Maximilíano Durón

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Guy Ullens, a Belgian billionaire who built up one of the most important collections of Chinese contemporary art in the world, has died at 90. The news was announced on social media by the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, which Ullens had cofounded. The museum did not provide a cause. “As one of the earliest international collectors to champion Chinese artists, Ullens helped bring global recognition to Chinese artists and their work,” the UCCA said on Instagram.

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The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, a modestly size but formidable institution dedicated to the medium, has named Carlos Basualdo as its next director. He succeeds longtime director Jeremy Strick, who retired in June 2024, and will start at the Nasher on May 12, according to the New York Times, which first reported the news. For two decades, Basualdo had been a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Spanish archaeologists have uncovered some 4,000 new painting fragments at a Roman villa in Valencia, dating back to the second century CE. The mural fragments are believed to have decorated various stately rooms at the Barberes Sud villa in the former Roman settlement of Alonís (Allon), near present-day Villajoyosa.

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In his influential book Poetics of Relation (1990),Édouard Glissant advocated for “the right to opacity for everyone,” referring to the ways individuals might, through art, speak from their perspective while preserving all the nuances of their humanity, rather than flattening or reducing it for easy legibility or categorization.

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Elaine Wynn, a cofounder of Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas who put her billions toward arts and education philanthropy, has died at 82. The news was confirmed by her namesake family foundation on Tuesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which first broke the news. The foundation reportedly did not state a cause of death. Once dubbed the “Queen of Las Vegas,” Wynn and her former husband Stephen A.