Terra Foundation Awards $300,000 in Grants to Chicago Arts Organizations -ARTnews
Edgar Miller, The Artists BAll, 1932, screen print on paper. ALEXANDER VERTIKOFF/COURTESY EDGAR MILLER LEGACY; TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART…
Creative Time Names Justine Ludwig from Dallas Contemporary as Director -ARTnews
Justine Ludwig. CHARLIE RUBIN Creative Time, the New York–based enterprise for public art, has named Justine Ludwig as its new…
At Alexander Gray, Kay Rosen Hopes for Justice During a Turbulent Political Moment -ARTnews
Kay Rosen, White House v. America, 2018, paint on wall. COURTESY ALEXANDER GRAY ASSOCIATES, NEW YORK/© 2018 KAY ROSEN/ARTISTS RIGHTS…
‘Einstein on the Beach’ Manuscript Goes to the Morgan Library in New York -ARTnews
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson during rehearsals of Einstein on the Beach in Avignon, France, 1976. © PHILIPPE GRAS An…
Dorota Walentynowicz and Nanna Krogh Lauritsen at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “6 ½ Weeks. Dorota Walentynowicz and Nanna Krogh Lauritsen: Outside in –…
Morning Links: Chelsea Hotel Edition -ARTnews
Chelsea Hotel. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The Talent Christopher Scoates, most recently the director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and…
A Visit With Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Curator Jay Davis -ARTnews
Installation view, “Impossible Possible,” Memorial Sloan Kettering Brooklyn Infusion Center SLOAN KETTERING I’m no stranger to nontraditional art venues. In…
Friend of a Friend, Gallery Share Program Similar to Condo, Launches in Warsaw -ARTnews
Jiri Thyn, Composition 610 Consciousness as a Fundamental Attribute, 2013, archive inkjet print from scanned analog color negative. COURTESY THE…
EJ Hill and Clarissa Tossin Win 2018 Los Angeles Artadia Awards -ARTnews
Left: EJ Hill, Pillar, 2017. Right: Clarissa Tossin, A two-headed serpent held in the arms of human beings, or, Ticket…
Leslie Hewitt at Perrotin Seoul, South Korea -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Leslie Hewitt, Object, 2016, digital chromogenic print. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PERROTIN Pictures at an…
Jean Fautrier Paints a Picture, in 1955 -ARTnews
Jean Fautrier, photographed by André Ostier in 1954. ©ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ANDRÉ OSTIER/REPRODUCTION JULIEN VIDAL/MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE PARISIENNE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE…
Los Angeles’s Artist-Run Institution 356 Mission to Close -ARTnews
Installation view of “12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2,” 2013, at 356 Mission, Los Angeles. COURTESY THE…
Here’s the Artist List for the 2018 Baltic Triennial -ARTnews
Jesse Darling, Armes Blanches, 2017, installation view at Galerie Sultana, Paris. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND GALERIE SULTANA The Baltic Triennial…
Exhibitions Around London Renew Questions About a So-Called Black Aesthetic -ARTnews
Barbara Jones-Hogu, Unite, 1969-71, screenprint, 22½” x 30″. ©ESTATE OF BARBARA JONES-HOGU/COURTESY LUSENHOP FINE ART Several recent exhibitions in London…
Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Their Diasporas’ at BRIC House, Brooklyn -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Their Diasporas,”…
Yale University Picks Cornell’s Stephanie Wiles to Lead Art Gallery -ARTnews
Wiles. JANINE BENTIVEGNA PHOTOGRAPHY Veteran college museum leader Stephanie Wiles, who currently heads the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art…
In Historic U.S.-China Partnership, Budi Tek’s Shanghai-Based Yuz Museum Will Partner With LACMA -ARTnews
Tek. Budi Tek, the prodigious art collector and founder of the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, said at a panel discussion…
Morning Links: Winston Churchill Edition -ARTnews
Winston Churchill. YOUSUF KARSH Collectors Collector Budi Tek, the founder of Shanghai’s Yuz Museum, revealed that he plans to donate…
Christopher Scoates Appointed Director of Museum of Arts and Design -ARTnews
Scoates. RYAN DEBOLSKI More than a year after Jorge Daniel Veneciano resigned as its director, the Museum of Arts and…
Aaron Judge Beer Foam Portrait Edition -ARTnews
Aaron Judge, slugger, in 2017. KEITH ALLISON/COURTESY CREATIVE COMMONS Hong Kong For ARTnews, Barbara Pollack took in the scene at…
Consumer Reports: Trevor Shimizu -ARTnews
Trevor Shimizu was born March 30, 1978, in Santa Rosa, California. His mother was born in Japan, and his father…
Cady Noland’s Art Feels More Prescient, Incisive, and Urgent Than Ever -ARTnews
Cady Noland, Untitled, 1989, at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, October 14–December 22, 1989. ©CADY NOLAND/COURTESY MATTRESS FACTORY ‘What’s great…
How a Video by Arthur Jafa Became a Worldwide Sensation—and Described America to Itself -ARTnews
Arthur Jafa. KATHERINE MCMAHON One evening last November, a year after the election of Donald Trump, guards at the Hirshhorn…
Dara Birnbaum’s Televisual Art Comes into Focus -ARTnews
Dara Birnbaum. EMMA TILLMAN In 1970 Dara Birnbaum and a group of anti-war demonstrators in San Francisco stared down a…
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Morning Links: Icons Edition -ARTnews
Still from Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel’s Happy Birthday, Marsha! (detail), 2018, on which Arthur Jafa served as cinematographer. COURTESY…
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…