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Trump’s Plan to Paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Blue Sparks Lawsuit
13 May 2026 @ 11:19 pm
The cost of the overhaul has also ballooned from a proposed $2 million to $13 million.
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At Frieze New York, Business Plunks Along, Leonardo DiCaprio Alights
13 May 2026 @ 11:02 pm
No one exactly loves this fair, now in its 14th year, but sales are getting done.
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Performa Is Bringing a Star-Studded Variety Show to Broadway
13 May 2026 @ 8:18 pm
Hosted by Casey Jost, the spectacle will feature artists including Barbara Kruger, Julio Torres, Anne Imhoff, and Marcel Dzama.
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Tiny Cranach Painting That Vanished During WWII Returns to Dresden
13 May 2026 @ 6:59 pm
The painting is one of more than 500 listed as lost by the Dresden State Art Collections.
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Contemporary Icons and Modern Masters Headline This Major May Sale
13 May 2026 @ 4:36 pm
Rago/Wright is set to stage two major spring sales this month, with highlights from Annie Morris, Amoako Boafo, and more.
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Authorship Dispute Erupts Over ‘Hair Dress’ at the Met’s Costume Institute
13 May 2026 @ 3:11 pm
The museum says this dispute is between artist Anouska Samms and her collaborator, designer Yoav Hadari.
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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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