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Egyptian Tour Guide Arrested After Drawing on Pyramid

An Egyptian tour guide was arrested last week after video circulated on social media purportedly showing the man sketching a stick figure onto a pyramid. In the video, originally posted to X, the man is seen drawing the figure onto the wall of the Pyramid of Unas, built in the 24th century BCE and located in Saqqara, a funerary complex not far from the Pyramids of Giza. The man appeared to be speaking to tourists during the incident and is shown trying to wipe the drawing away with his hands. After the video went viral, Egyptian police found that the Saqqara Tourism Police Station had received a report from an antiquities inspector that a tour guide “had damaged an antiquity by drawing on the outer casing of one of the pyramids for the purpose of explaining to a group of tourists who were with him,” the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior said in a post on X. The drawing has since been removed, and the tour guide confessed to the incident. “Legal measures” were taken against the man...
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The Whitney Biennial Swaps Identity Politics for Infrastructural Interventions. The Verdict: All Systems Go.

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This year’s Whitney Biennial spotlights “the greater United States”—a term from historian Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire . It describes not only the country’s 50 states but also its occupied countries, annexes, military bases, and territories. Strategically, Immerwahr argues, words like “colony” and “empire” have been evaded by officials since World War II—but that’s just semantics. As the country turns 250, the 2026 Whitney Biennial—that storied finger on the pulse of American art—takes a deliberate look beyond the “logo map,” another of Immerwahr’s terms for the geographic shape most people picture when they think of “the United States.” Curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer included artists from US-occupied Okinawa, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan; from Chile, where the US engaged in clandestine interventions; from current and former territories, like Puerto Rico and the Philippines; and from Palestine, where the US continues to fund a genocide. The move is both timel...
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Training the Force of the Future: Calian and ADGA Align to Deliver Next-Generation Land Simulation for the Canadian Army

In a defence environment defined by digital acceleration, cyber integration, and multi-domain competition, readiness is no longer built solely on physical manoeuvre. It is forged in data-rich, synthetic environments that replicate the pace, complexity, and uncertainty of modern warfare. On February 26, 2026, Calian Group Ltd. and ADGA Group Consultants Inc. announced a three-year collaboration agreement to explore the development of next-generation integrated land training and simulation for the Canadian Army . The agreement formalizes a partner framework that aligns complementary expertise and technologies to meet the accelerating operational demands of Canada’s land forces—and the evolving realities of modern conflict. At its core, the collaboration is about ensuring that soldiers train in environments that mirror how they will actually fight. Training for the Modern Battlespace Today’s operational environment is digitally enabled, cyber-integrated, and multi-domain. Advantage ...
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Sideline Conversions 2 March (some rugby news and information to start the week)

Action from the Academy Series at Massey on Saturday. Photo: Andy McArthur. Club Rugby pre-season starts this coming weekend. The summer is almost over and with it games below include (but not limited to in case there’s more on we don’t know about): Paraparaumu v Pōneke, Soldier Field Paraparaumu Northern United v Marist St Pat’s,...
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SVA Is Shutting Down Its MFA in Curatorial Practice Program

On Thursday, the School of Visual Arts announced that starting next year, it will no longer offer a masters of arts degree in curatorial practice. The update was shared with faculty via an email from Steven Henry Madoff, who founded the department in 2013 and has been chair of the two-year program for the past 14 years. The sudden announcement follows years of financial difficulty for the New York art school. And, earlier this month, David A. Ross, chair of the MFA art practice program at SVA, abruptly resigned after  ARTnews   revealed that he had a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and appears a number of times in newly-released emails. In his letter to faculty, Madoff explains that he informed SVA president David Rhodes a year and a half ago that he plans to retire in May 2027, and that Rhodes decided to end the masters program upon Madoff’s retirement. “We call this ‘teaching out the program,’” he wrote, while also referencing the school’s “financial challenge...
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At Frieze Los Angeles’s Satellite Fairs, Galleries Wait For the Crowds to Roll In

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On Wednesday morning at 11 a.m., the VIP line for Felix Art Fair extended from the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s Blossom Ballroom out onto Hollywood Boulevard. And, as is always the case with this fair, the line for the elevators to ascend to the 12th floor was equally lengthy. For this reason—unlike the other fairs taking place during LA Art Week—the opening half hour was relatively quiet for exhibitors, as collectors, advisers, curators, and critics trudged through lines to reach the exhibition floor. When I finally exited the elevator bank, I found myself in front of Amsterdam-based gallery Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, participating in Felix for the second time. “Last year went really well,” founder Jeanine Hofland told ARTnews , noting that they had shown a solo presentation of Masao Nakahara, who this year shares the room with Karel Dicker. Dicker’s intimate genre paintings in artist-made wood frames are especially charming. The gallery had pre-sold several works ahead of the fair, ...
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Check Out the Celebrities at the 2026 Frieze Los Angeles Art Fair

The 2026 edition of Frieze LA kicked off yesterday with an invitation-only VIP day. The art fair, held in a tent on the grounds of the Santa Monica Airport, features about 100 exhibitors from around the world and runs through Mar. 1. ARTnews attended the opening, where dealers excitedly reported a “frenzy” of sales . But! Frieze LA is not just about the sales. This edition of Frieze (which also hosts fairs in New York, London, and Seoul) is an easy draw for celebrities, whether to the main fair, satellite fairs like the Felix Art Fair and the Butter Fine Art Fair (new on the scene and spotlighting local Black artists), or any number of fashionable parties. Take a look at some of the celebrities—among them Heated Rivalry ‘s François Arnaud, television host Bill Maher, and actor Orlando Bloom—who made their way around Los Angeles for Frieze Art Week.
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