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Why Is Painter Josh Smith Rapping? What Are Artists Excited About Right Now? Wet Paint Has Answers!
12 March 2026 @ 1:45 pm
'If I have a beef with somebody, I'll sing particularly to that person, sometimes for a whole album.'
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Oops, Typo! A New Exhibition Embraces 500 Years of Printed Mistakes
12 March 2026 @ 1:30 pm
The show at Yale Library explores the printing errors, blunders, and gaffes that made literary history.
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Revisiting Jackie Saccoccio, Architect of Abstraction
12 March 2026 @ 12:01 pm
Van Doren Waxter presents "Portraits," the gallery's second posthumous exhibition dedicated to the artist, reexamining her unique, labor-intensive method of painting.
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Gagosian Preps Nam June Paik Show in Seoul
12 March 2026 @ 1:00 am
It will be the powerhouse gallery's fourth exhibition in the South Korean capital.
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Long-Lost Archimedes Text Resurfaces in French Museum
11 March 2026 @ 7:10 pm
A missing page from the Archimedes Palimpsest was found in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois.
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How ArtVerse Helps Galleries and Advisors Navigate Today’s Art World
11 March 2026 @ 7:05 pm
The London-based firm maintains a mission centered on bridging the capital and network gaps faced by many galleries and professional advisors.
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Here’s All the Art in the 2026 Whitney Biennial
11 March 2026 @ 6:53 pm
What's the big survey show all about? Judge for yourself.
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E.U. Threatens to Pull Venice Biennale Funding Over Russia Pavilion’s Return
11 March 2026 @ 6:27 pm
The nation's return to the event has sparked widespread backlash from artists, policymakers, and cultural institutions.
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How Photography Is Being Reimagined at Affordable Art Fair New York
11 March 2026 @ 4:59 pm
Returning to the Big Apple for its Spring Edition, "Sight Unseen" taps into the practical and creative diversity of the image-based medium.
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How Frida Kahlo’s Mythic Life Became Artistic Legend
11 March 2026 @ 3:39 pm
A new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, explores how Kahlo’s extraordinary life and self-fashioned persona inspired generations of artists—and helped transform her into a cultural icon.
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