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The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College has received its most significant gift ever: a trove that includes 27 paintings by acclaimed artists including Pablo Picasso, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt — along with three works on paper, including one by Diego Rivera.Diego Rivera, "Family" (1934), Ink on paper. (Courtesy Boston College)Peter Lynch, vice chairman of Fidelity Management and a graduate of ...

The U.K. government has placed a temporary export ban on a John Singer Sargent painting of a 19th-century British aristocrat worth £7.5 million ($10 million). Officials said they are hoping that a British buyer will pay for the work in order to keep it from leaving the country Sargent painted the portrait, titled Arthur Ramsay, The Earl of Dalhousie (1899), during a period when ...

Antwaun Sargent. Illustration by Kylie Akia. When Art in America asked me last summer to serve as guest editor for this New Talent issue, I took the opportunity to realize a decade-old fantasy: to make an art magazine along with other Black writers and critics. My dream publication would focus primarily on new Black voices across the globe, and critically engage the concerns and ...

Writer and curator Antwaun Sargent is a multi-faceted talent who has long looked for ways to rethink the art world and its relationships with other areas of culture. “I’m interested in a lot of different platforms, a lot of different institutions, rethinking certain institutions, rethinking certain parts of our culture,” Sargent recently told Brooke Jaffe for “ARTnews Live,” our ongoing IGTV series of interviews ...