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  1. Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Wins Pritzker Prize

    Liu, known for understated structures that respond to their surroundings, has been awarded the profession’s highest honor.

     By Robin Pogrebin

    “Liu Jiakun takes present realities and handles them to the point of offering a whole new scenario of daily life,” the Pritzker jury said in a statement.
    “Liu Jiakun takes present realities and handles them to the point of offering a whole new scenario of daily life,” the Pritzker jury said in a statement.
    CreditTom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation, via The Pritzker Architecture Prize

  2. Piglets Left to Die in Art Exhibition Are Stolen in Denmark

    Three starving piglets were taken from a former butcher’s warehouse, according to the Copenhagen police. The artist said he wanted to wake up society about animal mistreatment.

     By Derrick Bryson Taylor

    Marco Evaristti’s art exhibition “And Now You Care?” included three live piglets, caged by two shopping carts on a pile of straw, that would be given water but no food until they died.
    Marco Evaristti’s art exhibition “And Now You Care?” included three live piglets, caged by two shopping carts on a pile of straw, that would be given water but no food until they died.
    CreditEmil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix, via Associated Press

  1. Laura Owens: Opening Doors to Surprise, Mystery and Awe

    Paintings, wallpapered rooms, cabinets of curiosities, handmade books — immersive Owens has it all over immersive van Gogh in her wildly ambitious show.

     By Martha Schwendener

    An exhibition by Laura Owens at Matthew Marks Gallery on West 22nd Street in Chelsea offers a kind of 3-D painting. In a room with oil painting, silk-screening and flocking on clay-coated paper mounted to aluminum panels, a hidden door opens to a video installation.
    CreditGraham Dickie/The New York Times
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  2. Guggenheim Lays Off 20 Employees as Financial Challenges Persist

    The museum has suffered from rising costs and lower attendance. The cuts followed those at the Brooklyn Museum, which trimmed 10 percent of its staff this month.

     By Zachary Small and Charlotte Burns

    The union representing some Guggenheim Museum employees has filed a grievance over the move, and is demanding to bargain over the layoffs.
    CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times

  3. Nine Artists Who Shine at the 2025 Outsider Art Fair

    Our critic uncovers rarities and treasures from prominent collections, from uncanny photos and masks to works on paper and exuberant quilts.

     By Will Heinrich

    A vibrant pencil drawing by Aloïse Corbaz, “Untitled (Figures With Blue Eyes),” circa 1950s, at Ricco/Maresca.
    CreditAloïse Corbaz; via Ricco/Maresca

  4. A Loan-Scorned Socialite Reported Her Warhol Stolen. A Tempest Ensued.

    It was not a theft, Hamptons police ruled, but acrimony erupted after a lender decided it could not arrange a loan, but that a painting used as collateral would still need to be sold to cover its costs.

     By Jesse McKinley

    Libbie Mugrabi outside her home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. She is in a bitter dispute with a lender that accepts works of art as collateral for loans.
    CreditGraham Dickie/The New York Times

  5. A Trove of Old Masters Worth At Least $80 Million to Be Auctioned at Sotheby’s

    A collection put together by Thomas A. Saunders III, a former chairman of the Heritage Foundation, and his wife, Jordan, is heading to the auction house in May.

     By Scott Reyburn

    “Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Lilies, Poppies, Honeysuckle, a Sunflower, an Iris, and Other Flowers in a Glass Vase with Two Birds, a Grasshopper, and a Snail” (1674), by Jan Davidsz de Heem, is among the old masters going to auction at Sotheby’s from the collection of Thomas A. Saunders III and his wife, Jordan.
    Creditvia Sotheby's

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