Art
March 3, 2025

The Other Art Fair Offers an Idiosyncratic and Dynamic Program During LA Art Week

Alongside Frieze LA and the LA Art Show, the Other Art Fair offered an additional source of solidarity during Los Angeles Art Week following the city’s devastating wildfires. Between February 20 and February 23, 2025, The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, gathered nearly 150 independent exhibiting artists and reworked the prototypical art fair model into one rooted in accessibility.

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Art
March 3, 2025

Brooklyn Museum Celebrates 200th Anniversary with Decadent Exhibition About Gold [Interview]

A 200th anniversary demands a sense of grandeur. Matthew Yokobosky, senior curator of fashion and material culture at the Brooklyn Museum, conjured exactly that while curating the exhibition that would mark the museum’s bicentennial. Open until July 6, 2025, the exhibition, titled Solid Gold, focuses on its eponymous material and its enduring appeal across fashion, art, film, music, and design.

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History
March 1, 2025

Discover the Self-Taught Genius of Leonardo da Vinci

Although born out of wedlock—the son of a Florentine notary and his peasant mother—and sharing his childhood with 16 half-siblings from his parents' respective families, Leonardo da Vinci became one of history's most celebrated painters and engineers. One might assume that a man whose conceptual designs inspired inventions like the parachute, the machine gun, and the armored tank must have studied at a renowned academy or received advanced scientific training.

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Photography
February 28, 2025

Paul McCartney’s Never-Before-Seen Beatlemania Photographs Are Coming to Gagosian

There’s something thrilling about encountering a photograph that’s never been seen before—especially when it relates to a celebrity or otherwise renowned figure. This sensation is one that will undeniably be felt during Gagosian’s Paul McCartney exhibition in Beverly Hills. Opening on April 25, 2025, the exhibition gathers 36 rediscovered photographs captured by McCartney between December 1963 and February 1964 at the height of Beatlemania.

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My Modern Met

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