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Peter Zumthor’s LACMA Design: Bold Artistic Vision or Controversial Misstep?

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More than two decades in the making, over budget, and laden with controversy, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is due to finally open its doors in 2026 to what’s promised to be a fundamentally new way of experiencing art. Peter Zumthor, Under construction.

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As an Emily Kam Kngwarray survey opens at Tate Modern this week, contemporary Indigenous artists are finally taking centre stage in the UK

The Art Newspaper

The Anmatyerr painter made extraordinarily dynamic and moving paintings and batiks of the desert region of Alhalker in Australia’s Northern Territory. It features more than 70 works, from Kngwarray’s early batiks, begun in 1977, through to the vast paintings that she made towards the end of her life. That painting is extraordinary.”

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Antiques Road Trip USA: Pennsylvania

WorthPoint

Celebrating 250 Years of the American Spirit: The Finest Antiques, Art, & Collectibles from Sea to Shining Sea The years 2025 and 2026 will be significant milestones for the United States. The following year, 2026, will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian handprint discovered by Cambridge museum

The Art Newspaper

Researchers working on the museum’s forthcoming show Made in Ancient Egypt (3 October-12 April 2026) made the discovery on the base of a “soul house”—a model of a building rendered in clay. Soul houses” date back to Egypt’s First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom (around 2055 BC–1650 BC), and are often found at burial sites.

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4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian handprint discovered by Cambridge museum

The Art Newspaper

Researchers working on the museum’s forthcoming show Made in Ancient Egypt (3 October-12 April 2026) made the discovery on the base of a “soul house”—a model of a building rendered in clay. Soul houses” date back to Egypt’s First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom (around 2055 BC–1650 BC), and are often found at burial sites.

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'Abstract art is universal': Nanette Carter on her new career survey at the Wexner Center for the Arts

The Art Newspaper

Carter, was a renowned civil rights leader who later became the first African American mayor of Montclair, New Jersey—she was first exposed to art through a childhood painting class at the Montclair Art Museum. We were doing etchings and painting with oil. We were doing ceramics. Her father, Matthew G. We had a press.