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Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf wins World Press Photo with image of young Gazan amputee
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theartnewspaper.com | Joanna Moorhead |Karen Chernick |Sarah P. Hanson |Tom Seymour
The World Press Photo award winner for 2025 is announced today, but there was little air of celebration around Samar Abu Elouf when she arrived at the exhibition in Amsterdam where her victorious shot took pride of place. Its subject is a boy called Mahmoud Ajjour, then age nine and now ten, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a little over a year ago. When she took the picture, Abu Elouf says, she was thinking of her own four children, the youngest of whom is 12.
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artnews.com | Karen Chernick
From Renaissance Milanese court painter Bonifacio Bembo to the Surrealists and even contemporary artist Claire Tabouret (who painted her home’s ceiling with images from an early-20th-century tarot deck), tarot—a centuries-old set of 78 cards—wafts in and out of art history.
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theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Chloë Ashby |Sebastian Smee |Karen Chernick
If you thought Henri Matisse an art-world staple—a true incontournable—his work entering the public domain in 2025 is only set to cement that ubiquity. He is already “everywhere”, as Charlotte Barat-Mabille, the curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, puts it. “Especially since the paper cutouts, our visual culture has been steeped in his aesthetic, to the point where, today, we don’t even realise that Matisse is at the origin of that,” Barat-Mabille says.
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theartnewspaper.com | Karen Chernick |Andrew Maerkle |Martin Bailey |Sarah Greenberg
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. So went the 1940s—a decade split into wartime devastation and scarcity, followed by peacetime innovation and abundance. Marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War, a show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s plays on the double meaning of the word “boom” as either the rumble of weaponry or the boost of invention and progress.
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news.artnet.com | Karen Chernick
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where art historian Elizabeth Block works, there’s always a crowd near John Singer Sargent’s Madame X (1884). Everyone wants to spy that black slinky dress, and maybe fantasize about a photo stand-in version of it where they could poke their own faces in place of the timelessly alluring Virginie Gautreau.
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