotheby’s New York
New York exhibition fundraising for Venezuelan earthquake relief efforts
More than 200 works on view at Henrique Faria Fine Art are on offer to raise funds for emergency aid in Venezuela through the World Central Kitchen
New York City’s 2027 budget includes record $323m for culture
Announced on the heels of the rent freeze, the money includes a new fund to help struggling arts organisations
Bayeux Tapestry exhibition brings in £2.5m for the British Museum on first day of ticket sales
Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, with further releases to come
Human rights museum’s Palestine exhibition sets off feud between Canadian politicians
The country’s heritage minister criticised curatorial choices in “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, drawing widespread rebukes including from the leader of the New Democratic Party
Artist Erna Rosenstein, whose work about memory and loss resonates today, celebrated with major Vienna exhibition
Rosenstein’s traumatic experiences during wartime run through her art, which fuses Surrealism, biomorphic abstraction and figuration
Undisturbed ancient Maya city discovered in Mexican jungle
Minanbé, an intact site in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, sheds new light on the Maya Lowlands
León Ferrari exhibition cancelled in Chile amid cuts to culture budget
José Antonio Kast’s ultraconservative government nixed a show of the late Argentine artist’s overtly political work at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
The small Ohio town getting an Aboriginal art museum and a James Turrell ‘Skyspace’ installation
New Bremen is home to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of forklift trucks; the company’s chief executive wants to make it ‘the Marfa of the Midwest’
At New York’s Swiss Institute, SoiL Thornton ponders the role an art institution can play in the face of a housing crisis
The artist’s exhibition is based around the their own experience of facing eviction
