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The British Museum Is Recreating the Bayeux Tapestry’s Medieval Woodland
12 May 2026 @ 9:37 pm
The installation by the garden designer Andy Sturgeon takes place inside the museum's forecourt.
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Michelle Blade Transforms Everyday California Scenes Into Luminous Reveries
12 May 2026 @ 8:11 pm
In the artist's debut solo with Night Gallery, Los Angeles, domestic vignettes and local landscapes are transformed by the changing light into deeply personal studies of time and presence.
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Art Collectors Bet on Known Quantities Amid Market Reset
12 May 2026 @ 8:10 pm
Blue-chip artists and trophy lots powered the market in 2025, while speculative ultra-contemporary art continued to cool.
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All 3.5 Million Pages of the Epstein Files Are Now on View at This Pop-Up Exhibition
12 May 2026 @ 6:33 pm
The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Reading Room holds 3,437 volumes of printed material.
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Newly Recovered Love Letters by John Keats Could Net $2 Million at Auction
12 May 2026 @ 5:50 pm
The collection includes the earliest known letter from Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne.
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For Fashion Iconoclast Iris van Herpen, ‘Nature Is the Best Artist’
12 May 2026 @ 5:46 pm
The Dutch designer's retrospective 'Sculpting the Senses' lands at the Brooklyn Museum with more than 140 of her biomorphic creations.
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Basquiat’s Former Dealer on the Making of an Art World Icon
12 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm
The late Swiss dealer and collector Bruno Bischofberger reflects on Basquiat's enduring power in this excerpt from a forthcoming Assouline volume.
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A New Landmark Survey Aims to Bring Transparency to Museum Collecting Practices
11 May 2026 @ 10:34 pm
The National Survey of Museum Collecting Practices will help set standards in a field without them.
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The Site Where the Beatles Played Their Final Gig Is Becoming a Museum
11 May 2026 @ 9:10 pm
No. 3 Savile Row will open to the public in 2027.
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Asian Artists Set the Stage at Independent Art Fair 2026
11 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm
Six solo booths by Asian artists embody a shifting global perspective at the New York art fair.
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