Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan on Yayoi Kusama, Crime Fiction, and Vija Celmins -ARTnews
Yo La Tengo, with Ira Kaplan at center. COURTESY MATADOR RECORDS “Muses” is a column for which creators from different…
Expo Chicago Expands 2018 Talks Program and Adds Professional Forum -ARTnews
An audience at Expo Chicago’s /Dialogues program in 2017. COURTESY EXPO CHICAGO The Expo Chicago art fair is expanding its…
Lucas Museum Reveals It Purchased Berkshire Museum’s Prized Norman Rockwell -ARTnews
Norman Rockwell, Shuffleton’s Barbershop, 1950. In February, when the embattled Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, announced it had reached an…
67 Dinner Sets Edition -ARTnews
Not a dinner set, but rather an English wicker picnic hamper from the early 20th century, being sold at Christie’s…
P.P.O.W. Now Represents Judith Linhares -ARTnews
Judith Linhares, Saturday Morning, 2017, oil on linen. © JUDITH LINHARES/COURTESY P.P.O.W. New York-based artist Judith Linhares will join P.P.O.W.’s…
Jonathan Lyndon Chase at Company, New York -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Quiet Storm,” 2018, at Company Gallery, New York. COURTESY…
$30 M. Francis Bacon Will Go on the Block at Christie’s New York in May -ARTnews
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait, 1977. COURTESY CHRISTIE’S With the big-ticket spring sales of Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art in…
Metropolitan Museum of Art Names Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Max Hollein Director -ARTnews
Max Hollein. DREW ALTIZER PHOTOGRAPHY After a year-long search, Max Hollein has been named the new director of the Metropolitan…
Morning Links: Ack! Edition -ARTnews
From Cathy Guisewite’s book Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Reflections and Rebellions From the Grown-Up Years. COURTESY G.P. PUTNAM’S…
In Washington, Big-Ticket Blockbusters, a Bracing Permanent Collection Hang, Anne Truitt, and the Museum of the Bible -ARTnews
Johannes Vermeer, The Astronomer, 1668, oil on canvas, 19⅝” x 17¾”. National Gallery of Art. MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, PARIS, DÉPARTEMENT…
Postmasters Gallery Starts Online-Fundraising Campaign -ARTnews
“This is what sculpture looks like” installation at Postmasters Gallery in 2014. COURTESY POSTMASTERS GALLERY Postmasters Gallery in New York…
At AIPAD, Female Photographers Meditate on Their Roles in the Art World -ARTnews
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tina Barney, Sarah Hermanson Meister, Liz Deschenes, Sofia Borges, and Sam Contis. JULIENNE SCHAER “One of the…
After London Show, Pace to Exhibit Jean Dubuffet ‘Theaters of Memory’ Paintings in New York -ARTnews
Jean Dubuffet, La riante contrée, 1977. ©2018 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK/ADAGP, PARIS Following an exhibition in London last…
Victor Pinchuk and Donald Trump Edition -ARTnews
Victor Pinchuk. COURTESY THE PINCHUKARTCENTRE Controversies This May, Christie’s will sell works from Steve Wynn’s collection, including an Andy Warhol…
Toledo Museum of Art Announces Three Executive Appointments -ARTnews
Kristina Crystal, Adam Levine, Lynn Miller. COURTESY TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio promoted…
Lars Jan at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Lars Jan: Luminaries,” 2018, at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles. MICHAEL UNDERWOOD/COURTESY…
Artist and Dealer Joel Mesler Will Make Portraits at London Show -ARTnews
Joel Mesler, Untitled (d), 2018. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SIMON LEE GALLERY “This is the first time I’ve had anyone…
With Legal Barriers Cleared, Berkshire Museum Marks 13 Works for Sale at Sotheby’s -ARTnews
Rockwell’s Blacksmith’s Boy – Heel and Toe (1940), which could sell for as much as $10 million, according to Sotheby’s.…
Great Britain Taps Cathy Wilkes for 2019 Venice Biennale -ARTnews
Cathy Wilkes, Untitled, 2012. ©CATHY WILKES/COLLECTION MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Cathy Wilkes, the Glasgow-based conjurer of intimate, tender, almost spectral…
Peter Paul Rubens Edition -ARTnews
Peter Paul Rubens, Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban, 1609, oil sketch on paper. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The…
Tribeca Film Festival Names 2018 Artist Award Program Participants -ARTnews
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, For Wonder Women, 2006, lithograph with hand-sewn elements. COURTESY THE ARTISTS New York’s Tribeca Film…
Francis Alÿs Wins 2018 EYE Art & Film Prize -ARTnews
Francis Alÿs photographed in Mosul, Iraq, in 2016. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JAN MOT, BRUSSELS/AKRAM SHEX HADI The EYE Filmmuseum…
Frieze New York Will Present Adam Pendleton–Designed Black Lives Matter Flag, Hank Willis Thomas Works on Gun Violence -ARTnews
Adam Pendleton, Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter), 2015–2018, digital print on polyester. COURTESY THE ARTIST Past performances at the…
Morning Links: Frick Expansion Edition -ARTnews
A rendering of part of the proposed Frick expansion. COURTESY SELLDORF ARCHITECTS Expansions The Frick Collection in New York released…
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Receives $4.5 M. From Daniel and Brett Sundheim, Andrea B. LaPorte -ARTnews
Andrea B. LaPorte. PENN NURSING SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania…
Russell Crowe to Stage Giant Personal Auction at Sotheby’s Australia -ARTnews
COURTESY SOTHEBY’S This coming Saturday night, the Australian actor Russell Crowe will celebrate his birthday, wedding anniversary, and divorce from…
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Names 2018 Fellows -ARTnews
Anthony Hernandez, Discarded #50, 2014, ink-jet print. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. ©ANTHONY HERNANDEZ/COURTESY THE ARTIST The John Simon…
Suad Garayeva-Maleki Named Artistic Director of Yarat -ARTnews
Suad Garayeva-Maleki. COURTESY YARAT Yarat, a not-for-profit contemporary art space in Baku, Azerbaijan, announced today the appointment of a new…
Berkshire Museum Sell-Off Approved by Top Massachusetts Court, Ending Lengthy Legal Battle -ARTnews
Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton’s Barbershop, 1950. After half a year of legal machinations, the Berkshire Museum has won court approval to…
Allen Ruppersberg’s Excruciatingly Real Myths -ARTnews
Allen Ruppersberg, The Singing Posters: Allen Ginsburg’s Howl by Allen Ruppersberg (Parts I–III), 2003/05, installation view at Skirball Cultural Center,…
‘Unanimously Selected an Extraordinary Candidate’ [Updated] -ARTnews
The Brooklyn Museum. COURTESY BROOKLYN MUSEUM The Brooklyn Museum’s decision to hire a white woman, Kristen Windmuller-Luna, as its consulting…
Dismissing Suit Against Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné Committee, Judge Bolsters Embattled Art-Authentication Field -ARTnews
Agnes Martin. PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLES R. RUSHTON/COURTESY PACE GALLERY In a decision that could have major effects on the process…
For Collection-Sharing Initiative, Terra Foundation and Art Bridges Tap Detroit Institute of Arts, MFA Boston -ARTnews
Inside the MFA Boston. SMART DESTINATIONS/FLICKR The Terra Foundation for American Art and Art Bridges are giving some $2.4 million…
At the AIPAD Photography Show, Pictures of the Past and Visions of the Future Collide -ARTnews
Gohar Dashti, Home, 2017. COURTESY ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY Every year in April, photography dealers from around the world descend on…
The Conscientious Objector’ at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, California -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Public Fiction: The Conscientious Objector,” 2018, showing work by Suki Seokyeong Kang,…
Morning Links: Free Jazz Edition -ARTnews
Cecil Taylor. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Ladies First Former NASA scientist Ellen Stofan is the first female director of the Smithsonian’s National…
A Blade of Grass Announces 2018 Fellows for Socially Engaged Art -ARTnews
The 2018 ABOG Fellows (clockwise from top left): Las Imaginistas, Miguel Luciano, Gregory Sale, Jordan Weber, Rachel G. Barnard, Our…
‘In Times of Perseus’ at Sargent’s Daughters, New York -ARTnews
Installation view of “In Times of Perseus,” 2018, at Sargent’s Daughters, New York. NICHOLAS KNIGHT Pictures at an Exhibition presents…
Cecil Taylor, Jazz Luminary and Poetic Soul, Dies at 89 -ARTnews
Cecil Taylor at the Whitney Museum in 2016. COURTESY WHITNEY MUSEUM In a jazz milieu that teems with uniqueness and…
9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week -ARTnews
Cecilia Paredes, Both Worlds, 2010, cibachrome. “Revival: Contemporary Pattern & Decoration.” COURTESY THE ARTIST AND RUIZ-HEALY ART WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4…
Lara Schnitger Seeks Volunteers for Feminist Performance at Frieze New York -ARTnews
“Suffragette City” in Dresden. PHOTO BY SWEN RUDOLPH/COURTESY ANTON KERN GALLERY Anton Kern Gallery in New York has released a…
Sturtevant at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Sturtevant: Vice Versa,” 2018, at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London. TOM CARTER/©ESTATE STURTEVANT,…
Fear Eats the Soul, Rirkrit Tiravanija Flag Flies! -ARTnews
The flag. CREATIVE TIME From coast to coast, at 21 institutions in 16 states, a flag designed by Rirkrit Tiravanija…
Activist Group Criticizes Brooklyn Museum’s Hiring of White Curator for African Art Department in Open Letter -ARTnews
The Brooklyn Museum. COURTESY BROOKLYN MUSEUM The Brooklyn Museum’s decision to hire a white woman, Kristen Windmuller-Luna, as its consulting…
Condo Gallery Share Program Names Participants for 2018 Edition in Mexico City -ARTnews
Installation view of “Marie Lund: Grip,” 2018, at joségarcía ,mx, Mexico City. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND JOSÉGARCÍA ,MX Condo, the…
Art21 Announces Ninth Season of TV Show, Book of Artist Interviews -ARTnews
Stills from Art21 programming. COURTESY ART21 Art21, the New York–based nonprofit best known for its documentaries about contemporary artists, has…
Volta Names New Location for 2018 Basel Edition -ARTnews
The Elsässerstrasse 215 space. COURTESY VOLTA The 15th Basel edition of Volta will take place at Elsässerstrasse 215. The new…
Paris’s Bugada & Cargnel Gallery ‘Ceases Activities’ at Belleville Space [Updated] -ARTnews
Installation view of “Julio Le Parc: Couleurs,” 2013, at Bugada & Cargnel, Paris. COURTESY BUGADA & CARGNEL Bugada & Cargnel…
Unusual Swiss Restitution Case Brings John Constable Painting Home to Heirs in France -ARTnews
Alain Monteagle at the the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. MARCUS WINTERBAUER Since World War II, Switzerland has…
‘A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I) —’ at Gordon Robichaux, New York -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I) —,” 2018, at Gordon…
Morning Links: 800-Meter-Long Lips Edition -ARTnews
Jeff Koons. COURTESY JEFF KOONS STUDIO At the Met In a major change-up, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European paintings…
Petra Cortright, Mika Tajima, Sean Raspet Tapped for Rhizome’s 2018 Seven on Seven Conference -ARTnews
The 2018 Seven on Seven participants. The artists, top row, from left to right: Sean Raspet, Petra Cortright, Sara Cwynar,…
Deborah Willis at Shine Portrait Studio, Newark, New Jersey -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Deborah Willis, Erica Puckett, Hat and Boots, 2018, archival pigment print. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND…
Southampton Arts Center Names Tom Dunn as Executive Director -ARTnews
Tom Dunn. COURTESY RUBENSTEIN PR Southampton Arts Center on the East End of Long Island in New York has named…
Wall-Size Charlie Brown Edition -ARTnews
Charlie Brown toy. PIXABAY America Princeton history professor Nell Irvin Painter pondered a question: “How would ‘Soul of a Nation’—this…
Kallir Family Will Give 10 Grandma Moses Paintings to Smithsonian American Art Museum -ARTnews
Grandma Moses, Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City, 1946, oil on canvas. COURTESY SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM/© GRANDMA MOSES…
Jim Shaw’s Collection of Religious and Didactic Art Goes to MSU Broad Museum -ARTnews
Jim Shaw, “The Hidden World,” 1969–2017, installation view at the MSU Broad, 2017. EAT POMEGRANATE PHOTOGRAPHY “Jim Shaw has the…
Robert Filliou at Peter Freeman, Inc., New York -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Robert Filliou, Video Games, 1980–82, cutout cardboard box, pastel, wooden blocks, enameled metal, ink on…
Morning Links: Copenhagen Edition -ARTnews
Copenhagen. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Los Angeles 356 Mission, a non-profit exhibition space run by artist Laura Owens and Ooga Booga…
University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art Receives $3 M. to Endow Directorship -ARTnews
The Fralin. SHARPCRUMBS/WIKIMEDIA The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville has received $3 million that…