The Acropolis in Athens is set to resume normal operating hours on Thursday after being forced to close during the hottest part of the day on Tuesday and Wednesday, as a heatwave pushed temperatures across the capital to near 40°C (104°F).
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Feature image: Phil Collins, Sinisa (Blue), 2003, lightjet print mounted on aluminium, 50 x 60 cm
London-based artist Sophia Al-Maria has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Frieze London Artist Award. The award – in partnership with Forma – offers an early- or mid-career artist the opportunity to realise an ambitious new commission at Frieze London.
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from a man who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of the first pyramids, in research published today (July 2) in Nature.
Independent will take place next year May 14-17, 2026 at a new home at Pier 36, a 70,000-square-foot, light-filled venue located adjacent to the Lower East Side gallery community and contemporary art institutions.
Two weeks after President Donald Trump claimed he’d fired her because she’s a “highly partisan person,” the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director, Kim Sajet, announced she was stepping down.