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"I felt like a restless suburban teenager coming down to the big city looking for glamour.” Writer Lily Kwak and dealer Rose Leadem. All photos: the author. I HAVE A CONFESSION: I don’t live in New York anymore.

A worker refills water in front of a replica of President Trump's planned "Triumphal Arch" during The Great American State Fair on the National Mall on July 02, 2026 in Washington, DC. Photo: Finn Gomez/Getty Images. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), the federal agency responsible for promoting preservation of America’s historic places, announced that it has terminated its consultation work on President Trump’s Triumphal Arch Project.

In May We Feed the King, the curator of a palace museum fills in the gaps A 12th century ivory casket thought to have been brought to York by the city’s patron saint, St William. Photo: Danny Lawson/PA Images.

Stephanie Rosenthal at Gropius-Bau in 2019. Photo: Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has named Stephanie Rosenthal as its new artistic director, starting in early 2027. Rosenthal is currently the director of the (yet to be opened) Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Throughout her career, Rosenthal has held leadership positions at institutions in Abu Dhabi, London, Berlin, Sydney, and Munich.

Maurice de Vlaminck's Nature more a la cruche bleue on display during a preview of the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection at Sotheby's in London. Photo: Ben Bauer/PA Images via Getty Images. A long-hidden private collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Fauvist works valued at about $450 million will go up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York on November 18.

Kehinde Wiley, Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2015). Image: United States Embassy, Santo Domingo. Artist Kehinde Wiley has written to President Donald Trump in an effort to buy back a painting of his that the administration deemed too “woke” and “aesthetically terrifying” to hang in an American embassy, the New York Times reports. The canvas, titled Young Artists after Siamesas 1960, was commissioned in 2013 by the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program.

Christine Sun Kim, Rodney McMillian, Vincent Valdez. Photo: Courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation. Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim, assemblage and performance artist Rodney McMillian, and painter Vincent Valdez have been named by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as among the 2026 cohort of MacArthur Fellows.

Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi. Photo: Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi/Frieze. Frieze and Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism revealed the list of programs for the first edition of Frieze Abu Dhabi. The fair is set to take place from 19 to 22 November this year at Manarat Al Saadiyat, a cultural space in Saadiyat Island, an emerging hub for the arts in Abu Dhabi. The fair brings together more than 80 exhibitors from 36 countries.

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Photo: Munch Award For Artistic Freedom. The Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Munch Award celebrating artistic freedom. The award is presented annually by the Munch Museum in Oslo, and comes with a monetary prize of NOK 300,000 ($31,200). It is awarded to artists working in the spirit of Edvard Munch, who championed artistic freedom and individual experimentation.