Basel Fair Names Exhibitors for 2018 Edition -ARTnews
Liste’s palatial home. LISTE Ah, Liste. In some ways, the enterprise based in Basel, Switzerland, is the most pleasurable of…
Lévy Gorvy Appoints Christie’s Chairman Andreas Rumbler as Partner of New Zürich Office -ARTnews
Andreas Rumbler. PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER HAUSER Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy announced today that Andreas Rumbler, chairman of Christie’s Switzerland,…
Kurt Kauper, Master of the Nude Hockey Player, Paints the Female Figure -ARTnews
Installation view of “Kurt Kauper: Women,” 2018, at Almine Rech Gallery, New York. MATT KROENING/©KURT KAUPER/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ALMINE…
Morning Links: Alberto Giacometti Edition -ARTnews
Alberto Giacometti and photographer Erhard Wehrmann. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Exhibitions The “City and Cosmos: the Arts of Teotihuacan” exhibition at…
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s VR Piece About Traversing the U.S.-Mexico Border Comes to Washington, D.C. -ARTnews
The former home of the Trinidad Baptist Church, which is hosting Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Carne y Arena (Virtually present, Physically…
Briscoe Center Acquires Archive of Stephen Shames, Black Panther Party Photographer -ARTnews
Stephen Shames, Panthers on Parade, 1968. COURTESY DOLPH BRISCOE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,…
Genevieve Gaignard at Praz-Delavallade, Paris -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Genevieve Gaignard, Gotta Go, 2016, chromogenic print. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PRAZ-DELAVALLADE Pictures at an…
Crozier Art Storage and Logistics Company Acquires Artex Fine Arts -ARTnews
A crate. COURTESY CROZIER FINE ARTS Crozier Fine Arts, the New York-based art storage and logistics operation, has acquired Artex…
Here’s the Artist List for the First Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art -ARTnews
Beautiful Riga, Latvia. KSENIJA VINOGRADOVA/WIKIMEDIA The first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Latvia is titled ”Everything Was Forever,…
Joan Jonas’s First Site-Specific Installation, in 1977 -ARTnews
Joan Jonas, The Juniper Tree, 1976/94, 24 works on silk, acrylic paint, wooden structure, string of 29 wooden balls, ladder,…
Morning Links: Stephen Colbert Edition -ARTnews
Colbert. MONTCLAIR FILM/WIKIMEDIA Museums Some major museums are doing shows of art from Burning Man, the annual festival in the…
Snowstorm Shuts Art Museums in Northeast -ARTnews
Claude Monet, Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun), 1891, oil on canvas. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, H. O. HAVEMEYER COLLECTION,…
Morning Links: El Quijote Edition -ARTnews
Honoré Daumier’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, 19th century. ROGERS FUND, 1927/METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Giants On the occasion of…
MoMA’s Gripping ‘New Photography’ Goes Behind the Lens -ARTnews
Sam Contis, Denim Dress, 2014, pigmented inkjet print. ©2018 SAM CONTIS/THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, ACQUIRED THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF…
At the Kitchen, Moor Mother Haunts Ghosts from the Future -ARTnews
Camae Ayewa/Moor Mother, Synth Altar, 2018, at the Kitchen. ANDY BATTAGLIA/ARTNEWS For three weeks that moved much too fast, the…
Naoya Hatakeyama at the Minneapolis Institute of Art -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Naoya Hatakeyama, Untitled/Osaka, 1998, chromogenic print. COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST Pictures at an Exhibition presents…
Prior to Her Firing, Curator Helen Molesworth Made Public Statements Critical of Museum Practices, MOCA -ARTnews
Helen Molesworth. COURTESY MOCA Last Tuesday, the news broke that Philippe Vergne, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art…
Art Institute of Chicago Names Caitlin Haskell Curator of International Modern Art -ARTnews
Caitlin Haskell. PHOTO BY ANDRIA LO Caitlin Haskell will be the new curator of international modern art at the Art…
Underbidding Tyler Perry Edition -ARTnews
Tyler Perry. VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS On the Auction Block What’s it feel like to lose a bidding war to a…
Rob Chavasse at the Sunday Painter, London -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Rob Chavasse: The Gallerist,” 2018, at the Sunday Painter, London. OLLIE HAMMICK/COURTESY…
American Gothic Farmhouse Edition -ARTnews
The Eldon, Iowa farmhouse depicted in Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Museums & Galleries The Broad Museum in…
Artists and Museum Professionals Vexed by Imbroglio at MOCA L.A. -ARTnews
Exterior of the Grand Avenue branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. ELON SCHOENHOLZ/COURTESY THE MUSEUM OF…
Former Art Basel Hong Kong Director To Launch New Fair in Taipei -ARTnews
Dennis Chen, country head and head of wealth management, UBS Taiwan, and Magnus Renfrew, cofounder and director of Taipei Dangdai.…
Morning Links: Sheila Hicks Edition -ARTnews
Sheila Hicks. CRISTOBAL ZANARTU/VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Asia Magnus Renfrew, the former director of Art Basel Hong Kong, will launch a…
Michelle Obama Portraitist Amy Sherald to Be Represented by Hauser & Wirth -ARTnews
Amy Sherald, The Bathers, 2015, oil on canvas. ©AMY SHERALD/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH This time last year,…
9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week -ARTnews
Fontana Workshop, Anatomical Venus, 1780–85, wood skeleton, transparent wax, pigmented wax, hair, and satin cushion. SEMMELWEISS MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY…
Sam Stewart at Fort Gansevoort, New York -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Sam Stewart: Cryptid,” 2018, at Fort Gansevoort, New York. LAUREN COLEMAN/COURTESY THE…
Charline von Heyl Painting Survey to Travel from Germany to Washington, D.C. -ARTnews
Solo Dolo, 2010. ©CHARLINE VON HEYL/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PETZEL, NEW YORK/KRAVIS COLLECTION A survey of paintings by Charline von…
Hearing Set on Berkshire Museum Sales in Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court -ARTnews
The Supreme Judicial Court in Boston. HARVARD LAW SCHOOL The ongoing battle over the future of the Berkshire Museum will…
Getty Research Institute Acquires Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Archives -ARTnews
Jeffrey Vallance, LACE 4th Annual St. Valentine’s Day flyer, 1984. COURTESY OF LACE. THE LACE RECORDS, GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LOS…
Stuart Klipper, Toni Dove, and ‘The William H. Gass Reader’ -ARTnews
Stuart Klipper, Derelict drive-in theatre, Darwin, Minnesota, 2010. COURTESY THE ARTIST Taking Place “In another generation I could be sitting…
Rafaël Rozendaal at Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Rafaël Rozendaal, RR Haiku 061, 2014, installation view, at Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan. KUNIYA…
Art Dealer Sean Kelly on Giving His Prodigious James Joyce Holdings to Morgan Library -ARTnews
Sean Kelly in the library of his gallery. KATHERINE MCMAHON A fact not widely known about contemporary art dealer Sean…
Cooper Union Plans to Bring Back Free Tuition, Marking Historic Pivot -ARTnews
Cooper Union. DAVID SHANKBONE/VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS In 2013, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art made the…
Psychic Museum Cat Edition -ARTnews
Achilles, the Hermitage Museum’s psychic cat, in all his glory. COURTESY HERMITAGE MUSEUM Animals We are pleased to report that…
Artsy and the rise of the matchmaker market
Boston-based Invaluable is one such example. With 5,400 sellers, three million monthly unique visitors and $10bn in listed items, it…
Helen Legg Named Director of Tate Liverpool -ARTnews
Helen Legg. YIANNIS KATSARIS Helen Legg will leave her position as director of Spike Island in Bristol, England, to head…
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Broad Museum Acquires Second Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room -ARTnews
A detail view of Longing for Eternity (2017), when it was on view at Zwirner in New York last year.…
Bruce Nauman on Fishing, Surrealism, and Filmmaking, in 1967 -ARTnews
Bruce Nauman, Wall-Floor Positions (still), 1968, video (black and white, sound), 60 minutes. ©BRUCE NAUMAN/PROLITTERIS, ZURICH/STILL COURTESY ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX…
Shenzhen Biennale Curator Fired Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations -ARTnews
Gary Xu COURTESY SHENZHEN BIENNALE’S WEIXIN The Shenzhen Biennale has removed Gary Xu from his role as one of three…
Fatma Bucak at Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Fatma Bucak, Fall (still), from the series “Four Ages of Woman,” 2013, HD digital video.…
Morning Links: ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Edition
Here’s what we’re reading this morning. Read More The post Morning Links: ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Edition appeared first on ARTnews.…
Los Angeles’s Park View/Paul Soto Gallery Will Open Brussels Space -ARTnews
The new gallery space. PARK VIEW/PAUL SOTO Park View, a gallery in Los Angeles, is headed to Brussels, where it…
Six Paintings Worth $1.7 M. Stolen from Crozier Fine Arts Warehouse -ARTnews
One of the six stolen paintings. COURTESY DCPI On March 8, the New York Police Department announced that six 19th-century…
Franco Mazzucchelli at ChertLüdde, Berlin -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Franco Mazzucchelli: Pneuma,” 2018, at ChertLüdde, Berlin. TREVOR LLOYD/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND…
Helen Molesworth Fired as Chief Curator of MOCA Los Angeles -ARTnews
Molesworth. COURTESY MOCA Christopher Knight, the art critic of the Los Angeles Times, has reported that Philippe Vergne, the director…
Lorenzo Vitturi at T293, Rome
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Lorenzo Vitturi: Natural man-made, Oyinbo, and moving beats,” 2018, at T293, Rome.…
Australia Picks Angelica Mesiti for 2019 Venice Biennale Pavilion -ARTnews
A video still of Angelica Mesiti ‘s Relay League, 2017. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GALERIE ALLEN, PARIS The opening of…
Guggenheim Acquiring Controversial Xu Bing Work Pulled from Recent ‘China’ Show -ARTnews
A photo of one version of A Case Study of Xu Bing’s A Case Study of Transference, 1993. COURTESY THE…
Nan Goldin, P.A.I.N. Group Stage Protest Against Sackler Family, Purdue Pharmaceuticals in Met’s Sackler Wing -ARTnews
Nan Goldin, center, in the Met’s Sackler Wing today. ALL PHOTOS: ANDREW RUSSETH/ARTNEWS This afternoon, in the Sackler Wing of…
Bronx Museum Acquires Three Works From NADA New York Fair -ARTnews
Glenn Ligon, Untitled (America), 2015. COURTESY NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY AND FIELD EDITIONS The Bronx Museum of the Arts has acquired three…
Bjarne Melgaard Offers East Village Puppet Show -ARTnews
A performance still of Bjarne Melgaard’s puppet piece. MARIA BARANOVA Is there any aesthetic activity that Bjarne Melgaard has not…
Galerie Nagel Draxler to Open Space in Cologne -ARTnews
Galerie Nagel Draxler’s Cologne space. COURTESY GALERIE NAGEL DRAXLER Galerie Nagel Draxler, which currently has two spaces in Berlin, will…
Hauser & Wirth Now Represents Zeng Fanzhi -ARTnews
Zeng Fanzhi. ©2018 ZENG FANZHI/LI ZHENHUA Hauser & Wirth has added to its roster Zeng Fanzhi, who is widely regarded…
A Tour of the 2018 Spring/Break Art Show -ARTnews
Armory Week 2018 Pictures at an Exhibition View of “Kawita Vatanajyankur: Rituals Of Otherness,” curated by Alexandra Fanning, at…
A Report from the Wilds of NADA New York -ARTnews
The scene at NADA New York 2018. ©KATHERINE MCMAHON Weathered fairgoers who braved a wintry mix of snow and rain…
A Tour of NADA New York 2018 -ARTnews
Stoneware by Joakim Ojanen and paintings by Scott Anderson at Rod Barton Gallery. ©KATHERINE MCMAHON NADA New York opened today…
And Now, the Independent Fair! Rising Stars, Undersung Artists, and Royalty Alight in Tribeca -ARTnews
Overlooking the sixth floor of the 2018 edition of Independent New York. MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS It sometimes feels like it was…
Tour Independent New York 2018 -ARTnews
Floor pieces by Anna Zacharoff in the booth of Standard (Oslo), at Independent New York 2018. MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS The 2018…