NYU Latinx Project Gets Mellon Grant, and More – ARTnews.com
Tuesday, March 10 Inaugural Helsinki Biennial Names Artist ListThe inaugural edition of the Helsinki Biennial, which is set to run from June 12 to September 27, will bring together the…
Sotheby’s O’Keeffe/Stieglitz Sale Nets Strong $17.2 M. Total – ARTnews.com
On Thursday, the Sotheby’s New York auction of property from the estates of modernist icons Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz brought in $17.2 million. The sale far surpassed its presale…
Noah Davis’s Eerie, Ethereal Paintings at David Zwirner – ARTnews.com
Noah Davis: The Waiting Room, 2008, oil and acrylic on canvas; at David Zwirner. In 2013, painter Noah Davis founded the Underground Museum (UM) in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, with…
Pat Passlof’s Abstraction Influenced Tenth Street’s 1950s Art Scene – ARTnews.com
Pat Passloff: AS-Brown, 1959, oil on linen, 50 by 58 inches. Courtesy Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York. Photo Brian Buckley. What tangible or visible traces remain, apart…
Alfredo Jaar Wins $105,500 Hasselblad Prize for Photography – ARTnews.com
The Hasselblad Prize is perhaps the greatest honor a photographer can receive, and winning it often acts as a capstone to a long and pioneering career. Now, the Hasselblad Foundation…
Francesco Bonami on Italy’s Art World and the Coronavirus – ARTnews.com
Francesco Bonami, whose curatorial credits include the 2003 Venice Biennale and the 2010 Whitney Biennial, has returned for the fifth edition of his column, “Ask a Curator,” in which he…
With Italy in Lockdown Over Coronavirus, Galleries Begin to Close – ARTnews.com
With more than 8,000 cases of the coronavirus documented within its borders, Italy went on lockdown on Monday while officials work to contain the virus’s spread. As Italy’s 60 million…
Southbank Centre in London Ends Sponsorship with Shell – ARTnews.com
With growing calls by activists for arts institutions to take accountability for their connections to funders with ecologically unfriendly businesses, one major London center has dropped a controversial sponsor. The…
Influential Brazilian Artist Died at 88 – ARTnews.com
Nelson Leirner, a Brazilian artist known for his critiques of art production and consumption, died in Rio de Janeiro on March 7, according to ArtReview, which first reported the news.…
New York Galleries Could Be Eligible for Emergency Coronavirus Funds – ARTnews.com
With officials across the world scrambling to help businesses that may suffer because of the coronavirus outbreak, New York City is offering interest-free loans and cash grants to small enterprises…