Arthur Jafa, Lithuania Win Top Prizes at Venice Biennale -ARTnews
Jafa. BIENNALE DI VENEZIA After a whirlwind week of opening events, the Venice Biennale has announced the winners of its prizes, the Golden Lions and Silver Lion. The Golden Lion…
Activist Arrested En Route to Whitney Museum Protest, Allegedly for Defacing Subway Car -ARTnews
The “Liberation Train” action at which Yates McKee was arrested. COURTESY DECOLONIZE THIS PLACE On Friday, an activist involved with the group Decolonize This Place was arrested by the New…
Martine Syms at Secession, Vienna -ARTnews
Installation view of “Martine Syms: Boon,” 2019, at Secession, Vienna. PETER MOCHI/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SADIE COLES HQ Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.…
Thomas Nozkowski, Painter of Modest, Ineffable Abstractions, Dead at 75 -ARTnews
Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (9-46), 2014. ©THOMAS NOZKOWKSI/KERRY RYAN MCFATE/COURTESY PACE GALLERY Thomas Nozkowski, whose quiet abstract paintings, drawings, and prints evoke notions of landscapes and cosmic forms, has died at…
Josh Reames at Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Josh Reames: There’s Nothing That a Hundred Men on Mars Could Ever Do,” 2019, at Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City. COURTESY THE…
Morning Links: Institutional Politics Edition -ARTnews
The Whitney. ANDERSPHOTO/SHUTTERSTOCK The Whitney Holland Cotter looks into the recent flux of protests against museums, including those of Decolonize This Place, in the context of similar protests of the…
Winners of 2019 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts Named, Including Cecilia Vicuña and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz -ARTnews
From left to right, Pam Tanowitz, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lloyd Suh, Cecilia Vicuña. COURTESY THE HERB ALPERT FOUNDATION The Herb Alpert Foundation and California Institute of the Arts…
What ARTnews’s Critics Said About Martin Puryear -ARTnews
Martin Puryear, Question, 2010. RON AMSTUTZ In Italy at the moment, Martin Puryear is representing the United States at the Venice Biennale, where his national pavilion has been one of…
An Unrelenting, Uneven Venice Biennale Shows Artists in a Time of Crisis -ARTnews
A fishing boat that sank in the Mediterranean Sea in 2015, killing most of the more than 800 estimated people aboard. It is on view at the Venice Biennale in…
Louise Nevelson at Galerie Gmurzynska, New York -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Louise Nevelson: Wood Assemblages from the 1970s,” 2019 at Galerie Gmurzynska, New York. COURTESY GALERIE GMURZYNSKA Pictures at an Exhibition presents images…